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No. 2, 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, February 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 2 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28130] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, FEBRUARY 1877 *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music +by Linda Cantoni. + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<h3>THE</h3> + +<h1>NURSERY</h1> + +<h2><i>A Monthly Magazine</i></h2> + +<h2><span class="smcap">For Youngest Readers.</span></h2> + +<div class='center'>VOLUME XXI.—No. 2.<br /> + +<br /><br /> +BOSTON:<br /> +JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET,<br /> +1877.<br /> +</div> + +<div class='copyright'><br /><br /><br /> +Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by<br /> +JOHN L. SHOREY,<br /> +In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.<br /> +<br /><br /><br /> +FRANKLIN PRESS:<br /> +RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY,<br /> +117 FRANKLIN STREET,<br /> +BOSTON.<br /></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/contents.png" width="400" height="210" alt="Contents" title="" /> +</div> + + +<h3>IN PROSE.</h3> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='right'><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>"Christmas Presents made here"</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>My Dog Jack</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bertie's Steamer</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A Story about Squirrels</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>What a Little Boy in England says</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>First Lesson in Astronomy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Papa's Birthday Present</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Drawing-Lesson</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_49">49</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Rescue</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Young Sheep-Owner</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Emma's Choice</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_55">55</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Help one another</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Billy and the Pig</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jocko, the Raven</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<h3><br />IN VERSE.</h3> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Verse Contents"> +<tr><td align='left'>The Petition of the Sparrows</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ensign Johnny</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Froggies' Party</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_45">45</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Faithless Friend</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chipperee Chip (<i>with music</i>)</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/contents_end.png" width="200" height="139" alt="Decoration" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/illus033.jpg" width="350" height="500" alt=""CHRISTMAS PRESENTS MADE HERE."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"CHRISTMAS PRESENTS MADE HERE."</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span></p> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>"CHRISTMAS PRESENTS MADE HERE."</h2> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 123px;"> +<img src="images/illus034.png" width="123" height="125" alt="A" title="" /> +</div><div class='unindent'><br />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.</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Uncle Charles.</span><br /></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus035.png" width="500" height="407" alt="The Petition of the Sparrows" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<h2>THE PETITION OF THE SPARROWS.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">Now</span> girls and boys of Chester Square,<br /> +Pray give us of your meals a share.<br /> +Just have the kindness to remember<br /> +That this is chilly, bleak December;<br /> +That snow has covered long the ground<br /> +Till really nothing's to be found:<br /> +So throw us out a crumb or two,<br /> +And, as you would be done by, do.<br /> +<br /> +In those snug little cottages<br /> +That you have placed among the trees,<br /> +We all were hatched, and so, you see,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>Are members of the family.<br /> +Hunger and frost are hard to bear:<br /> +So, girls and boys of Chester Square,<br /> +Just throw us out a crumb or two,<br /> +And, as you would be done by, do.<br /> +<br /> +We know bad things of us are told:<br /> +They call us English upstarts bold;<br /> +Say we drive off the snow-birds dear,<br /> +And fight the Yankee sparrows here;<br /> +That we make havoc in the spring<br /> +With all the sweet-pea's blossoming:<br /> +Still throw us out a crumb or two,<br /> +And, as you would be done by, do.<br /> +<br /> +We're not as bad as they declare,<br /> +O girls and boys of Chester Square!<br /> +Be sure some little good we do,<br /> +Even though we pilfer buds a few.<br /> +Don't grudge them, since your trees we clear<br /> +Of vermin that would cost you dear:<br /> +So throw us out a crumb or two,<br /> +And, as you would be done by, do.<br /> +<br /> +Dear girls and boys of Chester Square,<br /> +We, too, partake the Father's care;<br /> +And to your kindly hearts he sends<br /> +The impulse that our race befriends:<br /> +We know that you, while Winter reigns,<br /> +For our relief will take some pains;<br /> +Will throw us out a crumb or two,<br /> +And, as you would be done by, do.<br /> +And, as you would be done by, do.<br /> +<br /></div> +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Emily Carter.</span><br /></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 303px;"> +<img src="images/illus037.png" width="303" height="400" alt="Jack" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>MY DOG JACK.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">I want</span> 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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Paul Eaton.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 203px;"> +<img src="images/illus039.png" width="203" height="300" alt="Ensgin Johnny" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>ENSIGN JOHNNY.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">This</span> is Ensign Johnny:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">See him armed for fight!</span><br /> +Mice are in the garret;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Forth he goes to smite.</span><br /> +Ready for the battle,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He is not afraid;</span><br /> +For the cat, as captain,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Will be by to aid.</span><br /> +<br /> +Now, good-by, my Johnny!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Soldiers must be brave:</span><br /> +While puss does the fighting,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">You the flag can wave.