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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: August 13, 2005 [EBook #16524] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, NO. 107 *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + +<p><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125"></a></p> + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/frontis.png" alt="frontispiece" title="frontispiece" /></div> + +<h2>THE NURSERY</h2> + +<h3><i>A Monthly Magazine</i></h3> + +<h3>FOR YOUNGEST READERS</h3> + +<h2>No. 107 NOVEMBER, 1875. Vol. XVIII</h2> +<p class='center'>BOSTON:<br /> +JOHN L. SHOREY, 36 BROMFIELD STREET.<br /> +<span class="smcap">American News Co., 119 Nassau St., New York.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">New-England News Co., 41 Court St., Boston.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Central News Co., Philadelphia.</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Western News Co., Chicago.</span></p> + +<p class='center'>$1.60 a Year, in advance.<br /> +A single copy, 15 cents. +</p> + +<p class='center'>Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by <span class="smcap">John L.<a name="Page_126" id="Page_126"></a> +Shorey</span>, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.<br /><br /></p> + +<hr /> +<h3>CONTENTS OF NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN.<br /><br /></h3> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents 107"> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#FLORAS_LOOKING-GLASS">FLORA'S LOOKING-GLASS. By <i>Anna Livingston</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#CHINESE_SCENES">CHINESE SCENES. By <i>C.E.C.</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#MINOS">MINOS. By <i>Elizabeth Sill</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#GRANDMAS_GARDEN">GRANDMA'S GARDEN. By <i>M.A.C.</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#GREAT-AUNT_PATIENCE_AND_HER_LITTLE_LION">GREAT-AUNT PATIENCE AND HER LITTLE LION. By <i>Mamma</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#CROSSING_THE_BROOK">CROSSING THE BROOK. </a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#NELLIES_LITTLE_BROTHER">NELLIE'S LITTLE BROTHER. By <i>Mary Atkinson</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#ANNIES_WISH">ANNIE'S WISH. By <i>George Bennett</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#A_DRAWING_LESSON">A DRAWING LESSON.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#GRANDPAS_PIGS">GRANDPA'S PIGS. By <i>Homer</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#CAPTAIN_BOB">CAPTAIN BOB. By <i>Emily Carter</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#PAPA_CANT_FIND_ME">PAPA CAN'T FIND ME. By <i>George Cooper</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_SOLDIER-DOG">THE SOLDIER-DOG. By <i>Pinky</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_SURPRISE">THE SURPIRSE. By <i>Ida Fay</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#LITTLE_PEDRO">LITTLE PEDRO. By <i>Cousin Emily</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_PARROTS_LAMENT">THE PARROT'S LAMENT. By <i>Jane Oliver</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#WHAT_THE_DOVE_LOST">WHAT THE DOVE LOST. By <i>Aunt Emmie</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_CHICKEN_AND_THE_DOG">THE CHICKEN AND THE DOG. By <i>Uncle Charles</i></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#GIRLS_AND_BOYS">GIRLS AND BOYS. (<i>Music by T. Crampton</i>)</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h4>EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.</h4> + + +<p>... Now is the time for Canvassers to begin their operations for 1876. +Now is the time for our friends to show their good will. We count all +our subscribers as our friends; and all of them may do us a service by +renewing their subscriptions immediately. A blank form for that purpose +is furnished herewith, and there is plenty of room on it to add the +names of a few new subscribers. We hope that every old subscriber will +try to send us at least one new one.</p> + +<p>... On the last page of our cover will be found the advertisement of +"<span class="smcap">The Nursery Primer</span>," the most charming book for children, +considering its cheapness, that has yet been put upon the market. Look +at it, see the beautiful and apt engravings, one or more on every page, +and you will want at least a dozen copies to distribute among your +little friends at Christmas.</p> + +<p>... We call attention, also, to the advertisement of "<span +class="smcap">The Easy Book</span>" and "<span class="smcap">The +Beautiful Book</span>." No more useful or delightful books for beginners +in reading have appeared. These, with "The Nursery Primer." form a cheap +but elegant library for childhood.</p> + +<p>... <i>Progress, improvement</i>, will be our motto in the future as they +have been in the past. "The Nursery," we can assure our readers, is +younger and more full of life than ever, notwithstanding its nine years.</p> + +<p>... Unaccepted articles will be returned to the writers <i>if stamps are +sent with them</i> to pay return postage. Manuscripts not so accompanied +will not be preserved, and subsequent requests for their return cannot +be complied with.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + + +<div class="figleft" style="margin-top:0.5em;"><img src="images/pointingfinger.png" alt="pointing finger" title="pointing finger" /></div> +<p><b>New Subscribers for 1876, whose names and money +are sent us before December next, will receive the last two numbers of +1875 FREE.</b></p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="figleft" style="margin-top:0.5em;"><img src="images/pointingfinger.png" alt="pointing finger" title="pointing finger" /></div> +<p><b>We want a special agent in every town in the +United States. Persons disposed to act in that capacity, are invited to +communicate with the publisher.</b></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127"></a></p> +<h3><a name="SPECIAL_NOTICE_TO_SUBSCRIBERS" id="SPECIAL_NOTICE_TO_SUBSCRIBERS"></a>SPECIAL NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.</h3> + + +<p>The number of the Magazine with which your subscription <i>expires</i> is +indicated by the number annexed to the address on the printed label. +When no such number appears, it will be understood that the subscription +ends with the current year. Please to look at the printed label. If the +number upon it is <b>108</b>, or if <i>no</i> number appears there, you will know +that your subscription ends with this year (1875). In that case you are +earnestly requested to send the renewal to us <i>immediately</i>, so that +your address may remain on our printed list, and you may continue to +receive the Magazine without any interruption. Remember that the amount +to be remitted is <b>$1.60</b>, and that you will receive the Magazine +postpaid. To save you the trouble of writing a letter, we annex a blank +form that may be used in making the remittance.</p> + +<p><i>JOHN L. SHOREY, 36 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass.</i></p> + +<p><i>Enclosed please find $1.60 for renewal of subscription to "THE +NURSERY," to begin with the number for</i>...........,<i>1876, to be sent to the +following address</i>:—</p> + + +<table summary="subscription form" width="100%" frame="box"> + +<tr><td align="center" width="50%">NAME OF SUBSCRIBER</td><td align="center">RESIDENCE</td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td> </td></tr> +</table> +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128"></a><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/illus-129.png"><img src="images/illus-129-tb.png" alt="FLORA'S LOOKING-GLASS" title="FLORA'S LOOKING-GLASS" /></a></div> +<p class='center'>FLORA'S LOOKING-GLASS.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130"></a></p> +<h3><a name="FLORAS_LOOKING-GLASS" id="FLORAS_LOOKING-GLASS"></a>FLORA'S LOOKING-GLASS.</h3> + +<div class="figleft" style="margin-top:-0.5em; margin-right:0;"><img src="images/lettero.png" alt="letter O" title="letter O" /></div> +<p>N the edge of a thick wood dwelt a little girl whose name was Flora. +She was an orphan, and lived with an old woman who got her living by +gathering herbs.</p> +<br clear="all" /> + +<p>Every morning, Flora had to go almost a quarter of a mile to a clear +spring in the wood, and fill the kettles with fresh water. She had a +sort of yoke, on which the kettles were hung as she carried them.</p> + +<p>The pool formed by the spring was so smooth and clear, that Flora could +see herself in it; and some one who found her looking in it, one bright +morning, called the pool "Flora's Looking-Glass."</p> + +<p>As Flora grew up, some of the neighbors tried to make her leave the old +woman, and come and live with them; but Flora said, "No: she has been +kind to me when there was no one to care for me, and I will not forsake +her now."</p> + +<p>So she kept on in her humble lot; and the old woman taught her the names +of all the herbs and wild flowers that grew in the wood; and Flora +became quite skilful in the art of selecting herbs, and extracting their +essences.</p> + +<p>There was one scarce herb that grew on the border of "Flora's +Looking-Glass." It was used in a famous mixture prepared by the old +woman; and, when the latter was about to die, she said to Flora, "Here +is a recipe for a medicine which will, some day, have a great sale. Take +it, and do with it as I have done."</p> + +<p>Flora took the recipe, and the old woman died. But poor Flora was so +kind and generous a girl, that she gave the medicine away freely to all +the sick people; nor did she try to keep the recipe a secret.</p> + +<p>So, though she was not made rich by it, she was made +<a name="Page_131" id="Page_131"></a>happy; and, as +weeks passed on, a man who was a doctor, and had known her father, came +to her, and said, "Come and live with me and my wife and daughters, and +I will send you to school, and see that you are well taught."</p> + +<p>"But how can I pay you for it all?" asked Flora.</p> + +<p>"The recipe will more than pay me," said the good doctor. "You shall +have a share in what I earn from it; and you shall help me make the +extract."</p> + +<p>Flora now goes to school in winter; but in midsummer she pays frequent +visits to "Flora's Looking-Glass," and thinks of the kind old lady who +taught her so much about herbs and flowers.</p> + +<p class='author'>Anna Livingston.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/motif.png" alt="motif" title="motif" /></div> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-131.png" alt="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." title="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." /></div> +<p class='center'>A SHOT AT AN EAGLE.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132"></a></p> +<h3><a name="CHINESE_SCENES" id="CHINESE_SCENES"></a>CHINESE SCENES.</h3> + + +<p>I have two little girls here in China, who are constant readers of "The +Nursery." They think I can tell you little readers at home of some +pretty sights they see here. They have asked me so often to do so, that, +now they are tucked away for the night, I will try to please them.</p> + +<p>In landing at Hong Kong, after a long voyage, it looks very odd to see +the water covered with small boats, or <i>sampans</i>, as the Chinese call +them. In each boat lives a family. It is their house and home; and they +seldom go off of it.