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diff --git a/28142.txt b/28142.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ef57a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/28142.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1341 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, March 1878, Vol. XXIII. No. 3, 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, March 1878, Vol. XXIII. No. 3 + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Author: Various + +Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28142] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, MARCH 1878 *** + + + + +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 XXIII.--No. 3. + + + + +Contents + + +In Prose + + PAGE + In the Swing 67 + How My Boys Helped Their Mother 69 + "Stop That Quarrelling." 71 + A Letter from Calcutta 73 + Prairie Dogs 75 + The Catbird 79 + How to Draw a Cat 80 + Playing Cook 81 + How a Boy Caught a Fish with His Nose 82 + An Old Fable 83 + Our Fly 84 + Grandpa's Watch 85 + Helen's Bird 87 + The Geese and the Hawk 90 + Mabel's Secrets 91 + The Snow Country 94 + + +In Verse + + PAGE + Nobody's Dog 66 + The New Moon 68 + The Girl Who is Always Good 72 + The Street-Player 77 + Three Little Chicks Born in a Shoe 89 + The Little Student 93 + The Froggie's Party (_with music_) 96 + + + + +[Illustration: NOBODY'S DOG.] + + + + +NOBODY'S DOG. + + + [Illustration: O]NLY a dirty black-and-white dog! + You can see him any day, + Trotting meekly from street to street: + He almost seems to say, + As he looks in your face with wistful eyes, + "I don't mean to be in your way." + + His tail hangs drooping between his legs; + His body is thin and spare: + How he envies the sleek and well-fed dogs, + That thrive on their masters' care! + And he wonders what they must think of him, + And grieves at his own hard fare. + + Sometimes he sees a friendly face,-- + A face that he seems to know; + And thinks it may be the master + That he lost so long ago; + And even dares to follow him home, + For he loved his master so! + + Poor Jack! He's only mistaken again, + And stoned and driven back; + But he's used to disappointments now, + And takes up his beaten track; + Nobody's dog, for whom nobody cares,-- + Poor unfortunate Jack! + + FRED B. KING. + +[Illustration] + + + + +IN THE SWING. + + +THE swing was hung from an old oak-tree in grandmother's grove. There +Mabel and I used to go every fine summer morning before breakfast, and +swing for five minutes. We did not swing longer than that because too +much of this kind of exercise is not healthy. + +Once, when I had swung her very high, Mabel had a fall, but it did not +hurt her, for she fell among some tufts of soft grass; but, if her head +had struck a stone, it might have done her great harm. After that we +were both more careful. + +Five years have gone by since those days. We both go to school, and I do +not think you would know us, from the likenesses in the picture. But +next summer we hope to visit grandmother once more, and we shall revive +old times in the swing under the old oak-tree. + +The sly squirrels will come out and look at us; the birds will twitter, +and try to make us think that they have no nests in the trees and bushes +thereabouts: but we shall say, "We shall do you no harm, birds, +squirrels, beetles--no harm--for we love you all! So play on, and please +let us play too." + + EDITH. + + + + +THE NEW MOON. + + + PRETTY new moon, white new moon, + What do you bring in your horn? + Silver light to paint black night + As fair as the early dawn? + + Sweet new moon, pretty new moon, + Where did you harvest your rays? + In the deeps of dark were you but a spark + Till the sun shone along your ways? + + Fair new moon, kind new moon, + Will my wish come true some day, + When you're but a ghost of yourself, at the most, + And your glory passes away? + + MARY N. PRESCOTT. + + + + +HOW MY BOYS HELPED THEIR MOTHER. + + +WHEN we first came here to live, the lot next to ours was vacant; but +afterwards a house was built on it, and the boys were very much +interested in the progress of the building. Often, when obliged to stay +in doors, they would sit by the window, watching the work on the "new +house," as they called it. + +[Illustration] + +Mr. Little, the owner of the house, was an old acquaintance of ours, and +very fond of children. So occasionally, when he came to oversee the +work, I would allow the boys to go up and see him; and he would give +them a few nails, or some blocks to play with. + +One day, Mr. Little called their attention to the wood which the +carpenters had thrown aside as rubbish, and told them he was going to +pick up some of it, and send it home to burn; "and now, boys," said Mr. +Little, "if you would like to help your mother, here is a chance to get +her some kindling-wood. You may come every day, and get all you can +carry home." + +They came home delighted with the plan; and the next morning, as soon as +breakfast was done, they were ready