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diff --git a/28129.txt b/28129.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..89adab8 --- /dev/null +++ b/28129.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2845 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28129] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, JANUARY 1877 *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music +by Linda Cantoni. + + + + + + + + + + + + +THE + +NURSERY + + +_A Monthly Magazine_ + +FOR YOUNGEST READERS. + +VOLUME XXI.--No. 1. + + + BOSTON: + JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET, + 1877. + + + + + Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by + + JOHN L. SHOREY, + + In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. + + FRANKLIN PRESS: + RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY, + 117 FRANKLIN STREET, + BOSTON. + + + + +[Illustration: Contents.] + + +IN PROSE. + + PAGE + Work and Play 1 + Billy and Tom 5 + The Wise Hare and her Pursuers 6 + Gentle Jessie and the Wasp 8 + Friends in Need 10 + The Bear that put on Airs 14 + Drawing-Lesson 17 + What you do, do well 20 + In the Winter 23 + A Letter to Minnie 26 + The Hedgehog 27 + The Little Scissors-Grinder 30 + + +[Illustration] + +IN VERSE. + + PAGE + Bumble-Bee 4 + Gretchen 9 + A Noonday Lullaby 12 + A Squeak 18 + My Little Sister 25 + Little Black Monkey 29 + The Old Year and New (_with music_) 32 + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration: WORK AND PLAY. + +VOL. XXI.--NO. 1.] + + + + +WORK AND PLAY. + + +"[Illustration: D]O you want your sidewalk shovelled?" This was the +question asked of Mr. Prim, as he sat reading his newspaper, one New +Year's morning. The question came through a servant who had just +answered the door-bell. Mr. Prim looked out of the window. The snow was +still falling. So he sent out word, "No shovelling wanted till the +storm's over," and went on with his reading. + +By and by there was another ring at the door; and in a moment the +servant-girl came in, saying, "The snow-shovellers are here again, sir, +and they want to see you." + +Mr. Prim stepped out into the entry, where he found two rough-looking +boys, both of whom greeted him at once with, "Wish you a happy new year! +Please, sir, it's done snowing now." + +"That means," said Mr. Prim, "that you both want the job of clearing off +the sidewalk; but which am I to give it to?" + +"Oh, sir!" said the bigger boy, "we are partners. I shovel, and Mike +sweeps." + +"And what are your names?" + +"Mine is Tom Murphy, and his is Mike Flynn." + +"Then," said Mr. Prim, "the firm is 'Murphy & Flynn.'" + +"That's it," said both boys with a grin. + +"Well, Murphy & Flynn, I will employ you to do my shovelling to-day, and +I will give you fifty cents for the job; but I am very particular. You +must not leave a bit of snow anywhere about the steps or sidewalk." + +"All right, sir," said the boys; and they went to work, while Mr. Prim +went back to his newspaper. He had not been reading many minutes, when a +loud shout in front of the house led him to look out of the window. The +picture shows what he saw. + +There were the two boys, each mounted on one of the stone lions at the +head of the steps, and shouting at the top of his lungs in the +excitement of an imaginary race. + +Mr. Prim was first astonished, then angry, then amused, at this +performance. He opened the window, and called out sharply, "Look here, +boys! do you call that work, or play?" + +The boys jumped down, and began to ply their broom and shovel with great +vigor. But Murphy looked up roguishly, and said, "We were just polishing +off the lions, sir." + +"Yes," said Mr. Prim, "and a paroxysm of fun got the better of you. +Well, it's excusable on New Year's Day. But, if the firm of Murphy & +Flynn expect to succeed in business, they must not mix so much play with +their work." And Mr. Prim shut the window. + +"I say, Mike," said Tom, "what was it the old man said had got the +better of us?" + +"That's more than I can tell," said Mike. "I can't remember such hard +words. But I know what he meant, and I guess he was about right." + + UNCLE SAM. + +[Illustration] + + + + +BUMBLE-BEE. + + +[Illustration] + + BUMBLE-BEE superbly dressed, + In velvet, jet, and gold, + Sailed along in eager quest, + And hummed a ballad bold. + + Morning-Glory clinging tight + To friendly spires of grass, + Blushing