Identifier: stnicholasserial301dodg (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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rld do you wantthem for ? he laughingly inquired. To show their photograph to St. Nicholasyoung folks, and for the same reason that youhave shown them to everybody who has passedby. What a great effort the tree makes to getfood and a drink of water! We are interestedin this curious enterprise of the old elm. »9°3-l NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. WE WILL WRITE TO ST. NICHOLAS ABOUT IT. SPARROW EATING ON SLANTING ROOF. Orange, N. J.Dear St. Nicholas : I want to tell you about abright little sparrow which I saw last winter. Part of the house next to us has a flat roof, and there is a hole thirty eggs. The larvae hatched out. She fedwhere an old drain-pipe used to be which is very near them on walnut leaves in a barrel, where later 557 This is the luna, a magnificent moth. It isa favorite with collectors. The larva feeds onthe leaves of various forest-trees. In Julia P. Ballards Moths and Butter-flies she tells of a beautiful luna-moth givenher by a friend. This moth laid more than
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him reappear with some bread, which hecommenced to eat. But, foolish birdiehe would take a little nip and then putit down on the slanting roof, so of courseit would fall down ; then he would goup again and get some more, and hikept on like that until he had gottena good meal. In the winter I always throwbread out on the veranda roof forthe sparrows. If there is snow itgets just covered with their little footprints ; if not, youcan hear the patter of their little feet on the tin roof.At first they are very shy, but after a while they get sotame they come the minute I raise the window, andsometimes they come before, and look around as muchas to say, Our breakfast is late this morning. I enjoy you so much, and always read every word ofyou. Your devoted reader, Alice I. Compton (age 14). THE LUNA-MOTH. Palmyra, Mo.Dear St. Nicholas : We send you the drawing of amoth which we found, and of which we would like toknow the name and habits. It was a beautiful greencolor, tinged with yellow. Th

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