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+Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3, by Various
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+Title: The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3
+       A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
+
+Author: Various
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+THE
+
+NURSERY
+
+
+_A Monthly Magazine_
+
+
+FOR YOUNGEST READERS.
+
+
+VOLUME XXII.--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.
+
+                                                PAGE
+  Introduced to the Atlantic Ocean                65
+  Roses and Insects                               68
+  Garry and the Rake                              71
+  A true Story of a Partridge                     74
+  A Letter from Minnesota                         76
+  The lazy Shepherd                               77
+  Seventh Lesson in Astronomy                     79
+  A Sight of the Ocean                            81
+  Philip's new Whip                               85
+  Grandma's Story                                 88
+  Aunt Matilda                                    91
+  Anna's Bird                                     92
+  The Story of the Squashes                       94
+  Charlie's Composition                           95
+
+
+IN VERSE.
+
+                                                PAGE
+  Top-Knot                                        70
+  Crossing the Brook with Harry                   72
+  How to draw a Pig                               80
+  Ruth's Wishes                                   83
+  The three little Ladies                         87
+  The Pedlar (_with music_)                       96
+
+[Illustration: VOL. XXII.--NO. 3.]
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCED TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
+
+
+"[Illustration: N]OW for it, girls! Let me introduce you to the Atlantic
+Ocean! Mr. Ocean, these are my three cousins from Kentucky: Miss Jenny,
+Miss Eva, and Miss Kate Logan. They never saw you till today. This lady
+on my left is my sister, Miss Dora Drake, the best swimmer at Brant Rock
+Beach; but her you know already, also my dog Andy."
+
+"Oh! I don't want to go any further. I'm afraid of the Atlantic Ocean,"
+cried little Kate Logan.
+
+"Nonsense!" said Master Tom Drake. "Look at Andy with the stick in his
+mouth. Why, if the Atlantic Ocean were to try to drown us, Andy would
+save us every one. Shall I tell you what he did last summer?"
+
+"We can't stop for stories now, Tom," said sister Dora. "We must attend
+to our bathing. Here comes a wave that will give us a good ducking."
+
+"Oh! oh, dear! It has taken my breath all away!" cried little Kate, as
+the wave lifted her off her feet and curled and gurgled round her neck.
+
+"It is only the Atlantic Ocean making a bow to you, my dear; clasping
+you lovingly round the neck, and whispering soft nonsense," said Tom,
+dropping the hands of Eva and Kate, and swimming off into deep water
+with Andy.
+
+Jenny and Eva did not know how to swim: so they jumped up and down in
+the water, while Dora took Kate on her back, and swam out after Tom. She
+soon overtook him and pushed his head under water; but Tom came up light
+as a cork, and splashed the water all over Dora.
+
+"That will do, Tom," said she; "now, Andy, come here, and take this
+little girl on your back and carry her up on the dry sand."
+
+Then Dora placed Kate on the good dog's back, and the little girl threw
+her arms round his neck, and he swam with her through the deep water,
+and carried her up high on the dry, warm sand, where a lady and
+gentleman were seated, and another lady stood with a sun-shade over her
+head.
+
+But when Kate saw Tom and the girls all frolicking in the water, she
+cried out, "Oh, give me more of the Atlantic Ocean. I like him."
+
+She ran down to the water's edge, and into the water all alone; but Andy
+stood by to help her in case of need, and when she fell down flat, and
+the ocean covered her head, he took her up by her bathing-dress, and
+bore her once more up on the dry sand.
+
+All laughed, and little Kate laughed louder than any of them. "The
+Atlantic Ocean didn't get me that time," she said.
+
+I cannot tell you of all their frolics; but you may be sure that the
+little party from Kentucky grew quite familiar with the Atlantic Ocean
+after this introduction. Every day they would leave their little cottage
+on the height, and walk along the white sand in their bathing-dresses
+till they found a good place for bathing. Tom and Andy always went with
+them to protect them from harm.
+
+When Jenny, Eva, and Kate get back to Kentucky, next September, what
+stories they will have to tell of the pleasant times they had at Brant
+Rock Beach! It lies not far from the town of Marshfield in
+Massachusetts. Perhaps you can find the name on your map.
