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+Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, February 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 2, by Various
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+Title: The Nursery, February 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 2
+       A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28130]
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+THE
+
+NURSERY
+
+
+_A Monthly Magazine_
+
+FOR YOUNGEST READERS.
+
+VOLUME XXI.--No. 2.
+
+          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
+  "Christmas Presents made here"           33
+  My Dog Jack                              37
+  Bertie's Steamer                         40
+  A Story about Squirrels                  41
+  What a Little Boy in England says        42
+  First Lesson in Astronomy                46
+  Papa's Birthday Present                  47
+  Drawing-Lesson                           49
+  The Rescue                               50
+  The Young Sheep-Owner                    52
+  Emma's Choice                            55
+  Help one another                         57
+  Billy and the Pig                        61
+  Jocko, the Raven                         62
+
+
+IN VERSE.
+
+  The Petition of the Sparrows             35
+  Ensign Johnny                            39
+  The Froggies' Party                      45
+  The Faithless Friend                     59
+  Chipperee Chip (_with music_)            64
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "CHRISTMAS PRESENTS MADE HERE."
+
+VOL. XXI.--NO. 2.]
+
+
+
+
+"CHRISTMAS PRESENTS MADE HERE."
+
+
+[Illustration: A]BOUT a year ago, Edwin had a Christmas present of a
+jig-saw. If Santa Claus brought it, then Santa Claus did a good thing
+for himself; for last Christmas his pack was loaded down with presents
+of Edwin's manufacture.
+
+Nice little brackets to set up against the wall, nice little bedsteads,
+book-shelves, toy-houses, frames for pictures, card-baskets,--these are
+but a few of the great variety of things that Edwin makes with his
+jig-saw.
+
+Many little articles he gives away, for he is a generous boy: but he
+wants books, and his mother cannot always afford to buy him the books he
+wants; for she has two children, besides himself, to provide for.
+
+So one day when Mr. Topliff, who keeps a great toy-shop, said to Edwin,
+"I'll pay you well for as many of these toy-houses as you can make,"
+Edwin replied, "I'll go to work just as soon as I have finished this
+bracket; for a little money is just what I want."
+
+Edwin had by practice learned to use his saw with great skill, and he
+took pains always to do his work well. Gradually he learned to do the
+finer sort of cabinet-work; and then he puzzled his wits to invent new
+varieties of toys, and other things often sought for as Christmas
+presents.
+
+Mr. Topliff said, "You can earn a living by this kind of work, if you
+choose, Edwin." But no! Edwin had made up his mind to go to college; and
+so he replied, "If I can pay my college expenses by working at odd
+hours, Mr. Topliff, I mean to do it--and I think I can."
+
+"So do I," said Mr. Topliff. "You've got the knack. Well, my lad, don't
+forget the firm of Topliff & Co. Bring us all your pretty things."
+
+                                                UNCLE CHARLES.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE PETITION OF THE SPARROWS.
+
+
+          NOW girls and boys of Chester Square,
+          Pray give us of your meals a share.
+          Just have the kindness to remember
+          That this is chilly, bleak December;
+          That snow has covered long the ground
+          Till really nothing's to be found:
+          So throw us out a crumb or two,
+          And, as you would be done by, do.
+
+          In those snug little cottages
+          That you have placed among the trees,
+          We all were hatched, and so, you see,
+          Are members of the family.
+          Hunger and frost are hard to bear:
+          So, girls and boys of Chester Square,
+          Just throw us out a crumb or two,
+          And, as you would be done by, do.
+
+          We know bad things of us are told:
+          They call us English upstarts bold;
+          Say we drive off the snow-birds dear,
+          And fight the Yankee sparrows here;
+          That we make havoc in the spring
+          With all the sweet-pea's blossoming:
+          Still throw us out a crumb or two,
+          And, as you would be done by, do.
+
+          We're not as bad as they declare,
+          O girls and boys of Chester Square!
+          Be sure some little good we do,
+          Even though we pilfer buds a few.
+          Don't grudge them, since your trees we clear
+          Of vermin that would cost you dear:
+          So throw us out a crumb or two,
+          And, as you would be done by, do.
+
+          Dear girls and boys of Chester Square,
+          We, too, partake the Father's care;
+          And to your kindly hearts he sends
+          The impulse that our race befriends:
+          We know that you, while Winter reigns,
+          For our relief will take some pains;
+          Will throw us out a crumb or two,
+          And, as you would be done by, do.
