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He wants to let his sweetheart know. 
That’s why he keeps a-calling so. 
Across the meadow and the swamp, 
“Bob White!” 
From woodlands where the rabbits romp, 
“Bob White!” 
Still, still he calls that name of his— 
I wonder where his sweetheart is? 
From dewy morning up to night, 
“Bob White!” 
And ringing down the sweet twilight, 
“Bob White!” 
From break of day to evening dim. 
He calls his sweetheart home to him. 
—Author? 
Sent by Clair Beers 
Pennsylvania. (9 years). 
Captain January 
BY LAURA E. RICHARDS 
Not more than a dozen readers sent in 
this answer to last month’s Book Puzzle, 
yet here is one of the most popular of all 
books for boys and girls which not one 
of you should grow up without reading. 
Make a note of it and at the first chance 
you have to do so, borrow a copy. Mrs. 
Laura Elizabeth Richards was the daugh¬ 
ter of Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the 
famous “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” 
She wrote many stories for young people, 
but “Captain January” is the most noted 
of them all. This story first appeared in 
1S90, and very many thousands of copies 
have since been sold to delight the hearts 
of boys and girls. Here is the most in¬ 
teresting answer to the puzzle that came 
in : 
The Rural New-Yorker delighted me 
much when it arrived. I am willing to 
write this to help Our Tage. It is very 
kind of our editor to help us make Our 
Page better. 
The answer to the June Book Puzzle 
is “Captain January,” written by Laura 
Richards. The captain found the little 
girl while a baby. He saw something 
floating on the water at a distance and 
was anxious to know what it was. He 
buried the baby’s parents by his home. 
The captain named the baby “Star 
Bright.” He called her many nicknames, 
as “Honeysuckle” and “Sunshine.” Star 
Bright had gone with her parents on a 
trip to Europe, and on their way back 
they were shipwrecked. Star Bright’s 
name given by her parents was Isabella. 
Star Bright liked the country life very 
much. Many times she put on her moth¬ 
er’s old dresses and played she was a 
princess and Captain January was her 
waiter for the meals. The lady who want¬ 
ed to take Star Bright to her home was 
her aunt, Star Bright’s mother’s sister. 
The little girl resembled her dead mother. 
Little by little the captain grew feeble. 
One Spring day he died. Then Star 
Bright went to live with her aunt. 
New York. Esther Jabloneky 
(13 years). 
New Book Puzzle 
This is the first time that I have writ¬ 
ten, but my sisters write, so I thought I 
would. I always read the Boys’ and 
Girls’ Page and enjoy it very much. I 
live on a farm of 90 acres. I am 12 
years old and help my father a great deal. 
I like farm work and also like to go to 
school. I will graduate from the eighth 
grade next January. I milk three cows 
every night and morning. I help take 
care of our 1.500 little chickens, and help 
Dad with the farm work. I want to be a 
poultryman when I grow up, because I 
like that best. 
May I send in a Book Puzzle which I 
don’t think has been given before? 
A little boy lived all alone with his 
mother and nurse. They were very hap¬ 
py until his mother married a second 
time. Hi's new daddy and new aunt 
turned out to be very mean. Soon after 
his mother married he was sent away to 
school. While at school his mother died 
and he returned home to go to work in 
London. The work was very hard, so he 
ran away. After a long weary journey he 
came to his real aunt’s home. He had 
never seen his aunt, because she had been 
disappointed at his birth because she 
wanted a girl named after her. But after 
hearing his story she decided to keep him 
and educate him. When his step-father 
came she would not let him take him back 
to London. 
He started to school from his aunt’s. 
Here he met Agnes, whom he learned to 
love as a sister. They used to like to 
talk and study together. She was his 
best pal until he went to London to study 
law with Mr. Reed. Here he met Dora 
Reed and fell in love with her. Later 
they were married, but Dora only lived a 
few years. Later he became a famous 
lawyer and married Agnes. They had 
lovely children and lived a very con¬ 
tented life. What book is this? 
New York. Bernard Ivopaskie 
(12 years). 
In answering this Book Puzzle give the 
title of the book and the author’s name. 
If you can, add something of interest 
about the book or the author’s life. Credit 
should be given to Beatrice Stevens, a 
Massachusetts reader, who also sent a puz¬ 
zle on this same book. 