+
+                                                      IDA FAY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ROSES AND INSECTS.
+
+
+WHAT sort of insects are a-phi'des? In plain English they are
+plant-lice. When about to pluck a rose-bud, have you not started
+sometimes to find it covered with little green insects? These are
+aphides.
+
+They suck the sap from the bud on the leaf; and every person who raises
+a rose-bush seeks to get rid of them. The little insect called the
+lady-bird destroys them in great numbers: so you must encourage
+lady-birds, if you want your roses to flourish.
+
+Most of us have heard of honey-dew, and know, probably, that it is a
+sweet, clammy substance, found on the leaves of various trees and
+plants, especially on the oak, the vine, the hop, and the honeysuckle.
+This honey-dew is extracted with the sap, secreted, and then thrown out
+in a pure state by the aphides.
+
+Besides the sweets which they scatter around them like sugar-plums, they
+always keep a good supply within the green jars of their bodies. By this
+lavish use of confectionery, they gain a few interested friends and some
+enemies like the lady-birds, that eat them up.
+
+Wherever the aphides abound, whether in hop-ground, bean-field, or
+rose-garden, there are lady-birds gathered together, and they are
+welcomed by the cultivator, if not by the aphis. (_Aphis_ is the
+singular noun, and _aphides_ its plural form.) But enough of aphis
+enemies, and now for the friends, which, as well as foes, they owe to
+the sweet milk--the honey-dew--which they give out. So these friends,
+you see, are fair-weather friends, interested friends; and among them
+are several varieties of the ant tribe.
+
+The ants do not hurt the aphides, but follow them for what they can get
+out of them. They are continually seen in company; and the ants
+sometimes drive off the lady-birds and other foes.
+
+The aphis, when attacked by its mortal foe the lady-bird, submits with a
+good grace. Never did Turk bend his neck to the bow-string, or rush upon
+the cimeter with greater courage, than the aphis submits itself to the
+murderous jaws of its devouring foes. It seems quite at ease, and enjoys
+life to the last bite or sup, while its companions are being killed, and
+their carcasses heaped up around it. It evidently thinks it is right to
+die quietly, like a great-minded little insect.
+
+                                                UNCLE CHARLES.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+TOP-KNOT.
+
+
+          PRETTY Biddy Top-knot has a hidden nest,
+          Out among the willows stretching toward the west:
+          Every day she runs there on her yellow legs,
+          To count and add another to her store of eggs.
+
+          Top-knot soon is missing from the garden walks:
+          No more with the other hens struts about and stalks!
+          No more is her cackle from the willows heard,
+          Where, but late, she noisily all the barn-yard stirred.
+
+          Down among the willows, stretching toward the west,
+          Top-knot's snowy turban shows above her nest:
+          Slanting ray of sunshine peeps in very bright;
+          Come and peep in with it, you shall see a sight.
+
+          Thirteen little chickens, downiest ever seen,
+          And joyous little Top-knot proud as any queen!
+          For that they are beauties all the hens agree:
+          Can you wonder Top-knot should so happy be?
+
+          Full of her importance, Top-knot doth appear,--
+          Thirteen little chickens she must feed and rear!
+          Soon more hens are missing!--are they lost or hid?
+          Think you they'll surprise us just as Top-knot did?
+
+                                                      FLETA F.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+GARRY AND THE RAKE.
+
+
+ONE summer afternoon, when the grassy slope before the house was untidy
+with fallen leaves, and sticks, and withered flowers, I asked Garry to
+go and bring the rake that we might clear away the rubbish.
+
+So off he ran, and soon came back with an _iron_ rake. Now, if you have
+ever tried one, you will know that an iron rake is not nearly as good
+for this purpose as a wooden rake, as it is heavy, and the teeth are so
+sharp that they tear the roots of the grass.
+
+I used it for a while; but, in spite of all I could do, the teeth would
+catch the roots. At last Garry exclaimed, "Grandma, let me take it. I
+can make it all right."
+
+I gave it to him, and the dear little boy took it behind a log, and was
+very busy and quiet for several minutes. Then I called, "Come, Garry, I
+don't believe you can help it."
