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+Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3, by Various
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+Title: The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3
+       A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28131]
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+
+THE
+
+NURSERY
+
+
+_A Monthly Magazine_
+
+FOR YOUNGEST READERS.
+
+VOLUME XXI.--No. 3.
+
+          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.
+
+  An Old-Time Scene                        65
+  Nelly's First Lesson in Dancing          69
+  Old Jim                                  71
+  Second Lesson in Astronomy               73
+  How a Rat was once Caught                74
+  To Sea in a Tub                          76
+  Drawing-Lesson                           81
+  A Woodchuck Hunt                         82
+  The Schoolmistress                       85
+  Peter and Polly                          88
+  Tommy and the Blacksmith                 89
+  In the Country                           91
+  Dodger                                   93
+  The Mother-Hen                           94
+
+
+IN VERSE.
+
+  Tom-Tit                                  68
+  A Lenten-Song                            79
+  A Mew from Pussy                         86
+  Down on the Sandy Beach                  90
+  Song of the Cat (_with music_)           96
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration: VOL. XXI. No. 3.]
+
+
+
+
+AN OLD-TIME SCENE.
+
+
+[Illustration: L]OOK at the picture, and see if you can tell what has
+roused all those children up so early in the morning. There is Mary in
+her stocking-feet. There is Ann in her night-dress. There is Tom, bare
+armed and bare legged.
+
+Why have they all left their beds, and run into the play-room in such
+haste? And why is little Ned, the baby, sitting up in the bed, as though
+he wanted to come too?
+
+It is plain enough that the children use that room for a play-room; for
+you can see playthings on the mantle-piece. But why are they all
+flocking about the fireplace? And why is mamma coming upstairs with a
+dust-brush in her hand? And why is that cloth hung over the fireplace?
+And whose are those bare feet peeping from under it?
+
+"Oh!" perhaps you will say, "it is Santa Claus; and the children are
+trying to catch him." Oh, no! Santa Claus never allows himself to be
+caught in that way. You never see even his feet. He never leaves his
+shoes on the floor, nor dirty old brushes, nor shovels. It is not Santa
+Claus--it is only a chimney-sweeper.
+
+"But what is a chimney-sweeper?" I think I hear you ask. Well, we do not
+have such chimney-sweepers now-a-days, at least not in this part of the
+world. But ask your grandfathers and grandmothers to tell you about the
+chimney-sweepers that were to be seen in Boston forty or fifty years
+ago, and I warrant that many of them will remember just such a scene as
+you see in the picture.
+
+In those days, before hard coal fires had come in use, chimney-sweepers
+were often employed. They were small boys, working under the orders of a
+master in the business, who was very often a hard master. Generally they
+were negroes; but, whether so or not, they soon became so black with
+soot, that you could not tell them from negroes.
+
+The chimney-sweepers always came early in the morning, before the fires
+were lighted; and their coming was a great event to the children of a
+household. "When a child," says a famous English writer, speaking of the
+chimney-sweepers of London, "what a mysterious pleasure it was to
+witness their operation!--to see a chit no bigger than one's self enter
+into that dark hole--to pursue him in imagination, as he went sounding
+on through so many stifling caverns--to shudder with the idea, that 'now
+surely he must be lost forever!'--to revive at hearing his feeble shout
+of discovered daylight,--and then (oh, fulness of delight!) running out
+of doors, to come just in time to see him emerge in safety!"
+
+There are chimney-sweepers even now; but none of the old-fashioned kind.
+In many places it is forbidden by law to send boys up the chimneys. So
+the modern chimney-sweeper puts his brush on the end of a pole, which is
+made in joints, like a fishing-rod, and, by attaching joint after joint,
+thrusts it farther and farther up the chimney.
+
+[Illustration: THE MODERN CHIMNEY-SWEEPER.]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+TOM-TIT.
+
+
+          WHAT is it? What is it?
+            Only a feather
+          Blown by the wind
+            In this cold stormy weather,
+          Hunted and hurried so
+            Hither and thither?
