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three dolls lay in a row upon a couch. With a wild whoop Johnny Eagle- 

 feather executed a war dance, and in less time than it takes to tell it, the 

 scalp of poor Claribel hung at his belt, not alas, an unusual event in her life. 



The next one of the Palefaces was Lucy, the best-beloved doll, but as her 

 head was but cloth with painted hair, he passed to Matilda Maude. She came 

 only the Christmas before, and her curly locks were well fastened on. 



Dare he do it? Rip! Crash! It was all over, and away rushed Chief 

 Eagle-feather bearing two scalps at his belt. 



It was not until bedtime that Dorothy discovered the sad fate that had 

 come upon her doll family. 



Claribel's brown tresses were soon found dangling from a small boy's 

 belt, and a bit of glue made her as good as new, but the curly locks of Ma- 

 tilda Maude were nowhere to be found, though John joined diligently in the 

 search. Her little mamma was obliged to make a lace cap to cover the bald 

 pate until John, by picking berries, earned enough to buy her a new flaxen 

 wig. 



Summer passed, and autumn, the winter came and went, the incident of 

 the Indian raid was nearly forgotten. One bright spring day as the children 

 were playing hide and seek, one of them spied a deserted nest in the tangle 

 by the brook, which held some curious object interwoven amid its grasses 

 and barks. 



Here was witch-ery indeed, for the hollow which the breast of the mother 

 bird had shaped for her four speckled eggs had for a soft lining — Matilda 

 Maude's yellow curls. 



What a curious pillow for Madam Yellowthroat's babies! John and Dor- 

 othy placed the nest carefully back among the bushes, and are now watching 

 to see if the mother bird comes back to use the same cradle for another 

 brood. Matilda Maude's china blue eyes stare calmly out beneath her new 

 curls and she does not utter one word against it. 



Numerical Enigma, 



7-8-9 — an affirmative, 



2-3-4-5 — a musical stringed instrument. 



1-2-3-3-4-9 — something used in cutting. 



9-2-8-8-5 — Some of Bopeep's flock. 



5-8-3- 4-9— fruit. 



4-8-3-5 — what farmers do in harvest. 



2-3-5-5-7 — what you should make, "the other fellow." 



5-3-4-6 — To cut off the skin of a fruit. 



2-6-3-5 — a pile. 



