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diff --git a/28139.txt b/28139.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1fd2922 --- /dev/null +++ b/28139.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1394 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, November 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 5, 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, November 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 5 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28139] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, NOVEMBER 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. 5. + + + 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 + Sarah's Picture 131 + Kitty Bell 134 + A clever Fox 136 + How Ponto got his Dinner 138 + The Pet Pigeon 141 + Eighth Lesson in Astronomy 143 + Drawing-Lesson 145 + The Farm 146 + The Drawing-Master 148 + Learning to iron 151 + Birdie and Baby 153 + Boys and Rabbits 156 + Tobacco and Egg 158 + + +IN VERSE. + + PAGE + Steering for Home 129 + Three naughty Pigs 133 + The Butterfly and the Grasshopper 139 + Little Mosquito 150 + A naughty Baby 154 + The Apple Tree (_with music_) 160 + +[Illustration: Birds] + + + + +[Illustration: STEERING FOR HOME.] + + + + +STEERING FOR HOME. + + + [Illustration: B]LOW, thou bitter northern gale; + Heave, thou rolling, foaming sea; + Bend the mast and fill the sail, + Let the gallant ship go free! + Steady, lad! Be firm and steady! + On the compass fix your eye; + Ever watchful, ever ready, + Let the rain and spray go by! + We're steering for home. + + Let the waves with angry thud + Shake the ship from stem to stern; + We can brave the flying scud, + It may go, it may return: + In the wind are cheerful voices, + In the waves a pleasant song, + And the sailor's heart rejoices + As the good ship bounds along. + We're steering for home. + + Standing on the briny deck, + Beaten by the blinding spray, + Fearing neither storm nor wreck, + Let us keep our onward way. + Loving hearts for us are yearning, + Now in hope, and now in doubt, + Looking for our swift returning, + How they try to make us out! + We're steering for home. + + Fainter blows the bitter gale, + And more peaceful grows the sea; + Now, boys, trim again the sail; + Land is looming on the lee! + See! the beacon-light is flashing, + Hark! those shouts are from the shore; + To the wharf home friends are dashing; + Now our hardest work is o'er. + Three cheers for our home! + + TOM BOWLING. + + + + +SARAH'S PICTURE. + + +MY name is Sarah. I live in Bristol, Conn., and am not quite five years +old. I have taken "The Nursery" ever since I was two. + +About three years ago a lady gave me a little trunk, and I have kept my +magazines in it ever since. Last winter, when snow was on the ground, +and I had to stay in the house a good deal, I used to get my trunk and +sit down on the floor by mamma, and look my "Nursery" through almost +every day. So mamma thought she would like to have my picture taken just +in that way. + +Now I must introduce you to my dog Beauty, who sits by my side in the +picture. You see he is a Spitz; but do not be frightened: he will never +have hydrophobia. I cannot think of having him muzzled, for one of his +charms is the way he opens and shuts his mouth when he barks. Oh, no, +Beauty! I will never hurt your feelings by making you wear a muzzle. + +My grandma gave me this dear dog a year ago last Christmas. He had two +beautiful red eyes then; now he has none. He had two long silky ears +then; now he has but one. He had four legs, and a bushy tail curled over +his back; now he has but two legs, and no tail. But I love him just as +well as ever. + +[Illustration] + +The dolly you see sitting up against the trunk is my daughter Nannie. I +have four other children. + +Nellie is a fair-haired blonde, but is getting rather past her prime. +You know blondes fade young. + +Rosa Grace once had lovely flaxen curls, and very rosy cheeks; but now +her curls are few and far between, her cheeks are faded, and her arms +and feet are out of order. + +Next comes Florence, who has joints, and can sit up like a lady +anywhere. My papa brought her from San Francisco. She has yellow hair, +and is dressed in crimson silk. + +My youngest is not yet named. She is quite small, has black hair and +eyes, and is rather old-fashioned looking. If you can think of a name +just right for her, I wish you would please let me know. It is so +perplexing to name so many children! + + SARAH H. BUCK. + + + + +THREE NAUGHTY PIGS. + + + THREE naughty pigs, + All in one pen, + Drank up their milk + Left by the men. + + Then all the three, + Fast as they could, + Dug