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No. 4, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Nursery, October 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 4 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28138] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, OCTOBER 1877 *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music +by Linda Cantoni. + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<h3>THE</h3> + +<h1>NURSERY</h1> + +<h2><i>A Monthly Magazine</i></h2> + +<h2><span class="smcap">For Youngest Readers.</span></h2> + +<div class='center'>VOLUME XXII.—No. 4.<br /> + +<br /><br /> +BOSTON:<br /> +JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET,<br /> +1877.<br /> +</div> + +<div class='copyright'><br /><br /><br /> +Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by<br /> +JOHN L. SHOREY,<br /> +In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.<br /> +<br /><br /><br /> +FRANKLIN PRESS:<br /> +RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY,<br /> +117 FRANKLIN STREET,<br /> +BOSTON.<br /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/contents.png" width="400" height="210" alt="Contents" title="" /> +</div> + +<h3>IN PROSE.</h3> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents in Prose"> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='right'><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Parrot that played Truant</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Feeding the Ducks</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_100">100</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chestnut-Gathering</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A Day with the Alligators</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Spider and her Family</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_110">110</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Why Uncle Ralph did not hit the Deer </td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Faithful Dandy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_114">114</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Emma and her Doll</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_117">117</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Our old Billy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_119">119</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Thrush feeding the Cuckoo</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_120">120</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Cat and the Starling</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_125">125</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3><br />IN VERSE.</h3> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents in Verse"> +<tr><td align='left'> </td><td align='right'><small>PAGE</small></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A Baby Lay</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_101">101</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Pigs</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>How to draw a Goose</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Learn your Lesson</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jippy and Jimmy</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_122">122</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The jolly old Cooper</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_123">123</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Express Package</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The White Owl (<i>with music</i>) </td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_128">128</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/contents_end.png" width="200" height="139" alt="Birds" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;"> +<img src="images/illus097.png" width="351" height="500" alt="THE PARROT THAT PLAYED TRUANT." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE PARROT THAT PLAYED TRUANT.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span></p> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>THE PARROT THAT PLAYED TRUANT.</h2> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 109px;"> +<img src="images/illus098.png" width="109" height="125" alt="O" title="" /> +</div><div class='unindent'><br /><br />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!"</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p></div> + +<p>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!"</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Dora Burnside.</span><br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/illus099.png" width="250" height="156" alt="Bees" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus100.png" width="500" height="380" alt="FEEDING THE DUCKS" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>FEEDING THE DUCKS.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">A mild</span> summer day, and one, two, three, four children +sitting on the ground by the pond, and feeding the ducks!</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Aunt Matilda.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>A BABY LAY.</h2> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus101a.png" width="400" height="250" alt="What does kitten say?" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">What</span> does the kitten say? "Mew, mew, mew!"<br /> +She shall have some nice milk, warm and new.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/illus101b.png" width="300" height="172" alt="Up jumps the dog" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +Up jumps the dog, and says, "Bow, wow, wow!<br /> +I'm as good as kitty, and I'm hungry now."<br /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus102a.png" width="500" height="213" alt="What does the cow say?" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +What does the cow say? "Moo, moo, moo!"<br /> +And the pretty little calf tries to say so too.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/illus102b.png" width="200" height="177" alt=""Ba-a!" says the little lamb" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +"Ba-a!" says the little lamb,—"baa, baa, baa!"<br /> +What does she mean? Is she calling her mamma?<br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 199px;"> +<img src="images/illus102c.png" width="199" height="225" alt="The rooster struts around" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +The rooster struts around, and cries, "Cock-a-doodle-doo!"