The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-04-09
WHERE ELSIE FOUND HIM.

/ A Little Girls search for the Maker Of
| the Winter window Pane Pictures.
The morning after the first very cold
night had come. and Elsie was looking
with great delight at the frost pictures
on the window.
Who did it. Phil = she asked her
brother.
| Jack Frost" said Phil.
%. how pretty, When did he do
In the night. when you were fast
asleep.
Where is he now / want IL see
him.
''lou cant see him. Nobody ever
sees him.
There were beautiful castles and
towns and lakes and bridges And i'm
one place there were trees which looked
exactly as ii You might walk under
them and pick wild flowers and hear
the birds sing. And some Of the pancs
were covered with delicate lace. After
breakfast Elsie put on her coat and cap
and mitten> and went out Of doors
-. see." She cried. THE little brook
is all covered up with glass. Who did
| it,"
That isn't glass, said Phil That
ice. and I'm glad Of it. for I'm going to
have good skate on il. Jack Frost did
ii. and see how hard he has made the
ground"
Elsie could not skate. SO. after watch
ing Phil for little while. She went into
the house to look at the frost pictures
again. But they were all gone. Mamma
| told her that il was the moisture in the
air of the room which made them. The
cold outside freezes it upon the panes in
those pretty shapes. When the room
| gets warm they melt away.
Then where is Jack Frost?" asked
| Elsie.
People talk about Jack Frost just
for fancy" said mamma. But there
is really no such person.
| OF course Elsie believed every word
mamma said. but she could not help
thinking there must be somebody
to make such pretty pictures
He might be somebody like
Santa Claus. person in whom
some believed and others did not. Prob
ably mamma had never been awake in
the night To see him. She made up her
mind she would watch. so when She
went to bed she kept her eyes fixed on
the pane. sure she would keep awake
until he came to make more pictures.
But the next thing she knew the gas
/ light was gone and the sunlight was
| peeping in. Elsie sprang up and stared
at the window. There they were-all
| the frost pictures again. but this time
different ones.
She kept on the lookout for Jack
Frost. One morning she said: The
trees are all over little white feathers. .
That's Jack Frost" said Phil.
Sometimes glass or a pitcher would
be found broken in the morning.
That's Jack Frost said Susan. the
| girl .sHe has been drinking cut of
/ them
Elsie thought it was not good manners
in Jack to break them when he came to
get drink. At last it rained all one
day. and the next morning as Elsie
looked out she cried: ''Oh. the trees
all over diamonds"
Jack Frost said Phil.
Every thing was shining and glitter
ing in the sunlight. Elsie went out to
see if she could not at last get glimpse
at Jack, for surely he could not be far
off. In minute She came rushing back
to mamma.
-. mamma. I've found him.
Found whom. dear
Jack Frost. Come and See" She
led mamma out.
See, there's his tail. He's hiding up
there ON the top of the porch.
A long icicle was hanging down from
the porch.
Mamma laughed as she patted Elsie
cheek and said: Il guess you've found
Jack Frost at last. Interior