</p> + +<p>They get their living by carrying people to the ships, and by fishing. +They have a place in the bottom of the boat, where they sleep at night; +and, in cold weather, they shut themselves up in it to keep from +freezing. I went out in one of these boats a few days ago. The water was +very rough; and I was quite astonished, after being out some time, to +see a pair of bright eyes shining from below, through a small crack, +nearly under my feet.</p> + +<p>Coming back, it was not quite so rough; and the owner of the bright +eyes—a little girl four years old, with a baby strapped on her +back—came "up topside," as they call up above. When the baby was fussy, +the girl would dance a little; and so the baby was put to sleep in this +peculiar fashion.</p> + +<p>It is a very common sight to see a boatwoman rowing the boat, with her +baby strapped on her back. The child likes the motion, and is very +quiet. It must be very hard for the mother; but the Chinese women have +to endure more hardships than that, as I shall show you in future +numbers of "The Nursery."</p> + +<p>In cold weather, these people must suffer very much, <a name="Page_133" id="Page_133"></a>they are so poorly +clad. They put all the clothing they have on the upper part of their +body; and their legs and feet are hardly covered at all. Fortunately for +them, it is not very cold in this part of China.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-133.png" alt="CHINESE SCENES." title="CHINESE SCENES." /></div> + +<p>In Canton, there are many more boats than here; for the floating +population there is the largest in the world. I have seen as many as ten +children in one boat. The small ones have ropes tied around them: so, if +they fall into the water, they can be picked up easily.</p> + +<p>A little fire in a small earthen vessel is all that these strange people +have to cook their food by. The poorer ones have nothing but rice to +eat, and consider themselves very fortunate if they get plenty of that. +Those better off have a great variety of food; and some of it looks +quite tempting; but the greater part is horrible to look at, and much +worse to smell.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134"></a>All the men and boys have their hair braided in long cues. The women +have theirs done up in various styles; each province in China having its +own fashion. Neither women nor men can dress their own hair. The poorest +beggars in the street have their hair done up by a barber.</p> + +<p>For the men there are street barbers, who shave heads on low seats by +the roadside; but, for the higher classes and the women, a barber goes +to their houses. The women's hair is made very stiff and shiny by a +paste prepared from a wood which resembles the slippery-elm. It takes at +least an hour to do up a Chinese woman's hair.</p> + +<p class='author'> +C.E.C.</p> +<p style="margin-left:2em; margin-top:-2em;"><span class="smcap">Hong Kong, China.</span> +</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3><a name="MINOS" id="MINOS"></a>MINOS.</h3> + + +<p>I read, the other day, an account, taken from an English paper, of a +wonderful little dog, called Minos. He knows more arithmetic than many +children. At an exhibition given of him by his mistress, he picked out +from a set of numbered cards any figure which the company chose to call +for. When six was called, for instance, he would bring it; and then, if +some one said, "Tell him to add twelve to it."—"Add twelve, Minos," +said his mistress. Minos looked at her, trotted over to the cards, and +brought the one with eighteen on it.</p> + +<p>Only once was he puzzled. A gentleman in the audience called out, "Tell +him to give the half of twenty-seven." Poor Minos looked quite +bewildered for a moment; but he was not to be baffled so. He ran off, +and brought back the card with the figure on it. Was not that clever?</p> + +<p>He has photographs of famous persons, all of which he knows by name, and +will bring any one of them when told <a name="Page_135" id="Page_135"></a>to. He can spell too; for when a +French lady in the company wrote the word "<i>esprit</i>," and handed it to +him, he first looked at it very hard, and then brought the letters, one +by one, and placed them in the right order.</p> + +<p>When Minos was born, he was very sickly and feeble; and his mother would +not take care of him, and even tried to kill him. But little Marie +Slager, daughter of the lady who has him now, took him and brought him +up herself.</p> + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-135.png" alt="MINOS" title="MINOS" /></div> + + +<p>From that time he was her doll, her playfellow, her baby. She treated +him so much like a child, that he really seemed to understand all that +was said to him. She even taught him to play a little tune on the piano.</p> + +<p>Almost all performing animals are treated so cruelly while they are +being trained, and go through with their tricks in so much fear, that it +is quite sad to see them. But the best thing about Minos's wonderful +performances is, that they were all taught him by love and gentleness.</p> + +<p>Remember this, boys, when you are trying to teach Dash or Carlo to fetch +and carry, or draw your wagon: there is no teacher so good as love.</p> + +<p class='author'>Elizabeth Sill.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136"></a></p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-136.png" alt="GRANDMA'S GARDEN" title="GRANDMA'S GARDEN" /></div> + + +<h3><a name="GRANDMAS_GARDEN" id="GRANDMAS_GARDEN"></a>GRANDMA'S GARDEN.</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i10">This is the way; here is the gate,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">This little creaking wicket;<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Here robin calls his truant mate<br /></span> +<span class="i9">From out the lilac-thicket.<br /></span> +<span class="i10">The walks are bordered all with box,—<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Oh! come this way a minute;<br /></span> +<span class="i10">The snowball-bush, beyond the phlox,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Has chippy's nest hid in it.<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Look at this mound of blooming pinks,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">This balm, these mountain daisies;<br /></span> +<span class="i10">And can you guess what grandma thinks<br /></span> +<span class="i9">The sweetest thing she raises?<br /></span> +<span class="i10">You're wrong, it's not the violet,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Nor yet this pure white lily:<br /></span> +<span class="i10">It is this straggling mignonette,—<br /></span> +<span class="i9">I know you think it silly,—<br /></span> +<span class="i10">But hear my story; then, perhaps,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">You'll freely grant me pardon.<br /></span> +<span class="i10">(See how the spiders set their traps<br /></span> +<span class="i9">All over grandma's garden.)<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Long since I had a little friend,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Dear as your darling sister,<br /></span> +<span class="i10">And she from over sea, did send<br /></span> +<span class="i9">This token, ere Death kissed her:<br /></span> +<span class="i10">'Twas in a box, a tiny slip,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">With word just how to set it:<br /></span> +<span class="i10">And now I kiss its fragrant tip,—<br /></span> +<span class="i9">You see I can't forget it.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-137a.png" alt="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." title="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." /></div> +<p><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137"></a></p> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i10">Well, here I get thyme, sage, and mint,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Sweet marjoram and savory;<br /></span> +<span class="i10">(Cook says they always give a hint<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Of summer, rich and flavory);<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Here's caraway—take, if you will:<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Fennel and coriander<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Hang over beds of daffodil,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">And myrtles close meander.<br /></span> +<span class="i10">What's next to come, one may not know—<br /></span> +<span class="i9">But then I like surprises:<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Just here, where tender roses blow,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">A tiger-lily rises.<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Here cock's-comb flaunts, and columbine<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Stands shaded by sweetbrier,<br /></span> +<span class="i10">And marigolds and poppies shine<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Like beds of glowing fire.<br /></span> +<span class="i10">A group of honest sunflowers tall<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Keep sentry in yon corner;<br /></span> +<span class="i10">And close beside them on the wall,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">The peacock, strutting scorner,<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Spreads out his rainbow plumes alone,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Or stoops to pick a berry,<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Where briers climb the mossy stone<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Beneath those clumps of cherry.<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Now we'll turn back: you've seen but few<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Of my old-fashioned beauties,<br /></span> +<span class="i10">But take away a nosegay new<br /></span> +<span class="i9">To cheer you at your duties;<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Take pansies and forget-me-nots;<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Pluck pinks, bluebells, and roses,<br /></span> +<span class="i10">And tell me if you know a spot<br /></span> +<span class="i9">Where flourish fairer posies.<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Grandma herself no lovelier ground<br /></span> +<span class="i9">This side of paradise has found.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class='center'>M.A.C.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-137b.png" alt="A PEACOCK" title="A PEACOCK" /></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138"></a><br /><br /></p> +<h3><a name="GREAT-AUNT_PATIENCE_AND_HER_LITTLE_LION" id="GREAT-AUNT_PATIENCE_AND_HER_LITTLE_LION"> +</a>GREAT-AUNT PATIENCE AND HER LITTLE LION.</h3> + + +<p>"What relation is she to me?" said black-eyed Fred, as he heard his +mother say that her Aunt Patience was coming to visit them.</p> + +<p>"She is your <i>great</i>-aunt," said mamma; "and I want you and Bertie to be +very polite to her."</p> + +<p>The little boys had heard their mamma say that Aunt Patience was "a lady +of the old school," and that she was afraid the children would trouble +her, as they were not quite so still as the little boys and girls used +to be forty or fifty years ago.