+
+                                                 EMILY CARTER.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+MY DOG JACK.
+
+
+I WANT to tell the readers of "The Nursery" about my dog. My mamma
+bought him for me when he was very young. He is a Newfoundland dog, and
+is very large. He is black, with a white face and neck. His name is
+Jack.
+
+Jack is very useful in keeping tramps out of our orchard, and is also
+very kind and playful. I do not like to play with him; for he is so
+rough, that he sometimes tumbles me over, and hurts me: but I have a
+good time with him in other ways.
+
+He draws me about in a little cart into which I harness him. He minds a
+pull on the reins, and will go just as I wish him to. But he will insist
+on chasing pigs whenever he sees them. He does not like pigs.
+
+One day, when I was harnessing him, he spied a pig, and away he ran
+after it--cart and all. He broke one wheel of the cart, and came back
+panting and wagging his tail, as if he had done something good; but I
+scolded him well.
+
+Jack will sit on his hind-legs, and catch bits of bread or cake in his
+mouth when I throw them to him. One summer, we went to the seashore, and
+took him with us. He is a splendid swimmer; and when we took a stick,
+and threw it into the water, he would plunge through the waves, and
+bring it back in his mouth.
+
+Sometimes an old fisherman took me out sailing, and as there was not
+room in the boat for Jack, the good old dog would lie on the wharf and
+wait patiently till I came back. When he saw the boat coming in, he
+would jump up and bark in great delight; and one day he leaped into the
+water, and swam out to meet us.
+
+Once my cousin and I were sitting in a cleft in the rocks, gathering
+shells and pebbles, when a great black creature jumped right over our
+heads. We were much frightened, but soon found that it was only our good
+friend Jack. He had seen us from the top of the rock, and had jumped
+down full fifteen feet to get to us.
+
+                                                   PAUL EATON.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ENSIGN JOHNNY.
+
+
+          THIS is Ensign Johnny:
+            See him armed for fight!
+          Mice are in the garret;
+            Forth he goes to smite.
+          Ready for the battle,
+            He is not afraid;
+          For the cat, as captain,
+            Will be by to aid.
+
+          Now, good-by, my Johnny!
+            Soldiers must be brave:
+          While puss does the fighting,
+            You the flag can wave.
+          Do not, like a coward,
+            From the field retreat:
+          Forward, Ensign Johnny,
+            And the mice defeat!
+
+                                                      IDA FAY.
+
+
+
+
+BERTIE'S STEAMER.
+
+BERTIE has taken much pleasure in hearing me read about the different
+ways in which the little "Nursery" people amuse themselves. He is very
+anxious that they should, in return, know about the steamboat which his
+uncle brought him from the Centennial,--a _real_ little steamboat.
+
+It is nearly a foot long, made of brass, with a "truly" boiler, as
+Bertie says, and a little alcohol lamp to convert the water in the
+boiler into steam.
+
+The older folks were as much interested in its trial trip as Bertie. The
+biggest tub was brought up, and half filled with water. The little
+boiler was also filled, and the lamp lighted; and we all waited
+patiently for the steam to start the little wheel. A stick was put
+across the tub, and a string fastened from its centre to the end of the
+steamer, to keep it from running against the side of the tub. The rudder
+was turned to guide the boat in a circle, and soon the steamer started.
+
+But it did not run easily. Could it be that it would prove a failure?
+Bertie's face began to put on a disappointed look.
+
+"Can't Uncle Nelson fix it?" said he. "Uncle Nelson can do most any
+thing."
+
+So Uncle Nelson took the delicate machinery apart, and found some
+particles of dirt, which prevented the piston from working smoothly.
+Then he cleaned and oiled it, put it together again, and once more it
+started. This time it was a complete success. How Bertie clapped his
+hands, as the steam hissed, and the boat went round and round, as if it
+were alive!
+
+It was half an hour before the water in the little boiler gave out.
+
+                                               BERTIE'S MAMMA.
+
+
+
+
+A STORY ABOUT SQUIRRELS.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+FREDDIE is a bright little boy six years old. He goes with his papa and
+mamma every summer to stay a few months at a nice place in the country.
+In front of the house, near the fence, stands a large elm-tree, which is
+the home of many little squirrels.