their way out + To find something good. + + Out in the garden + A maiden fair + Had set some flowers, + Of beauty rare. + + Out in the garden + A merry boy + Had planted seeds, + With childish joy. + + One naughty pig + Ran to the bed; + Soon lay the flowers + Drooping and dead. + + Two naughty pigs + Dug up the seeds, + And left for the boy + Not even weeds. + + Three naughty pigs + Back in the pen, + Never could do + Such digging again. + + For in their noses + Something would hurt + Whenever they tried + To dig in the dirt. + + F. L. T. + +[Illustration] + + + + +KITTY BELL. + + +ONCE there was a little girl named Alice, and she had an Uncle George +whom she loved very dearly. One day, as Alice was looking out of the +window, she saw her Uncle George coming into the yard with a covered +basket in his hand. + +Alice ran to meet him, and, as she was kissing him in the hall, she +heard a faint sound in the basket, and exclaimed, "O Uncle George! what +have you brought me?" + +"Look into the basket and see," said her uncle. + +So Alice peeped in very carefully, and saw a little black kitten. The +little girl was delighted, and fairly danced around her uncle as she +said, "What a dear little kitten! Is it for me, Uncle George? Who sent +it to me? Did you bring it from your house?" + +"Yes," said her uncle, "your Cousin Edith sent it to you; she thought +you would like it." + +"Well," said Alice, "you must thank Edith a thousand times, and here is +a kiss for you for bringing it to me; and I'm sure the poor little thing +must be hungry: so I'll give it something to eat." + +She carried the kitten into the kitchen, and soon got from the cook a +nice pan of milk. Her little brother Harry came running in to see the +new kitten eat its dinner, and with him came the old family cat, Mouser, +who rubbed and purred against Alice, as if he wanted her to pet him too. + +The next thing was to find a name, "pretty, and not too common," Alice +said. While she was trying to think of one, she went up to her own +little room, and searched among her ribbons for a piece to tie around +the kitten's neck. She soon found one that was just the thing. + +In one of her drawers she found a tiny bell that somebody had given +her, and thought it would be a good plan to hang that around kitty's +neck by the ribbon. Kitty made no objection to being thus decorated, and +a happy thought struck Alice; "Kitty Bell would be just the name for +her!" and Kitty Bell it was. + +[Illustration] + +Kitty grew very fast; and one morning, after she had got to be a +good-sized kitten, she came to Alice, and mewed quite piteously. Alice +gave her some milk; but Kitty Bell was not hungry, and mewed still more. +Alice could not think what was the matter. + +At last Kitty Bell gave her head a shake, and put one paw up to the +ribbon on her neck, as if trying to pull it over her head. Alice untied +the ribbon, and away ran Kitty Bell quite out of sight. In a short time +she came back with a mouse in her mouth, which she laid at Alice's feet. + +Do you see what had been the trouble? The bell had frightened the mice +away, so that Kitty Bell could not get near enough to catch them. + + W. + + + + +A CLEVER FOX. + + +ON a summer day, a gentleman was lying under the shelter of some shrubs +on the banks of the River Tweed, when he saw a large brood of ducks, +which had been made to rise on the wing by the drifting of a fir-branch +among them. After circling in the air for a little time, they again +settled down on their feeding-ground. + +There was a pause for two or three minutes, and then the same thing took +place again. A branch drifted down with the stream into the midst of the +ducks, and made them take to flight once more. But when they found that +the bough had drifted by, and done no harm, they flew down to the water +as before. + +After four or five boughs had drifted by in this way, the ducks gave no +heed to them, and hardly tried to fly out of their way on the stream, +even when they were near to being touched. + +[Illustration] + +The gentleman who had been observing all this now watched for the cause +of the drifting of the boughs. At length he saw, higher up the bank of +the stream, a fox, which, having set the boughs adrift, was watching for +the moment when the ducks should cease to be startled by them. + +This wise and clever fox at last seemed satisfied that the moment had +come. So what did he do but take a larger branch of spruce-fir than any +he had yet used, and, spreading himself down on it so as to be almost +hidden from sight, set it adrift as he had done the others! + +The ducks, now having ceased to fear the boughs, hardly moved till the +fox was in the midst of