re,
He used to live for many a year.

II.

'Twas night, the moon shone bright,
The rats came down in scores,
Munching, squeaking, each man shrieking,
Tumbling down indoors.

III.

We went out four and twenty strong,
Sailors and tailors in a throng;
We heard a tale, we saw a sail,
And then returned to kill a snail.

IV.

Here Harry and Richard,
Here Robin and John!
If there were but two men
You would pretty soon come!

V.

Five, four, three, two, one,
Won't we have some fun,
A cat has caught a hare
Alive, I do declare.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

[_The Editor requests that all inquiries and replies intended for
insertion in_ LITTLE FOLKS _should have the words "Questions and
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PRIZE COMPETITIONS, &C.

H. FORTESCUE.--[Several important announcements as to new
Competitions, &c., will be made in the January Number of LITTLE
FOLKS.--ED.]

A VERY LITTLE READER.--[I am glad to tell you that I have arranged to
again give every month the "Pages for Very Little Folk," with large
type and bold pictures, commencing with the January Number.--ED.]

LITERATURE.

SANTA CLAUS writes, in reply to LITTLE BO-PEEP'S question, that the
lines--

"There is a reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between"

are by Longfellow, and are to be found in a poem called "The Reaper
and the Flowers." Answers also received from twenty-two other
readers.

CELIA OAKLEY writes that the line--

"Music hath charms to sooth the savage breast"

is to be found in the tragedy of _The Mourning Bride_, by William
Congreve (1670-1729). Thirty-six answers to the same effect also
received.

T. C. would like to know if any one could tell her the author of the
following verse, and where it is to be found--

"Rain, rain, for ever falling,
Trembling, pouring slow or fast,
Through the mist a voice is calling
From the unforgotten past."

WORK.

LILIAN BOWYER writes, in answer to GEORGINA DEXTER'S inquiry how to
make a pair of bedroom slippers, that one way is to crochet the tops
with double Berlin wool and procure a pair of cork soles wool lined.
Answers also received from BUMPKIN, TOBY, and A.