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young polks polly pitobeb- by mab polly pitcher nil child of modest rtein and manners mdd she bad alas oce habic bad which made her parent very tad the contcquences of her folly were very awful to poor polly when polly waa a babygirl her ear were like two shells of pearl 8weet little things of pinkyred that nestled either side her head alas that pretty ears to winning should be so pnuished for their sinning i as polly grew she tried to bear all conversation far and near aqpvlistened to each whispered sound of atcreta told when she was ronnd she strained her ears to hear folks talking when she was sitting down or walking her ears soon both began to grow and get quite large sha listened so bat still she tried with all her might to hear eaoh sonnd from morn to night r and every word of can don scorning she listened noon and night and morning her ears it last tremendous grew and oer her head stood np in view and when her parents finally put her to bed to cure her she accepted meekly this correction but cocked her ears in their direotion i j and now her punishment she found for her big ears heard every sound throughout the world and in her room i she heard- great cannon in jcbartoum i and the small song of the mosquito j in south america at qoito amid this din she tossed about o ril and nearly def ened by the rout she begged the doctor take the shears r and out off both her monstrous ears it 1 bui oh alas 1 twas not by shearing poor polly lost her powerful hearing for while she orieda soldiergay pa a big gun fired iniar cathay whose mighty thunder it appears craoked both the drums of pollys ears r she then remarked in accents oheering that shed become quite hard of hearing her useless ears now grew so small gj that boon she bad no ears at all jjjc 2k and so a mournful life she led with a poor little earless head and she who once bad been so jolly was thenceforth very melancholy all little pitchers with big ears should let this tale excite their fears to have nice ears its moat important they shouldnt listen when they oughtnt theyll keep their hearing and grow richer if they aie warned by polly pitcher pl0welfljdie3 a charming little game to be played by charming little children did any of yon little people ever play flower ladies i have made many inquiries and never found any children but those of my own family who knew about the game it was tho delight of my childhood and now that 1 am grown np and cannot play it myself and have no babies of my own to teach it to i begin to fear that the beautiful game will be lost it began in this way i lived with my sister when we were little down ever so far down in louisiana so near the gulf of mexico that when the evening breczas blew we could smell the salt seaair it was on a sugar plantation on the left of the big square white house in which we lived was the garden it cover ed four or five aoresv and was inclosed with hedges of pyracanth covered with sweet white bloaaoms in the spring and bnnohes of red berries in the autumn where the garden sloped down to the widej sleepy brown bayou was a long row of banana trees that rustled in the wind their great satiny green leaves which served ua tor hats and flags and even for letterpaper for we wrote notes on them with thorns out of the hedge above the bananas on jbhe qreati of the blope was a row of picayune- roso bushes with their myriads of dear little miniature blossoms and then there waa all the big beautiful garden it waa laid ont in beds of every shape imaginable with walks between covered with white shells but it was not a prim formal garden at all for we were allowed to do anything we wished there and i think it must have been beoauso we loved it so and lived in it so much that we invent ed the play of flower ladles to suit the place and give os an excuse for staying there twaea place of perjuintsj t am sure you never saw as ours did they rioted every whoro without oheok they climbed np in the trees and spread over the walks and bloomed out into thousands and thousands of roses all at once almost as many at christmas time as in the spring then there were tho sweet olive trees and tbieo kinds of magnolia treesiand every sort of jasmine and japan plum j trees when they all bloomed flora ann the bid native african negro used to say that tho garden wuzdea laminated dhl 9iu hii this was tho way we played we gath ered roses with stems about two inches long and set them down on their petals and any one oan see in a minute that they then become beautiful ladies with toll slender figures lovely pink or iorimson satin or velvet skirts and little groon overaklrts tho men were thorns from the hedge whioh stood up very nicely when stuck in the ground or else they were bits of stick but they were rather stiff and unbending were these gentlemen and really played a very insignificant part in the flower ladles households the houses in whioh the ladies lived were of the very simplest orohlteoturo jast bits of stick or blades of grata