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diff --git a/28140.txt b/28140.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a11b022 --- /dev/null +++ b/28140.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1225 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, December 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 6, 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, December 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 6 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28140] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, DECEMBER 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. 6. + + + 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 Starlings and the Sparrows 164 + Katie and Waif 166 + Amy and Robert in China 169 + About two old Horses 171 + Baby's Exploit 173 + Drawing-Lesson 177 + Birdie's Pig Story 180 + Our Friend the Robin 181 + Frank's high Horse 183 + Sagacity of a Horse 185 + Phantom 186 + + +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 + The last Guest 161 + For Ethel 172 + The Fox and the Crow 176 + The Swallows and the Robins 178 + Christmas (_with music_) 188 + +[Illustration: Birds] + + +[Illustration: VOL. XXII.--NO. 6.] + + + + +THE LAST GUEST. + +THE MORNING AFTER THE PARTY. + + +MARY (_angrily_). + + [Illustration: O] Tommy, you deceiver! + You've turned a regular thiever: + I've let the light in on your deeds, + You needn't sneak away. + You thought it mighty pleasant + To devour that dainty pheasant; + Which cook and I for breakfast meant + To have this very day. + + +TOM (_calmly_). + + Miss Mary, I assure you + You're entirely mistaken: + I was finishing my supper-- + Don't call me thief or brute, + But please be so obliging + As to broil a slice of bacon + As my reward for self-control: + I haven't touched the fruit. + + +MARY (_sneeringly_). + + For that there is good reason, + You thing of craft and treason; + You did not touch the grapes, because + The grapes you do not like. + You get no slice of bacon + From me, since you have taken + The bird I'd set my heart upon. + Away, or I will strike! + + +TOM (_derisively_). + + Be patient, Mistress Mary, + Of broomsticks I am wary: + The door is open, and I see + What you would now be at. + + +MARY (_angrily_). + + Away! obey my order, + You sneaking, base marauder! + I'll teach you to steal birds again! + Be off! Take that, and--Scat! + + [_Exit Tommy at double-quick time, followed by + Mary, who strikes with the broom, but does not + hit._] + + + ALFRED SELWYN. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE STARLINGS AND THE SPARROWS. + + +"LOOK here, my dear," said a starling to her mate: "in our pretty +summer-villa a pair of saucy sparrows have taken up their abode. What +shall we do?" + +"What shall we do?" cried Mr. Starling, who was calmly standing on a +fence; "why, rout them out, of course; give them notice to quit." + +"That we will do," replied Mrs. Starling. "Here, you beggars, you: out +of that house! You've no business there. Be off!" + +"What's all that?" piped Mrs. Sparrow, looking out of her little round +doorway. "Go away, you impudent tramp! Don't come near our house." + +"It is not your house!" said Mr. Starling, springing nimbly to a bough, +and confronting Mrs. Sparrow. + +"It _is_ ours!" cried Mr. Sparrow, looking down from the roof of the +house. "I have the title-deeds. Stand up for your rights, my love!" + +"Yes, stand up for your rights. I'll back you," said Mrs. Sparrow's +brother-in-law, taking position on a branch just at the foot of the +house. + +"We'll see about that, you thieves!" cried Mrs. Starling, in a rage, +making a dash at Mrs. Sparrow's brother-in-law. + +But two of Mrs. Sparrow's cousins came to the rescue just then, and +attacked Mrs. Starling in the rear. + +Thereupon Mr. Starling flew at Mrs. Sparrow. Mr. Sparrow, without more +delay, went at Mr. Starling. Mrs. Sparrow's brother-in-law paid his +respects to Mrs. Starling. There was a lively fight. + +It ended in the defeat of the sparrows. The starlings were too big for +them. The sparrows retreated in good order, and left the starlings to +enjoy their triumph. + +[Illustration] + +"Now, my dear," said Mr. Starling, "go in, and put the house in order. +I'll warrant those vulgar sparrows have made a nice mess in there. Sweep +the floors, dust the furniture, and get the beds made. I'll stay here in +the garden, and rest myself." + +"Just like that husband of mine!" muttered Mrs. Starling: "I must do all +the work, while he has all the fun. But I suppose there's no help for +it." + +So she flew up to the door of the house; but, to her