"Well, you can count me as a neighbor who likes you," said Sadie. "Come
along, Joey--and mind you behave to Bobby like a good neighbor, too."

Bobby climbed into his mother's lap after they had gone upstairs. "Coals
of snow are all right," he whispered in her ear.

--_Selected._




"The thing that goes the farthest
Toward making life worth while,
That costs the least and does the most,
Is just a pleasant smile."




O SANNA SAN.


O Sanna San was a little Japanese girl whose home was among the
mountains of North Japan. Now because Japan is called the Flowery
Kingdom we are apt to think of it as a country where the sun always
shines and flowers are always in blossom. But in the northern part,
where O Sanna San lived, they have winter, and cold, and in January and
February the snow is three and four feet deep; the rivers and canals are
frozen over, the people wear wadded clothes, and many of them go about
on snowshoes.