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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879, by Various
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+Title: Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879
+       An Illustrated Weekly
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: February 25, 2009 [EBook #28186]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, NOV 11, 1879 ***
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+Produced by Annie McGuire
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+
+[Illustration: HARPER'S
+
+YOUNG PEOPLE
+
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. I.--NO. 2. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, November 11, 1879. Copyright, 1879, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "AS HE STOOD THERE LEANING ON HIS ALPENSTOCK."]
+
+[Begun in No. 1 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, November 4.]
+
+THE BRAVE SWISS BOY.
+
+_II.--A PERILOUS ADVENTURE._
+
+
+It was still early in the day when Walter left the cottage a second
+time. His heart was cheerful, and his movements light and rapid.
+Instead, however, of taking the road leading to the inn, he struck off
+in a zigzag path through the valley toward the Engelhorn, whose jagged
+and lofty peaks rose far up into the blue sky. After a short time he
+reached the large and splendid glacier that lies between the Engelhorn
+and Wellborn, cast a hasty glance at the beautiful masses of ice
+burnished to prismatic brilliancy by the morning sun, and then turned to
+the left toward a steep and narrow path leading to the summit. As the
+road grew more difficult at every step, his progress became much slower,
+and he purposely reserved his strength, knowing well that it would be
+severely taxed before he gained the object of his journey. After a
+toilsome ascent of half an hour he reached the lofty crag called by the
+mountaineers the Warder of the Glacier, and sat down to recover his
+breath.
+
+It was very necessary for him to take a little rest; for the way he had
+come, although long and tiring, was as child's play compared with the
+difficulties he had yet to overcome. He had to climb the steep and dizzy
+heights that towered above his head; and instead of walking along a
+narrow foot-path, he would have to clamber over rocks and loose stones,
+to pass close to the most dreadful precipices, and across foaming
+mountain streams, till he reached the height at which the refreshing
+green disappeared, with nothing visible but huge masses of brown and
+gray rock; where no other sight met the eye but that of mountain tops
+covered with perpetual snow and ice--a world dead and deserted, where
+the familiar voices of nature were almost unknown; where no bird
+carolled its love-song from the waving branch; where no sound was to be
+heard save the muttered thunder of the avalanche, the roaring of the
+cataracts which poured forth from the melting glaciers and made courses
+for themselves through heaps of rough stones; and now and again the
+harsh and discordant scream of a solitary vulture that with outspread
+wings circled slowly aloft, piercing into the valleys with its keen eye
+in search of prey. Into these wild and lonely regions Walter had to
+climb in order to reach the lofty crag whereon the vulture--the
+far-famed Lämmergeier of the Alps--had reared her eyrie.
+
+But these difficulties had little terror for the cool-headed and
+brave-hearted mountain youth, who had from his earliest days been
+accustomed to roam on dizzy heights where the slightest false step would
+have been destruction. He was determined to finish what he had begun;
+and gratitude to the noble and generous stranger lent new courage to his
+soul, and strength and endurance to his frame.
+
+After a short rest he jumped up again, and renewed the toilsome ascent,
+following slowly but steadily the dangerous track that led to the summit
+of the mountain. His feet often slipped on the bare and polished rock;
+sometimes he slid ten or twenty paces backward over loose pebbles, and
+anon sank knee-deep in the snow which here and there filled the hollows;
+but nothing daunted him or caused him to waver from his purpose. At last
+he reached a broad sheet of ice with innumerable crevices and chasms, on
+the further side of which a narrow ridge like the edge of a knife
+stretched above a wild and lonely valley, the base of which yawned two
+or three thousand feet below. At the extreme end of this ridge the nest
+he was in search of was built on a small point of rock, the sides of
+which descended precipitously into the depths below.
+
+With his eye fixed on the distant crag, Walter commenced the passage of
+the ice-field. The utmost caution being necessary at every step, he felt
+carefully with his long staff to ascertain whether the snow that covered
+the icy mass was fit to bear his weight, or only formed a treacherous
+bridge over the numerous ravines which yawned beneath. Bending his way
+round the large chasms, he leaped easily over the smaller ones with the
+aid of his staff; and after avoiding all the more dangerous spots, he
+succeeded, by caution and presence of mind, in safely reaching the
+further side of the glacier, where the last but most perilous part of
+his journey was to begin.
+
+As he stood there leaning on his alpenstock, out of breath with the
+exertion he had undergone, and surveyed the fearful path which scarcely
+any human foot had ever dared to tread; as he cast a glance at the dizzy
+precipices which yawned on each side of the ridge, which was itself in
+many places scarcely a foot in breadth; as he considered the inevitable
+destruction that would follow a single false step, he began to feel his
+courage fail, and lost for a moment the confidence and contempt of
+danger which had filled his soul an hour or two before, and sustained
+him during his perilous journey. "What if I should never return, nor see
+my father again?" said he to himself, as he drew back from the road
+which seemed to threaten him with destruction. "Is it not too great a
+risk to run?"
+
+But these fears only lasted a few moments. He called to mind the
+generosity of the stranger, and pictured to himself the delight with
+which he would receive him if he returned laden with such valuable
+booty; and his determination was renewed on the spot.
+
+"I should be ashamed ever to look him in the face again," said he to
+himself; "and what would father say if he were to see that I was afraid
+of climbing a few rocks? No, no. I must and will have the birds; so here
+goes!"
+
+Laying his alpenstock on the ground, he took off the thick jacket and
+heavy shoes which would but hinder his progress, and with only his shirt
+and trousers on, an axe in his belt, and the game bag hung over his
+shoulder, he started forward with all his former courage and energy, to
+complete the dangerous undertaking.
+
+His progress was not difficult at first. The ridge along which he had to
+go was broad enough to begin with, although very rough and wild here and
+there. But after he had gone a little way, it got so narrow that he
+found it difficult to secure a foot-hold. At this point the ridge became
+so attenuated that the youth saw at the first glance that it was
+impossible to proceed in an upright position; he therefore crept along
+on all fours, or sat astride the ridge and urged himself on with his
+hands and feet.
