May be you can solve the riddle, my dears, if you brush up your
wits a bit? Let me know as soon as you think you have the right answer.
THE NEWEST FASHION.
The girls of the Red School-house often talk about new fashions,
especially when the Little Schoolma'am is about, for she is pretty sure
to drop some useful hints. Well, one day she told them, among other
things, about the "latest novelty" in ladies' ball-dresses at
Upernavik, in Greenland.
As nearly as I can remember, she said that the costume consists of a
little jacket, made of bright-colored calico or flannel; long
pantaloons of sealskin, trimmed like the jacket and sitting close to
the figure; and white, red or blue boots: the whole set off by gay
ribbons and all the beads the wearer can get.
A jaunty suit enough, no doubt; but, if she wore only that, the wearer
must have been obliged to dance, merely to keep herself warm.
By the way, I wonder what ever possessed them to call that frozen
country Green-land?
TO SURPRISE A DOG.
This is the way a man among the Himalaya Mountains once astonished a
stranger dog. He put on a pair of huge goggles and walked steadily and
quietly toward the dog, without speaking a word.
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