+
+"Oh!" said he, "you just wait a little, and you will see." And, to be
+sure, in a very short time he brought me the rake, with a hard green
+apple on each outer tooth, pushed on just so far that the other teeth
+would catch the litter of leaves and sticks without disturbing the
+grass.
+
+Wasn't that a bright idea for a little boy five and a half years old?
+
+                                                            M.
+
+
+
+
+CROSSING THE BROOK WITH HARRY.
+
+
+            NOW, Harry, don't fear,
+            I will carry you, dear:
+          So keep very quiet and steady:
+            The brook is not wide,
+            Nor swift is the tide:
+          Now, for it, my pet--are you ready?
+            So over the stones we will go,
+            With step very careful and slow.
+
+            I never have slipped
+            As o'er them I tripped;
+          But then I had nothing to carry:
+            Now I must take heed,
+            The more haste, the worse speed;
+          For I bear in my arms little Harry:
+            So over the stones we will go,
+            With step very careful and slow.
+
+            Almost every bird
+            That ever I heard,
+          On the bank there seems now to be singing;
+          And I smell the sweet hay
+          From the field by the way;
+          The wind all its odor is bringing:
+          So over the stones we will go,
+          With step very careful and slow.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+                                                 EMILY CARTER.
+
+
+
+
+A TRUE STORY OF A PARTRIDGE.
+
+
+I WONDER if any of the children who read "The Nursery" have ever been in
+the woods of Maine. There grow the tall old pine-trees, with tops which
+seem to touch the sky, and thick interlacing branches, making a very
+dark shade overhead.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There, too, grow the fragrant cedar-trees, with their bright green
+boughs, and trunks so hard and stout; and, loveliest of all, the
+graceful maple, whose green leaves turn crimson and gold when autumn
+comes.
+
+All these and many other trees grow in the great Maine forests; and
+birds build their nests and bring up their young among the branches; and
+under the trees, and all about, grow ferns, and mosses soft as velvet.
+
+Bright-eyed squirrels frisk about over the ground, and run nimbly up
+into the tree-tops; and pretty brown partridges walk daintily around,
+picking up seeds and berries to carry home to their baby-partridges,
+hidden away in soft nests on the ground.
+
+Through a forest like this, where it had always been so quiet and
+peaceful that the birds and squirrels did not know what it was to be
+afraid, a railroad-track was laid not long ago. Then the great engine
+went thundering on its way to a pleasant city by the sea, carrying with
+it a long train of cars, the smoke curling up brown and thick from the
+smoke-stack, and the shrill whistle waking the echoes among the distant
+hills.
+
+One day, when the train was going at full speed through the woods, a
+partridge, flying from one part of the forest to another, being
+frightened and bewildered by the noise, dashed against the smoke-stack,
+and fell at the engineer's feet. The engineer, whose name was Nathaniel
+Grant, took up the poor frightened bird, gently stroked its ruffled
+feathers, and carried it carefully to his home.
+
+There the partridge was treated with the greatest kindness, and soon got
+over its bruises. But it longed for the quiet woods, where its life had
+been spent. It could not eat, and seemed to be almost breaking its heart
+with home-sickness.
+
+So the next day, when Mr. Grant started off again on the engine, he took
+the bird with him. Watching very carefully for the place where the
+partridge had flown in, he found, at last, the exact spot. There he set
+the bird free, and away it flew, back to its peaceful home.
+
+                                                 DORA'S MAMMA.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A LETTER FROM MINNESOTA.
+
+
+WHEN "The Nursery" came the other day to St. Paul, two little boys who
+live here, named Charley and John, found a story in it about a bear who
+used to walk in our streets. That story was true; and these little boys
+were so pleased with it, that they want me to write you about a new pet
+they have.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It isn't a kitty with nice soft fur, nor a dog that will run and jump
+and play with them, nor a canary-bird to wake them up with his sweet
+songs; but it is a turtle, which the boys found trying to get across the
+street near their home.
+
+John, who is three years old, said, "I guess the poor little turtle is
+lost, and is trying to find his mamma again." So he picked him up, when
+away went his head, legs, and tail, all tucked under his shell. He
+looked like a box shut almost tight. When he was put in the water, out
+they came again.