in the early light, + Looked out to see him pass. + + Nectar pure as crystal lay + In her ruby cup; + Bee was very glad to stay, + Just to drink it up. + + "Fairest of the flowers," said he, + "'Twas a precious boon; + May you still a Glory be, + Morning, night, and noon!" + + M. A. C. + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +BILLY AND TOM. + + +WHEN I was a little boy, six or seven years old, my father had two white +horses, named Billy and Tom. Billy had one black foot, and a little dark +spot on his face; but Tom did not have a black hair on his whole body. + +Billy was the old family horse, kind, gentle, and loving. Anybody could +catch him, or lead him, or drive him. He liked to be petted, and in +return seemed to take pride in being kind to all in the family. + +Tom was a good horse too; but we had not owned him so long, and he did +not care much to have any one pet him. + +Billy was a little lame; and though he worked everywhere on the farm, +and in drawing loads on the road, yet he was generally excused from +going with the carriage, except when it was necessary for some of us +children to drive. + +One day my father went to the village with Tom, leaving Billy at home +alone, in a field near the house. He missed his old friend Tom. They had +worked together so much, that they had become great friends; and either +one was very lonesome without the other. + +Billy ran about here and there, neighing loudly whenever another horse +appeared in sight upon the road, hoping that it might be his friend Tom +coming back. + +At last I went out to comfort him. I patted his head and his neck, and +leading him by the mane to the fence, climbed first upon the fence, and +then upon his back. + +He seemed pleased, and started in a gentle walk along the farm-road +leading down into the field, away from the house. When he had gone as +far as I wished to ride, I called out, "Whoa!" + +But he was a wise old horse. Instead of stopping in the middle of the +road, where he then was, he turned out at one side, and stopped close by +the fence, for me to get off upon that; as much as to say, "A boy that +is not large enough to get upon my back without climbing a fence, is not +large enough to climb from my back to the ground." + + EDITH'S PAPA. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE WISE HARE AND HER PURSUERS. + + +A POOR little hare was one day closely pursued by a brace of greyhounds. +They were quite near her, when, seeing a gate, she ran for it. She got +through it easily; but the bars were too close together for the hounds +to get through, so they had to leap over the gate. + +As they did so, the hare, seeing that they would be upon her the next +instant, turned around and ran again under the gate where she had just +before passed. The hounds, in their speed, could not turn at once. +Their headway took them on some distance; and then they had to wheel +about, and leap once more over the upper bar of the gate. + +[Illustration] + +Again the hare doubled, and returned by the way she had come; and thus +she went backward and forward, the dogs following till they were fairly +tired out, while the little hare, watching her chance, happily made her +escape. + +Thus you see that wit and self-possession are sometimes more than a +match for superior strength and speed. If the little hare could not run +so fast as the greyhounds, she could outwit them, and they saw no way to +prevent it. + + UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +GENTLE JESSIE AND THE WASP. + + +THERE is a little girl in our village whom we call "Gentle Jessie;" for +she is so kind and gentle, that even the dumb animals and the insects +seem to find it out, and to trust her. + +On a dry pleasant day, last autumn, I saw her seated on the grass. I +went up to tell her not to sit there; for it is not safe to sit on the +ground, even in dry weather. + +As I drew near to Jessie from behind, I heard her talking. To whom could +she be talking? There was no one by her side; that is to say, no human +being. But soon I found she was talking to a wasp that was coming as if +to sting her. + +"Wasp, wasp, go away, and come again another day," said she. But the +wasp did not heed her. It flew quite near to her face. Instead of +striking at the bold insect, she merely drew back a little out of its +way; for she thought, "Surely the wasp will not harm me, if I do not +harm it." + +And she was right. It alighted near her for a moment, but did not sting +her; and gentle Jessie did not try to harm it. Then the wasp flew to the +flowers on her hat; but, not finding the food it wanted, at last it flew +away. + +"Well done, Jessie," said I, lifting her from the ground, and giving her +a kiss. + + EMILY CARTER. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +GRETCHEN. + + + GRETCHEN'S old; she's neat and good: + See her coming from the wood! + She bears fagots on her back, + Lest her darlings fire may lack. + +[Illustration] + + Here you see her far from town, + With her darlings sitting down: + Gretchen, Emma, Fritz, and Paul,-- + They are happy, happy all. + + M. A. C. + + + + +FRIENDS IN NEED. + + +ONCE a poor crippled sparrow fell to the ground, and fluttered about in +a vain attempt to regain a place of safety. Some of its mates gathered +around it, and seemed eager to help it; but they did not know what to +do. Their chirping drew together a good many of the sparrow tribe. + +One thought this thing ought to be done, and another thought that. Some +tried to lift the helpless bird by catching its wings in their beaks; +but this failed, and such a chattering and scolding as took place! + +"I told you that wasn't the way to do it."--"How stupid!"--"You should +have taken my advice." Perhaps such were the speeches which were uttered +in bird-language; for all the little creature seemed much excited. + +[Illustration] + +Presently two of the birds flew away, but soon came back with a twig six +or seven inches long and an eighth of an inch thick. This was dropped +before the poor little cripple, and at each end was picked up by a +sparrow, and held so that the lame bird was able to catch the middle of +the twig in its beak. + +Then the crippled bird, with the aid of the other two, flew off, till +they came to the wall covered with ivy, where it had its home. There it +chirped to show how glad it was. All the other sparrows followed, as if +to share in the pleasure of the rescue. This is a true story. + + IDA FAY. + + + + +A NOONDAY LULLABY. + + +[Illustration] + + "TIC, tac! Tic, tac!" + Says the clock on the wall: + "Sleep now, my darling, for 'tis time, 'tis time; + Soon I will wake you with my merry chime,-- + Tic, tac! Tic, tac!" + + "Purr-r-r! Purr-r-r!" + Tabby sings on the sill: + "Shut your eyes, deary, and sleep in a trice, + Then I will stay here, and scare off the mice,-- + Purr-r-r! Purr-r-r!" + + "Coo-oo! Coo-oo!" + Says the dove on the roof: + "Go to sleep, pet, while I strut here and coo, + As for my own pretty nestlings I do,-- + Coo-oo! Coo-oo!" + +[Illustration] + + "Cut, cut, ca-dah-cut!" + Cackles kind biddy-hen: + "Listen, my little one: if you'll not weep, + I'll lay an egg for you while you are asleep,-- + Cut, cut, ca-dah-cut!" + + "Moo-oo! Moo-oo!" + Says the good moolly-cow: + "Sleep, my wee man, and I'll make it fair, + For I'll give you milk from bossy's own share,-- + Moo-oo! Moo-oo!" + + "Hum, hum! Buz, buz!" + Drones the bee on the wing: + "Fret not, my baby, but croon in your bed, + I'll bring you honey to eat on your bread,-- + Hum, hum! Buz, buz!" + + "Hush-sh-sh! Hush-sh-sh!" + Whisper leaves on the tree: + "As through our shadow soft sunlight streams, + See how the angels send smiles in his dreams! + Hush-sh-sh! Hush-sh-sh!" + + M. A. C. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE BEAR THAT PUT ON AIRS. + + +THERE was once a bear that had been tamed and made to dance by a man who +beat him when he did not mind. This bear was called Dandy, and he had +been taught many queer tricks. He could shoulder a pole as if it were a +gun, and could balance it on his nose, or stand on his hind-legs and +hold it by his fore-paws behind his back. + +He did all these things at his master's bidding because he stood in +great fear of his master's whip. His master made a show of him; and, +though Dandy did not like it, he was forced to submit. + +[Illustration] + +But one day, when he had been left alone, the chain, that held him by a +ring in his nose, got loose from the ring; and Dandy was soon a free +bear. Taking his pole, he made his way, as fast as he could, to a +mountain where the woods were high and thick. + +Here he found a number of fellow-bears. Instead of treating them as +equals, he put on fine airs, told them what a rare life he had led among +men, how many nice tricks he had learned, and