to begin their work. The two oldest +boys took their wheelbarrows, and the youngest one his cart, and off +they started. I could see them from my window, working very diligently, +and they soon came back, each with a good-sized load. + +They knocked at the back-door, and asked me where I would have my wood +put. I told them they could put it in the cellar, and opened the outside +cellar-door for them. Each one threw out his load, and started for +another; and so they kept at work nearly the whole forenoon. + +They continued to work in this way for a week, sometimes getting one +load a day, and sometimes four or five; and every night, when their papa +came home, they invited him down cellar to see how much wood they had. + +In a little room back of the parlor, there was an old-fashioned +fireplace, in which, when the evenings began to grow cool, papa would +build up a nice fire, just after supper. Then he would sit down in the +firelight with the boys, and tell them stories till their bed-time, +greatly to their delight. + +So you see they had a reward for their labor, besides having the +satisfaction of knowing that they helped their mother. + + H. L. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +"STOP THAT QUARRELLING." + + +IN England recently, a curious incident of geese-life was witnessed. A +number of very fine geese, belonging to a Mr. Woodford were having their +morning ramble, when suddenly a strange noise was heard. + +Two of the geese had begun quarrelling, probably over some choice +morsel of food. They fought each other furiously, when they were +suddenly stopped in a way that caused no little surprise to the +beholders. + +An old goose came flying across the road, and cackling in tones that +must have meant, "Stop that quarrelling!" for they seemed to be well +understood by the combatants. Having chided them well, the old goose +proceeded to punish them. + +Instantly the quarrelsome geese obeyed the command of the old goose; and +the whole flock, that had been witnesses of the fight, began to gobble +their approval of the peace that had been brought about. How much wiser +they were than some bad boys, who like to see a fight, and do not try to +stop it! + + UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +THE GIRL WHO IS ALWAYS GOOD. + + + SHE never sighs; + She never grumbles; + She never cries + When down she tumbles. + + She never soils + Her pretty dresses; + She never spoils + Her silken tresses. + + With cap on head, + And wee hands folded, + She's put to bed, + And never scolded. + + Oh, she's a pearl! + No mischief scheming; + There's such a girl,-- + Don't think I'm dreaming. + + But not to tell + Her name were folly: + You know her well, + For she's your Dolly! + + GEORGE COOPER. + +[Illustration] + + + + +A LETTER FROM CALCUTTA. + + +_Dear "Nursery,"_--Way out here, a long distance from my real home, +which is not far from Boston, my grandmamma sends you; and I am so fond +of hearing the stories read, that I think some of your children would +like to read a story about this country. + +There are many things here which would be new and strange to most of +them; but few things are more funny than the crows playing their pranks. +The crows are very like those at home, except that these little fellows +have slate-colored necks, and are much more bold. + +If a window or door is left open, it will not be a minute before one or +more crows will arrive and look about in search of food. If you chance +to leave any thing about that is eatable, it is seized and carried off +in an instant. + +There is a great park here, known as the Maidan, where dogs run with +bones to pick; and this habit of the dogs suits the crows perfectly, for +they always try to get away the bones, and often succeed too. This is +the way they usually go to work. The first crow that sees a dog with a +bone calls all his friends, and off they fly to where the dog is. There +they alight, and stand around him. + +Then they talk to one another. Perhaps one says, in crow language, "This +is an ugly cur;" another says, "He has crooked legs;" another, "His tail +is cut off;" and so they keep talking until the dog gets angry, and with +a snap and a bark, tries to drive them away. This only makes them laugh; +and they begin again to torment the dog by talking, and even by jumping +upon his back, and pulling his tail. + +Now, no dog of any spirit will stand this insult. So he springs up in a +rage, to punish the saucy birds. That is precisely what the crows want; +for, as soon as he turns his head around to bite one crow, another darts +down, seizes the bone, and carries it away. Then how they do laugh at +the poor dog! and isn't he angry! + +We have also a bird commonly called a "kite," but often called the +"Indian swallow," as it sails about in the air just as our home swallows +do. It does not seize its food with its bill, as the crow does, but with +its claws or talons, and eats as it flies. Now, the crow can't help +tormenting something; and the kite often gets