+
+He spends the whole day trying to climb the sides of the smooth pan he
+is in, slipping back, and trying again. We put in a large shell to serve
+him for a house; and one day he climbed to the top of it, got out of his
+pan, and crawled over the carpet into the next room. So we had to take
+his house away.
+
+I think we shall have to name him Willie Winkie, because he opens and
+shuts his eyes so often and so quickly.
+
+Charley and John have the promise of a garden all to themselves when
+summer comes here. Perhaps by and by, we will tell the other children
+who read "The Nursery," how they get on with it, and what kinds of
+flowers they raise.
+
+                                                      C. R. S.
+  ST. PAUL, MINN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE LAZY SHEPHERD.
+
+
+SOME years ago in Scotland, two boys, whose names were Henry Bright and
+John Yorner, were left orphans by the death of parents. Mr. Donald, a
+good man, who had nine or ten thousand sheep, and employed many
+shepherds, took both these boys into his employ.
+
+"Now, boys," said he, "a shepherd's life may be barren or fruitful, lazy
+or active, just as you choose to make it. In pleasant weather, while you
+are tending the sheep, if you have good dogs to help you, you can, if
+you choose, find leisure for reading and for study, and at the same
+time not neglect your proper duties.
+
+"If you want books, come to my house, and I will lend them to you. You
+have eight years to serve before you are twenty-one; and in that time
+you can fit yourselves for employments that will yield you much more
+than the work of a shepherd."
+
+Henry Bright first suited himself to a good dog, and taught him so well,
+that Plato--such was the dog's name--soon took almost the whole care of
+a hundred sheep that Henry had to look after. The lad would take a seat
+under the shelter of some rock, and read and study, while Plato would
+lie at his feet, or run round to see that no sheep or lamb was straying
+too far from the pasture-ground.
+
+But John Yorner was lazy, and did not care for books. He would not take
+the trouble even to teach a dog his duties. He would lie on a bank in
+the sun, with his hands clasped above his head, and there sleep away the
+long hours before dinner. Often his sheep would stray away and get lost;
+so that Mr. Donald once said to him, "I fear you are not fit even for a
+shepherd, John."
+
+You may easily guess what the result was at the end of eight years. John
+Yorner was a shepherd still: he had not been promoted to any better
+employment. He loved idleness too well. One must be diligent if he would
+be faithful and succeed.
+
+As for Henry, he applied himself to the study of arithmetic, and became
+so skilled in that branch of study, that, before he was nineteen, his
+services were wanted by a large mercantile house in Glasgow. There he
+made himself so useful, that his success became no longer a matter of
+doubt.
+
+Oh the days of youth, how precious they are! Do not be like the lazy
+shepherd, my little friends!
+
+                                                UNCLE CHARLES.
+
+
+
+
+SEVENTH LESSON IN ASTRONOMY.
+
+
+YOU all know that the sun comes to us in the morning, and goes away from
+us at night, and you say that it rises and sets. Does it rise and set in
+the same place?
+
+I know that is a foolish question to ask any child who lives with his
+eyes open. You all know, of course, that it rises opposite to where it
+went down the night before, and takes all day to cross the sky to its
+setting-place again. And you know it rises in the east, and sets in the
+west.
+
+But do you know that most of the stars, too, rise and set in this same
+way? Those of you who are old enough to be up when the stars are out can
+see for yourselves that this is so. You can see some stars rise, and
+some set, if there is nothing in your way, and you patiently watch; or
+you can pick out a particular star, and notice just where it is, and
+then, if you look for it later, you will see that it appears to have
+moved.
+
+All night long, and all day too, only we cannot see them in the
+sunlight, stars are rising, crossing the sky, and setting, the same
+stars coming up a little earlier each day. But there are some stars
+which neither rise nor set, and these I will tell you about some other
+time.
+
+Now, after all this that I have said about the rising and setting of the
+sun and stars, you will be surprised to learn that, so far as we can
+see, they never move at all. The planets--and our earth among them--move
+around the sun; but the sun stands still; and all the stars which are
+suns, shine always in the same place, and are hence called fixed stars.
+How, then, can they be said to rise and set?
