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+
+<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.&mdash;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'>&nbsp;</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="&quot;CHRISTMAS PRESENTS MADE HERE.&quot;" title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;CHRISTMAS PRESENTS MADE HERE.&quot;</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,&mdash;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&mdash;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 &amp; 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&mdash;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,&mdash;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,&mdash;<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,&mdash;<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&mdash;bad for them to keep.<br />
+Each one wished the couple joy;<br />
+No bad boys came to annoy.<br />
+This next fall,&mdash;the news is spreading,&mdash;<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,&mdash;the star that gives us light and
+heat,&mdash;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&#39;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&mdash;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,&mdash;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,&mdash;one of water,
+another of beer, and the third of wine,&mdash;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>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+
+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,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+And up in a tree-top their dwelling it stood,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+The summer it came and the summer it went,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+And there they lived on though they never paid rent,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+<br />
+
+2. When winter came on with its frost and its snow,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+They cared not a bit when they heard the wind blow,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+For wrapp'd in their feathers they lay down to sleep,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+But oh, in the spring, how their bright eyes did peep,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+<br />
+
+3. Their parlor was lined with the softest of wool,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+Their kitchen was warm and their pantry was full,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+And four little babies peep'd out at the sky,&mdash;<br />
+Chipperee, chipperee, chip!<br />
+You never saw darlings so pretty and shy,&mdash;<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>
+
+
+
+
+
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