+
+
+One day Freddie got his papa to build him a small shelf on the tree,
+about four feet from the ground, so that he could put nuts on it to feed
+the squirrels. At first the little fellows were very shy, and would not
+come near the shelf, but sat on the branches of the tree; and we fancied
+that we heard them saying to each other, "Do you think that little boy
+would hurt us, if we should run down, and take one of those nuts?"
+
+But, after a while, they came down, one by one, took the nuts, and went
+scampering up to the top branches; and in a few minutes down came the
+empty shells. They grew so tame before the summer was over, that if we
+put any thing on their shelf, and took a seat a few steps away, they
+would come down quite boldly, and get their breakfast.
+
+One day we put a small ear of sweet-corn on the shelf. Pretty soon a
+little squirrel came after it; but it was too heavy for him: so he sat
+down on the shelf, as though quite at home, ate off about half of the
+kernels of corn, to make his burden lighter, and, after trying many
+times, finally got it up to his hiding-place. Presently we saw all the
+squirrels running to that part of the tree, and we thought he might be
+having a squirrel-party in his best parlor.
+
+There was a large pond not very far away; and we often saw the squirrels
+go from tree to tree, jump a fence here and there, and run down behind a
+stone wall to the pond to get a drink, and then run home again. If they
+had only known as much as some squirrels we read about, what a nice sail
+they might have had by jumping on a piece of wood, and putting their
+bushy tails up in the air for a sail! Wouldn't it look funny to see a
+squirrel yacht-race?
+
+As we sit in our warm rooms this cold weather, we often wonder what the
+little fellows are doing, and if they are eating any of the nuts they
+stored away last summer.
+
+                                               FREDDIE'S PAPA.
+
+
+
+
+WHAT A LITTLE BOY IN ENGLAND SAYS.
+
+
+MY grandfather and grandmother live in the country. Everybody in their
+house is very fond of birds, and very thoughtful for the comfort of all
+dumb creatures.
+
+Among the birds that flock about grandfather's house are the bright
+little tom-tits. They fly very quickly, and look very pretty, darting in
+and out of a tall evergreen-tree that grows in front of the dining-room
+window.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In winter, my Aunt Emily has a pole, about four feet high, stuck in the
+ground near this tree. Across the top of the pole, a light bamboo stick
+is fastened, not quite as long as the pole is high. On strings tied at
+the ends of the bamboo stick, netted bags, filled with fat or suet, are
+hung.
+
+Now, tom-tits are, I think, the only birds in England that can cling to
+a thing with their heads hanging down; and they are very fond of fat. So
+they come to aunty's bags, cling to them as they sway to and fro in the
+wind, and eat to their little hearts' content. We watch them from the
+windows, and see what is going on.
+
+Sometimes other birds try very hard to get a share of the feast,
+particularly when the weather is very cold, and they cannot find much
+else. Then they will stand on the ground, looking at the bags, and now
+and then make an awkward spring at them, sometimes snatching a piece of
+suet, but generally failing to reach it.
+
+A tiny robin (an English robin is not at all like an American one) has
+practised so much, this cold weather, that he can not only get a taste
+of the suet by darting at it, but, better still, will sit on the top of
+the bag, and get at it in that way. But he seems very much afraid of
+falling off, and I think the tom-tits would laugh at him: perhaps they
+do, in bird fashion.
+
+When they cling, they do not mind where it is, and often seem to take
+the very bottom of the bag by choice, and hang there, with their heads
+down, so long, that it seems as though they would surely get the
+headache.
+
+I have often seen two, and sometimes three birds on a bag at a time.
+
+                                                         H. B.
+  BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.
+
+[Illustration: OFF IN A HURRY.]
+
+
+
+
+THE FROGGIES' PARTY.
+
+
+          THE frog who would a-wooing go
+          Gave a party, you must know;
+          And his bride, dressed all in green,
+          Looked as fine as any queen.
+          Their reception numbered some
+          Of the best in Froggiedom.
+          Four gay froggies played the fiddle,--
+          Hands all round, and down the middle.
+
+          In the room were stern old croakers,
+          Yellow vests and snow-white chokers.
+          Froggie belles with rush-leaf fans,
+          Froggie beaux in green brogans,
+          Flirted in the bowers there,
+          Hidden from the ball-room's glare.
+          Three old froggies tried a reel,--
+          Twist 'em, turn 'em, toe and heel.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+          One young miss was asked to sing;
+          But she had a cold that spring.