surprise, she could +not get through it: the opening was not large enough. + +"Well, Mr. Starling," said she, "I do believe we have made a mistake. +This is not our house, after all." + +"Why did you say it was, then?" said Mr. Starling, in a huff. "Here I +have got a black eye, and a lame claw, and a sprained wing, and have +lost two feathers out of my tail, all through your blunder. You ought to +be ashamed of yourself, Mrs. Starling!" + +"I own that I was hasty," said poor Mrs. Starling; "but I meant well." + +"Yes, you thought the sparrows were thieves, and so did I. But it turns +out, that we are no better than burglars ourselves; and, what's more, we +shall have a whole army of sparrows back upon us before long. We had +better take ourselves off." And off they flew. + + DORA BURNSIDE. + + + + +KATIE AND WAIF. + + +I AM Katie Sinclair, and Waif is my dog. Now, as everybody who knows him +says he is the nicest dog in the world, I will tell my "Nursery" friends +why people think so. + +First I must tell you how I got him, and how he came to have such an odd +name. One cold, rainy day, about three years ago, I heard a strange +noise under the window, and ran to the door to see what it was. There +stood a homely little puppy, dripping wet, shivering from the cold, and +crying, oh, so mournfully! + +I took him in, and held him before the fire till he was dry and warm. +Then I got him some nice fresh milk, which he drank eagerly; and he +looked up in my face in such a thankful way, that he quite won my heart. + +"Poor little dog!" said I. "He hasn't had a very nice time in this world +so far; but I will ask mamma to let him stay and be my dog." Mamma +consented; and, if that dog has not enjoyed himself since then, it is +not my fault. + +I was bothered not a little to find a name for him. I wanted one, you +see, that would remind me always of the way he came to me,--not a common +name, such as other little dogs have. No; I did not want a "Carlo," or a +"Rover," or a "Watch." After trying in vain to think of a name fit for +him, I asked mamma to help me. + +[Illustration] + +She said, "Call him Waif." I was such a little goose then (that was over +three years ago, you know), that I had to ask her what "Waif" meant. + +"A waif," said she, "is something found, of which nobody knows the +owner. On that account 'Waif' would be a good name for your puppy." So I +gave him that name, and he soon got to know and answer to it. + +Waif grew fast, and we taught him ever so many tricks. He has learned to +be very useful too, as I shall show you. + +On a shelf in the kitchen stands a small basket, with his name, in red +letters, printed upon it. To this basket he goes every morning, and +barks. When Ellen the cook hears him, she takes the basket down, and +places the handle in his mouth. Then he goes to mamma, and waits +patiently till she is ready, when he goes down town with her, and brings +back the meat for dinner. + +When papa gets through dinner, he always pushes back his chair, and +says, "Now, Waif:" and Waif knows what that means; for he jumps up from +where he has been lying,--and, oh! such fun as we have with him then! He +walks on his hind-feet, speaks for meat, and catches crumbs. + +Last summer I went out to Lafayette to visit grandma. Mamma says, that, +while I was away, Waif would go to my room, and sniff at the +bed-clothes, and go away whining and crying bitterly. When I came back, +he was nearly beside himself with delight. + +We never found out where he came from that rainy day. But I don't love +him a bit the less because he was a poor, friendless puppy; and when I +look into his good, honest brown eyes, and think what a true friend he +is, I put my arms around his neck, and whisper in his ear, that I would +not change him for the handsomest dog in the country. + + S. E. R. + +[Illustration] + + + + +AMY AND ROBERT IN CHINA. + + +AMY and Robert, with their papa and mamma, live in China, in a place +called Foochow. They came here last January, when Amy was just three +years old, and Robert a little over one year. They came all the way from +Boston by water. + +They have a good grandma at home, who sends Amy "The Nursery" every +month, and she is never tired of hearing the nice stories. + +Out here, the children see many things that you little folks in America +know nothing about. When they go to ride, they do not go in a carriage +drawn by horses, but in a chair resting on two long poles, carried by +some Chinamen called _coolies_. When it is pleasant, and the sun is not +too hot, the chair is open; but, if it rains, there is a close cover to +fit over it. + +It is so warm here, that flowers