completely that if it had not been for
the windows, and for people moving about out of doors, no one could
have told that there was any village there.

The Last Day of all was so short that Menie and Monnie and Koko saw the
whole of it from the top of the Big Rock! They had gone up there in the
gray twilight that comes before the sunrise to build a snow house to
play in. They had been there only a little while when the sky grew all
rosy just over the Edge of the World. The color grew stronger and
stronger until the little stars were all drowned in it and then up came
the great round red face of the sun itself! The children watched it as
it peered over the horizon, threw long blue shadows behind them across
the snow, and then sank slowly, slowly down again, leaving only the
flaming colors in the sky to mark the place where it had been. They
waved their hands as it slipped out of sight. "Good bye, old Sun," they
shouted, "and good bye, Shadow, too! We shall be glad to see you both
when you come back again."

Then, because the wind blew very cold and they could see a snow cloud
coming toward them from the Great White World where the Giants lived,
the children ran together down the snowy slope toward the bright
windows of their homes.

THE END

SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS

To arouse the children's interest and thus to make the reading of this
story most valuable as a school exercise, it is suggested that at the
outset the children be allowed to look at the pictures in the book in
order to get acquainted with "Menie" and "Monnie" and with the scenes
illustrating their home life and surroundings.

During the reading, point out the North Pole, Greenland, etc., on a map
of the world or on a globe, and tell the children something about the
many years of effort before Peary succeeded in reaching his goal; also
about the work of subsequent explorers in this part of the world, and
around the South Pole as well. Thus this supplementary reading material
may be connected with the work in geography.

The text is so simply written that the second grade child can read it
without much or any preparation. It may be well to have the children
read it first in a study period in order to work out the pronunciation
of the more difficult words. But many classes will be able to read it
at sight, without the preparatory study. The possibilities in the story
for dramatization and for language and constructive work will be
immediately a