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“End of November.” by Alexandra Bradshaw, age 16.
“Good night—time to hibernate.”
- Mary A. Pirong
- Guy Wellington
- Katherine Mary Keeler
- Elizabeth Keeler
- Gladys Nelson
- Archie MacKinnon
- G. B. Markle
- Beulah A. Belcher
- Anna Zollars
- Anne Furman Goldsmith
- Phœbe Underwood
- Charlotte Cook
- Honor Gallsworthy
- Catherine Warner
- Georgina Wood
- Eleanor Frances Welsh
- Esther Naomi Brown
- Margaret Booraem
- Hilda Rowena Bronson
- Kate Fishel
- Mary Taft Atwater
- Lelia Y. Remnitz
- Hazel Bakewell
- Robert H. Gibson
- Florence G. Mackey
- Margery Gardner
- Susan J. Appleton
- Mary Baxter Ellis,
- Rachel Wyse
- Helen Hill Newby
- Prudence Ross
- Dorothy Holt
- Eleanor Keeler
- Kathleen MeKeag
- James A. Crouse
- L. M. Blackford, Jr.
- Vernon Dodge
- Grace Wardwell
- Adelaide Nicbols
- Katharine Leeming
- Mildred Curran-Smith
PHOTOGRAPHS 1.
- Tyler H. Bliss
- Lydia A. Stetson
- S. M. Janney, Jr.
- George Merritt Jr.
- Anna M. McKechnie
- Piero Colonna
- T. Beach Platt
- Irene F. Wetmore
- Claire Brundage
- Mary W. Woodman
- Elsie Wormser
- John W. Beatty, Jr.
- Janie J. Polk
- Clifford Standinger
- Joseph Wharton Lippincott
- Harry J. Polk
PHOTOGRAPHS 2.
- Florence R. T. Smith
- Ruth H. Caldwell
- Mary E. Glessner
- Hugo Graf
- Constance Williams
- Canema Bowers
- J. Raymond Hampson
- Rose G. Wood
- Grace Povenmire
- Dorothy V. Gresham
- George Hill
- Walter Schilling
- Marion D. Freeman
- George Grady, Jr.
- Charlotte Greenbaum
- May H. Peabody
- Eleanor Phillips
- H. Erest Rell
- Marion P. Reynolds
- Walter Moore
- Elizabeth Thacher
- Donald Armour
- Stewart Bowers
- Rene Guillon
- Mary Wadsworth
- Mildred R. Betts
- Bradley L. Coley
- Vera Mae Tyler
- Dunton Hamlin
- Ellen Soumarchoff Elston
- Helen Whitman
- Christina B. Fisher
- C. Mortimer Wilmerding
- Helen Goodall
- John B. Lowry
- George B. Watts
- Beth P. Dean
- R. Barton Parker
- Katharine Wardsworth
PUZZLES 1.
- Katharine King
- Elizabeth Beal Berry
- Benjamin L. Miller
- Doris Hackbusch
- Madge Oakley
- Clarence Gamble
- Edna Chapman
- Grace F. Anderson
- Erwin Janowitz
- Estelle J. Ellisson
- Joseph Wells Jr.
- Marion Thomas
- E. Adelaide Hahn
- “Two Puzzlers”
- Gywyneth Penuethome
- Nesta Penuethorne
- Marion Toulnmin
PUZZLES 2.
- Alice Knowles
- Walker Ely Swift
- William McAdams
- Margaret Flint
- Harry W. Hazard, Jr.
- Alice D. Karr
- Eleanor L, Halpin
- Louisa Henderson
- Floumoy A. Hopkins
- Juanita Read Harmar
- Augusta Kilpatricle
- Alice A. Perkins
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by Lewise Seymour, age 14.
NOTICE.
The St. Nicholas League is an organization of St. Nicholas readers for the purpose of mental improvement, good-fellowship, and the more kindly consideration of our animal friends. The membership is free, and any reader of the magazine, whether a subscriber or not, may obtain the League badge and instruction leaflet on application.
PRIZE COMPETITION NO. 63.
The St. Nicholas League awards gold and silver badges each month for the best poems, stories, drawings, photographs, puzzles, and puzzle answers. Also cash prizes of five dollars each to gold-badge winners who shall again win first place, This does not include “Wild Animal and Bird Photograph" prize-winners.
Competition No. 63 will close December 20 (for foreign members December 25). The awards will be announced and prize contributions published in St. Nicholas for March.
Verse. ‘To contain not more than twenty-four lines. Title: (o contain the word “Hero.”
Prose. Article or story of not more than four hundred words to relate to some episode in Greek history.
Photograph. Any size, interior or exterior, mounted or unmounted; no blue prints or negatives. Subject, “A Gloomy Day.”
Drawing. India ink, very black writing-ink, or wash (not color), interior or exterior. Two subjects, “My Favorite Subject” (from life) and a Heading or Tailpiece for March.
Puzzle. Any sort, but must be accompanied by the answer in full, and must be indorsed.
Puzzle-answers. Best, neatest, and most complete set of answers to puzzles in this issue of St. Nicholas. Must be indorsed.
Wild Animal or Bird Photograph. To encourage the pursuing of game with a camera instead of a gun. For the best photograph of a wild animal or bird taken in its natural home: First Prize, five dollars and League gold badge. Second Prize, three dollars and League gold badge, Third Prize, League gold badge.
RULES.
Any reader of St. Nicholas, whether a subscriber or not, is entitled to League membership, and a League badge and leaflet, which will be sent on application.
Every contribution, of whatever kind, must bear the name, age, and address of the sender, and be indorsed as “original” by parent, teacher, or guardian, who must be convinced beyond doubt that the contribution is not copied, but wholly the work and idea of the sender. If prose, the number of words should also be added. These things must not be on a separate sheet, but on the contribution itself—if a manuscript, on the upper margin; if a picture, on the margin or back. Write or draw on one side of the paper only, A contributor may send but one contribution a month—not one of each kind, but one only. Address:
The St. Nicholas League,
Union Square, New York.