+
+I will try to explain this in the next lesson. In the meantime you had
+better read again what I told you about the planets in the second
+lesson.
+
+                                                      M. E. R.
+
+
+
+
+HOW TO DRAW A PIG.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          The Body of Piggy is shaped like a bean.
+          Except when he's poor and uncommonly lean.
+
+          Then give him an ear and a long handsome snout
+          For the last is so useful in rooting about.
+
+          Then a bright little eye he must have without fail
+          At the other end of him a small curly tail.
+
+          Then give him four feet and you have a whole pig
+          Who can run for his food be he little or big.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A SIGHT OF THE OCEAN.
+
+
+"OH, what I would give for a sight of the ocean!" said Ruth Turner, as
+she sat one hot day in June in their little parlor, with her two sisters
+and their mother.
+
+"We must content ourselves in the city this summer," said Mrs. Turner.
+"What with the great fire, and the stagnation of trade, your father has
+lost so much money that we cannot afford to hire a cottage by the
+sea-side this year."
+
+"Well, we must try to make home pleasant," said little Anna, whose pale,
+pinched face showed that the pent air of the city had already begun to
+affect her health.
+
+"Let us all shut our eyes, and imagine ourselves on the beach," said
+Ellen, who was the poetess of the family.
+
+At that moment, the postman's knock at the door gave promise of a
+letter. Ruth ran to get it, and, returning in a moment, handed her
+mother a note, and said, "It is from that ugly, fat old Mr. Jenks, the
+grocer: his name is on the back. What can he want?"
+
+"Give me the letter, child," said Mrs. Turner; "and do not let me hear
+you speak of any fellow-being with contempt, because he is ugly, fat, or
+old. Mr. Jenks is all the time doing kind things. I am sorry to hear
+that his wife is ill."
+
+Mrs. Turner opened the letter, read it, and said, while her face
+flushed, "Hear this, Miss Ruth, you who were so quick to speak ill of
+Mr. Jenks:--
+
+"DEAR MRS. TURNER,--Wife and I have concluded to take the next steamer
+for England, not to be back till next October. You and your honest
+husband must at once go down with your family, and occupy my furnished
+cottage at Crescent Beach. Cellar and store-closet are well stocked with
+groceries. Use and consume every thing as if it were your own. Don't say
+_no_, but send me round word that you will do it. I don't like to leave
+the cottage empty."
+
+Ruth ran to a corner of the room, turned her face to the wall, and
+covered it with her hands.
+
+"Handsome is, that handsome does, Miss Ruth," cried little Anna.
+
+"Well, Ruth, shall we accept the invitation?" said her mother.
+
+"On one condition," said Ruth, turning round; "and that is, that you let
+me go and thank Mr. Jenks myself for his great kindness. He is not old;
+he is not ugly; and, if he is fat, so much the better."
+
+The good grocer's offer was gratefully accepted. The little girls now
+pass most of the summer days on the beach, where they pick up shells,
+and pretty white stones, or bathe in the salt ocean. Every morning
+brings fresh delights. Anna has rosy cheeks once more, and as for
+Ellen, she sits on the rocks, and sketches, or writes poetry, every day.
+
+Ruth has broken herself of the bad habit of speaking ill of persons
+because of their looks. She knows now that a man may be "old, fat, and
+ugly," and at the same time be full of love and kindness.
+
+                                                DORA BURNSIDE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+RUTH'S WISHES.
+
+
+          "I'D like to be now
+          A bird on a bough,"
+          Said Ruth, one hot day
+          As she paused in her play:
+          "I'd like to be now
+          A bird on a bough.
+
+          "To be like a fish
+          In the sea is my wish,
+          Where the water is cool,
+          And they go to no school:
+          To be like a fish
+          In the sea is my wish.
+
+          "A squirrel I'd be
+          High up on a tree;
+          For he can go where
+          He gets plenty of air:
+          A squirrel I'd be
+          High up on a tree.
+
+          "A stag in a wood
+          I'd be, if I could:
+          He can lie on the ground
+          Where 'tis cool all around:
+          A stag in a wood
+          I'd be, if I could."
+
+          So wished, in her folly,
+          Ruth, holding her dolly;
+          The heat of the noon
+          Put her all out of tune:
+          So wished, in her folly,
+          Ruth, holding her dolly.
