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+Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, October 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 4, by Various
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+Title: The Nursery, October 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 4
+       A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28138]
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+THE
+
+NURSERY
+
+
+_A Monthly Magazine_
+
+
+FOR YOUNGEST READERS.
+
+
+VOLUME XXII.--No. 4.
+
+
+          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
+  The Parrot that played Truant                   97
+  Feeding the Ducks                              100
+  Chestnut-Gathering                             104
+  A Day with the Alligators                      107
+  The Spider and her Family                      110
+  Why Uncle Ralph did not hit the Deer           113
+  Faithful Dandy                                 114
+  Emma and her Doll                              117
+  Our old Billy                                  119
+  The Thrush feeding the Cuckoo                  120
+  The Cat and the Starling                       125
+
+IN VERSE.
+
+                                                PAGE
+  A Baby Lay                                     101
+  The Pigs                                       106
+  How to draw a Goose                            112
+  Learn your Lesson                              116
+  Jippy and Jimmy                                122
+  The jolly old Cooper                           123
+  The Express Package                            126
+  The White Owl (_with music_)                   128
+
+[Illustration: Birds]
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE PARROT THAT PLAYED TRUANT.]
+
+
+
+
+THE PARROT THAT PLAYED TRUANT.
+
+
+[Illustration: O]LD Miss Dorothy Draper had a parrot. It was one of the
+few things she loved. And the parrot seemed to love her in return. Miss
+Dorothy would hang the cage outside of her window every sunny day.
+Sometimes an idle boy would come along, and poke a stick between the
+wires; and then the old lady would say, "Boy, go away!"
+
+But one day, when the window was open, and the door of the cage was open
+also, Polly thought it was a good time to play truant. So she hopped
+out, rested on the sill a moment, and then flew into the street, from
+tree to tree, and from lamp-post to lamp-post.
+
+Poor Miss Dorothy was in despair. How should she get back her lost pet?
+She called in a policeman, and he advised her to get out a handbill,
+offering a reward. So in an hour this notice was pasted on the walls
+near by:--
+
+          LOST!--A green-and-white parrot. It answers to the
+          name of Polly, and can talk quite plainly. It
+          says, "Boy, go away!" also, "Polly wants a
+          cracker," and "No, you don't!" Any one finding
+          this bird shall, on returning it to its afflicted
+          owner, Miss D. Draper, No. 10, Maiden Place,
+          receive a reward of two dollars.
+
+Little Tony Peterkin was walking home from school, and wishing he had
+money enough to buy a copy of Virgil without going to his mother for
+it,--for she was a widow, and poor,--when he saw a man pasting this
+handbill on a wall. Tony read it, and said aloud, "Oh, I wish I could
+find that parrot!"
+
+A girl who heard him said, "I saw a parrot just now on one of the trees
+in Lake Street."--"Did you?" said Tony; and off he ran. The parrot had
+flown from the tree to the top of the lamp-post; and when Tony got
+there, two women, a newsboy, and a policeman were looking up at the
+strange fowl.
+
+It was the work of a second for Tony to spring at the iron post, and
+begin climbing up. "No, you don't!" cried the parrot. That frightened
+Tony, so that he almost dropped; but he took heart when he thought of
+the two dollars and a new fresh copy of Virgil.
+
+Up he climbed; but just as he was going to put his hand on the little
+cross-bar under the lamp, "Boy, go away!" cried Poll. Tony's heart beat
+at these words; but he held on. "Poll, Poll, pretty Poll!" cried he:
+"come and get a cracker!"--"Polly wants a cracker," replied the bird.
+
+The truth was, Polly was tired of the street, and wanted to get back to
+Miss Dorothy. So, when Polly heard Tony's kind words, she flew down to
+the cross-bar, and, when he held out his hand, she lighted on it, and
+Tony slid with her down the post to the ground.
+
+"Well done, my lad," said the policeman. He went with Tony, carrying the
+bird, to No. 10, Maiden Place; and Miss Dorothy was so much pleased that
+she gave Tony three dollars instead of two. On his way home he bought
+that copy Of Virgil.
