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A BuifiHTiittle boy with laughing lace. 
Whose every motion was full of grace. 
Who knew no trouble and feared no care. 
Was the light of our housenold—the youngest there. 
He was too young, this little elf, 
With troublesome question* to vex himself; 
But for tunny days a thought would arise. 
And bring a shade to the daneiiiR eyes. 
He went to one whom lie thought more wise 
Than any other beneath the skies; 
" Mother O word that makes the home! 
“Tell me, when will to-morrow come?” 
“ It is almost night,” the mother said, 
“ And time for uiy boy to be in bed ; 
When you wake up and it's day again, 
Jt will be to-morrow, my darling, then,” 
The little hoy alept through all the night. 
But woke with the tlrst red streaks of light; 
lie pressed a kiss on his mother'* brow, 
And whispered, "Is it to-morrow now?” 
“ No, little Eddie, this Is to-day; 
To-morrow is always one night, away,” 
He pondered awhile, hut Joys came fast. 
And the vexing question qulekly passed. 
But it earn© again with the shades of night; 
■“ Will it be to-morrow when it ts light?” 
From years to come he seemed care to borrow. 
He tried so hard to catch to-morrow. 
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CHARADE,-No. 4, 
I wish to tell you toy whole -a flower 
Compost'd of syllables four; 
My first is done to move a boat 
Not with paddle but with oar; 
My next Is found on the musical scale. 
’Tis either Do, Ho, Mi, or Fa; 
Beware of going too far in my third 
Or a bear may give you bis paw. 
My fourth Is merely part of a word 
Containing consonants three, 
With O for a vowel; now what— 
Can the name of this flower be ? 
85?" Answer in two weeks. Denio, 
‘ You cannot catch It, my little Ted ; 
Knjoy to-day,” the mother said ; 
" Some wait for to-morrow through many a year— 
It always is coming, but it never is here.” 
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sewing machine with any llrst-elass sewer—like the 
Singer, liowo, tirover ,V Baker, and others. 
What Mntlic Marlin Snye. 
Mattie Martin writes i have a room 
with an east window untl a little low chair 
beside St, an ottoman before it., and a little 
desk at. one side. The Avails are adorned 
with photographs of several Presidents and 
Vice-Presidents, engravings and paintings. 
I have no brother to make vases for me, so 
1 have to do without, them, lint what i like 
best in the whole room is a little library that 
was given to mo, which contains over one 
hundred volumes, flow I do love to go 
up to my room on Saturday and read! I 
haven’t any lime any other day, because I 
go to school. I am awful glad Edith wrote. 
Perhaps it will get, others to write also. If 
it does not, I hope Edith and .Tkn.nkttk 
will continue to write, and tell all about, 
their rooms. 1 shall he fourteen years old 
in August.” 
From Ada of l’liiliidelplilu nboiit Sponge 
Cake. 
Dear Mu. Editor: — 1 am going to try 
Eu.a’s recipe for cake next baking day. 1 
am learning to cook, and I can make bread 
and gingerbread, and pies and sponge cake. 
The sponge cake I made last, baking day 
was splendid. Maybe some of the girls 
would like to try my recipe for it. Here it 
is;—Two eggs; one tumbler of white sugar, 
half a tumblin' of cold water ; a teaspoon fid 
of cream tartar: half teaspoonful of soda, 
and half a pint, of Hour. 
I made a concoction to represent frosting 
out of one tahlespoonliil of white sugar; 
one of cold water, with a little grated nut¬ 
meg; stir altogether, and put on the cuke 
when it, is half dune. It is a good substitute 
Jbr frosting, though it don’t look like it. 
1 have got a wonderful dog like Ella 
has, and he has got the funniest name. It 
was given him because he wags his tail so 
much.— Ada. 
Remarks.—Ada’s letter was very well 
written indeed. We have had to make few 
changes in it. Bhc does not spell all her 
words quite right, but she can learn to do 
so. For instance, she should remember that 
sugar is not spelled with an “h” before 
Ihe “ u." 
vase lipping over. The hoard is sometimes 
planed and carved, so as to be tasteful. 
Then in some of these large knots are de¬ 
cayed holes. These he digs out clean and 
puts in soil, and plants different kinds of 
moss, or some little trailing vine in them. 
