VACATION THANKS.

light, the electric motor and other great improvements and discoveries
- the United States of America has grown rich and strong and great
and powerful. To-day we lead the world in the ways of doing things,
of saving time, of shortening distance and of making hard work
easy.
 And all these things were either begun, or thought of, or studied
into, or carried out, for the first time in America, when we were a
young nation, trying to get a foothold in the big, busy, bustling world,
in the days when your grandfather's grandfather was a boy.
 Elbridge 8. Brooks.




 VACATION THANKS.

 N -T HANK you, dear old fir-tree,
 For giving me cool shade;
 Thank you, little bayberry bush,
 For the perfume you have made;
 Thank you, pretty bunch-berries -
 So gay your shining red;
 S Thank you, you velvet mosses,
 For the carpet you have spread.

 O, tall slim stalk of golden-rod
 Like a lovely candle-stick
 With your yellow lights a-burning
 Where the firs are dark and thick -
 You too I thank ; and the asters
 Frilled with purple silk;
 "And the berries that I carry home
 To eat with bread-and-milk !
 .Mary F. Butts.