how much wiser he was than +all the bears that had ever lived. + +For a time the other bears were simple enough to take him at his word. +They thought, because he said so, that he must be a very great bear +indeed. He never was at a loss when they asked him a question, never +would confess his ignorance, and so had to say much that was not true. + +Dandy boasted so of the respect which men had paid him, that he made the +other bears think he was doing them a great honor by living with them. +He made them all wait on him. But at last a young bear, that had escaped +from a trap which some men had set for him, said to Dandy, "Is that ring +in your nose for ornament or for use?" + +"For ornament, of course," said Dandy. "This ring was a gift from a man +who was once my partner. He was so fond of me, and so pleased with my +dancing, that he never tired of serving me. He brought me all my food. +In fact I had him at my beck and call." + +"My friends," said the young bear, "he tells a fib. That ring was put in +his nose to be fastened to a chain. He was held a slave by the man who, +he says, treated him so finely. He was made to dance through fear of +being touched up with a red-hot iron. In short, he is what men call a +'humbug.'" + +"Yes, he is a humbug," cried the others, though they did not know what +the word meant. "We will have no more of his fine airs."--"I never liked +him."--"Drive him off."--"Send him back to his dancing-master!"--"Kick +him!"--"Stone him!"--"Beat him!"--"We'll have no humbug here." + +And so poor Dandy was driven out from the woods, and forced to get his +living by himself; while the knowing young bear that had exposed him, +looked on and laughed at his misfortune. If Dandy had not been so +boastful; if he had spoken the truth, and been modest,--he might have +been respected by his fellow-bears to the end of his days. + + ALFRED SELWYN. + + + + +[Illustration: DRAWING-LESSON BY HARRISON WEIR. + +VOL. XXI.--NO. 1.] + + + + +A SQUEAK! + + + I'M only a little brown mouse + That lives in somebody's house, + And in that same house there's a cat; + But oh, ho! what care I for that? + She sits in the sunshine, + And licks her white paws, + With one eye on me, + And one on her claws. + How she watches the crack + Where she sees my brown back! + But she'll never catch me! + For oh, ho! don't you see + That I'm just the smartest young mouse + That lives anywhere in the house? + + I'm only a little brown mouse + That lives in somebody's house, + And in that same house there is Rover: + He has chased me the whole house over. + And there, too, is fat Baby Tim; + But oh, ho! what care I for him? + When he sprawls on the carpet, + And bumps his pink nose, + I scamper around him, + And tickle his toes. + How he kicks and he crows! + For he knows, oh, he knows, + That I'm only a little brown mouse + That lives in his grandmother's house. + + + + +[Illustration] + + I'm only a little brown mouse + That lives in somebody's house; + And in that same house there's a clock, + That says, "Tick-a-tock, tick-a-tock!" + And I've not forgotten yet quite, + How once, on a very still night, + I was sitting just over the clock, + When it gave such a terrible knock, + With a whirring and whizzing, + And buzzing and fizzing, + That I tumbled headlong from my perch on the shelf, + And, scampering wildly, I crowded myself + Right under the door, through such a small crack, + That I scraped all the hairs off the top of my back. + + Oh, I am the merriest mouse + That lives anywhere in a house! + I love toasted cheese, and I love crusts of bread, + And bits of old paper to make a soft bed. + Oh! I tell you it's nice + To be one of the mice, + And when the night comes, + And the folks are abed, + To rattle and race + On the floor overhead. + And, say, don't you wish _you_ could run up a wall + As I do, every day, without getting a fall? + And don't you wish _you_ were a mouse, + Living in somebody's house? + + FLETA F. + + + + +WHAT YOU DO, DO WELL. + + +"WHY do you take such pains in cutting out these little figures?" asked +Winifred of her brother Ernest. + +"I will tell you why, sister," replied Ernest. "I take pains because my +teacher tells me, that, if a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth +doing well." + +"Did he mean that we should try to do well even in trifles?" asked +Winifred. + +"Yes," answered Ernest, "because, as a great man once