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pods on it. When the seeds are ripe the 
pods burst and away the seeds go sail¬ 
ing. for each flat, brown seed has some¬ 
thing like a little feather attached to it. 
Don’t you think it is wonderful that Na¬ 
ture has given this plant such a way of 
spreading its seeds? What is it? 
Elizabeth Anderson (10 years) 
Pennsylvania. 
Grandma’s Pumpkin Pies 
My mother’s pies are very good 
For common days, but O my, my ! 
You ought to be at Grandma Gray’s, 
Where we all go Thanksgiving days. 
And taste of grandma’s pumpkin pie. 
The aunts and uncles all are there, 
And cousins, too, of every size; 
And when the turkey’s “had his day,” 
And grandma’s pudding’s stowed away, 
Then next will coine the pumpkin pies. 
Oh, apple pie is very good, 
And chocolate, cream and mince like¬ 
wise 
Rut if you knew my Grandma Gray, 
And tried her cooking, you would say, 
“Hurrah for grandma’s pumpkin pies.” 
By Laura F. Armitage. 
Sent by Eulalie Powers (12 years.) 
Vermont. 
Anne of Green Gables 
BY L. M. MONTGOMERY 
More readers sent this answer to last 
month’s Book Puzzle than have come for 
any we have had in a long time. Sev¬ 
eral of the letters are published below, 
and you will see that this interesting 
book is the first of a long series that are 
equally enjoyable. A curious fact is that 
we seem to know so little about the au¬ 
thor. One reader refers to her as Mrs. 
Montgomery, another says the initials 
L. M. stand for Lucy Maud, another says 
that she is now dead. Your editor has 
searched in encyclopedias and everything 
else within reach but can find nothing. 
If anyone knows something of the life 
of this popular author we would like to 
have it. The tribute from Mark Twain 
to which one reader refers is very inter¬ 
esting and is high praise indeed. Who 
was Mark Twain? Who is the “Im¬ 
mortal Alice?” 
I think the brief description given by 
Norma Burlingame and Isabelle Raitt in 
The R. N.-Y. is about “Anne of Green 
Gables,” and the author is I,. M. Mont¬ 
gomery. This is the first time I have 
answered any of the puzzles on Our 
Page. I was sure of my answer so thought 
I would write to you. I am certainly de¬ 
lighted with the paper and hope my 
mother and father keep taking it. 
New York. Eleanor Nichols. 
I have wanted to write to Our Page 
many times but could never sum up cour¬ 
age enough to do so. But at last I have 
put aside my fears and decided to an¬ 
swer the Book Puzzle. The name of the 
book is “Anne of Green Gables.” It is 
a very interesting story and was written 
by L. M. Montgomery. Perhaps some of 
the girls and boys who have read this 
book are not acquainted with the fact 
that this book is one of the books of a 
series. I am sure they will enjoy the 
other books. The names of some of them 
are “Anne of Avonlea,” “Anne of the 
Island,” “Anne’s House of Dreams,” and 
“Rilla of Ingleside.” There are more, 
but I cannot remember the names. They 
are very interesting. At least I thought 
so. 
I shall close now, as I think I have 
written enough. I have just finished 
reading the special Birthday Page, and 
wish Our Page many happy returns of 
the day. Florence Grunfeld (14 years) 
New York. 
I have been a reader of the Boys’ and 
Girls’ Page for a long time, and it is so 
interesting that I thought I would send 
the answer to the Book Puzzle. I think 
the book is “Anne of Green Gables,” by 
L. M. Montgomery. It certainly is a 
very interesting book. I have read it 
and liked it so well that I have read it 
over several times. There are several 
books in the series. I have read most 
all of them, and they are all as inter¬ 
esting as “Anne of Green Gables.” I 
like to read very much, and usually read 
all my spare time. I think Our Page is 
wonderful, and as I was looking at the 
list of October contributors I was sur¬ 
prised to see how many write to the page. 
I am going to try to write often. 
Wishing Our Page the greatest success, 
I remain. Your friend, Dorothy Paige. 
New York. 
As I am very interested in Our Page 
I decided to write to you. I certainly 
enjoy reading it. and I feel that I must 
help it along. The Book Puzzle for this 
month was “Anne of Green Gables,” by 
Mrs. L. M. Montgomery. Her books are 
all excellent, at least all I’ve ever read, 
and I think that “Rainbow Valley” and 
the one following it. “Rilla of Ingleside,” 
were the best of any. The last is a story 
of Anne’s youngest child mostly, but it is 
also about her boys in the World War. 
I am 15 years old and live on a small 
farm although just now I am not home 
very much. I am away at high school, 
and I am a junior. I like farm life very 
Mary had a little pige, it was the cutest thing, 
And everywhere that Mary went she led it with a string. 