</p> + +<p>So Fred and Bertie stood somewhat in awe of this Great-Aunt Patience; +and when the dear old lady arrived, and papa and mamma went to the cars +to meet her, the two boys were watching rather timidly for the carriage, +at the parlor-windows.</p> + +<p>As she came up the steps, leaning on papa's arm, little Bertie +exclaimed, "Oh, see, Freddie! she is not <i>great</i> at all: she is as +little as a girl."</p> + +<p>"Yes, and she laughs too," said Fred; "and her eyes are as blue as +mamma's, and her hair as white as a snowdrift."</p> + +<p>Just then, the driver took off a strange-looking thing from the +carriage, and brought it up the steps. It was an old-fashioned trunk, +covered with stiff, reddish-brown hair. The boys had never seen a hair +trunk, and it seemed to them, at the first glance, more like some kind +of an animal than a trunk.</p> + +<p>Before they had a chance to examine it, their mamma called them to come +and kiss their aunt, which they did very politely, as they had been +directed. But her sweet face won their hearts at once; and Bertie +exclaimed, "Oh, you <a name="Page_139" id="Page_139"></a>are not a <i>big</i> Patience: you are a <i>little</i> good +Patience, I know; and I am not a bit afraid of you!"</p> + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-139.png" alt="THE OLD FASHIONED TRUNK" title="THE OLD FASHIONED TRUNK" /></div> + + +<p>"Bless your little heart, dear! what has mamma been telling you to make +you afraid of me?" said auntie with a merry laugh.</p> + +<p>As soon as they could get away, the boys ran up stairs to see what the +driver had carried to their aunt's room. Fred discovered what it was as +soon as he opened the door; but Bertie, who was not yet four years old, +was greatly puzzled. "What can it be?" said he, keeping a safe distance +away from it.</p> + +<p>Now, Fred liked to play tricks upon his little brother sometimes: so he +said, with pretended alarm, "Why, perhaps it is a young lion."</p> + +<p>After this startling suggestion, Bertie did not wait an instant. He ran +as fast as his legs would carry him, <a name="Page_140" id="Page_140"></a>screaming, "O mamma! there is a +young lion up stairs. O papa! do get your pistol, and shoot him." The +poor child was really in a great fright; and all the family ran at once +to see what could be the matter.</p> + +<p>They met naughty Fred, laughing, but looking rather guilty. "Why, it is +only great Patience's trunk," said he. "Bertie thinks it is a lion." +Papa told Fred he did very wrong to frighten the boy so; but they all +had a good laugh at poor Bertie's mistake. Bertie was soon induced to +take a nearer look at his frightful little lion; and, when Aunt Patience +took out from it two or three quarts of chestnuts, it lost all its +terrors. The boys were allowed to play in the room as much as they +pleased; and the innocent hair trunk was made to do duty as a wolf, a +bear, a tiger, and various other wild beasts.</p> + +<p>"I wish you would stay here a hundred years!" said little Bertie to his +aunt, one day. "I wish she would stay for ever and ever, and longer +too!" said Fred. "What do you go back to your old school for?" said +Bertie. "My school!" said Aunt Patience. "I have not any school, and +never had any."—"Why," exclaimed the little boy, "my mamma said you +were a lady of the old school!"</p> + +<p>Then mamma and auntie had a merry laugh; and the boys were informed that +mamma only meant that Aunt Patience was a very polite lady of the olden +time.</p> + +<p>The boys constantly forgot to call her "auntie," but remembered the +title of "great," and the precious old lady was just as well pleased to +have them call her "Great Patience."</p> + +<p>When she bade them good-by, they both cried, though Fred was very +private about his tears; and both boys declared that the best visitors +they ever had were "Great Patience and her little red lion."</p> + +<p class='author'>Mamma.</p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141"></a></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-141.png" alt="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." title="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." /></div> + +<h3><a name="CROSSING_THE_BROOK" id="CROSSING_THE_BROOK"></a>CROSSING THE BROOK.</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Crossing the Brook"> +<tr><td align='left'>Over the stepping-stones, one foot and then another;</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>And here we are safe on dry land, little brother.</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142"></a><br /><br /></p> +<h3><a name="NELLIES_LITTLE_BROTHER" id="NELLIES_LITTLE_BROTHER"></a>NELLIE'S LITTLE BROTHER.</h3> + +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/illus-142.png" alt="NELLIE'S LITTLE BROTHER" title="NELLIE'S LITTLE BROTHER" /></div> +<p>When Nellie was quite young, she lost her dear mother; and two sad years +passed by for the little girl. She used to go and look at her mother's +portrait, and wonder whether she could see Nellie, though Nellie could +not see her.</p> + +<p>But, at last, her father gave her a new mother, who was so kind and +good, that Nellie loved her very much; though she never could forget her +first dear mother. One happy day, Nellie learned that a little brother +had been born. How glad she was then!</p> + +<p>Some weeks passed by before Nellie was allowed to take the little fellow +in her arms; but, when she was permitted to do this, it seemed to her +that she had never felt such delight before. When he would put up his +tiny hands, and feel of her face, she was ready to weep with joy.</p> + +<p>But one night the nurse was ill; and there was nobody to take care of +the baby. Nellie begged so hard to be allowed to sit up and attend to +it, that she was at last permitted to do so. She passed two hours, +watching baby as he slept, <a name="Page_143" id="Page_143"></a>and thinking of the nice times she would +have with him when he grew up.</p> + +<p>At last he awoke; and then Nellie gave him some milk from the porringer, +and tried to rock him to sleep again. But the little fellow wanted a +frolic: so she had to take him in her arms, and walk about the room with +him.</p> + +<p>She walked and walked till it got to be twelve o'clock; and then she +stood in the faint lamplight, before the portrait of her own mother, and +it seemed as if the sweet face were trying to speak to her.</p> + +<p>But Nellie was so very sleepy, that she hardly knew what she was about. +She walked, like one in a dream,—from the bed to the cradle, and from +the cradle to the bed,—and all at once baby seemed quiet, and she was +walking no longer.</p> + +<p>At last she started up, and found she had been lying on the bed. The +faint light of the early dawn was coming through the eastern +window-panes. Where was baby? Oh! what had Nellie done with him? She +jumped from the bed, ran here and there, but could not find him.</p> + +<p>At last she looked in the cradle, and there he was, lying snugly asleep. +Without knowing what she had done, she had put him in the cradle, and +had covered him up, and then, without undressing herself, had gone and +lain down on the bed. "Oh, you darling, you darling!" cried Nellie; but +the tears came to her eyes, and she could say no more.</p> + +<p class='author'>Mary Atkinson.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-143.png" alt="FLOWER BASKET" title="FLOWER BASKET" /></div> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144"></a></p> +<h3><a name="ANNIES_WISH" id="ANNIES_WISH"></a>ANNIE'S WISH.</h3> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i9">"I wish I were a fairy,—<br /></span> +<span class="i10">A fairy kind and good,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">I'd have a splendid palace<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Beside a waving wood.<br /></span> +<span class="i9">And there my fairy minstrels<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Their golden harps should play;<br /></span> +<span class="i9">And little fairy birdies<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Should carol all the day.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i9">"A hundred fairy minions<br /></span> +<span class="i10">On my commands should wait;<br /></span> +<span class="i9">And want and pain should never<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Be known on my estate.<br /></span> +<span class="i9">I'd send my fairy heralds,<br /></span> +<span class="i10">To solace, soothe, and aid;<br /></span> +<span class="i9">And love and joy and pleasure<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Each dwelling should pervade."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i9">"But, ah! you're not a fairy,<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Dear little Sister Ann;<br /></span> +<span class="i9">So pray now be contented,<br /></span> +<span class="i10">And do the best you can.<br /></span> +<span class="i9">To parents, friends, and teachers,<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Be docile, true, and fond,<br /></span> +<span class="i9">And you will work more wonders<br /></span> +<span class="i10">Than with a fairy's wand."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class='author'>Geo. Bennett.</p> +<hr style="width:65%;" /> +<p><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145"></a></p> +<h3><a name="A_DRAWING_LESSON" id="A_DRAWING_LESSON"></a>A DRAWING LESSON.</h3> +<div class="figcenter"><a href="images/illus-145.png"><img src="images/illus-145-tb.png" alt="Outline drawing by Mr. Harrison Weir" title="Outline drawing by Mr. Harrison Weir" /></a></div> + +<p class='center'>Outline drawing by <span class="smcap">Mr. Harrison Weir</span>, as a +drawing lesson.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146"></a></p> +<h1><a name="GRANDPAS_PIGS" id="GRANDPAS_PIGS"></a>GRANDPA'S PIGS.</h1> + +<div style="font-size:x-large;"> +<p>Mamma says that I am only a little boy; but I think I am quite big. I +shall be six years old next May.</p> + +<p>Last summer, mamma took me to grandpa's, to stay a few weeks. When we +got to the house, I asked grandpa if I might go with him every day to +feed the pigs. He said, "Yes."</p> + +<p>So the next morning I went. There were four large pigs, and six little +ones; and, when the food was put into the trough, they were all so eager +to get it, that they kept tumbling over one another.</p> + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-147.png" alt="GRANDPA'S PIGS" title="GRANDPA'S PIGS" /></div> + +<p><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147"></a></p> + +<p>One morning, there was not a pig in the pen. We hunted everywhere, but +could not find them. At last, grandpa said, "They must be in the +turnip-garden." Sure enough, there they were.</p> + +<p>The moment they saw us, they scampered; but, after a while, we got them +all back in <a name="Page_148" id="Page_148"></a>the pen. Then grandpa said he wanted to know how they got +out: so we hid in the barn.</p> + +<p>By and by, an old pig peeped around, to see if anybody was watching. As +he saw no one, he grunted, as much as to say, "All right," and started +for a large hole beneath the fence. But, before he could get out, +grandpa nailed a plank over the hole.</p> + +<p>I wanted a pig to take home with me; but grandpa said it would not live +in the city.</p> +</div> +<p class='author'>Homer.</p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-148.png" alt="PIG TRYING TO ESCAPE" title="PIG TRYING TO ESCAPE" /></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149"></a></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-149.png" alt="CAPTAIN BOB" title="CAPTAIN BOB" /></div> + +<h3><a name="CAPTAIN_BOB" id="CAPTAIN_BOB"></a>CAPTAIN BOB.