+
+Thus with extreme difficulty he pursued his perilous way toward the end
+of the ridge on which he knew the eyrie was built. But presently he saw
+the nest, and could hear the young birds piping, which gave him new
+strength and determination. At this juncture a loud scream overhead
+caused him to look up, and he was alarmed to see the female vulture
+wheeling round the nest with a young goat in her talons. With this new
+danger menacing him, the young cragsman lay flat down on the rock, and
+remained motionless, while he offered up an earnest prayer to Heaven
+that the bird might not discover him. He knew the peril which threatened
+him, for he had often heard of the fury with which the vulture attacks
+any one who attempts to rob its nest. He had heard of many cragsmen who
+had lost their lives in that way, and his own position was by no means
+the most favorable to defend himself against attack. His short and
+earnest prayer was not in vain. The young birds screeched louder and
+louder as they saw the prey in their mother's talons; and after the
+vulture had further tempted their appetite by one or two more majestic
+sweeps, she dropped the dainty morsel into the nest, where it was at
+once seized. After assisting her young ones to make a good beginning of
+their meal, the mother-bird unfolded her powerful wings, and glided into
+the valley beneath with the speed of an arrow.
+
+"Heaven be thanked, I am saved!" murmured Walter, as he rose from his
+uncomfortable position and wiped the perspiration from his forehead. "I
+must lose no time now, or perhaps one or both the old birds may return."
+
+He pressed on with redoubled energy till an event occurred, unimportant
+in itself, but which caused him some uneasiness, and reminded him of the
+need of caution. The rock in places was fragile and split up by the
+weather, and with a slight touch of his foot he loosened an immense
+fragment of stone, which went rolling down the side of the mountain till
+it reached a projecting ledge hundreds of feet below. A pang of terror
+shot through the boy's heart, and his face blanched, as he watched the
+stone thundering over the obstacles in its way until it disappeared in a
+cloud of dust. It seemed as if the whole mountain trembled beneath him;
+a mist bleared his eyes; and as the blood rushed to his head, a deadly
+giddiness threatened to overpower him. He felt an impulse to throw
+himself over, which he could scarcely resist; and it was only by falling
+on his face and shutting his eyes that he recovered his presence of
+mind. After thus lying for several minutes, with beating heart and
+quaking limbs, until by degrees he became more at ease, he ventured to
+look around him once more, and fixed his eyes on the nest, which was now
+only about fifty paces farther on.
+
+After waiting a few minutes longer, to be sure that his courage had
+returned, he made a fresh start, determining not to allow anything to
+alarm him again; and soon reached the end of the ridge, and viewed the
+nest with the young vultures before him. But here still another
+difficulty presented itself. The rock, which up to this point had been
+quite level, rose at the extreme end about eight feet above the ridge,
+and formed a sort of projecting platform, which the parent birds, with
+their wonderful sagacity, had deemed the most suitable spot on which to
+take up their abode. As he measured the height with his eye, Walter
+began to fear that after all he would be obliged to return without
+accomplishing his object, for the rock was so smooth as scarcely to
+afford the least hold to either his hands or feet. Fortunately, however,
+he recollected his little axe, which might do him good service if the
+stone, as he hoped, proved soft. Raising himself cautiously, he drew the
+axe from his belt, and while supporting himself with the left hand,
+dealt the rock several vigorous blows with the right, and to his great
+delight succeeded in making notches, by which, if he only went carefully
+to work, he could accomplish his object.
+
+With renewed courage he clambered up the almost perpendicular rock, and
+his curly hair and sunburned face soon appeared above the edge of the
+nest. The next moment he leaned over, seized the young birds in spite of
+their angry cries, transferred them one after the other to his bag, and
+throwing it across his shoulder, began to return on the dangerous road
+by which he had come. In common, however, with the experience of all who
+have ascended precipitous heights, he soon found that going down was
+much more difficult than had been the coming up; but ignoring the fact
+that he had beneath him a precipice two thousand feet deep, he devoted
+all his attention to the work immediately before him, and carefully
+descended the rocky wall step by step, till he reached the level ridge
+once more. He then turned slowly round, slung his bag in front of him,
+and leaning back against the wall, surveyed the giddy road which he must
+traverse to reach the glacier and the steep declivities of the
+Engelhorn, and thereafter his native valley.
+
+It was a difficult and dangerous road; but the young mountaineer's heart
+was now full of joy and confidence, for he had surmounted the greatest
+difficulty, and the prize of his bold and daring venture was in his
+possession. He uttered an exclamation of triumph; then, thanking God for
+the help he had received, he implored the Divine protection on his
+homeward journey. The sharp ridge made it necessary for him, as before,
+to work his way forward astride on the rock for some time; but he soon
+got within sight of a part where it would be possible to go on his hands
+and knees, and was just about to change his straddling position for the
+more comfortable one of crawling, when the constant shrieking of the
+young vultures in his bag was answered by a piercing cry from above,
+followed the next moment by the loud rushing of powerful wings close to
+his ear. The boy uttered an exclamation of horror, and clung with all
+his might to the rock to prevent himself from falling.
+
+In an instant he perceived the fearful danger that threatened him. One,
+or perhaps both the old birds had been attracted by the cries of the
+young ones, and were about to avenge themselves on the robber of their
+nest. Walter guessed that a hard fight would probably take place, and
+his first impulse was to throw the bag with the young birds into the
+valley beneath, and then try to make his escape as well as he might. But
+he soon found that this plan was more readily formed than it could be
+executed; for before he could make a single movement, he felt the blast
+of the wings just above his head, while the screaming of the enraged
+bird so confused his senses that he had great difficulty to avoid being
+hurled from his narrow resting-place into the ravine below. This sudden
+danger, although it alarmed him for the moment, awoke the next moment
+the courage and determination of the brave-hearted boy. It was a case of
+life or death, and it was vain to think of retiring from the contest.
