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and take care of. To keep them quit
safe made them beautiful soft mes
| in the folds Of the rain bundle which hum
here above the wisharu. But when you
people went out on the hunt they tool
the rain bundle and my babies with It
So have lost them and you can see wha
distress I am in" And the stranger wen
on crying softly to herself,
Don't cry any more" urged GoOt
Heart earnestly, for the mother mousse
plight seemed to him very pitiful. II cal
help you if you viii trust me. What yol
must do is to wait here for FIVE days. O.
perhaps less. l am going now TO fnC
your babies, and at the end of that time
win come back here and bring them t.
you"
The mother mouse gratefully agreed L
this plan, and Good Heart, having founC
his mothers antler scraper, hurried awaI
to rejoin the tribe. After two days run
ming he caught up With them, and madt
his mother very happy by restoring to he
her precious tool Then, before he haG
eaten or rested, he hastily hunted up thu
poor little mouse babies, who by this time
he feared, might be dead Of hunger ant
fright.
After short search Good Heart found
the sacred rain bundle that always huns
on the western wall Of his home. 1t wa;
the custom Of these people TO wrap in q
piece of hide their most precious and holy
possessions, such as gifts from the gods
and charms by means of which q change
of weather might be brought about. These
they called bundles" In his own family
rain bundle Good Heart found, exactly n,
the weeping stranger had said, a group ot
little hairless mice, all dreadfully hungry
and dreadfully frightened and clingine
very forlornly to each others thin little
sides. But still nothing really mattered
so long as they were alive, so Good Hear
gave the little creatures some soft warm
food and then wrapped them very ten
derly in his own blanket
Without delaying an hour the boy then
went to his mother, who loved him very
much and had great confidence in him,
and told her that he was now obliged to
set out on a second journey and that she
must not worry about him
By this time Good Heart was very tired,
but he did not dare to rest so long as the
mouse babies were in his care. And a
second time he bravely followed the trail
back to the deserted village. All day long
he would run at a slow, steady trot, not
stopping either for rest or play. And at
nightfall he would build fire and cook
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this up by going on the morning of St
Valentines day to call upon the chosen
ones Both children and grown persons
took part in this celebration and, as you
have seen from Mr.. Pepys' diary, thee
was no distinction of age at all in the
drawing Of the valentines.
Sometimes instead of the boys and girls
walking to the houses of their valentines
to make their calls, huge hampers were
sent to the doors of the ladies who were to
be honored, and out of these hampers,
which were beautiful and much decorated,
/ tiny boys dressed in fancy costumes
came to present st. Valentines love to
the little ladies' fair" There were other
huge parcels sent which, when they were
opened, turned ont to be simply jokes,
with nothing in them at all after miles of
wrappings had been taken OF.
There were often notices, which came
in the lottery along with the name of the
valentine, and when the parcels were sent
TO house there were almost always mot
toes, whether the parcel was a real valen-
tine or only a joke. One of the notices
which was often used was, Happy is he
that expects nothing, for he shall not be
disappointed" A rather unpleasant
motto for St Valentines day. A motto
which Mrs. Pepys drew was ;s'Most cour-
teous and most fair" which her husband
thought very nice motto indeed.
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food for himself and the mouse babies.
Then he would wrap them again in his
warm blanket, where they now slept com.
fortably and without any fear. The boys
lown sleep was very short, for during the
greater part Of the night he kept running
steadily, Just as he did in the day BY
the time he reached the village poor Good
Heart, who all this time had had no
thought for his own comfort, was com
lpletely exhausted and was scarcely able
to drag himself to the entrance of his
own home.
This time the stranger stood in the door
of the lodge eagerly awaiting him. With
out saying anything Good Heart drew
out the family Of squeaking, slippery babies
and put them into her hands.