his share of their +attention. + +I have seen crows sit on a fence on both sides of a kite, and provoke +him by their talk, just as one boy often provokes another by saying +saucy little things. At first the kite pretends not to care; but very +soon his feathers ruffle, and he flies at a crow, as if to tear him in +pieces. The crow is quick and darts away, but returns just as soon as +the kite flies at another crow. And in this way the crows amuse +themselves for a long time. + +It is believed here that crows hold meetings, and decide upon the +punishment due to other crows that have been bad; for they have often +been seen to gather in large numbers, and, after chattering like magpies +for a time, take one of their number, and peck him severely, sometimes +even killing him. + +Good-by, dear old "Nursery." Your little friend, + + LEON K. DAVIS. + + + + +PRAIRIE DOGS. + + +HOW many of the bright-eyed boys and girls who read "The Nursery," or +hear it read, month after month, ever saw a prairie-dog village? Ah! I +see several little hands up. "The Nursery" has many readers in Western +Kansas; and there is the very place where prairie-dog villages are +found. + +I will tell you about my first visit to one of them. As we were riding +over the beautiful green prairie, we came to a place dotted here and +there with hillocks about a foot high, and on each sat a funny little +yellow dog. + +These little hills, which have a hole in the top for a door, are the +houses of the prairie-dogs. They would let us come quite close to them, +when, with a comical squeak, intended, I suppose, for a bark, down they +would go, head first, into the holes, giving their tails a "good-by" +shake. + +The noise they make sounds exactly like the noise made by toy-animals +when you press them in your hands. Fifty prairie-dogs all barking +together could not be heard very far. + +On a number of the hills sat solemn old owls, trying to look very wise. +Most of these owls sat perfectly still as we drove by; but I saw two or +three fly slowly away, as if half asleep. I wonder if these sober old +birds teach the little prairie-dogs any of their wisdom. + +All the prairies in this part of Kansas are covered with a short, thick +grass, called "buffalo-grass," and the dogs live on its roots. These +roots are little bulbs, and make nice rich food for the funny little +fellows. + +A gentleman who has lived here for many years tells me that all their +houses are connected underground by halls or passages, so that they can +travel a mile or so without coming to the top of the ground. + +Wherever you see a prairie-dog village, there you will find good water +by digging a few feet. Sometimes boys capture these queer little dogs, +and they become quite tame and make cunning pets. + + MARY MAXWELL RYAN. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE STREET-PLAYER. + + + UNDER my window I hear a sound, + The scrape of a fiddle, the clatter of feet; + And a curious crowd of boys and men + Has gathered there in the street. + + And in their midst is a little child, + With ragged shoes and a brimless hat, + Not bigger than Hop-O'-my-Thumb, at most, + And wan and thin at that. + + I see his fingers like little claws, + His berry-brown eyes, and wistful smile, + As he plies the bow of his fiddle fast, + And tries to sing meanwhile. + + And when his shrill brief song is done, + He plucks the hat from his curly head, + And begs a penny from every one, + Though not a word is said. + + Just fit for a mother's arms to fold, + Yet here alone in the heat and dust, + Doing his poor, tired, baby best + To earn for himself a crust. + + He looks like Teddy, for all the world; + Just such a tanned and rosy skin; + Only he lacks the apple cheeks, + The dimples, and double-chin. + + And I think if Teddy were motherless, + And had to wander from place to place, + How quickly the twinkle would leave his eye, + And the dimples leave his face. + + So, Teddy, open the little bank, + And give him the pennies kept for toys, + And under my window let me see + Two little nut-brown boys! + + MRS. CLARA DOTY BATES. + +[Illustration: ] + + + + +THE CATBIRD. + + +THE catbird belongs to the family of thrushes, and is one of the most +peculiar of our American birds. It is dark colored, with brown head and +neck, and greenish-black tail. The bird is fond of society, and usually +builds its nest near the dwellings of men, rather than in the quiet of +the forest. + +Its voice, when angry or disturbed, is harsh and shrill, but at other +times, soft and sweet. It has also a cry like the mewing of a cat, from +which it derives its name. It is very courageous, and will defend its +young until it falls exhausted. + +The catbird can be tamed, but is as mischievous as a young +monkey,--meddlesome, full of curiosity, and so jealous, that it will +drive any other pet bird out of the house. It dislikes to be caged, +preferring the freedom of the room, so that it may look in the +looking-glass, take pins off from the cushion, or perch on