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Besides the six whose drawings are 
printed I want to give honorable mention 
to William W., 10 years, of Massachu¬ 
setts; Martha B., 15 years, of New York; 
Mildred K., 15 years, of California, and 
L. M. C., a little French girl of Vermont. 
Then I want to thank every one of the 
other 57 for the effort you made and the 
interest you took. How much better it is 
for the success of Our Page to have G7 
drawings come in (and probably more 
will come too late, as they did last 
month) than to have only six or seven. 
It means we are taking hold of things 
with a will, that we love Our Page and 
are working for it. 
Here is a full list of “Our Artists'* for 
this month: 
California—Mildred K., 15 years. 
Connecticut—Frank T., 10 years: 
Sophia K., 12 years; Conrad T., Harold 
K.. 12 years; Norman II., 14 years. 
Delaware—Rachel K., 13 years. 
Indiana—Charles G., 8 years. 
Iowa—Beatrice S., 11 years. 
'Louisiana—Williana D., 10 years. 
Maine—Ormnnd D., 11 years. 
Maryland—Marian M., 10 years; Mida 
M. , 10 years. 
Massachusetts—John P., 13 years; 
William W., 10 years; Beatrice I., 12 
years. 
Mississippi—Fannie B., 14 years. 
New Hampshire—Mildred O., 10 years; 
Dorothy II., 11 years. 
New Jersey—Anna F., 15 years; Mil¬ 
dred V., 13 years; Bella II., 10 years; 
Elizabeth S., 12 years. 
New Y r ork—Martha B., 15 years; Lu¬ 
ther A., 13 years; Edward C., 11 years; 
Elton J., Archie K., 13 years; Josephine 
G.. 8 years; Gladys L., 14 years; Nancy 
W., 11 years; Dorothy S., 13 years; Dor¬ 
othy T.. 14 years ; Mamie L., 12 years: 
Ethel R., 12 years; Margaret IT., 10 
years; Mary D., 10 years; Norine D., 12 
years; Lewis B., 11 years; Carrie I\. 15 
years; Marian P., 13 years; Florian S., 
10 years; Margaret U., 13 years; Stan¬ 
ley C., 14 years; Merton L.. 12 years; 
Ehvyna Van A.. 11 years; Sylvia R., 11 
years; Eleanor B.. 13 years. 
Pennsylvania—Doris Y.. 13 years; 
Martha H., 11 years; Elinor D., 11 
vears; Catherine W.. 10 years; Verna 
R„ 12 years; Esther D., 15 years; Edna 
D.. 7 years; Albert Z., 14 years; John G., 
10 years; Kathryn McC., 11 years; Em¬ 
met L.. 12 years. 
Rhode Island—Helen G., 15 years. 
Vermont—T.eah E., 13 years; L. M. C. 
Virginia—Christine B., 9 years; Fran¬ 
ces B., 6 years. 
A New Rhyme 
For another drawing. Hurrah! Now 
here is a fine chance for you boys and 
girls to show how well you can draw 
farm animals and country scenery. Re¬ 
member, we want all original work. This 
poem was made up and sent in by Ethel 
C., a 13-year-old New York girl: 
Out in the fields where hay is raised, 
A mother horse and her little colt grazed. 
Around the field there was a fence, 
and in the distance a forest dense. 
A few small clouds were in the sky, 
And Shep, the collie, stood faithfully by. 
This, altogether, makes a picture clear; 
Take up your pen and sketch it here. 
Many Things of Interest 
Martha R., an 11-year-old New York 
reader, wrote the words in the Box this 
month. It is true, isn’t it, that we 
usually enjoy most the things we have a 
share in doing? Everyone of you who 
writes a letter, or sends a drawing, a 
photograph, a memory verse,.a rhyme, a 
nature puzzle or a good suggestion, is 
helping Our Page to be better. What you 
send may not always be used, but you 
may know that your editor thanks you 
and feels your interest. We are such a 
big, busy, happy family, aren’t we? 
Louise D. of New Jersey suggested the 
poem for this month. How many of you 
7bt RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
Kitty’s Bath 
My kitty went frolicking after a frog; 
At first she espied him at rest on a log. 
She touched him to see what the strange thing would do; 
This made froggie jump, and kitty jumped, too. 
You will laugh when you see that the plan froggie took 
Brought them both down with a splash in the brook. 
Now draw me a sketch of the end of the race, 
"When kitty went frolicking out of her place. 
I: 
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Draivn by Mildred V. (13 years), 
New Jersey 
Drawn by Emmet L. (12 years), 
Pennsylvania 
Drawn by Norman II. (Ilf years). 
Con necticut 
know all eight verses of the Vacation 
Sony? If you will look back in your; 
scrap book to Our Page, for July, 1920, 
you will find two other verses of the same 
poem. Who will send the three that are 
still missing? It is a happy poem and 
full of truth. But, as I said in the be¬ 
ginning, we must find a way to bring our 
two schools together. 
The picture, “Great Fun with a Raft,” 
was sent by Alice W., a Connecticut 
reader. Wouldn’t you like to take a ride? 
I would, but I should like to have on my 
bathing suit, for I might fall off, acci¬ 
dentally on purpose, you know. 
It has interested me to make a list this 
month of the ways you begin and end your 
letters to me. These are the different 
ways of beginning: Dear Mr. Tuttle, 
Dear Editor, Dear Friend, Dear Boys’ 
and Girls’ Page, Dear Sir. And these 
are the endings: Your friend, A faithful 
reader, Ever your friend, Your little 
friend, Your loving friend, Sincerely 
yours, A very interested reader, Respect¬ 
fully yours, A reader of The Rural 
New-Yorker, Yours truly, A friend to 
the Boys’ and Girls’ Page. 
This question has come to me again: . 
“When should we write to The R. N.-Y. 
so that our letters will get to you in 
time for you to publish them if you want 
to?” Let me explain once more. Our 
Page comes out in the paper dated the 
last Saturday of each month. Some¬ 
times it may reach you a few days ahead. 
I have to write each page and send it to 
the printer three iveelcs before you read 
it. You can figure, then, how soon you 
must write after reading one page to be 
in time for the next. Sometimes you 
have one week, sometimes two, depending 
on whether there are four or five weeks 
between pages. But the best plan is to 
write as soon as you read the page and 
while your interest is keenest. If you put 
it off you will probably forget it, and an¬ 
other month will slip away. You have 
heard the old saying: “Strike while the 
iron is hot.” 
Millicent B., New Jersey, writes: 
“Just because you did not print my 
other letter I am not going to get dis¬ 
couraged, for if all of ue quit writing let¬ 
ters for Our Page, because you cannot 
print all of them, we would soon have 
no page.” 
That is just the spirit we all want to 
have if we are to keep Our Page alive 
and worth the while. 
Helen J., who lives in Central New 
York State, wants to know why crows go 
west in the morning and east at night. 
She has often Avondered about it. Prob¬ 
ably, Helen, it is because the place where 
they find most to eat lies west of the 
place where they roost in your locality. 
But some other reader may write and say 
that she sees crows doing just the oppo¬ 
site. It depends on where their food is. 
So we say goodby again. I shall be 
thinking of all my thousands of boys and 
girls on so many farms and in so many 
homes. Play hard, work hard, grow big¬ 
ger every day in body, in mind, in heart. 
Write to me. Address Edward M. Tuttle, 
in care The Rural New-Yorker, 333 
West 30th Street, New York City. 
Dravm by Mildred D. (10 years), New Hampshire 
