| LADY RAGS. |
| THE FAIRY FUNGI. |
| DOT'S CHIMNEY. |
| A NOVEL PRESENT. |
| OUR NEW WALK. |
| CHILDREN OF THE PANTOMIME. |
| THE TALKING LEAVES. |
| DOBBIN'S PERVERSITY. |
| OUR POST-OFFICE BOX. |
| ENIGMA. |
| TWO BOYS. |
| SCIENTIFIC PUZZLES. |
| Vol. III.—No. 111. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | price four cents. |
| Tuesday, December 13, 1881. | Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
LADY RAGS.
HOW THE WAR OF THE WOODS AND THE TINS—INCLUDING THE SHORTS—CAME TO AN END.
BY MARGARET EYTINGE.
The fight, begun a little after three o'clock in the afternoon that 24thof December, was still raging furiously when the hands of the big clockon the market tower pointed to half past four, and the pale sun waspreparing to bid the world good-by until Christmas morning.
Snow-balls, some of them as hard as stones, were flying in everydirection.
The Tins, yelling like wild Indians, were rushing up on and scramblingover the snow-covered piles of wood,[Pg 98] brick, and mortar that lay infront of the half-dug-out cellar of the new building that was to be inShort Street.
The Woods, yelling like some more wild Indians, were sallying out fromthe cellar—named "Fort Hurrah" for the occasion—and driving the enemyback, every now and then capturing two or three of them, and draggingthem triumphantly into the fort.
There had been war between the Wood Street boys and the Tin Street boysfor more than a y