the plants in +the window. + + AUNT ALICE. + + + + +[Illustration: HOW TO DRAW A CAT.] + + When Ellen makes up dough for bread, + A roll like this you see. + + One turnover she puts on top, + Because it pleases me. + + Now when I saw Miss Pussy's back + As she lay upon the mat, + I thought of Ellen's bread and pie + It surely looks like that, + So adding ears and tail I had, + The rear view of my cat. + +[Illustration] + + + + +PLAYING COOK. + + +JENNY was at her little table, making a pudding for her doll's dinner, +when brother Albert came in with Snap the dog, and said, "Let me be the +cook, sister: I know how to make a pudding. First I will break these +three eggs into the dish." + +"But I can see no eggs," said Jenny. + +"Look sharp," said Albert, going through the motion of breaking an egg. +"Good and fresh." + +"I see no eggs," said Jenny. + +"You must be losing your eyesight," said the cook, taking a spoon. "Now, +then, I will stir up the eggs; and now I will put in a little flour; and +now I will grate in some nutmeg." + +"I think you had better put in some milk," said Jenny. + +"Of course, I shall," replied the cook. "Where's the basin of milk?" + +"You will find it on the floor," said Jenny. + +Albert looked, and cried out, "Go away, Snap!--See, Jenny, that greedy +dog has lapped up all the milk!" + +"No matter," said Jenny. "You can get some more where you got the eggs." + +So Albert seized the little pitcher, went through the motion of emptying +it, stirred the pudding once more, and then placed it on the little +doll-stove. + +"Oh, what a fine cook you are!" said Jenny. "But, when I am very hungry, +I think I shall not come to you for my dinner." + + IDA FAY. + + + + +HOW A BOY CAUGHT A FISH WITH HIS NOSE. + + +A FEW years ago, a little boy was out fishing with his mother, on +Crooked Lake, in the western part of New York; or perhaps I should say, +_she_ was fishing, and he was looking over the side of the boat. He +could see the fish darting about here and there, and liked to watch +them, and he put his face as close down to the water as he could to see +them more plainly. + +A big trout came along, and saw something smooth and round and white +close to the top of the water. It was the boy's nose. The trout was +hungry, and I suppose he thought it was a piece of meat, or something +else good to eat: so he gave a spring out of the lake, and caught fast +hold of it with his teeth. + +Very much startled, the boy jerked his head back suddenly, and landed +Mr. Trout in the boat. He was a fine large fellow, and weighed several +pounds. I hope he did not bite off the end of the boy's nose. I wonder +if the boy would like to try to catch another trout in the same way. + +Everybody thought this so funny, that the boy became, for a while, quite +famous, and had his photograph taken, with the mark of the bite on his +nose. This may seem a very tough story, but it is true. The thing took +place only a few miles from where I live. + + ELIZABETH SILL. + +[Illustration] + + + + +AN OLD FABLE. + + +AN ass, having put on a lion's skin, roamed about in the forest, and +amused himself by frightening all the animals he met with in his +wanderings. At last he met a fox, and tried to frighten him also; but +the fox no sooner heard the sound of his voice than he exclaimed, "I +might have been afraid, if I had not heard you bray." + +This fable was written by AEsop, a famous Grecian who lived nearly three +thousand years ago. + +A fable is a fictitious story designed to enforce some useful lesson or +moral. See if you can tell the moral of this one. + + UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +OUR FLY. + + +[Illustration] + +I WANT to tell "The Nursery" readers about a fly who has lived in my +mamma's room all winter. At night he hides away in some warm place; but, +when the sun shines, he flies all about the room, and acts as if he were +very happy. + +When my mamma was sick, he used to fly about her, and make a great +buzzing; and, when the girl brought up her dinner, he would crawl about +the tray as if he were hungry. Mamma would give him some sugar, which he +liked very much. + +We missed him once for a whole week. We looked all over the room, but +could not find him anywhere. At last, one day, we saw him on the window +trying to fly, and what do you think? The poor fellow had lost one of +his wings. Mamma said that he must have flown into the gas-light, and +got burnt. She gave him some sugar, and he seemed to feel better for +eating it. + +I watched him a long time, and when he had eaten enough he crawled on to +my hand. I took him off, and put him on the window again; but he kept +coming back to my hand, and I think, if he could have spoken, he would +have said, "Thank you, little girl, for my nice dinner." + +I will tell you more about him some time. + + VIOLA. + +[Illustration] + + + + +GRANDPA'S WATCH. + + +GEORGE is never so happy as when he is on grandpa's knee; and the first +thing that grandpa has to do, when little George is seated