+
+                                                DORA BURNSIDE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+FEEDING THE DUCKS.
+
+
+A MILD summer day, and one, two, three, four children sitting on the
+ground by the pond, and feeding the ducks!
+
+But I think I hear the larger girl, who is standing up, say to the
+sitters, "Children, don't you know better than to sit there on the damp
+earth? You will every one of you catch a cold. Get up this instant."
+
+That is what the larger girl ought to say; for many children take bad
+colds by sitting on the grass. The other day, as I went through the
+Central Park in New York, I saw a maid in charge of three children, one
+of them an infant, and she was letting them lie at full-length on the
+grass.
+
+I told her she must not do so; but she said the weather was warm, and
+there was no danger. As I knew the parents of the children, I told her
+she must take the children up at once, and let them sit on the seats
+near by.
+
+At length she obeyed me. Two days afterwards I called on the parents of
+the children, and then learned that every one of the little ones was ill
+with a cold. I told the mother what I had seen at the Central Park and
+she told the maid that never again must she let the children sit on the
+bare grass. The maid promised she would not do so again.
+
+                                                 AUNT MATILDA.
+
+
+
+
+A BABY LAY.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          WHAT does the kitten say? "Mew, mew, mew!"
+          She shall have some nice milk, warm and new.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          Up jumps the dog, and says, "Bow, wow, wow!
+          I'm as good as kitty, and I'm hungry now."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          What does the cow say? "Moo, moo, moo!"
+          And the pretty little calf tries to say so too.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          "Ba-a!" says the little lamb,--"baa, baa, baa!"
+          What does she mean? Is she calling her mamma?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          The rooster struts around, and cries, "Cock-a-doodle-doo!"
+          As if that were just about the only thing he knew!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          On the roof the gentle dove says, "Coo, coo, coo!
+          Love me, little girls and boys, for I love you."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          What does the hen say? "Cluck, cluck, cluck!"
+          As she scratches for her chickens, and has good luck.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          What does the bird say? "Peep, peep, peep!"
+          As, early in the morning, she rouses us from sleep.
+
+          What does our baby say? "Goo, goo, goo!"
+          See the loving glances in her eyes so blue;
+          How we rush to take her, at the slightest call!
+          Oh! the darling baby is the sweetest pet of all.
+
+                                                         ELLA.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+CHESTNUT-GATHERING.
+
+
+DID you ever go chestnut-gathering? Such fun as it is! especially when a
+lot of girls and boys go together.
+
+On one of my father's farms there were many chestnut-trees; and every
+autumn, after the first frost, when the leaves were all turning, and
+beginning to fall, we used to have chestnut-gatherings.
+
+The boys used to get long poles, with which they would beat off the
+nuts. Sometimes they would climb the trees, and shake or beat off such
+nuts as they could not reach from below. And we girls used to help pick
+them up, and put them into baskets.
+
+Some years chestnuts are very scarce. I remember one year there was only
+one tree that had any nuts on; and we could not reach them: not even a
+man could climb it.
+
+One day, Henry, who was a very kind man, said, "Perhaps we will cut that
+tree down: it will make good rails, and then you children can get all
+the nuts."
+
+We no sooner heard this than we gave him no peace till it was done. And
+such an event! For we were to see the tree cut down.
+
+We children were stationed far away from danger; and another man and
+Henry chopped and chopped, till it was almost ready to fall, when they
+stepped back, and, in less than a minute, there was such a whistling
+through the air, such a crashing, and breaking of branches, and then a
+loud thud!
+
+The tree was down. I felt quite breathless with excitement; and so did
+the others; for it was some minutes before we ran up to see how many
+nuts there were.
+
+Oh, such lots! all spread around, and beaten out of the prickly burrs,
+all ready for us. I cannot remember how many we gathered, but it was
+some bushels; and we could not take all that day: so we concluded to
+return the next afternoon after school.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And what do you think? When we got there, not a nut was to be found! The
+little squirrels had been busy in our absence, and had taken away every
+one of them. Saucy squirrels! But we did not grudge them the nuts; for
+we had plenty.
