LITTLE MISS SNOW BUNTING 
“O Mother!” said Miss Swan as she came 
upon her mother preparing supper, “What 
am I to do?” 
“Why, what’s the matter now!” asked her 
mother, almost laughing in spite of herself at 
the mournful face her beautiful daughter was 
wearing. 
“Well,” said Miss Swan, looking more 
mournful than ever, “You see the other day 
Tommie Specks said that a happy childhood 
helped for a cheerful old age and he went 
skipping about in the water and turning 
handsprings and all that, and Little Baby 
Laughing Loon played submarine and every¬ 
body was having a cheerful childhood but me. 
There wasn’t one cheerful thing I could do. 
I could only go about and arch my neck and 
look at myself in the water. So I went off by 
myself and tried to learn to trumpet and by 
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