Tfte RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Mary had a sunflower, out beside the wall, 
And every day she watered it, till it grew very tall. 
T ~hmN ^, 
New York 
Neiv York 
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Drawn by Elinor Wills (12 year), Con- Drawn by Miriam Kachel, Pennsylvania 
necticut 
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Drawn in Pencil by Alice Brown (12 Brawn in Pencil by Marion Lippincott 
years), Rhode Island ( lo years), Neio Jersey 
Drawn in Pencil by Eloise Skinner (8 
years), Neio York 
Drawn in Color by Mildred French, New 
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Drawn by Francis DeShaio (15 years). 
New York 
Draion by Esther Herr (15 years), Penn¬ 
sylvania 
Our Artists 
This month your editor had a real task 
again, selecting from among nearly 200 
drawings the 12 that are printed on this 
page. On the whole the work showed 
good quality (I think you must have liked 
the sunflower subject), and a number of 
diawings had to be left out which were 
quite as worthy as those used. Honor¬ 
able mention is due the following “ar¬ 
tists” for drawings which were considered 
in the final selection ; Evelyn Lawrence 
(9), Mike Goldberg (10), Phyllis Thorp 
(14), Norman Uallock (17) and Anna 
Mayers of Connecticut; Anna Graham 
(14) of Illinois, Rebecca Spencer (13) 
of Maine, Dorothy Weeks (7), Dorothy 
Dunn (12), Barbara Knight (12) and 
Marion Fuller (14) of Massachusetts, 
Ethel Black (11), D'orothy Bozarth (14) 
and Beatrice Black (14) of New Jersey, 
Dorothy Skinner (9), Mary Schauber 
(12), Gertrude Wells (13), Caroline 
Schreder (13), De Laurue Brink (14), 
Junie Jachimiak and Luna Archer of 
New York, Howard Cogswell (9) of 
Pennsylvania, Eleanor House (9) and 
Mildred Berry (13) of Virginia. 
V) e will have a rhyme drawing contest 
again next month ; then in September we 
will have a page of photographs once 
more. Here is the new rhyme, sent by 
Sara Redden, a 12-year-old New York 
reader: 
Some little children one Summer day, 
“ ent down to the sandy beach to play; 
Draw them playing with spade and pail' 
Or trying their best a boat to sail. 
This gives you plenty of chance to be as 
original as you like, and of course it is 
only your own creative work that 
we want, not a copy of anything else. 
We can expect a fine gallery of “beach” 
pictures next month, I am sure. 
A Puzzle 
The answer to last month’s puzzle is 
wheat. Beheading once, or dropping the 
fiist letter, leaves heat; beheading again, 
leaves eat; once more, at, and finally t 
(tea). Two readers guessed that per¬ 
haps the reason why the girl who sent in 
this puzzle did not want her name print¬ 
ed with it was because her name was 
Wheat, and this is exactly the case. It 
is Grace Wheat (16 years), New York. 
This month we have still another kind 
of puzzle, and a moot interesting one, 
sent in by Philip Rayman, a nine-year-old 
New York boy. He asks us to change 
f-l-o-u-r to b-r-e-a-d in six moves, chang¬ 
ing only one letter at each move and mak¬ 
ing a complete word of five letters each 
time. Here is the diagram to fill i n : 
F 
L 
O 
U 
R 
B 
R 
E 
A 
D 
Now let s see how many can work this 
out, and it would be even more fun to 
make up some others like it. 
Notes 
Kathleen Breen, 14 years old, of New 
York State, is the reader who sent the 
little couplet used in the Box at the head 
of Our Page this month. It is a good 
feeling to have in July, and every other 
month that we will do our best 
All work for the August page should 
reach your editor not later than Aug. 9. 
This gives you nearly two full weeks 
from the time you receive this paper, and 
that ought to be time enough for every 
boy and girl among you to send some one 
thing at least that will help us to grow 
in interest and usefulness. 
Drawn by Frances Sanford, New York 
Drawn by Ituth Jenkins (9 years), New 
York 
Our Page is full for another month, 
and an interesting page it is. So your 
editor will have to come to a stop, after 
saying once more that he will be glad to 
have a letter from any reader at any 
time. Address Edward M. Tuttle, in 
care The Rural New-Yorker, 333 West 
30th St., New York City. 