+
+                                                   AUNT JENNY.
+
+
+
+
+THE PIGS.
+
+
+          THEY really are a pretty sight,
+          My little pigs, so small and white!
+          Their tails have such a curious kink;
+          Their ears are lined with palest pink:
+          They frisk about as brisk and gay
+          As school-boys on a holiday.
+          I watch them scamper to and fro:
+          How clean they look! how fast they grow!
+          But they are only pigs, dear me!
+          And that is all they'll ever be.
+
+          Beside their pen, above its wall,
+          A garden-rose grows fresh and tall,
+          Its blossoms, wet with morning dew,
+          The sweetest flowers that ever grew.
+          With every passing wind that blows
+          Comes scattered down a milk-white rose,
+          In leaves like scented flakes of snow,
+          Upon the little pigs below.
+          They only grunt, "Ur, Ur," and say,
+          "We want more milk and meal to-day.
+          The flowers may bloom, the flowers may fall,
+          'Tis no concern of ours at all."
+          For they are only pigs, dear me!
+          And that is all they'll ever be.
+
+          Upon the rose's highest bough
+          There often comes a robin now,
+          And sings a song so sweet and clear,
+          It makes one happy just to hear;
+          For never yet, on summer day,
+          Was sung a more delightful lay.
+          What care the little pigs below?
+          The bird may come, the bird may go;
+          For while he sings, "Quee, quee!" they squeal,
+          "We want some milk, we want some meal!"
+          For they are only pigs, dear me!
+          And that is all they'll ever be.
+
+                                               MARIAN DOUGLAS.
+
+
+
+
+A DAY WITH THE ALLIGATORS.
+
+
+I WANT to tell the young folks who read "The Nursery" something of my
+visit to Florida last winter. We first went to Jacksonville, which lies
+on the St. John's River, and is a very pleasant city. I wish you would
+find it on the map.
+
+One day, as I sat in the reading-room of the hotel, I heard shouts of
+laughter, followed by the clapping of hands. "What can it be?" thought
+I, throwing down the newspaper I was reading, and running into the
+corridor.
+
+There I saw five or six little reptiles, about half the length of my
+arm, that seemed to be running a race over the canvas carpet with which
+the floor was covered. A number of people were looking on. They appeared
+to be highly amused by the queer movements of the creatures.
+
+"What are they? Lizards?" cried I.
+
+"Lizards! No: they are young alligators," said a little girl, in a tone
+that implied pity for my ignorance.
+
+"Alligators!" said I, retreating in alarm, as one of them came towards
+me.
+
+"Oh, you coward!" cried the little girl, laughing. "They are too small
+to hurt you. See me." And, saying this, she took one of them up in her
+apron, and brought it towards me. I ran into the reading-room, and she
+ran after me; but when she saw that I was really afraid of the reptile,
+she took it back to the corridor, and placed it on the floor.
+
+These little alligators grow to be huge creatures, sometimes more than
+twenty feet long. They live in the creeks and little rivers that run
+into the St. John's. They rarely go very far from the shore. They live
+partly on land and partly in the water.
+
+In Florida the weather in January is often quite as warm as it is in the
+Northern States in June. So on a fine winter day, my father took my
+sister and me on board the steamer "Mayflower" for a trip upon the St.
+John's River, and up some of the small streams, where alligators may be
+found.
+
+We went some thirty miles towards the south, and then turned into a
+small river, where the scenery on both sides resembled that given in the
+picture. Cypress-swamps and high trees overgrown with moss everywhere
+met our view. On the banks, and generally on fallen logs, might be seen
+alligators basking in the sun.
+
+Many of the passengers in the steamboat had brought pistols and guns,
+with which to fire at the poor alligators. This is a very cruel and
+useless sport, for the alligators do no harm to anybody. I saw ladies
+and young girls firing at them. We passed some fifty alligators on our
+way.
