While it was boiling, they thought they would eat their luncheon. What do you suppose they had besides bread? I will tell you. They had thin slices of raw meat. "But did they eat it raw?" perhaps you will ask. Oh, no! The boys whittled out some clean, pointed sticks, on which they held their meat close to the fire till it was roasted to a beautiful brown; and then you cannot think how good it tasted. After eating their bread and meat, they had some nice crullers and cheese to end off with.
Well, by and by the sap in the little kettle had boiled into sirup. Then the children brought some clean snow in their cups, and carefully dipped a spoonful of hot sirup into each cup. The snow cooled it at once, and turned it into clear, hard candy. I wish you could have had some of it to eat! I know they thought it was delicious.
Soon after they had eaten their candy, they put out the fire with snow, and went home, having had a very happy time; and they did not forget to take candy enough with them for mother and little sister, and all the rest of the family.
Anna Holyoke.
WHERE IS THE BABY?
Oh! who has seen my baby?
Does anybody know
Where I can find my darling,
My precious little Joe?
The house is very lonesome;
No baby do I see:
Oh! if my missing treasure
Would but come back to me!
Ah! here is a young lady,
Just four years old to-day,
Who tells me that my darling
Is not so far away.
What! this great girl my baby?
Well, well, it must be so;
But, really, it's amazing
To see how babies grow.
Kate Cameron.