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+Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, August 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 2, by Various
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+Title: The Nursery, August 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 2
+ A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28136]
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+
+THE
+
+NURSERY
+
+
+_A Monthly Magazine_
+
+
+FOR YOUNGEST READERS.
+
+
+VOLUME XXII.--No. 2.
+
+
+ BOSTON:
+ JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET,
+ 1877.
+
+
+
+
+ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by
+ JOHN L. SHOREY,
+ In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
+
+
+ FRANKLIN PRESS:
+ RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY,
+ 117 FRANKLIN STREET,
+ BOSTON.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Contents.]
+
+
+IN PROSE.
+
+ PAGE
+ A Day at the Beach 33
+ Buttercup and Daisy 37
+ Aunt Mary's Bullfinch 38
+ The poor Man's Well 43
+ Spitfire 45
+ Drawing-Lesson 49
+ "Great I and little you" 50
+ Our Dog Tasso 53
+ My Pets 56
+ Drilling the Troops 59
+ The Picture-Book 60
+
+
+IN VERSE.
+
+ PAGE
+ Bumble-Bee 36
+ King Drake 40
+ The Cosset-Calf 48
+ Primer and Slate 48
+ Making Cheeses 54
+ A Blacksmith's Song 62
+ Madam Quack (_with music_) 64
+
+[Illustration: Birds]
+
+
+[Illustration: VOL. XXII.--NO. 2.]
+
+
+
+
+A DAY AT THE BEACH.
+
+
+[Illustration: T]HERE are few of the little readers of "The Nursery" who
+could not tell of pleasant days spent among green fields and woods, or
+on the seashore. But in almost every large city, there are many children
+who have never been out of sight of brick walls.
+
+Their homes are in close rooms in narrow streets, and there they live
+from one year's end to the other. In winter they are often pinched with
+cold. In summer they suffer even more from the heat. You may see them at
+windows and doors, or on hot sidewalks, trying to get a breath of fresh
+air. It is not pure air, but the best they can get.
+
+What I am going to tell you is about two of those poor children. One is
+a little girl, nine years old, whom we will call Jane. The other, who is
+only eight years old, is her brother George.
+
+Both children go to a Sunday school, and have for their teacher a kind
+lady, who takes great interest in them. One warm summer day, to their
+great delight, this lady, whom we will name Miss White, called for them
+to go with her on a trip to the seashore.
+
+Dressed in the best clothes they could muster, they were soon on board
+the steamboat. Here every thing was new to them. As the boat steamed
+down the harbor, it would have been joy to anybody only to watch the
+happy expression on their faces.
+
+By and by the boat neared the land; and there the children saw a
+wonderful sight. What do you suppose it was? It was a cow quietly
+feeding on the shore. They had never seen a cow before.
+
+Then Jane got sight of an apple-tree, and George spied a man raking
+hay. Here was another new sensation. While they were feasting their eyes
+on green fields, and inhaling the sweet country air, the boat stopped at
+the wharf.
+
+A few steps brought them to the beach; and there, stretched before them,
+was the great wide ocean, with the surf rolling in, and a cool
+sea-breeze blowing. Then their joy knew no bounds. Miss White did not
+try to restrain them; for she meant to give them at least one day of
+perfect freedom.
+
+So they roamed at will. How they dug wells in the sand, how they flung
+stones into the water, how they picked up shells and sea-weed, how they
+scrambled over the rocks, it would take too much space to tell.
+
+When they were well tired out, and began to be hungry, Miss White opened
+a luncheon-box in a shady place among the rocks, and gave them such a
+dinner as they had never had before. Then their bliss was complete.
+
+The day passed away almost too quickly, and the time came to go back to
+the city. That seemed rather hard to Jane and George. But they have the
+promise of another excursion before the summer is over.
+
+ JANE OLIVER.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+BUMBLE-BEE.
+
+
+ THE smartest of dandies is young Mr. Bee,
+ Who is known by the name of Bumble;
+ His life is a short one, but merry and free:
+ They're mistaken who call him "Humble."
+ Clad in black velvet, with trimmings of yellow,
+ He knows well enough he's a fine-looking fellow;
+ And, hiding away a sharp little dagger,
+ He dashes about with a confident swagger,
+ While to show he's at ease, and to tell of his coming,
+ A tune he is always carelessly humming.
+ Eating or drinking, or looking for pleasure
+ Fit for the tastes of a person of leisure,
+ Down where the meadow is sunny and breezy,
+ In the red clover, he takes the world easy;
+ Or, feeling the need of a little diversion,
+ He makes to the garden a pleasant excursion,
+ And into a lily or hollyhock dodging
+ With quiet assurance he takes up his lodging.
+ With a snug little fortune invested in honey,
+ Young Bumble Bee lives like a prince, on his money,
+ And, scorning some plodding relations of his, he
+ Leaves hard labor to them,--his cousins named "Busy."
+
+ D. B. BARNARD.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+BUTTERCUP AND DAISY.
+
+
+_Dear little Readers of "The Nursery:"_--I would like to tell you a
+story about my little brother Clinton and myself. We each have a nice
+little calf down at our grandpa's farm in the country. One is a pure
+Alderney, grandpa says, and is of a beautiful fawn color: the other is
+red and white. Grandpa let us name them: so we called them Buttercup and
+Daisy. Clinton's is Buttercup, and mine is Daisy.
+
+They are both very kind and gentle. Both have cunning little horns, just
+coming out of their heads; but they do not hook little brother or me. In
+the picture you will see them eating corn out of our hands.
+
+At first we were afraid of their damp noses and rough tongues; but we
+soon got over that, and now feed them every time we go to the farm.
+
+Papa tried to have the little Alderney give us a ride on its back; but,
+as soon as we were well on, the calf kicked up its heels and ran away,
+saying, "Bah!" and leaving brother and me on our backs on the soft turf.
+We were not hurt at all, but had a good laugh.
+
+Buttercup soon came back for more corn; and uncle said, "Give it to her
+in the ear;" but I said I thought her mouth was the best place to put it
+in. Then uncle laughed, and said that was a joke. Do you know what he
+meant?
+
+ HARRY C. MATHER.
+
+
+
+
+AUNT MARY'S BULLFINCH.
+
+
+"NOW be sure and not frighten it, children," said Aunt Mary as she left
+the room.
+
+John and Lucy lifted the handkerchief from the cage, while Paul and
+Richard, with anxious eyes, stood by to get a sight of the piping
+bullfinch, of which they had heard so much.
+
+This little bird had been presented to Aunt Mary by a German lady to
+whom she had been kind. It could whistle two or three tunes in a way to
+surprise all hearers. While the children were looking at it, it began to
+pipe.
+
+"I know that tune," cried Richard. "It is 'Coming through the rye!'"
+
+"And now the tune changes to 'Merrily every bosom boundeth,'" said Lucy.
+"What a wonderful little bird!"
+
+"But how did it learn to whistle these tunes?" asked Paul.
+
+Aunt Mary, coming in at that moment, explained to the children that in
+some of the small towns of Germany are persons who teach these little
+birds. It takes about a year for a bullfinch to learn a tune. But some
+of them learn more quickly than others: so it is with some children.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The birds are at first kept in a dark room; and when they are fed, a
+tune is played or whistled. They associate this tune with the act of
+feeding; and gradually seem to find out what is wanted of them.
+
+The price of a bird that can pipe a tune in good style is from fifty to
+one hundred dollars. A good deal of time and trouble has to be spent in
+teaching the birds. Sometimes a child is employed to play a tune on a
+little hand-organ; and this the little bird learns after hearing it many
+times.
+
+When the bullfinch learns well, he is praised and petted, and this he
+seems to enjoy very much. Even birds, you see, like to be praised and
+petted.
+
+ DORA BURNSIDE.
+
+
+
+
+KING DRAKE.
+
+
+ "I'M king of the rock," said a silly old drake;
+ "And no one must dare my claim to partake.
+ I shall punish severely whoever comes near
+ Without my permission: let all the world hear!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ But out of the water, on the rock as he stands,
+ Comes up, as if praying, what seemed like two hands.
+ "Ah! here is a subject already for me!
+ Come, my son, and fear nothing, I'll spare you," said he.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ But his majesty starts as if from a shock,
+ When he sees a big lobster make a bow on the rock.
+ "That is well," said the king; "but consider, my son,
+ This rock is my throne, and is only for one."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ The lobster, however, is slow to obey;
+ He spreads himself out; he will not go away.
+ "Are you deaf?" cries King Drake, "go, pigmy! Get down!
+ How dare you thus brave a drake of renown?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ But the lobster, at this, nips King Drake in the leg.
+ "Oh, loosen your claw! Let go! Oh! I beg."
+ Tighter pinches the claw: "Rebellion! help! hear!
+ King Drake is in trouble: is nobody near?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ In vain are his kicks; his cries are in vain:
+ The lobster clings fast, in spite of the pain;
+ Nor lets go his hold till they get to the bank:
+ Then the king waddles home, giving up throne and rank.
+
+ FROM THE GERMAN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE POOR MAN'S WELL.
+
+
+AMONG the Azores, is situated the beautiful Island of Fayal, with its
+orange-groves and profusion of flowers. But, notwithstanding the fruit
+and flowers, there is one thing which Americans who live there miss
+sadly, and that is fresh, cool water. There are no lakes or ponds, such
+as we have here; and so the people have to use rain-water, which they
+save in large tanks or cisterns.
+
+There are a few wells on the island, which, as the water rises and falls
+in them twice in every twenty-four hours, are called "tide-wells." But
+there was a time, many years ago, when the people had neither cisterns
+nor wells, and were obliged to get water from hollows in the rocks. And
+this is the story of the first well.
+
+The year 1699 was a year when scarcely any rain fell. The grain did not
+grow, the cows and sheep died from thirst, and many of the poor people
+also. Now there was a very rich man on the island, who had come here to
+live many years before, from another part of the world.
+
+Though he was so rich, and might have done much good with his money, he
+was so stingy and so hard, that the people did not love him at all. But
+his bags of silver and gold did not buy him water; and at last the
+thought came to him, "Why! I will dig a well, as people used to do in my
+country. I will dig it on my own land, and no one shall have a drop of
+the water but myself."
+
+So he hired men to come and dig the well; but he paid them only a little
+money, and was very unkind to them. They dug and they dug; but no water
+came. At last they said they would work no longer unless their master
+would promise them some of the water, and he promised them the use of
+the well for half of every day.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now they dug with more patience; and one morning, as early as six
+o'clock, they suddenly found water. They claimed the privilege of using
+the well for the first six hours; and the master dared not refuse. As
+they were drawing the water, they noticed that it began to grow lower
+and lower in the well; and at twelve o'clock, the master's hour, none
+was left.
+
+He was very, very angry, and said he would never give the men any work
+again. However, at six o'clock that night, they again demanded the use
+of the well. He mockingly asked them if they expected the water would
+come for them, and not for him. Nevertheless they went to the well; and,
+to the master's awe and wonder, it was full of water.
+
+At midnight, the master again tried to get water from the well, and, as
+before, found it empty. He now felt afraid, believing that some divine
+power controlled the action of the water. He went to the church and
+vowed, before God, that if the water should come again next morning, he
+would dedicate it to the poor forever.
+
+In the morning, when the men visited the well, there was the fresh water
+awaiting them. The master kept his vow, and thus the well became "The
+Poor Man's Well." To this day the water rises and falls in it twice in
+every twenty-four hours. I give you here a picture of the well, and
+should you ever go to Fayal you may see the original.
+
+ K. H. S.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+SPITFIRE.
+
+
+CAN you guess what she was? She was a little black kitten; and I must
+tell you all about her, and why we gave her such a funny name. Teddikins
+had a great mouse-colored cat called Maltie, and she had three little
+kitties,--Spitfire, Miss Tittens, and Cuddle. Spitfire was all black,
+just as black as a lump of coal, while Miss Tittens was gray, and Cuddle
+was gray and white.
+
+The first time Teddikins and I looked into the box where Maltie and her
+kitties were, they were very, very little, and their eyes were not open.
+The black kitty was lying on top of the others; and Teddikins put in his
+little fat hand and picked her up. What do you suppose she did? She
+said, "_Sptss!_" and she kept on saying, "_Sptss_" until Teddikins put
+her down again; and so we called her Spitfire.
+
+Just as soon as she could see out of her funny little gray eyes, she
+began to try to get out of the box. She wanted to see what there was
+outside, where Maltie went. She would climb up a little way, and then
+tumble back on Miss Tittens and Cuddle, which would make them say,
+"Mew," and make Teddikins laugh; but Spitfire always said, "_Sptss!_"
+and would try again.
+
+At last, one day we heard a thump; and we looked around, and there was
+Spitfire on the floor. She had climbed to the top of the box, and
+tumbled over the edge, and there she stood, with her tail straight in
+the air, and her legs wide apart, looking at us, and saying, "_Sptss!_"
+
+Maltie was very proud of her kitties, and used to take Cuddle and Miss
+Tittens in her mouth, and carry them into the dining-room when we were
+eating our breakfast, to show them to us. But Spitfire would not let her
+mamma carry her. She would walk in all alone, tumbling over on her
+little nose very often (for her legs were not yet strong), but carrying
+her little black tail just as straight as little boys carry sticks when
+they call them guns.
+
+One morning, Teddikins put a saucer of milk on the floor and what do you
+suppose that little Spitfire did? Why, she looked at it very hard, and
+then she said, "_Sptss_," and walked right into the milk, and out the
+other side of the saucer, with Tittens and Cuddle after her. The floor
+was covered with the funny white prints of their little paws.
+
+One day a mouse ran across the kitchen; and Cuddle and Tittens were very
+much frightened; but Spitfire humped up her back, and made her tail very
+big, and said "_Sptss!_" very hard, and then cantered off sideways
+staring at the mouse, and saying, "_Sptss!_" all the time.
+
+You know how kitties like to go to sleep, all cuddled up together. But
+Spitfire would not lie down with the others: she always tried to get on
+top of them.
+
+When the little kitties were quite strong, they used to play a funny
+sort of game. There was a round foot-stool, covered with carpet, and
+Spitfire used to sit up on it, and then Cuddle and Miss Tittens would
+try to climb up the sides. Then Spitfire would say, "_Sptss!_" and pat
+them on the heads with her little paws until they rolled down again.
+Sometimes, when she was busy driving one off, another would get up
+behind her, and drive her off too; but she always worked hard until she
+was up again.
+
+Do you not think she was a funny kitty? She always went first, and took
+the lead, and used to box the ears of Cuddle and Tittens when they did
+not mind her. Now she is a big black cat, with a red collar around her
+neck, and she catches rats and mice, and is very good and useful. She
+only says, "_Sptss!_" when strange cats come into her yard; but we still
+call her Spitfire.
+
+ E. F.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE COSSET-CALF.
+
+
+ WHEN I was quite a little girl
+ I had a cosset-calf,
+ And, when it ran about the fields,
+ It always made me laugh.
+
+ It seemed as gentle as a lamb,
+ And from my hand was fed;
+ And how I grieved when first I felt
+ The horns upon its head!
+
+ It always answered to my call,
+ And thrust its wet nose through
+ The bars, and tried its very best
+ To say, "How do you do?"
+
+ I left it in the early fall,
+ And kissed my pet with tears;
+ For to a little child the months
+ Stretch out as long as years.
+
+ And when the summer came again,
+ I never shall forget
+ With what dismay I gazed upon
+ My former little pet.
+
+ I was afraid of those great horns,
+ So crooked on its brow,
+ Nor would believe my little calf
+ Was that enormous cow!
+
+ But soon I learned to know its face
+ And conquered my alarm,
+ And thought there was no nicer cow
+ On any other farm.
+
+ And oh the rich sweet milk she gave!
+ Why, just to make me laugh,
+ My mother used to call me then
+ Her little cosset-calf!
+
+ JOSEPHINE POLLARD.
+
+
+
+
+PRIMER AND SLATE.
+
+
+ PRIMER and slate, primer and slate!
+ Hurry up, mother! I fear I am late.
+ A, B, C, D, and 1, 2, 3, 4,
+ Must be studied, so I can recite them once more.
+ Primer and slate, primer and slate,
+ Must be carefully conned if we hope to be great:
+ A man cannot hope much of a man to be,
+ Unless, when a boy, he has learned A, B, C.
+
+ UNCLE THEO.
+
+[Illustration: DRAWING-LESSON BY HARRISON WEIR.
+
+VOL XXII.--NO. 2.]
+
+
+
+
+"GREAT I AND LITTLE YOU."
+
+
+"HOW do you like that little new neighbor of yours?" asked Herbert
+Greene's big brother, who had seen the two little boys playing together
+in the yard.
+
+"Oh, you must mean Georgie Worthman," said Herbie. "Why, I don't know. I
+like him, and I don't like him."
+
+Wallace laughed. "Then you quarrel a little sometimes," said he. "Is
+that it?"
+
+"No, we don't quarrel," said Herbie. "I don't let him know when I'm mad
+with him."
+
+"What does he do to make you mad with him?" asked Wallace.
+
+"Oh, he says things," said Herbie.
+
+"Such as what?"
+
+"Well, he looks at my marbles, and says, 'Is that all you've got? I have
+five times as many as that,--splendid ones, too. They'd knock those all
+to smash.'"
+
+"Ah, I see!" said Wallace. "It is a clear case of '_great I and little
+you_.'"
+
+"What do you mean by that?" said Herbie.
+
+"Well, if you don't find out by Saturday night, I'll tell you," said
+Wallace. This was on Monday.
+
+On Wednesday afternoon Herbie was out at play, and presently Georgie
+Worthman came out. Wallace was in his room, reading, with the windows
+open, and could hear all that was said.
+
+Georgie brought his kite with him, and asked Herbie if he would go to
+the common with him to fly his kite.
+
+"Oh, yes! if mother is willing," said Herbie. "But where did you get
+that kite?--made it yourself, didn't you? I've got one ever so much
+bigger than that, with yards and yards of tail, and, when we let it
+out, it goes out of sight quick,--now, I tell you!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"This isn't the best I can make," said Georgie; "but if I had a bigger
+one I couldn't pitch it, or hold it after it was up."
+
+"Pooh! I could hold one that pulled like ten horses," said Herbie; and
+he ran in to ask his mother if he could go with Georgie to the common.
+
+His mother was willing if Wallace would go too; and so, after a little
+good-natured bothering, and pretending he did not want to go, Wallace
+took his hat, and Herbie got his kite and twine, and the three boys set
+off for the common.
+
+Georgie's kite was pitched first, and went up in fine style. Then
+Herbie's went off, and soon passed it, for it had a longer string; and
+both were far up in the dazzling blue of the sky.
+
+"There now!" said Herbie, "didn't I tell you my kite would beat yours
+all to nothing? I bet there isn't another kite in town that will begin
+to be a match for it!"
+
+"How is this? How is this?" said Wallace. "Seems to me 'great I and
+little you' are around here pretty thick."
+
+"What do you mean by that?" said both the little boys.
+
+"Why, when a fellow says that he has got the best marbles, and the best
+kite, and the swiftest sled, and the handsomest velocipede, and the most
+knowing dog, anywhere in town, we say his talk is all '_great I and
+little you_.' That is, we mean he is always bragging; and a braggart is
+a very disagreeable person," said Wallace.
+
+Herbie looked at Georgie, and both blushed a little. The boys had great
+fun with their kites; and when they got home, and Wallace and Herbie
+went up stairs to put away the kite, Herbie said, "Well, my kite did
+beat Georgie's, just as I told him it would."
+
+"That is true," said Wallace; "but you said the other day that you liked
+Georgie, and didn't like him, because he was always telling how much
+bigger and better his things were than yours; and now, to-day, you were
+making yourself disagreeable to him by bragging about your kite. Now, if
+you want the boys to like you, my lad, you must give up talking 'great I
+and little you,' for it is not sensible nor kind."
+
+So Herbie found out what Wallace meant, and he said to himself, "I don't
+mean to let the fellows hear me talking, 'great I and little you' any
+more."
+
+ H. W.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+OUR DOG TASSO.
+
+
+TASSO is a big black dog. His back comes up almost to the top of a
+dining-table. He does not look as though he could ever have been carried
+about in a handkerchief; but, when he was a puppy, he was brought home
+in that way by a young lady as a present to her brothers.
+
+Tasso seems to take delight in making himself useful. When there is work
+to be done, he always wants to do his part. He brings in wood, stick by
+stick, and puts it in the wood-box, never stopping till the box is full.
+While he is carrying in the wood, the boys fill the chip-basket; and
+then Tasso takes that in his mouth, and puts it in its place beside the
+wood-box.
+
+If any of the family has a basket or a bag to take to the station, Tasso
+always insists on taking it. One rainy day, we sent him to the station
+with three umbrellas, and he delivered them all safely. One day his
+master went out to the barn without his hat. Tasso did not think this
+was proper: so he took the hat in his mouth and carried it out to him.
+
+I could tell you many other amusing things about Tasso. He is always
+attentive and obedient, and every one who knows him loves him and trusts
+him.
+
+ F. A. S.
+
+
+
+
+MAKING CHEESES.
+
+
+ "DOES the little fairy
+ Work in a dairy?
+ I hear her talk about making cheese,--
+ She with her locks the color of money,
+ Hanging long and crinkled and sunny
+ Down to her waist,--a golden fleece."
+
+ Oh, such a laughter
+ As rings out after
+ My words, is the sweetest sound I know!
+ Sparkle the eyes that had been dreaming:--
+ "Aunty dear, if you want to see me,
+ I'll show you how to make one,--so!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Soon as she utters
+ This, out she flutters,
+ Her full fresh frock as white as the snows;
+ Round she whirls, and then in a minute
+ Sits down quick, and the air within it
+ Puffs it out like a full-blown rose.
+
+ That's what she pleases
+ To call "making cheeses."
+ I'm sure I could give it a better name.
+ Call it playing at daffy-down-dilly,
+ Call it playing at white day-lily:
+ Either will suit me just the same.
+
+ Lily for brightness
+ She is, and for whiteness;
+ A golden centre her long locks grow!
+ And isn't that head, so shimmering, sunny,
+ Daffy-down-dilly-like, yellow as money?--
+ Rogue she is anyway, _that_ I know.
+
+ MRS. CLARA DOTY BATES.
+
+
+
+
+MY PETS.
+
+
+I AM a little girl seven years old. I live way up in the woods of Maine,
+in the little town of Howland, forty miles from anywhere. Now you may
+wonder how I can amuse myself, so far away from the world: so I am going
+to tell you.
+
+I live on a great farm, with grandpapa, Aunt Peeps, and Nan, and Will. I
+have a pair of top-boots, so I can play out doors in wet weather. I was
+glad when grandpapa brought them home; and the first thing I did was to
+find a good large mud-puddle, and oh! didn't I have fun, splashing right
+through it!
+
+I drive old Frank whenever I please; and then, when we get home, I feed
+him on apples and bread. He is twenty years old, and has no teeth to eat
+hay with, and grandpapa says he would starve to death if it were not for
+me.
+
+We let him go wherever he likes, and in hot weather he stays on the
+barn-floor, out of the reach of the flies, most of the time. He lets me
+card him, and he never kicks me. One day last summer, Emma and I got old
+Frank upon a haymow, about four feet from the floor, and there he lay
+down on his side, and took a nap. Then I brought out a pan of meal and
+water, and fed it to him with an iron spoon.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+I have an old pet sheep too. It will run out from the flock any time
+when it sees me coming, and follow me to the house. One day I heard a
+noise against the kitchen-door, and, when I opened it, my sheep came in,
+and followed me right into the dining-room, and would not go out till I
+gave it some potatoes.
+
+Major and Velvet Paw are my pet cats, and Peep is my German canary-bird;
+and I had a pet chicken, but grandpapa stepped on it one day. He says he
+would rather have lost the best cow in the barn than have killed my
+chicken. William says he will give me four eggs in the spring, and then,
+perhaps, I can have four chickens instead of one.
+
+I have a bear,--a black, fierce-eyed bear, that gnashes his teeth, and
+growls, and stands up and shakes his paws at me; but he is not a _real
+live bear_. He has to be wound up with a key before he will growl. We
+have live bears here in the woods, though: they come right into our
+yard, and eat our sheep. We set a trap for one last fall, close to the
+house, and a bear was caught in it.
+
+I have a wax doll almost as large as a real baby. I have named it
+Gretchen. Cousin Mary brought it to me from Germany. It has flaxen
+curls, and six of the prettiest little pearl teeth, and it goes to
+sleep, and says papa and mamma, and whines, and cries. I wonder if any
+of you little girls have such a beautiful dolly.
+
+My doll, Rosie Deben, is six years old, and almost as large as I am. I
+wash her whenever I like, and about once a year Auntie Peeps paints her
+face over. I like Rosie for an every-day doll, because I can wash her
+hands and face, and undress her, and if she tumbles out of her wagon it
+only bumps her head, and bruises her nose. She has tumbled down stairs
+ever so many times.
+
+I have no little girls to play with; but there is a little boy who comes
+to see me sometimes: his name is Percy, and we go fishing down at the
+brook, and we catch little bits of fish with pin hooks.
+
+I went to school last summer, and read in my "Nursery," and Nan said I
+learned nicely. There were only four scholars,--one for each corner of
+the room; and we had a little rocking-chair to sit in.
+
+Nan thinks I have told you enough about my pets this time, and I will
+bid you good-by.
+
+ MAMIE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+DRILLING THE TROOPS.
+
+
+HERE is Corporal Hans drilling a squad under the eye of his superior
+officer, Captain Ernest. The corporal is a brave soldier. Anybody could
+tell that by his looks. But he does not give his orders quite sternly
+enough to suit the captain, who is teaching him how to do it.
+
+It makes a man of peace shudder to see the corporal stand so calmly
+right at the mouth of a cannon. What if the cannon should go off! But
+these military men get used to such things. I don't suppose now that one
+of that whole squad could be frightened into running away. They will not
+move till they hear the word of command.
+
+ UNCLE SAM.
+
+
+
+
+THE PICTURE-BOOK.
+
+
+IN the book that Mary likes so much to look at, there is a nice picture
+of a horse. Here it is.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The horse has a very long tail and also a long thick mane. He stands
+very quietly in his stall, turning his head around, as if he were in
+want of some more hay. If he should ask for it, what would he say?
+Little Mary says he would say, "Neigh!"
+
+The next picture shows us two donkeys,--an old one and a young one. They
+have very long ears, and look as if they might hear all that we say.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The worst we can say of them or their race is that they are homely, and
+not so fleet as the horse. But they are very tough and strong and
+patient.
+
+If the donkey should hear this, perhaps he would open his mouth and say,
+"Bray!"
+
+ A. B. C.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A BLACKSMITH'S SONG.
+
+
+ CLANG, cling, clang, cling!
+ Bellows, you must roar, and anvil, you must ring;
+ Hammer, you and I must work--for ding, dong, ding
+ Must dress my Kate and baby, and bread for us must bring.
+ So dong, ding, dong, ding!
+ Anvil, to my hammer make music while I sing,--
+ Clang, cling, clang, cling!
+
+ Clang, cling, clang, cling!
+ Oh, well I love my smithy when the birds in spring-time sing,
+ And the pleasant sun comes streaming in, the sun that loves to bring
+ Its gladness to me, working, and to hear my anvil ring.
+ Dong, ding, dong, ding!
+ And to see my iron glowing, and the sparks in showers spring,--
+ Clang, cling, clang, cling!
+
+ Blow, blow, blow, blow!
+ Bellows, you must work till the furnace is aglow.
+ Snug is my old smithy when, without, comes down the snow,
+ When sooty wall and rafter in the blaze are all aglow.
+ Blow, blow, blow, blow!
+ What care I if the storm, then, without, be high or low?
+ Blow, blow, blow, blow!
+
+ Clang, cling, clang, cling!
+ Merrily the hours fly that hear my anvil ring;
+ And quick my evening chair and my evening meal they bring;
+ Then, while Kate works beside me, I'm as happy as a king.
+ Clang, cling, clang, cling!
+ God give me always health and strength to make my anvil ring:
+ Clang, cling, clang, cling!
+
+ W. C. BENNETT.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: MADAM QUACK.]
+
+[Illustration: Music]
+
+
+
+
+MADAM QUACK.
+
+
+ Words from "The Nursery." Music by T. CRAMPTON.
+
+ 1. Good-Day! Madam Quack with your young in your track,
+ Quite early they're out,
+ What are they about--
+ Those bright little things
+ With their short downy wings?
+ I'm glad of your luck, you're a good mother duck!
+ And if young folks did know half the joy they bestow
+ When attentive and good--they would try all they could.
+
+ 2. You know sir, I see what young ducklings should be;
+ Your taste I commend,
+ My civil young friend;
+ They're beauties you see and obedient to me.
+ In ponds they can paddle,
+ On land they can waddle,
+ They dive and they flutter,
+ Quack, quack, they can utter:
+ I'm glad they can learn, and great fame they will earn.
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+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.
+A title page copied from this same July edition was also used for this
+number and the issue number added after the Volume number.
+
+Page 38, closing single quotation mark added to text. (through the
+rye!'")
+
+
+
+
+
+
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