“THREE MICE SAT IN THE BARN TO SPIN.”

NURSERY TILES. —APRIL SHOWERS AND APRIL SUNSHINE.

A RIDE ON A CENTAUR.


BY HAMILTON W. MABIE.


SID’S mother had a way of telling him stories just before he went to bed, and Sid loved bed-time more than any other hour in the day. I couldn’t begin to tell you all he had learned in this way nor all the places he had been to. When people travel in strange countries they have to have a guide who knows the fine roads and wonderful places to be seen in that part of the world. Now Sid was a little traveller just setting out on a very long journey and it was a very fortunate thing for him that he had his mother as a guide.