[Illustration: SHIPWRECKED. Drawn by J.W. Champney.]




ST. NICHOLAS.

VOL. V.
SEPTEMBER, 1878.
No. 11.

[Copyright, 1878, by Scribner & Co.]




FERN-SEED.

BY CELIA THAXTER.


She filled her shoes with fern-seed,
This foolish little Nell,
And in the summer sunshine
Went dancing down the dell.
For whoso treads on fern-seed,--
So fairy stories tell,--
Becomes invisible at once,
So potent is its spell.
A frog mused by the brook-side: