"No, it is not half 'made up,'" said Grandma Meronne. "When you are old enough to read about the Lake-Villages of Switzerland, and how many things were found in one house, you will believe me."
"But the dragons, the Laby— Oh, Grandmère!" exclaimed Gustave, incredulously.
"They all lived, my Gustave, as surely as you do; but their lives were in the Neozoic Age."
A LONG-AGO BABY—Drawn by F. S. Church.
[HOW TINKER BRADLEY FOUND THE NORTH POLE.]
BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
The winter had been a long one and very hard. The ice on Deacon Potter's mill-pond had been wonderfully hard, and had staid so until the first week in March. Then it began to grow slushy, and the skating was gone, but the winter hung round in one way and another until after the 1st of April.