+
+                                                 EMILY CARTER.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+PHILIP'S NEW WHIP.
+
+
+NOW, what is all this noise about? The hens cackle and run about. The
+pig squeals. Over the fence flies the old gander, and after him flies
+the goose. Now, what can be the matter?
+
+I will tell you. It all comes from this: our little Philip has had a
+present of a new whip; and the first thing he does with it is to see how
+his friends in the barn-yard like it.
+
+He does not like to try it on the horse or on the cow; for the horse can
+kick, and the cow can hook with her horns. So, like a little coward, he
+frightens the hens, and the poor geese, and the pig, shut up in his pen.
+
+I do not think it right. We ought to protect the weak, and not try to
+scare or hurt them.
+
+                                                      A. B. C.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE THREE LITTLE LADIES.
+
+
+          NOW, who can find out
+          What these three little ones are about?
+          Very busy, you see,
+          They all seem to be;
+          But what they are doing,
+          What work or what pleasure pursuing,
+          Is more than my wisdom can tell:
+          And are not you puzzled as well?
+
+          One little lady is standing
+          On a cricket in posture commanding;
+          Another is pulling out pieces
+          From a drawer as fast as she pleases;
+          Another is bearing a roll--
+          But what for? It is all very droll.
+          And pray what is pussy about?
+          She joins in the frolic, no doubt.
+
+          These three little ladies, my dear,
+          Know what they're about: that is clear.
+          'Tis something important, you see,
+          Though a puzzle to you and to me;
+          For they each look as grave as a judge:
+          So, old folks, don't laugh, and cry, "Fudge!"
+          It may be that your own great affairs
+          Are not any more useful than theirs.
+
+                                                ALFRED SELWYN.
+
+
+
+
+GRANDMA'S STORY.
+
+
+I AM only five years old; but I have a great deal of trouble. Papa pulls
+my ears, and calls me a sad rogue; brother Tom asks me every night what
+new mischief I have been up to today; and poor mamma sighs, and says I
+am the most troublesome child she ever saw.
+
+But dear good grandma looks up from her knitting, and smiles as she
+says, "Tut, tut, daughter! Our Amy isn't any worse than a little girl I
+knew some thirty years ago."
+
+"O grandma!" cried I one day, "do please tell me about her; for I like
+to hear about naughty little girls. What was her name, grandma?"
+
+Grandma looked over her spectacles at mamma and smiled, and mamma nodded
+and smiled back. Then grandma said, "I think I will tell you of one of
+little Clara's capers; but mind, you are not to go and do the same thing
+the first chance you get."
+
+This is the story as grandmother told it,--
+
+          "Little Clara lived on a farm away out in the
+          country. She was the youngest of seven children,
+          and a great pet, of course. But Clara's little
+          restless feet and mischievous fingers often
+          brought her into trouble and disgrace.
+
+          "One day Clara's mother had occasion to go to the
+          store, which was three miles away. Clara wanted to
+          go too. Her mother feared she would be in the way,
+          and looked doubtful; but big brother Ben said,
+          'Let her go, mother. She'll be good, I know.'
+
+          "'Yes; let her go,' said Susan, who was trying to
+          net a bead purse, and keep Clara's fingers out of
+          her box of beads at the same time.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"'Do let her go!' said Roger. 'I want to rig my ship this afternoon; and
+a fellow can't do much with her around.'
+
+          "So it was decided that Clara should go; and it
+          was the work of but a few moments to polish up the
+          chubby face and hands, and brush the curly hair.
+          The pink dress, red shoes, and white sun-bonnet,
+          were put on as quickly as possible, and Clara was
+          ready.
+
+          "'Now, do try to behave yourself, child,' said
+          Susan, as Ben lifted the little girl into the
+          wagon.
+
+          "'Of course I will,' replied Clara, pouting her
+          red lips.
+
+          "'But did she behave herself?' you ask. Ah! I will
+          tell you.