+            Leaf or a feather,
+            I know not if either.
+          There, hark now, and see!
+          'Tis alight on a tree,
+          And sings, "Chick-a-dee-dee,
+              Chick-a-dee-dee!"
+          I know it! you know it!
+            'Tis little Tom-tit.
+
+          Look at it! Look at it
+            Flutter and hover!
+          Only a tuft of down
+            On it for cover!
+          Only a bare bough
+            To shelter it over!
+            Poor little rover,
+            Snow-fields for clover
+          Are all that you see!
+          Yet listen the glee
+          Of its "chick-a-dee-dee,
+              Chick a-dee-dee!"
+          Hark to it! look at it!
+            Little Tom-tit!
+
+          How is it? Why is it?
+            Like a snow-flurry,
+          With swish of wings,
+            And a swoop and a scurry,
+          Comes a whole flock of them
+            Now in a hurry!
+            Busy and merry
+            The little things, very;
+          Watch them, and see
+          How blithe they can be
+          With their "Chick-a-dee-dee,
+              Chick-a-dee-dee!"
+          Each one such a bit
+            Of a little Tom-tit!
+
+                                        MRS. CLARA DOTY BATES.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+NELLY'S FIRST LESSON IN DANCING.
+
+
+GRANDPA MASON has not quite forgotten his dancing days. So one day, when
+little Nelly said, "I wish I knew how to dance like Emma Drake!" grandpa
+replied, "I'll teach you, Nelly, if you will bring me my accordion."
+
+So Nelly brought the accordion; and grandpa seated himself in his old
+wooden arm-chair. First he taught her the steps, and then said, "Now,
+Nelly, you must try to move round just as you saw Emma do; and be sure
+and keep time to the music."
+
+Nelly made a courtesy, and began to dance; and, as grandpa looked on,
+his heart seemed to dance with her; for he felt young once more, and
+went back, in thought, to the times when he was about as old as she.
+
+That was a long while ago--more than seventy years. He sighed as he
+thought of his little brothers and sisters, all now gone to the better
+world. But Nelly's merry look soon drove away his sad mood.
+
+"Well done, Nelly!" said he. "You will make a dancer; for you follow the
+music well, and step out lightly and easily. Now let me see you rise a
+little on your left foot, and whirl round once."
+
+Nelly did it, and grandpa said, "Bravely done, little girl! Here ends
+your first lesson in dancing. To-morrow we will have another. Now get
+your new 'Nursery,' and let me hear one of the stories; for we must take
+care of the head, as well as the heels."
+
+Nelly laughed; but, when she began to read, the tune she had just heard
+came back to her, and she could hardly keep from dancing up and down.
+
+"One thing at a time, darling," said grandpa. "If we would do one thing
+well, we must not let our thoughts wander to something else. Tell me
+when you think you can give your thoughts to reading. I can wait."
+
+Nelly took a few more dancing-steps, whirled around twice, made a
+courtesy, then came, and read so well, that grandpa said, "You deserve a
+good mark for reading, my dear. Now, whether you read, or whether you
+dance, mind this:--
+
+          "What you do, if well you would do it,
+          Rule your thoughts, and give them all to it."
+
+                                                      IDA FAY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+OLD JIM.
+
+
+JIM is a fine large horse. He lives in the engine-house, and draws the
+hose-carriage. His stall is so made that, when the alarm-bell strikes,
+it opens in front of him, leaving the way clear for him to rush out and
+take his place in front of the hose-carriage.
+
+One night, the hoseman (who sleeps upstairs in the engine-house, so as
+to be all ready if there is an alarm of fire) heard a great noise down
+below,--a stamping and jumping, as if the horses were getting ready to
+go to a fire, when there was no alarm at all. He went softly to the
+stairway, and looked down; and there was Jim, jumping over the shafts of
+the hose-carriage, first one way, then another, just to amuse himself.
