. If we are anywhere where
we can't say the name out loud we'll whisper it.

"Farewell, dearest Paddy, in all the years that are to be We'll cherish
your memory faithfully."[1]

MY MOST EXCITING ADVENTURE

My most exciting adventure was the day I fell off Uncle Roger's loft two
years ago. I wasn't excited until it was all over because I hadn't time
to be. The Story Girl and I were looking for eggs in the loft. It was
filled with wheat straw nearly to the roof and it was an awful distance
from us to the floor. And wheat straw is so slippery. I made a little
spring and the straw slipped from under my feet and there I was going
head first down from the loft. It seemed to me I was an awful long time
falling, but the Story Girl says I couldn't have been more than three
seconds. But I know that I thought five thoughts and there seemed to be
quite a long time between them. The first thing I thought was, what has
happened, because I really didn't know at first, it was so sudden. Then
after a spell I thought the answer, I am falling off the loft. And then
I thought, what will happen to me when I strike the floor, and after
another little spell I thought, I'll be killed. And then I thought,
well, I don't care. I really wasn't a bit frightened. I just was quite
willing to be killed. If there hadn't been a big pile of chaff on the
barn floor these words would never have been written. But there was and
I fell on it and wasn't a bit hurt, only my hair and mouth and eyes
and ears got all full of chaff. The strange part is that I wasn't a bit
frightened when I thought I was going to be killed, but after all the
danger was over I was awfully frightened and trembled so the Story Girl
had to help me into the house.

FELICITY KING.

THE BATTLE OF THE PARTRIDGE EGGS

Once upon a time there lived about half a mile from a forrest a farmer
and his wife and his sons and daughters and a granddaughter. The farmer
and his wife loved this little girl very much but she caused them great
trouble by running away into the woods and they often spent haf days
looking for her. One day she wondered further into the forrest than
usual and she begun to be hungry. Then night closed in. She asked a fox
where she could get something to eat. The fox told her he knew where
there was a partridges nest and a bluejays nest full of eggs. So he led
her to the nests and she took five eggs out of each. When the birds came