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diff --git a/28984.txt b/28984.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2aa2927 --- /dev/null +++ b/28984.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2704 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880, 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: Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 + An Illustrated Weekly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: May 29, 2009 [EBook #28984] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JUNE 8, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S + +YOUNG PEOPLE + +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + * * * * * + +VOL. I.--NO. 32. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, June 8, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 per +Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: "THE TIDE WAS AGAINST THEM."] + +[Begun in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 31, June 1.] + +THE MORAL PIRATES. + +BY WM. L. ALDEN. + + +CHAPTER II. + +When Uncle John announced that the Department was satisfied with the +ability of the captain and crew to manage the _Whitewing_, the day for +sailing was fixed, and the boys laid in their stores. Each one had a +fishing-line and hooks, and Harry and Tom each took a fishing-pole--two +poles being as many as were needed, since most of the fishing would +probably be done with drop-lines. Uncle John lent Harry his +double-barrelled gun, and a supply of ammunition. Each boy took a tin +plate, a tin cup, knife, fork, and spoon. For cooking purposes, the boat +carried a coffee-pot, two tin cake-pans, which could be used as +frying-pans as well as for other purposes, and two small tin pails. +Harry's mother lent him several large round tin boxes, in which were +stored four pounds of coffee, two pounds of sugar, a pound of Indian +meal, a large quantity of crackers, some salt, and a little pepper. The +rest of the provisions consisted of two cans of soup, two cans of corned +beef, a can of roast beef, two small cans of devilled chicken, four cans +of fresh peaches, a little package of condensed beef for making beef +tea, and a cold boiled ham. The boat was furnished with an A tent, four +rubber blankets and four woollen blankets, a hatchet, a quantity of +spare cordage, a little bull's-eye lantern, which burnt olive-oil, and +a few copper nails, a pair of pliers, a small piece of zinc, a little +white lead, for mending a leak. Of course there was a bottle of oil for +the lantern; and Mrs. Schuyler added a box of pills and a bottle of +"Hamlin's Mixture" as medical stores. The boys wore blue flannel +trousers and shirts, and each one carried an extra pair of trousers, and +an extra shirt instead of a coat. These, with a few pairs of stockings +and two or three handkerchiefs, were all the clothing that they needed, +so Uncle John said; though the boys had imagined that they must take at +least two complete suits. He showed them that two flannel shirts worn at +the same time, one over the other, would be as warm as one shirt and a +coat, and that if their clothing became wet, it could be easily dried. +"Flannel and the compass are the two things that are indispensable to +navigation," said Uncle John. "If flannel shirts had not been invented, +Columbus would never have crossed the Atlantic." Perhaps there was a +little exaggeration in this; but when we remember that flannel is the +only material that is warm in cold weather and cool in hot weather, and +that dries almost as soon as it is wrung out and hung in the wind, it is +difficult to see how sailors could do without it. + +The boys agreed very readily to take with them only what Uncle John +advised. Tom Schuyler, however, was very anxious to take a heavy iron +vise, which, he said, could be screwed on the gunwale of the boat, and +might prove to be very useful, although he could not say precisely what +he expected to use it for. Joe Sharpe also wanted to take a base-ball +and bat, but neither the vise nor the ball and bat were taken. + +The _Whitewing_ started from the foot of East +One-hundred-and-twenty-seventh Street on a Monday morning in the middle +of July, at about nine o'clock. Quite a small crowd of friends were +present to see the boys off, and the neat appearance of the boat and her +crew attracted the attention of all the idlers along the shore. When all +the cargo was stowed, and everything was ready, Uncle John called the +boys aside, and said, "Now, boys, you must sign the articles." + +"What are articles?" asked all the boys at once. + +"They are certain regulations which every respectable pirate, or any +other sailor, for that matter, must agree to keep when he joins a ship. +I'll read the articles, and if any of you don't like any one