HOW OUR NATION GREW.

 The Snarlies determined that there they
 would stay.
 They wanted to sleep, and they wanted
 to play. I ,
 So they said, Mrs. Brush, you are not
 Doing right;
 If you don't'go away, we will tie you up
 tight;
 To stay in this hair is our greatest
 delight." MR. COMB AND
 MRS. BRUSH.
 So then Mrs. Brush sent for good Mr. Comb,
 And asked him to help send the Snarlies all home.
 And together they drove every Snarly away,
 And told them in some other place they must stay.
 Then wasn't that little girl happy and gay !
 Charlotte E. Leavitt Slocum.




 HOW OUR NATION GREW.
 (When Grandfather's Grandfather Was a Boy.)

BY the time Thomas Jefferson was president, the United States
 owned all the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific. More and
more people kept coming across the sea from Europe, because they
thought it a fine thing to live in a free country where men could have
the say as to how they should live and who should be their rulers;
and so, to make room for its ever increasing inhabitants, the United
States kept on growing.
 It grew by the cities along the sea-coast getting larger and the
towns and villages and farms becoming more numerous; it grew by
people leaving their homes in the East and going West to make new
homes for themselves; it grew because men began to think out how to