+
+One day old Jim was in the yard behind the engine-house, and a man went
+out to catch him, and lead him in. But he rushed and pranced around the
+yard, and would not be caught. Then the man set out to drive him in; and
+what do you think Jim did?
+
+Instead of going in at the open door, he made a leap, and went in at the
+open window, without breaking a glass, or hurting himself in the least.
+No one who saw the window would believe that such a great horse could
+possibly have gone through it.
+
+When Jim is fed, he sometimes puts his nose in the oats, and throws them
+all out on the floor. Then he begins to eat them up, and, after he has
+eaten all he can reach standing, he goes down on his knees, and reaches
+out with his long tongue, and picks up every oat he can find.
+
+Outside of his stall, on one side, is a watering-trough, where Jim is
+taken to drink. The water comes through a pipe, and is turned on by a
+faucet. Two or three times the water was found running, so that the
+trough overflowed, when no one had been near to meddle with it.
+
+At last the men suspected that Jim was the rogue, and they kept very
+still, and watched one night till Jim thought he was all alone. Then
+they saw him twist himself almost double in his stall, stretch his long
+neck out, take the faucet in his teeth, turn on the water, and get a
+good drink. But he could not shut it off again.
+
+Jim is a brave horse to go to a fire; but there is one thing that
+frightens him dreadfully, and that is--a feather duster! He is not
+afraid of any thing he sees in the streets, and the greatest noise of
+the Fourth of July will not scare him; but show him a feather duster,
+and his heels will fly up, and he will act as if he were going out of
+his senses.
+
+The firemen think Jim a most amusing horse; and they sometimes say that
+he understands as much as some people do, and can do most every thing
+but talk.
+
+                                                         H. W.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+SECOND 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!"
+
+DID any of you find the red star I asked you to look for last month? I
+hope you did; for I want you to look at it again while I tell you
+something about the "twinkle" of it.
+
+Look very carefully, first at the red star, and then at just as large a
+white star; and, if your eyes are bright, you will see that the white
+one twinkles the most. I wish I could tell you why; but I think nobody
+knows.
+
+Be very careful, though, not to choose a white star that is not a star;
+for, as that twinkles very little, you may think I am mistaken.
+
+"A star that is _not_ a star?" I think I hear you say, "How I wonder
+what you are!" Well, I will tell you.
+
+Although most of the "diamonds in the sky," commonly called stars, are
+real stars, or suns like our sun, a few of them are not suns, but solid
+globes or worlds like that which we inhabit, warmed and lighted by our
+sun. When the sun is shining on them, they look bright to us; but it is
+only the light of our own sun thrown back, or reflected. They give no
+light themselves.
+
+Because they have our sun, we and they are like members of one family.
+We call them "planets" (just as our earth is called "a planet"), and are
+as familiar with their names as if they were our brothers and sisters.
+One of them, for instance, is called Venus; another, Jupiter; and
+another, Saturn. Can you remember these hard names?
+
+Now you would never notice the difference between these few stars and
+all the others, if you did not look very carefully to see whether they
+twinkle or not. And I would advise you to ask somebody to point them out
+to you whenever they are in sight.
+
+I cannot tell you exactly where to look for them, because they wander
+about a good deal, and I do not know where they will be when you happen
+to read this number of "The Nursery."
+
+From all this you will see that you will have to be very particular what
+kind of a star you look at when you say,--
+
+          "Twinkle, twinkle, little star."
+
+                                                      M. E. R.
+
+
+
+
+HOW A RAT WAS ONCE CAUGHT.
+
+
+DO you know what sly and cunning creatures rats are? The picture shows
+how they sometimes contrive to carry off eggs. The old fox in the
+background seems to be watching the performance with great interest.
+
+But, cute as they are, they sometimes get caught. I am going to tell you
+how a rat was once caught by a clam. It happened when I was a little
+child, and lived with my mother. Whether such a thing ever happened
+before or since, I do not know; but this is a true story.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+One day, my father went to town, and bought some clams. When he came
+home, I took them down cellar in a basket, and laid them on the brick
+floor of the cellar. Now, when clams are put where it is dark and cool
+and quiet, they open their shells. If you should go softly up, and put a
+straw in one of their mouths, it would clasp its shells together so
+tightly, that you could not get them open.
