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Clifton, Iroquois County, Ill.
DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: We want to tell the little boys and girls that
read ST. NICHOLAS, how a greedy rooster got caught in a trap. We
set the trap to catch rabbits, but didn't get any; so the corn was
left, and the chickens were all walking around, and saw it, and
tried to get in to eat it; but the selfish old rooster drove them
all away, and crowded in himself, and began to eat the corn, when
down came the trap, and he was fast, but all the others were
free.--Yours truly,
ARTHUR AND BROWNIE S.
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South Boston, Mass.
DEAR ST. NICHOLAS: I read the "Letter-Box" every month with much
interest, and have often seen puzzles and "such things" in it, so I
send you one, and hope that somebody will find it out:
There was somebody born in England, on the 16th of July, 1723. He
was the son of a clergyman, and his father was rather strict with
him. He made a drawing of his father's school with so much accuracy
of outline, and in such correct perspective, that the grave
clergyman could no longer maintain his severity. He saw that his
son would be a painter, and resolved to aid him.
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