</h3> + + +<p>At the hotel near the seaside, where I staid last summer, there was a +little fellow who was known to the guests as Captain Bob. He was from +the West, where he had never seen a large sheet of water. But, at his +first sight of old Ocean, he gave him his heart.</p> + +<p>Old Ocean seemed to return the tender liking; for he was very kind to +Captain Bob, who was nearly all day at the seaside, running some sort of +risk. There was nobody to prevent his going in to swim as often as he +chose.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150"></a>Nobody had taught Captain Bob to swim. How he learned he could not +explain. He was always ready to venture into a boat. He took to sculling +and rowing quite as naturally as a duck takes to swimming.</p> + +<p>One morning, we were all made sad by the report that Captain Bob was +missing. He had not been seen since noon the previous day. Messengers +were sent in every direction to make inquiries after the captain. +Several persons said, that, the last they had seen of him, he was +standing by the big post on the wharf, with a little boat in his hand +that an old sailor had made for him.</p> + +<p>Two days were at an end, and still there was no news of Captain Bob. His +parents and friends were greatly distressed. But, on the morning of the +third day, there was a shout from some of the gentlemen on the piazza; +and, on hastening to find out what was the matter, whom should I see but +Captain Bob, borne on the shoulders of two young men, and waving his cap +over his head.</p> + +<p>Bob's story was this: A mackerel-schooner was anchored off shore; and +Bob had persuaded the sailor, who had given him the toy-boat, to take +him on board. The sailor had done this, not suspecting what was to +happen. A school of mackerel had been seen; and, as the breeze was fair, +the skipper spread all sail, and was soon five miles off shore.</p> + +<p>The mackerel were so plenty that the fishermen made the most of their +luck, and did not return to the shore near the hotel till the third day.</p> + +<p>"Did you have a good time, captain?" I asked.</p> + +<p>"A <i>good</i> time!" exclaimed Captain Bob. "It was the jolliest time I ever +had. You should have seen me pull in the fish."</p> + +<p>After this adventure, Captain Bob was more of a hero than ever among the +people of the hotel.</p> + +<p class='author'>Emily Carter.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151"></a></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-151.png" alt="PAPA CAN'T FIND ME" title="PAPA CAN'T FIND ME" /></div> + + +<h3><a name="PAPA_CANT_FIND_ME" id="PAPA_CANT_FIND_ME"></a>"PAPA CAN'T FIND ME."</h3> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i7">No little steps do I hear in the hall;<br /></span> +<span class="i7">Only a sweet silver laugh, that is all.<br /></span> +<span class="i7">No dimpled arms round my neck hold me tight;<br /></span> +<span class="i7">I've but a glimpse of two eyes very bright.<br /></span> +<span class="i7">Two little hands a wee face try to screen:<br /></span> +<span class="i7">Baby is hiding, that's plain to be seen.<br /></span> +<span class="i7">"Where is my precious I've missed so all day?"<br /></span> +<span class="i7">"Papa can't find me!" the pretty lips say.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i7">"Dear me! I wonder where baby can be!"<br /></span> +<span class="i7">Then I go by, and pretend not to see.<br /></span> +<span class="i7">"Not in the parlor, and not on the stairs?<br /></span> +<span class="i7">Then I must peep under sofas and chairs."<br /></span> +<span class="i7">The dear little rogue is now laughing outright,<br /></span> +<span class="i7">Two little arms round my neck clasp me tight.<br /></span> +<span class="i7">Home will indeed be sad, weary, and lone,<br /></span> +<span class="i7">When papa can't find you, my darling, my own.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p class='author'>George Cooper.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152"></a><br /><br /></p> +<h3><a name="THE_SOLDIER-DOG" id="THE_SOLDIER-DOG"></a>THE SOLDIER-DOG.</h3> + + +<p>I have been reading in "The Nursery" the story about Mellie Hoyt and his +dog Major. My papa often tells me about another good old dog, named +Major. He was a soldier-dog, that papa knew when he went to the war.</p> + +<p>Major was a kind dog to all his friends; but he would bark at strangers, +and sometimes he would bite them. He once tried to bite a steam-engine +as it came whistling by; but the engine knocked him off the track, and +almost killed him. He had never seen a steam-engine before, and he knew +better than to attack one after that. But he was not afraid of any thing +else.</p> + +<p>When the soldiers went out to battle, Major would go with them, and bark +and growl all the time. Once, in a battle way down in Louisiana, Major +began to bark and growl as usual, and to stand up on his hind-legs. Then +he ran around, saying, "<i>Ki-yi, ki-yi</i>." By and by he saw a cowardly +soldier, who was running away; and he seized that soldier by the leg, +and would not let him go for a long time. He wanted him to go back and +fight.</p> + +<p>Soon after this, Major began to jump up in the air, trying to bite the +bullets that whistled over his head. When a bullet struck the ground, he +would run and try to dig it out with his paws. At last he placed himself +right in front of an advancing line of soldiers, as much as to say, +"Don't come any further!" He seemed to think that he could drive them +back all alone.</p> + +<p>By and by a bullet hit Major as he was jumping about; and he dropped +down dead. The soldiers all felt sad, and some of them cried. They +missed him like one of their comrades, and they had many to mourn for in +that dreadful battle. I hope there never will be another war.</p> + +<p class='author'>Pinky.</p> + +<p style="margin-top:-2em; margin-left:2em;"><span class="smcap">Portland, Me.</span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153"></a></p> + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-153.png" alt="THE SURPRISE" title="THE SURPRISE" /></div> + + +<h3><a name="THE_SURPRISE" id="THE_SURPRISE"></a>THE SURPRISE.</h3> + + +<p>"Whose hands are over your eyes? Guess quick."</p> + +<p>"Old Mother Hubbard's?"</p> + +<p>"Wrong: guess again."</p> + +<p>"The good fairy's, Teenty Tawnty?"</p> + +<p>"There are no fairies in this part of the country, and you know it. +Guess again."</p> + +<p>"Well, I guess it is the old woman that lived in a shoe."</p> + +<p>"She is not in these parts. I will give you one more chance. Who is it?"</p> + +<p>"I think it must be little Miss Muffit,—the one who was frightened by a +spider."</p> + +<p>"Nonsense! One would think you had read nothing but 'Mother Goose's +Melodies.'"</p> + +<p>"Can it be Tom, Tom, the piper's son?"</p> + +<p><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154"></a>"No, I never stole a pig in my life. Now give the right name this time, +or prepare to have your ears pulled."</p> + +<p>"Oh, that would never do! I think it must be my cousin, Jenny Mason, who +is hiding the daylight from me."</p> + +<p>"Right! Right at last! One kiss, and you may go."</p> + +<p class='author'>Ida Fay.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><br /><br /></p> +<h3><a name="LITTLE_PEDRO" id="LITTLE_PEDRO"></a>LITTLE PEDRO.</h3> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/illus-154.png" alt="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." title="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." /></div> + +<p>Pedro is a little Italian boy, who lives in Chicago. When I first knew +him, he was roaming about from house to house, playing on the fiddle, +and singing.</p> + +<p>Sometimes kind persons gave him money, and then he always looked happy. +But many times he got nothing for his music, and then he was very sad; +for he lived with a cruel master, who always beat him when he came home +at night without a good round sum.</p> + + + +<p>One day last spring, he had worked very hard; but people were so busy +moving, or cleaning house, that, when night came, he had very little +money. He felt very tired: so he went home with what he had.</p> + +<p>But his cruel master, without stopping to hear a word from the little +fellow, gave him a whipping, and sent him out again. He came to my gate, +long after I had gone to bed, and played and sang two or three songs; +but he did not sing very well, for he was too tired and sleepy.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155"></a>Just across the street, in an unfinished building, the carpenters had +left a large pile of shavings. Pedro saw this by the moonlight, as he +went along; and he thought he would step in and lie down to rest. His +head had hardly touched the pillow of shavings before he was asleep.</p> + +<p>He dreamed about his pleasant home far away in Italy. He thought he was +with his little sisters, and he saw his dear mother smile as she gave +him his supper; but, just as he was going to eat, some sudden noise +awoke him.</p> + +<p>He was frightened to find it was daylight, and that the sun was high in +the sky. In the doorway stood a kind gentleman looking at him. Pedro +sprang up, and took his fiddle; but the gentleman stopped him as he was +going out, and asked if that pile of shavings was all the bed he had. He +spoke so kindly, that Pedro told him his story.</p> + +<p>The gentleman felt so sorry for him, and was so pleased with his sweet, +sad face, that he took him to his own home, and gave him a nice warm +breakfast; and, being in want of an errand-boy, he concluded to let +Pedro have the place.</p> + +<p>Pedro has lived happily in his new home ever since; and, though he still +likes to play on his fiddle, he has no wish to return to his old +wandering mode of life.</p> + +<p class='author'>Cousin Emily.</p> +<hr style="width:25%;" /> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-155.png" alt="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." title="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." /></div> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156"></a><br /><br /></p> + +<p class="center smcap"><a href="images/illus-156.png">[view image]</a></p> + + +<h3><a name="THE_PARROTS_LAMENT" id="THE_PARROTS_LAMENT"></a>THE PARROT'S LAMENT.</h3> + +<table style="background: url(images/illus-156.png); height: 700px;" width="461" summary="The Parrot's Lament"> +<tr><td valign="middle" colspan="2"></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td><div class="center"></div> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i7">Swinging in a gilded cage,<br /></span> +<span class="i8">Petted like a baby's doll,<br /></span> +<span class="i7">Thus I spend my dull old age,<br /></span> +<span class="i8">And you call me "Poll."<br /></span> +<span class="i7">But in youth I roved at will<br /></span> +<span class="i8">Through the wild woods of Brazil.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i7">When you ask me, "What's o'clock?"<br /></span> +<span class="i8">Or repeat some foolish rhyme,<br /></span> +<span class="i7">And I try your speech to mock,<br /></span> +<span class="i8">I recall the time<br /></span> +<span class="i7">When I raised my voice so shrill<br /></span> +<span class="i8">In the wild woods of Brazil.