</span><br /> +Do not, like a coward,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From the field retreat:</span><br /> +Forward, Ensign Johnny,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the mice defeat!</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Ida Fay.</span><br /></div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p> + +<h2>BERTIE'S STEAMER.</h2> + +<p><span class="smcap">Bertie</span> 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 <i>real</i> little steamboat.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Can't Uncle Nelson fix it?" said he. "Uncle Nelson +can do most any thing."</p> + +<p>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!</p> + +<p>It was half an hour before the water in the little boiler +gave out.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Bertie's Mamma.</span><br /></div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p> + +<h2>A STORY ABOUT SQUIRRELS.</h2> + + +<div class="figright" style="width: 203px;"> +<img src="images/illus041.png" width="203" height="500" alt="Squirrels" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Freddie</span> 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.</p> + + +<p>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?"</p> + +<p>But, after a while, they +came down, one by one, +took the nuts, and went<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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?</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Freddie's Papa.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>WHAT A LITTLE BOY IN ENGLAND SAYS.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">My</span> 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.</p> + +<p>Among the birds that flock about grandfather's house are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 232px;"> +<img src="images/illus043.png" width="232" height="300" alt="Tom-tits" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>I have often seen two, and sometimes three birds on a +bag at a time.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +H. B.<br /></div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Birmingham, England.</span><br /></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus044.png" width="400" height="203" alt="OFF IN A HURRY." title="" /> +<span class="caption">OFF IN A HURRY.</span> +</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p> + +<h2>THE FROGGIES' PARTY.</h2> +<div class='center'> <table class="froggie" summary="The Froggies' Party"> +<tr><td align='left'><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> + +<div class='poem2'> +<span class="smcap">The</span> frog who would a-wooing go<br /> +Gave a party, you must know;<br /> +And his bride, dressed all in green,<br /> +Looked as fine as any queen.<br /> +Their reception numbered some<br /> +Of the best in Froggiedom.<br /> +Four gay froggies played the fiddle,—<br /> +Hands all round, and down the middle.<br /> +<br /> +In the room were stern old croakers,<br /> +Yellow vests and snow-white chokers.<br /> +Froggie belles with rush-leaf fans,<br /> +Froggie beaux in green brogans,<br /> +Flirted in the bowers there,<br /> +Hidden from the ball-room's glare.<br /> +Three old froggies tried a reel,—<br /> +Twist 'em, turn 'em, toe and heel.<br /> +</div> +<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td> +</tr></table></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span></p> + +<div class='poem'> +<br /> +One young miss was asked to sing;<br /> +But she had a cold that spring.<br /> +Little frogs were sound asleep,<br /> +Late hours—bad for them to keep.<br /> +Each one wished the couple joy;<br /> +No bad boys came to annoy.<br /> +This next fall,—the news is spreading,—<br /> +They will have their silver-wedding!<br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">George Cooper.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus046.png" width="500" height="187" alt="THE FIRMAMENT SHEWETH HIS HANDYWORK" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>FIRST LESSON IN ASTRONOMY.</h2> + +<div class='poem'> +"Twinkle, twinkle, little star:<br /> +How I wonder what you are,<br /> +Up above the world so high,<br /> +Like a diamond in the sky!"<br /> +</div> + + +<p><span class="smcap">I am</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span> +But do not laugh yet. If the sun is out, you can certainly +see a star.</p> + +<p>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?</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">M. E. R.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>PAPA'S BIRTHDAY PRESENT.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Harry</span> 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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> +When he is tired of pictures, he plays with his blocks, +and makes boats, and cars and bridges, and towers and +churches.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span> +green spikes from a pine-tree. This made the figure look +so much like an Indian, that Harry danced with joy.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Papa thinks so much of it, that he has locked it up in +his curiosity cabinet. This is a true story.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Cousin Vida.</span><br /> +</div> + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 345px;"> +<img src="images/illus049.png" width="345" height="500" alt="DRAWING-LESSON BY HARRISON WEIR." title="" /> +<span class="caption">DRAWING-LESSON BY HARRISON WEIR.</span> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>THE RESCUE.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Jane</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Now there happened to be a smart boy, named Tom<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 319px;"> +<img src="images/illus051.png" width="319" height="400" alt="The rescue" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>They lay down on the wharf, and tried to reach Anna +Maria. But it was of no use. Their arms were not long<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> +enough. Poor Jane's heart sank within her. She cried and +sobbed, and was in more distress than ever.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Uncle Sam.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>THE YOUNG SHEEP-OWNER.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Several</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus053.png" width="500" height="344" alt="The pond" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>It took two days to wash all the sheep on the island. +The washing was finished on Saturday. The sheep were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Cartwright.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus054.png" width="400" height="328" alt="The sheep" title="" /> +</div><div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 229px;"> +<img src="images/illus055.png" width="229" height="300" alt="Emma's choice" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>EMMA'S CHOICE.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Three</span> young children, Emma, Charles, and Arthur Payson, +had been left to the care of their old grandfather, +through the death of their parents.</p> + +<p>Grandpa Payson was not rich: he was a day-laborer, and +had to work hard for the support of a family, which would<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span> +have been large enough without the addition of three +hungry little ones.