them, when, making rapid snaps right and left, +he seized two fine young ducks as his prey, and floated forward in +triumph on his raft. The ducks flew off in fright, and did not come +back. + +That fox must have had a fine dinner that day, I think. The gentleman +who saw the trick pitied the poor ducks, but could not help laughing at +the fox's cunning. + + UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +HOW PONTO GOT HIS DINNER. + + +PONTO in his youth had been a very wise and active dog. Not only had he +been brave at watching, but he had been taught to carry packages and +notes for his master. + +But, as he grew old and feeble, he gradually got out of the way of doing +such services, and spent his time mostly in sleeping, or in jogging +about, without care. + +One day his mistress had told her husband, as he went to his business in +the morning, to send around the carriage at ten o'clock. This he forgot +to do; and when the hour came, and there was no carriage, the lady knew +it would be necessary to remind her husband of his promise. + +But she had no one to send with a message. At last she chanced to +remember that Ponto used to go on such errands, and, writing a note, she +called him to her, and said,-- + +"Here, Ponto, take this note to your master." + +Ponto took the note carefully in his mouth, but did not seem to know +what he was expected to do with it. + +"Go, Ponto," she said; "take the note to your master." + +He trotted on a little way, paused, turned and hesitated, and then +trotted a little farther. This he repeated several times, and at last, +started off at a good gait. + +But wise old Ponto! Did he, after so much pondering, take the note to +his master? Not a bit of it! He went straight to the butcher's, and +presented the billet, wagging his tail at the same time, as much as to +say, "Here's an order for my dinner!" + +The butcher, understanding the situation, rolled up a nice piece of meat +in a paper, gave it to Ponto, and then himself delivered the note to the +gentleman. + +Ponto stalked home as proud as a king, laid the package at his +mistress's feet, and waited, with a delighted, expressive wag, for her +approval. + +Of course she gave him all the meat, patted his faithful old head, and +called him "good Ponto." + +The carriage came in good time; and Ponto does not know to this day but +what he did exactly as he was told. + + C. D. B. + + + + +THE BUTTERFLY AND THE GRASSHOPPER. + + + "PRETTY Butterfly, stay! + Come down here and play," + A Grasshopper said, + As he lifted his head. + "Oh, no! and oh, no! + Daddy Grasshopper, go! + Once you weren't so polite, + But said, 'Out of my sight, + You base, ugly fright!'" + "Oh, no! and oh, no! + I never said so," + The Grasshopper cried: + "I'd sooner have died + Than been half so rude. + You misunderstood." + "Oh, no! I did not; + 'Twas near to this spot: + The offence, while I live, + I cannot forgive." + "I pray you explain + When and where such disdain, + Such conduct improper, + Was shown by this Hopper." + "I then was a worm: + 'Tis a fact, I affirm," + The Butterfly said, + With a toss of her head. + "In my humble condition, + Your bad disposition + Made you spurn me as mean, + And not fit to be seen. + In my day of small things + You dreamed not that wings + Might one day be mine,-- + Wings handsome and fine, + That help me soar up + To the rose's full cup, + And taste of each flower + In garden and bower. + This moral now take + For your own better sake: + Insult not the low; + Some day they may grow + To seem and to do + Much better than you. + Remember; and so, + Daddy Grasshopper, go!" + + EMILY CARTER. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE PET PIGEON. + + +WHEN I was about nine years old, my father and mother were living in a +Southern city; and, as I had been very ill for a long time, I was taken +from school, and permitted to do as I liked. + +In one of my walks I met an old colored woman, who took quite a fancy to +me; and once, when I was sick at home, she came to see me, bringing as a +present a young pigeon. Its feathers were not grown enough to show its +color; but it proved to be brown and white. + +I was very much grieved when my mother said that she could not have a +pigeon kept in the house; but my father persuaded her to indulge me till +I was able to go out again; and then my pet gave so little trouble that +nobody objected to him. + +For the first two or three weeks, he was put at night in another room; +but I begged so hard that finally "Pidgy," as I called him, was allowed +to roost on top of the wardrobe in my bed-room. + +The first time he saw me asleep, he seemed very much alarmed (so my +mother told me); but