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Robbie came home and saw what Grandma had done for him he was quite delighted.

      "Why, this is a first-rate drum!" he exclaimed. "And it did n't cost a cent, either. I did n't think you could make any thing so good," and he thanked her over and over. He hung the box on his neck, and beat a lively rub-a-dub on the ends.

      He liked the sticks very much, because they were so round and smooth. The homemade drum was greatly admired by the school-boys. Each one of them took his turn at playing on it; and they all agreed, that if it did not look just like a real drum, it did make a splendid noise.

      Robbie said he was sure that he enjoyed it as much as he should if it had cost several dollars; and Grandma was very glad that she had been able to make him so happy.

—MARY E. NATHE.

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LITTLE MISS SONNET.

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      Prim little Miss Sonnet

      Once ordered a bonnet;

      The biggest and grandest that ever was seen.

      And little Miss Sonnet

      She said, "I will don it,

      For I am quite sure it is fit for the Queen."

      Then little Miss Sonnet

      She put on lier bonnet,

      And tied a true lover's knot under her chin;

      And this wonderful bonnet

      Had red roses on it,

      With all of them fastened in place with a pin.

      So little Miss Sonnet

      Went out with her bonnet,

      And strutted about for a while in the park;

      When the wind took the bonnet

      With little Miss Sonnet,

      And blew them both up in the sky, like a spark.

—ALBERT H. HARDY.

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