+So, snatching his axe from his belt, he aimed a powerful blow at the old
+vulture as she swept down upon him for the third time. He succeeded
+beyond his expectation, for the blow, made almost at random, struck the
+wing of the bird, which, after vainly attempting to continue the
+struggle, fell helplessly into the abyss.
+
+Relieved of his antagonist, Walter felt completely exhausted, and was
+obliged to lie down at full length for several minutes until he regained
+his breath and self-possession. He then made the best of his way along
+till he reached the steep road leading to the glacier, and had got about
+half way down, when just in the most dangerous part he heard the ominous
+scream again, and saw with a shrinking horror that the male vulture,
+attracted, like its mate, by the continued cries of the young birds, had
+discovered him. In a fury of rage the angry bird darted downward, and
+sweeping past with outstretched talons, tried to hurl him headlong from
+the crag.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]
+
+     My uncle has brought me a little alligator from Florida, and mamma
+     says I may keep it if I can take care of it. It is in a big tin pan
+     of water now, and every day it jumps out and hides in some corner.
+     I have given it crumbs of bread and cake, but it does not eat them.
+     Please tell me how I can keep it, and what it will eat.
+
+  WILLIE J. H.
+
+A small aquarium would serve as a comfortable home for your alligator,
+only you must provide a board on to which he can crawl to dry himself,
+for he does not like to spend all his time in the water. To feed him,
+take very tiny pieces of raw beef, and hold them toward him. If he is
+lively, he will dart after them with wide-open mouth. If you are afraid
+he will nip your finger--if he is very young he can not bite you--put
+the bits of meat on the end of a wire. If you do not wish to have a hunt
+for him every morning, you must cover your aquarium with coarse wire
+netting, for young alligators are always eager to escape from
+confinement.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Are you going to give a work-box department for little girls? I and
+     five others are going to have a fair to raise money to make a
+     Christmas-tree for a little sick school-mate whose mother is very
+     poor, and we want to make everything for the fair ourselves. One of
+     us has a lot of pretty cards with pressed sea-weed she arranged
+     last summer, and we thought they would be prettier if we could make
+     them into little books or baskets. Could you tell us how to do it?
+
+  LULU W.
+
+We shall not give a special department to fancy-work, but we shall now
+and then have short papers, like the one on page 14, telling how to make
+pretty things. Meanwhile perhaps some of our young correspondents will
+give you some new suggestions for fancy articles for your fair, for the
+success of which you have our best wishes.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+LIFE ON THE "ST. MARY'S."
+
+By a Young Tar.
+
+
+[The following sprightly account of life on the school-ship _St. Mary's_
+was written for HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE by one of the recent graduates. We
+give the portraits of three of the four boys who recently graduated with
+the highest honors. That of the fourth, Master J. B. Stone, we were
+unable to obtain.]
+
+[Illustration: J. J. WAIT. B. C. FULLER. J. J. CRAWLEY.
+
+GRADUATES OF THE "ST. MARY'S" SCHOOL-SHIP.--PHOTOGRAPHED BY PACH.]
+
+The New York Nautical School on board the ship _St. Mary's_ must not be
+confounded with the school-ship _Mercury_, which formerly existed at
+this port; the latter was a floating reformatory, while the former was
+established for the purpose of training American boys to officer and man
+our merchant ships. The course of instruction embraces a short review of
+arithmetic, grammar, and geography, a thorough drill in
+marline-spikework, handling sails, boats, oars, etc.
+
+When the _St. Mary's_ leaves her dock for the annual cruise, the school
+routine is changed, the first-class boys having lessons in navigation,
+steering, heaving the log and lead, passing earings, etc., while the
+second class are aloft "learning gear," _i. e._, following up the
+different ropes which form a ship's machinery, and fixing in the mind
+their lead and use, and a sure method of finding them in the darkest
+night. This last is absolutely necessary, for if a squall should strike
+the ship, and the order, "Royal clew-lines, flying-jib down-haul--Smith,
+let go that royal-sheet" were given, it would be very mortifying, as
+well as dangerous, if he had to answer, "I don't know where it is, Sir."
+
+The boys, assisted by a few able sea-men, form the crew of the ship.
+They stand watch, make, reef, and take in sail; do all the dirty work,
+tarring down, painting, scraping, and slushing. They stand watch and
+watch, keep at night a look-out on the cat-heads, gangways, quarters,
+and halliards, where they are required to "sing out" their stations
+every half hour, to be sure that they are awake. Many are the instances
+of boys falling asleep, and being awakened by a lurch of the ship,
+singing out at the wrong time, and once a sleepy look-out reported
+"Light, ho!" and to the officer's "Where away?" was obliged to answer,
+"It's the moon, Sir!"
+
+Then there is the excitement of reefing topsails. Your hammock seems
+especially comfortable as you drowsily feel the accelerated pitching of
+the ship and the rattle of rain on deck, when the boatswain's shrill
+call rings through the ship, "All hands, reef topsails; tumble out, and
+up with you, everybody!" On deck Egyptian darkness, driving rain, and
+salt spray, the ship staggering under a press of sail, or, as happened
+in her last cruise, the topsail sheets were parted, and the great sails
+flapping and slatting out to leeward like a thunder-cloud, orders given
+in quick succession, then rally of men at the clew-lines, then a rush
+aloft and out on the straining yard, every movement of the vessel
+intensified, your feet sliding on the slippery foot-rope, with nothing
+to hold on to but the flapping sail, which threatens to knock you
+overboard every moment. The weather earing is passed, and then, "Light
+out to leeward;" you have your point barely tied when the yard gives a
+terrible swing, and you faintly hear the order, "Lay down from aloft,
+for your lives; the braces are gone!"