of them, +say so frankly, for you must not begin a cruise in a dissatisfied state +of mind. Here are the articles: + +"'I. _We, the captain and crew of the_ Whitewing, _promise to decide all +disputed questions by the vote of the majority, except questions +concerning the management of the boat. The orders of the captain, in all +matters connected with the management of the boat, shall be promptly +obeyed by the crew_.' + +"Now if anybody thinks that the captain should not have the full control +of the boat, let him say so at once. Very likely the captain will make +mistakes; but the boat will be safer, even if the crew obeys a wrong +order, than it would be if every order should be debated by the crew. +You can't hold town-meetings when you are afloat. Harry, I think, +understands pretty well how to sail the boat. Will you agree to obey his +orders?" + +All the boys said they would; and Joe Sharpe added that he thought the +captain ought to have the right to put mutineers in irons. + +"That, let us hope, will not be necessary," said Uncle John. "Now listen +to the second article: + +"'II. _We promise not to take corn, apples, or other property without +permission of the owner._' + +"You will very likely camp near some field where corn, or potatoes, or +something eatable, is growing. Many people think there is no harm in +taking a few ears of corn or half a dozen apples. I want you to remember +that to take anything that is not your own, unless you have permission +to do so, is stealing. It's an ugly word, but it can't be smoothed over +in any way. Do you object to this article?" + +Nobody objected to it. "We're moral pirates, Uncle John," said Tom +Schuyler, "and we won't disgrace the Department by stealing." + +"I knew you would not except through thoughtlessness. Now these are all +the articles. I did think of asking you not to quarrel, or to use bad +language; but I don't believe it is necessary to ask you to make such a +promise, and if it were, you probably would not keep it. So sign the +articles, give them to the captain, and take your stations." + +The articles were signed. The captain seated himself in the +stern-sheets, and took the yoke lines. The rest took their proper +places, and Joe Sharpe held the boat to the dock by the boat-hook. "Are +you all ready?" cried Uncle John. + +"All ready, sir!" answered Harry. + +"Then give way with your oars! Good-by, boys, and don't forget to send +reports to the Department." + +The boat glided away from the shore with Tom and Jim each pulling a +single oar. The group on the wharf gave the boys a farewell cheer, and +in a few moments they were hid from sight by the Third Avenue Bridge. +The tide was against them, but the day was a cool one for the season, +and the boys rowed steadily on in the very best of spirits. There was a +light south wind, but as there were several bridges to pass, Harry +thought it best not to set the sail before reaching the Hudson River. It +required careful steering to avoid the steamboats, bridge piles, and +small boats; but the _Whitewing_ was guided safely, and her signal--a +red flag with a white cross--floated gayly at the bow. + +Uncle John had made one serious mistake: he had forgotten all about the +tide, and never thought of the difficulty the boys would find in passing +Farmers-bridge with the tide against them. They had passed High Bridge, +and had entered a part of the river with which the boys were not +familiar, when Joe Sharpe suddenly called out, "There's a low bridge +right ahead that we can't pass." A few more strokes of the oars enabled +Harry to see a long low bridge, which completely blocked up the river +except at one place, that seemed not much wider than the boat. Through +this narrow channel the tide was rushing fiercely, the water heaping +itself up in waves that looked unpleasantly high and rough. The boat was +rowed as close as possible to the opening under the bridge; but the +current was so strong that the boys could not row against it, and even +if they had been able to stem it, the channel was too narrow to permit +them to use the oars. + +Harry ordered the boat to be rowed up to the bridge at a place where +there was a quiet eddy, and all the crew went ashore to contrive some +way of overcoming the difficulty. Presently Harry thought of a plan. "If +we could get the painter under the bridge, we could pull the boat +through easy enough if there was nobody in her." + +"That's all very well," said Joe, "but how are you going to get the +painter through?" + +"I know," cried Jim. "Let's take a long piece of rope and drop it in the +water the other side of the bridge. The current will float it through, +and we can catch it and tie it to the painter." + +The plan seemed a good one; and so the boys took a piece of spare rope +from the boat, tied