The rich brother

"The children ran away as fast as their little feet could possibly
carry them"

"Well, I struck a snag"

"Old Frost gave the gentle girl many beautiful, beautiful things"



_TO MY LITTLE FRIEND_

EDITH EVANS

_AND ALL AMERICAN CHILDREN_

[Illustration: _The Tsarevna Frog_]





THE TSAREVNA FROG


[Illustration] In an old, old Russian tsarstvo, I do not know when,
there lived a sovereign prince with the princess his wife. They had
three sons, all of them young, and such brave fellows that no pen
could describe them. The youngest had the name of Ivan Tsarevitch. One