"Oh, my darlings :" she cried. Every
one Of them here! And every one safe
and well Dear, kind Good Heart, you
will never regret that you took 50 much
trouble to bring my babies back to COM
fort me. No boy ever did a kinder thing
and all my people viii be your friends
forever"
After saying this she vanished, for OF
course she did not wish to remain in the
form Of a woman when her babies were
waiting TO be cuddled and petted So as
quickly as she could she became the
mother mouse again. Meanwhile Good
Heart had heard a prolonged chorus of
delighted squeaks from invisible throats,
and he understood that the entire tribe
of mice and rats had been on hand to
await the outcome of his journey. and
that they are now applauding the success
full return of the mother mouse's babies.
Content that his errand was so happily
finished, he paid no attention to the light
scuttle of tiny feet and the dim waving
in dark corners of a multitude of tiny
tails. But as he sat resting all these
delicate little sounds ceased suddenly and
there appeared before him a kindly old
man with gray garments and long gray
hair and beard.
Good Heart promptly rose to greet the
dignihed stranger, who smiled and said -
Good Heart. in the name of all my
people have come to thank you for your
great kindness We praise you especially
because you did not know of the power
that the gray people have or how they
viii be able to reward you"
Good Heart was rather puzzled by this,
and also began TO feel somewhat foolish,
as he was not accustomed to 80 much
praise. But the gray man went on:-
Il see that you wonder who ! am. 1 am
a priest of the rats In my long life /
have learned much wisdom and have also
found favor with the gods, just as your
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I n order that you may understand how
to do the match trick which was pub
ished in last weeks page for boy s and
girls it is necessary to suppose that al
the matches are numbered. As there are
eight matches, we win suppose that they
are numbered 1, ?, 3, 4, 3, 8, Z, s. The
trick is to make four piles Of the matches,
two in pile, by starting with any one
of the eight matches, counting two
matches from the start and then putting
the match down on the third match. This
same process must be gone through with
until the matches are in four piles, and
unless three matches can be counted each
time before putting down the match to
make a group of two the trick has not
been properly done. The secret Of the
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meat to last through the cold weather.
So the whole tribe left the village and set
out together toward the west, where the
buffalo herds were to be found. Not only
the hunters themselves went on this jour
ney, but the warriors. and the medicine
men, the old 1quaws and the young maid
ems, the half grown children and the
brown faced babies, strapped to their
mothers backs Not a human soul was
left behind in the village.
On the second evening of the journey
Good Hearts mother called him to her in
great haste and told him that she had for
gotten to bring her antler scraper! Now,
an antler seaper was a large tool with
long, curved elk horn handle, very neces-
sary to the hunt.
Don't be unhappy" Goodheart said. 81
viii run back to the village and get the
antler scraper and afturward catch up
with you.
So Good Heart, who was a tall, strong
boy for his age and fast runner, silently
left the tribe and ran lightly back over
the fresh made trail. And such good
progress did he make that by the next
evening he was again at the deserted vii
lage and at the entrance to his own home.
In colder weather these Indians left their
summer tepees, or tents of buffalo hide,
and went to live in earth lodges, which
were strongly built mounds Of earth
usually forty feet high, with an opening
for smoke at the apex. The fireplace was
in the centre Of the single room, the
hunks were set along the north and south
sides and the entrance was always al
the east, facing the rising sun. Opposite
lodge, was always in every home the
Wisharu, or sacred place, or, as we should
probably call il, the altar. As Good Heart
came inside his home he was greatly
amazed to see sitting beside the altar a
weeping woman.
But without any hesitation the boy
went to the strangers side. Are you in
trouble?" he asked her gently, when he
found that she did not look at him or
speak.
Nh, hVPe tha' sOu arc as Alhu u ooS
as you seemr' exclaimed the stranger.
For if you are there is indeed something
that you can do for me. But I must tell
you first who am. When heard you
coming, just now, chose TO take the
shape Of a woman, so that we might talk
together more easily. But am not really
a woman. / am a mother mouse, and this
is my home as well as yours. And lately
/ have been very happy, because have
had a dear little family of babies to love
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HOW no DO LAST WEEKS MATCH TRICK.