a bit of board to one end of it for a float, dropped +the float into the water, and held on to the other end of the rope. When +the float came in sight below the bridge they caught it with the +boat-hook, and throwing away the piece of board, tied the rope to the +painter. "Now let Joe Sharpe get in the bow of the boat, to keep her +from running against anything, and we'll haul her right through," +exclaimed Harry. + +Joe took his place in the bow, and pushing the boat off, let her float +into the current. Then the three other boys pulled on the rope, and +were delighted to see the boat glide under the bridge. Suddenly Joe gave +a wild yell. "She's sinking, boys!" he cried: "let go the rope, or I'll +be drowned!" The boys, terribly frightened, dropped the rope, and in +another minute the boat floated back on the current, half full of water, +and without Joe. Almost as soon as it came in sight, Harry had thrown +off his shoes and jumped into the river. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +MR. MARTIN'S GAME. + +BY JIMMY BROWN. + + +What if he is a great deal older than I am! that doesn't giv him any +right to rumple my hair, does it? I'm willing to respect old age, of +course, but I want my hair respected too. + +But rumpling hair isn't enough for Mr. Martin; he must call me "Bub," +and "Sonny." I might stand "Sonny," but I won't stand being called "Bub" +by any living man--not if I can help it. I've told him three or four +times, "My name isn't 'Bub,' Mr. Martin. My name's Jim, or Jimmy," but +he would just grin in an exhausperating kind of way, and keep on calling +me "Bub." + +My sister Sue doesn't like him any better than I do. He comes to see her +about twice a week, and I've heard her say, "Goodness me, there's that +tiresome old bachelor again." But she treats him just as polite as she +does anybody; and when he brings her candy, she says, "Oh, Mr. Martin, +you are _too_ good." There's a great deal of make-believe about girls, I +think. + +Now that I've mentioned candy, I will say that he might pass it around, +but he never thinks of such a thing. Mr. Travers, who is the best of all +Sue's beaux, always brings candy with him, and gives me a lot. Then he +generally gives me a quarter to go to the post-office for him, because +he forgot to go, and expects something very important. It takes an hour +to go to the post-office and back, but I'd do anything for such a nice +man. + +One night--it was Mr. Travers's regular night--Mr. Martin came, and +wasn't Sue mad! She knew Mr. Travers would come in about half an hour, +and she always made it a rule to keep her young men separate. + +She sent down word that she was busy, and would be down stairs after a +while. Would Mr. Martin please sit down and wait. So he sat down on the +front piazza and waited. + +I was sitting on the grass, practicing mumble-te-peg a little, and +by-and-by Mr. Martin says, "Well, Bub, what are you doing?" + +"Playing a game," says I. "Want to learn it?" + +"Well, I don't care if I do," says he. So he came out, and sat in the +grass, and I showed him how to play. + +Just then Mr. Travers arrived, and Sue came down, and was awfully glad +to see both her friends. "But what in the world are you doing," she says +to Mr. Martin. When she heard that he was learning the game, she said, +"How interesting, do play one game." + +Mr. Martin finally said he would. So we played a game, and I let him +beat me very easy. He laughed fit to kill himself when I drew the peg, +and said it was the best game he ever played. + +"Is there any game you play any better than this, Sonny?" said he, in +his most irragravating style. + +"Let's have another game," said I. "Only you must promise to draw the +peg fair, if I beat you." + +"All right," said he. "I'll draw the peg if you beat me, Bub." + +Oh, he felt so sure he was a first-class player! I don't like a +conceited man, no matter if he is only a boy. + +You can just imagine how quick I beat him. Why, I went right through to +"both ears" without stopping, and the first time I threw the knife over +my head it stuck in the ground. + +I cut a beautiful peg out of hard wood--one of those sharp, slender pegs +that will go through anything but a stone. I drove it in clear out of +sight, and Mr. Martin, says he, "Why, Sonny, nobody couldn't possibly +draw that peg." + +"I've drawn worse pegs than that," said I. "You've got to clear away the +earth with your chin and front teeth, and then you can draw it." + +"That is nonsense," says Mr. Martin, growing red in the face. + +"This is a fair and square game," says I, "and you gave your word to +draw the peg if I beat you." + +"I do hope Mr. Martin will play fair," said Sue. "It would be too bad to +cheat a little boy." + +So Mr. Martin laid down and tried it, but he didn't like it one