+          Little frogs were sound asleep,
+          Late hours--bad for them to keep.
+          Each one wished the couple joy;
+          No bad boys came to annoy.
+          This next fall,--the news is spreading,--
+          They will have their silver-wedding!
+
+                                                GEORGE COOPER.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE FIRMAMENT SHEWETH HIS HANDYWORK]
+
+
+
+
+FIRST LESSON IN ASTRONOMY.
+
+          "Twinkle, twinkle, little star:
+          How I wonder what you are,
+          Up above the world so high,
+          Like a diamond in the sky!"
+
+
+I AM going to tell all the wondering children just what that little star
+is, and I want them to go to the window this minute, and take a good
+look at it.
+
+Have you been? And was it "up above the world so high"? Some of you are
+laughing at me, perhaps, because it is broad daylight, when stars do not
+show themselves. But do not laugh yet. If the sun is out, you can
+certainly see a star.
+
+To be sure you cannot take a good look at it, it is so bright; but there
+it is,--the star that gives us light and heat,--the sun himself. Now,
+were you ever told before, that the sun is a star, just like the little
+diamonds you see in the sky before you go to bed?
+
+Why shouldn't it look like a star then? Because it is not "up above the
+world so high" as all the rest of the stars are. It is near enough to us
+to keep us warm, and make every thing grow.
+
+But what is more wonderful than that our sun is a star, is, that all the
+stars are suns. They keep the worlds that are near them warm and bright,
+just as our sun does this world. They are great globes of fire that
+never go out.
+
+Some are red fire, some are blue, some yellow, and some white, like
+ours. How should you like to have it all red, or blue, or green, out
+doors, instead of white? It would seem a good deal like fireworks to us,
+I think.
+
+Now look out of the window again, and try to pick out a red star. I know
+one you can all see before you go to bed, unless you are too sleepy to
+see any thing. It is nearly overhead about supper-time. If you find it,
+write a little letter to "The Nursery," and tell me.
+
+                                                      M. E. R.
+
+
+
+
+PAPA'S BIRTHDAY PRESENT.
+
+
+HARRY is a little boy six years old. He always wants to be doing
+something; and many funny pictures he makes, both on his slate and with
+a lead pencil on paper. Mamma saves all the blank pieces of paper she
+can to give him. When he is tired of pictures, he plays with his
+blocks, and makes boats, and cars and bridges, and towers and churches.
+
+Harry lives on the west bank of the Mississippi River, where there is a
+bridge right in sight from his home. He often watches the cars go across
+the bridge, and the boats go through the draw. He is an observing little
+fellow, and he notices that just before the cars get to the bridge they
+stop, and then go over very slowly. Then they start up faster and
+faster; and soon the bridge is left behind, and the cars are out of
+sight.
+
+The cars always have to wait for the boats to go through the bridge; and
+Harry thinks that is too bad; for the cars would not keep the boats
+waiting half as long as the boats keep them. So mamma tells him that the
+river was there first, and the boats have the first right.
+
+But about the present. There had been a week of rain; but papa's
+birthday was pleasant, and Harry was glad to get out of doors. He ran
+till he was tired, and then, as he sat down to rest, he thought he would
+get some clay, and make something to show mamma.
+
+So he began. First he made a round ball like a marble, then a larger
+ball; then he put them together, and thought, "I will make a man, and
+this little ball shall be his head." He put a stick in to hold the head
+to the body, and put clay around the stick, and that made the neck. Then
+he made a long piece for the legs, and cut out between them with a knife
+to form two. Then he made the arms, and joined them to the body.
+
+He was very much pleased with his work so far; but to complete it was
+the most fun. He got little stones, and stuck them into the clay for
+eyes, nose, and buttons; made a cut for the mouth; and, for a
+head-dress, made use of the green spikes from a pine-tree. This made
+the figure look so much like an Indian, that Harry danced with joy.
+
+Then he took it to mamma, who was so pleased that she told him to put it
+on papa's study-table to dry, and said that it would do for papa's
+birthday present.
+
+Papa thinks so much of it, that he has locked it up in his curiosity
+cabinet. This is a true story.
+
+                                                  COUSIN VIDA.
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DRAWING-LESSON BY HARRISON WEIR.
+
+VOL. XXI.--NO. 2.]
+
+
+
+
+THE RESCUE.
