Page images
PDF
EPUB

[The Rights of Translation and Reproduction

are

reserved.]

[graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small]

T was Christmas Eve: the morning was very cold and sharp, and Harry did not feel at all inclined to get out of bed.

[ocr errors]

'It is seven o'clock, Master Harry; get up," said Susan the nursemaid; but Harry only answered, "Go away, will you?"

Then Susan remembered the day, and she said,— "It is Christmas Eve, Master Harry; you know you are to have blind-man's-buff and snap-dragon; I would get up at once if I were a little boy."

As soon as Harry thought of blind-man's-buff, he threw back the clothes, and by the time Susan had said snap-dragon, he was standing in the middle of the room, and calling to his brother Frank!

Frank slept in the next room, and he came running to the door, saying,—

"Hallo! what's the matter?"

"Get up quickly," said Harry; "it's blind-man'sbuff day, and snap-dragon day."

Frank was two years older than Harry; he was nine years of age.

"I have been up these five minutes," said Frank. "Look! I've got my shoes and stockings on." Harry sat down on the floor to put on his socks.

"Oh! I've got such chilblains," he said; "they are so bad."

"They'll be worse, sir, if you don't make more haste and get your things on," said Susan, leaving the room.

Harry was not long before he was washed and dressed, and calling again to his brother,

« PreviousContinue »