trick is to begin with match number 6vs
Count back to the second match; thiS
makes one pile. Then pick up match
number three according to the original
numbering), count to seven; this is thG
second pile. Then take one Of the remain.
ing single matches, count three Gnelud.
ing one pile of two) and place the match
on one of the single matches in the centre
Do the same with the remaining matches
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n ERE is an extremely interesting
IT game for you to play on Lncoln't
Birthday at school or after school OF
at some celebration given in honor Of the
day. 1t is called the game of appropri
ate adjeetives and is interesting to groHK
up persons as well as to children.
The fBt thing to do is to write out al
the letters of Abraham Lincoln's name
in regular order, but up and down instead
Of across, in this fashion -
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own priests have. So whatever l promise
| can fulfill. And you will find that there
are many ways in which the gray people
can be of service to you and that they
will never forget their gratitude"
As Good Heart stammered a reply the
old gray man disappeared. But in ths in
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Answer to Prefix Puzzle.

The words represented in last weeks
puzzling pre6xes were low, yards. bow,
lot, let and yon. By prefxing bill to each
Of these words these new words are
formed:-Binow, billiards. bilbo. bilIot.
billet and billion.
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OF course it viii not be interesting fol
you to use any OF these same adiectiveS.
The interesting part Of it is to think up
new adjectives that are appropriate.
There are any number Of them that you
can find
If you are using this game for a Lin
coins Birthday party there should be
prizes for the best list Of adiectives, the
next best, and so on. Even if there are no
prizes the umpire or judges should state
which player has made the best list at
the end of the game. There must be
time limit for the making out of the lists
and ten minutes should be long enough.
but this of course would rest with the
judges.
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IVTHAT would you think if when you
w awakened on the morning Of st.
Valentines day you saw standing
beside your bed a tiny boy or girl who
gave you a beautiful blue card with your
name written on it in gold letters and an
nounced that he had come TO be your
valentine?
That is one Of the ways that Valentines
day used to be celebrated many years
ago in England, and in his interesting
diary Samuel Pepys tells about this old
custom, which was in full force in the
reign of Charles II.
"On Valentine morning." says Pepys,
"there came TO my wife's bedside little
VIII Mercer TO be her valentine, and
brought her name written upon blue
paper in gold letters done by himself,
very pretty, and we were both well
pleased with it."
1t was the custom of the times for the
person who had been chosen as a valen-
tine TO give the one choosing him or her
a gift in accordance with the wealth and
station of both, and it was necessary for
Mrs. Pepys to give such gift to little
Will Mercer.
Mrs. Pepys that same year chose Mr.
Pepys to be her valentine, and so Mr..
Pepys was obliged to give her a present
1t cost him FIVE pounds, about twenty
five dollars in our money, but Mr.. Pepys
consoled himself by remarkiug that he
must have paid out the money anyhow if
he and his wife had not been valentines.
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PART /.

RE you afraid Of the little gray
people, and do you run from their
scampering feet? Or do you feel
kindly toward them, like that In
dian boy of olden time whom they
loved and befriended in such won
! ways?
S boy was called by his own people
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HE quaintest little figures imagina
bic can be made by boys and girls
from the cast off shells of walnuts
peanuts, filberts or hickory nuts.
One can make queer little animals,
birds, Indians and a score of interesting
things by applying the nut shells for
heads 10 figures drawn either in ink OF
water color ou Bristol board. If it hap
pens that one is something of au
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Mr.. Pepys was also chosen by child
as her valentine. This little girl was the
daughter of a friend of his. Sometimes
the persons chosen to be the valentines of
the others were deliberately selected, but
usually they were drawn by a sort Of
lottery.
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With the dog the resemblance may be seen
at once.
In attaching the nut to the cardboard
lies the whole secret of making the funny
nut figure Every one wonders how it is
done, but it is all very simple, like lots of
other things once one knows how. And
this is the way Take a little plaster Of
paris and add a little water 20 make a
paste. Fill the inside of the nut and
quickly, before it dries, press into the soft
paste the head Of a paper clip. As soon as
hardened the ends of the clip are pressed
through the cardboard directly over the
spot where it is intended to 50, the ends
of the clip separated and bent out fat at
the back. This secures the nut firmly in
place.
