Uprose then the little chicken that had stood on his mother's back and tried to crow in tune with his father, and he cried out: "Give it up!"
"Wrong!" said the magician. "That's not it. You are all now under the influence of a powerful spell. Here you will remain until some one can correctly answer my question."
They are all there yet. How long would you, my reader, have to sit on the grass before you could spell that word?
[SCRUBBY'S BEAUTIFUL TREE.]
BY J.C. PURDY.