bit. +"See here, Jimmy," said he, "I'll give you half a dollar, and we'll +consider the peg drawn." + +"That is bribery and corruption," said I. "Mr. Martin, I can't be +bribed, and didn't think you'd try to hire me to let you break your +promise." + +When he saw I wouldn't let up on him, he laid down again and went to +work. + +It was the best fun I ever knew. I just rolled on the ground and laughed +till I cried. Sue and Mr. Travers didn't roll, but they laughed till Sue +got up and ran into the house, where I could hear her screaming on the +front-parlor sofa, and mother crying out, "My darling child, where does +it hurt you, won't you have the doctor, Jane do bring the camphor." + +Mr. Martin gnawed away at the earth, and used swear-words to himself, +and was perfectly raging. After a while he got the peg, and then he got +up with his face about the color of a flower-pot, and put on his hat, +and went out of the front gate rubbing his face with his handkerchief, +and never so much as saying good-night. He didn't come near the house +again for two weeks. + +Mr. Travers gave me a half-dollar to go to the post-office to make up +for the one I had refused, and told me that I had displayed roaming +virtue, though I don't know exactly what he meant. + +He looked over this story, and corrected the spelling for me, and told +me to send it to the YOUNG PEOPLE. Only it is to be a secret that he +helped me. I'd do almost anything for him, and I'm going to ask Sue to +marry him just to please me. + + + + +A CHAT ABOUT PHILATELY. + +BY J. J. CASEY. + + +Philately? What is that? + +Many years ago, beyond the longest recollection of the oldest of the +young people, a school-teacher in Paris (so one story goes) advised her +pupils to get specimens of different postage stamps, in order the better +to study their geography. There was a general searching among old +letters to secure these little bits of bright-colored papers. Parents +and friends were asked to save the stamps from their letters; strangers +at the post-office were pounced upon, the moment they received their +letters, for the stamps; and from this little beginning sprang +stamp-collecting. + +At first it was limited to boys and girls; but the older people, seeing +the interest excited over these little pictures, and led on by their +endeavors to please their young acquaintances, began themselves taking +an interest in the things. From a pleasure it gradually became a study, +and a most fascinating one; and soon there were no more enthusiastic +collectors than the people advanced in years, wealth, position, and +social, literary, and scientific attainments. And to-day many great +people turn with pleasure from the cares of their life to the pages of +their stamp albums, to look over the numerous evidences of the growth +of the postal system, or to help some young friend in the filling up of +a modest little blank-book. + +In spite of the ridicule which has been heaped upon the collector of +stamps, the interest in stamp-collecting is as great to-day as it was a +dozen years ago, and from Prince Edward Island to Australia will be +found stamp "merchants," as they delight to call themselves, stamp +papers, and stamp agencies, to supply the continually increasing demands +of young and old collectors. Societies exist in several countries, at +the meetings of which most learned papers are read to show the why and +the wherefore of this or that stamp, and even the government at +Montevideo has authorized a stamp society, lately established there, to +use a private postal card. + +This pursuit of stamp collecting is called Philately, from two Greek +words, which have been translated "the love of stamps," and those who +engage in the pleasure or the pursuit are pleased to call themselves +Philatelists. + +This little "chat" shall be closed by a reference to the illustrations +of some curious or interesting stamps, and a notice of stamps that have +been issued during the past few months. + +[Illustration: FIG. 1.] + +Fig. 1 is one of the series of United States stamps for postage on large +packages of newspapers and periodicals, and represents a value of +forty-eight dollars. There is a higher value of sixty dollars. These +stamps are perfect gems, and are among the most beautiful in the world. + +[Illustration: FIG. 2.] + +Fig. 2 represents one of the stamps in use to-day in Japan. It is only +necessary to compare a specimen of this issue with the first stamps used +in Japan to see how rapidly the Japanese acquire every modern +improvement. + +[Illustration: FIG. 3.] + +Fig. 3 is one of the current Guatemala stamps, printed in Paris, which +found their way to collectors before they were delivered to the +government. The thick black line on either side is a bird's tail--the +quezal, or national bird, one of the most beautiful on this continent. + +[Illustration: FIG. 4.] + +[Illustration: FIG. 5.] + +Figs. 4 and 5 represent stamps used in two of the native states of +India. The native stamps of India, ugly as many of them are, are among +the most interesting found in the collector's album, and quite difficult +to obtain. + +[Illustration: FIG. 6.] + +Fig. 6 is one from the South African Republic, or the Transvaal, lately +seized by England. + +Some of the newest issues are: + + ANTIGUA.