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"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,