<br /> +As if that were just about the only thing he knew!<br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus102d.png" width="400" height="196" alt="On the roof the gentle dove" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +On the roof the gentle dove says, "Coo, coo, coo!<br /> +Love me, little girls and boys, for I love you."<br /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/illus103a.png" width="300" height="155" alt="What does the hen say?" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +What does the hen say? "Cluck, cluck, cluck!"<br /> +As she scratches for her chickens, and has good luck.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 132px;"> +<img src="images/illus103b.png" width="132" height="200" alt="What does the bird say?" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +What does the bird say? "Peep, peep, peep!"<br /> +As, early in the morning, she rouses us from sleep.<br /> +<br /> +What does our baby say? "Goo, goo, goo!"<br /> +See the loving glances in her eyes so blue;<br /> +How we rush to take her, at the slightest call!<br /> +Oh! the darling baby is the sweetest pet of all.<br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Ella.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/illus103c.png" width="350" height="288" alt="How we rush to take her" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a></span></p> + + + +<h2>CHESTNUT-GATHERING.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Did</span> you ever go chestnut-gathering? Such fun as it is! +especially when a lot of girls and boys go together.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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!</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Oh, such lots! all spread around, and beaten out of the +prickly burrs, all ready for us. I cannot remember how<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 434px;"> +<img src="images/illus105.png" width="434" height="500" alt="Chestnut gathering" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Aunt Jenny.</span><br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></span></p> + + + +<h2>THE PIGS.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">They</span> really are a pretty sight,<br /> +My little pigs, so small and white!<br /> +Their tails have such a curious kink;<br /> +Their ears are lined with palest pink:<br /> +They frisk about as brisk and gay<br /> +As school-boys on a holiday.<br /> +I watch them scamper to and fro:<br /> +How clean they look! how fast they grow!<br /> +But they are only pigs, dear me!<br /> +And that is all they'll ever be.<br /> +<br /> +Beside their pen, above its wall,<br /> +A garden-rose grows fresh and tall,<br /> +Its blossoms, wet with morning dew,<br /> +The sweetest flowers that ever grew.<br /> +With every passing wind that blows<br /> +Comes scattered down a milk-white rose,<br /> +In leaves like scented flakes of snow,<br /> +Upon the little pigs below.<br /> +They only grunt, "Ur, Ur," and say,<br /> +"We want more milk and meal to-day.<br /> +The flowers may bloom, the flowers may fall,<br /> +'Tis no concern of ours at all."<br /> +For they are only pigs, dear me!<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a></span>And that is all they'll ever be.<br /> +<br /> +Upon the rose's highest bough<br /> +There often comes a robin now,<br /> +And sings a song so sweet and clear,<br /> +It makes one happy just to hear;<br /> +For never yet, on summer day,<br /> +Was sung a more delightful lay.<br /> +What care the little pigs below?<br /> +The bird may come, the bird may go;<br /> +For while he sings, "Quee, quee!" they squeal,<br /> +"We want some milk, we want some meal!"<br /> +For they are only pigs, dear me!<br /> +And that is all they'll ever be.<br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Marian Douglas.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>A DAY WITH THE ALLIGATORS.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">I Want</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a></span></p> + +<p>"What are they? Lizards?" cried I.</p> + +<p>"Lizards! No: they are young alligators," said a little +girl, in a tone that implied pity for my ignorance.</p> + +<p>"Alligators!" said I, retreating in alarm, as one of them +came towards me.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> +<div class='center'> <table class="alligator" summary="alligator"> +<tr><td align='left'><div class='blockquot2'> +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Uncle Charles's Nephew.</span><br /> +</div></div> +<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td> +</tr></table></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>THE SPIDER AND HER FAMILY.</h2> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/illus110.png" width="250" height="249" alt="Spider" title="" /> +</div> +<p><span class="smcap">Every</span> 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.</p> + + + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a></span></p> + +<p>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?</p> + +<p>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?</p> + +<p>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?</p> + +<p>Alas! she could not tell me; and I left her there in the +road with all her little ones about her.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">E. M. Davis.</span><br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/illus111.png" width="400" height="272" alt="Fish" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>HOW TO DRAW A GOOSE.</h2> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/illus112.png" width="600" height="842" alt="How to Draw a Goose" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>WHY UNCLE RALPH DID NOT HIT THE DEER.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Many</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus113.png" width="500" height="258" alt="Deer" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Where's your game, Ralph?" asked Aunt Mary.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Well, I'm not sorry for it," said Aunt Mary. "We +shall enjoy our luncheon under the trees all the better."</p> + +<p>I looked at her, and laughed, but she checked me with a +"Hush!"</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Albert Mason.