--A new value, 4_d_., blue; and a postal card, 1-1/2_d_., + red-brown on buff. + + CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.--The 4_d_., blue, surcharged in red above, + "Three Pence." + + DOMINICA.--New values of 1/2_d_., yellow; 2-1/2_d_., brown; 4_d_., + blue; and a postal card of 1-1/2_d_., red-brown. + + DANISH WEST INDIES.--A new value, 50_c_., same type as current + series, in mauve. + + GOLD COAST.--Stamps of 1/2_d_., golden yellow, and 2_d_., green; + and card of 1-1/2_d_., red-brown. + + GREAT BRITAIN.--The 2-1/2_d_. stamp is printed in blue, and the + 2_s_. changes from blue to red-brown. + + MONTSERRAT.--New stamps of 2-1/2_d_., red-brown, and 4_d_., blue; + and postal card of 1-1/2_d_., red-brown. + + NEVIS.--New stamps of 2-1/2_d_., red-brown, and 4_d_., blue; and + postal card of 1-1/2_d_., red-brown. + + PERU.--A new series of stamps is in preparation, but for the + present the authorities surcharge the current stamp with the + words, "Union Postale Universelle" and "Plata," in an oval. The + 1_c_. changes its color to green, the 2_c_. to carmine, and the + 20_c_. is suppressed. + + ROUMELIA.--This province of Turkey begins its stamp history with a + postal card of the value of 10 paras, as expressed on the face, + but in reality of 15 paras, at which it is sold. + + + + +BUTTERFLIES AND BEES. + + + Butterflies are merry things, + Gayly painted are their wings, + And they never carry stings. + Bees are grave and busy things, + Gold their jackets, brown their wings, + And _they always_ carry stings. + Yet--isn't it extremely funny?-- + Bees, not butterflies, make honey. + + + + +[Illustration: GATHERING THE WATER-CRESSES.] + +AN APRONFUL OF WATER-CRESSES. + +BY MARGARET EYTINGE. + + +Cissy Mount came down to the gurgling, sparkling little brook at the +foot of the hill, where Frank Hillborn and his brother Dave were +gathering water-cresses. + +"I'm going to Fairview, Frank," she said, "and came to ask you if you +would look in on mother by-and-by, and see if she needs anything." + +"Of course I will," said Frank. "But you're not going to walk to +Fairview, Cissy? That's a long tramp for a girl." + +"Yes, I am," she replied. "There's no other way I can go. Nobody that I +know ever drives down there. Mother wants me to try and get her some +sewing to do. You know there are five or six big stores there, and +mother can sew and knit beautifully. I wish I had time to pick some wild +flowers to take with me. Town-people like wild flowers." + +"A good many of them like something fresh and green to eat better than +they do wild flowers," said Frank; "so you just take along some of these +water-cresses. Aren't they beauties? They're the first we've gathered +this spring, and I hope they'll bring you luck." + +"But I have no basket," said Cissy. + +"Carry them in your apron. They won't hurt;" and as she held it up, he +heaped it full of moist green bunches. + +"That's just like you, Frank Hillborn," said Dave, when the girl had +gone. "What's the good of our owning the only water-cress brook for +miles if you're going to give 'em away to everybody that comes along?" + +"Everybody that comes along?" repeated Frank, with a cheery laugh. "I've +only given a basketful to Ezra Lee--he lent us his fishing-line when we +lost ours--and an apronful to Cissy Mount. Poor Cissy! Guess there's +hard times at her house since her father was killed on the railroad and +her mother got lame. And you know she's going to ask for work, and it +most always puts folks in good-humor if you carry 'em something nice." + +"All right," said Dave; "but don't you give away any more, for we want +to make five dollars out of 'em this season, anyhow." + +Cissy Mount walked bravely on mile after mile, until half of her +journey had been accomplished. Then she stopped and looked around for a +place where she might rest awhile. A pleasant little lane, on either +side of which stood a row of tall cedar-trees, branched off from the +main road. Into this lane she turned, and sat down on the grass near the +side gate of a fine garden. And as she sat there peeping through a hole +in the hedge at some lovely beds of hyacinths and tulips, radiant in the +sunshine, a queer-looking little old gentleman, with no hat on, but +having a wonderful quantity of brown hair, came scolding