+
+When Lisbon is reached, you almost know the city--the queer little
+donkeys with very large loads of oranges, the queerer river craft, the
+windmills, and even the dress of the natives seem familiar as you recall
+the pictures in your primary geography. The return voyage home in the
+"trades" is delightful--a warm sun and a good steady breeze, not a brace
+touched for a week or more, a water-spout and a rain-squall to vary the
+monotony of the every-day routine. Then the colder weather as you near
+Hatteras, a glimpse of old Montauk through the fog, a sharp look-out for
+beacons and buoys, the song of the leads-man, the quick tramp of men
+clewing up sail, a heavy splash and the rattle of chain, and we are
+anchored fast in New London mud. "All hands furl sail," now; no noise,
+for the _Saratoga_ lies right ahead, and on board of a man-of-war it is
+considered disgraceful to make a clatter in doing any kind of work.
+There is an eager race up the rigging, and every nerve and muscle is
+strained to get your sail up first.
+
+At the end of the year the Chamber of Commerce examines the boys, and an
+exhibition drill is given. The graduates are usually fitted to ship in a
+merchantman as "ordinary," and are aided in their efforts to find a good
+ship and a good captain by many of New York's most prominent merchants
+and ship-owners, who take a deep interest in the school. The instruction
+on board the _St. Mary's_ is so thorough that graduates have very little
+trouble, if they are diligent and smart, in finding situations, and
+after a voyage or two they generally rise to the position of second
+mate.
+
+
+
+
+FRIENDSHIPS OF ANIMALS.
+
+A very sharp fox-terrier belonging to the writer never could be induced
+to regard a cat in any other light than that of an enemy. Having to go
+and live in a house where a cat was kept, the first thing the dog did
+was to turn the cat out. As mice, however, were troublesome, and as the
+terrier, even with the best intentions, could not banish them, another
+cat was considered necessary; so a kitten was secured, and in due time
+introduced to its future companion the fox-terrier.
+
+The little cat put up its back and spat at the dog, which was at last
+made to understand that it was to leave the kitten alone. For some days
+the two animals regarded one another with suspicion; at length the cat
+came up and licked the dog's nose. From that hour their friendship was
+established. They became inseparable; then the kitten soon discovered
+that the dog's tail and ears made excellent play-things, and in the
+meekest and most submissive manner the dog allowed the kitten to pull it
+about as much as it pleased. Very often, however, the dog felt inclined
+to play; then for about five or ten minutes the two would rush round the
+room; but it generally ended in the cat retiring under part of the
+furniture, to escape being somewhat roughly upset by the impetuous
+rushes of its canine playmate. Sometimes, when the kitten wanted to
+play, nothing could induce the dog to get up, and at other times the
+kitten would take no notice of the dog's pressing offers of a romp.
+
+When lying still and dozing, the two were generally to be found close
+together, and at night the cat invariably curled itself up on the dog's
+back, and so went to sleep; but curiously enough, although the dog made
+no objection to this arrangement, it would not on any account get up
+into its bed if the cat was there first. On one occasion, and one only,
+the two were seen in a very comical position. The dog was sitting up on
+the hearth-rug, solemnly gazing into the fire. The cat, which was still
+in its kittenhood, went up and jumped on to the dog's head. There it
+sat, with its tail curled round its front paws, likewise looking into
+the fire. For a few minutes the pair were quite still; then the dog
+moved, and the kitten sprang down. A more curious sight has probably
+seldom been witnessed.
+
+It was noticed that the fox-terrier always knew its feline friend in the
+dark, and was always able to distinguish it from other cats. These, when
+they appeared, were always ferociously charged and driven away; and one
+day, in its eagerness to get at a strange cat, the dog nearly hurt its
+little companion. It happened in this way. The two friends were out
+together in the yard behind the house. The cat got up on a wall, and
+soon afterward another cat appeared at the other end. The two stood
+looking at one another about ten yards apart, when the dog became aware
+of the presence of the stranger. Knowing a way up on to the wall, it
+immediately ascended, but when it got up, its companion was between it
+and the other cat. However, the dog rushed along the wall to get at the
+interloper, and as there was no room to pass, simply knocked its little
+friend over, and then made a great effort to catch the enemy.
+
+It was curious to see a dog perpetually rushing at cats, and then
+returning from the chase to gambol about in the most friendly manner
+with another cat. The friendly intercourse with the one never had the
+slightest effect in changing its animosity to others. The dog's
+affection even went so far as to cause it to show resentment whenever
+the cat was punished. When the cat was touched with the whip, it would
+turn up its eyes, and look as much annoyed as it was possible for a dog
+to be. Animals have keener susceptibilities, and show more feeling, than
+many people imagine.
+
+Sea-gulls are not often met with as domestic pets; but the great
+bird-fancier Morris, in his work on natural history, mentions a tame
+sea-gull which struck up a great friendship with a terrier which spent a
+great part of its time in the garden where the gull was kept. Here is an
+anecdote contributed some years ago to the _Naturalist_, on the
+authority of Mr. Donaldson. His gull was quite an epicure in its way,
+and fancied sparrows' flesh for dinner. But as it had to cater for its
+own luxuries, the question of catching the sparrows became an important
+one. However, the gull thought the matter over, and soon devised an
+excellent scheme for capturing the four or five sparrows which it
+required as a daily _bonne bouche_. It fraternized with a number of
+pigeons which were fed in the yard where the gull was kept. The crafty
+bird had made a note of the fact that several sparrows always came down
+at feeding-time to get some of the food spread for the pigeons. "By
+getting among the pigeons, and keeping my head down," reasoned the gull,
+"I shall get close enough to catch some of these nice little fellows
+easily."
+
+And this is how the gull made use of its friends the pigeons. It went
+among them, and, by stooping, avoided detection. Then, to use the words
+of the eye-witness, the gull "set at a sparrow as a pointer dog would do
+at its game." In an instant it had the luckless victim by the back, and
+swallowed it without giving it time to shut its eyes. But this was an
+unlovely friendship. The motives were altogether mercenary and low. The
+story affords, however, a curious instance of the power of reasoning
+possessed by some animals.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: ON GUARD.--DRAWN BY SOL EYTINGE, JUN.]
+
+ON GUARD.
+
+
+  Halt! Not a step farther! Don't move for your life!