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"Dear me! What can it be? I never had a package +left for me before in all my life," cried Emma.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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!"</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Ida Fay.</span><br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 383px;"> +<img src="images/illus057.png" width="383" height="400" alt="Help One Another" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>HELP ONE ANOTHER.</h2> + +<div class='story'> +<p><span class="smcap">One</span> 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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p></div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Alfred Selwyn</span>.<br /> +</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span></p> + +<h2>THE FAITHLESS FRIEND.</h2> + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">My</span> little lamb, in early spring,<br /> +Was but a timid, weakly thing:<br /> +His old sheep-mother did not own him:<br /> +He would, no doubt, have soon been dead,<br /> +If I had not some pity shown him,<br /> +And seen that he was warmed and fed.<br /> +I was the only friend he knew,<br /> +And fond of him each day I grew;<br /> +And, as I stroked his woolly head,<br /> +"Wherever you may be,<br /> +I know, my little lamb," I said,<br /> +"You will remember me."<br /> +<br /> +But, when the fields grew green in May,<br /> +They sent my little pet away<br /> +To pasture, where the brooks were flowing<br /> +Through yellow beds of cowslip flowers,<br /> +Where purple violets were growing,<br /> +And scented blossoms fell in showers<br /> +From off the shading chestnut-trees,<br /> +And daisies nodded in the breeze:<br /> +And many mates my lambkin found,<br /> +As young and gay as he,<br /> +And all day long they frisked around<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span>And gambolled full of glee.<br /> +<br /> +But when the robin-redbreasts flew,<br /> +And loud and shrill the north-winds blew,<br /> +Back from the pastures hard and frozen,<br /> +Through winter in the barn to keep,<br /> +The little lamb that I had chosen<br /> +They brought with all the other sheep;<br /> +And, oh! how glad my face to see,<br /> +I thought, my pretty pet will be!<br /> +But when to meet him I went out,<br /> +And tried to coax and call,<br /> +He drew away, and turned about,<br /> +And would not come at all.<br /> +<br /> +With his white fleece and playful ways,<br /> +My lamb now all about me praise;<br /> +But dearer far to me the sickly,<br /> +Poor, shivering thing he used to be;<br /> +When to my call he came so quickly<br /> +I thought that he was fond of me!<br /> +But if I pet him now, I know<br /> +He'll take my gifts, and off he'll go;<br /> +For I, to my regret, have found<br /> +I can no more depend<br /> +On one who will go frisking round,<br /> +And quite forget a friend.<br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Marian Douglas.</span><br /> +</div><div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus061.png" width="500" height="377" alt="Billy and the Pig" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>BILLY AND THE PIG.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Here</span> is another story about my father's wise old horse, +Billy.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span> +as much as saying, "By your leave," began to help +themselves.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Spotty was satisfied. He lost his appetite for oats, and +ran squealing out of the yard.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Edith's Papa</span>.<br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>JOCKO, THE RAVEN.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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 <i>aqua</i> +(water) distinctly; but he much preferred wine to water. +Sad to say, Jocko was a toper.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/illus063.png" width="300" height="142" alt="Raven" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Alfred Selwyn</span>.<br /> +</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus064.png" width="500" height="235" alt="Chipperee, Chip" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<h2>CHIPPEREE, CHIP.</h2> + +<div class='center'>Words by <span class="smcap">G. Cooper</span>. + +Music by <span class="smcap">T. Crampton</span>.</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus064-music.png" width="500" height="574" alt="Music" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="center"><small>[<i>Transcriber's Note: You can play this music (MIDI file) by clicking</i> <a href="music/feb77.mid">here</a>.]</small><br /><br /></div> +<div class='poem2'>1. +I once knew a couple that liv'd in a wood,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +And up in a tree-top their dwelling it stood,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +The summer it came and the summer it went,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +And there they lived on though they never paid rent,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +<br /> + +2. When winter came on with its frost and its snow,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +They cared not a bit when they heard the wind blow,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +For wrapp'd in their feathers they lay down to sleep,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +But oh, in the spring, how their bright eyes did peep,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +<br /> + +3. Their parlor was lined with the softest of wool,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +Their kitchen was warm and their pantry was full,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +And four little babies peep'd out at the sky,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +You never saw darlings so pretty and shy,—<br /> +Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br /> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3> +<p>"The Drawing Lesson" was originally placed on a page that split a paragraph between +pages. +It was moved out of the paragraph and the reader may notice that page 50 comes before +page 49 because of this.</p> + +<p>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.</p> +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery, February 1877, Vol. XXI. +No. 2, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, FEBRUARY 1877 *** + +***** This file should be named 28130-h.htm or 28130-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/1/3/28130/ + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music +by Linda Cantoni. + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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No. 2, 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, February 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 2 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28130] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, FEBRUARY 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. 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. 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