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No. 3, 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, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28131] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, MARCH 1877 *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music +by Linda Cantoni. + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<h3>THE</h3> + +<h1>NURSERY</h1> + +<h2><i>A Monthly Magazine</i></h2> + +<h2><span class="smcap">For Youngest Readers.</span></h2> + +<div class='center'>VOLUME XXI.—No. 3.<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="Prose contents"> +<tr><td align='left'>An Old-Time Scene</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nelly's First Lesson in Dancing </td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Old Jim</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Second Lesson in Astronomy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_73">73</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>How a Rat was once Caught</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>To Sea in a Tub</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_76">76</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Drawing-Lesson</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A Woodchuck Hunt</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Schoolmistress</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Peter and Polly</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tommy and the Blacksmith</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>In the Country</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_91">91</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dodger</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Mother-Hen</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_94">94</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'>Tom-Tit</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A Lenten-Song</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A Mew from Pussy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_86">86</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Down on the Sandy Beach</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_90">90</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Song of the Cat (<i>with music</i>)</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_96">96</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> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus065.png" width="500" height="350" alt="VOL. XXI. No. 3." 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_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p> + +<h2>AN OLD-TIME SCENE.</h2> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 121px;"> +<img src="images/illus066.png" width="121" height="125" alt="L" title="" /> +</div><div class='unindent'><br />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.</div> + +<p>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?</p> + +<p>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?</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span> +negroes; but, whether so or not, they soon became so black +with soot, that you could not tell them from negroes.</p> +<div class="figright" style="width: 188px;"> +<img src="images/illus067.png" width="188" height="300" alt="The Modern Chimney-Sweeper." title="" /> +<span class="caption">The Modern Chimney-Sweeper.</span> +</div> +<p>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!"</p> + +<p>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.</p> +<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_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus068.png" width="400" height="233" alt="Tom-Tit" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<h2>TOM-TIT.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">What</span> is it? What is it?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Only a feather</span><br /> +Blown by the wind<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In this cold stormy weather,</span><br /> +Hunted and hurried so<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Hither and thither?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Leaf or a feather,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I know not if either.</span><br /> +There, hark now, and see!<br /> +'Tis alight on a tree,<br /> +And sings, "Chick-a-dee-dee,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Chick-a-dee-dee!"</span><br /> +I know it! you know it!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">'Tis little Tom-tit.</span><br /> +<br /> +Look at it! Look at it<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Flutter and hover!</span><br /> +Only a tuft of down<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">On it for cover!</span><br /> +Only a bare bough<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To shelter it over!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Poor little rover,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Snow-fields for clover</span><br /> +Are all that you see!<br /> +Yet listen the glee<br /> +Of its "chick-a-dee-dee,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Chick a-dee-dee!"</span><br /> +Hark to it! look at it!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Little Tom-tit!</span><br /> +<br /> +How is it? Why is it?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Like a snow-flurry,</span><br /> +With swish of wings,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And a swoop and a scurry,</span><br /> +Comes a whole flock of them<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Now in a hurry!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Busy and merry</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The little things, very;</span><br /> +Watch them, and see<br /> +How blithe they can be<br /> +With their "Chick-a-dee-dee,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Chick-a-dee-dee!"</span><br /> +Each one such a bit<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Of a little Tom-tit!</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Mrs. Clara Doty Bates.</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_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 271px;"> +<img src="images/illus069.png" width="271" height="300" alt="Nelly's First lesson" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>NELLY'S FIRST LESSON IN DANCING.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Grandpa Mason</span> 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."</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span> +round just as you saw Emma do; and be sure and keep +time to the music."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"What you do, if well you would do it,<br /> +Rule your thoughts, and give them all to it."<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_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus071.png" width="500" height="375" alt="Old Jim" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>OLD JIM.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Jim</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>One day old Jim was in the yard behind the engine-house, +and a man went out to catch him, and lead him in.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> +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?</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +H. W.<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_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus073.png" width="500" height="205" alt="Second lesson in astronomy" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>SECOND 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">Did</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"A star that is <i>not</i> a star?" I think I hear you say, +"How I wonder what you are!" Well, I will tell you.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span> +the light of our own sun thrown back, or reflected. They +give no light themselves.</p> + +<p>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?</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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,—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +"Twinkle, twinkle, little star."<br /> +</div> + +<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>HOW A RAT WAS ONCE CAUGHT.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Do</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span> +mother. Whether such a thing ever happened before or +since, I do not know; but this is a true story.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus075.png" width="400" height="322" alt="Catching a rat" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>When the house came to be still with the night-stillness,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Lizzie's Mamma.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>TO SEA IN A TUB.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Here</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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!"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"I must put on sails," said Emma. And running into<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 294px;"> +<img src="images/illus077.png" width="294" height="400" alt="Sailing in a tub" title="" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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?</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Mary L. B. Branch.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/illus078.png" width="300" height="203" alt="Beetle" 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_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/illus079.png" width="300" height="277" alt="Frogs" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>A LENTEN-SONG.</h2> + +<h3>FROM THE GERMAN.</h3> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">Quog</span>, quog, quog, quog!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A very unmusical note:</span><br /> +This eminent basso, Mr. Frog,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Has surely a cold in his throat.</span><br /> +But he does his best, with a good intent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The little speckled man;</span><br /> +For every frog must sing in Lent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As loud as ever he can.</span><br /> +<br /> +Quog, quog, quog, quog!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When the morning sky is red,</span><br /> +He sits on the slippery, mossy log,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">With the rushes over his head.</span><br /> +He does his best, with a good intent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The little sprawling man;</span><br /> +For every frog must sing in Lent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As loud as ever he can.</span><br /> +<br /> +Quog, quog, quog, quog!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When the evening sky is pale,</span><br /> +He nestles low in the sheltering bog,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">While the gentle dews exhale.</span><br /> +He does his best, with a good intent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The little struggling man;</span><br /> +For every frog must sing in Lent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As loud as ever he can.</span><br /> +<br /> +Quog, quog, quog, quog!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He strains till he shakes the reeds,</span><br /> +And scares his neighbor, Miss Polly Wog<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As she hides in the water-reeds.</span><br /> +He does his best, with a good intent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The little panting man;</span><br /> +For every frog must sing in Lent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As loud as ever he can.</span><br /> +<br /> +Quog, quog, quog, quog!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Oh! aren't you afraid you'll burst?</span><br /> +You should have put on, dear Mr. Frog,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your girdle of leather first.</span><br /> +But on he goes, with his good intent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The little gasping man;</span><br /> +For every frog must sing in Lent,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">As loud as ever he can.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Olive A. Wadsworth.</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_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;"> +<img src="images/illus081.png" width="344" 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><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span></p> +<h2>A WOODCHUCK HUNT.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">One</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>So the boys lay down flat on the mound of earth, and +peered into the hole, by way of inviting its owner to come<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span> +out and be shot; while Dick and Gyp gave persuasive growls +and yelps.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus083.png" width="500" height="369" alt="Hunting" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span> +got near enough to tell. Suddenly it disappeared in a +corn-field.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Gay for Jack-o-lanterns!" said Harry. "Wouldn't they +frighten Belle and Lucy, though!"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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!</p> + +<p>"Did you have good sport?" asked papa, coming to the +door.</p> + +<p>"Splendid! Found lots of <i>holes</i>," said Ned, dumping the +pumpkin. And what they did with the pumpkin, perhaps +I'll tell you another time.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Miss A. H. R.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/illus084.png" width="300" height="290" alt="Woodchuck" 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_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus085.png" width="500" height="376" alt="Schoolmistress" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>THE SCHOOLMISTRESS.</h2> + + +<p>"<span class="smcap">There</span> 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?"</p> + +<p>"I classified them: that is, I put one kind into one heap, +and another kind into another heap; and so on."</p> + +<p>"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,' <i>birds</i> is a noun, and +<i>fly</i> is a verb."</p> + +<p>"I think I knew that much already, Schoolmistress."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span></p> + +<p>"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.'"</p> + +<p>"It should be: 'A pear or a peach, when it is ripe, is +good food for the boy or girl who likes it.'"</p> + +<p>"Well done, Edwin! go up to the head of your class."</p> + +<p>Edwin walked round his sister, as she sat in her chair, +and then gravely took his place again before her.</p> + +<p>"Here are two sentences, Edwin: 'I fell down,' and 'I +fell down stairs.' <i>Down</i> is not the same Part of Speech in +the two sentences. What is it in the first?'"</p> + +<p>"An Adverb; and in the second it is a Preposition."</p> + +<p>"Well, sir, school is dismissed. You may go. I shall +give you a good mark in grammar."</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> +<h2>A MEW FROM PUSSY.</h2> + +<h3>IN ANSWER TO "A SQUEAK."<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a></h3> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">I am</span> only the lazy old cat</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">That sleeps upon somebody's mat:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I sit in the sunshine,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">And lick my soft paws,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">With one eye on mousie,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">And one on my claws.</span><br /> +Little mouse, little mouse! look out how you boast!<br /> +Of just such as you I have eaten a host!<br /> +I'm a much smarter cat than you seem to suppose;<br /> +I have very keen eyes, and, oh—such a nose!<br /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 260px;"> +<img src="images/illus087.png" width="260" height="300" alt="Innocent looking cat" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'm an innocent looking cat;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I am well aware of that:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I squint up my eyes,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And play with the flies,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But underneath I am wondrous wise:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I know where your nest is,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And just where you hide</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">When you have been thieving,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And fear you'll be spied.</span><br /> +I saw your small tracks all over the meal;<br /> +And I saw your tail, and I heard you squeal<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">When grandmamma's broom</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Nearly sealed your doom,</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And you went whisking out of the room.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I am only a lazy old cat:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I care not much for a <i>rat</i>;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But a nice tender <i>mouse</i></span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">About in the house</span><br /> +Might prove a temptation too great,<br /> +Should I be in a hungry state.<br /> +Little mouse, little mouse! Beware, beware!<br /> +Some time, when you think not, I shall be there,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And you'll not only look at,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">But feel of, my paws;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And, the first thing you know,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I'll be licking my jaws,</span><br /> +And washing my face with an innocent air,<br /> +And mousie will be—oh, where? oh, where?<br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Ruth Kenyon.</span><br /> +</div> + + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTE:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> See January number, page 18.</p></div> +</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: 300px;"> +<img src="images/illus088.png" width="300" height="251" alt="Sharing" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><i>Peter.</i>—Fresh baked peanuts! Give a fellow some, Polly.</p> + +<p><i>Polly.</i>—Yes, Peter, you shall have a good share.</p> +<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_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus089.png" width="500" height="422" alt="Tommy and the Blacksmith" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>TOMMY AND THE BLACKSMITH.</h2> + + +<p><i>Tommy.</i>—Do you shoe horses here, Mr. Blacksmith?</p> + +<p><i>Blacksmith.</i>—Yes, little man: that's my business.</p> + +<p><i>Tommy.</i>—Well, I want my horse shod.</p> + +<p><i>Blacksmith.</i>—How much can you pay for the job? It +will take a good deal of iron to shoe such a big horse as +that.</p> + +<p><i>Ruth.</i>—He wants you to do it for nothing, Mr. Blacksmith.</p> + +<p><i>Blacksmith.</i>—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.</p> + +<p><i>Tommy.</i>—I will pay you next Christmas.</p> + +<p><i>Blacksmith.</i>—-Never run in debt, my lad. If you can't<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span> +pay for a thing on the spot, do without it. Shun debt as +you would poison.</p> + +<p><i>Ruth.</i>—That is just what my grandfather says.</p> + +<p><i>Tommy.</i>—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!</p> + +<p><i>Blacksmith.</i>—Good-by, Tommy! Good-by, Ruth!</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Arthur Selwyn.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>DOWN ON THE SANDY BEACH.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">Down</span> on the sandy beach,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When the tide was low;</span><br /> +Down on the sandy beach,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Many years ago,</span><br /> +Two of us were walking,<br /> +Two of us were talking<br /> +Of what I cannot tell you,<br /> +Though I'm sure you'd like to know.<br /> +<br /> +Down in the water<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A duck said, "Quack!"</span><br /> +Up in the tree-top<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A crow answered back,</span><br /> +Two of us amusing,<br /> +Two of us confusing:<br /> +So we had to give up talking,<br /> +And just listen to their clack.<br /> +<br /> +"Quack!" said the little duck,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Swimming with the tide;</span><br /> +"Caw!" said the saucy crow,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Swelling up with pride,</span><br /> +"I'm a jolly rover,<br /> +And I live in clover:<br /> +Don't you wish that you were here,<br /> +Sitting by my side?"<br /> +<br /> +"Quack, quack!" said the duck,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Very much like "No."</span><br /> +"Caw, caw!—ha, ha!"<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Laughed the silly crow:</span><br /> +Two of us delighting,<br /> +Two of us inviting<br /> +To join the merry frolic<br /> +With a ringing ho, ho, ho!<br /> +<br /> +Crack!—and a bullet went<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Flying from a gun!</span><br /> +Duck swimming down the stream,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">We on a run,</span><br /> +Wondered why or whether<br /> +We couldn't be together<br /> +Without another coming in<br /> +And spoiling all the fun!<br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Josephine Pollard.</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_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 228px;"> +<img src="images/illus091.png" width="228" height="300" alt="In the country" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>IN THE COUNTRY.</h2> + +<div class='story'> +<p><span class="smcap">Fanny</span> and Willy are having +a nice ride on the back of the +great cart-horse.</p> + +<p>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."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 231px;"> +<img src="images/illus092.png" width="231" height="300" alt="Feeding chickens" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Kate and Jane both say that +the hens are fond of them; but +I think they are still more fond +of the corn.</p> +</div> +<div class='sig'> +A. B. C.<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_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 361px;"> +<img src="images/illus093.png" width="361" height="425" alt="Dodger" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>DODGER.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Dodger</span> 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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Georgie's Mamma.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>THE MOTHER-HEN.</h2> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/illus094.png" width="200" height="100" alt="Mother-hen" title="" /> +</div> +<p><span class="smcap">By</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span> +nervously back and forth on the shore, and was not easy +till they came out of the water.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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,—</p> + +<p>"The chicken who can swim and <i>won't</i> swim must be +made to swim."</p> + +<div class='sig'> +L. W. E.<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_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/illus096.png" width="300" height="200" alt="Song of the Cat" title="" /> +</div> +<h2>SONG OF THE CAT.</h2> + +<div class='center'>Words by <span class='smcap'>A. Lloyd.</span> Music by <span class='smcap'>T. Crampton</span></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus096-music.png" width="500" height="567" 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/mar77.mid">here</a>.]</small><br /><br /></div> + + + +<div class='poem2'> +1. The cat and her kittens recline in the sun,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">They're fond of their food and they're fond of their fun;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Their old mother says they must sit in a row,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">The biggest is Jack and the little one Joe,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And now altogether they make the place ring,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">With the one song they know and the chorus they sing:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew! . . .</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew!</span><br /> +<br /> +2. My dear little kittens when you are well grown,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Some day you will each have a home of your own;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">You'll catch all the mice and you'll kill all the rats,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And grow up, I hope, both respectable cats,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Don't get in the cupboard, nor kill the poor lark,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Keep away from big dogs and get home before dark;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew! . . .</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew!</span><br /> +<br /> +3. The kittens they listen'd and said they'd be good,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And not kill the birds nor destroy the young brood!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">They lov'd their good mother, and tho't 'twould be nice,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">To grow strong and hearty and catch and kill mice.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">She wash'd all their faces and put them to bed,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And now what do you think was the last thing they said;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew! . . .</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Mew! mew! mew!</span><br /> +</div> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3> +<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> + +<p>A comma was changed to a period on page 94. (tasted very good.)</p></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. +3, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, MARCH 1877 *** + +***** This file should be named 28131-h.htm or 28131-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/1/3/28131/ + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. 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The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3, 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, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28131] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, MARCH 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. 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. 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