S. Baring-Gould

Wednesday

Original composition, on the signs of coming winter. What signs can be seen in the fields? What about the grass? The leaves? The sky? The birds? The cold?

Thursday

To be read, for written reproduction:

THE WONDERFUL TRAVELING CLOAK

One day a little old woman in gray visited Prince Dolor. She gave him a present.

“What is this?” he asked, as he untied the many knots.

“It is a traveling cloak,” she answered.