“Do you want to wash my dishes with it?”

“N-no. I’d rather hem cloths, I b’lieve: but I’d like to try it on my doll dishes.”

Lee McCrae.

A SNOW-FLAKE.

Once he sang of summer,

Nothing but the summer;

Now he sings of winter,

Of winter bleak and drear:

Just because there’s fallen

A snow-flake on his forehead,