he settled down on my shoulder, and kept very quiet +till I awoke. This he always did after that morning, sometimes waiting +more than two hours. After amusing myself with him till it was time to +get up, I used to give him a large basin of water, into which he would +jump with great delight; and he would be making his toilet while I was +making mine. + +For two or three months I kept his wings clipped, so that he could not +fly far. When I went out for a walk, I generally took him, either in my +arms or perched on my hand; and thus I and my pet became known all over +the neighborhood; and, when my little playmates invited me to visit +them, an invitation was always sent for "Lillie and her pigeon." + +He followed me everywhere. If I was reading, he rested on my chair; if +playing on the piano, he would listen attentively: indeed he acquired +such a taste for music, that the only time he ever seemed willing to +leave me was to perch upon the foot of a gentleman who was singing very +finely. + +I taught him a number of tricks, such as bringing me any thing that he +could carry, lying down very still till I told him to get up, and +running over the piano-keys to make music for himself. + +During the two years that Pidgy and I enjoyed so much together, he never +fed from any hand but mine; and once, when I staid from home over night, +he would not eat at all, but pecked at my mother and sister so that they +were quite provoked with him. On my return, he flew to meet me with an +angry "coo," his feathers all ruffled up, as if trying to reprove me for +my neglect. + +What finally became of my pet I never knew. I had him out on the porch, +one day, and, as I ran into the house for a few minutes, the door was +blown to, so that he could not follow me. A boy caught him up, and was +seen running away with his prize. Every effort was made to find him; but +I never saw my dear little pigeon again. + + ANNE PAGE. + + + + +EIGHTH LESSON IN ASTRONOMY. + + +HOW shall I make such little folks understand that the sun and the stars +really stand still, when they seem to take a journey across the sky +every day? Perhaps the best way will be to make a little game of it. We +will explain it with boys. + +I want a boy to represent the earth, and as many as can be found for sun +and stars: there is no danger of too many. Now, the fattest boy of all +must be the earth, and stand in the middle. We want him fat and round, +because the earth is as round as an orange. (We need not mind about the +size of the stars: they always look small, they are so far off.) + +All the other boys must stand about him, and stand still. If they are +not satisfied with their places, they must not move; for they are fixed +stars. That is right. I can imagine you now just as you are, the fat +boy in the middle. + +But _you_ must not stand still, fat boy, because I told the star-boys +not to move. You are the earth, and must do what the earth does. Don't +you know what it does? Oh! it does not run away. Come back, and I will +tell you what it does. It turns around just as a top spins. That is +right. Every time the earth turns, it makes a day and a night, by +turning towards the sun, and away from it again. + +Don't turn so fast, my dear: you make the days and nights too short, and +you will be dizzy. Besides, you are turning the wrong way. The earth +turns from west to east, and you must remember you are the earth, and +not Charlie. Now go the other way, and more slowly, and keep your eyes +on the little boys who are the sun and stars. + +We will suppose now that Frank is the sun. There he is just behind you. +He is shining now on the other side of the earth,--on your back. As you +turn around to the left, to the east, you begin to see him: he rises. +Now, as you turn more towards him, he seems to pass in front of you +towards the west, and pretty soon he is out of sight. He has set. So +much for the sun. + +It is just the same if you look at the stars,--John, or Willie, or +James. As you turn round they all seem to be going round you. Now can't +you see, that, as the real earth turns around, the sun and stars about +it seem to you to rise and set, although they stand still, like Frank +and John and Willie and James. + +A great many years ago, everybody supposed that the earth stood still, +and the sun and stars revolved around it; but a wise man named +Copernicus found out the mistake, and you had better call your game the +Copernican game. + + M. E. R. + +[Illustration: DRAWING-LESSON BY HARRISON WEIR. + +VOL. XXII.