said, 'Perfection +is no trifle.'" + +Winifred sat looking at her brother, as, handling a pair of scissors, he +carefully cut out figures of horses, dogs, pigs, and various other +animals. + +Three years afterward she remembered this conversation; for it happened +at that time, that, her father having died, her widowed mother was left +almost destitute with a family of seven children to support. + +[Illustration] + +What should the poor woman do? At first she thought she would take in +washing, then that she would try to keep a little shop. While she was +hesitating, Mr. Mason, a brisk old gentleman, came to the door, and +asked, "Where is the boy who cuts these figures and faces in profile?" + +One of his grandchildren had brought him home from school some specimens +of Ernest's skill; and Mr. Mason saw at once that they were the work of +a gifted and painstaking artist. + +"You must mean my little Ernest," said the mother. "Poor little fellow! +He little dreams what is coming. I shall soon have to take him away from +school." + +"Why so?" cried Mr. Mason. "Take him away from school? You shall do no +such a thing. I'll not allow it." + +"We are destitute, sir, and I have no means of support," said the mother +with a sigh. + +"No means of support! Nonsense! With a boy in the house who can cut +figures like that, do you say you have no means of support?" exclaimed +Mr. Mason. "Good woman, I will insure your boy good wages every week for +the next year, if you will let him come between school-hours, and cut +pictures under my direction." + +The rest of my little story may soon be told. Ernest became the staff +and stay of his family. The little talent he had cultivated so carefully +and diligently was the means of giving him not only an honest +employment, but a liberal support. He rose to distinction; and his +productions were much sought after by all good judges of art. + + EMILY CARTER. + +[Illustration: ST. CATHERINE'S ROCK, SOUTH WALES.] + + + + +IN THE WINTER. + + +[Illustration] + +THERE are some nice apples in the cellar, and William is going down with +a light to get a dish full. He will pick out some that are as yellow as +gold, and some that are as red as a rose. + +[Illustration] + +This man is cutting a hole through the ice, so that the cows may drink. +The stream is all frozen over. When the thick ice is broken, they can +drink all they want. Walk up, old Brindle, and help yourself. + +[Illustration] + +Here are the fowls, and each stands on one leg. The ground is covered +with snow, and their toes are very cold. So they all hold their feet +under their feathers, to keep them warm. + +[Illustration] + +The old gray cat comes in the morning, and jumps up on the children's +bed. Then she creeps towards them, and rubs her soft fur on the little +boy's face, and wakes him up. She would like to say, "Good morning!" but +she only says, "Mew, mew!" + + W. O. C. + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +MY LITTLE SISTER. + + GOOD folks who read "The Nursery," this is my little sister; + The picture shows you truly how I caught her up, and kissed her: + She is so sweet, so very sweet, that I am quite decided + If you could see her as she is you would do just as I did. + + BROTHER CARLOS. + + + + +A LETTER TO MINNIE. + + +The following is an exact copy of a letter found in little Minnie's +stocking last Christmas:-- + + + SITTING ROOM, AT MAMMA'S DESK. + + MY DEAR LITTLE MINNIE. + + You must excuse my calling you by your pet name; + but you see I'm so fond of all good children that + I can't _Master_ and _Miss_ them, and they're all + Tommie, and Johnnie, and Fannie, and Minnie, to + me. + + Your stocking is so small that I can't put much of + any thing into it: but if that piano, with the + nice white cloth on it, isn't for presents, then + I'm mistaken. + + I shall put yours there, and I hope I sha'n't + crock that tablecloth; for your mamma wouldn't + like to find my sooty marks all over it. Though I + don't see how she could expect me to be clean when + she has had a soft-coal fire burning in her grate + all the evening, and that does make the chimney so + black! + + If you will look at the picture of me in your new + book (they call me St. Nicholas there), you'll see + how fat I am; and how do you suppose I get down + such a small place? I never could if I didn't love + children so much, and if I hadn't done it for so + many hundred