Identifier: stnicholasserial271dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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e are rightly guessed and writtenone below another in the order here given, one of therows will spell the name of a famous statesman who wasborn in January; another row will spell the name of afamous naturalist who died in January. Cross-words : 1. A system of drainage by means ofsewers. 2. To shut out. 3. Fell into a state of quiet. 4. That which remains after certain deductions are made. 5. Lamentable. 6. Land held by free tenure. 7. Qnewho is very strict in discipline. f. S. F. A CHRISTMAS CANDLE. (First Prize, St. Nicholas League Competition.) 3 Cross-words: i. In Santa Claus. 2. A body ofwater. 3. Two little words — a domestic animal and acommon verb. 4. One of the West Indies. 5. Stag-gers. 6. Unsuitable. 7. Pertaining to the calf of theleg. 8. Flavor. 9. Center. 10. A Spanish bull-fighter. 11. Method. From 1 to 2, what every one is looking forward to;from 3 to 4, a pleasant holiday; and from 5 to 6, an ap-propriate decoration. J. willard helburn. THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK.
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DRAWN BY ERIC PAPE. THE GREAT SPHINX. (see note, page 373.) ST. NICHOLAS. Vol. XXVII. FEBRUARY, 1900. No. 4. THE STORY OF THE SPHINX. By Emma J. Arnold. Once upon a time, Prince Tehuti-mes, theson of the King of Egypt, went on a huntingexpedition in the desert which stretches behindthe Pyramids. On your map of Africa youwill find Egypt in the right-hand upper corner,and near the city of Cairo you will see threelittle triangular figures marked Pyramids ofGizeh. It was in the desert country to theleft of these pyramids that Prince Tehuti-meswent hunting. From early dawn till middayhe spent the hours shooting brazen bolts at atarget, and hunting lions in the Valley of theGazelles. A servant was with him, and theyrode on a two-wheeled chariot with a span ofhorses swifter than the wind. Now, it must have been very hot work hunt-ing lions in a desert, where there are no treesand the ground is all sand. In Egypt it seldomrains. No clouds shade the sun, whose burn-ing rays beat down hour afte

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