there, is to +pull out his watch. + +"Watch, watch!" cries little George; and grandpa takes it out, opens it, +and lets him see all the queer little wheels and the bright works, that +shine and glitter so, and keep up the quick movements, and make the +watch say, "Tick, tick!" + +Grandpa and George are good friends, because grandpa tries to explain +things to him. One day he brought home a watch and gave it to the little +boy for his own, and showed him how to wind it up, and make it tick. + +George is very proud of it, and will soon learn to tell the time of day. +He knows now how to count ten. + + A. B. C. + +[Illustration] + + + + +HELEN'S BIRD. + + +WHEN Helen was eight years old, a pretty little canary-bird was given to +her as a birthday present. She named it "Chirp;" and she and Chirp soon +got to be very fond of each other. + +Helen took the whole care of him; and he grew so tame that he would +perch on her hand, and take seeds from her finger, and even from her +lips. He was a fine singer, and Helen liked to be waked in the morning +by his music. + +His cage was placed on her table near her bed, and she always began the +day by having a little talk with Chirp. There was not the least risk in +opening the cage, and letting him out into the room; for he would fly to +Helen as soon as she called him. + +So for years the little bird and the little girl lived happily together. +One November day, when Helen was almost eleven years old, she had been +out making a call, and, on her return, Chirp was missing. Helen saw that +a window had been left open, and knew that he must have flown out. + +"Oh, dear!" said she, in great distress, "my poor little Chirp is gone, +and I shall never see him again." + +Her mother tried to comfort her by saying that he had not been gone +long, and could not be far away. "But," said Helen, "it is cold weather, +and is snowing too, and he must be chilled to death." + +However, without wasting time in talk, she snatched up a handful of +canary-seed, and ran out of doors at once in search of her little pet. +She looked up into the vine that grew on the side of the house, and +called, "Chirp, Chirp!" + +She could see nothing of him; but Chirp saw her, and in a moment came +fluttering down among the snowflakes, and perched upon her hand. Oh, how +delighted Helen was to see him! The first thing she did was to give him +some seeds to eat; for she knew he must be half starved. + +"You dear little venturesome thing," she said. "You wanted to see the +world, didn't you? But why couldn't you wait for warmer weather? You +have given me a dreadful fright. Come into the house now and be +contented, and next summer you shall go out with me." + + JANE OLIVER. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THREE LITTLE CHICKS BORN IN A SHOE. + + + THREE little chickens, + Born in a shoe, + When the freshet came, + Didn't know what to do: + One went on deck, + Just to watch the weather, + While down below + The others sat together. + + "Oh, what shall we do! + Mother is not here: + Captain there on deck! + Oh, what cheer? what cheer?" + "Water everywhere, + Far as I can see! + But the wind is fair; + Let us easy be." + + "Oh, we want our mother," + Cried the other two: + "Stop that!" said the captain,-- + Captain of the shoe: + "We are lucky chickens + In our little boat; + Water-tight it is, + And it keeps afloat. + + "I hear mother calling + From the barn-yard wall: + Courage, little sisters! + Don't you hear her call?" + Yes, they heard it plainly; + Oh, how glad they were! + "Now blow fair, thou gentle wind, + Bear us all to her!" + + And the wind kept blowing, + Fair and fair it blew, + Bearing to the barn-yard wall + All that little crew. + When their mother saw them, + She flew down apace; + On her back she bore them + To a nice dry place. + + EMILY CARTER. + + + + +THE GEESE AND THE HAWK. + + +ONE day in May as Charles walked through the fields, he saw a large hawk +hovering in the air, and heard a noise as of geese cackling. Soon an old +mother-goose with a troop of little ones came running towards him. + +She knew that Charles would protect her and her fledglings from the +cruel hawk; and she was not mistaken. He took up a stick, and, looking +up at the hawk, said, "Now come on if you dare, you old thief!" + +The hawk made a swoop down to the top of a tree near by, caught sight of +the goslings, and would, no doubt, have liked to clutch one of them, and +carry it off; but the robber-bird was not quite bold enough to do this +while Charles stood by. + +At last the hawk flew off out of sight, and Charles called his good dog +Fido, and pointed at the geese, and said, "Take care of them, sir." So +Fido sat down near by, and watched the geese. I think if the hawk had +come then, Fido would have been more than a match for him. + +[Illustration] + + UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +MABEL'S SECRETS. + + +AND what were her secrets? She was one of the children allowed to make +Christmas-gifts to their friends. + +But