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diff --git a/28130.txt b/28130.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5880e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/28130.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1324 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, February 1877, Vol. XXI. 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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