Drawn by Agnes Helfert (15 years), 
Wisconsin 
Drawn by Rebecca Spencer (14 years), 
Maine 
Draicn by Christopher Royce (12 years), 
Vermont 
Draicn in Pencil by Edicin Herr (1G 
years), New Jersey 
Draicn in Pencil by Marie Roberts (12 
years), New York 
Drawn by Esther Corcoran (11 years), 
New York 
Drawn by Griffin Foster (13 years) New 
York 
Drawn in pencil by Ellen Doolittle (12 years), New York 
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much, and never want to live anywhere 
else, because I want my pets all the time. 
We have two dogs and seven kittens be¬ 
sides our horses and other animals. I 
like a dog the best of all animals, and I 
think I can never live without one. Now 
I must close with the best of good wishes 
to all, Your interested friend, 
New York. Gracia Cooper. 
Mark Twain said, “In ‘Anne of Green 
Gables’ you will find the dearest and 
most moving and delightful child since 
the ‘Immortal Alice’.” I think it is a 
fine book. Mary Kennedy. 
West Virginia. 
What Book Is This? 
Following are two descriptions of a 
book which every boy and girl who have 
read it will instantly recognize, and all 
those who have not will want to as soon 
as they can. In answering give the title 
of the book and the author’s name, and 
add anything you wish about either one. 
This book is read throughout the 
United States. The author is very fa¬ 
miliar. The story itself takes place in 
Holland. Thus it gives many good de¬ 
scriptions of Hollanders and parts of 
Holland. One way that it describes Hol¬ 
land is by describing an expedition of 
four Dutch boys and an English boy. It 
describes the Hollanders themselves in 
a Winter scene on the canal. 
Two of the main characters are a poor 
boy and girl who worked hard for a liv¬ 
ing. These children are poor because of 
having a father with a sickness unknown 
to them, and because of the sudden dis¬ 
appearance of a thousand guilders at the 
beginning of the father’s illness. A skat¬ 
ing race takes place in the story in which 
these two children play an important 
part. There is a mystery about a watch 
given to the mother before the illness of 
the father. After 10 years of illness the 
father is brought back to health and the 
mystery of the watch is discovered ; also 
the silver guilders are found. 
Massachusetts. Beatrice Isham. 
We have been reading a book on Hol¬ 
land—-the land of tulips and windmills 
and dikes and canals. In Winter every¬ 
one skates, and sometimes a party of 
boys skate from place to place for a view 
of the cities and country. In some vil¬ 
lages they have races and the winning 
boy and the winning girl each receive a 
pair of silver skates. The book tells of 
a poor family. The father had been hurt 
10 years before, while helping mend the 
dike, and had lost his mind. The little 
boy and girl helped the mother. At first 
these children wore wooden skates. Then 
the boy earned enough to buy steel skates 
by carving beads. The sick father be¬ 
came worse until a great surgeon came 
and relieved the pressure on his brain. 
Then the father remembered where he 
had buried his savings. Then, too, they 
found the doctor’s runaway son. In the 
skating race the little girl won the silver 
skates, and the boy studied with the great 
surgeon and became famous himself. 
Sarah Graham (9 years) 
Charles Graham (12 years) 
Anna Graham (14 years) 
Illinois. 
Our Artists 
Pigs on strings proved to be very popu¬ 
lar. There seem to be all kinds of ways 
of fastening the string to the pig as you 
will note from the 11 drawings published. 
Honorable mention for drawings that 
were considered in the final selection be¬ 
longs to Ruth Warner (17) of Connec¬ 
ticut; Louise Boswell (15) of Maryland; 
Frances Scott (9) of Ontario, Canada ; 
Miriam Kachel and Esther Herr (15) of 
Pennsylvania; and Ruth Woodward (4). 
William Bates (11), Evelyn Underwood 
(13) and Virginia Foster (17) of New 
York. Next month we will skip the 
rhyme drawings and will have Christmas 
drawings instead. Send anything you 
like so long as it is your own original 
idea and work. 
Cross-word Enigma 
Those who worked out the October 
enigma discovered that the “something 
we all like to chew” was t-u-r-k-e-y. 
Olive Riker, a 14-year-old New York 
reader, has sent us a good new one along 
the same line. Here it is; 
My first is in call, but not in yell. 
My second in rent but not in sell. 
My third is in atlas, but not in book. 
My fourth in robin, but not in rook. 
My fifth is in bounce, but not in spring. 
My sixth in bell, but not in ring. 
My seventh is in rose, but not in pink. 
My eighth in rise, but not in sink. 
My ninth js in it, but not in that. 
My tenth in carpet, but not in mat. 
My eleventh is in August, but not in May. 
My whole we have on Thanksgiving Day. 
Items of Interest 
The words in the Box this month were 
written by Janet Rose, an 11-year-ohl 
New York reader. Boys and girls are 
usually full of the gladness of living at 
Thanksgiving and at every other time. 
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