The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-05
GAMES UNDER WATER.

very game
was of svery sand every movement of the fish could
be One little fish would dart at another and then
would be joined by the rest they would all f0ow the
while they would turn and chase other fish till it
tagged" But the game the fishes seemed to en-
under water but was done in this way: tide
carried out sticks that had been thrown on the
shore. AS the fish stick number of them
would dart at it and with irt Of their tails splash
and clatter, they would 60 out OF the water
clearing the stick This play would continue for hours
and often number Of these would be going on at
a Sixth Grade, ssos Pleasant Ave.
Lyndale School. e
THE BLISS OF SOLITUDE.
Usually when the little city cousins visit the farm
they find joy in the barnyard watching those
mysterious animals which penned up there for their
amusement fleeing in terror from fierce looking tur-
key gobber who is curious they while the grown
ups take their pleasure quietly inspecting garden
and dairy chatting the shady porch However, to
who began life midst such surroundings, for whom
these the chief joys Of day the farm 1t Is
''To wander lonely as cloud,
That floats high Ger wales and hills
cross the road in front of the house and down the
Steep rocky slope to the river there to take the fey
drink from that clear cold spring which gurgies
into the cloudy river; to move slowly across with
creang of and plank then to stand on the oter
sde where spread out the level lowands are fertile
fields and meadows stretching back to the line of hills
the vision and adds another beauty to the
landscape At the right the path that leads along the
densey wooded shore and here is the best place to
enjoy the beauties Of nature Here at the proper sea-
found pums cherries and grapes, hickory nuts
walnuts and butternuts and always there sturdy
tree trunks overhangng the river to invite the hsher
man. Here one may stay until such time as the farm
house kitchen the companonship of seem more
sl]nrino, Margaret M Smith,
A Eleventh Grade 1112 Twenty-sixth Ave N.
North High School =
NO FAIRIES, YET HOW?
did not know how got there; had not the least
idea how arrived The last thing remembered
was being awakened lay with my head on fathers
shoulder and then I went back to the Land OF NOD.
had had strange dream of rumbing and rolling houses
and of swinging thru space but that was only dream
Folks said there fairies, and with that the
orv dissipated was at advance suppo-
s;fion as to how had been transported. really felt
stransported' altho too young to know the term
But the indisputabe fact remained; was IN the country
I awoke with start and sitting up In oeo' e1-
claimed:
ooh mama my pillows growed, an I'm sleeping
on it, a1r-- -1..-r4
Ono child. that's feather bed''
ooh but oh! mama, the carpet s got snakes all over
ftf It was brilliant red and blue creation OF rags,
and could nothing but wiggling snakes.
t9Cut cut -cut-cut ca da-cut.
tsCuck a-doo-dle-doo.'
con mama. what's the matter with the Coo-coo
Mama laughed as she took downstairs. Then
went with auntie to milk the watched the pro-
cess with greatest interest els that the that
jumped over the moona"
tsWel], hardly
elbow do you do that9'
ssThs way.
4tob. auntie is that a squirrels nest9''
"Better not touch that. Come away; it's hornets
nest
"oh!"
tsRun see the Chickens
Oh, TIM hurt Something bit msi on H.
in his pocket Why butterf les have pins auntles
teCome child, It's time for you to taake nap 1:n
B Twelfth Grade, M oao r5;s W LIZ
South High School iSo' oiin'on