But Ihe funniest thing was how to get the 
water out of such vases. Anniic and I were 
bothering our heads about it, when James 
went and got a hit-auger (a small one) and 
bored a hole through the side right into the 
bottom of the vase, set, it on the grass, or 
held it over a pail, and the water quickly 
ran out. Then he made a neat little plug 
and slopped the hole, and we refilled the 
vase with water. 
I have no doubt that some of the girl’s 
brothers are as smart and good as Jim 
(James, I mean, Mr. Editor,) but I don’t 
think there are any of them any smarter or 
better. Bui my letter is too long.—E imth 
M. N. 
going to try Eugene’s plan too. I tell you, 
Ihe Rural is Ihe place to get the kind of 
information one wants. Now I’ve another 
fish quest ion. Did you ever eat smoked eels 
and par-boiled sturgeon ? T have, and I 
like them. Now, the other night, I caught 
a big eel, lint did not. know how to ekin it, 
nor did mother know how to cook it; so it 
was of no use. And here in our lake we 
sometimes catch, in seines, sturgeon; but 
mother does not know how to cook them, 
although I have eaten them elsewhere that 
were nice. Perhaps some of the good old 
fishermen will tell me how to do these things. 
I am ever so much obliged for what, they 
have done for me. The Rural's fast friend 
—Sam Carter. 
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CROSS-WORD ENIGMAt-No. 3, 
My first is in cash but not in dime, 
My second in ash but not in pine; 
M.v third is in romp but not. in go, 
My fourth Is in pomp but not In show 
My fifth is in end but not in all, 
My sixth is in send but not in squall; 
My whole we work hard to obtain. 
82?“ Answer in two weeks. 
About Pickerel Fishing. 
Tim Tucker writes;—-“I am glad Sam 
Carter asked about bass fishing. Rut I 
would like to know vTinf kind of tackle is 
best, for trolling for pickerel. Is it. best, to 
have a spoon hook V There is a big pond 
near ns. in which there are lots of pickerel, 
and an old fisherman told me the best way 
to catch them was to troll for them; bull 
don’t know how.” 
LETTERS FROM BOYS 
DECAPITATION.—No. 3 
A Letter tVnin Orin Stoughton. 
Dear Mr. Editor; — 1 should like to 
give Sam Carter a good shaking — I mean 
a good n a lured one—for unearthing these 
fishermen and getting from them the in¬ 
struction he has. Now, I’ll tell you, I’ve a 
question to ask. There are lots of wood¬ 
chucks in our meadows. I’ve been making 
hay where their holes are in the clover field 
to-day. I should like to catch some of ’em. 
Do you think it would he wicked? Do 
they do fanners any good ? I know they 
trample down ih« clover and eat clover 
heads. 1 don’t know as they do much harm. 
But are not their hides good for something? 
If so, what? And how is the best way to 
catch ’em? Will not some of your cor¬ 
respondents tell me? Iam a farmer’s boy, 
but fourteen years old, and have to work for 
a living, and don’t, have time to watch for a 
chance to shoot them.— Orin Stoughton. 
Remarks. —We used to catch woodchucks 
in steel traps, placing them just, in the mouth 
of their holes, covering the chain (which we 
fastened firmly to a stake) and trap slightly 
with earth. In the fall a good fat. wood 
chuck, baked whole (after being dressed, of 
course,) is pretty good eating. And we 
have oaten them parboiled in milk, too. 
'fhe skin tanned makes splendid whip lashes, 
hut we don’t, know how to tan them. 
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CATCHING BLACK BASS 
PUZZLE.- NO. 3 
lusiruction* for Sam. Carter ami Ollier 
Itoya. 
Tide writer was much younger than he 
now is, when he first, attempted bass fishing, 
and for along time did not succeed in taking 
one, simply because lie did not know their 
habits, and it was only by Ihe advice of a 
friend, that he learned to angle for them suc¬ 
cessful ly. 
In the first, place, it is absolutely necessary 
that the angler should provide himself w ith 
a good roil, reel, line and hooks. With the 
exception of the hooks, all can be made by 
any bile of ordinary ingenuity, and be made 
to work as well as those purchased from the 
manufacturer. 
