"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,
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