--NO. 5.] + + + + +THE FARM. + + +VERY often in summer, after looking at the sky, and consulting the +barometer, my father would say to me, "Tell John to bring around the +horse and carryall, and we will all go out to the farm for the day." +John had the horse harnessed in a little while, mother sent out a great +basket of lunch, and in less than half an hour we were all off,--father, +mother, Dick, and I. + +The farm was seven miles in the country, and the road leading to it was +a fine one. There were some hills, to be sure; but, whenever we came to +one, Dick and I used to climb out of the back-window, and hang on +behind, fancying that we lightened the load by not being inside. We +always enjoyed the ride very much. + +At the farm there was a pretty cottage, where the tenant Mr. Clark +lived. We used to go in for a little while to see Mrs. Clark's babies, +and then we started off in search of adventures. What fun we did have! +Sometimes there would be great brush-heaps to burn, made of bushes and +branches of trees that had been cleared off from the land. They made +glorious bonfires. + +There was an old yellow horse on the farm, that used to run the +wood-sawing machine. He was blind in one eye, but was the very gentlest +horse in the world. Dick and I would both get on him at the same time, +with only the halter to guide the horse, and go all over the farm. + +Now and then, in shaking himself to get rid of the flies, Bob (the +horse) would shake us both off; but he always stopped at once when we +met with such an accident, so that we could get on again. Once, when we +were riding in this way, our horse stopped and refused to go on. + +On looking to see what was the matter, we saw a large black snake in +the road just ahead of us. Being very reckless children, we slid off old +Bob, found some heavy sticks, and attacked the snake. First Dick struck +it, and, when it turned on him, I struck it; and so we pounded the +snake, turn and turn about, until it was killed. + +[Illustration] + +Another thing that we enjoyed very much was to go down to the creek that +ran through the farm, and put some ears of green corn in the water close +by the edge. We would then keep very still, and watch the corn, and, as +soon as we saw it move a little, we would give it a sudden slap out of +the water, and would almost always succeed in landing one or two +crawfish. We dug wells in the sand, which we would fill with water to +put our crawfish in. Sometimes we would have a dozen or more. + +It would have been great fun to wade in the creek, but for one thing: +there were sand-leeches in the water, and they would get between our +toes, and bite so firmly into the flesh, that we could hardly get them +off. + +A great event in the day was lunch, which we ate in picnic style on the +ground near the spring. We were always so hungry, that the simplest food +seemed delicious. I don't think we were ever very fond of bread and +butter anywhere else. By night we were very tired, and generally went +sound asleep on the way home. + + A. + + + + +THE DRAWING-MASTER. + + +OUR Peter has opened a school for teaching drawing. At present he has +only two pupils; but he hopes to have more. They pay him two pins a +lesson; not a high price. I fear that Peter will not get rich very soon +at that rate. + +[Illustration] + +But he is no miser. He loves to do good, and to teach to others all the +good he knows. So he says to Tom and Harry, "This that I am drawing now +is what we call a horizontal line; and this is a curved line. Do you +know what a circle is, Tommy?" + +"A circle is something round, isn't it?" replies Tommy. + +"A circle," says Peter, drawing one on paper,--"a circle is a plane +figure, bounded by a single curved line called its circumference, every +part of which is equally distant from a point within it called the +centre." + +"How can I remember all that stuff?" said Harry. + +"Stuff! Do you call it _stuff_, sir?" said Peter, snapping him twice on +his closely-shorn head: "I will teach you not to call my definitions +_stuff_." + +"What's a definition?" asked Tommy. + +"A definition," said Peter, "is what I say to you when I tell you what a +thing means. If I ask you what _green_ is, and I tell you it's the color +of fresh summer grass, I give you a definition." + +"School is out!" cried Harry. "Peter uses too many big words for us. +Hallo! there's Bob, the butcher's dog. I'm going to have a frolic with +him. Good-by, drawing-master!" + +And so the school was broken up. "Never did I see boys behave so in +school-time," said the teacher. + +I hope his pupils will be more attentive the next time he tries to teach +them how to draw. + + UNCLE CHARLES. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +LITTLE MOSQUITO. + + + LITTLE Mosquito she sits on a sill,-- + Whee, whee, whee! + And longs for the time when the people are still, + That she, in the darkness, may stab them at will,-- + Whee, whee, whee! + + She whets up her dagger, and looks at the moon,-- + Whee, whee, whee! + She says to herself, "I'll begin pretty soon + To look for my victims, and sing them a tune,"-- + Whee, whee, whee! + + With a hum and a flutter, the way to prepare,-- + Whee, whee, whee! + She rises and circles about in the air; + Then settles herself with a great deal of care,-- + Whee, whee, whee! + + But one,--more awake than he seeks to appear,-- + Whee, whee, whee! + Slaps little Mosquito, alight on his ear, + And thus puts an end to her hopeful career,-- + Whee, whee, whee! + + FLETA F. + +[Illustration] + + + + +LEARNING TO IRON. + + +"NOW I've had my lesson in my 'Nursery Primer,'" said little +five-year-old Ellen, "and I want to learn to iron clothes." + +"You are rather too young to be trusted with a flat-iron," said her +mother: "you might burn your fingers." + +"I'll promise not to cry if I do," said Ellen. "Please let me go out and +help Patience iron, mamma." + +Mamma at last gave her consent; and our picture of Ellen and Patience at +work at the ironing-board gives about as good likenesses of the two as +their reflections in a mirror could have given. + +Ellen saw how Patience used her flat-iron, and then used hers in the +same way. She ironed a towel so well, that Patience praised her, and +said she could not have done it better herself. + +But, as she was trying to put a flat-iron on the stove, Ellen burnt her +fingers so as to make her hop. She did not cry; for she remembered her +promise. Patience wet a cloth with cold water, and put it on the burn; +then she remembered that common brown soap was the best thing for a +burn, so she spread some soap on a cotton rag and put that on. Soon the +pain was gone, and Ellen ran and told her mother what had happened. + +"You should not have tried to put the flat-iron on the stove," said her +mother. "If your clothes had caught fire, you might have had a bad +time." + +"Would my dress have blazed up?" asked Ellen. + +"I take care to dip your clothes in a weak solution of nitre before they +are worn; for that prevents their blazing, even if they should catch +fire," said mamma. "But you must not let that keep you from taking great +care." + +"Next Tuesday may I take another lesson in ironing?" asked Ellen. + +"Yes: if you say your lessons well during the week, you shall not only +learn to iron your clothes, but to wash them." + +"That will be fun!" cried Ellen, clapping her hands, and quite +forgetting her burnt finger. + + DORA BURNSIDE. + +[Illustration] + + + + +BIRDIE AND BABY. + + +BIRDIE is a canary-bird of pale gold color. Tiny as he is, he is quite +old compared with baby. + +He was the sole pet of the house long before baby came into the world, +and he did as much as any bird could to fill a baby's place. + +All the bright hours of the day, the door of his cage stood open. He +would fly to Aunt Minnie's shoulder while she sat sewing, and sing his +sweetest notes for her, or perch on her finger and take the bit of fresh +lettuce she brought for him from the table. + +But after baby came--can you believe it?--this dear little birdie +behaved just like a spoiled child. He rolled himself up into a soft +yellow ball, and actually moped. + +Not a note would he sing. Aunt Minnie could not coax him with green leaf +or seed. He would insist on making himself unhappy until baby was taken +out for an airing. Then he would burst into song again, and seem to feel +that he was in his old place,--the only treasure. + +It was a long time before the poor little bird found out that Aunt +Minnie's heart was large enough to love him and her precious baby too. +But he is learning it now, and likes to have baby held up to his cage. + +When Aunt Minnie lets him out into the room, he hops close by the baby; +and baby laughs, and stretches out his dimpled hands to catch him; but +he is wise enough to keep out of baby's way. + +Don't you think it is nice for Aunt Minnie to have such treasures? + + E. P. B. + + + + +A NAUGHTY BABY. + + + HE'S a very naughty baby, + For he will not shut his eyes + And go to sleep, though I have done + My best to hush his cries. + I've trotted him, I've patted him, + I've given him some food; + But nothing that I do for him + Will do him any good. + + I've sung a little lullaby, + The one that mother sings; + One that to weary little ones, + Sweet slumber, always brings. + I've scolded him, I've shaken him, + All sorts of things I've tried; + But the naughty, noisy baby-man + Will not be pacified. + + He screams so loud he frightens me; + He's getting worse and worse. + I do wish mother would come