Secondly, as live bait or minnows is the 
usual or natural food food for ihe black bass, 
lie must provide himself with a pail in which 
to carry and keep his bail while fishing; 
anything that will confine the buil without 
excluding the air,—for instance a pail with 
small holes in the lid to let in air and fresh 
water. A tier hail ing his hook, which is 
usually done by running the hook through 
both lips of the minnow, lie makes his cast, 
lie will discover in a short time his line 
gradually moving off, or a violent pull some¬ 
times indicates the bait is taken. To jerk at 
this lime would lose the fish; and now the 
reel comes in play. The good fisherman at 
this point unreels his line as rapidly as the 
fish may take it, for some Seconds, or until 
the bail is swallowed ; a gentle twitch then 
secures your game, nine times out of ten. 
If the fish weighs over one or two pounds, 
it is always best to play him until exhausted, 
as, if brought, at once to the land or boat, 
they often escape. 
After fishing for black bass for more than 
twenty years, and usually successful as an 
amateur angler, the w riter thinks the in¬ 
structions given arc all thnt arc necessary, 
lie has invariably used live bait, being more 
convenient and more easily procured during 
the fishing season, although bass are often 
taken with small frogs, crickets, grasshop¬ 
pers, and angle-worms. If, in this commu¬ 
nication, i have been of service to ihe young 
fisherman, 1 shall, at some future day, be 
pleased to hear from him. p. s. B. 
Litchfield Co., Ct. 
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ILI.U8TRATBD Rkhcs No. 2. I cannot do as I 
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Grammatical Knigma No. l.—Trust only thy¬ 
self and another shall not betray you. 
Miscellaneous Enigma No. 2.—Winter. 
Decapitation' No. 2.—Skate. 
Problem No. 3.—One-lmlf its leugth. 
Letter fro in Erliili. 
WnAT a dear, kind, good Mr. Editor you 
are! I declare I believe I could love you 
without half trying! To think you should 
have published my letter I And you ought 
to have seen Annie blush when she read it; 
and 1 really think the tears crept into her 
eyes too. At any rate, I know she gave me 
a good hugging and kissing for it. 
Now, I like Loitlia’s letter. I wish I 
knew her. If she wants to w rite to me pri¬ 
vately, she may send the letter to you, and 
you may forward it. Loretta asks about 
Annie’s wooden vases. They are queer 
things. If I had time 1 would send you a 
drawing of one that Annie’s brother made 
for me. ll sets here on a mat, I knit myself, 
on my bureau, just, at, the right of the mir¬ 
ror; and it is full of (lowers. 
Well, it is made out of a great big hard¬ 
wood knot—maple, I should think. The 
bark isn’t, off of it. It is just ns il came from 
the woods, except that, right in the top of it 
Jim (James, T mean,) has dug out a deep 
hole, not very large, for the flowers. lie 
dug it out with a knife and a crooked piece 
of steel he had the blacksmith shape and 
sharpen for him, and to which he put. a han¬ 
dle himself. This knot is so large that he 
sawed off one side Of it, so that it sits flat on 
the bureau; but some of Annie’s are made 
to sit up just as he wants them to, by nailing 
a board on the end or side he wants down— 
the board being large enough to prevent the 
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—The above allusion to the benefit of adver¬ 
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President of a prominent life insurance compa¬ 
ny related last week. He said that, although they 
had not advertised in it for over two months, 
they had, on that day alone, received thirteen 
letters which averred that the writers had seen 
the company's advertisement in the Rural 
New-Yorker. Tiie gentleman added that ad¬ 
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nal, and they always endeavored to select the 
best mediums in the country. 
A Letter front « Prairie Boy. 
Out here in Kansas we have wlmt we call 
gophers. They burrow in the ground and 
injure crops, 1 should like to know how to 
catch them. Can any of the hoys tell me 
the best way?— Prairie Bov. 
Remarks. — Cannot “Prairie Boy” de¬ 
scribe ihe animal he calls “ Gopher 1” The 
Striped and Spotted Prairie Squirrel and 
the Gray Prairie Squirrel we know are 
called gophers, but naturalists say incorrect¬ 
ly, The true gopher is distinct from either 
of these. These, squirrels are common in 
the West,hut the true gopher is not. so com¬ 
mon now, we believe. We have drowned 
tliesa squirrels by pnuriqg a few lnicketsful 
of water into their holes. Who of the 
Western hoys has ever seen a real gopher? 
If any one lias, let, him describe it and its 
habits. 
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Feta. 19. 
Another Letter irnm Sain Carter, 
Dear Mu. Editor I’m all right; I can 
catch bass now with the 1 test of ’em ! With 
some of that bail that S. D. described in 
Rural New-Yorker of July 2d I hooked 
four lusty fellows the first time trying. I’m 
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