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>FAITHFUL DANDY.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">Mr. Baxter</span>, 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.</p> + +<p>When he came to the place where he was to stop, Mr. +Baxter unloaded his wagon, but was sorry to find that a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 323px;"> +<img src="images/illus115.png" width="323" height="400" alt="Faithful Dandy" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Uncle Charles.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>LEARN YOUR LESSON.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">You'll</span> not learn your lesson by crying, my man,<br /> +You'll never come at it by crying, my man;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Not a word can you spy, for the tear in your eye,</span><br /> +Then put your mind on it, for surely you can.<br /> +<br /> +Only smile on your lesson, 'twill smile upon you;<br /> +How glibly the words will then jump into view!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Each word to its place all the others will chase,</span><br /> +Till you'll wonder to find how well you can do.<br /> +<br /> +If you cry, you will make yourself stupid or blind,<br /> +And then not an answer will come to your mind;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">But cheer up your heart, and you'll soon have your part,</span><br /> +For all things grow easy when hearts are inclined.<br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +C.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>EMMA AND HER DOLL.</h2> + + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 230px;"> +<img src="images/illus117a.png" width="230" height="200" alt="Emma and doll against pillow" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='story'> +<p><span class="smcap">Emma</span> 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."</p> +</div> +<div class="figright" style="width: 193px;"> +<img src="images/illus117b.png" width="193" height="200" alt="Emma sat down in a chair" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='story'> +<p>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."</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 228px;"> +<img src="images/illus118a.png" width="228" height="200" alt="Emma place Flora in the chair" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='story'> +<p>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."</p> +</div> +<div class="figright" style="width: 218px;"> +<img src="images/illus118b.png" width="218" height="200" alt="Emma thanked Flora" title="" /> +</div> +<div class='story'> +<p>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.</p> +</div> +<div class='sig'> +A. B. C.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus119.png" width="500" height="375" alt="OUR OLD BILLY" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>OUR OLD BILLY.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">We</span> call him <i>old</i> 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.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a></span> +her not to forget him next time; and he will lap her face +and hands, like a dog.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Ida T. Thurston.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>THE THRUSH FEEDING THE CUCKOO.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> 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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 304px;"> +<img src="images/illus121.png" width="304" height="400" alt="THE THRUSH FEEDING THE CUCKOO" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The female cuckoo makes no nest, and takes no care of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>In the picture a thrush is represented as feeding a young +cuckoo, that has probably driven off all the thrush's own +children.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Dora Burnside.</span><br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>JIPPY AND JIMMY.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">Jippy</span> and Jimmy were two little dogs:<br /> +They went to sail on some floating logs.<br /> +The logs rolled over, the dogs rolled in;<br /> +And they got very wet, for their clothes were thin.<br /> +<br /> +Jippy and Jimmy crept out again:<br /> +They said, "The river is full of rain!"<br /> +They said, "The water is far from dry!<br /> +Ky-hi! ky-hi! ky-hi! ky-hi!"<br /> +<br /> +Jippy and Jimmy went shivering home:<br /> +They said, "On the river no more we'll roam;<br /> +And we won't go to sail until we learn how,—<br /> +Bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow, bow-wow!"<br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Laura E. Richards.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus123.png" width="500" height="459" alt="THE JOLLY OLD COOPER" title="" /> +</div> + + + + +<h2>THE JOLLY OLD COOPER.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span class="smcap">A jolly</span> old cooper am I,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I'm mending this tub, do you see?</span><br /> +The workmen are gone, and I am alone,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And their tools are quite handy for me.</span><br /> +Now hammer and hammer away!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">This hoop I must fit to the tub:</span><br /> +One, two—but I wish it would stay—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The workmen have gone to their grub.</span><br /> +How pleased they will be when they find<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></span>That I can do work to their mind!<br /> +<br /> +Yes, a jolly old cooper—But stop!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">What's this? Where's the tub? Oh, despair!</span><br /> +Knocked into a heap there it lies.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To face them now, how shall I dare?</span><br /> +The knocks I have given the tub<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Will be echoed, I fear, on my head.</span><br /> +They are coming! Oh, yes! I can hear,—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I can hear on the sidewalk a tread.</span><br /> +Shall I stay, and confess it was I?<br /> +Yes, that's better than telling a lie!<br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Alfred Selwyn.