home, + Or get this boy a nurse. + I'll toss him up, I'll tumble him, + Play "creep-mouse," and "bo-peep," + Perhaps if I can make him laugh, + The laugh will make him sleep. + + You naughty, naughty baby, + How could you vex me so? + One would not think you ever cried, + To hear you laugh and crow! + Hush, hush! He's getting tired out: + Now very still I'll keep; + There's nothing like a hearty romp, + To put a child to sleep! + + JOSEPHINE POLLARD. + + + + +BOYS AND RABBITS. + + +HERE are two little boys and two little rabbits, all down on the ground. + +The two boys are just the same age. They are twin brothers. Their names +are Paul and John. + +The girl who stands near them is their sister Jane. She is quite a +little girl, as you see; but she is full three years older than the +boys: so she takes great care of them. + +You would laugh to see Paul and John try to lift their rabbits by the +ears. The rabbits look most as large as the boys. But the boys are +growing larger and stronger every day. + +[Illustration] + + A. B. C. + + + + +TOBACCO AND EGG. + + +OUR house had a long back piazza, covered all over with grape-vines, +with steps going down to the yard. + +[Illustration] + +I discovered that by standing on my tip-toes, half way up the steps, I +could see into the next yard, where there grew such different flowers +from ours, and where there often came a little girl of six or +seven--about my own age--to gather bouquets. + +She did not see me at first: so, for many days, I quietly watched the +stout little figure. During one of my observations, her mother called +her, and such a name as she had! The call, as I heard it, was "Tobacco, +my daughter!" + +I felt deeply for the girl who was afflicted by such a name. I +determined to throw her the finest bunch of grapes on our vine by way of +consolation. + +Some days after, when I was giving my large family of dolls an airing in +the garden, I saw a small face staring at me just over the top of the +fence. Being familiar with the position myself, I was not alarmed, but +hastened to mount to the same level on my side, and offer some grapes. + +After a long stare on the part of both of us, I timidly broke the +silence by asking, "What is your name?" + +"Rebecca," was the reply. + +"Why," I said, "I was pitying you all this time, thinking you were +called Tobacco." + +"Oh, no!" she cried, "it is not so bad as that. You have a funny name, +though. I have often wondered how you came to have such a name. Perhaps +you were born on Easter-Monday, or were very fond of eggs." + +"What can you mean?" I replied. "I don't see any thing funny about my +name: I am told it is pretty." + +"Well, I should not call it pretty exactly," she giggled: "it always +makes me feel hungry." + +"Hungry?" I was trying to be friendly; but I did feel slightly offended +at this. At last, just as tears of vexation were rising to my eyes, I +thought of asking, "What do you think my name is?" + +"Why, Egg, of course." + +"Oh the idea of such a thing!" We both laughed till we nearly fell off +our perches. As soon as I was sober enough, I made haste to explain that +my name was Agnes, but that my brothers and sisters called me "Ag." It +must have been "Ag" that she heard, and thought it was Egg. + + AGNES. + +[Illustration: ANCIENT ARMOR.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE APPLE TREE. + + + Words by CLARA D. BATES. Music by T. CRAMPTON. + +[Illustration: Music] + + 1. Up in the apple tree, + See the rosy cheeks: + See the balls that look like gold: + See the crimson streaks. + In the lovely autumn day, + Bright as in the bloom of May, + Filled with fruit and fair to see, + Is the apple tree. + + 2. Under the apple tree, + See the rosy cheeks: + Little Jinx the baby boy; + What is it he seeks? + Ah! his tiny teeth are white, + And are eager for a bite,-- + Such a tempting store to see, + Is the apple tree. + + 3. Under the apple tree, + Other rosy cheeks: + Edith, Mabel, Golden-Locks: + Full of merry freaks, + Here they run and there they run, + Shouting merrily if one + Fallen in the group they see, + From the apple tree. + + * * * * * + +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 150, single quotation mark changed to double (them a tune,") + +Page 159, double quotation mark added to text (fond of eggs.") + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery, November 1877, Vol. XXII. +No. 5, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, NOVEMBER 1877 *** + +***** This file should be named 28139.txt or 28139.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/1/3/28139/ + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. 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