The Seventeen Little Bears tiptoed very softly out of bed, and "pitter-patter, pitter-patter" went their little feet down the stairs.

The Seventeen Little Bears tiptoed very softly out of bed, and "pitter-patter, pitter-patter" went their little feet down the stairs.

It was magnificent, the wild spirit and abandon of it, the flutter of the chequered galabeeahs, the gleam of steel, the wave of black arms, the frenzied faces, the quick pitter-patter of the rushing feet.

It is a strange harmony, especially when the night is clear and there is a bright moon, and the heavy dew falling makes a pitter-patter on the leaves of the great forest trees.

"Abruptly, over by the door, I heard a faint noisea sort of crickling sound, and then a pitter or two upon the floor.

Then there were a few more squeals of laughter, and the four pink feet pitter-patted across the floor and Johnny could see the owners hop into a snow-white bed.

Pitter, litter, patter.

Swish, swish, swish, pitter, patter, swish...

SEE PITTER, RUTH.

Katherine J. Pitkin (W); 11Jan63; R308561. PITTER, RUTH.

Verse chronicle (review of verse by Oscar Williams, Arnold Stein, Stanton A. Coblentz, Ruth Pitter) By Randall Jarrell.

SEE PITTER, RUTH.

Katherine J. Pitkin (W); 11Jan63; R308561. PITTER, RUTH.

Verse chronicle (review of verse by Oscar Williams, Arnold Stein, Stanton A. Coblentz, Ruth Pitter) By Randall Jarrell.

Do you see the dropping rain, Pitter-patter on the pane? How it runs along the street!

BAKED CRANBERRIES OR CHERRY PRESERVES Pick over, wash and drain four quarts of large, perfect cranberries; or stem and then stone four pounds of large cherries, use a cherry pitter so cherries remain whole.

Willie to the circus went, He thought it was immense; His little heart went pitter-pat, For the excitement was in tents.

Our neighbors, Pitter and the tall Kunz, nearly broke their necks in accomplishing this feat, and it would have been better if they had been killed outright, for the one afterwards ran away from his parents, enlisted as a soldier, deserted, and was finally shot at Mayence; while the other, having made geographical researches in strange pockets, was on this account elected active member of a public treadmill institute.