+
+
+JANE is a bright little girl, about six years old, who lives not far
+from a wharf in a seaport town, where her father is employed in a junk
+store. She has an elder sister named Susan, a baby-brother named
+Charlie, and a doll named Anna Maria.
+
+One pleasant summer day Susan took the baby in her arms, Jane took Anna
+Maria in her arms, and all together, and all bareheaded, they took a
+stroll down the wharf. It was not a safe place for young children; and
+Susan ought to have known better than to take them there.
+
+They wandered about, enjoying the cool sea-air, and pretty soon stood on
+the very edge of the wharf, looking down into the water. Just then, by
+some accident (I don't know exactly how it happened), Anna Maria slipped
+out of Jane's arms, and fell overboard.
+
+Well, this was not so bad as if Jane herself had fallen over; but it was
+almost as bad to poor Jane. She burst into tears, and raised a cry of
+distress. There was her dear little Anna Maria in the water, beyond her
+reach, and she could do nothing to save her.
+
+Now there happened to be a smart boy, named Tom Williams, not far off.
+He heard Jane's outcry, and came running down the wharf to see what was
+the matter; and another bright boy, named Sam Brown, came with him. The
+two saw what the trouble was in a moment.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They lay down on the wharf, and tried to reach Anna Maria. But it was of
+no use. Their arms were not long enough. Poor Jane's heart sank within
+her. She cried and sobbed, and was in more distress than ever.
+
+"Don't cry," said Tom. "Crying's of no use. Wait a minute: I know how to
+do it." And off he ran into the old junk shop. In a moment he came back,
+bringing a pair of tongs. "Now I'll show you!" said he. Down he lay
+again, with his bare feet sticking up, as you see in the picture,
+reached over the side of the wharf, took Anna Maria in the tongs, just
+as she was near floating under the wharf, and placed her, all wet and
+dripping, in Jane's arms.
+
+How happy the little girl was to get her darling safe back again! And
+how thankful she was to Tom, for coming to the rescue so bravely! Anna
+Maria soon got over the effects of her bath: she did not even catch
+cold.
+
+But I hope that both Jane and Susan will learn a lesson from her mishap,
+and not go so near the edge of the wharf another time.
+
+                                                    UNCLE SAM.
+
+
+
+
+THE YOUNG SHEEP-OWNER.
+
+
+SEVERAL years ago, on the Island of Nantucket, lived a little boy named
+Frank Simmons. His grandfather, with whom he was a great favorite, owned
+about two hundred sheep. Many other persons on the island owned sheep at
+that time; and there was a broad plain of open ground, over which all
+the flocks roamed in common.
+
+Every year, in the month of June, all the sheep were driven into a large
+enclosure near a pond, in which they were washed until their wool was
+white and clean. This was the preparation for shearing, or taking off
+their heavy coats of wool.
+
+Each separate flock was marked by a little cut made in the ears. The
+ears of one flock, for instance, were clipped at the ends; of another,
+notched at the sides; of another, marked by a slit.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+This last was the mark which Frank looked for when he went with his
+grandfather to catch his sheep. Frank thought it was cruel to cut the
+ears so; but, when his grandfather told him it was the only way by which
+each owner could know his own sheep, he was satisfied.
+
+Whenever he caught one, he would lead it along to his grandfather's pen,
+where a man was waiting to take it on his back, and carry it into the
+pond. After being washed, the sheep were left to find their own way to
+the shore, which they did very quickly.
+
+It took two days to wash all the sheep on the island. The washing was
+finished on Saturday. The sheep were allowed to rest and dry themselves
+on Sunday; and on Monday morning, bright and early, Frank was ready to
+start with his grandfather to catch the sheep for the shearing.
+
+The shearing occupied two days more; and, after their heavy coats were
+off, the sheep would feel so smart, that they would frisk about like
+young lambs; and some of them would jump five or six feet up in the air.
+
+During all this time, their poor little lambs had been kept apart by
+themselves. They must have felt lonely enough without their mothers;
+but, as soon as the shearing was over, all the sheep and lambs were set
+at liberty. Such a bleating and baa-ing as there was! The sheep ran
+round for the lambs, and the lambs for their mothers; and away they
+skipped over the plains like children at play.
+
+Frank had made himself so useful in catching the sheep, that his
+grandfather gave him two sheep and two lambs as a reward, and put a new
+mark on them for him. So Frank became a young sheep-owner, and, the next
+year, had his own sheep to catch.
