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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,