+
+          "When they reached the store, Mr. Dale, the
+          storekeeper, came out to assist them; and, as he
+          helped Clara out of the wagon, he called her 'a
+          little lady,' which made her feel all of two
+          inches taller than usual. Then he gave her a stick
+          of candy, and lifted her to a seat on the counter,
+          close beside a dear old pussy-cat, who purred
+          loudly as the little girl smoothed her fur.
+
+          "Clara's mother had a good many things to buy, and
+          very soon forgot all about her little daughter;
+          but when Ben came in, half an hour later, his
+          first question was, 'Where's Clara, mother?'
+
+          "Sure enough, where was Clara? Her seat was empty.
+          She had disappeared. 'Clara, Clara!' called both
+          her mother and Ben; but there was no answer.
+
+          "'She's in some mischief,' said Ben; and, as quick
+          as thought, he rushed into the back part of the
+          store, followed by his mother and Mr. Dale. What a
+          sight met their eyes! There stood Clara, in the
+          centre of the room, stepping back slowly, as a
+          pool of molasses, streaming steadily from a
+          hogshead in the corner, crept towards the toes of
+          her little red shoes. Ben caught up Clara as quick
+          as a flash, and----"
+
+"No, grandma," interrupted mamma, "it was Mr. Dale who did that, while
+Ben made haste to turn the faucet to prevent further mischief."
+
+"Why, mamma," said I, "how do you know? Were you there?"
+
+"I heard about it," said she; and she and grandma both smiled. "The
+little girl was just my age, and I knew her very well."
+
+"And your names were both Clara," said I. "How queer!"
+
+And mamma and grandma must have thought it queer, too; for they both
+laughed heartily.
+
+                                                      F. A. B.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+AUNT MATILDA.
+
+
+WHAT should we do in our house if it were not for our Aunt Matilda? She
+is the first one out of bed in the morning, and the last one to go to
+bed at night. She sees that things are right in the kitchen, and right
+in the parlor.
+
+Father wants his breakfast by half-past six o'clock this summer weather.
+Aunt Matilda rises before five, and calls the girls, and sees that the
+rooms are in order. Then she calls the children to be washed and
+dressed.
+
+Yes, that is a good likeness of her, as you see her combing my hair. She
+is not young, you perceive, nor yet very old. Sometimes I get a little
+impatient, and fidget, because she is so particular; but our quarrels
+always end in my kissing her, and saying, "You are a darling Aunty,
+after all."
+
+Mother is an invalid: so she cannot do much house-work, or see to the
+children. But Aunt Matilda is mother, aunt, and house-maid, all in one.
+Sometimes she even acts as stable-boy, and harnesses the horse to the
+carryall; for there are few things that Aunty does not know how to do,
+and to do well.
+
+Do we go to school? Yes, and no. Our only school is one that Aunt
+Matilda keeps for us in the library. She teaches us to read, to write,
+and to draw. She can play on the piano, and has begun to teach me music.
+Oh! What _should_ we all do without Aunt Matilda?
+
+                                                    MISS MAUD.
+
+
+
+
+ANNA'S BIRD.
+
+
+ANNA has a little bird, and she calls it Tot. You must try to find out
+from the picture what sort of a bird it is. It can sing and play; and it
+is so tame, that it will put its bill between Anna's lips when she says,
+"Kiss me, Tot."
+
+Her dog Fancy is quite fond of the bird, and will let it light on his
+head; and Anna is trying to make Muff, the cat, give up her habit of
+killing birds. But I hope that Anna will be careful, and not trust Muff
+too far.
+
+I have heard of a cat in a bird-shop, that was trained to take care of
+birds, instead of harming them; but this is a rare case. It is hard to
+keep a cat from catching birds, and from troubling the little young ones
+in their nests.
+
+Anna is so fond of Tot, that she will not let a cat come into the room
+where he is. Tot can whistle a tune. He likes to light on Anna's head,
+and will sometimes almost hide himself under her thick hair. She feeds
+him, and gives him a bath every day, and lets him fly about the room.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+If Tot were to fly out of the window, I think he would try to get back
+to his own little cage, so fond is he of Anna.
+
+                                                  ANNA'S AUNT.
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF THE SQUASHES.
+
+
+I KNOW of two little boys, twin-brothers, who are just five years old.