down the garden +path, followed by a man carrying a camp-chair. The old gentleman as he +talked grew more and more excited, and at last, to Cissy's great +astonishment, grasped the abundant brown locks, lifted them completely +off his head, waved them in the air an instant, and then gravely +replaced them. As he came near, the child could hear what he was saying: +"I sent word from Europe when this place was bought that if there were +no water-cress stream upon it, one was to be made at once. That's a year +ago." + +"Beg pardon, sir," said the man, humbly, "but I did my best, sir. It +isn't my fault, sir. Sometimes you can't _make_ water-cresses grow, all +you can do, sir." + +"And what's to be done with the puddle--for it's nothing but a puddle, +though a big one--that you've disfigured my grounds with?" asked the old +gentleman. + +"Miss Grace says it will be a capital place for raising water-lilies, +sir," said the man. + +"Oh, indeed! Very fine. But I can't eat water-lilies. There's no pepper +about them, and it's the pepper I want." + +"Perhaps I can find some cresses for sale somewhere near, sir. Shall I +go and look, sir?" + +"No," snarled the master. "By the time you came back with them, if you +got them, ten chances to one I shouldn't want them. When I want things, +I want them at once. Yes, I'd give five dollars for some fresh +water-cresses this very minute;" and he again seized his wig and +flourished it in the air. + +With trembling fingers Cissy opened the gate, and walked in. The +servant-man placed the camp-chair on the ground. The old gentleman sat +down in it, first hanging his hair on the back, leaving his head as +smooth and shining as an ivory ball, looked at the intruder with keen +black eyes, and asked, sharply, "Well, what do _you_ want?" + +"To give you these water-cresses," she said, with a smile, holding up +her apron. "They were gathered only a short time ago, and my apron's +quite clean, sir." + +"Bless me!" exclaimed the old gentleman, "what a wonderful coincidence! +and"--taking a bunch and beginning to eat them--"what fine +water-cresses! And I suppose you expect that five dollars, for of course +you heard what I said." + +"No, sir," said Cissy, shyly, "I never thought of the money. I know you +only said that as people often say things. I'm glad to give them to you, +sir, because you wanted them so much." + +The old gentleman burst into a loud laugh, put on his wig, and asked her +name. And then by degrees he got the whole story from her--the death of +the father, the accident that lamed the mother, the gift of the cresses +from Frank Hillborn, and the five miles yet to go in search of work. +"And what was your mother's name before she was married?" was his last +question. + +"Prudence Kelly, sir." + +"Prudence Kelly! I knew it!" he shouted, springing from his chair. And +then, in a still louder voice, he called, "Grace! Grace!" and a pretty +young lady came running toward him. "I've found your old nurse, my dear, +your faithful old nurse that we have lost sight of for years. This is +her daughter. And she is in want. Take the carriage and go to her at +once. What a blessing that I got up in a scolding humor this morning, +and wanted water-cresses! Go with Grace, Cecilia my child, and when you +get home, give this five-dollar bill to your friend Frank, and tell him +it isn't the first time a little act of kindness has brought luck." + + + + +[Begun in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 24, April 13.] + +THE STORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. + +BY EDWARD CARY. + + +CHAPTER IX. + +Very soon after General Washington was elected President a war broke out +between France and England. It was natural that people in this country +should wish to help the French, who had helped us. But General +Washington saw that if we once got in the way of taking a part in wars +between other countries, where our own rights were not in danger, we +should always be at war. He saw, too, that we were a small nation then, +compared to the nations of Europe, and that we might easily lose the +freedom we had fought so long for. He dreaded to put our freedom in +danger unless compelled to. So he issued an order to the people, as he +had a right to do, not to take part with one nation or the other, but to +mind their own business. + +This was wise, because the British government was only too ready to pick +a quarrel with us. General Washington also went further. He made a +treaty of peace and commerce with Great Britain, which kept war from our +shores for twenty years, and gave the country a chance to grow. The +people did not like this treaty much. There was a great deal of +ill-feeling toward Great Britain, growing out of the long fight we had +had with her. But General Washington, who was ready