+
+Father and another gentleman took a boat, and rowed some distance up a
+creek. There we saw an alligator with a young one by its side. The young
+are very small, compared with the full-grown reptile. You can see from
+the picture, that the alligator is not handsome; but that is no reason
+why bullets should be lodged in its hide. I came to the conclusion that
+firing pistols at these animals was poor and mean sport.
+
+What a lovely day it was! and how we enjoyed the excursion! Just think
+of sitting in your summer clothing on a day in January, and passing
+through scenery where the trees and shrubs are all green. We returned to
+Jacksonville just in time to see the sun set, and we shall not soon
+forget our visit among the alligators.
+
+                                       UNCLE CHARLES'S NEPHEW.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE SPIDER AND HER FAMILY.
+
+
+EVERY child has seen spiders in plenty, spinning their webs in some
+corner; or, after the web or tent is securely fastened and finished,
+lying in wait for some unfortunate fly or mosquito.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Oftentimes in these webs small brown bags are to be seen, and these, if
+opened, will be found to contain a great many little eggs which the
+spider has laid; or, sometimes when you open them, you will find that
+the eggs have just hatched, and that there is a bag full of tiny spiders
+that have not yet seen the light.
+
+Spiders indeed have as many children sometimes as the "Old woman who
+lived in a shoe;" but, unlike that famed personage, they seem to know
+just what to do. It is very interesting to watch them, and see how they
+manage their little ones.
+
+One day as I was walking on a country road, where there was not much
+travel, my attention was caught by a large spider in the dust at my
+feet, so large that I stopped to look at it. Its body seemed rough and
+thick, while its legs were short. I took a stick, and poked it, when,
+presto change! my spider had a small, round, smooth body, and long legs.
+
+Truly this was more strange than any sleight-of-hand trick I had ever
+seen. I had heard of snakes and frogs shedding their skins, and many
+other queer stories of animals and insects, but of nothing at all like
+this.
+
+I stooped closer to the ground to see if I could get a clew to the
+mystery, and found that the dust all about the large spider was alive
+with little ones that she had just shaken off. What a load! And how did
+they ever get up on her back? Did they run up her slender legs, and
+crowd and cling on?
+
+How I wished I knew the spider language, that I might find out why this
+mother weighed herself down with such a burden of little ones as she
+walked the street! Was she giving them an airing, and showing them the
+world? or had the broom of some housemaid swept away her web, and forced
+her thus to take flight to save her family from destruction?
+
+Perhaps she had been burned out. Or was it the first day of May to her?
+and had her landlord forced her out of her house because she could not
+pay the rent?
+
+Alas! she could not tell me; and I left her there in the road with all
+her little ones about her.
+
+                                                  E. M. DAVIS.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+HOW TO DRAW A GOOSE.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          The Goose has a body
+            the shape of an egg.
+
+          With a round head
+            a long neck and bill.
+
+          When the weather is cold
+            she can stand on one leg
+          With some wings she can fly
+              if she will.
+
+          Now we give her a tail
+            more for beauty than use
+          And out of our egg comes
+            a very nice goose.
+
+
+
+
+WHY UNCLE RALPH DID NOT HIT THE DEER.
+
+
+MANY years ago, when I was a little fellow, I went on a sail with my
+Uncle Ralph on one of the prettiest of our northern lakes. The day was
+fine, the air was mild but fresh, and the hills and banks around us were
+clothed in green.
+
+Besides Uncle Ralph, in the boat were my Aunt Mary, and cousins Walter
+and Susan Brent. Uncle Ralph was a sportsman, and he had a gun, with
+which he hoped to bring down a deer, in case he should see one.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+I did not at all like this part of his plan. I knew it would mar my own
+and my aunt's pleasure, if we were made to see the death of a noble stag
+or a gentle fawn. But I was too fond of a sail to express my dislike of
+Uncle Ralph's plan.
+
+At the foot of a hill we stopped in our little boat to pick berries.
+Aunt Mary said she would stay and read. The rest of us went with Uncle
+Ralph to a clearing near by, to pick raspberries.