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i7">Sporting with my comrades there,<br /></span> +<span class="i8">How I flew from bough to bough!<br /></span> +<span class="i7">Then I was as free as air:<br /></span> +<span class="i8">I'm a captive now.<br /></span> +<span class="i7">Oh that I were roaming still<br /></span> +<span class="i8">Through the wild woods of Brazil!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="smcap i16">Jane Oliver.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +</td></tr></table> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-157.png" alt="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." title="A SHOT AT AN EAGLE." /></div> + +<h3><a name="WHAT_THE_DOVE_LOST" id="WHAT_THE_DOVE_LOST"></a>WHAT THE DOVE LOST.</h3> + + +<p>Uncle Tom was walking slowly down the street, one sunny day, when he saw +a boy put his hand into a paper bag, take out a lemon, and throw it at a +plump gray pigeon that was trying to pick up some crumbs which had been +thrown out.</p> + +<p>Poor little pigeon! He had been fluttering, off and on, over the +crumbs,—now scared away by a fast trotting-horse, now flying to a +door-post to get rid of some rapid walker,—and had only just alighted +to pick up his breakfast, when he was struck right in the back by the +bullet-like lemon.</p> + +<p>Uncle Tom ran as quickly as he could, and took the panting little thing +up in his hand very gently. Just then the horse-car came along; and +uncle jumped into it, saying to himself, "I'll take this pigeon out to +little Emily. How she will dance and skip when she sees it!"</p> + +<p><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158"></a>The car went on and on, ever so +far away from Boston, and by and by was +half-way across a bridge. The pigeon had lain nestled under Uncle Tom's +coat; and the warmth seemed to make it feel better. First it put one +round bright eye out, then the other, and took a peep at the people +sitting near it.</p> + +<p>Then, I think, its back must have ceased aching; for it grew lively, and +stirred around. Uncle Tom felt it moving, and was afraid that it would +presently try to get away: so he held it as close as he could without +hurting it.</p> + +<p>But just as he thought how safe he had it, and how tame it would be when +it had lived with its little mistress a while, it popped its head out +again.</p> + +<p>It popped so far out this time, that there was nothing to take hold of +but its tail-feathers. Uncle Tom clutched those firmly; but, to his +great astonishment, the pigeon gave another spring, and pulled itself +away, leaving all its beautiful tail-feathers behind it.</p> + +<p>Away it flew, down the car, over the heads of the people, out of the +door, past the head of the conductor (who did not know that he had such +a strange passenger), and out over the water, back to Boston.</p> + +<p>Uncle Tom was left with only a handful of dark-gray feathers to take +home with him; and little Emily had no pet pigeon, after all.</p> + +<p class='author'>Aunt Emmie.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><br /><br /></p> +<h3><a name="THE_CHICKEN_AND_THE_DOG" id="THE_CHICKEN_AND_THE_DOG"></a>THE CHICKEN AND THE DOG.</h3> + + +<p>Tantalus, as the old Greek fable tells us, was King of Lydia. Being +invited by Jupiter to his table, he heard secrets which he afterwards +divulged. To divulge a secret is to make it vulgar, or common, by +telling it.</p> + +<p><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159"></a>Poor Tantalus was punished rather severely for his offence; but he had +sinned in betraying confidence. Sent to the lower world, he was placed +in the middle of a lake, the waters of which rolled away from him as +often as he tried to drink of them.</p> + +<p>Over his head, moreover, hung branches of fruit, which drew away, in +like manner, from his grasp, whenever he put forth his hand to reach +them. And so, though all the time thirsty and hungry, he could not, in +the midst of plenty, satisfy his desires.</p> + +<p>Therefore we call it to tantalize a person to offer him a thing he longs +for, and then to draw it away from him.</p> + +<div class="figright"><img src="images/illus-159.png" alt="THE CHICKEN AND THE DOG." title="THE CHICKEN AND THE DOG." /></div> + + +<p>In the picture, a little chicken is looking up at a spider which sits +over her in the midst of its web. She watches it, hoping that it will +come so near to her little bill, that she can peck at it, and swallow +it.</p> + +<p>But the spider is on its guard. To and fro it swings, letting itself +down a little bit, but never so far as to be in any danger; and then, +just as the enemy prepares to snap at it, it climbs nimbly into its +secure network.</p> + +<p>The second Tantalus of our picture, the little dog, has, also, small +prospects of reaching the object on which his heart is set. At some +distance from him on the ground lies a bone, which he longs to get; but +the chain which fastens him, prevents his going near enough to seize it. +Both the dog and the chicken are <i>tantalized</i>, you see.</p> + +<p>Let us keep down our desires, try to reach only what is fairly ours, be +content with little, and never betray confidence. Then shall we avoid +the fate of Tantalus.</p> + +<p class='author'>Uncle Charles.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160"></a></p> +<h3><a name="GIRLS_AND_BOYS" id="GIRLS_AND_BOYS"></a></h3> +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/illus-160a.png" alt="GIRLS AND BOYS" title="GIRLS AND BOYS" /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="margin-top:4em;"><img src="images/illus-music.png" alt="SHEET MUSIC" title="SHEET MUSIC" /></div> +<div style="margin-left:12em;"> +<p> +1. In all the land by field and town,<br /> +The boys and girls go up and down.<br /> +In all the land the girls and boys<br /> +Wherever they go they make a noise.<br /> +<br /> +They play at cricket, tops and games,<br /> +With balls that carry various names;<br /> +They whirl the skipping rope, and drive<br /> +The hoop till it appears alive.<br /> +<br /> +2. They thread the needle in the ring;<br /> +They play at tea and visiting;<br /> +Or woman poor from Sandyland,<br /> +whose talk is hard to understand.<br /> +<br /> +Their lungs and limbs they freely use,<br /> +They never mope or have the blues;<br /> +And it is always half their joys<br /> +In all their play to make a noise.<br /> +<br /> +3. They play at Hopscotch, marbles, dumps.<br /> +And Fly the garter; oh! what jumps!<br /> +From Tipcat quick away I fly<br /> +For fear they'll hit me in the eye.<br /> +<br /> +In winter on the ice they go,<br /> +And keep the pot a-boiling so,<br /> +And tho' they shout and make a noise,<br /> +Somehow, <i>I like these girls and boys</i>.<br /> +</p> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161"></a></p> +<div class="figleft" style="margin-top:-0.5em;"><img src="images/colgate.png" alt="Colgate advertisement" title="Colgate advertisement" /></div> +<p>VIOLET TOILET WATER.<br /> +CASHMERE BOUQUET EXTRACT.<br /> +CASHMERE BOUQUET Toilet Soap.</p> + +<hr class="small" /> + +<p><b>BOYS AND GIRLS</b>. Send 10 cents and stamp, and receive 25 beautiful +<b>Decalcomania</b>, the height of parlor +amusement, with full instructions, new and novel, or send stamp for +sample to E.W. HOWARD & CO. P.O. 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This can be used on any table—making a Croquet-Board,</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>at trifling expense</td><td align='right'><b>1.50</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Game of Bible Characters and Events</b></td><td align='right'><b>.50</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><b>Dissected Map of the United States</b></td><td align='right'><b>1.00</b></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p class='center'>Books will be sent at publishers' prices.<br /> + +JOHN L. 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Both Magazines must be subscribed for at the +<i>same time</i>; but they need not be to the same address. We furnish our +own Magazine, and agree to pay the subscription for the other. Beyond +this we take no responsibility. The publisher of each Magazine is +responsible for its prompt delivery; and complaints must be addressed +accordingly.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h4>NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.</h4> + +<p>The number of the Magazine with which your subscription <i>expires</i> is +indicated by the number annexed to the address on the printed label. +When no such number appears, it will be understood that the subscription +ends with the current year. <b>No notice of discontinuance need be given, +as the Magazine is never sent after the term of subscription expires.</b> +Subscribers will oblige us by sending their renewals promptly. State +always that your payment is for a <i>renewal</i>, when such is the fact. 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SHOREY,</b></p> + +<p class="author" style="margin-top:-1em;"><b>36 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass.</b></p> +<hr /> + +<p class="center"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164"></a>"Truly a Treasure of Delight for the Little Ones."<br /> +"Not only a Primer, but a Superb Present for a Child."</p> +<hr class="small" /> +<p class="center"><b>Ready Nov. 20, 1875,</b></p> + +<h3>THE NURSERY PRIMER.</h3> + +<p class="center"><b>Beautifully Bound, in Boards.</b></p> + +<p class="center">SIXTY-FOUR PAGES OF THE SIZE OF "THE NURSERY."</p> + +<p class="center">Every Page Richly Illustrated.</p> + +<p class="center"><b>PRICE ONLY 30 CENTS!</b></p> + +<p class="center">"<i>In cheapness and attractiveness, the greatest book ever put into the +market as a Holiday-Gift for children.</i>"</p> + +<p class="center">"<i>The Best Book yet for Teaching Children to Read.</i>"</p> + +<p class="center">"<i>The Choicest and Cheapest of all books for children.</i>"</p> + +<p class="center">"<i>With such tools as this, learning to read is no longer a task</i>."</p> +<hr class="small" /> + +<p class="center"><b>EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE.</b></p> + +<p>"We can confidently claim that no Primer or First Book for Children has +yet appeared, either in Europe or America, which, in the variety, +beauty, aptness, and interest of its illustrations, can be compared with +this. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: August 13, 2005 [EBook #16524] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, NO. 107 *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + +No. 107. +NOVEMBER, 1875. +Vol. XVIII. + +THE +NURSERY + +_A Monthly Magazine_ + +FOR YOUNGEST READERS. + +BOSTON: +JOHN L. SHOREY, 36 BROMFIELD STREET. +AMERICAN NEWS CO., 119 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK. +NEW-ENGLAND NEWS CO., 41 COURT ST., BOSTON. +CENTRAL NEWS CO., PHILADELPHIA. +WESTERN NEWS CO., CHICAGO. + +$1.60 a Year, in advance. +A single copy, 15 cents. + +Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, +by JOHN L. SHOREY, in the Office of the +Librarian of Congress at Washington. + + +CONTENTS OF NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN. + + * * * * * + + PAGE. +FLORA'S LOOKING-GLASS By _Anna Livingston_ 129 +CHINESE SCENES By _C.E.C._ 132 +MINOS By _Elizabeth Sill_ 134 +GRANDMA'S GARDEN By _M.A.C._ 136 +GREAT-AUNT PATIENCE AND HER LITTLE LION By _Mamma_ 138 +CROSSING THE BROOK 141 +NELLIE'S LITTLE BROTHER By _Mary Atkinson_ 142 +ANNIE'S WISH By _George Bennett_ 144 +A DRAWING LESSON 145 +GRANDPA'S PIGS By _Homer_ 146 +CAPTAIN BOB By _Emily Carter_ 149 +PAPA CAN'T FIND ME By _George Cooper_ 151 +THE SOLDIER-DOG By _Pinky_ 152 +THE SURPRISE By _Ida Fay_ 153 +LITTLE PEDRO By _Cousin Emily_ 154 +THE PARROT'S LAMENT By _Jane Oliver_ 156 +WHAT THE DOVE LOST By _Aunt Emmie_ 157 +THE CHICKEN AND THE DOG By _Uncle Charles_ 158 +GIRLS AND BOYS (_Music by T. Crampton_) 160 + + + * * * * * + +EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO. + + +... 