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+Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, July 1877, XXII. No. 1, by Various
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+Title: The Nursery, July 1877, XXII. No. 1
+ A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28135]
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+
+THE
+
+NURSERY
+
+
+_A Monthly Magazine_
+
+
+FOR YOUNGEST READERS.
+
+
+VOLUME XXII.--No. 1.
+
+
+ BOSTON:
+ JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET,
+ 1877.
+
+
+
+
+ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by
+ JOHN L. SHOREY,
+ In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
+
+
+ FRANKLIN PRESS:
+ RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY,
+ 117 FRANKLIN STREET,
+ BOSTON.
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Contents.]
+
+
+IN PROSE.
+
+ PAGE
+ Percy and the Oxen 3
+ Pet Rabbits 5
+ Fourth of July Morning 7
+ A Fish Story 11
+ Buttercup's Circus 13
+ At Sea 14
+ Drawing-Lesson 17
+ Solomon and the tame Bear 18
+ Sixth Lesson in Astronomy 21
+ Pictures for Mary 25
+ The Chamois 28
+
+
+IN VERSE.
+
+ PAGE
+ The Wild Bees' Home 1
+ Chipping-Birds' Song 6
+ The little Deserter 9
+ At Dinner 20
+ Teddy's Kitten 23
+ The Garden Tools 30
+ What does little Birdie say? (_with music_) 32
+
+[Illustration: A Merry Christmas to You]
+
+[Illustration:
+
+ WILD BEES OF THE WOOD ARE WE;
+ BUT OUR HIVE YOU MUST NOT SEE.
+
+VOL. XXII.--NO. 1.]
+
+
+
+
+THE WILD BEES' HOME.
+
+
+ WILD bees of the wood are we;
+ But our hive you must not see:
+ Here behold our happy home,
+ Where we labor, where we roam.
+ Brooks that on their shining bosoms
+ Catch the overhanging blossoms;
+ Banks all bright with clustering flowers,--
+ Here is where we pass our hours.
+
+ Seldom on this solitude
+ Does a girl or boy intrude;
+ Few among you are aware
+ What a home is ours, so fair!
+ In the brook are little fish;
+ You would like them on a dish:
+ Keep away, and bring no hooks
+ To these happy, murmuring brooks.
+
+ You would like to find our hoard
+ Of honey-comb and honey stored;
+ You would track us, if you could,
+ Through the field, and through the wood,
+ Till, within some hollow tree,
+ You our waxen cells could see.
+ But beware now what you do;
+ Treat us well, and we'll treat you.
+
+ DORA BURNSIDE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+PERCY AND THE OXEN.
+
+
+SUMMER came, and the city streets were dry, dusty, and noisy, and the
+bricks made everybody's eyes ache.
+
+So mamma took little Percy, who was only three years old, and the rosy,
+fat one-year-old baby, and went away in the steam cars to the green,
+fresh, cool, sunny country. Grandpa was left all alone in the still city
+home, with good old 'Titia to keep house for him until the family should
+come back in the fall.
+
+Well, those who could go to the country had just as much fun as they
+could wish for,--sitting out under the trees all the sunny days, and in
+the barn, when the sun was too hot for them to want him to shine on
+them.
+
+One day, great-aunt Hannah was giving her nephews and nieces a dinner of
+corn and beans, and apples and cream, and nice bread and butter, and
+they all sat at the table a long time, talking and laughing, and
+enjoying themselves.
+
+All at once little mamma said, "Why, where's Percy?" and sprang up, and
+ran to the side-door, which opened on to the green.
+
+No Percy was to be seen there: so all began to hunt through the
+sitting-room, even through the parlor (where he never played), out in
+the kitchen, farther out through the long wood-shed, still farther out
+in the carriage-house; but he was in none of these places.
+
+Then great-aunt Hannah opened the cupboards, and pulled out the drawers,
+as though she expected to find the "grand-boy" rolled up in a napkin,
+and tucked away in a corner.
+
+There was a high state of flutter when mamma peeped round the edge of
+the open dining-room door, and said, "Come with me."
+
+She was so smiling, that every one knew the search was up; and a row of
+tall people and short people, headed by little mamma, and ended by tall
+aunt Hannah, streamed out and over the green, across the road. There
+they were stopped, and told by mamma to go softly and look in one of the
+barn-windows.