+
+The cellar was under my mother's bed-room; and in the night she heard a
+great noise, like something bumping and slamming, down below. Being a
+brave woman, she lighted a candle, and went down stairs; and what do you
+think she found? I will tell you; for I am sure you would never guess.
+
+When the house came to be still with the night-stillness, and every one
+was in bed, an old rat had come out of his hole, and gone foraging
+around for his supper. As he walked majestically along, swinging his
+long tail after him, it happened to switch into a clam's opened shell,
+when, presto change! the clam was no longer only a clam: it was a
+rat-trap.
+
+It pinched hard; and I am sure it hurt the old rat very much. He ran
+across the cellar to his hole; and the clam bounced on the bricks as he
+went; and that was what my mother had heard. The rat could not get the
+clam into the hole. It held him fast by the tail all the rest of his
+life, which was not long; for he was killed soon after.
+
+                                               LIZZIE'S MAMMA.
+
+
+
+
+TO SEA IN A TUB.
+
+
+HERE is a picture of a boy trying his new boat in a tub of water. His
+brothers and sisters are looking on. His elder brother seems to be
+pointing out some fault in the rig of the boat. Perhaps he thinks the
+sails are too large. The dog Tray takes a good deal of interest in the
+matter. I wonder what he thinks of it.
+
+But the story I am going to tell you is about a little girl named Emma,
+and what happened one day, when she went out in the yard to play. Her
+mother had told her not to go outside the gate: so she looked around the
+doorway to see what she could find to play with. There stood a great tub
+full of water; and there, close by, was a pile of chips. "Boats!" said
+Emma to herself: "I'll sail boats!"
+
+It didn't take a minute to get six of the nicest chips well afloat; but
+after all they were not much better than rafts.
+
+"I must put on sails," said Emma. And running into the sitting-room,
+and getting some pins, and then putting a bit of paper on each pin, and
+sticking a pin upright in each chip, at last she had her little boats
+with little sails, going straight across the tub with a fair wind.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Once a fly alighted on one of the boats, and took quite a long voyage.
+That made Emma think of trying to find other passengers; and she picked
+up a great ground beetle, and put him aboard. Poor beetle! he didn't
+want to go, and he wasn't used to it. He tumbled about on the deck; the
+boat tipped under him, and the next thing Emma knew he was overboard.
+
+"Oh, he mustn't drown!" she cried. "I must get him out!" And she stooped
+over in great haste to save the poor beetle. But it was a large tub, and
+a very deep one too; and what did little Emma know about being careful?
+She lost her balance, and down into the water she went, with a great
+splash that wrecked all the boats in the same instant. "Mother, mother!"
+screamed a choking, sputtering voice, as Emma managed to lift her head.
+
+Her mother heard it, and flew to the spot. It didn't take long to get
+Emma into the warm kitchen, to pull off the wet clothes, to wrap her in
+a blanket, and set her before the fire in the big rocking-chair, with a
+bowl of hot ginger-tea to drink. There Emma sat, and steamed, and begged
+for stories. By eleven o'clock she couldn't stand it any longer, and by
+noon she was out in the yard again, playing tea-party, and not one whit
+the worse for her sudden cold bath. But what became of the poor beetle?
+
+                                            MARY L. B. BRANCH.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A LENTEN-SONG.
+
+FROM THE GERMAN.
+
+
+          QUOG, quog, quog, quog!
+            A very unmusical note:
+          This eminent basso, Mr. Frog,
+            Has surely a cold in his throat.
+          But he does his best, with a good intent,
+            The little speckled man;
+          For every frog must sing in Lent,
+            As loud as ever he can.
+
+          Quog, quog, quog, quog!
+            When the morning sky is red,
+          He sits on the slippery, mossy log,
+            With the rushes over his head.
