I hope YOU have seen liis marvelous pictures. I read once, and 

 know it is true, that : 



"He went to the windows of those who slept, 

 And over each pane like a fairy crept. 

 Wherever he breathed, wherever he stept, 

 By the light of the moon were seen 

 Most beautiful things. There were flowers and trees 

 There were bevies of birds and swarms of bees, 

 There were cities, thrones, temples and towers; and these 

 All pictured in silver sheen." 



"VYill you look for some of Jack Frost's sketches on your windows 

 and tell me something about them? 



Study whenever you can the dainty little snow crystals which fall 



on your clothing, as 



" Silent and soft and slow 

 Descends the snow." 



Do you wonder that the blanket with which Nature covers all her 

 sleeping plants is so beautiful, as we see it crossed and recrossed by 

 the shadov/s of the leafless trees, when you find how pretty are the 

 tiny flakes with which it is made ? Jack Frost designed every one, 

 and no two are alike. 



How 1 wish I might be with you when you go in search of ever- 

 greens ! What a merry party it would be ! Tlie smallest Junior 

 Naturalist would be close beside me, so that occasionally I might pat 

 each tiny head, while the older boys and girls discussed with me 

 some of the old-time customs with which eversrreens are connected. 

 "We would recall how, for many centuries, the youths and maids of 

 England have brought home the yule log * from the forest to cheer 

 the Ciiristmas hearth. It would amuse us to speak of the old-time 

 folks who hung holly wreaths in the windows to scare the witches 



*Do you know that the burning of the yule or Christmas log grew out of a 

 custom which was established long before the birth of Christ? The custom 

 originated among certain people called Teutons who, during the winter solstice, 

 burned a log of oak. It was their belief that the longer it could be kept burning 

 as the length of the days increased, the greater would be their prosperity. Old- 

 time customs are difl3cult to give up so the burning of the log became a part of 

 the Christmas festivity, and was called the yule log. 



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