the beautiful bouquet the steward made for our
Thanksgiving dinner. It was made out of vegetables with a knife--yellow
roses from carrots, and white roses, japonicas, and tuberoses from
turnips and potatoes. Some of the petals he dipped into beet-water, and
so made blush roses of them. Then he made two canary-birds of carrots,
and perched them among the flowers. Mamma said that she had seen many a
cluster of wax flowers that were not as beautiful.

Perhaps I will write again when we arrive at Honolulu.

ROSE.

[Illustration: DRAWING-LESSON BY HARRISON WEIR.

Vol. XXII.--No. 1.]

SOLOMON AND THE TAME BEAR.

UNCLE REUBEN was a farmer; and he had a great many cattle, sheep,
horses, pigs, geese, and turkeys, all of which, you know, are usually
found on a large farm; and, besides these, he had one animal not usually
found on a farm, and that was a tame bear. He hired a large boy to do
the "chores," as the easy part of farm-work is called; and this boy's
name was Solomon Sturtevant.

Now, although the bear was tame, he was kept chained; for there was no
knowing what mischief even a tame bear might take it into his head to
do. He might take a notion to find out how a nice tender pig would
taste.

Solomon thought it fine sport to tease the bear, and there was one way
of doing it more amusing than any other, and that was to pelt him with
green chestnut-burs.

Chestnut-burs, you know, are covered with sharp thorns; and yet the
bear, being very fond of chestnuts, would try to get at the nuts which
he knew were in them,--snarling and whining, and making up very comical
faces, because the burs pricked his mouth.

Solomon would stand and watch him, and think it fine fun. But he came
near doing it once too often; for one day, when he had carried the bear
a capful of burs, intending to have a good laugh at him, the chain that
held the bear was not fastened as firmly as usual. After trying two or
three burs, the bear made a spring toward Solomon, got loose from his
chain, and started after him in earnest.

Solomon was not long in deciding that he had something to do _that_ time
besides laughing, and started in a hurry to get out of the bear's way.
Now there was a ladder leaning against the side of the barn close by,
and Solomon thought that if he went up on the barn-roof he would be all
right.

[Illustration]

No such thing. The bear went right up the lad