+          He does his best, with a good intent,
+            The little sprawling man;
+          For every frog must sing in Lent,
+            As loud as ever he can.
+
+          Quog, quog, quog, quog!
+            When the evening sky is pale,
+          He nestles low in the sheltering bog,
+            While the gentle dews exhale.
+          He does his best, with a good intent,
+            The little struggling man;
+          For every frog must sing in Lent,
+            As loud as ever he can.
+
+          Quog, quog, quog, quog!
+            He strains till he shakes the reeds,
+          And scares his neighbor, Miss Polly Wog
+            As she hides in the water-reeds.
+          He does his best, with a good intent,
+            The little panting man;
+          For every frog must sing in Lent,
+            As loud as ever he can.
+
+          Quog, quog, quog, quog!
+            Oh! aren't you afraid you'll burst?
+          You should have put on, dear Mr. Frog,
+            Your girdle of leather first.
+          But on he goes, with his good intent,
+            The little gasping man;
+          For every frog must sing in Lent,
+            As loud as ever he can.
+
+                                           OLIVE A. WADSWORTH.
+
+[Illustration: DRAWING-LESSON BY HARRISON WEIR.]
+
+
+
+
+A WOODCHUCK HUNT.
+
+
+ONE September morning, before breakfast, Ned and Harry went woodchuck
+hunting. They took Dick, who is a big, fat, spotted coach-dog, and Gyp,
+a little black-and-tan, with short ears, and afraid of a mouse,--both
+"such splendid hunters," Harry said.
+
+Gyp ran ahead on three legs; and Dick walked sedately behind. Ned
+carried the bow, and Harry, the three arrows: and it was enough to make
+any wise woodchuck tremble to see them.
+
+First they crossed a potato-field, and then a meadow where there was a
+brook, and where they lost Gyp so often among the bogs, that Harry
+carried him at last so as to know where he was. Dick ran through the
+brook, and shook himself over Ned's new sailor-suit; but that was no
+matter.
+
+Then they came to a rickety old stone wall, and Dick barked. "It must be
+a woodchuck in the wall. We've got him!" shouted Ned. "Down comes the
+wall!" Then the stones fell; and Gyp jumped up and down with excitement,
+while Dick gave a low and terrible growl. "He must be here," said Ned.
+
+But, as he was not to be found, Dick was reproved for giving a false
+alarm; and they all jumped over the stones of the old wall, and ran up
+the hill towards the walnut-grove, where woodchucks were sure to be as
+thick as nuts.
+
+"Here's a fresh hole!" shouted Harry. "Now it's almost breakfast-time:
+he'll be out before long. Come on, Mr. Chuck, we're waiting for you."
+
+So the boys lay down flat on the mound of earth, and peered into the
+hole, by way of inviting its owner to come out and be shot; while Dick
+and Gyp gave persuasive growls and yelps.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Strangely enough no woodchuck appeared; and after waiting an
+"age,"--five minutes long,--the brave hunters decided to dig in. "We
+ought to have brought spades," they said; but sticks and stones and
+hands did very well in the soft, wet earth.
+
+About the time that Harry got out of breath, and Ned had dropped a stone
+on his foot, Dick barked furiously at something moving under a
+hazel-bush. "Shoot, Ned, shoot!" Harry shouted. "Whiz" went an arrow
+straight into the bushes, where it lodged, and never more came out.
+
+"A chase, a chase!" cried Ned, throwing down his bow; and away they
+went,--Harry and Ned, Dick and Gyp,--over stones and fences, bushes and
+bogs, in pursuit of something; but whether it was a woodchuck or a cat
+they never got near enough to tell. Suddenly it disappeared in a
+corn-field.
+
+Dick and Gyp put their tails between their legs, and dropped their ears;
+but Ned and Harry spied some pumpkins ripening among the stacked corn.
+
+"Gay for Jack-o-lanterns!" said Harry. "Wouldn't they frighten Belle and
+Lucy, though!"
