[Illustration: AFTER THE SNOW-STORM.]




ST. NICHOLAS.

VOL. V.
FEBRUARY, 1878.
No. 4.


[Copyright, 1878, by Scribner & Co.]



THE SHEPHERD-BOY.

BY EMILY S. OAKEY.


Little Roy led his sheep down to pasture,
And his cows, by the side of the brook;
But his cows never drank any water,
And his sheep never needed a crook.

For the pasture was gay as a garden,
And it glowed with a flowery red;
But the meadows had never a grass-blade,
And the brooklet--it slept in its bed;