+They are so nearly alike that their best friends can scarcely tell them
+apart. Sturdy little men they are; so strong and fair and stout, that I
+should be glad to kiss them even when they have come from the dirtiest
+depths of their mud-pies. I fancy their mother sighs often over their
+torn pantaloons, their battered hats, and their soiled boots; but for
+all that, they _must_ play, and things will wear out.
+
+One day in the fall, their papa sent up to the house a farmer's wagon
+full of great beautiful squashes, to be put into the cellar for the
+winter's use. The farmer put the squashes on the ground close by the
+cellar-door ready for storage. But, when their papa came home, the
+squashes had disappeared, and he inquired who had put them into the
+cellar, and went down to see if they had been properly stored.
+
+But there were no squashes there. And he inquired again where they were;
+but no one knew. He called to the boys, who were playing horse on the
+sidewalk, to ask if they knew any thing of the squashes. Oh, yes! and
+they ran to the barn, he following; and where do you suppose the
+squashes were? In the pig-pen--every one of them!
+
+They had toiled and tugged, and carried every squash--and many of them
+were large--out there, and fed them to the pigs.
+
+The mischief done, who could scold those two bright, hard-working little
+men? I think their papa had to console himself with thinking if only
+they would work as well at something useful when they were grown up, he
+could forgive their rather wasteful business when they were little.
+
+                                                      C. D. B.
+
+
+
+
+CHARLIE'S COMPOSITION.
+
+
+CHARLIE was ten years old, and his teacher thought he should begin to
+write compositions. So she gave him a list of words, and told him to
+write a letter or story, and put them all in.
+
+The words were these: Begun, Write, Boy, Hook, Two, Black, Said, Basket,
+Knife, Chair, Eyes, Ground.
+
+Charlie went home; and, before he went out to play in the afternoon, his
+mother said, "You had better work a while on your composition."
+
+"Oh, I never can do it!" he said. "Mother, you try too, and see if you
+can write one." So she took his list and wrote this true story,--
+
+          "A little _boy_ with roguish _black eyes_ was
+          sitting on the floor, playing with some spools
+          that he had taken from his mother's work-_basket_,
+          which she had left in a _chair_. All at once he
+          saw a cow coming up the yard. He dropped every
+          thing, and ran to drive her out. She threw up her
+          head, and looked so fierce, that he was afraid she
+          would _hook_ him, and back he ran to the house.
+
+          "Then he spied a fruit-_knife_ on the _ground_,
+          where he had left it when he was eating an apple
+          in the morning. He picked it up, and carried it to
+          his mother, who had just _begun_ to _write_, and
+          she _said_, that, if he would keep still about
+          _two_ minutes, she would attend to him."
+
+"There," said mamma, "I have put in all the words: now you try,
+Charlie."
+
+Charlie then wrote:--
+
+          "I saw _two hooks_ and _eyes_ just as I had begun
+          to _write_. Johnny brought mother's _knife_, which
+          he found lying on the _ground_. He joggled
+          mother's _chair_, and she _said_, 'There's a
+          _black_ mark on my paper, and oh, dear! the _boy_
+          has tipped over my _basket_.' That's all."
+
+His mother read what Charlie had written, and said, "Pretty good for the
+first time;" and off he went to play.
+
+                                                      L. J. D.
+
+[Illustration: THE PEDLAR.]
+
+
+
+
+
+THE PEDLAR.
+
+                                               Music by T. CRAMPTON,
+                                                Chiswick, W. London.
+
+[Illustration: Music]
+
+          1. I wish I liv'd in a caravan
+          With a horse to drive like a pedlar-man,
+          Wherever he comes from nobody knows,
+          But merrily thro' the town he goes.
+
+          2. His caravan it is painted blue,
+          With a chimney small where the smoke comes thro';
+          And there is his wife with baby so brown,
+          And onward they go from town to town.
+
+          3. "Old chairs to mend, and new jugs to sell,"
+          How he makes the basins ring like a bell!
+          With baskets and tea-trays glossy and trim,
+          And plates with my name around the brim.
+
+          4. A pedlar-man I should like to roam,
+          And a book I'd write when I came back home;
+          And all the good folks would study my book,
+          And famous I'd be like Captain Cook.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+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.
+
+
+
+
+
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