* Three little kittens lost their mittens, And they began to cry: "O mother dear, we very much fear That we have lost our mittens.

" "Ha, ha, ha!" laughed Tippy Toes, "How long did he have to wear those mittens?"

He picked up the seal-skin mittens and held them out.

"You're stuck in the barbed wire," said Fred, as he removed his mittens and with a good deal of difficulty released the man from the close grip of the barbs.

" Drawing a leathern mitten from his belt, the youth held it to Crusoe's nose, and then threw it a yard away, at the same time exclaiming in a loud, distinct tone, "Fetch it.

The wife and her daughters manufactured the clothing, from dressing the flax and carding the wool to cutting the cloth; knit the mittens and socks; and during the winter made straw bonnets to sell in the towns in the spring.

"I was good-natered ag'in by that time, an' I sez, larfin' along with her, 'Waal, I've got three mittens, but I guess I might's waal hev 'nother, and that will make two pair complete.

" "Oh, I'll handle him without gloves," said the Boy, giving back the mittens.

Well, Dick Varley did do it over again, and Crusoe worried the mitten over again, utterly regardless of "Fetch it.

" So saying, she held out the little red mitten she was knitting, and at the same time took the spectacles off her nose and offered them to Prudy.

She had taken the precaution of putting on her mittens and opening her parasol.

Young Varley had taken several small pieces of meat in his pocket each day, with the intention of rewarding Crusoe when he should at length be prevailed on to fetch the mitten; but as Crusoe was not aware of the treat that awaited him, of course the mitten never was "fetched.

When Dick went out hunting, he used frequently to drop a mitten or a powder-horn unknown to the dog, and after walking miles away from it, would stop short and look down into the mild, gentle face of his companion.

He came to the fire, taking off his mittens and blowing on his fingers, the suspicious and condemnatory tail of his eye on Abraham.

I had already torn off my mittens, and as I slid at last over a rough place in the ice I succeeded in getting my finger-nails into the little corrugations of the surface and in stopping my perilous drift; but I hardly dared breathe lest I should lose my hold.

" Nicholas came a step forward, twisting his mittens and rolling his eye excitedly.

Keith wanted the mittens, because his hands got cold easily, but not the muffler, which, he thought, made him look like a girl.

The dog whined, licking her mitten, but left off struggling, as if it realized the uselessness of such a course.

My grandmother bought me black silk mittens to wear at his funeral.

I kin, I'm gwine ter show ye." "Show away," says I; "but I'll be bound, I've knit and sold and eaten up more mittens than ever you put your hands in!" "Du tell!

I cannot find my mittens, and Hannah is going to slide without me.

Slowly he pulled his gloves out of his pocket, and turned out from each beaver gauntlet an inner mitten of knitted wool.

Mrs. James knew the easiest, and indeed the only way of settling the trouble, was to go herself and hunt up the missing mittens.

Seventeen reounds in the wrist,tew an' one's the best seam" "Now, Miss Jemimy, just as if I didn't know how to knit mittens!" "Wal, it seems you don't," said she, "though I don' deny but you may know heow ter give 'em; an' ez I alluz like

In order, however, to make sure that there was no mistake, Dick laid the mitten down beside the pup, instead of putting it into his mouth, and, retiring a few paces, cried, "Fetch it.