+
+We had not been gone long, when Uncle Ralph sent me back for a mug with
+which to get water from a cool spring. As I came within sight of the
+boat, I saw Aunt Mary take the ramrod of the gun, extract the bullet,
+and then put in fresh wadding, and ram it down.
+
+I understood it all, but said nothing. After we had got berries and
+water enough, we set sail again, and this time for the opposite shore,
+where Uncle Ralph's keen eyes had detected a stag and two fawns.
+
+We landed in a little cove out of sight of the deer. Uncle Ralph took
+his gun, and crept through the woods. In about fifteen minutes we heard
+him fire. Aunt Mary smiled, and took up her book. Soon Uncle Ralph came
+back.
+
+"Where's your game, Ralph?" asked Aunt Mary.
+
+"Will you believe it," said he: "I got within thirty feet of them; had
+the fairest shot that a fellow could possibly have, but somehow I missed
+my aim--didn't so much as graze one of them."
+
+"Well, I'm not sorry for it," said Aunt Mary. "We shall enjoy our
+luncheon under the trees all the better."
+
+I looked at her, and laughed, but she checked me with a "Hush!"
+
+                                                 ALBERT MASON.
+
+
+
+
+FAITHFUL DANDY.
+
+
+MR. BAXTER, a poor laboring-man, was the owner of a fine dog, whose name
+was Dandy. Having to remove from one village to another in the State of
+Maine, Mr. Baxter hired a small wagon on which his furniture was packed.
+Then he led the horse, while Dandy followed behind.
+
+When he came to the place where he was to stop, Mr. Baxter unloaded his
+wagon, but was sorry to find that a chair and a basket were missing
+from the back-part of the wagon, and that Dandy, also, could not be
+found. The day passed; and, as the dog did not appear, the poor man
+feared that something must have happened to him.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The next day, as Mr. Baxter was on his way back to the old cottage to
+take away another load, he heard the bark of a dog, which sounded very
+much like Dandy's. Judge how glad he was when he saw by the roadside,
+not only his lost property, but his faithful Dandy, seated erect by the
+chair and basket, keeping strict guard over them.
+
+They had fallen from the wagon when Mr. Baxter was not looking; but
+Dandy had seen them, and, like a good dog, felt it his duty to stay
+behind and guard what belonged to his master.
+
+Although left for so long a time without food, the faithful creature had
+never quitted the spot where the chair and basket had fallen. But, when
+he saw his master, how glad was poor Dandy! He leaped up, put his paws
+on the man's shoulders, and barked with joy.
+
+"Good Dandy! good Dandy!" said Mr. Baxter: "you must be hungry, old
+fellow! Come along: you shall have a good dinner for this. While I have
+a crust of bread, I'll share it with you, you noble old dog."
+
+                                                UNCLE CHARLES.
+
+
+
+
+LEARN YOUR LESSON.
+
+
+          YOU'LL not learn your lesson by crying, my man,
+          You'll never come at it by crying, my man;
+            Not a word can you spy, for the tear in your eye,
+          Then put your mind on it, for surely you can.
+
+          Only smile on your lesson, 'twill smile upon you;
+          How glibly the words will then jump into view!
+            Each word to its place all the others will chase,
+          Till you'll wonder to find how well you can do.
+
+          If you cry, you will make yourself stupid or blind,
+          And then not an answer will come to your mind;
+            But cheer up your heart, and you'll soon have your part,
+          For all things grow easy when hearts are inclined.
+
+                                                            C.
+
+
+
+
+EMMA AND HER DOLL.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+EMMA has placed her doll Flora against the pillow. She says, "Now, dear
+Flora, I want you to be very good to-morrow, for I am to have company.
+It is my birthday."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Then Emma sat down in a chair, and said to herself, "Why, what an old
+person I shall be! I shall be four years old; and I shall have to go to
+school soon, and read in my books. I love to look at the pictures now."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Emma got down from the chair, and placed Flora in it, and said: "I want
+you to be very still now, my child, for I am going to say my evening
+prayers. You must not cry; you must not stir; for I shall not like it at
+all if you make the least noise."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Then Emma said her prayers, and Flora kept quite still all the while.
