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Show ..Our Boys and iirl$ f Is Edited by Aunt Busy. !This department is conducted solely in t'lic in-irrc-Ms of our girl and boy readers. Aunt Busy is glad to hoar any time from the 1H,.,cs and nephews who read this page, and to give ihrui all the aovice and help in her power. Write on one side of the paper only. l)o not have letters too lorig. Original stories and verses will be gladlv rc t, ived aud earcfully edited. The manuscripts of contributions not accepted I v.;1, !e returned. I Address all letters to Aunt Busy, Intcrmountaia I C'.-.tlicl10' kalt Lake City. I AUNT BUSY HAS HER SAY. ;ir Xioees and Xt-phews: i h- September days are very near, and to the I -i,;kir'ii the tjrst month of autumn is a busy one, I j!..!-f(l. The busy lesson days begin and the happy ii'ii days will be only memories. What an army of bright-faced boys and sweet-;;;, sweet-;;;, ! gills go out the beautiful autumn day to , j.j ; -:ire for the coming year of hard study. There ,i: he older girls and buys entering high schools, -inir-s and colleges: a great majority go to the ji-m.-t, schools, while the sweet, wee people '"trot" , ! , i; the kindergarten to learn the first lessons of I ! " -1 life. From the very first day of class the ( linnet students will 'buckle down"' to hard work' ji.i not wait to begin the following week or the it Hawing day, but begin with the first lessons as- . .-iirivl. ami prepare them well. J I Aunt Busy docs not. want to preach, but she ; (!...-. want her dear children to accomplish a great : r: i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 of work during the coming year. Shc has ;i wiirm interest in all the dear children, from the tiny l"dd!ers ju-t leaving a. b. c. to the dignified y.iing ladies and gentlemen, who will soon get the j'!'-a into their dear young heads that they arc t"- big to write to their faithful, fond, old J AUST BUSY. LETTEHS AND ANSWEHS. , Salt Lake City, Aug. 21. Dear Aunt Bxisy: Please forgive me for not writing to you for so long; it will be dreadful in-d'-cd if the girls and boys lose you and after your N .letter last week it will not.be surprising. Please forgive v.s all; we did not forget you. but we were ;mks. Please remember that. Your loving' i:i,ee. XELLIE CONWAY. I Aunt Busy's injured feelings will soon be ; l w ii'ied if she receives many more such dear letters I as Nellie Conway's. Indeed, she has felt that the f dear children had quite forgotten her very esist- - I I Denver, Colo., Aug. 2i. Dear Aunt Busy: You dear, sweet old Aunt Bu-y, you never will give up your girls and boys! Yen arc only fooling; but, anyhow, I mean to I write you at once and will not neglect y0.11 over i ain. With much love to the dearest of old ladies, remain your fond nephew. . GEOBGE AlOOKE. ; I Aunt Busy is fast recovering her spirits since receiving so many kind letters. She thinks now 11 hat ihe dear children have not meant to neglect Iter. but. they have been having such glorious fun : 1 ilus summer that the days passed too quickly, and 1 in re was no time for the funny old woman, Aunt ' I Busy. I f Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. 20. f ' Dear Aunt Busy: You ask sometimes for short I V 'lories and as I had 'to write a story. for school. ; will send you one too. If you consider it ! ' "noil nough for publication, you may print it. I Yenr loving niece, NORA CRAWFORD, i I ; . THE OLD MILL. I I The Old Churchill Mill is situated in a pretty jj litiie ravine in southern England, a swift stream H runs under the jnilll, and the stones around. the 1 1 'lower part are covered with moss. The beautiful h green ivy climbs all over the walls and makes a i very pretty picture. The bridge across the stream is a rustic bridge, j I made of tree trunks covered with ivy. 1 1 There are many old elm and chestnut trees j; areund the mill and the birds arc always singing ine-rily. !' - The old mill-wheel is very industrious, and, in- 1 deed I would advir-e boys and girls to follow its f e.vi'iiplo. It never stops during the day, and seems jj n d-iight to splash the clear water all over. : The miller is an old man with gray hair and a ij gr. v beard. He is a very kind old man. If J ere comes ihe miller's son, John, driving the II h.ir-es Betsy and Tildy. John is' thinking of his dinner and he is hugry, but he says, "I will feed ; B i-y and Tildy first." So he drives them into the j stable and feeds them. i The. shadows are lowering now, and I must go, ; but there are manv more interesting things to see. 1 NORA CRAWFORD. i i ! Aunt Busy has not heard from Xora Crawford l f r ever so long. She would like 1o hear more frc- :f ewelv from the dear, little girl who writes so ; v.ii. L |