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staDt that he vanished he took on tn,
shape of large gray rat So Good Hear
knew that what he had said of himself
and the little gray people must be true.
There will be more about the Little Gray PeoDA
in next weeks page for boys and girls
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character 10 the whole thing and some
care should be taken in picking out nuts
that are grotesque or picturesque, as the
case may be, or that seem to represent
the sort of figure to which it is to be ap-
piled.
In the peanut acrobat the large ends Of
the nut indicate the muscular development,
natural to man Of his physical proKess.
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Then think of adjectiyes beginning with
each of those letters and which are descrip-
tive Of Lincoln in some way or other.
For instance, you could have the following
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NJ 1AIILIIIdu"dIIOUoI
artist and can draw the figures free,
band, so much the better, but if moi
blessed with the talent, then there are
any number Of designs that can be traced
from picture books, magazines or news,
papers.
1t is of course the head that gives
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Good Heart and his home was in an In
dian village in the Far West. It hap
pened once, as the story goes, that food
became very scarce in this village, as it
had been a bad season for game, and some
of the people were already hungry. As
winter was coming on, the chiefs decided
that it was wise to go out on long hunt
and thus get a large supply of buffalo
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all all lived
would
and O and
written of and all
the otheS slips which Whoever valentines
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Y. LLNKINS,

Y. LINKINS,
ave. NV.
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NW,2134 H,5r. b.. .2.M
NV, 2136t H,5r. b. -. SO
NV, 1921 Otis place,
5r. b 20. 50
NV. s2 Q. 5r, b. pol
STABLE OR GARAGE.
NV. Rear 1912 G. 1000
NV, Rear TO 18th. 80. 90
STORES.
NV. e19 G. store and
rooms above. $500
Nw.l760 II store and
NV " Store and aat s.,
b. good business To-
cation ........ .8o.W
Sc, Store, Sr. bath. $3.50
STORAGE.
NV, sol 10th. storage
room 1000
COLORED TENANTS.
W 't2O L.9r. %. 81. so
NV $40 NJ av. sr. b20. 80
NV, 11@ NJ av,6,w20. 80
NV, l715 Seaton st.
Or, W .16.W
NW,211S e. Or, .11.W
NV, Is Mass nv, Ar.
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Very attractive fronts Of selected English
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FOR RENT-BT GEO.
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furnished -. 10000
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NV. 2o35 G.1lr.s. 80. 90
NV, 6O3 NJ av. 10. b9 so
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No 2S-4r, bath. $500
No Str. bath. $500
No S6-4r. bath. 30. SO
No S-3r, bath. ESQ
No 30-3r. bath. ESQ
NW,s15 21st, 5r.b. 80. so
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FOR SALE
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NO. 139 FLORIDA AVE. NV. Modern two
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JOHN r. DoNOHOB q SONS.
314 Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
FOR SALD-HOUSES.

PRICE sa.7so.FoR THE TWO.
217-2l9 81 ST. H.B-This section is turning
This property viii chow splendid value On
the price asked. and is sold to close an es-
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price asked. We want an Offer to submit to
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PRICE. 8. 75o-FoR THE TWO.
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II they are mot worth thi. money make US an
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241-24S 10th ST.: N.E.-Thsse houses are
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and are sold to settle the Affairs Of Z partner
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CHOICE BARGAIN.
1112 LAMONT ST. NV.
81 900 below actual cost
We believe this to be one Of the cheapest
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Practically brand new. Built 3 years ago.
IN Absolutely PERFECT CONDITION.
3-story, bay-wfndow brick dwelling Of 9
beautiful rooms and tiled bath; hot-water
heat; oak floors; hardwood trim; large closets.
Deep lot to alley.
Price cut to SO, 80.
Open all day Sunday for inspection.
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FOR 8AI.ELS1, $50
THIS SACRIFICE PRIOB
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BAN n each door; rented at Sl9 a
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At once.
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