+
+What did they see? A good load of sweet-scented hay piled on a wide
+hay-cart, two big oxen yoked to that, standing in the middle of the
+barn-floor, with their two great heads held down very low.
+
+In front of them was little chubby Percy, in his clean white frock,
+swinging a tiny pail, that would hold a teaspoonful of berries, in one
+hand, and with the other holding out a berry to the oxen, as they put
+their great mouths down to be fed.
+
+ AUNT EMMIE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+PET RABBITS.
+
+
+MANY of my little readers have owned tame rabbits; but I doubt if they
+ever had for a pet the little wild rabbit who lives in the woods, and,
+at the South, builds his nest above ground.
+
+On a warm, sunny afternoon in May, two little rabbits, whose mother had
+been killed by a dog, were brought home in a gentleman's pocket, and
+given to my little boys. They were not old enough to feed themselves: so
+we put some milk in a small bottle, and tied a piece of sponge to the
+neck of it, and in that way the little things sucked up the milk.
+
+The children had a large, old-fashioned fireplace in their room, and,
+after taking out the andirons, they covered the bricks with fresh clover
+and grass, making a safe and snug home for the rabbits at night. Several
+times a day they were allowed to run about the lawn, and crop the sweet
+white clover; and often at night, they would jump out from their home in
+the fireplace, and run about the room.
+
+They were named George and Mary Rabbit, and always used to sleep side by
+side. But after a few weeks they must have felt tired of their humdrum
+life; for one bright morning they ran away. I hope they are living
+happily together in the fragrant woods from which they were brought.
+
+ CHARLIE'S MAMMA.
+ KITTRELLS, N. C.
+
+
+
+
+CHIPPING-BIRDS' SONG.
+
+
+ "CHIPPER, chipper, clear the way;
+ We must be at work to-day.
+ See us swiftly fly along,
+ Hear our bursts of merry song.
+ Watch me in my busy flight,
+ Glancing in your window bright;
+ Save your bits of yarn for me,
+ Just think what a help 'twould be!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ "Chip, chip, chipper!" How he sings,
+ As he comes for shreds and strings,
+ Which he is not slow to see,
+ From the budding lilac-tree!
+ Now with cunning, saucy pranks,
+ See him nod his hearty thanks:
+ "These are just the thing," sings he;
+ "Truly you are helping me!"
+
+ "Chipper, chipper!" See him go;
+ Now 'tis fast, and now 'tis slow;
+ Working ever at the nest,
+ Never stopping once to rest;
+ Getting little straws and strings
+ For his good wife, while he sings,
+ "Chip, chip, chipper, gay are we;
+ See us in the lilac-tree!"
+
+ "Chipper, chipper," all day long;
+ Thus I hear his tuneful song,
+ Meaning, as he flutters past,
+ Gayly warbling, working fast,
+ "I can't stop to talk to you;
+ I have got my work to do:
+ Chip, chip, chipper, clear the way;
+ We shall finish up to-day."
+
+ ANNIE A. PRESTON.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+FOURTH OF JULY MORNING.
+
+
+MAT, Let, and Win are the names by which three little sisters of my
+acquaintance are usually called. These are nicknames, of course. Can you
+guess what their real names are?
+
+Lest you should be too long about it, I will tell you: they are Matilda,
+Letitia, and Winifred. Mat is the one standing on the chair in the
+picture; Let is the one sitting on the bed, with her left foot hanging
+down; and Win, the youngest, is the one sitting up in bed.
+
+What is the cause of all this commotion? It is only four o'clock in the
+morning; but Mat and Let have rushed into Win's room to get a good view,
+out of her window, of the men firing guns out on the green. It is the
+Fourth of July.
+
+"Why do they wake us up so early with their bell-ringing, their
+crackers, and guns?" said Let. "I hate the Fourth of July!"
+
+"She talks like a rebel," said Win. "She must be put in prison."
+
+"That is not a bad idea, Win," said Mat. "She hates the Fourth of July,
+does she?--the birthday of the great republic! She hates it!--the day
+that made us a nation."
+
+"Yes; and I hate the stars and stripes, and all this fuss and noise,
+this smell of smoke, and firing of crackers," said Let, showing a fist.
+
+"Jump up, Win, and help me arrest this rebel," said Mat. "The country is
+lost if we allow such talk."