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No more useful or delightful books for beginners +in reading have appeared. These, with "The Nursery Primer." form a cheap +but elegant library for childhood. + +... _Progress, improvement_, will be our motto in the future as they +have been in the past. "The Nursery," we can assure our readers, is +younger and more full of life than ever, notwithstanding its nine years. + +... Unaccepted articles will be returned to the writers _if stamps are +sent with them_ to pay return postage. Manuscripts not so accompanied +will not be preserved, and subsequent requests for their return cannot +be complied with. + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Hand] ~New Subscribers for 1876, whose names and money +are sent us before December next, will receive the last two numbers of +1875 FREE.~ + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Hand] ~We want a special agent in every town in the +United States. Persons disposed to act in that capacity, are invited to +communicate with the publisher.~ + + + + +SPECIAL NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. + + +The number of the Magazine with which your subscription _expires_ is +indicated by the number annexed to the address on the printed label. +When no such number appears, it will be understood that the subscription +ends with the current year. Please to look at the printed label. If the +number upon it is ~108~, or if _no_ number appears there, you will know +that your subscription ends with this year (1875). In that case you are +earnestly requested to send the renewal to us _immediately_, so that +your address may remain on our printed list, and you may continue to +receive the Magazine without any interruption. Remember that the amount +to be remitted is ~$1.60~, and that you will receive the Magazine +postpaid. To save you the trouble of writing a letter, we annex a blank +form that may be used in making the remittance. + +_JOHN L. SHOREY, 36 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass._ + +_Enclosed please find $1.60 for renewal of subscription to "THE +NURSERY," to begin with the number for, ................... 1876, to be +sent to the following address_:-- + +-------------------------------+------------------------------- + NAME OF SUBSCRIBER. | RESIDENCE. +-------------------------------+------------------------------- + | + | +-------------------------------+------------------------------- + | + | +-------------------------------+------------------------------- + + + +[Illustration: FLORA'S LOOKING-GLASS.] + + + + +FLORA'S LOOKING-GLASS. + + +On the edge of a thick wood dwelt a little girl whose name was Flora. +She was an orphan, and lived with an old woman who got her living by +gathering herbs. + +Every morning, Flora had to go almost a quarter of a mile to a clear +spring in the wood, and fill the kettles with fresh water. She had a +sort of yoke, on which the kettles were hung as she carried them. + +The pool formed by the spring was so smooth and clear, that Flora could +see herself in it; and some one who found her looking in it, one bright +morning, called the pool "Flora's Looking-Glass." + +As Flora grew up, some of the neighbors tried to make her leave the old +woman, and come and live with them; but Flora said, "No: she has been +kind to me when there was no one to care for me, and I will not forsake +her now." + +So she kept on in her humble lot; and the old woman taught her the names +of all the herbs and wild flowers that grew in the wood; and Flora +became quite skilful in the art of selecting herbs, and extracting their +essences. + +There was one scarce herb that grew on the border of "Flora's +Looking-Glass." It was used in a famous mixture prepared by the old +woman; and, when the latter was about to die, she said to Flora, "Here +is a recipe for a medicine which will, some day, have a great sale. Take +it, and do with it as I have done." + +Flora took the recipe, and the old woman died. But poor Flora was so +kind and generous a girl, that she gave the medicine away freely to all +the sick people; nor did she try to keep the recipe a secret. + +So, though she was not made rich by it, she was made happy; and, as +weeks passed on, a man who was a doctor, and had known her father, came +to her, and said, "Come and live with me and my wife and daughters, and +I will send you to school, and see that you are well taught." + +"But how can I pay you for it all?" asked Flora. + +"The recipe will more than pay me," said the good doctor. "You shall +have a share in what I earn from it; and you shall help me make the +extract." + +Flora now goes to school in winter; but in midsummer she pays frequent +visits to "Flora's Looking-Glass," and thinks of the kind old lady who +taught her so much about herbs and flowers. + +ANNA LIVINGSTON. + + +[Illustration: A SHOT AT AN EAGLE.] + + + + +CHINESE SCENES. + + +I have two little girls here in China, who are constant readers of "The +Nursery." They think I can tell you little readers at home of some +pretty sights they see here. They have asked me so often to do so, that, +now they are tucked away for the night, I will try to please them. + +In landing at Hong Kong, after a long voyage, it looks very odd to see +the water covered with small boats, or _sampans_, as the Chinese call +them. In each boat lives a family. It is their house and home; and they +seldom go off of it. + +They get their living by carrying people to the ships, and by fishing. +They have a place in the bottom of the boat, where they sleep at night; +and, in cold weather, they shut themselves up in it to keep from +freezing. I went out in one of these boats a few days ago. The water was +very rough; and I was quite astonished, after being out some time, to +see a pair of bright eyes shining from below, through a small crack, +nearly under my feet. + +Coming back, it was not quite so rough; and the owner of the bright +eyes--a little girl four years old, with a baby strapped on her +back--came "up topside," as they call up above. When the baby was fussy, +the girl would dance a little; and so the baby was put to sleep in this +peculiar fashion. + +It is a very common sight to see a boatwoman rowing the boat, with her +baby strapped on her back. The child likes the motion, and is very +quiet. It must be very hard for the mother; but the Chinese women have +to endure more hardships than that, as I shall show you in future +numbers of "The Nursery." + +In cold weather, these people must suffer very much, they are so poorly +clad. They put all the clothing they have on the upper part of their +body; and their legs and feet are hardly covered at all. Fortunately for +them, it is not very cold in this part of China. + +[Illustration] + +In Canton, there are many more boats than here; for the floating +population there is the largest in the world. I have seen as many as ten +children in one boat. The small ones have ropes tied around them: so, if +they fall into the water, they can be picked up easily. + +A little fire in a small earthen vessel is all that these strange people +have to cook their food by. The poorer ones have nothing but rice to +eat, and consider themselves very fortunate if they get plenty of that. +Those better off have a great variety of food; and some of it looks +quite tempting; but the greater part is horrible to look at, and much +worse to smell. + +All the men and boys have their hair braided in long cues. The women +have theirs done up in various styles; each province in China having its +own fashion. Neither women nor men can dress their own hair. The poorest +beggars in the street have their hair done up by a barber. + +For the men there are street barbers, who shave heads on low seats by +the roadside; but, for the higher classes and the women, a barber goes +to their houses. The women's hair is made very stiff and shiny by a +paste prepared from a wood which resembles the slippery-elm. It takes at +least an hour to do up a Chinese woman's hair. + +C.E.C. + +HONG KONG, CHINA. + + + + +MINOS. + + +I read, the other day, an account, taken from an English paper, of a +wonderful little dog, called Minos. He knows more arithmetic than many +children. At an exhibition given of him by his mistress, he picked out +from a set of numbered cards any figure which the company chose to call +for. When six was called, for instance, he would bring it; and then, if +some one said, "Tell him to add twelve to it."--"Add twelve, Minos," +said his mistress. Minos looked at her, trotted over to the cards, and +brought the one with eighteen on it. + +Only once was he puzzled. A gentleman in the audience called out, "Tell +him to give the half of twenty-seven." Poor Minos looked quite +bewildered for a moment; but he was not to be baffled so. He ran off, +and brought back the card with the figure on it. Was not that clever? + +He has photographs of famous persons, all of which he knows by name, and +will bring any one of them when told to. He can spell too; for when a +French lady in the company wrote the word "_esprit_," and handed it to +him, he first looked at it very hard, and then brought the letters, one +by one, and placed them in the right order. + +When Minos was born, he was very sickly and feeble; and his mother would +not take care of him, and even tried to kill him. But little Marie +Slager, daughter of the lady who has him now, took him and brought him +up herself. + +[Illustration] + +From that time he was her doll, her playfellow, her baby. She treated +him so much like a child, that he really seemed to understand all that +was said to him. She even taught him to play a little tune on the piano. + +Almost all performing animals are treated so cruelly while they are +being trained, and go through with their tricks in so much fear, that it +is quite sad to see them. But the best thing about Minos's wonderful +performances is, that they were all taught him by love and gentleness. + +Remember this, boys, when you are trying to teach Dash or Carlo to fetch +and carry, or draw your wagon: there is no teacher so good as love. + +ELIZABETH SILL. + + + + +[Illustration] + + GRANDMA'S GARDEN. + + + This is the way; here is the gate, + This little creaking wicket; + Here robin calls his truant mate + From out the lilac-thicket. + The walks are bordered all with box,-- + Oh! come this way a minute; + The snowball-bush, beyond the phlox, + Has chippy's nest hid in it. + Look at this mound of blooming pinks, + This balm, these mountain daisies; + And can you guess what grandma thinks + The sweetest thing she raises? + You're wrong, it's not the violet, + Nor yet this pure white lily: + It is this straggling mignonette,-- + I know you think it silly,-- + But hear my story; then, perhaps, + You'll freely grant me pardon. + (See how the spiders set their traps + All over grandma's garden.) + Long since I had a little friend, + Dear as your darling sister, + And she from over