Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-04-30
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
20, how pretty When did he do
III"
In the night, when you were fast
asleep"
where is he now ? want to see
him"
"You can't see him. Nobody ever
sees him.
There were beautiful castles and
towns and lakes and bridges. And in
one place there were trees which looked
exactly as if you might walk under
them and pick wild flowers and hear
the birds sing. And some of the panes
we're covered with delicate lace. After
breakfast Elsie put on her coat and cap
and mittens and went out of doors.
30, seel" she cried. "The little brook
is all covered up with glass. Who did
h?"
"That isn't glass" said Phil. "That's
ice, and I'm glad of it, for I'm going to
have good skate on it. Jack Frost did
Il, 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 it 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: 1.-The
trees are all over little white feathers.
That's Jack Frost, said Phil
Sometimes glass or pitcher would
be found broken in the morning.
That's Jack Frost" said Susan, the
girl HE has been drinking out of
them"
Elsie thought it was not good manners
IN Jack to break them when he came to
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day, and the next morning as Elsie
looked out she cried: "0h, 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
on. In minute she came rushing back
to mamma
70, mamma, I've found him
Found whom, dear 7"
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's
cheek and said: 81 guess you've found
Jack Frost at last. Interior.