+"Now I shall take off my shoes, and get into bed," said Emma; and then
+she thanked Flora for behaving so well.
+
+                                                      A. B. C.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+OUR OLD BILLY.
+
+
+WE call him _old_ Billy; but he is not really old: he is a young horse,
+and as full of capers as any puppy. After he has been standing in the
+barn for two or three days, he acts like a wild creature when he is
+taken out, and will whisk round corners, and scamper up and down the
+hill, as if he really meant to tear every thing to pieces. But just fill
+the carriage up with ladies or babies, and he will step along as
+carefully as if he thought an extra joggle would break some of them.
+
+He is very fond of my aunt, who usually drives him; and, when she goes
+to ride, he always expects her to give him something good,--an apple, or
+a crust, or a lump of sugar. If she has nothing for him, he will grab
+the corner of her veil, or the ribbons on her hat, and chew them, to
+teach her not to forget him next time; and he will lap her face and
+hands, like a dog.
+
+If she goes into a store, and stays longer than he thinks necessary, he
+will step across the sidewalk, carriage and all, and try to get his head
+in at the door to look for her.
+
+There is another horse in the barn where he is kept,--a very quiet,
+well-behaved nag, named Tom; and sometimes, when Billy feels naughty, he
+will put his head over the side of the stall and nip Tom, not enough to
+hurt much, but just enough to tease him, and make him squeal.
+
+One day auntie heard a great clattering in the barn, and went out to see
+what was the matter. When she opened the door, both horses were in their
+stalls, and all was quiet. She noticed that the meal-chest was open: so
+she closed it, and went out. Before she reached the house, the noise
+began again, and she went quietly back, and peeped in at the window.
+
+There was Billy, dipping his nose into the meal-chest, which he had
+opened. "Billy, what are you doing?" said auntie; and it was fun enough
+to see him whisk into his stall, and stand there as quiet and demure as
+a cat that had just been caught eating up the cream.
+
+Billy had slipped the halter, and so set himself free. Since then he has
+been fastened more securely; yet he still succeeds in freeing himself
+once in a while.
+
+                                              IDA T. THURSTON.
+
+
+
+
+THE THRUSH FEEDING THE CUCKOO.
+
+
+THE cuckoo is a queer bird. It arrives in England about the middle of
+April, and departs in the autumn for the woods of Northern Africa. In
+every language the well-known notes of the male bird have suggested its
+name.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+In its habits it is shy; and its voice may be often heard whilst the eye
+seeks in vain to find the bird itself. Its food consists of caterpillars
+and various insects.
+
+The female cuckoo makes no nest, and takes no care of her young. How do
+you suppose she does? Having a wide bill, she takes up in it one of her
+eggs, which she puts in the nest of some other bird that feeds on
+insects.
+
+The strange nurses to whom the cuckoo confides her young become not only
+good mothers to them, but neglect their own children to take care of the
+young cuckoos.
+
+As the young cuckoo thrives and grows strong, he thrusts the other birds
+out of the nest, so that he may have all the room to himself. For five
+weeks or more his adopted mother supplies him with food.
+
+In the picture a thrush is represented as feeding a young cuckoo, that
+has probably driven off all the thrush's own children.
+
+                                                DORA BURNSIDE.
+
+
+
+
+JIPPY AND JIMMY.
+
+
+          JIPPY and Jimmy were two little dogs:
+          They went to sail on some floating logs.
+          The logs rolled over, the dogs rolled in;
+          And they got very wet, for their clothes were thin.
+
+          Jippy and Jimmy crept out again:
+          They said, "The river is full of rain!"
+          They said, "The water is far from dry!
+          Ky-hi! ky-hi! ky-hi! ky-hi!"
+
+          Jippy and Jimmy went shivering home:
+          They said, "On the river no more we'll roam;
+          And we won't go to sail until we learn how,--
+          Bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow!"
+
+                                            LAURA E. RICHARDS.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE JOLLY OLD COOPER.
