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diff --git a/28134.txt b/28134.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..99c2d24 --- /dev/null +++ b/28134.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1307 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, June 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 6, 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, June 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 6 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28134] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, JUNE 1877 *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. + + + + + + + +THE + +NURSERY + + +_A Monthly Magazine_ + +FOR YOUNGEST READERS. + +VOLUME XXI.--No. 6. + + 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. + + Arthur's New Sloop 161 + A True Story 164 + Playing Soldier 167 + Madie's Visit at Grandma's 168 + What I overheard 170 + The Encounter 173 + Jamie's Letter to a Little Uncle 174 + The Disappointed Kitty 175 + The Mare and her Colt 177 + The Fisherman's Return 180 + More about Crickets 183 + Fifth Lesson in Astronomy 185 + + +IN VERSE. + + Tot's Turnover 163 + The Kingfisher 166 + Bye-Lo-Land 171 + Kissing a Sunbeam 179 + The Puppy and the Wasp 182 + June 187 + +[Illustration: Birds] + + + + +[Illustration: ARTHUR'S NEW SLOOP.] + + + + + +ARTHUR'S NEW SLOOP. + + +"[Illustration: N]OW, boys," said Uncle Martin, "if you were at sea in a +vessel like this, what should you do when you saw a squall coming up?" + +"I should take in all sail, and scud under bare poles," said Arthur. + +"But what if you did not want to be blown ashore?" + +"Then I should leave out the first reef, so as to catch as much wind as +I could risk, and steer for the sea, the sea, the open sea." + +"Well, that's pretty well said, though not just as a sailor would say +it. Look here, Henry, where is the stern?" + +"You have your left hand on it, sir." + +"That's true. And where's the rudder?" + +"Your little finger is resting on it." + +"What sort of a craft do you call this?" + +"I call it a sloop; for it has but one mast." + +"If you were holding the tiller, and I were to say, 'Larboard' or +'port,' what should you do?" + +"If I stood looking forward, I should move the tiller to the left side +of the vessel." + +"That's right; and, if I said 'Starboard,' you would move the tiller to +the right side.--Now, boys, which of you can tell me the difference +between a tiller and a helm?" + +"I always thought," said Arthur, "that they meant pretty much the same +thing." + +"No: the difference is this," said Uncle Martin: "A tiller is this +little bar or handle by which I move the rudder. The helm is the whole +of the things for steering, consisting of a rudder, a tiller, and, in +large vessels, a wheel by which the tiller is moved. So a tiller is only +a part of the helm." + +"Yes, now I understand," said Arthur. "How jolly it is to have an Uncle +Martin to explain things!" + +"You rogue, you expect me to be at the launch, eh?" + +"Yes, uncle: I've got a bottle of hard cider to smash, on the occasion. +It ought to be rum, by the old rule." + +"The best thing to do with rum is to pour it into the sea," said Uncle +Martin. "But what's the name of the new sloop?" + +"Ah! that you will hear at the launch," said Arthur. + +"It's the 'Artful Dodger,'" whispered brother Henry. + + ALFRED SELWYN. + +[Illustration] + + + + +TOT'S TURNOVER. + + + SUGARED and scalloped and cut as you see, + With juicy red wreath and name, T-O-T, + This is the turnover dear little Tot + Set in the window there all piping hot: + Proud of her work, she has left it to cool: + Benny must share it when he's out of school. + Scenting its flavor, Prince happens that way, + Wonders if Tot will give him some to-day. + Benny is coming, he's now at the gate-- + Prince for himself decides not to wait. + Oh, pity! 'tis gone, and here you and I + See the last that Tot saw of that pretty pie. + + M. A. C. + + + + +A TRUE STORY. + + +ONCE, when I lived in the country, some robins built a nest in a +lilac-bush in the garden. One day I looked in the nest, and saw one +little green egg. Two or three days after, I saw three more little green +eggs, and pretty soon what did I see there but four little cunning +baby-birdies? + +The old birds seemed so happy as they fed their little ones, who opened +their mouths wide to take the food in, that I loved dearly to watch +them. + +One night there came a terrible storm of wind and rain. When I awoke in +the morning, and opened my window, there were the old robins flying +about the garden in great distress, making such a dreadful cry, that I +went out to see what was the matter. What do you think I saw? + +The pretty nest was on the ground, torn in pieces by the wind; and the +little baby-birds lay in the cold wet grass, crying pitifully. The old +birds were flying about, and beating the grass with their wings. + +I ran to the house, and found an old tin pail. I lined this with nice +hay from Billy's stable, picked up the poor little robins, and put them +in the warm dry hay. Then I hung the pail on a branch of the bush, tied +it firmly with some twine, and went into the house to watch the old +birds from my window. + +They looked first on one side, then on the other, to see that there was +nobody near. At last they flew to the old pail, and stood on its edge. +Pretty soon they began to sing as if they were just as happy as they +could be. + +I think they liked the old pail just as well as their pretty nest; for +they lived in it till the little baby-birdies were able to fly, and to +feed themselves. + +One day I looked in the pail, and it was empty. The birdies had grown +up, and had flown away. + + HANNAH PAULDING. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE KINGFISHER. + + + WHERE the white lilies quiver + By the sedge in the river, + I fly in and out, + I hunt all about; + For I am the daring kingfisher, + kingfisher! + + Rod and line have not I, + But, a fish when I spy, + From the tree-top I start, + And down, down, I dart; + For I am the daring kingfisher, kingfisher! + + My dinner I make, + My pleasure I take, + And the fish must be quick + That would parry my trick; + For I am the daring kingfisher, kingfisher! + + Now summer is near, + And the boys will be here; + But I fly or I run, + When I look on a gun, + Tho' I am the daring kingfisher, kingfisher! + + EMILY CARTER. + +[Illustration] + + + + +PLAYING SOLDIER. + + +LITTLE Mary lives in Boston. She has no brothers or sisters to play with +her, and no mother. But her papa plays with her a great deal. + +There is one game she has with him that is very entertaining to others +who are looking on. At least so her aunts and uncles thought on +Thanksgiving evening, when it was played for their amusement. I have +called the game "Playing soldier." Mary was the captain; and her papa +was the soldier. + +This is the way it was done: Mary went to her papa, who was standing, +and placed herself in front of him, with her back against him. "Shoulder +arms!" shouted the little captain; and her tall soldier immediately put +her on his left shoulder, in imitation of the real soldier, who holds +his musket or gun against that place. + +"Forward march!" shouted our little captain again; and her soldier +marched forward with a quick step. + +"Halt!" cried she after he had marched back; and he stopped at once. + +"Ground arms!" was the next command; and the soldier put his captain +down on the floor in front of him just as she had stood before--and the +play was over. + + M. + + + + +MADIE'S VISIT AT GRANDMA'S. + + +MADIE is a dear little girl who lives in a pretty village in the State +of New York. Every summer she goes to visit her grandmother, whose home +is at Bay View, near a beautiful body of water called Henderson Bay, a +part of Lake Ontario. + +She is very happy at Bay View; for, besides grandma, there are an uncle +and two aunts, who are never too busy to swing her in the hammock, out +under the maples, or play croquet with her on the lawn. + +Sometimes she drives out with her uncle behind his black ponies; and, if +the road is smooth and level, he lets Madie hold the reins. But she +likes better to go with him on the water, in his fine sail-boat, +"Ildrian," which is a Spanish name, and means "fleet as lightning." + +When the weather is fine, and the water is calm, her aunts take her out +rowing in their pretty row-boat, "Echo." As they row along by the shore, +stopping now and then to gather water-lilies, Madie looks at the pretty +cottages and white tents nestled among the green trees, where the city +people are spending their summer. + +They pass many boats on the way, filled with ladies and gentlemen, who +give them a gay salute; and Madie waves her handkerchief in one hand, +and her little flag in the other, as they go by. Sometimes they go +ashore in a shady cove; and Aunt Clara fills her basket with ferns and +moss, while Madie picks up shells and gay-colored stones on the beach. + +[Illustration] + +But these lovely summer-days go by quickly. October comes, and with it +Madie's mamma, to claim her little girl, who is so tanned and rosy, that +mamma calls her, "Gypsy," and thinks papa will hardly know his little +"sunbeam" now. + +So Madie kisses everybody "good-by" a great many times,--even the +bay-colt in the pasture, and the four smutty kittens at the barn,--and +goes back to her own home. But, when