+
+                                                   CARTWRIGHT.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+EMMA'S CHOICE.
+
+
+THREE young children, Emma, Charles, and Arthur Payson, had been left to
+the care of their old grandfather, through the death of their parents.
+
+Grandpa Payson was not rich: he was a day-laborer, and had to work hard
+for the support of a family, which would have been large enough without
+the addition of three hungry little ones.
+
+But grandpa's heart was large enough to take them all in; and they
+proved such good and lovable children, that he soon became very much
+attached to them.
+
+Little Emma was his especial favorite; and one December day he said to
+her, "What shall I get you, darling, for a Christmas present? A nice
+pair of shoes would be just the thing, I'm thinking."
+
+"Oh, no, grandpa! Give me a book--a book with pictures in it: that will
+be better than new shoes. By going barefoot, I can make my old shoes
+last me a year longer."
+
+Well, in the shop where Grandpa Payson bought a beautiful bound copy of
+"The Nursery" for his darling, he happened to mention to the shopkeeper
+the fact that Emma had preferred a new book to a new pair of shoes.
+
+An old lady who stood near could not help hearing the conversation. That
+evening, while Grandpa Payson, Emma, and the two boys, were gathered
+around the table, feasting their eyes on the new book, there was a knock
+at the door, and a package was left, directed to "Miss Emma Payson."
+
+"Dear me! What can it be? I never had a package left for me before in
+all my life," cried Emma.
+
+She opened the package, and there found several pairs of shoes, and a
+note, telling her to select two pairs that would fit her, and to send
+the rest to the shopkeeper.
+
+In the note the old lady wrote: "You must not only fill your head with
+knowledge, but keep your feet warm, if you would preserve your health.
+If your brothers will go to Mr. Lane's to-morrow, he will fit them both
+to new shoes, a gift from me. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to
+you all!"
+
+                                                      IDA FAY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+HELP ONE ANOTHER.
+
+
+ONE day, passing through a meadow, I saw a sheep much troubled by flies.
+Presently I saw it walk to a small pond where there were some young
+ducks, and stand there quietly. Soon the ducks took notice of the flies,
+and, coming out from the water, began snapping them up, as if to punish
+them for worrying the poor sheep.
+
+By and by a starling, from a tree near by, flew down, lighted on the
+sheep's back, and helped in the good work of ridding her of the flies.
+
+This, thought I, is a clear case of putting into practice the golden
+rule of "Help one another." Perhaps you will say, that the ducks and the
+starling wanted to make a meal of the flies; but I like to think that
+some less selfish motive was mingled with their work.
+
+                                                ALFRED SELWYN.
+
+
+
+
+THE FAITHLESS FRIEND.
+
+          MY little lamb, in early spring,
+          Was but a timid, weakly thing:
+          His old sheep-mother did not own him:
+          He would, no doubt, have soon been dead,
+          If I had not some pity shown him,
+          And seen that he was warmed and fed.
+          I was the only friend he knew,
+          And fond of him each day I grew;
+          And, as I stroked his woolly head,
+          "Wherever you may be,
+          I know, my little lamb," I said,
+          "You will remember me."
+
+          But, when the fields grew green in May,
+          They sent my little pet away
+          To pasture, where the brooks were flowing
+          Through yellow beds of cowslip flowers,
+          Where purple violets were growing,
+          And scented blossoms fell in showers
+          From off the shading chestnut-trees,
+          And daisies nodded in the breeze:
+          And many mates my lambkin found,
+          As young and gay as he,
+          And all day long they frisked around
+          And gambolled full of glee.
+
+          But when the robin-redbreasts flew,
+          And loud and shrill the north-winds blew,
+          Back from the pastures hard and frozen,
+          Through winter in the barn to keep,
+          The little lamb that I had chosen
+          They brought with all the other sheep;
+          And, oh! how glad my face to see,
+          I thought, my pretty pet will be!
+          But when to meet him I went out,
+          And tried to coax and call,
+          He drew away, and turned about,
+          And would not come at all.
+
+          With his white fleece and playful ways,
+          My lamb now all about me praise;
+          But dearer far to me the sickly,
+          Poor, shivering thing he used to be;
+          When to my call he came so quickly
+          I thought that he was fond of me!
+          But if I pet him now, I know
+          He'll take my gifts, and off he'll go;
+          For I, to my regret, have found
+          I can no more depend
+          On one who will go frisking round,
+          And quite forget a friend.