years. But I began, you see, before I + grew so fat; and so now I know the easiest way to + do it. + + I hope you'll have all you wanted this year; but + you all grow so fast, and have so many wants from + year to year, that I sometimes fear that I sha'n't + always be able to satisfy you. Still, as it's only + the good little children that I visit, I fancy + they will be pleased, whatever I bring. + + I must confess, though, that it isn't _all_ + guesswork. I know pretty well what my little folks + want. But if you knew the amount of listening at + doors and windows and registers, that I do to find + out all these wants, you'd be astonished. + + And now, if I don't hurry off, you'll be waking + up, and catch me here; besides, I've staid a deal + longer than I ought, for I've lots to do before + daylight. But, seeing your mamma's desk and + writing-materials so handy, I really couldn't help + sitting down to write you a letter. + + Tell your brother Walter, that as I brought him + presents ten years before you came, he mustn't + expect quite so many now; for he can have no idea + how many little folks I have to provide for. And + if my reindeers weren't the kindest, and + strongest, and fleetest of creatures, we never + could get through the amount of work we have to do + "the night before Christmas." + + Wishing you, and your brother, and papa, and + mamma, a "Merry Christmas," I remain, with a heart + full of love, yours, + + SANTA CLAUS. + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE HEDGEHOG. + + +THE hedgehog is a queer little animal with short limbs. It feeds mostly +on insects. It has its body covered with sharp spines instead of hairs, +and can roll itself up in a ball, and thus show an array of prickles +pointing in every direction. + +Slow of foot, this little creature cannot flee from danger; but in the +sharp, hard, and tough prickles of its coat, it has a safeguard better +than the teeth and claws of the wildcat, or the fleetness of the hare. + +The hedgehog has powerful muscles beneath the skin of the back; and by +the aid of these, on the slightest alarm, it rolls itself up so as to +have its head and legs hidden in the middle of the ball it thus makes of +itself. + +Our dog Snip saw a hedgehog, the other day, for the first time. As soon +as it saw him, the little creature seemed to change from a live thing +into a ball. Snip did not know what to make of it. His curiosity was +much excited. He went up, and looked at it. + +If the two could have spoken, I think this would have been their talk:-- + +_Snip._--"Of all the queer things I ever saw, you are the queerest. What +_are_ you anyhow?" + +_Hedgehog._--"Suppose you put out your paw, and try." + +_Snip._--"I don't like the look of those prickles." + +_Hedgehog._--"Don't be a coward, Snip! Put your nose down, and feel of +my nice soft back." + +Whether the cunning hedgehog really cheated him by any such remarks as +these, I cannot say. But Snip at last mustered courage enough to put his +nose down to the ball. Rash Snip! Up rose the bristles, and pricked him +so that he ran back to the house, howling and yelping as if he had been +shot. + +Having put Snip to flight, the hedgehog quietly unrolled itself, thrust +out its queer little head with the long snout, and crept along on its +way rejoicing. As for Snip, I am quite sure he will never put his nose +to the back of a hedgehog again, as long as he lives. + + CHARLES SELWYN. + +[Illustration] + + + + +[Illustration: Little Black Monkey] + + + LITTLE black monkey sat up in a tree; + Little black monkey, he grinned at me; + He put out his paw for a cocoanut, + And he dropped it down on my occiput. + + The occiput is a part, you know, + Of the head which does on my shoulders grow; + And it's very unpleasant to have it hit, + Especially when there's no hair on it. + + I took up my gun, and I said, "Now why, + Little black monkey, should you not die? + I'll hit you soon in a vital part, + It may be your head, or it may be your heart." + + I steadied the gun, and I aimed it true: + The trigger it snapped, and the bullet it flew; + But just where it went to, I cannot tell, + For I never _could_ see where that bullet fell. + + Little black monkey still sat in the tree, + And placidly, wickedly, grinned at me: + I took up my gun, and walked away, + And postponed his death till another day. + + LAURA E. RICHARDS. + + + + +THE LITTLE