+    You're a very nice squirrel, I haven't a doubt
+  (Although you've forgotten, I see, to put on
+    Your kilt and your jacket before you came out),
+  But where you now are you must stop for an hour
+    Or two, and quite silent meanwhile you must keep,
+  For a weary long way we have travelled to-day,
+    And my dear little master lies there fast asleep.
+
+  Of course _you_ don't know--you've grown up in the woods,
+    With no one to teach you--how fine 'tis to be
+  Great artists as we are! You've heard but the birds,
+    And seen only squirrels jump round in a tree.
+  My master the sweetest of music can make
+    (Sh! you rustled a leaf--he half-opened his eyes),
+  And a gun I can handle, a drum I can beat,
+    And I dance like a fairy--I tell you no lies.
+
+  My dear little master! full oft he has shared,
+    Bite for bite, with me, squirrel, his very last crust,
+  And he's patiently carried me many a mile,
+    And that now _I_ guard _him_ I am sure is but just.
+  Curl your tail up still tighter, and don't let it fall
+    Lest a noise it should make--it's remarkably big--
+  And, if you are good, by-and-by we may all
+    Have a right merry tune and a right merry jig.
+
+
+
+
+THE LITTLE GENIUS.
+
+[Illustration: THE LITTLE GENIUS.]
+
+
+Little five-year-old Bertie was very fond of sitting at the study table
+with his brothers and sisters, especially when they were doing their
+drawing lessons. But he was not satisfied with watching them. He too
+wanted to draw and paint, and the older children, who were very fond of
+him, were always glad to indulge him by lending him their brushes,
+paints, and pencils. But they soon found that he was very wasteful of
+their materials, and would use up colors and paper faster than they
+could be supplied. At last they thought of a better plan. As Bertie was
+too young to draw nicely, they bought him some wonderful picture-books,
+all in outline, a box of cheap water-colors, and some brushes. Then
+Bertie was happy. He would sit for hours painting the pictures in _Jack
+the Giant-killer_, _Mother Goose_, and other story-books for little
+folks. When he had finished all his little books his mamma brought out
+some old papers which she had saved, and cutting out the nice pictures,
+gave them to him to paint. This he did very beautifully. Sometimes he
+would make funny mistakes, putting green on the horses, and blue on the
+little dogs and pussy-cats, but this did not happen often. In a little
+while he had so many nice things painted that his sisters made him a big
+scrap-book to keep them in, to look at when he grows up.
+
+Bertie may not become a great artist, but his sisters evidently regard
+him as a little genius.
+
+
+
+
+THE FLOWER THAT GREW IN A CELLAR.
+
+
+It was the evening of flower-day in the Child's Hospital, and the kind
+ladies of the Flower Mission had brought many lovely posies to gladden
+the eyes and the hearts of the sick children, and the whole place was
+bright with their beauty and sweet with their fragrance. Queenly roses,
+gay gladioluses, pure white lilies, bunches of star-like daisies and
+their soft round white little buds, gaudy marigolds, brown, yellow, and
+orange, crimson cock's-combs, branches of honeysuckle vines filled with
+honey, rich fairy trumpets, saucy elf-faced pansies, spicy pinks,
+hollyhocks in satiny dresses of many colors, bright-eyed verbenas and
+sweet-williams, brilliant geranium blossoms, and even great honest
+faithful sunflowers--those flowers that love the sun so dearly that they
+turn to gaze upon him when he is bidding the earth "good-night"--were
+all there, bringing with them Love and Hope and a troop of gentle
+spirits.
+
+All day had the sick and maimed little ones rejoiced in their presence;
+and now when they were placed in the wee pitchers and vases that stood
+on the shelves above each snow-white little bed, and the sunshine faded,
+and the stars came out, their loveliness and fragrance floated into the
+dreams of the sleeping children. The dreams of all but one, I should
+say; for one dear little girl, with great gray eyes and tangled brown
+curls, who had fallen and hurt her back so badly a few days before that
+it was feared she would never walk again, was wide-awake, trying hard to
+keep back the tears that filled her eyes and the sobs that rose in her
+throat when she thought of the dear father and mother and the darling
+baby brother she had left in the poor home from which she had been
+brought. A small lamp hung from the ceiling near by, and cast a faint
+light upon the flowers that were crowded into a quaint jug on the shelf
+above her bed. There were some roses, some lilies, some daisies, and one
+very pale pink geranium blossom in the midst of a group of pretty shy
+buds; and as the little girl stifled a great sob that seemed determined
+to break out, she became conscious of several very small voices
+whispering softly together; and listening intently for a few moments,
+she discovered these voices came from the flowers in the quaint jug.
+
+"_I_ came," said a lovely crimson rose, when the whispering had ceased,
+and the flowers were apparently satisfied that the children were all
+asleep, "from a most beautiful garden, where birds sing and fountains
+play all day long, and the rarest of our race are tended with the
+greatest love and care."
+
+"_I_ came," said a daisy, "from a happy meadow, where the bees and
+butterflies roam from morning till night, where thousands and thousands
+of my sisters look up and smile at the bright blue sky, and the cheery
+green grass nods--on every side."
+
+"_I_ came," said a stately water-lily, "from a great lake, where the
+waves flash like precious gems in the day, and like purest silver at
+night, where glancing fish swim merrily to and fro, where tall,
+graceful, drooping trees standing upon the mossy banks cast their
+shadows upon the water, where, when the air begins to tremble with the
+earliest songs of the birds, the broad, faint light of morn steals from
+sleeping lily to sleeping lily, and wakes them with a touch."
+
+"_I_ came," said the pale pink geranium blossom, "from a cellar."
+
+"A cellar!" repeated the others, moving a little away from her.
+
+"Yes, a cellar."
+
+"I never met a flower from a cellar before," said the rose.
+
+"Nor I," said the daisy.
+
+"Nor I," said the lily. "There are no cellars in lakes."
+
+"I thought they were all cellar," said the daisy, slyly; but the lily
+made no reply.
+
+"Would you mind telling us how you came there?" asked the rose. "Being
+full-blown, I couldn't sleep much, if I tried."