blossom in the garden all winter; and +Amy is very fond of picking them, and putting them into vases. When it +is too warm to go into the garden, she has a pot of earth on the shady +piazza, and the cooly picks her flowers, to plant in it. + +Foochow is on a large river; and the children like much to go out in the +sail-boats, called "house-boats." These boats are fitted up just like a +house, with a dining-room, sleeping-room, bath-room, and pantry. + +The night before Fourth of July, Amy and Robert started with their papa, +mamma, and Amah (their colored nurse), and went to Sharp Peak, on the +seashore, twenty-five miles from here. They found the boat very nice to +sleep in, but were glad enough to get into their own beds the next +night. + +I am afraid you would not know what these little children say, if you +should hear them talk; for they pick up words from their Amah, and do +not speak like little American girls and boys. + +By and by I shall have more to tell you about them. + + AMY'S MAMMA. + + + + +ABOUT TWO OLD HORSES. + + +IN my great-great-grandfather's barn-yard stood an old-fashioned well, +with a long sweep or pole, by which the bucket was pulled up. This well +was used entirely for the horses and cattle. + +Grandfather had a horse named Pete, who would walk out of his stall +every morning, go to the well, take the pole, by which the bucket was +attached to the well-sweep, between his teeth, and thus pull up the +bucket until it rested on the shelf made for it. Then old Pete would +drink the water which he had taken so much pains to get. + +But one of my uncles had a horse even more knowing than old Pete. This +horse was named Whitey. Every Sunday morning, when the church-bell rang, +Uncle George would lead Whitey out of his stall, harness him, drive him +to church, and tie him in a certain shed, where he would stand quietly +till church was done. + +After a while, Whitey grew so used to this weekly performance, that, +when the bells rang, he would walk out of his stall, and wait to be +harnessed. One Sunday morning, Old Whitey, on hearing the bells, walked +out of his stall as usual, and patiently waited for Uncle George. But it +happened that uncle was sick that morning, and none of the family felt +like going to church. + +I do not really know what Whitey's thoughts were; but I have no doubt +that they were something like this: "Well, well! I guess my master is +not going to church this morning; but that is no reason why I should not +go. I must go now, or I shall be late." + +Whitey had waited so long, that he was rather late; but he jogged +steadily along to his post in the shed, and there took his stand, as +usual. + +As soon as old Mr. Lane, who sat in one of the back-pews and always came +out of church before anybody else, appeared at the door, Whitey started +for home. At the door of the house he was greeted by several members of +the family, who had just discovered his absence, and who learned the +next day, from Mr. Lane, that old Whitey had merely been attending +strictly to his church-duties. + + K. H. S. + + + + +FOR ETHEL. + + + "GOOD-BY! little Ethel, good-by!" says the Light; + For what does my sleepy one need but the night?-- + The soft quiet night, like a great downy wing, + To shelter the wee ones, too tired to sing. + + Good-by till the dawning: + Some bright star will keep + Its watch o'er your pillow + When you are asleep! + + "Good-by, little Ethel," so many things say,-- + The wind, that has played in the grasses all day, + The pretty red squirrels you never can catch, + And the kitten, that tries all your playthings to snatch. + + When bird, bee, and blossom + Their bright eyes must close, + Is Ethel awake? + Go to sleep like a rose. + + CHARLOTTE M. PACKARD. + +[Illustration] + + + + +BABY'S EXPLOIT. + + +IN the first place baby had her bath. Such a time! Mamma talked as fast +and as funny as could be; and the baby crowed and kicked as if she +understood every word. + +Presently came the clean clothes,--a nice, dainty pile, fresh from +yesterday's ironing. Baby Lila was seven months old that very May +morning; but not a sign had she given yet of trying to creep: so the +long white dresses still went on, though mamma said every day, "I must +make some short dresses for this child. She's too old to wear these +dragging things any longer." + +When baby had been dressed and kissed, she was set down in the middle of +the clean kitchen-floor, on her own rug, hedged in by soft white +pillows. There she sat, serene and happy, surveying her playthings with +quizzical eyes; while her mamma gathered up bath-tub, towel, and +cast-off clothes, and went up