| Vol. II.—No. 64. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
| Tuesday, January 18, 1881. | Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
DUTCH SLEIGH-RIDING.WHO GOT THE MITTEN?
BY ROSE TERRY COOKE.
"Deer Ant Roxy,—Ive hed consider'ble many calls for mittins alongback this Winter: mostly they're wove goods, thet dont last notime. Its come into my head that mabbe you'd jest as lives make aleetle suthin to buy snuff an' handkerchers with, odd times, andreklectin you used to be a master hand to knit this is for to saythat ef you'd fall to and knit a lot of them two-threaded mittinswe boys set by so, why I could sell 'em for ye—on commission. Efyou're agreeble why drop me a line to 117 Blank St St Josephs, yousee its mostly drovers and sech wants 'em.
"Yours to command,
"John Jackson."
"The lands sakes!" ejaculated Miss Roxy Blair, as she laid down herspectacles after reading this letter. "John was allers the beateree forgumption. I allers said he'd make a spoon or spile a horn, an' I dob'lieve it's the spoon. Well said! I've got full twenty run o' blue yarnI spun last year, an' some red: guess th