+
+"I am perfectly willing to tell you, if the others care to listen," said
+the pink flower, modestly.
+
+"Pray go on," begged the daisy.
+
+And "I have no objection," added the water-lily, in a gracious manner.
+
+"One day," began the geranium blossom, growing a little pinker as its
+companions all turned toward it, "a servant-maid tossed from a window a
+withered bouquet into the street, and in the centre of this bouquet was
+a slip of geranium which had been placed there because its crumpled
+young leaves were so fresh and green. A poor little girl passing by
+picked up this slip, and carried it to a wretched cellar, where she
+lived in the greatest untidiness with her mother--a poor, weak,
+complaining woman--and her two small sisters and eight-year-old brother.
+Here she found a battered tin pail, which she filled with dirt from the
+street, and in this dirt she planted the slip of geranium. 'See, mommy,'
+she said, holding it up, as her mother raised her eyes from the coarse
+garment she was making, 'I mean to take _awful_ good care of this, and
+some day it may grow a flower, a beautiful flower, like those I see in
+the windows of the big houses. Wouldn't that be lovely, mommy?' And she
+climbed up on the shaky old wooden table, and placed the pail on the
+ledge of the four-paned cellar window.
+
+"But the window-panes were so covered with cobwebs and dirt that the
+little of the blessed sunlight that found its way down there could not
+get in at all. So Polly got the broom, and carefully swept away the dust
+and the spider-webs, and then she washed and polished the four panes
+until they shone again, and the very next afternoon a sunbeam came to
+visit the geranium, and a tiny new leaf peeped out to greet it. When the
+window was cleaned, the shelf (holding a few old tin pans) that hung
+below it looked so dingy that Polly could not rest until she had
+scrubbed it well. Nor did she stop there, but also scoured the old tin
+things before she put them back in their places, until they almost
+looked like new. And thus, from the very moment of my mother-plant's
+arrival there, a change for the better began in that dreary cellar. It
+seemed so natural, when Polly had the basin of water ready to sprinkle
+the geranium, to wash the faces and hands of her little sisters and
+brother first; and then, of course, the room must be swept and put in
+order, so that the bright clean faces might not seem out of place in it.
+And when at last a cluster of wee pink buds crowned the green stem,
+Polly's joy knew no bounds. Her poor mother laughed aloud, which was a
+rare thing for her to do, to see her little daughter dancing about and
+clapping her hands in glee. 'Oh, mommy,' she cried, 'we must make it as
+nice as we can for them here, the pretty darlings, for flowers are not
+used to living in a cellar; and we must never say or do any wicked
+things before them, or they'll be scared, and die right away. And if we
+are all very, very good, they'll grow, and grow, and grow, till they
+look like a whole garden.'
+
+"And the mother, catching the spirit of the child, grew more cheerful
+and hopeful and industrious, and the under-ground home became neater and
+neater, until it was neatness itself. And when any of the smaller
+children were tempted, as the best of children often are, to quarrel and
+call each other naughty names, Polly would say, with warning voice and
+finger, 'Hush! the flowers will hear you;' and the little ones kissed
+and made up again.
+
+"And this morning, when the lady of the Flower Mission was passing by
+with a basket of roses and lilies in her hand, Polly ran up the cellar
+steps and begged her to wait a moment, 'For,' said she, bashfully, '_I_
+have a flower to send to some sick child.'
+
+"'You have!' said the lady, in surprise, for she thought when she first
+saw the little girl that she came to beg a flower, not to offer one.
+'Pray where did you get it, my dear?'
+
+"And Polly told her the whole story, just as I have told it to you,
+and the lady went down into the dark room, and talked for almost an hour
+in the kindest manner with Polly's mother, and smiled brightly upon the
+beautiful geranium, now filled with round pink bunches of buds and
+blossoms. And I shouldn't wonder if some of those buds opened in a much
+pleasanter home than that cellar. But I'm glad _I_ grew there; for my
+heart is filled with happiness when I think that through me and mine
+dear little Polly has become a better girl, made a happier home, and
+gained in the pretty flower lady a lovely friend."
+
+"All the same, _I'd_ rather come from a garden," said the rose.
+
+"And I from a meadow," said the daisy.
+
+"And I from a lake," murmured the water-lily.
+
+"But I wouldn't," said the lame girl, forgetting her pain, with flushed
+cheeks and sparkling eyes--"I wouldn't, if I were a flower. I think the
+flower that grew in a cellar the best and sweetest of you all."
+
+All was silence when she ceased speaking, and from that day to this
+never has she heard lily or daisy, rose or geranium blossom, speak
+again.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+GLOVE CASE.
+
+The holiday season is approaching, and little girls, who have generally
+more time than money, are employing their leisure moments in making
+pretty gifts for their papas and mammas, and brothers and sisters, which
+will give double pleasure as being the work of their own hands. Here is
+a pretty holiday gift, which our young friends can readily make with the
+help of the following description: Cut of Bordeaux velvet one piece
+eleven inches and three-quarters long and six inches wide for the
+outside, and cut three pieces of white satin of the same size for the
+lining. Apply embroidery worked on white cloth to the velvet. Having
+transferred the design to the material, which is pinked on the edges and
+inside of the figures, work the flowers in chain stitch with coral red
+silk in several shades, the stamens in knotted stitch and point Russe
+with yellow silk, and the spray in herring-bone stitch with olive silk
+in several shades. For the buds in knotted stitch use pink silk. Having
+bordered the application with olive-colored satin ribbon half an inch
+wide laid in box pleats, chain-stitch it on the foundation along the
+inner edges with gold thread. Underlay the velvet with wadding, and line
+it with satin; join the two pieces of satin designed for the bottom over
+wadding, and edge the bottom with a ruffle of Bordeaux satin ribbon
+seven-eighths of an inch wide. The case is joined with narrow white
+satin ribbon. Bows of olive and Bordeaux satin ribbon trim the case as
+shown by the illustration. A full-sized design of the embroidery was
+given on page 120 of _Harper's Bazar_, No. 8, Vol. XII. It is a good
+plan to perfume the wadding with sandal-wood, violet, or some of the
+many fragrant powders sold by druggists for this purpose. This pretty
+glove case can be varied by making it of plain silk or velvet, and
+trimming it in any style our young readers may fancy.
