88 Hurrah for the Holidays !

 

and, oh, how hot we did get at
last! Then off came hats and
jackets, and were left behind under
the trees while we went to rest our-
selves in a piece of open shade,
thrown by that large barn where,
by and by, the apples would be
stored away; and this was the
moment which I seized to get his
advice as to a new toy I had lately
bought to send to Bobbie. It was
one of those wooden soldiers whose
arms and legs are to. go by means
of a string; but the string, you
know, is always getting hitched.
This was the case now, and it

tasked all Alick’s wonderful brains