the sweet June roses bloom again, +she will go once more to Bay View, which she thinks is the nicest place +in the world. + + MERLE ARMOUR. + + + + +WHAT I OVERHEARD. + + +ONE day last summer, at the great Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, +I overheard a conversation that interested me very much. The subject of +it was a queer little animal called a "gopher," which sat stuck up in a +case with its comical little head perched up in the air; for it wasn't +even _alive_, but was a poor little stuffed gopher. + +In front of the case I noticed two farmers, who were talking about my +little friend in a very earnest way: so I listened to their remarks. + +"Yes," said one, "I tell you he is a dreadful creature to dig. Why, he +makes us a sight of trouble out our way! can't keep anything that he can +dig for, away from him." + +"Is that so?" said the other man. + +"Yes. Why, I pay my boys five cents for every one of 'em they catch; and +it's lively work getting 'em, I tell you! See his nose, now! doesn't +that look sharp? I tell you, when that fellow gets hold of a job, he +_keeps right at it_! There is no _giving up_ in him." + +"Dear me!" thought I, "how nice of little gopher! Ugly as he is, I quite +fall in love with him." And I drew nearer, and showed, I suppose, my +interest in my face; for the speaker turned around, and addressed me. + +"Yes, ma'am, he steals my potatoes, and does lots of mischief. Just look +at those paws of his! Doesn't he keep them busy, though!" + +"Are gophers so very industrious, then?" I asked. + +"Industrious, ma'am! Well, yes: they've got the _work_ in them, that's +true; and, if they begin any thing, they'll see it through. They don't +sit down discouraged, and give up; but they keep right on, even when +there's no hope. Oh, they're brave little fellows!" And the honest old +farmer beamed in admiration upon the stiff, little unconscious specimen +before us in the case. + +"It is very interesting," I said, "to know of such patience in a little +animal like this." + +"Yes, ma'am," he responded: "you would think so if you could see one. +Why, _working_ is their _life_. If they couldn't work, they'd die. I +know, 'cause I've proved it. Once, we caught one, and I put him in a +box, and my boys and I threw in some sand. The box was considerably big, +and the little fellow went right to work. He dug, and threw it all back +of him over to the other side; then back of him again, till he went +through that sand I don't know how many times. Well, he was as lively as +a cricket, and, to try what he would do, I took away the sand, and 'twas +but a few hours before he was dead. Yes, dead, ma'am! just as dead as +this one, here!" pointing with his finger to our friend in the case, who +preserved a stolid indifference to the fate of his gopher-cousin. + +I stopped to take a further look at "little gopher," with whom I felt +pretty well acquainted by this time. + + H. M. S. + +[Illustration] + + + + +BYE-LO-LAND. + + + BABY is going to Bye-lo-land, + Going to see the sights so grand: + Out of the sky the wee stars peep, + Watching to see her fast asleep. + Swing so, + Bye-lo! + Over the hills to Bye-lo-land. + + Oh the bright dreams in Bye-lo-land, + All by the loving angels planned! + Soft little lashes downward close, + Just like the petals of a rose. + Swing so, + Bye-lo! + Prettiest eyes in Bye-lo-land! + +[Illustration] + + Sweet is the way to Bye-lo-land, + Guided by mother's gentle hand. + Little lambs now are in the fold, + Little birds nestle from the cold. + Swing so, + Bye-lo! + Baby is safe in Bye-lo-land! + + GEORGE COOPER. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE ENCOUNTER. + + +_Mr. Jones._--Good-morning, madam. It is a fine day. Are you going out +for a walk? + +_Mrs. Smith._--I was just taking my little Aldabella out for an airing. +Poor child! She has been kept in the house so long by the bad weather, +that she has lost all her color. + +_Mr. Jones._--Be careful, and don't let her catch the whooping-cough. + +_Mrs. Smith._--O sir! you alarm me. Is it much about? + +_Mr. Jones._--Yes, ma'am: so is the measles. I know two gentlemen who +were kept away from their base-ball last Saturday afternoon by the +measles. + +_Mrs. Smith._--What an affliction! Is that horse of yours safe? Does he +ever kick? + +_Mr. Jones._--I never knew him to kick in my life; but, as you see, he +is a little restive: he may step on your toes. + +_Mrs. Smith._--Oh, pray hold him in, Mr. Jones! Don't let him be so gay. + +_Mr. Jones._--Madam, my horse seems to be of the opinion that we have +talked long enough: so I will wish you a very good-morning. + +_Mrs. Smith._--Good-morning, Mr. Jones. Pray don't run over any little +boys in the street. + +_Mr. Jones._--Little boys must not come in my way. Good-by, Mrs. Smith! +Good-by, Miss Aldabella! + + + + +JAMIE'S LETTER TO A LITTLE UNCLE. + + +_My dear little Uncle_,--You see I have not forgotten that long ago you +wrote me a letter. My mamma told me to-night that she would answer it +for me, because something happened yesterday that I want you to know. + +You remember it was May-day. Mamma said, "Jamie, you are too little a +boy to go out in the fields and woods Maying." That made me feel badly, +because the sun was shining so brightly, and the grass looked so green, +that I was sure there were plenty of flowers hidden away in the fields. + +So I thought, "What can a little boy do? I am so little, I can't walk. I +am so little, I can't talk much. I can creep, but when I get to a nice +bit on the floor and put it into my mouth, mamma jumps, and takes it +away, and says, 'No, no, baby!' What can I do? what can I do to please +everybody?" + +At last I thought of something. I was sitting in mamma's lap, when, all +at once, she called out, "Aunt Fanny, come here and put your thimble in +the baby's mouth. I'm sure that's a tooth." And, sure enough, one little +tooth had just peeped out. Then everybody said, "Baby has a tooth!" I +didn't tell them that I went Maying all by myself, and found that little +tooth; but I tell you as a secret, little uncle. + +Dear little uncle, I am growing very big. Next summer I can run on the +beach with you, and dig in the sand. + +Now you must kiss my grandmamma for me; give her a kiss on her right +eye, her left cheek, her nose, and her lips, and whisper in her ear that +I love her very much; then pull my grandpapa's whiskers, and give him +two kisses; then give a kiss to all my uncles and aunts, and take one +for yourself from your little nephew, + + JAMIE. + + + + +THE DISAPPOINTED KITTY. + + +[Illustration] + +THE name of my kitten is Breezy. I gave her that name because she is +never quiet. When she cannot frolic, she mews; but, as she is frolicking +all the time when she is not asleep, she does not make much of an +outcry, after all. + +It has been the height of Breezy's ambition to catch a mouse. The other +day, I was sitting in my little arm-chair, studying my spelling-lesson, +when what should come forth from under the cupboard but a wee mouse not +much bigger than the bowl of a teaspoon. + +Breezy, for a wonder, was asleep on the rug. Mousie looked around, as if +in search of some crumbs. I put down my book, and kept very still. Which +did I favor in my heart,--Mousie, or Breezy? + +To tell the truth, my sympathies were divided. The little bright-eyed +mouse was so cunning and swift, that I thought to myself, "What a pity +to kill such a bright little fellow!" But then I knew how disappointed +poor Breezy would be, if she should wake, and learn somehow that a mouse +had run over the floor while she was indulging in inglorious slumber. + +Out came mousie quite boldly, and, finding some crumbs under the table, +nibbled at them in great haste. Poor little fellow, if I had had a bit +of cheese, I should have been tempted to give it to him, there and then. + +But, all at once, Breezy woke, and saw what was going on. Mousie, +however, had not been so stupid, while making his meal, as not to keep +one eye open on his enemy. Quick as a flash he ran for the little crack +that led under the cupboard, and thus made his escape. + +Poor Breezy! She seemed really ashamed of herself. She had her nose at +that crack a full hour after mousie had escaped. It seemed as if she +could not get over her disappointment. Every day since then she has +patiently watched the cupboard. Will mousie give her another chance? +That remains to be seen. + + FANNY EVERTON. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration: THE MARE AND HER COLT. + +V. XXI.--NO. 6.] + + + + +THE MARE AND HER COLT. + + +HERE is a picture of the mare and her colt. The old mare is almost +white; but the colt is jet black. He is a bright little fellow, and I am +sure that his mother is proud of him. + +Our Willie likes to stand at the bars of the pasture and look at the +colt. He often comes so near that the little boy pats him on the head. + +Willie has named the colt "Frisky," because he is so very lively. He is +so nimble with his heels, that it is not safe for a small boy to go very +near him now; but Willie expects to ride him by and by. + + A. B. C. + +[Illustration] + + + + +KISSING A SUNBEAM. + + + LITTLE Baby Brown-Eyes + Sitting on the floor, + Every thing around him + Ready to explore, + Plumpy, dumpy, roly-poly, + Pretty Baby Brown-Eyes + Sitting on the floor! + + Flutters in a sunbeam + Through the open door, + Like a golden butterfly + Silently before + Plumpy, dumpy, roly-poly, + Pretty Baby Brown-Eyes + Sitting on the floor. + + See his little fingers + Eager for a prize, + And the hungry gladness + Laughing in his eyes! + Plumpy, dumpy, roly-poly, + Pretty Baby Brown-Eyes + Capturing a prize! + + Plucking at the sunbeam + With his finger-tips, + Tenderly he lifts them + To his rosy lips; + Plumpy, dumpy, roly-poly, + Pretty Baby Brown-Eyes + Kissing the pink tips! + + Brother of the sunbeam, + With your browny eyes, + Greet your silent sister, + Stealing from the skies; + Plumpy, dumpy, roly-poly, + Pretty Baby Brown-Eyes + Kiss her as she flies! + + Mamma catches sunbeams + In your laughing eye, + Hiding in your dimples, + Peeping very sly: + Plumpy, dumpy, roly-poly, + Pretty Baby Brown-Eyes, + She'll kiss them on the fly! + + GEORGE S. BURLEIGH. + + + + +THE FISHERMAN'S RETURN HOME. + + +"FATHER is coming! Father is coming!" was little Tim's cry, as he sat at +the window of the little house by the seashore. + +"How do you know he is coming?" said mother, who was tending the baby, +and at the same time trying to sew up the seams of a dress for Miss +Bella, the second child. + +"I know he is coming, because I can see him in his boat," cried Tim. +"Hurrah, hurrah! I'll be the first one at the landing." + +Mamma was by this time satisfied that her husband, Mr. Payson, was +indeed in sight. He was a fisherman, and had been absent, on a trip to +the Banks of Newfoundland, more than six weeks. There had been many +storms during that time, and she had passed some anxious moments. + +But now there he was before her eyes, safe and sound. "Come, Bella," she +said, "let us see if we can't get the first kiss." + +"No, no, I'll get it!" cried Tim, starting on the run for the +landing-place. + +Sure enough, Tim got the first kiss; but mother's and baby's and +Bella's soon followed; and so there was no complaint. + +[Illustration] + +Mr. Payson had made a prosperous trip. His schooner lay off the point, +and he had sold his fish at a good profit. + +How glad he was to get home, and find his family well! Tim brought him +his primer, and proudly pointed to the pages he could read. Bella showed +her first attempts at sewing; and, as for baby, she showed how well she +could crow and frolic. + +"I've found the first violet, papa," cried Bella. + +"But I saw it first," said Tim. + +"And I smelt of it first," said mother. + +"And baby pulled it to pieces first," added Bella. + +It was a happy meeting; and father and mother agreed that to come home +and find all the little ones well and happy was better even than to sell +his fish at a good price. + + UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +THE PUPPY AND THE WASP. + + +[Illustration] + + AS asleep I was lying, + My ear on the ground, + A queer thing came flying + And humming around. + Humming and coming + Close to my ear: + Shall I never be quiet? + O dear, and O dear! + +[Illustration] + + You bold little teaser, + Now take yourself off; + Of your buzzing and fussing + I've had quite enough. + You will not? Tormentor, + I mean to rest here, + So mind how you vex me, + And come not too near. + +[Illustration] + + You dare to defy me? + You come all the bolder? + I'll punish you, rash one, + Ere I'm a breath older. + With my big paw uplifted + I'll crush you to dust: + Shoo! What a dodger! + Leave me--you must! + +[Illustration] + + I'll bite you, I'll kill you, + I snap and I spring: + If I only could catch you, + You rude saucy thing! + If you were not so little, + So cunning and spry, + I'd punish you quickly, + Pert wretch! you should die. + +[Illustration] + + It darts quick as lightning,-- + O woe, and O woe! + On the nose it has stung me: + O, it burns and smarts so! + It pains like a needle, + It gives me no rest; + Oh, the wasp is a creature + I hate and detest. + +[Illustration] + + He knows he has hurt me, + Away now he darts; + Oh, poor little puppy! + It smarts and it smarts! + To think such an insect + Should worry a dog! + He could not have hurt me, + If I'd been a log! + + + + +MORE ABOUT CRICKETS. + + +WE keep crickets in a box, and find them very interesting. They are very +active, and occupy themselves in laying eggs, digging holes, eating, +singing, and running. Only the males sing, and their wings are very +rough, and curiously marked. + +Crickets have four different kinds of wings,--yellow, brown, black, and +brownish-red. Those that have yellow wings seem to be less hardy than +the others. They do not sing so well, but lay and eat more. + +The brown-winged crickets are quite common, but not so common as the +black-winged, which are the most common of all kinds. Brownish-red +crickets are very rare. Those that are black with yellow spots where +the wings come out, sing the best. + +The eggs are yellow, about an eighth of an inch long, and of an oval +shape. + +When we were in Lynn, a very handsome yellow-winged singer came into the +box, and ate three crickets. We put him in another box with his mate, +which he brought with him. In the same box were a large female, and a +common sized white-winged cricket, both of which he ate. + +[Illustration] + +Afterwards we found in his place a black-winged singer, somewhat smaller +than the yellow-winged one was; but his mate remained the same as +before. + +Some spiders make holes in the ground, and, when the crickets go into +them, the spiders eat them. + +The male crickets fight with each other, singing all the while; and the +one that beats sings on, all the louder. + +There is another kind of cricket that is a great deal smaller, and sings +much longer, in an undertone. Its wings are always yellow or brown; but +we do not know much about crickets of this kind, except that their +habits are similar to those of the large ones, and that they are very +numerous. + + HERBERT AND ELLA LYMAN. + +[Illustration] + + + + +FIFTH LESSON IN ASTRONOMY. + + + "A little boy was dreaming, + Upon his nurse's lap, + That the pins fell out of all the stars, + And the stars fell into his cap. + + So, when his dream was over, + What should that little boy do? + Why, he went and looked inside his cap-- + And found it wasn't true." + +IF that little boy had been wide awake, and out of doors, with his cap +on his head, instead of dreaming in his nurse's lap, don't you think he +might really have seen a star fall out of the sky? Haven't you all seen +one many a time? + +But you would never dream that those blazing suns, the stars, are pinned +into the sky, and that they might tumble into your cap if the pins fell +out. You know better than that; but do you know what does happen when a +star falls? + +We say, "A star falls," because what we see falling looks to us like a +star; but it really is no more like a star than a lump of coal. If we +should see a piece of blazing coal falling through the air, we might be +foolish enough to think that, too, was a star. And what we call a +shooting star is, perhaps, more like a lump of coal on fire than like +any thing else you know of. + +Sometimes these shooting stars fall to the ground, and are picked up and +found to be rocks. How do you suppose they take fire? It is by striking +against the air which is around our earth. They come from nobody knows +where, and are no more on fire than any rock is, until they fall into +our air; and that sets them blazing, just as a match lights when you rub +it against something. + +These meteors, as they are called, do not often fall to the ground; only +the very large ones last until they reach the earth; most of them burn +up on their way down. I think that is lucky, because they might at any +time fall into some little boy's cap and spoil it, and might even fall +on his head, if they were in the habit of falling anywhere. + +That little boy who thought the stars were only pinned in their places +must have felt very uneasy. I don't wonder that he dreamed about them. + +Once in a great while, a shower of meteors rains down upon the earth; +and sometimes many of them can be seen falling from the sky, and burning +up in the air. + +The fall of the year is the best time for meteors; but you will be +pretty sure to see one any evening you choose to look for it, and, +perhaps, on the Fourth of July one of them will celebrate the day by +bursting like a rocket, as they sometimes do. + + M. E. R. + +[Illustration] + + + + +JUNE. + + + THE pretty flowers have come again, + The roses and the daisies; + And from the trees, oh, hear how plain + The birds are singing praises! + + The grass is fresh and green once more; + The sky is clear and sunny; + And bees are laying in a store + Of pure and golden honey. + + The little modest buttercup, + The dandelion splendid, + Their heads are bravely holding up, + Now winter's reign is ended. + + How charming now our walks will be + By meadows full of clover, + Through shady lanes, where we can see + The branches bending over! + + The flowers are blooming fresh and bright + In just the same old places, + And oh, it fills me with delight + To see their charming faces. + + The air is sweet, the sky is blue, + The woods with songs are ringing; + And I'm so happy, that I, too, + Can hardly keep from singing. + + JOSEPHINE POLLARD. + +[Illustration] + + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes: + +The January edition of the Nursery had a table of contents for the first +six issues of the year. 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