accidental discovery by Gunnbjorn,
as narrated by Cyrus Martin, Jr., in his "Vikings in America" [ST.
NICHOLAS, Vol. III., page 586]. We have always thought Iceland
appropriately named, and Greenland the reverse.

And now about that question of temperature. If portions of
Greenland are colder than formerly, may it not be because less
heat comes through its crust from subterranean fires, as well
as because the surface is constantly gaining in height, as some
report?--Very truly yours,

NED AND WILL WHITFORD.

THE ANGERED GOOSE.

The picture of which you here have an engraving formed at first a kind
of panel of a wall, and occupied a space beneath one of the cartoons
of Raphael, the great Italian painter, whose grand picture of "The
Transfiguration" is thought to be his chief work. This panel-picture,
also, was painted by Raphael, as some say, though others think it may
be the work of one of his pupils.

[Illustration: THE ANGERED GOOSE.]

A curious thing about the picture is this: the goose is so excited,
and scolding its tortoise so angrily for going slowly, that it has
forgotten its own wings, when, if it would only use them, it could fly
to its journey's end long before the tortoise could crawl there. Now,
there are other two-legged geese who let themselves get angered and
excited easily, and so lose many chances of serving others and helping
themselves. Perhaps you may know some of them.

That is what the Deacon says; but, for my part, I never knew a goose
that _hadn't_ two legs.

A CITY UNDER THE WATER.

In past ages, as the Deacon once told some of his older boys in my
hearing, the people of some parts of Europe used to live above the
surfaces of lakes, in huts built on spiles driven into the water.

Well, now I hear that some one has found, under the water of Lake
Geneva, a whole town, with about two hundred stone houses, a large
public square, and a high tower; and, from the looks of the town, the
shape of the houses, and the way the stones are cut, some say that the
place must have been built more than two thousand years ago!

Now, I can understand how men were able to live in the way the Deacon
described, but it strikes me that this other story has something in it
that's harder to swallow than water.

Who ever heard of men living in cities under the water, as if they
were fishes?

REFLECTION.

The Red School-house.

My Dear Jack-in-the-Pulpi