+
+So two of the biggest pumpkins were cut off. "Now let's take 'em home,"
+said Harry, thinking of his breakfast. But, oh, how heavy those pumpkins
+grew! In getting over a wall, Harry's fell and was smashed: so the boys
+took turns in carrying the other one.
+
+Mamma stood on the piazza, in a fresh white morning-dress. She heard
+Dick and Gyp, and then she saw her little boys. Oh, what a sight!--the
+striped stockings and blue sailor-suits all one shade of yellow brown
+earth!
+
+"Did you have good sport?" asked papa, coming to the door.
+
+"Splendid! Found lots of _holes_," said Ned, dumping the pumpkin. And
+what they did with the pumpkin, perhaps I'll tell you another time.
+
+                                                 MISS A. H. R.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.
+
+
+"THERE are many thousand words in our language," said Ellen, reading
+from a book, "and some words are used for one purpose, and some for
+another; and the same word may be used in different ways. When your
+uncle gave you a lot of shells last December, what did you do with them,
+Edwin?"
+
+"I classified them: that is, I put one kind into one heap, and another
+kind into another heap; and so on."
+
+"Well, that is just the way we do with words; we put them in classes
+which we call Parts of Speech. Now, there is one class of words which is
+made up of name-words or nouns; that is, of words that are used as names
+of persons or things. In the sentence, 'Birds fly,' _birds_ is a noun,
+and _fly_ is a verb."
+
+"I think I knew that much already, Schoolmistress."
+
+"Well, sir, since you know so much, let me hear you correct the mistakes
+in the following sentence: 'A pear or peach, when they are ripe, are
+good food for the boy or girl who like them.'"
+
+"It should be: 'A pear or a peach, when it is ripe, is good food for the
+boy or girl who likes it.'"
+
+"Well done, Edwin! go up to the head of your class."
+
+Edwin walked round his sister, as she sat in her chair, and then gravely
+took his place again before her.
+
+"Here are two sentences, Edwin: 'I fell down,' and 'I fell down stairs.'
+_Down_ is not the same Part of Speech in the two sentences. What is it
+in the first?'"
+
+"An Adverb; and in the second it is a Preposition."
+
+"Well, sir, school is dismissed. You may go. I shall give you a good
+mark in grammar."
+
+                                                      IDA FAY.
+
+
+
+
+A MEW FROM PUSSY.
+
+IN ANSWER TO "A SQUEAK."[A]
+
+
+                I AM only the lazy old cat
+                That sleeps upon somebody's mat:
+                I sit in the sunshine,
+                  And lick my soft paws,
+                With one eye on mousie,
+                  And one on my claws.
+          Little mouse, little mouse! look out how you boast!
+          Of just such as you I have eaten a host!
+          I'm a much smarter cat than you seem to suppose;
+          I have very keen eyes, and, oh--such a nose!
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+              I'm an innocent looking cat;
+              I am well aware of that:
+              I squint up my eyes,
+              And play with the flies,
+              But underneath I am wondrous wise:
+              I know where your nest is,
+                And just where you hide
+              When you have been thieving,
+                And fear you'll be spied.
+          I saw your small tracks all over the meal;
+          And I saw your tail, and I heard you squeal
+              When grandmamma's broom
+              Nearly sealed your doom,
+              And you went whisking out of the room.
+              I am only a lazy old cat:
+              I care not much for a _rat_;
+              But a nice tender _mouse_
+              About in the house
+          Might prove a temptation too great,
+          Should I be in a hungry state.
+          Little mouse, little mouse! Beware, beware!
+          Some time, when you think not, I shall be there,
+              And you'll not only look at,
+                But feel of, my paws;
+              And, the first thing you know,
+                I'll be licking my jaws,
+          And washing my face with an innocent air,
+          And mousie will be--oh, where? oh, where?
+
+                                                  RUTH KENYON.
+
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[A] See January number, page 18.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+_Peter._--Fresh baked peanuts! Give a fellow some, Polly.
+
+_Polly._--Yes, Peter, you shall have a good share.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+TOMMY AND THE BLACKSMITH.
+
+
+_Tommy._--Do you shoe horses here, Mr. Blacksmith?
+
+_Blacksmith._--Yes, little man: that's my business.
+
+_Tommy._--Well, I want my horse shod.
+
+_Blacksmith._--How much can you pay for the job? It will take a good
+deal of iron to shoe such a big horse as that.
+
+_Ruth._--He wants you to do it for nothing, Mr. Blacksmith.
+
+_Blacksmith._--Every trade must live, my little lady. If Tommy can
+afford to keep a horse, he ought to be able to pay for having it shod.
+
+_Tommy._--I will pay you next Christmas.
+
+_Blacksmith._---Never run in debt, my lad. If you can't pay for a thing
+on the spot, do without it. Shun debt as you would poison.
+
+_Ruth._--That is just what my grandfather says.
+
+_Tommy._--Well, when I get some money, I'll come again, Mr. Blacksmith;
+for this horse must be shod, if there's iron enough to do it with.
+Good-by!
+
+_Blacksmith._--Good-by, Tommy! Good-by, Ruth!
+
+                                                ARTHUR SELWYN.
+
+
+
+
+DOWN ON THE SANDY BEACH.
+
+
+          DOWN on the sandy beach,
+            When the tide was low;
+          Down on the sandy beach,
+            Many years ago,
+          Two of us were walking,
+          Two of us were talking
+          Of what I cannot tell you,
+          Though I'm sure you'd like to know.
+
+          Down in the water
+            A duck said, "Quack!"
+          Up in the tree-top
+            A crow answered back,
+          Two of us amusing,
+          Two of us confusing:
+          So we had to give up talking,
+          And just listen to their clack.
+
+          "Quack!" said the little duck,
+            Swimming with the tide;
+          "Caw!" said the saucy crow,
+            Swelling up with pride,
+          "I'm a jolly rover,
+          And I live in clover:
+          Don't you wish that you were here,
+          Sitting by my side?"
+
+          "Quack, quack!" said the duck,
+            Very much like "No."
+          "Caw, caw!--ha, ha!"
+            Laughed the silly crow:
+          Two of us delighting,
+          Two of us inviting
+          To join the merry frolic
+          With a ringing ho, ho, ho!
+
+          Crack!--and a bullet went
+            Flying from a gun!
+          Duck swimming down the stream,
+            We on a run,
+          Wondered why or whether
+          We couldn't be together
+          Without another coming in
+          And spoiling all the fun!
+
+                                            JOSEPHINE POLLARD.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+IN THE COUNTRY.
+
+
+FANNY and Willy are having a nice ride on the back of the great
+cart-horse.
+
+Mamma points at Willy with her sun-shade, and says, "Hold on tight,
+little boy." Pink, the dog, says, "Bow-wow! Take me up there with you."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Kate and Jane have the care of the biddies. They feed them with corn
+every day. The hens flock around the door as soon as the two girls come
+out.
+
+Kate and Jane both say that the hens are fond of them; but I think they
+are still more fond of the corn.
+
+                                                      A. B. C.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+DODGER.
+
+
+DODGER is a full-blooded Scotch terrier. His eyes are the brightest of
+all bright eyes; and he acts just as one might suppose from his name. He
+dodges here and there,--under the sofa, and behind the stove, and up in
+a chair, and sometimes puts his paws up on the baby's cradle.
+
+The other day, the baby's red sock dropped off from his foot; and Dodger
+slyly picked it up, and, going to a corner of the room, ate off the red
+tassels that were on it. I don't think he will do it again; for he did
+not act as though they tasted very good.
+
+Dodger has many cunning ways. He will bring his master's slippers, sit
+up straight, pretend to be dead, and do many other funny things. Just
+now his master is trying to teach him to shut a door.
+
+Dodger belongs to a little boy in Hartford, Conn., who has read "The
+Nursery" for five years. The little boy's name is Georgie, and I am
+
+                                              GEORGIE'S MAMMA.