sea, did send + This token, ere Death kissed her: + 'Twas in a box, a tiny slip, + With word just how to set it: + And now I kiss its fragrant tip,-- + You see I can't forget it. + + +[Illustration] + + + Well, here I get thyme, sage, and mint, + Sweet marjoram and savory; + (Cook says they always give a hint + Of summer, rich and flavory); + Here's caraway--take, if you will: + Fennel and coriander + Hang over beds of daffodil, + And myrtles close meander. + What's next to come, one may not know-- + But then I like surprises: + Just here, where tender roses blow, + A tiger-lily rises. + Here cock's-comb flaunts, and columbine + Stands shaded by sweetbrier, + And marigolds and poppies shine + Like beds of glowing fire. + A group of honest sunflowers tall + Keep sentry in yon corner; + And close beside them on the wall, + The peacock, strutting scorner, + Spreads out his rainbow plumes alone, + Or stoops to pick a berry, + Where briers climb the mossy stone + Beneath those clumps of cherry. + Now we'll turn back: you've seen but few + Of my old-fashioned beauties, + But take away a nosegay new + To cheer you at your duties; + Take pansies and forget-me-nots; + Pluck pinks, bluebells, and roses, + And tell me if you know a spot + Where flourish fairer posies. + Grandma herself no lovelier ground + This side of paradise has found. + + + M.A.C. + +[Illustration] + + + + +GREAT-AUNT PATIENCE AND HER LITTLE LION. + + +"What relation is she to me?" said black-eyed Fred, as he heard his +mother say that her Aunt Patience was coming to visit them. + +"She is your _great_-aunt," said mamma; "and I want you and Bertie to be +very polite to her." + +The little boys had heard their mamma say that Aunt Patience was "a lady +of the old school," and that she was afraid the children would trouble +her, as they were not quite so still as the little boys and girls used +to be forty or fifty years ago. + +So Fred and Bertie stood somewhat in awe of this Great-Aunt Patience; +and when the dear old lady arrived, and papa and mamma went to the cars +to meet her, the two boys were watching rather timidly for the carriage, +at the parlor-windows. + +As she came up the steps, leaning on papa's arm, little Bertie +exclaimed, "Oh, see, Freddie! she is not _great_ at all: she is as +little as a girl." + +"Yes, and she laughs too," said Fred; "and her eyes are as blue as +mamma's, and her hair as white as a snowdrift." + +Just then, the driver took off a strange-looking thing from the +carriage, and brought it up the steps. It was an old-fashioned trunk, +covered with stiff, reddish-brown hair. The boys had never seen a hair +trunk, and it seemed to them, at the first glance, more like some kind +of an animal than a trunk. + +Before they had a chance to examine it, their mamma called them to come +and kiss their aunt, which they did very politely, as they had been +directed. But her sweet face won their hearts at once; and Bertie +exclaimed, "Oh, you are not a _big_ Patience: you are a _little_ good +Patience, I know; and I am not a bit afraid of you!" + +[Illustration] + +"Bless your little heart, dear! what has mamma been telling you to make +you afraid of me?" said auntie with a merry laugh. + +As soon as they could get away, the boys ran up stairs to see what the +driver had carried to their aunt's room. Fred discovered what it was as +soon as he opened the door; but Bertie, who was not yet four years old, +was greatly puzzled. "What can it be?" said he, keeping a safe distance +away from it. + +Now, Fred liked to play tricks upon his little brother sometimes: so he +said, with pretended alarm, "Why, perhaps it is a young lion." + +After this startling suggestion, Bertie did not wait an instant. He ran +as fast as his legs would carry him, screaming, "O mamma! there is a +young lion up stairs. O papa! do get your pistol, and shoot him." The +poor child was really in a great fright; and all the family ran at once +to see what could be the matter. + +They met naughty Fred, laughing, but looking rather guilty. "Why, it is +only great Patience's trunk," said he. "Bertie thinks it is a lion." +Papa told Fred he did very wrong to frighten the boy so; but they all +had a good laugh at poor Bertie's mistake. Bertie was soon induced to +take a nearer look at his frightful little lion; and, when Aunt Patience +took out from it two or three quarts of chestnuts, it lost all its +terrors. The boys were allowed to play in the room as much as they +pleased; and the innocent hair trunk was made to do duty as a wolf, a +bear, a tiger, and various other wild beasts. + +"I wish you would stay here a hundred years!" said little Bertie to his +aunt, one day. "I wish she would stay for ever and ever, and longer +too!" said Fred. "What do you go back to your old school for?" said +Bertie. "My school!" said Aunt Patience. "I have not any school, and +never had any."--"Why," exclaimed the little boy, "my mamma said you +were a lady of the old school!" + +Then mamma and auntie had a merry laugh; and the boys were informed that +mamma only meant that Aunt Patience was a very polite lady of the olden +time. + +The boys constantly forgot to call her "auntie," but remembered the +title of "great," and the precious old lady was just as well pleased to +have them call her "Great Patience." + +When she bade them good-by, they both cried, though Fred was very +private about his tears; and both boys declared that the best visitors +they ever had were "Great Patience and her little red lion." + +MAMMA. + + + + +[Illustration] + + CROSSING THE BROOK. + + + Over the stepping-stones, one foot and then another; + And here we are safe on dry land, little brother. + + + + +[Illustration] + +NELLIE'S LITTLE BROTHER. + + +When Nellie was quite young, she lost her dear mother; and two sad years +passed by for the little girl. She used to go and look at her mother's +portrait, and wonder whether she could see Nellie, though Nellie could +not see her. + +But, at last, her father gave her a new mother, who was so kind and +good, that Nellie loved her very much; though she never could forget her +first dear mother. One happy day, Nellie learned that a little brother +had been born. How glad she was then! + +Some weeks passed by before Nellie was allowed to take the little fellow +in her arms; but, when she was permitted to do this, it seemed to her +that she had never felt such delight before. When he would put up his +tiny hands, and feel of her face, she was ready to weep with joy. + +But one night the nurse was ill; and there was nobody to take care of +the baby. Nellie begged so hard to be allowed to sit up and attend to +it, that she was at last permitted to do so. She passed two hours, +watching baby as he slept, and thinking of the nice times she would +have with him when he grew up. + +At last he awoke; and then Nellie gave him some milk from the porringer, +and tried to rock him to sleep again. But the little fellow wanted a +frolic: so she had to take him in her arms, and walk about the room with +him. + +She walked and walked till it got to be twelve o'clock; and then she +stood in the faint lamplight, before the portrait of her own mother, and +it seemed as if the sweet face were trying to speak to her. + +But Nellie was so very sleepy, that she hardly knew what she was about. +She walked, like one in a dream,--from the bed to the cradle, and from +the cradle to the bed,--and all at once baby seemed quiet, and she was +walking no longer. + +At last she started up, and found she had been lying on the bed. The +faint light of the early dawn was coming through the eastern +window-panes. Where was baby? Oh! what had Nellie done with him? She +jumped from the bed, ran here and there, but could not find him. + +At last she looked in the cradle, and there he was, lying snugly asleep. +Without knowing what she had done, she had put him in the cradle, and +had covered him up, and then, without undressing herself, had gone and +lain down on the bed. "Oh, you darling, you darling!" cried Nellie; but +the tears came to her eyes, and she could say no more. + +MARY ATKINSON. + +[Illustration] + + + + + ANNIE'S WISH. + + + "I wish I were a fairy,-- + A fairy kind and good, + I'd have a splendid palace + Beside a waving wood. + And there my fairy minstrels + Their golden harps should play; + And little fairy birdies + Should carol all the day. + + "A hundred fairy minions + On my commands should wait; + And want and pain should never + Be known on my estate. + I'd send my fairy heralds, + To solace, soothe, and aid; + And love and joy and pleasure + Each dwelling should pervade." + + "But, ah! you're not a fairy, + Dear little Sister Ann; + So pray now be contented, + And do the best you can. + To parents, friends, and teachers, + Be docile, true, and fond, + And you will work more wonders + Than with a fairy's wand." + + + GEO. BENNETT. + +[Illustration: Outline Drawing by MR. HARRISON WEIR, as a drawing lesson.] + + + + +[Illustration] + + GRANDPA'S PIGS. + + Mamma says that I am only + a little boy; but I think I am + quite big. I shall be six years + old next May. + + Last summer, mamma took + me to grandpa's, to stay a few + weeks. When we got to the + house, I asked grandpa if I + might go with him every day + to feed the pigs. He said, + "Yes." + + So the next morning I went. + There were four large pigs, and + six little ones; and, when the + food was put into the trough, + they were all so eager to get it, + that they kept tumbling over + one another. + + One morning, there was not + a pig in the pen. We hunted + everywhere, but could not find + them. At last, grandpa said, + "They must be in the turnip- + garden." Sure enough, there + they were. + + The moment they saw us, + they scampered; but, after a + while, we got them all back in + the pen. Then grandpa said + he wanted to know how they + got out: so we hid in the barn. + + By and by, an old pig peeped + around, to see if anybody was + watching. As he saw no one, + he grunted, as much as to say, + "All right," and started for a + large hole beneath the fence. + But, before he could get out, + grandpa nailed a plank over + the hole. + + I wanted a pig to take home + with me; but grandpa said it + would not live in the city. + + + HOMER. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + +CAPTAIN BOB. + + +At the hotel near the seaside, where I staid last summer, there was a +little fellow who was known to the guests as Captain Bob. He was from +the West, where he had never seen a large sheet of water. But, at his +first sight of old Ocean, he gave him his heart. + +Old Ocean seemed to return the tender liking; for he was very kind to +Captain Bob, who was nearly all day at the seaside, running some sort of +risk. There was nobody to prevent his going in to swim as often as he +chose. + +Nobody had taught Captain Bob to swim. How he learned he could not +explain. He was always ready to venture into a boat. He took to sculling +and rowing quite as naturally as a duck takes to swimming. + +One morning, we were all made sad by the report that Captain Bob was +missing. He had not been seen since noon the previous day. Messengers +were sent in every direction to make inquiries after the captain. +Several persons said, that, the last they had seen of him, he was +standing by the big post on the wharf, with a little boat in his hand +that an old sailor had made for him. + +Two days were at an end, and still there was no news of Captain Bob. His +parents and friends were greatly distressed. But, on the morning of the +third day, there was a shout from some of the gentlemen on the piazza; +and, on hastening to find out what was the matter, whom should I see but +Captain Bob, borne on the shoulders of two young men, and waving his cap +over his head. + +Bob's story was this: A mackerel-schooner was anchored off shore; and +Bob had persuaded the sailor, who had given him the toy-boat, to take +him on board. The sailor had done this, not suspecting what was to +happen. A school of mackerel had been seen; and, as the breeze was fair, +the skipper spread all sail, and was soon five miles off shore. + +The mackerel were so plenty that the fishermen made the most of their +luck, and did not return to the shore near the hotel till the third day. + +"Did you have a good time, captain?" I asked. + +"A _good_ time!" exclaimed Captain Bob. "It was the jolliest time I ever +had. You should have seen me pull in the fish." + +After this adventure, Captain Bob was more of a hero than ever among the +people of the hotel. + +EMILY CARTER. + + + + +[Illustration] + + "PAPA CAN'T FIND ME." + + + No little steps do I hear in the hall; + Only a sweet silver laugh, that is all. + No dimpled arms round my neck hold me tight; + I've but a glimpse of two eyes very bright. + Two little hands a wee face try to screen: + Baby is hiding, that's plain to be seen. + "Where is my precious I've missed so all day?" + "Papa can't find me!" the pretty lips say. + + "Dear me! I wonder where baby can be!" + Then I go by, and pretend not to see. + "Not in the parlor, and not on the stairs? + Then I must peep under sofas and chairs." + The dear little rogue is now laughing outright, + Two little arms round my neck clasp me tight. + Home will indeed be sad, weary, and lone, + When papa can't find you, my darling, my own. + + + GEORGE COOPER. + + + + +THE SOLDIER-DOG. + + +I have been reading in "The Nursery" the story about Mellie Hoyt and his +dog Major. My papa often tells me about another good old dog, named +Major. He was a soldier-dog, that papa knew when he went to the war. + +Major was a kind dog to all his friends; but he would bark at strangers, +and sometimes he would bite them. He once tried to bite a steam-engine +as it came whistling by; but the engine knocked him off the track, and +almost killed him. He had never seen a steam-engine before, and he knew +better than to attack one after that. But he was not afraid of any thing +else. + +When the soldiers went out to battle, Major would go with them, and bark +and growl all the time. Once, in a battle way down in Louisiana, Major +began to bark and growl as usual, and to stand up on his hind-legs. Then +he ran around, saying, "_Ki-yi, ki-yi_." By and by he saw a cowardly +soldier, who was running away; and he seized that soldier by the leg, +and would not let him go for a long time. He wanted him to go back and +fight. + +Soon after this, Major began to jump up in the air, trying to bite the +bullets that whistled over his head. When a bullet struck the ground, he +would run and try to dig it out with his paws. At last he placed himself +right in front of an advancing line of soldiers, as much as to say, +"Don't come any further!" He seemed to think that he could drive them +back all alone. + +By and by a bullet hit Major as he was jumping about; and he dropped +down dead. The soldiers all felt sad, and some of them cried. They +missed him like one of their comrades, and they had many to mourn for in +that dreadful battle. I hope there never will be another war. + +PINKY. + +PORTLAND, ME. + + + + +[Illustration] + +THE SURPRISE. + + +"Whose hands are over your eyes? Guess quick." + +"Old Mother Hubbard's?" + +"Wrong: guess again." + +"The good fairy's, Teenty Tawnty?" + +"There are no fairies in this part of the country, and you know it. +Guess again." + +"Well, I guess it is the old woman that lived in a shoe." + +"She is not in these parts. I will give you one more chance. Who is it?" + +"I think it must be little Miss Muffit,--the one who was frightened by a +spider." + +"Nonsense! One would think you had read nothing but 'Mother Goose's +Melodies.'" + +"Can it be Tom, Tom, the piper's son?" + +"No, I never stole a pig in my life. Now give the right name this time, +or prepare to have your ears pulled." + +"Oh, that would never do! I think it must be my cousin, Jenny Mason, who +is hiding the daylight from me." + +"Right! Right at last! One kiss, and you may go." + +IDA FAY. + + + + +[Illustration] + +LITTLE PEDRO. + + +Pedro is a little Italian boy, who lives in Chicago. When I first knew +him, he was roaming about from house to house, playing on the fiddle, +and singing. + +Sometimes kind persons gave him money, and then he always looked happy. +But many times he got nothing for his music, and then he was very sad; +for he lived with a cruel master, who always beat him when he came home +at night without a good round sum. + +One day last spring, he had worked very hard; but people were so busy +moving, or cleaning house, that, when night came, he had very little +money. He felt very tired: so he went home with what he had. + +But his cruel master, without stopping to hear a word from the little +fellow, gave him a whipping, and sent him out again. He came to my gate, +long after I had gone to bed, and played and sang two or three songs; +but he did not sing very well, for he was too tired and sleepy. + +Just across the street, in an unfinished building, the carpenters had +left a large pile of shavings. Pedro saw this by the moonlight, as he +went along; and he thought he would step in and lie down to rest. His +head had hardly touched the pillow of shavings before he was asleep. + +He dreamed about his pleasant home far away in Italy. He thought he was +with his little sisters, and he saw his dear mother smile as she gave +him his supper; but, just as he was going to eat, some sudden noise +awoke him. + +He was frightened to find it was daylight, and that the sun was high in +the sky. In the doorway stood a kind gentleman looking at him. Pedro +sprang up, and took his fiddle; but the gentleman stopped him as he was +going out, and asked if that pile of shavings was all the bed he had. He +spoke so kindly, that Pedro told him his story. + +The gentleman felt so sorry for him, and was so pleased with his sweet, +sad face, that he took him to his own home, and gave him a nice warm +breakfast; and, being in want of an errand-boy, he concluded to let +Pedro have the place. + +Pedro has lived happily in his new home ever since; and, though he still +likes to play on his fiddle, he has no wish to return to his old +wandering mode of life. + +COUSIN EMILY. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration] + + THE PARROT'S LAMENT. + + + Swinging in a gilded cage, + Petted like a baby's doll, + Thus I spend my dull old age, + And you call me "Poll." + But in youth I roved at will + Through the wild woods of Brazil. + + When you ask me, "What's o'clock?" + Or repeat some foolish rhyme, + And I try your speech to mock, + I recall the time + When I raised my voice so shrill + In the wild woods of Brazil. + + Sporting with my comrades there, + How I flew from bough to bough! + Then I was as free as air: + I'm a captive now. + Oh that I were roaming still + Through the wild woods of Brazil! + + + JANE OLIVER. + + + + +[Illustration] + +WHAT THE DOVE LOST. + + +Uncle Tom was walking slowly down the street, one sunny day, when he saw +a boy put his hand into a paper bag, take out a lemon, and throw it at a +plump gray pigeon that was trying to pick up some crumbs which had been +thrown out. + +Poor little pigeon! He had been fluttering, off and on, over the +crumbs,--now scared away by a fast trotting-horse, now flying to a +door-post to get rid of some rapid walker,--and had only just alighted +to pick up his breakfast, when he was struck right in the back by the +bullet-like lemon. + +Uncle Tom ran as quickly as he could, and took the panting little thing +up in his hand very gently. Just then the horse-car came along; and +uncle jumped into it, saying to himself, "I'll take this pigeon out to +little Emily. How she will dance and skip when she sees it!" + +The car went on and on, ever so far away from Boston, and by and by was +half-way across a bridge. The pigeon had lain nestled under Uncle Tom's +coat; and the warmth seemed to make it feel better. First it put one +round bright eye out, then the other, and took a peep at the people +sitting near it. + +Then, I think, its back must have ceased aching; for it grew lively, and +stirred around. Uncle Tom felt it moving, and was afraid that it would +presently try to get away: so he held it as close as he could without +hurting it. + +But just as he thought how safe he had it, and how tame it would be when +it had lived with its little mistress a while, it popped its head out +again. + +It popped so far out this time, that there was nothing to take hold of +but its tail-feathers. Uncle Tom clutched those firmly; but, to his +great astonishment, the pigeon gave another spring, and pulled itself +away, leaving all its beautiful tail-feathers behind it. + +Away it flew, down the car, over the heads of the people, out of the +door, past the head of the conductor (who did not know that he had such +a strange passenger), and out over the water, back to Boston. + +Uncle Tom was left with only a handful of dark-gray feathers to take +home with him; and little Emily had no pet pigeon, after all. + +AUNT EMMIE. + + + + +THE CHICKEN AND THE DOG. + + +Tantalus, as the old Greek fable tells us, was King of Lydia. Being +invited by Jupiter to his table, he heard secrets which he afterwards +divulged. To divulge a secret is to make it vulgar, or common, by +telling it. + +Poor Tantalus was punished rather severely for his offence; but he had +sinned in betraying confidence. Sent to the lower world, he was placed +in the middle of a lake, the waters of which rolled away from him as +often as he tried to drink of them. + +Over his head, moreover, hung branches of fruit, which drew away, in +like manner, from his grasp, whenever he put forth his hand to reach +them. And so, though all the time thirsty and hungry, he could not, in +the midst of plenty, satisfy his desires. + +Therefore we call it to tantalize a person to offer him a thing he longs +for, and then to draw it away from him. + +[Illustration] + +In the picture, a little chicken is looking up at a spider which sits +over her in the midst of its web. She watches it, hoping that it will +come so near to her little bill, that she can peck at it, and swallow +it. + +But the spider is on its guard. To and fro it swings, letting itself +down a little bit, but never so far as to be in any danger; and then, +just as the enemy prepares to snap at it, it climbs nimbly into its +secure network. + +The second Tantalus of our picture, the little dog, has, also, small +prospects of reaching the object on which his heart is set. At some +distance from him on the ground lies a bone, which he longs to get; but +the chain which fastens him, prevents his going near enough to seize it. +Both the dog and the chicken are _tantalized_, you see. + +Let us keep down our desires, try to reach only what is fairly ours, be +content with little, and never betray confidence. Then shall we avoid +the fate of Tantalus. + +UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +[Illustration: Musical Score] + + GIRLS & BOYS + + T. CRAMPTON + + + 1. 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