SCISSORS-GRINDER. + + +WILLIE is a three-year-old darling. This summer he visited his aunt in +the city, and was very much interested in the curious sights and sounds +which abound there. + +A few days after his return home, when his mamma sat on the piazza with +some friends, Willie marched up the gravel path with his little +wheelbarrow on his back. + +He stopped at the foot of the steps, set his burden down, resting it +upon the handles, so that it stood upright. Then holding it with one +hand, and rolling the wheel with the other, he kept his foot rising and +falling, just as if he were at work with a genuine treadle. He looked +very sober, and said, "Please, madam, have you any scissors to sharpen?" + +The ladies handed him several pairs, which he ground in the best style, +trying the edge with his finger, and at last passing them to the owner +with the request for ten cents. + +[Illustration] + +Mamma gave him a bit of paper, which he put into his pocket, returning +the change in the form of two leaves. + +When he had finished his task, he shouldered the wheelbarrow, and was +saying "Good-afternoon," when one of the party ran after him, calling to +him to kiss her. + +"Scissors-grinders don't kiss," he said; but the fun sparkled in his +bright black eye, and he burst into a hearty laugh, which must have been +a relief to the merry boy after being sober so long. + + MRS. G. + + + + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration: Music] + + + +THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW. + + + Words by MARIAN DOUGLAS. Music by T. CRAMPTON. + + 1. The north winds blow o'er drifts of snow. + Out in the cold who goes from here? + "Good-by! good-by!" loud voices cry; + "Good-by!" returns the brave Old Year. + But looking back what word leaves he? + "Oh, you must all good children be!" + + 2. A knock, a knock! 'tis twelve o'clock! + This time of night, pray who comes here? + Oh, now I see, 'tis he! 'tis he! + All people know the glad New Year! + What has he brought? and what says he? + "Oh, you must all good children be!" + + + + +[Illustration: THE NURSERY PREMIUM-LIST.] + + + + +INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. + + +[Illustration: T]HE publication of "The Nursery" was begun in 1867. +The work met a want which was then wholly unsupplied, and it was +at once received with a high degree of public favor. 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Greenwood_ + The Outcasts of Poker Fiat, _Bret Harte_ + The Man without a Country _Hale_ + Flight of a Tartar Tribe _DeQuincey_ + + +2.--INTELLECT. + + The House and the Brain _Bulwer_ + L'Outre Mort _Harriet Prescott Spofford_ + The Fall of the House of Usher _Poe_ + Chops, the Dwarf _Dickens_ + Wakefield _Hawthorne_ + Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts _DeQuincey_ + The Captain's Story, _Rebecca Harding Davis_ + + +3.--TRAGEDY. + + The Murders in Rue Morgue _Poe_ + The Lauson Tragedy _DeForest_ + The Iron Shroud _Wm. Mudford_ + The Bell Tower _Herman Melville_ + The Kathayan Slave _Mrs. Judson_ + The Story of La Roche, _Henry Mackenzie_ + The Vision of Sudden Death _DeQuincey_ + + +4.--LIFE. + + Rab and his Friends _Dr. John Brown_ + A Romance of Real Life _W. D. Howells_ + The Luck of Roaring Camp _Bret Harte_ + Jerry Jarvis's Wig _R. H. Barham_ + Beauty and the Beast _Willis_ + David Swan _Hawthorne_ + Dreamthorp _Alexander Smith_ + A Bachelor's Reverie _D. G. Mitchell_ + The Grammar of Life _B. F. Taylor_ + My Chateaux _G. W. Curtis_ + Dream Children _Charles Lamb_ + The Man in the Reservoir _C. F. Hoffman_ + Westminster Abbey _Addison_ + The Puritans _Macaulay_ + Gettysburg _Abraham Lincoln_ + + +5.--LAUGHTER. + + A Christmas Carol _Dickens_ + The Haunted Crust _Katherine Saunders_ + A Dissertation upon Roast Pig _Lamb_ + The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things _Mrs. E. A. Walker_ + The Skeleton in the Closet _Hale_ + Sandy Wood's Sepulchre _Hugh Miller_ + A Visit to the Asylum for Decayed Punsters _Holmes_ + Mr. Tibbot O'Leary the Curious, _Gerald Griffin_ + Neal Malone _William Carleton_ + + +6.--LOVE. + + Love and Skates _Theodore Winthrop_ + The Maid of Malines _Bulwer_ + The Story of Ruth _From the Bible_ + The Rise of Iskander _Disraeli_ + + +7.--ROMANCE. + + Iris _Holmes_ + The Rosicrucian _Miss Mulock_ + The South Breaker, _Harriet Prescott Spofford_ + The Snow Storm _Christopher North_ + The King of the Peak, _Allan Cunningham_ + + +8.