stairs to put them away. + +Left to herself, Lila first made a careful review of her treasures. The +feather duster was certainly present. So was the old rattle. Was the +door-knob there? and the string of spools? Yes; and so was the little +red pincushion, dear to baby's color-loving eyes. + +[Illustration] + +She was slowly poking over the things in her lap, when mamma came back, +bringing a pot of yeast to set by the open fire-place, where a small +fire burned leisurely on this cool May morning. She put a little tin +plate on the top of the pot, kissed the precious baby, and then went out +again. Baby Lila was used to being left alone, though seldom out of +mamma's hearing. At such times she would sit among the pillows, tossing +her trinkets all about, and crowing at her own performances. Sometimes +she would drop over against a pillow, and go to sleep. + +But this morning Lila had no intention of going to sleep. She flourished +the duster, and laughed at the pincushion; then gazed meditatively at +the bright window, and reflected gravely on the broad belt of sunshine +lying across the floor. That speculation over, she fell to hugging the +cherished duster, rocking back and forth as if it were another baby. + +A smart little snap of the fire,--a "How-do-you-do?" from the +fire-place,--made the baby twist her little body to look at it. She +watched the small flames dancing in and out, as long as her neck could +bear the twist. + +As she turned back again, her eyes fell on the pot of yeast. Oh! wasn't +that her own tin plate shining in the sunlight? Didn't she make music on +it with a spoon every meal-time? and hadn't her little gums felt of +every A, B, C, around its edge? Didn't she want it now? And wouldn't she +have it too? + +How she ever did it, nobody knows. How she ever got over the pillows, +and made her way across to the fire-place in her long, hindering skirts, +nobody can tell. + +[Illustration] + +Mamma was busy in another room, when she heard the little plate clatter +on the kitchen-floor. Not a thought of the real mischief-maker entered +her head. She only said to herself,-- + +"I didn't know the cat was in there. Well, she'll find out her mistake. +I'm not going in till I get this pie done, any way. The baby's all +right, and that's enough." + +As soon as mamma's hands were at liberty, she thought she would just +look in and see what kept the darling so quiet. "All right," indeed! +What a spectacle she beheld! + +On the bricks before the fire, her pretty white skirts much too near the +ashes, sat Baby Lila, having a glorious time. She had found her dear +little plate empty; but the brown pitcher was full enough. She had +dropped the plate, dipped the feather-duster into the yeast, and +proceeded to spread it about, on her clean clothes, on the bricks, on +the floor, everywhere. + +So, when mamma opened the door, she saw this wee daughter besmeared +from head to foot, the yeast dripping over her head and face as she held +the duster aloft in both hands. + +Just then papa came in by another door. "O John! do you see this child! +What if she had put the duster into the fire instead of the yeast!" +Mamma shuddered as she took little Lila into her lap for another bath +and change of clothes. Papa standing by said,-- + +"You don't seem to mind having all that to do again." + +"Indeed I don't. To think how near she was to that fire! I can never be +thankful enough that she dusted the yeast instead of the coals. But how +do you suppose she ever got over there?" + + S. D. L. H. + + + + +THE FOX AND THE CROW. + + + A CROW, one day, stole a nice bit of cheese, + And flew up in a tree to eat it at her ease. + A sly young Fox, who was passing below, + Saw her as she flew, and he said, "Oh, ho! + Madam Crow." + + "What a fine bird you are, with your feathers so gay! + As brilliant as the rainbow, and fairer than the day. + If your voice is as sweet as your form would show, + Then sing me a song: pray don't say 'No,' + Madam Crow." + + The crow began her song, when down fell the cheese: + The fox sprang and caught it as quickly as you please; + And as he trotted off, he said, "Oh, ho! + That is just what I wanted. I'll go, + Madam Crow." + + ANNIE MOORE. + +[Illustration: DRAWING-LESSON.] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE SWALLOWS AND THE ROBIN. + + + THE woods were showing autumn tints + Of crimson and of gold; + The sunny days were growing short, + The evenings long and cold: + So the swallows held a parliament, + And voted it was time + To bid farewell to northern skies, + And seek a warmer clime. + + Southward with glad and rapid flight + They flew for many a mile, + Till in a quiet woodland glen + They stopped to rest a while: + A streamlet rippled in the dell; + And on a hawthorn-tree + A robin-redbreast sat alone, + And carolled merrily. + + The wandering swallows listened, + And eagerly said they, + "O pretty bird! your notes are sweet: + Come, fly with us away. + We're following the sunshine, + For it is bright and warm: + We're leaving winter far behind + With all its cold and storm. + + "The iron ground will yield no food, + The berries will be few; + Half-starved with hunger and with cold, + Poor bird, what will you do?" + "Nay, nay," said he, "when frost is hard, + And all the leaves are dead, + I know that kindly little hands + Will give me crumbs of bread." + + C. + +[Illustration: THE ENGLISH ROBIN.] + + + + +BIRDIE'S PIG STORY. + + +I TOLD my story first, as mammas usually do; and it was all about a +naughty little pig, who did not mind his mother when she bade him stay +in the sty, but crawled through a hole in the wall. + +Of course this pig got into the garden, and was whipped by the farmer, +and bitten by the dog, and had all sorts of unpleasant things happen to +him, till he was glad to get back again to the sty. + +"Now I'll tell you a pig story," said Birdie, with a very wise look. + + "Once there was a big mother-pig, and she had + _lots_ of children-pigs. One was spotted, and his + name was Spotty; one's tail curled, and he was + Curly; another was white, and he was Whitey; + another was Browny; and another was Greeny." + +"Oh, dear! the idea of a _green_ pig!" said I. + +But Birdie's eyes were fixed on the floor. He was too busy thinking of +his story to notice my remark. He went on,-- + + "One day the pigs found a hole in the wall, and + they crawled through,--all of 'em, the mother-pig + and all; and, when they got out, they ran off, + grunting with--with joy. And when the farmer saw + them, he went after them on a horse; but he + couldn't catch them, for they all ran down under a + bridge where there had been a brook; but the water + was all dried up. + + "Then the farmer got a long pole, and poked under + the bridge; but he couldn't reach them. He put + some potatoes down there too, but the pigs weren't + going to be coaxed out. And when they had staid as + long as they wanted to, they came out themselves, + and got home before the farmer did." + +That was the story, and I forgot to ask how they got home before the +farmer did unless he drove them; but I think they must have gone home +across the field, because it is plain that Birdie's pigs did just as +they liked all through. What I did ask was, "Well, what was the good of +it all?" for I thought nobody ought to tell a story without meaning some +good by it. + +"_Why, they got some fresh air!_" cried Birdie, triumphantly; and +considering that most farmers keep their pig-sties in a filthy +condition, which can't be healthy for the pigs, nor for those who eat +them, I thought Birdie's story had a very good moral, which is only +another way of saying that it had a good lesson in it. + + BIRDIE'S MAMMA. + +[Illustration] + + + + +OUR FRIEND THE ROBIN. + + +ONE very hard winter, a robin came, day after day, to our window-sill. +He was fed with crumbs, and soon became tame enough not to fly away when +we opened the window. One cold day we found the little thing hopping +about the kitchen. He had flown in at the window, and did not attempt to +fly out again when we came near. + +We did not like to drive him out in the bitter cold: so we put him in a +cage, in which he soon made himself quite at home. Sometimes we would +let him out in the room, and he would perch on our finger, and eat from +our hand without the least sign of fear. + +When the spring came on, we opened the cage-door and let him go. At +first he was not at all inclined to leave us; but after a while he flew +off, and we thought we should never see him again. + +All through the summer and autumn, the cage stood on a table in a corner +of the kitchen. We often thought of the little robin, and were rather +sorry that the cage was empty. + +When the winter set in, we fancied we saw our old friend again hopping +about outside the window. We were by no means sure that it was the same +robin; but, just to see what he would do, we opened the window, and set +the cage in its old place. + +Then we all left the room for a few minutes. When we returned, we found, +to our great delight, that the bird was in the cage. He seemed to know +us as we petted him and chirruped to him; and we felt certain that it +was our dear old friend. + + T. C. + CHISWICK, LONDON. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +FRANK'S HIGH HORSE. + + +FRANK wanted a high horse: so he took the sewing-chair, put the hassock +on it, put the sofa-pillow on that, and mounted. + +How he got seated up there so nicely I don't know; but I know just how +he got down. + +The horse did not mind the bridle, but he would not stand the whip. He +reared, lost his balance, and fell over. + +Down came Frank with sofa-pillow, hassock, and all. By good luck, he was +not hurt; but he will not try to ride that horse again. + + A. B. C. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +SAGACITY OF A HORSE. + + +A YOUNG gentleman bought a hunting-mare from a farmer at Malton in +England, and took her with him to Whitby, a distance of nearly sixty +miles. One Wednesday morning the mare was missing from the field where +her owner had placed her. A search was made for her, but with no +success. + +The next day the search was renewed. The owner and his groom went some +ten miles, and were told that the mare had crossed the railway the +morning before. At this point the trail was easy. The mare had taken the +high road to her old home at Malton. + +Six men had tried, but in vain, to stop her. At a place called +Pickering, she jumped a load of wood and the railway gates, and then, +finding herself in her old hunting country, made a bee-line for home. In +doing this, she had to swim two rivers, and cross a railway. + +She was found at her old home, rather lame, and with one shoe off, but +otherwise no worse for her gallop of nearly sixty miles across the +country,--all done in one day; for her old owner found her on Wednesday +night, standing at the gate of the field where she had grazed for two +previous years. Was she not a pretty clever horse? + + UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +PHANTOM. + + +WE have a little white dog whose name is Phantom. This is his portrait. +I hope you are glad to meet him. Ask him to shake hands. He would do so +at once if you could only see him in reality. + +When he was only a few months old, he followed us all to church without +our knowing it; nor did we see him, till, in the most solemn part of the +service, we heard a patter, patter, patter, coming up the aisle, and +there stood Phantom at the door of our pew. In his mouth was a +long-handled feather duster, which he had found in some obscure corner +of the building, and where it had been put (as it was supposed) +carefully out of everybody's way. + +Phantom is very intelligent, and has learned a number of tricks. He can +understand what is said to him better than any dog I ever knew; but he +is best known among the children here for his love of music and singing. + +He has only learned one song yet; but he knows that as soon as he hears +it. Wherever he may be,--up stairs, or down stairs, or out of doors,--if +he hears that song, he will sit up, throw his head back, and you will +hear his voice taking part in the music. + +[Illustration] + +You may sing a dozen songs, all in about the same tone; but he will take +no notice till he hears the tune he has learned, and then he will sing +with you--not in a bark or a yelp, but in a pure, clear voice, as if he +enjoyed it. + +If you could see him sitting up, with his nose in the air, his mouth +open, and his fore-paws moving as if playing the piano, and could hear +his music, I am sure you would laugh till the tears came into your eyes. + + UNCLE TIFFY. + CARONDELET, MO. + +[Illustration] + + +CHRISTMAS. + + + Words by ALFRED SELWYN.[A] Music by T. CRAMPTON. + + +[Illustration: Music] + + Treble clef lyrics: Bass clef lyrics: + Hark! the bells are sounding, Welcome to our pleasures + Christmas draweth nigh; And our Christmas cheer! + Now let joy abounding, We'll not stint the measures, + Bid all sorrow fly. Would you all were here! + + Ye who pine in sorrow, Boys and girls together-- + Come be cheer'd to-day; From all parts and climes, + Of our gladness borrow, To enjoy this weather, + As you freely may. And these Christmas times! + + +FOOTNOTE: + +[A] Nursery, 1876. + + * * * * * + +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. + +The notes about treble and bass clef lyrics were added to indicate what +the original music score represented. + +Page 176, period added to end of paragraph (in both hands.) + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery, December 1877, Vol. XXII. +No. 6, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, DECEMBER 1877 *** + +***** This file should be named 28140.txt or 28140.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/1/4/28140/ + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. 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