+
+
+          A JOLLY old cooper am I,
+            And I'm mending this tub, do you see?
+          The workmen are gone, and I am alone,
+            And their tools are quite handy for me.
+          Now hammer and hammer away!
+            This hoop I must fit to the tub:
+          One, two--but I wish it would stay--
+            The workmen have gone to their grub.
+          How pleased they will be when they find
+          That I can do work to their mind!
+
+          Yes, a jolly old cooper--But stop!
+            What's this? Where's the tub? Oh, despair!
+          Knocked into a heap there it lies.
+            To face them now, how shall I dare?
+          The knocks I have given the tub
+            Will be echoed, I fear, on my head.
+          They are coming! Oh, yes! I can hear,--
+            I can hear on the sidewalk a tread.
+          Shall I stay, and confess it was I?
+          Yes, that's better than telling a lie!
+
+                                                ALFRED SELWYN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+
+THE CAT AND THE STARLING.
+
+
+THE European starling is a sprightly and handsome bird, about eight
+inches long, of a black color with purple and greenish reflections, and
+spotted with buff. It may be taught to repeat a few words, and to
+whistle short tunes.
+
+A little boy in England, who had one as a pet, which he named Dicky,
+tells the following story about it:--
+
+"I took it home with me, and got a cage for it. But Master Dicky was not
+satisfied with so little room, and got out, and took possession of the
+whole house. One morning I was awakened by his chirping, and, on looking
+around, I saw him on my pillow, to which he used to come every morning.
+
+"We had at the same time a cat, with whom he soon became very good
+friends. They always drank milk out of the same saucer. One afternoon, a
+basin of milk being on the table, Master Dicky thought he would take a
+bath: so in he went, splashing the milk all over the table.
+
+"Sometimes he would take it into his head to have a ride on the cat's
+back, to which she had no objection. At night he would sleep with the
+cat and kitten; and once when the servant came down in the morning, she
+said that she saw the cat with her paw around the bird, keeping him
+warm, though that seems almost too much to believe."
+
+                                                         R. B.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE EXPRESS PACKAGE.
+
+
+               A PACKAGE came,
+               With Gold-Locks' name
+          Written in letters bold and free
+               Upon the cover:
+               She turned it over,
+          And cried, "Is it for me, for me?"
+
+               'Twas scarce a minute
+               Before within it
+          Her eyes had peeped with curious awe:
+               There, sweet as a rose,
+               And folded close
+          In tissue, what do you think she saw?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+          A doll? Ah, yes!
+               You would never guess
+          A dolly could be so very sweet,
+               Or have such grace,
+               From the blooming face
+          Down to the tips of her slippered feet.
+
+               She smiled, and smiled,
+               Like a real live child,
+          And opened her eyes of bluest blue,
+               As little Gold-Locks
+               From out the box
+          Lifted, and held her up to view.
+
+               In ruffles and puffs
+               Of gauzy stuffs,
+          She looked like a fresh white flower, full-blown,
+               And Gold-Locks' heart
+               Gave a happy start,
+          As she thought, "She is all my own, my own!"
+
+                                        MRS. CLARA DOTY BATES.
+
+[Illustration: THE WHITE OWL]
+
+
+
+
+THE WHITE OWL.
+
+[Illustration: Music]
+
+
+          Words by TENNYSON.                 Music by T. CRAMPTON.
+
+          1. When cats run home and light is come,
+          And dew is cold upon the ground,
+          And the far-off stream is dumb,
+          And the whirring sail goes round,
+          And the whirring sail goes round.
+          Alone and warming his fine wits,
+          The white owl in the belfry sits.
+
+          2. When merry milkmaids click the latch,
+          And rarely smells the new-mown hay,
+          And the cock beneath the thatch,
+          Thrice has sung his roundelay,
+          Thrice has sung his roundelay.
+          Alone and warming his fine wits,
+          The white owl in the belfry sits.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+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 114, "go" changed to "got" (After we had got)
+
+Page 128, period changed to a comma on chorus of song (his fine wits,)
+
+
+
+
+
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