laid together in rqnarea to inclose rooms and halls a green leaf made a pretty bed and tiny flat pebbles furnishod beautiful ohalre then a chip served excellently for a grand mahogany iablo and nponvery small mud pies frost yii with sand and mud chocolate custards in acorn onps and loaves of mad bread tho flower ladies lived luxuriously oar ladles were divided into two tunilles my sisters family always bore the surname of grey and mine was called graham the big solfaterre rosea with the thick loose petals were the grandmothers beoauso they had wide laps for the babies to rest npon the common damssk rose were nice comfort able mothers who were careful lest the children should get their feet wet and always had ready lovely mad plea for the children when they come home from school the olotre dt france rose were the sweet young aunts named mabel or irene and the mossrose and oldfashioned thornrotes were the uglytempered aunts called jane or mario there was s rose bash that bore very long slender white buds and one of these buds because it couldnt stand np well was always a girl named kate who had hurt her spine lying on the orangeleaf sofa she bore her sufferings with touching fortitude next came the children the grays and grahams had very large families the picayune roses came in here the fullest- blown kind being the eldest girls of about twelve and from these they went down through various ages to the tiny tiny bud that was the newborn baby rocked to sleep in a velvety rose leaf and so sensitive that all the little flower children hod to tread lightly for fear of waking her suoh lovely times those greys and gra hams bad 1 they went sailing on a big magnolia leaf in the garden ditoh or visited each other driving np in a bananaleaf carriage or danced at big balls or gave splendid dinnerparties perhaps the best inn of all were the christenings and the burials when the gray and graham babies were old enough everybody drove to the grand church bnut for the occasion and there they were baptized the font was a white roseleaf filled with water and there was always so muoh excitement over choos ing a name for the new baby and such a supper afterwards with quantities of christening oupa of acorn ware coming in every moment that there wasnt anything but a funeral that was nearly as tntarestine when somebodys stem broke or the leaves dropped off which happened frc quently the body was carefully wrapped in a banana- leaf and hauled away to the grave in a japanplum leaf hearse and there were sermons and hymns and the flower ladies cried dreadfully and didnt give any more parties for a long time j when we were kept in the house by rain a servant went out with an umbrella and fetched us in lots of roses and then we played flower ladies in more artificial stylo the furniture was made of pasteboard of a kind with which every little girlie fa miliar t all the family wore dresses cut from tissue paper just oval pieces with a little hole in the middle to put the stems through the childrens school dresses were simply pieces of plain paper but their elders wore elaborate oostumes out in openwork patterns a sort of laoe overdress through whioh the pink or red satin skirts could be seen while mamma and grandmamma were supposed to cut out those beautiful frocks the children were at school and irene and mabel the kind- aunts bat at the little seashell piano and sang one of these two songs which seemed to be the only ones they knew j over the far blue mountain over the white sea foam come thon long parted one come to thy home 1 gayly the troubadour tonohed bis gnitar as he waa hastening home from the war singing from palestine gladly i roam ladylove ladylove weloome me home 1 the great charm of this play waa that everything could be swept away in a mo ment there was no trouble of putting away playthings and then everything was fresh and new eaoh day we used roses because we had so many all the year but crocuses or daffodils or daisies and red olovers make nearly as lovely flowor ladies felizbeth bisland in st nloholas strongly defended sir g baden- powell in a vigorously writ ten letter to the london times dofenda the new canadian route to the east against the oriticism of sir george campbell and others he points out in the first place that it is to be supplementary to the penin sular and oriental companys route not its rival and shows by figures how muoh can be bald in its favor to japan for instance tho journey will be made in 22 days instead of 41 aa by the p and 0 to shanghai in 28 instead of 34j it will reaoh hong kong as soon as the other ronte bat adds sir g badenpowell comparisons are odious and unnecessary and then he points out that owing to the rapidity with which british trade in the paclflo is advancing there is not only room but positive need for incroased accommodation for the in creased traffic j pef raining from saying anything of the new routes military facip ities as obvious heipolnt out the advan tages that it 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