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus124.png" width="500" height="498" alt="Broken barrel" title="" /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;"> +<img src="images/illus125.png" width="344" height="400" alt="THE CAT AND THE STARLING" title="" /> +</div> + + + + + +<h2>THE CAT AND THE STARLING.</h2> + + +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> 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.</p> + +<p>A little boy in England, who had one as a pet, which he +named Dicky, tells the following story about it:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></span>—</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">R. B.</span><br /> +</div> + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<h2>THE EXPRESS PACKAGE.</h2> + + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;"><span class="smcap">A package</span> came,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">With Gold-Locks' name</span><br /> +Written in letters bold and free<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Upon the cover:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">She turned it over,</span><br /> +And cried, "Is it for me, for me?"<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">'Twas scarce a minute</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Before within it</span><br /> +Her eyes had peeped with curious awe:<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">There, sweet as a rose,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">And folded close</span><br /> +In tissue, what do you think she saw?<br /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[127]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 287px;"> +<img src="images/illus127.png" width="287" height="300" alt="A doll" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='poem'> +A doll? Ah, yes!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">You would never guess</span><br /> +A dolly could be so very sweet,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Or have such grace,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">From the blooming face</span><br /> +Down to the tips of her slippered feet.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">She smiled, and smiled,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Like a real live child,</span><br /> +And opened her eyes of bluest blue,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">As little Gold-Locks</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">From out the box</span><br /> +Lifted, and held her up to view.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">In ruffles and puffs</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Of gauzy stuffs,</span><br /> +She looked like a fresh white flower, full-blown,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">And Gold-Locks' heart</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Gave a happy start,</span><br /> +As she thought, "She is all my own, my own!"<br /> +</div> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Mrs. Clara Doty Bates.</span><br /> +</div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 139px;"><img src="images/divider1.png" width="139" height="19" alt="Divider" title="" /></div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[128]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus128.png" width="500" height="228" alt="THE WHITE OWL" title="" /> +</div> + + + + + +<div class='center'> +Words by <span class="smcap">Tennyson</span>. Music by <span class="smcap">T. Crampton</span>.<br /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/illus128-music.png" width="500" height="522" alt="Music" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="center"><small>[<i>Transcriber's Note: You can play this music (MIDI file) by clicking</i> <a href="music/oct77.mid">here</a>.]</small><br /><br /></div> + + +<div class='poem'> +1. When cats run home and light is come,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And dew is cold upon the ground,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the far-off stream is dumb,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the whirring sail goes round,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the whirring sail goes round.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Alone and warming his fine wits,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The white owl in the belfry sits.</span><br /> +<br /> +2. When merry milkmaids click the latch,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And rarely smells the new-mown hay,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the cock beneath the thatch,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Thrice has sung his roundelay,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Thrice has sung his roundelay.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Alone and warming his fine wits,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The white owl in the belfry sits.</span><br /> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes</h3> +<p>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. +</p> + +<p>Page 114, "go" changed to "got" (After we had got)</p> + +<p>Page 128, period changed to a comma on chorus of song (his fine wits,)</p> +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery, October 1877, Vol. XXII. +No. 4, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, OCTOBER 1877 *** + +***** This file should be named 28138-h.htm or 28138-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/1/3/28138/ + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. 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No. 4, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Nursery, October 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 4 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28138] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, OCTOBER 1877 *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music +by Linda Cantoni. + + + + + + + + +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,) + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery, October 1877, Vol. XXII. +No. 4, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, OCTOBER 1877 *** + +***** This file should be named 28138.txt or 28138.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/1/3/28138/ + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. 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