JOHN MASON AND HIS SLED

“O, how I wish we owned a sleigh,” Said Susie to her mother; “I want to go to school to-day, With Nellie and my brother!” Her mother sighed, and said, “My dear, Your sister cannot go; They have not made a path, I fear, Since this great fall of snow.” Here James ran in with joy, and said, “Dear mother, come and see; John Mason’s here with his new sled, He offers it to me “To take our Nell to school to-day; I am to be the horse; Please wrap her up without delay, You’ll let her go, of course!” “And Susie, too,” John Mason cried, “I’ll take her on my back; Nell and the dinner, both can ride,— John, follow in my track!” The mother’s heart was filled with joy, She watched them from the door, A happy group! And that dear boy Who thought upon the poor, Think you, he was not happy, too, When he went home at night! If you would hear the story through, Read “Right, and About Right.”[3]