+
+                                               MARIAN DOUGLAS.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+BILLY AND THE PIG.
+
+
+HERE is another story about my father's wise old horse, Billy.
+
+One day, when my father wished to go away to the mill, he sent my
+brother Robert down to the pasture to catch Billy. Robert brought the
+horse up to the house, tied him to the fence in the backyard, and gave
+him some oats in a pail.
+
+In a pen back of the house we kept three pigs: two of them were white;
+and the other was spotted,--black and white. These pigs had got out of
+the pen by pushing off a board from one side of it.
+
+Soon after Billy began to eat his dinner, the two white pigs came
+running through the yard. They saw Billy eating his oats; and, thinking
+it would be nice for them to have some as well as he, they ran up to his
+pail, and without as much as saying, "By your leave," began to help
+themselves.
+
+Billy had no idea of sharing his dinner with such company as this: so he
+lopped back his ears, looked as cross as he possibly could, snapped at
+the pigs fiercely with his teeth, raised his hind-feet from the ground,
+as if to kick them, and at last succeeded in frightening them away.
+
+Scarcely had they left the yard, however, before the spotted pig got his
+eye upon the pail of oats; and he at once ran for it with all his might.
+
+Billy tried to scare him as he had the others; but Spotty was not so
+easily frightened. He took no notice of any thing but the oats.
+
+Finding that threats were of no use, Billy seized him by the back of the
+neck, raised him about two feet from the ground, shook him a little, and
+then let him drop.
+
+Spotty was satisfied. He lost his appetite for oats, and ran squealing
+out of the yard.
+
+                                                 EDITH'S PAPA.
+
+
+
+
+JOCKO, THE RAVEN.
+
+
+THE raven is a sly bird, and has not many friends. He will steal from
+you, if he can. He can crow like a cock, mew like a cat, and bark like a
+dog; and sometimes he will imitate the sound of the rattle with which
+the farmer tries to frighten him away from the corn.
+
+The raven, like the parrot, can learn to talk a little. He is even
+capable of learning a little Latin. Dr. J. Franklin's raven, which was
+named Jocko, pronounced the word _aqua_ (water) distinctly; but he much
+preferred wine to water. Sad to say, Jocko was a toper.
+
+"One day," says the doctor, "my housekeeper placed a glass of red wine
+on the table: in an instant the bird plunged in his beak, and began
+sucking up the wine, drop by drop. The housekeeper, fearing he would
+break the glass, took it away; but at this Jocko was very angry, and
+tried to peck at her face.
+
+"If three glasses are placed on the table,--one of water, another of
+beer, and the third of wine,--Jocko will leave the first two, and will
+pay his respects only to the glass of wine."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The raven has a strong memory, great prudence, and some capacity for
+reasoning. The keen watchfulness with which he will regard a man armed
+with a gun has often been noticed.
+
+A traveller in the arctic regions relates that he once saw some ravens
+outwit a dog. While the dog was at his dinner, they would make him
+angry, and entice him away in pursuit of them; and, when they had led
+him some distance, they would fly quickly back, and snatch up the best
+bones, before he could prevent it.
+
+That was hardly honest, was it? The raven, you see, does not set a good
+example. He drinks wine, he fights, and he steals. But I suppose he
+knows no better, and has not been taught, like you and me, that to do
+such things is very wrong.
+
+                                                ALFRED SELWYN.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: Music]
+
+
+
+
+CHIPPEREE, CHIP.
+
+  Words by G. COOPER.         Music by T. CRAMPTON.
+
+
+1.
+
+          I once knew a couple that liv'd in a wood,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+          And up in a tree-top their dwelling it stood,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+          The summer it came and the summer it went,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+          And there they lived on though they never paid rent,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+
+2.
+
+          When winter came on with its frost and its snow,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+          They cared not a bit when they heard the wind blow,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+          For wrapp'd in their feathers they lay down to sleep,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+          But oh, in the spring, how their bright eyes did peep,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+
+3.
+
+          Their parlor was lined with the softest of wool,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+          Their kitchen was warm and their pantry was full,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+          And four little babies peep'd out at the sky,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+          You never saw darlings so pretty and shy,--
+          Chipperee, chipperee, chip!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+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. A title page copied from the January edition was also used for
+this number.
+
+
+
+
+
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