+
+[Illustration: GLOVE CASE.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: PAPA FIGHTS THE SERPENT.]
+
+[CONTINUED FROM NO. 1, PAGE 6.]
+
+THE STORY OF A PARROT.
+
+
+A baby parrot who has just burst forth from his shell is not pretty to
+look at; indeed, I dare say you would have thought me exceedingly ugly.
+Like my brother and sister, I had a big bald head and a tremendous beak,
+while my wrinkled body was very small. I seemed to be all head, beak,
+and claws. Yet I remember perfectly well hearing our parents say to the
+many friends who came flying from all parts to offer them
+congratulations that we were the three most beautiful children ever
+born. I believe parents always think their children beautiful, and of
+course no one is ever so impolite as to contradict them.
+
+We were very hungry babies, and poor papa had very hard work to bring
+home enough food to fill our three big beaks, which we kept wide open
+from morning till night. Mamma was very particular that our food should
+be of the most delicate kind, and papa often had to make long journeys
+through the forest to gather seeds and berries. He was a very kind papa,
+and if, as sometimes happened, he complained that his wings ached from
+flying so much, and that we made so much noise he could not sleep, mamma
+had only to call his attention to our rapid growth, and the beauty of
+our soft gray feathers, to put him at once in the best of humor. "They
+are magnificent children," he would say at such times, "and when they
+grow up I shall do as well by them as my father has done by me." Little
+did he think in those happy days that I, his eldest son, would soon be
+lost to him forever.
+
+Our life was indeed peaceful, although we were subject at times to some
+anxiety from the attacks of certain wicked creatures which haunted the
+shores of our beautiful river. I remember, as if it had taken place
+yesterday, what happened one beautiful morning while papa had gone out
+to find our breakfast. Mamma had nestled down with us, and had soothed
+us into taking a little nap, when we were all startled by loud, shrill
+cries. Mamma recognized papa's voice at once. She was naturally very
+brave, and I think, to protect her children, she would have flown in the
+face of a lion. She now rushed to the door of our nest, where she stood,
+her feathers bristling, ready to give fight to whatever might try to
+enter. As she filled the whole doorway with her spread wings, we could
+not peep out to see what was the danger, although we stood on tiptoe and
+tried with all our strength to push our heads through her feathers. She
+gave us some smart taps with her claw, and ordered us back to the
+interior of the nest; and when she at length told us in a frightened
+whisper that papa was fighting with a ferocious serpent, we huddled
+together as close as we could in the very bottom of our hole. We knew
+that serpents murdered young parrots and ate them, for only the day
+before we had heard a neighbor telling mamma that one of these monsters
+had eaten six little parrots, children of a dear friend of hers, for his
+breakfast. Although mamma had said, after she went away, that she was
+only a gossip, and said such things to frighten us, now we were sure it
+was the truth, and we expected to see the serpent's head thrust into our
+nest, his mouth open to devour us. My brother and sister were half dead
+with fright. I tried to cheer them, assuring them that papa was strong
+enough to drive away a whole army of monsters, and when mamma suddenly
+flew away from the door, I crept up cautiously and peeped out. What was
+my relief to see papa flying rapidly toward the river, with an enormous
+serpent hanging dead in his claws! I screamed the good news to my
+brother and sister, but they refused to be comforted. In vain I assured
+them that the danger was over, that the serpent was conquered--was dead,
+in fact;--and that papa had thrown the loathsome body into the river,
+that we might not be frightened at the horrible sight. My brother and
+sister continued crying and trembling until papa and mamma returned.
+
+[Illustration: "MY DARLINGS ARE SAVED."]
+
+When at last we heard their joyful cries as they approached the nest,
+all three of us crept up to the doorway to welcome them. I shall never
+forget the tenderness with which they regarded us. Papa, who was still
+trembling with excitement, kissed us gently, while my poor mamma
+exclaimed, "Saved! my darlings are saved!" and her eyes shone with pride
+at the courage of her husband.
+
+My feathers grew so rapidly that papa, who was very proud of me, I being
+much larger than my brother, would often say, "Bravo, my boy! You will
+soon be strong enough to go out with me into the forest."
+
+In our first attempts to fly we were guided by mamma, who assisted us to
+hop about on the branches near our nest. After several of these short
+trials of strength papa took my brother and myself to visit our
+grandparents, who lived in a noble tree not far away. Never shall I
+forget my joy and pride when I first spread my wings and flew through
+the air at papa's side.
+
+We had already made several short excursions, when one day--the most
+sorrowful day of my life--a boat, which we had been watching anxiously
+as it came up the river, stopped at the very roots of our tree. There
+were two men in it. As I peeped from the door I saw one man leave the
+boat and begin to climb up the trunk toward our nest. Mamma had told us
+only that morning that robbers had been seen on the opposite shore of
+our river, and that they were searching for young parrots, whom they
+tore away from their parents, and sent far away to a foreign country to
+be sold. "At the least danger," mamma had said to us, "fly. Man is a
+more formidable enemy than the serpent."
+
+The man climbed nearer and nearer to our nest. Our parents were both
+away from home, and upon me, as the strongest and oldest, fell the
+responsibility of saving the family. There was not a moment to be lost.
+Aided by my brother, I threw my little sister, who was half dead with
+fright, headlong from the nest, and had the satisfaction to see her fly
+safely into the neighboring thicket. She used her little wings with
+strength and courage which would have been impossible for her to show
+except under the excitement of such terrible circumstances.
+
+When my sister was saved, I hurried my brother after her, and he too
+escaped. Faithful to my duty, I remained the last in the nest, and at
+the instant when I spread my wings to fly away, the cruel hand of the
+robber closed tight around me. At that dreadful moment I fainted, and I
+remember nothing more until I found myself in a large cage with a number
+of other parrots, prisoners like myself.