it was hard for Mabel to keep her secrets. When her papa came home +at night, she always climbed upon his knee to tell him every thing that +had happened in her little world during the day; and her papa always +listened to her prattle with a great deal of interest. + +Now, that there was something she must not tell, Mabel could think of +nothing else. She climbed upon his knee, and sat so silent, that her +papa said, "Well, puss, have you nothing to tell papa to-night?" + +"Oh, I mustn't tell you my secrets, papa," said wise little Mabel: "I've +lots of 'em, and one is for you; and, if I tell, you will know all about +it." + +Now that the ice was broken, Mabel chatted on, innocently thinking that +her secrets were safe in her wise little head. "Mamma knows," she +continued; "but you mustn't know; and we are going to have a +Christmas-tree to put 'em on, and everybody will be so _sprised_." + +Sure enough, when Christmas Eve came, every one was surprised, but, most +of all, little Mabel; for a beautiful doll and many other pretty things +hung upon the tree for her. "Why, mamma," she exclaimed, "somebody else +must have had secrets too!" + + M. B. L. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE LITTLE STUDENT. + + + IN the sun by the wall, with Lion close by, + With her book in her hand, little Ruth you may spy: + She is getting her lesson as fast as she can, + While the birds sing their song and the soft breezes fan. + + See, that is her slate lying there on the ground: + She can make a square figure, and then make a round; + She can add up a sum, if it's not very big; + But she cannot yet draw me a cat or a pig. + + But she tries to learn something, though little it be, + Each day of her life,--something useful, you see: + And in two or three years you will find she can spell, + Read, cipher, and write, and do it all well. + + ELLEN SIMPSON. + + + + +THE SNOW-COUNTRY. + + +"WHAT a funny looking man!" cried Harry, running to me with his book +open, to show me a picture. "Where does he live, aunty? and why does he +wear such clothes?" + +"He is an Esquimau, and lives in the snow-country, and his clothes are +made of fur." + +"Tell me about the snow-country, aunty." + +"Up in the far north, near the north pole, it is winter all the time. +There the snow is always on the ground; and instead of having, as we do, +many days and nights, they have only one day and one night in all the +year. + +"You will wonder if the people sleep all through the long night, and if +they do not get tired of the long day. No; for they go to bed and get up +about as often as we do. + +"During the night they have the stars to light them, and bright flashing +colors in the sky, such as we call the 'Northern Lights.' When the sun +comes back, he makes them a long visit; but never gets so high in the +sky as he does with us, and never makes the weather warm." + +[Illustration] + +"What are those things in the picture that look like bee-hives?" said +Harry. + +"The picture shows you an Esquimaux village, and those are the houses. +They are made of blocks of snow. Some of the houses have pieces of clear +ice for windows. Others have no windows at all; only a small hole for a +door, which is closed up with snow after the family have all gone in." + +"A snow-house with ice windows!" said Harry. "Why, how do they keep +warm?" + +"They warm the houses with oil lamps, and get them very warm and very +smoky too." + +"Well," said Harry, "the Esquimaux are a queer people. I should like to +hear more about them." + +"I will tell you more some other time." + + G. D. Y. + + + + +THE FROGGIE'S PARTY. + + +[Illustration: Music] + + 1. The frog who would a-wooing go, + Gave a party, you must know; + And his bride dress'd all in green, + Look'd as fine as any queen. + Their reception number'd some + Of the best in Froggiedom: + Four gray froggies play'd the fiddle,-- + Hands all round and down the middle; + Oh! oh! oh! oh! away we go! + Hopping and jumping away we go! + + 2. Some stern old croakers there did come, + In white chokers to the room; + While the belles with rush-leaf fans, + Danc'd with beaux in green brogans, + Flirted in the bowers there, + Hidden from the ball-room's glare: + Three old froggies tried a reel,-- + Twist 'em, turn 'em, toe and heel, + With a oh! oh! oh! away we go! + Hopping and jumping away we go! + + 3. One little Miss was ask'd to sing, + But she had a cold that spring; + Little frogs were sound asleep, + Late hours--bad for them to keep. + Each one wish'd the couple joy, + No bad boys came to annoy: + This next fall the news is spreading + They will have their silver wedding! + Oh! oh! oh! oh! away we go! + Hopping and jumping away we go! + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes: + +The title page and table of contents were created for this issue +following the pattern from the 1877 issues. + +Page 70, period added at end of paragraph (a good-sized load) + +Page 75, extra comma removed. 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