--MYSTERY. + + The Ghost _W. D. O'Connor_ + The Four-Fifteen Express, _Amelia B. Edwards_ + The Signal Man _Dickens_ + The Haunted Ship _Cunningham_ + A Raft that no Man Made, _Robt. T. S. Lowell_ + The Invisible Princess, _Francis O'Connor_ + The Advocate's Wedding Day, _Catherine Crowe_ + The Birthmark _Hawthorne_ + + +9.--COMEDY. + + Barney O'Reirdon, the Navigator _Lover_ + Hadad-Ben-Ahab, the Traveller _John Galt_ + Bluebeard's Ghost _Thackeray_ + The Picnic Party _Horace Smith_ + Father Tom and the Pope _Samuel Ferguson_ + John Darbyshire _William Howitt_ + The Gridiron _Lover_ + The Box Tunnel _Reade_ + + +10.--CHILDHOOD. + + A Dog of Flanders _Ouida_ + The King of the Golden River _Ruskin_ + The Lady of Shalott _Miss Phelps_ + Marjorie Fleming _John Brown_ + Little Jakey _Mrs. S. H. DeKroyft_ + The Lost Child _Henry Kingsley_ + Goody Gracious! and the Forget-me-Not _John Neal_ + A Faded Leaf of History, _Rebecca Harding Davis_ + A Child's Dream of a Star _Dickens_ + + +11.--HEROISM. + + Little Briggs and I _Fitz-Hugh Ludlow_ + Ray _Harriet Prescott Spofford_ + Three November Days _B. F. Taylor_ + The Forty-Seven Ronins _A. B. Mitford_ + A Chance Child _Isabella Mayo_ + A Leaf in the Storm _Ouida_ + + +12.--FORTUNE. + + The Gold Bug _Poe_ + The Fairy Finder _Lover_ + Murad the Unlucky _Maria Edgeworth_ + The Children of the Public _Hale_ + The Rival Dreamers _John Banim_ + The Three-fold Destiny _Hawthorne_ + + +13.--NARRATIVE POEMS. + + The Deserted Village _Goldsmith_ + The Ancient Mariner _Coleridge_ + The Prisoner of Chillon _Byron_ + Bingen on the Rhine _Mrs. Norton_ + O'Connor's Child _Campbell_ + Kilmeny _Hogg_ + The Dream of Eugene Aram _Hood_ + Lady Barbara _Alexander Smith_ + The Sensitive Plant _Shelley_ + The Eve of St. Agnes _Keats_ + Paradise and the Peri _Moore_ + The Raven _Poe_ + The Skeleton in Armor _Longfellow_ + The Haunted House _Hood_ + The Writing on the Image _Morris_ + Tam O'Shanter _Burns_ + The Forging of the Anchor _Samuel Ferguson_ + Morte D'Arthur _Tennyson_ + Horatius _Macaulay_ + + +14.--LYRICAL POEMS. + + Locksley Hall _Tennyson_ + My Lost Youth _Longfellow_ + Intimations of Immortality _Wordsworth_ + Ode to Happiness _Lowell_ + L'Allegro and Il Penseroso _Milton_ + Elegy in a Country Churchyard _Gray_ + The Bridge of Sighs _Hood_ + The Problem _Emerson_ + The Passions _Collins_ + The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee _Scott_ + At Port Royal _Whittier_ + How they brought the Good News + from Ghent to Aix _Browning_ + Ode on the Duke of Wellington _Tennyson_ + Commemoration Ode _Lowell_ + And many other Poems. + + +15.--MINOR POEMS. + + The Chambered Nautilus _Holmes_ + The Children's Hour _Longfellow_ + The Courtin' _Lowell_ + Evelyn Hope _Browning_ + Highland Mary _Burns_ + Kubla Khan _Coleridge_ + My Child _Pierpont_ + My Psalm _Whittier_ + Oh? 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Price, =.30= + + =Great Republic.=--A game. =1.25= + + =Two Hundred Object Puzzles,= =.50= + + =Webster's Dictionaries.= + Unabridged Quarto Pictorial =10.00= + National Pictorial =5.00= + Counting-House =3.50= + Academic =2.20= + High School =1.25= + Common School =.95= + Primary =.65= + Pocket Tuck =1.00= + +[Illustration] + + * * * * * + +[Illustration: Right index] Besides giving the above as premiums, we +offer them for sale, postpaid, at the prices named. + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes: + +The January edition of the Nursery had a table of contents for the first +six issues of the year. This table was divided to cover each specific +issue and the words "No. 1." were added to the title page. + +Obvious punctuation errors repaired. + +Premium Section, page 7, "Probl m" changed to "Problem" (The Problem) + +Page 7, "D light" changed to "Delight" (She was a Phantom of Delight) + +Page 10, word "of" inserted into text (of them on a very small) + +Page 10, the last number is missing on both Series No. 1 and Series No. +2. + +Page 15, "animals" changed to "animal" (which intelligent animal) + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, +No. 1, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, JANUARY 1877 *** + +***** This file should be named 28129.txt or 28129.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/1/2/28129/ + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. 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