+
+The next minute, the three sisters were running about the room,--Mat and
+Win trying to catch poor Let, and thrust her into the closet, which was
+to be her prison. Such a stamping, such an outcry, as there was!
+
+"What's all that racket there?" cried papa, at last, from the foot of
+the stairs that led into his room underneath. "Isn't there noise enough
+out of doors, without your shaking the house over our heads?"
+
+"Let says she hates the Fourth of July, and the old flag," cried Mat;
+"and we think she ought to be put in prison as a rebel. We are trying to
+arrest her."
+
+"Go to bed, every one of you, you rogues!" said papa, "or I will put you
+all in prison for breaking the peace,--Where's my big whip, mother?"
+
+"I'll tell you where it is, papa," cried little Win.
+
+"Where, then, is it, you little darl--I mean you little rogue?" said
+papa.
+
+"It is where Cinderella's glass slippers are," screamed Win. "Ask the
+fairies where that is."
+
+What a scampering and laughing there was then!
+
+Papa made a pounding with his feet on the stairs, as if he were coming
+up in a great rage; but he and mamma were laughing all the time, and so
+were Mat and Let,--all but Win, and she kept a grave face.
+
+It was now almost five o'clock, and the three sisters made up their
+minds that they would dress themselves, and go out on the green to see
+the fun.
+
+ EMILY CARTER.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE LITTLE DESERTER.
+
+
+FREDERICK.
+
+ SEE him on the apple-tree,
+ Looking down so bold and free!
+ Now that he his wings can show us,
+ He pretends he does not know us.
+
+ Ah, you rogue! are you aware
+ How deserters often fare?
+ Come, be good, and I'll not chide:
+ See, the door is open wide.
+
+
+BIRDIE.
+
+ Peep, peep, peep!
+
+
+CLARA.
+
+ Were you not well treated by us?
+ Why, then, do you thus defy us?
+ Salad every morning early,
+ Crumbs of bread, and grains of barley,
+ Sugar, now and then a berry,
+ And in June a nice ripe cherry,--
+ These were yours; don't be ungrateful;
+ To desert us is too hateful.
+
+
+BIRDIE.
+
+ Peep, peep, peep!
+
+
+FREDERICK.
+
+ Now 'tis pleasant all, and sunny,
+ Bees are busy making honey,
+ You can flit from bough to bough,
+ You can sing and twitter now:
+ Wait till winter comes, you rover,
+ Then your frolic will be over.
+ Cats are on the roof already:
+ Birdie, dear, come back to Freddy.
+
+
+BIRDIE.
+
+ Peep, peep, peep!
+
+
+CLARA.
+
+ Peep and peep! What then, deserter?
+ Was there creature ever perter?
+ Mine you are; to me belong;
+ Me you owe each day a song.
+ Darling, here's your cage all clean;
+ Come, I say, and don't be mean;
+ Come, and be once more our pet,
+ And your fault we will forget.
+
+
+BIRDIE.
+
+ Peep, peep, peep! T'wee, t'wee, t'wee!
+
+
+PAPA.
+
+ Ha! he takes his merry flight,
+ And the little bird is right.
+ No deserter, child, is he,
+ Who escapes to liberty.
+ Air and sun and open sky
+ Birdie likes, as you and I.
+ Paid to him is now your debt,
+ And I'm glad: so do not fret.
+
+ IDA FAY.
+
+
+
+
+A FISH STORY.
+
+
+COUSIN WILLIE lives on a pleasant island in Chesapeake Bay. He has a
+boat called the "Nautilus." One morning he was taking a sail in his
+boat, when he saw a large fish-hawk soaring and wheeling through the
+air, as though in search of a breakfast for its young nestlings. At
+length it made a dive down to the water, and brought up a large fish.
+
+Just then an eagle that had been watching the fish-hawk from the top of
+a tree, came swooping down toward the hawk, as if determined to have the
+fish for his own breakfast.
+
+The eagle attacked the hawk; and the two birds fought for the fish until
+the hawk was forced to let it drop, when the eagle made a rapid swoop,
+and caught the fish in his talons.
+
+Cousin Willie, from his boat, watched the fight of the birds, and
+thought he would like to make the bold robber give up his prey. So he
+shot at him with a pistol, and gave him such a fright that he dropped
+the fish in his turn.
+
+Willie picked up the fish, took it home, and laid it upon a table in the
+kitchen to be cooked for dinner. But a sly old cat saw it on the table,
+and, as no one was near to prevent, she grabbed it quickly, and stole
+away with it to give herself and her kittens a breakfast.
+
+ Thus the cunning puss and her kitties, you see,
+ Got the better of those brave fishers three.
+
+ COUSIN LUCY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+BUTTERCUP'S CIRCUS.
+
+
+FRED and Bertie, two little black-eyed boys, were visiting their Aunt
+Susan in a beautiful country village. The large, old-fashioned house,
+under a giant elm-tree, was full of wonders to them; but their greatest
+delights were in driving the old gray horse, or feeding and petting an
+Alderney calf which their Uncle Harry was raising.
+
+This "baby-cow," as little Bertie called her, was kept away from its
+mother, old Clover, most of the day, and tied to a cherry-tree in the
+side yard. The boys named her Buttercup. They were allowed to feed her
+with meal and water; and she soon grew so tame, that they could pat and
+caress her as much as they pleased.
+
+One day Fred found an old saddle in the stable; and he proposed to
+Bertie to help him put it on the calf, and have a ride the length of
+her rope. They succeeded in fastening it upon Buttercup's smooth back;
+and Freddie exclaimed with delight, "Now we will have a first-class
+circus!"
+
+They brought a chair from the house, and placed it by the side of Miss
+Cow, she looking wonderingly at them with great round eyes. The boys
+both stood together in the chair, and Fred said, "Now I will count, and,
+when I say _four_, we must spring upon the saddle. One--two--three--four;"
+and on they went.
+
+But, before they could have said "_five_" Miss Buttercup's heels were in
+the air, and her head went down so quickly, that Master Fred felt a
+sudden chill, and found himself in a tub of rain-water that stood under
+the eaves of the wood-shed; while Bertie went head-foremost into a pan
+of meal and water.
+
+A slight noise followed their fall. Their uncle and aunt appeared. The
+saddle was sent back to the stable, and the boys did not engage
+Buttercup for any more circus performances that summer.
+
+ MAMMA MAGGIE.
+
+
+
+
+AT SEA.
+
+
+ BARK "MURRAY," PACIFIC OCEAN, December, 1876.
+
+_Dear Nursery_,--I am making a voyage, on a sailing vessel from San
+Francisco to the Sandwich Islands. We have been on the water for three
+weeks.
+
+Every day at noon, if the sun shines, the captain comes up on deck with
+a queer thing in his hand, which he calls a sextant. With this he looks
+at the sun, and finds out just where on this great ocean we are, and
+just how far we have gone in the last twenty-four hours. To-day he says
+we are three hundred miles from Honolulu.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There are twenty sails on this ship. I love to lie down on deck, and
+look at them; and I think it is a beautiful sight to see them all spread
+and filled with wind. It almost seems as if their tops touched the sky.
+All the masts and sails and ropes have names. I am sure it would take me
+a good while to learn them; but all the sailors know them.
+
+When the captain wants a sail changed, he gives the order in a very loud
+tone; then the first mate, who is never very far from the captain,
+repeats the order; and then the sailors run quickly to the ropes and
+pull away, and sing while they pull; and the sail goes up or down, just
+as the captain wants it.
+
+Every hour a sailor takes his turn at steering the ship: so there is
+always one man at the wheel. There is a large bell swung just in front
+of him, which he strikes every half-hour to mark the time. When it is
+twelve o'clock, he strikes the bell eight times; and it is eight bells
+again at four o'clock and at eight o'clock. The first hour after eight
+bells is two bells; the second, four bells; the third, six bells; and
+the half-hours strike the odd numbers,--three, five, and seven bells. It
+is a very funny way to tell time, I think.
+
+One day the captain slung a hammock on deck, and we had a nice time
+swinging in it. Another day, when the sea was very calm, he hung a rope
+from the rigging, and made a real swing for us. We have long fish-lines
+which we throw over the ship's side. Once a gentleman on board caught a
+beautiful dolphin, all green and blue and gold. The steward made a nice
+chowder out of the dolphin for our lunch, and we had baked dolphin for
+dinner that day.
+
+Thanksgiving Eve a little lamb was born on board. The sailors named it
+"Thanksgiving," for the day. It is a dear little lamb now,--so white and
+gentle! We have tied a blue ribbon around its neck, and it will run all
+over the deck after us, and go to sleep in our laps. There is a cunning
+little pig, too, which I call "Dennis," after the pig that I read about
+in "The Nursery." I wish it were really the same wonderful little pig;
+but mamma says she does not think it can be.
+
+I must tell you about the beautiful bouquet the steward made for our
+Thanksgiving dinner. It was made out of vegetables with a knife--yellow
+roses from carrots, and white roses, japonicas, and tuberoses from
+turnips and potatoes. Some of the petals he dipped into beet-water, and
+so made blush roses of them. Then he made two canary-birds of carrots,
+and perched them among the flowers. Mamma said that she had seen many a
+cluster of wax flowers that were not as beautiful.
+
+Perhaps I will write again when we arrive at Honolulu.
+
+ ROSE.
+
+[Illustration: DRAWING-LESSON BY HARRISON WEIR.
+
+Vol. XXII.--No. 1.]
+
+
+
+
+SOLOMON AND THE TAME BEAR.
+
+
+UNCLE REUBEN was a farmer; and he had a great many cattle, sheep,
+horses, pigs, geese, and turkeys, all of which, you know, are usually
+found on a large farm; and, besides these, he had one animal not usually
+found on a farm, and that was a tame bear. He hired a large boy to do
+the "chores," as the easy part of farm-work is called; and this boy's
+name was Solomon Sturtevant.
+
+Now, although the bear was tame, he was kept chained; for there was no
+knowing what mischief even a tame bear might take it into his head to
+do. He might take a notion to find out how a nice tender pig would
+taste.
+
+Solomon thought it fine sport to tease the bear, and there was one way
+of doing it more amusing than any other, and that was to pelt him with
+green chestnut-burs.
+
+Chestnut-burs, you know, are covered with sharp thorns; and yet the
+bear, being very fond of chestnuts, would try to get at the nuts which
+he knew were in them,--snarling and whining, and making up very comical
+faces, because the burs pricked his mouth.
+
+Solomon would stand and watch him, and think it fine fun. But he came
+near doing it once too often; for one day, when he had carried the bear
+a capful of burs, intending to have a good laugh at him, the chain that
+held the bear was not fastened as firmly as usual. After trying two or
+three burs, the bear made a spring toward Solomon, got loose from his
+chain, and started after him in earnest.
+
+Solomon was not long in deciding that he had something to do _that_ time
+besides laughing, and started in a hurry to get out of the bear's way.
+Now there was a ladder leaning against the side of the barn close by,
+and Solomon thought that if he went up on the barn-roof he would be all
+right.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+No such thing. The bear went right up the ladder after him. Then Solomon
+ran up the roof to the ridge; but the bear followed. Solomon ran down
+the other side of the roof, and so did the bear. Solomon jumped down to
+the cow-house, and still the bear followed him. Then Solomon jumped on
+to a shed that was close by the cow-house, and the bear jumped too.
+
+Solomon now began to think that his time had come. He gave one more jump
+from the shed to the ground. This was too much of a jump for the bear to
+take, and so Solomon made good his escape.
+
+I do not remember how the bear got down; but I am sure, that, when he
+did, Solomon did not care to feed him any more with green chestnut-burs.
+I think Solomon was too glad to escape a hugging to try it very soon
+again.
+
+This is a true story.
+
+ AUNT EM.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+AT DINNER.
+
+
+ MY little kittens, here, you see,
+ Are just as good as they can be;
+ Not often do three children dine,
+ Who are as well-behaved as mine.
+
+ I've taught them how to be polite,
+ To keep their bibs all clean and white,
+ To say, "Mee-oo" for "If you please,"
+ And never to be cross, or tease.
+
+ My darlings, Muff and Puff and Fluff,
+ Stop always when they've had enough:
+ They never come unwashed or late,
+ They never crowd or push the plate.
+
+ My care has not been vainly spent;
+ That's why I purr with such content;
+ For I'm the milk-white puss, you know,
+ That sits close by--their mother--SNOW.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+SIXTH LESSON IN ASTRONOMY.
+
+
+DID you ever hear of a great bear and a little bear made of stars? And a
+big dog? And a lion? If you never did, I suppose you would like to be
+told where they are,--such astonishing things as animals made of stars.
+But, if you think a minute, you will see that every thing that has any
+thing to do with stars must be up in the sky.
+
+Now this very night, if the stars come out before you go to bed, I want
+you to look for the Great Bear. It is not a real bear, of course; but it
+is a kind of picture of a bear. I wish it could growl, to give you an
+idea where it is, because, it really looks so little like a bear, it is
+very hard to find. It is nearly overhead now; but you needn't be a bit
+frightened. The Great Bear has never been known to drop down on little
+girls and boys.
+
+There is a funny thing about this bear. Part of him is a big dipper, and
+I think you will find him out by that. If you can find the seven bright
+stars in the shape of a dipper, you have found the bear's tail and a
+part of his body.
+
+And now I want to tell you how it happens that these stars are called
+the Great Bear. If you look up in the sky some bright starlight night,
+you will see there a good many different figures, in stars; and a long
+time ago, people gave names to these figures. To one of them they gave
+the name of the Great Bear; to another, the Little Bear; to another, the
+Great Dog; and so on. These different star-figures are called
+constellations. They really look very little like the things they are
+named for: so I can't expect you to find them without help.
+
+Now, it is very convenient to have the stars divided up in this way.
+When I asked you to find the red star last winter, it would have been a
+great help to you if I had told you what constellation it was in; but
+you might not have known what I meant by a constellation.
+
+I had so many pleasant letters about that red star, I am going to ask
+you to write again when you find the Great Bear, although I suppose most
+of you are abed and asleep before he comes out for the night. He will
+appear earlier when the days are shorter, and I do not believe he can
+escape all your bright eyes. But I should advise you to ask some one who
+knows where he is to point him out to you.
+
+ M. E. R.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+TEDDY'S KITTEN.
+
+
+ TO let the kitten lie and sleep
+ Is something Teddy cannot do;
+ Like caterpillar in a heap,
+ She'd like to curl the whole day through,
+ If Teddy did but want her to.
+
+ I wonder if she understands,
+ How just the look of her soft fur
+ So tempts his little roguish hands
+ He cannot keep away from her:
+ He says he wants "to hear her purr!"
+
+ And, if he does, 'tis well enough;
+ But then, why does he rub the way
+ To make her silky coat look rough?--
+ That coat of shining silver-gray,
+ So washed and polished every day?
+
+ Why is it that he loves so much
+ To tickle the unconscious paws
+ With just a finger tip or touch,
+ Or open them to find the claws?
+ _His_ reason for it is, "Because!"
+
+ When Teddy sometime wanted rest,
+ What if a giant came and sat
+ Beside him when he slept the best,
+ And rolled him this way, rubbed him that,
+ And teased him, as he does the cat?
+
+ Do you believe he'd smile and blink,
+ And bear the teasing patiently?
+ I think he'd wink a sleepy wink,
+ And say, not over pleasantly,
+ "O giant, please to let me be!"
+
+ MRS. CLARA DOTY BATES.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+PICTURES FOR MARY.
+
+
+WHEN little Jack Horner was eating pie, he put in his thumb, and pulled
+out a plum. When Mary's mother reads to her out of a book, the little
+girl acts a good deal like Jack.
+
+She puts out her finger, and points to the pictures. She thinks them
+the best part of the book. They are her plums.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+If Mary calls out, "Moo-o-o," you may know that she sees a picture of
+cows. Here is the very one she found a day or two ago. In it you see two
+cows,--a big one and a little one. The big cow is standing up, and the
+little cow is lying beside her.
+
+The little cow has no horns. Mary calls it "a little cow," because it
+looks too old to be called a calf.
+
+Here is the very picture that Mary was looking at when she called out,
+"Ba-a-a!"
+
+How many sheep do you see in it? There are two lying down: there is one
+standing up: that makes three. Is that all?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Look very sharp. See if you can't find more of them. Mary found some
+straying about on the hills. She thought she could see lambs too; but
+sheep, when a long way off, look very much like lambs.
+
+ A. B. C.
+
+
+
+
+THE CHAMOIS.
+
+
+THE chamois is a sort of antelope. But first let us say something of the
+pronunciation of this word _chamois_. It is often pronounced as if it
+were spelled _sham'my_. This is, perhaps, the easiest mode. But it would
+be nearer to the French mode to pronounce it _sham-wah_, the last _a_
+having the sound of _a_ in _wall_.
+
+The family of antelopes consists of nearly seventy species, upward of
+fifty being found nowhere but in Africa. The whole of America, North and
+South, contains but one species. All the antelopes have a most delicate
+sense of smell, and few quadrupeds can equal them in fleetness. They
+will outrun the swiftest greyhounds.
+
+The antelopes live in herds, and are very careful not to be surprised:
+so they place sentinels to watch, and give alarm. The eye, large and
+brilliant, is a marked feature of the tribe. The word "antelope"
+signifies "bright eyes."
+
+Our picture shows us several young chamois, standing amid the crags and
+chasms and precipices which they delight in. A chamois can descend in
+two or three leaps a rock of twenty or thirty feet, without the smallest
+projection on which to rest.
+
+The horns of the full-grown chamois are quite black and smooth, and
+formed like a perfect hook with very sharp points. These elegant
+creatures are the only animals of the antelope kind to be found in
+Western Europe. They choose for their home the loftiest mountains.
+
+They dislike heat, and in the summer time they frequent the cold upper
+regions of the everlasting hills,--either the lofty peaks, or those
+valleys where the snow never melts. In the winter time, however, the
+cold of those bleak solitudes seems too much for them, spite of their
+long, hair and thick coat of fine wool; and they descend to the lower
+regions. It is then, and only then, that the hunter has any chance of
+capturing them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It is said they can scent a man a mile and a half off; and their
+restlessness and suspicion are extreme. At the prospect of danger they
+are off and away, racing at an incredible speed, scaling crags with the
+most amazing agility, and leaving the pursuer far behind.
+
+They are usually taken by a party of hunters, who surround the glen
+where they are, and advance towards each other until the herd is hemmed
+in on all sides.
+
+The flesh of the antelope is like venison. No animal ought to yield
+sweeter meat than the chamois, when we think what he feeds upon.
+Mountain herbs and flowers, and tender shoots from tree and shrub--such
+is his food. He drinks very little, but that little is sparkling water;
+while the air which reddens his blood is the purest in the world.
+
+ UNCLE CHARLES.
+
+
+
+
+THE GARDEN TOOLS.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ COME, hoe and shovel and rake,
+ From your winter nap awake!
+ The spring has come;
+ There's work to be done:
+ The birds are calling,
+ And off I must run
+ My little garden to make.
+
+ You have lain in the attic so long,
+ Perhaps you forget you belong
+ In the sunshine and air full half of the year;
+ And to leave you to mice and to cobwebs up here
+ Any longer would surely be wrong.
+
+ Come out of the darkness to light,
+ Where the sunbeams are glittering bright,
+ And the green grass is growing;
+ For I must be hoeing,
+ And digging the earth, and my seeds be a-sowing,
+ And finish it all before night.
+
+ Oh, how I hurried and dressed!
+ For the robin was building his nest,
+ And he cried, "Fie! For shame!
+ What is the boy's name,
+ Who sleeps in the morning? He's surely to blame
+ For not working here with the rest."
+
+ Come then, rake, shovel, and hoe,
+ With a run and a jump, here we go!
+ Soon so busy we'll be,
+ That the robins shall see,
+ For all their fine words, they're no smarter than we,
+ As off to the garden we go!
+
+ AUNTIE FRANK.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: WHAT DOES LITTLE BIRDIE SAY?]
+
+ Words by TENNYSON. Music by T. CRAMPTON.
+
+[Illustration: Music]
+
+ 1. What does little birdie say
+ In her nest at peep of day?
+ Let me fly says little birdie,
+ Mother let me fly away.
+ Birdie wait a little longer
+ Till the little wings are stronger.
+ So she rests a little longer,
+ Then she flies away.
+
+ 2. What does little baby say
+ In her bed at peep of day?
+ Baby says like little birdie.
+ Let me rise and fly away.
+ Baby sleep a little longer
+ Till the little limbs are stronger.
+ If she sleeps a little longer,
+ She shall fly away.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+The July edition of the Nursery had a table of contents for the next six
+issues of the year. This table was divided to cover each specific issue.
+The issue number added after the Volume number on the title page.
+
+
+
+
+
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