+
+Of the monotonous misery of the long sea-voyage that followed I can not
+even now endure to think. More than half my companions perished; and
+when at last we reached this great city, which I hear men call New York,
+I myself was nearly dead from confinement and sea-sickness.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+1.
+
+  Here, Bunny! Now for lots of fun;
+  Get down, and have a jolly run.
+  I've moped about the house all day with
+  The want of somebody to play with.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+2.
+
+  How stupid on the floor you lie!
+  Come, jump about, and let's be spry.
+  What, can't you even lift a paw?--
+  The dullest beast I ever saw!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+3.
+
+  I won't be patient any more,
+  But drag you all about the floor;
+  I'll make you run, I'll make you jump--
+  How do you like that?--bump, bump, bump.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+4.
+
+  What, haven't yet a mind to play?
+  I'll quickly teach you to obey.
+  You needn't hope now to get clear off:
+  Look out there, or I'll bite your ear off!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+5.
+
+  I'm certain nothing can be done
+  To make you join in any fun;
+  It does no good to shake or beat you,
+  So now I've half a mind to eat you.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+6.
+
+  Well, there! you're done for now! Oh dear!
+  What makes me feel so very queer?
+  What were you good for, anyway,
+  Not fit to eat, and wouldn't play?
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: FUN]
+
+
+TABLE TACTICS.--Old Francis was a wag; and once, when early peas were on
+the table, he emptied the contents of his snuff-box over them. "Francis!
+Francis!" they exclaimed, "what are you about?" "I like them that way,"
+was the answer. He, of course, had the dish to himself, and when he had
+concluded, remarked: "You thought it was snuff, did you? Nothing but
+black pepper."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A cat caught a sparrow, and was about to devour it; but the sparrow
+said, "No gentleman eats till he washes his face." The cat, struck with
+this remark, set the sparrow down and began to wash his face with his
+paw, but the sparrow flew away. This vexed puss extremely, and he said,
+"As long as I live I will eat first and wash my face afterward"--which
+all cats do even to this day.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"What dogs are these?" inquired a gentleman of a lad who was drawing a
+couple of terriers along. "I dinna ken, Sir," replied the boy; "they
+cam' wi' the railway, and they ate the direction, and dinna ken where to
+gang."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NUMERICAL CHARADE.--I am a word of 8 letters. My 1, 6, 3 is a domestic
+animal; my 8, 6, 3 is a grain; my 7, 4, 3 is an adverb; my 5, 2, 3 is
+damp; my 4, 5, 2 is an animal; my 1, 8, 3 is a dwelling; and my _whole_
+a black man very notorious of late.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Say this correctly without stopping: "Bandy-legged Borachio Mustachio
+Whiskerifusticus the bold and brave Bombardino of Bagdad helped
+Abomilique Blue-beard Bashaw of Babelmandeb to beat down an abominable
+Bumble-Bee at Balsora."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A lady making inquiries of a boy about his father, an intemperate man,
+who had been sick for some time, asked whether he had regained his
+appetite. "No, ma'am," said the boy, "not exactly; his appetite is very
+poor, but his _drinkatite_ is as good as ever."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+There is one thing which a man with two eyes can never see with one of
+them, and that is the other one.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"I expend a good deal of panes at my work," as the glazier said to the
+window-sash.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Miss Jemima Wilhelmina, when her parents refuse to allow her to go to a
+ball, sets to and has a bawl at home.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The man who was lost in slumber found his way out on a nightmare.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A school-master asked one of his boys, on a cold winter morning, what
+was the Latin word for cold. The boy hesitated a little, when the master
+said, "What, sirrah, can't you tell?" "Yes, Sir," said the boy, "I have
+it at my _finger-ends_."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES.
+
+
+No. I.
+
+Two countrymen were going along the road, each driving sheep.
+
+Said one, "Hi, neighbor, give me one of your sheep, and then I shall
+have twice as many as you will have."
+
+"Nay, neighbor," replied the other, "give me one of your sheep, and then
+we shall both have the same number."
+
+How many sheep did each have?
+
+
+No. II.
+
+An old man lived in a little hut by a bridge which crossed a deep river.
+
+One day a wicked water-spirit appeared to him and said: "My friend, I
+know you are very poor. Now I will increase whatever money you may have
+twofold, asking only in return this small favor, that every time you
+cross the bridge you will throw twenty-four cents into the water, and at
+the same time the money you have left shall be doubled." The poor old
+man was delighted at what he thought a generous offer of the
+water-spirit, and faithfully fulfilled all the conditions; but, to his
+sorrow and astonishment, when he had three times thrown the tribute of
+twenty-four cents to the water-spirit, he found himself penniless.
+
+How much money did he have when the water-spirit first appeared to him?
+
+
+No. III.
+
+A good mother went to buy eggs for her children, for the Easter season
+was approaching, and the eggs were to be colored red and blue. She
+bought from a grocer half of his entire stock and half an egg more. Then
+a second woman came, and she bought half of what the grocer had
+remaining and half an egg more. A third woman and a fourth woman did the
+same thing, and in the end the grocer had one egg left.
+
+How many had he in the beginning?
+
+
+No. IV.
+
+A man had seven sons, and a property of $49,000. Now the younger sons
+were jealous because their father spent more for the elder brother than
+he did for them, and they entreated him to make his will in their favor.
+To satisfy their demands he made his will, and the younger sons were
+contented. This is the will: The oldest son to have $1000 and an eighth
+of what remained; the second son to have $2000 and an eighth of what
+remained; the third, $3000 and an eighth of what remained; the fourth,
+$4000 and an eighth of what remained; the fifth, $5000 and an eighth of
+what remained; the sixth, $6000 and an eighth of what remained; the
+seventh and youngest to have all that remained when the sixth had taken
+his share.
+
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+       *       *       *       *       *
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+A NEW SERIAL
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+BY GEORGE MACDONALD.
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+A brilliant serial story by GEORGE MACDONALD, with illustrations by
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