+
+
+
+
+THE MOTHER-HEN.
+
+
+BY the side of my home a river runs; and down close by the banks of it
+lives a good family named Allen. Mr. Allen keeps a large number of hens
+and ducks. One old hen had twice been put to sit on ducks' eggs, and
+hatched two broods of ducks.
+
+The first brood she hatched took to the water as soon as they saw it, as
+all little ducks will. The old hen was almost crazy at such behavior on
+the part of her chicks, and flew down to the water's edge, clucking and
+calling at a great rate. However,--to her great surprise,
+probably,--they all came safely to land. Every day after that, when the
+little ducks went for a swim, their hen-mother walked nervously back
+and forth on the shore, and was not easy till they came out of the
+water.
+
+By and by, after those ducks had all grown large, the hen hatched
+another brood. These, too, at first sight of the water, went in for a
+swim. The old hen was not quite as frightened as before, but stood and
+looked at them, clucking a little to herself, as if to say, "Strange
+chickens these of mine; but yet, if they like it, I don't know as I need
+care, so long as they don't ask me to go with them." So, after a while,
+that brood grew to be big ducks.
+
+One day last summer, as I sat on the bank of the river, looking at the
+pretty blue rippling water, who should come walking proudly down to the
+water's-edge but, Mrs. Hen with another brood of little, waddling,
+yellow ducks behind her! She led them clear to the edge of the water,
+saw them start off, and, turning away, went contentedly to scratching at
+some weeds on the shore, taking no more notice of her little family. She
+had come to regard this swimming business as a matter of course.
+
+Now one little duck, for some reason,--maybe he was not so strong as the
+others,--had not gone into the water with the rest, but remained sitting
+on the shore. Presently the mother-hen, turning round, happened to spy
+him. She stopped scratching, and looked at him as if she were saying,
+"All my chickens swim: now what is the matter with you? I know it must
+be laziness; and I won't have that."
+
+Then spreading out her wings, and making an angry clucking, she flew
+towards the unlucky duckling, took him by the back of his neck in her
+beak, and threw him as far as possible into the water. As she walked
+back to her weeds again; it seemed almost as if I could hear her say,--
+
+"The chicken who can swim and _won't_ swim must be made to swim."
+
+                                                      L. W. E.
+
+[Illustration: Music]
+
+
+
+
+SONG OF THE CAT.
+
+
+    Words by A. LLOYD.                       Music by T. CRAMPTON
+
+          1. The cat and her kittens recline in the sun,
+             Mew! mew! mew!
+             They're fond of their food and they're fond of their fun;
+             Mew! mew! mew!
+             Their old mother says they must sit in a row,
+             The biggest is Jack and the little one Joe,
+             And now altogether they make the place ring,
+             With the one song they know and the chorus they sing:
+             Mew! mew! mew! . . .
+             Mew! mew! mew!
+
+          2. My dear little kittens when you are well grown,
+             Mew! mew! mew!
+             Some day you will each have a home of your own;
+             Mew! mew! mew!
+             You'll catch all the mice and you'll kill all the rats,
+             And grow up, I hope, both respectable cats,
+             Don't get in the cupboard, nor kill the poor lark,
+             Keep away from big dogs and get home before dark;
+             Mew! mew! mew! . . .
+             Mew! mew! mew!
+
+          3. The kittens they listen'd and said they'd be good,
+             Mew! mew! mew!
+             And not kill the birds nor destroy the young brood!
+             Mew! mew! mew!
+             They lov'd their good mother, and tho't 'twould be nice,
+             To grow strong and hearty and catch and kill mice.
+             She wash'd all their faces and put them to bed,
+             And now what do you think was the last thing they said;
+             Mew! mew! mew! . . .
+             Mew! mew! mew!
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+The January edition of the Nursery had a table of contents for the first
+six issues of the year. This table was divided to cover each specific
+issue. A title page copied from the January edition was also used for
+this number.
+
+A comma was changed to a period on page 94 (tasted very good).
+
+
+
+
+
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