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MISFITS.

Bob has discovered another amusement. The other evening he suddenly
commanded me to "draw a head" on a piece of paper that he placed before
me.

"Don't let me see it, nor anybody. Now fold it back, and leave a little
bit of the neck showing. Now I'll draw the body."

Which he did, and again folded the paper.

"Now, papa, you draw the legs."

Papa obediently took the pencil, and had his turn at the paper.

"Now, Mamie, you name it. Call it after somebody you know, if you like."

So Mamie named it Miss Foot, in honor of her school-teacher, the most
stately of maiden ladies. Then Bob unfolded the paper, and displayed to
us a most comical mixture of flesh and fowl.

"More like a _misfit_, than _Miss Foot_," said papa.

"There! that's what I'll call 'em," exclaimed Bob--"_misfits_. That's
just what they are, you know--misfits."

"She's a duck, anyway," said Mamie.

"Looks more like a goose," said Bob.

We afterward tried another, in which Mamie had a hand with the pencil. I
named it after myself, and was rewarded for my vanity by finding "Nelly"
a more ungainly object than even "Miss Foot."

In making "Misfits" you must remember to leave a small piece of one
picture projecting into the other, in order to have them join properly.
You will also find it better to draw them on a larger scale than the
pictures we give.

CHARADE.

A nimble spring, a noiseless tread,
A playful poise of the restless head,
A sleepy song of sweet content,
While slyly on schemes of mischief bent--
'Tis thus the days of my _first_ are spent.

To do my _second_ is surely human;