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[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE]

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VOL. III.--NO. 122. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
CENTS.

Tuesday, February 28, 1882. Copyright, 1882, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
per Year, in Advance.

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[Illustration: THE LITTLE FROST QUEEN.]

THE LITTLE FROST QUEEN.


        Sparkling and light
        Are the snow-drifts white
  In the glow of the winter's morning,
        And the icicles gleam
        In the sun's bright beam,
  Each tree and shrub adorning.

        Rosy and fair
        In the frosty air
  Are the cheeks of the little maiden,
        And merry and gay
        With the happy day
  Is her heart with the sunshine laden.

        Where is she bound
        O'er the frosty ground?
  Ah, that is beyond our knowing.
        But wherever she goes,
        We may fairly suppose
  The sunshine will surely be going.




CHARLEY OTIS'S RIDE.

AS TOLD BY HIS GRANDSON.


He is my grandfather now--Charley Otis is--and he told my brother Hal
and me this story. He's a regular fine old gentleman, is my grandfather
Otis. There isn't a bit of old fogy about him, and he likes to see us
boys have any amount of fun. He isn't hard on a fellow either, when he
gets into trouble through some of his mischief; though he looked pretty
sober when Hal and I and Uncle Timothy's boys painted Squire Dexter