to fight for real +rights, felt that it was wrong to get into a quarrel from mere angry +feeling. He was very anxious to keep the two countries at peace until +their people could get calm, and go to trading with each other, and +learn to live together in friendship. Surely this was both sensible and +good. It was fortunate for the country that a man was at the head of its +government wise enough to see what was right, and firm enough to do it. + +Just at the time Washington was elected President, the French people +rose against their government, which had many faults, and drove away +many of their rulers, and cut off their King's head. Among the leaders +was Lafayette, who, however, was no party to the cruelties which were +practiced. The other kings of Europe undertook to restore the King of +France to power, and in the war which followed Lafayette was taken +prisoner and closely confined. His wife wrote to Washington, asking him +to try and get Lafayette released. Washington gladly did all that he +could, but it was of no use. However, he sent money to Madame Lafayette, +for her property had been taken away, and he brought over to this +country one of Lafayette's sons, and took him into his family, and cared +for him as if he were his own. The boy was named after Washington, and +always remembered the President's kindness with thankfulness. + +When the first term of four years for which Washington was elected came +to an end, he was chosen again, without a single vote against him, +though he was very anxious to go back to private life. + +Finally, at the end of his second term, when he had been eight years +President, he refused to serve any longer. Just as he had written a +farewell address to his soldiers, after being eight years in command, he +now wrote a farewell address to the American people. I hope all my young +readers will read it as soon as they are old enough to understand it. It +is written in a quaint and somewhat stiff style, for Washington always +found it easier to act than to talk or write; but it is full of wisdom. +Even now, eighty-four years after it was written, there is much in it +which we ought to remember and try to carry out. + +It was the spring of 1797 when Washington gave up the President's +office, and returned to Mount Vernon. He had visited his beloved home +frequently during his Presidency, and had kept a very careful watch over +it in his absence. Again he took up with great delight the old round of +peaceful duties. Every day he was up before the sun. Every day he was in +the saddle, riding over his large farms, watching his laborers and his +crops, planning changes and directing work. In the evening he saw much +company--many, indeed, who had little claim on him, who came from idle +curiosity, and wearied him with their presence. But he was always +courteous. He enjoyed the society of his family and friends very keenly. +He had no children of his own, but he had reared first the children, and +afterward two of the grandchildren, of his wife in his home. He took +great pleasure with them, and was as merry as he was loving. He hoped to +live the remainder of his days in quiet in this circle. + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +LITTLE FATIMA. + +BY SARA KEABLES HUNT. + + +It was a beautiful Oriental picture, and I paused in my walk along the +banks of the Nile to sketch her, that dark-eyed Arab girl, as she half +reclined in the sand, the western sunlight flickering through the green +boughs of a clump of palms, and falling upon the upturned face and +purplish braids with their glitter of gold coins. In the background were +a few broken columns, relic of some past grandeur, and at a little +distance a camel crouched in the sand, gazing as mournfully as the +Sphynx across the desert. The flowing Eastern dress of the child was +pushed back from one beautifully rounded arm, but the other was +concealed, as if she had tried to hide it from even the sunlight. It was +crippled and pitifully deformed. + +Poor little Fatima! I knew her sensitive spirit, and I put my pencil out +of sight as I came nearer, for I saw on her face the shadow of a +restless discontent. She smiled as she bade me welcome, but it was a sad +smile, and changed to tears as she spoke. + +"I am of no use," she said in Arabic. "If I were a boy, they would care +for me; but a girl! They scorn me and my disfigured arm. I can never do +any good in the world; never, never. And, oh, lady, there is a soul +within me that longs to do something for somebody! I want to accomplish +something; not to sit here day after day making figures in the sand, +only to see them drift back again into a dull level. But I shall live in +vain. What can I do with this poor crippled arm?" + +It was a difficult task to soothe her; but I think, after awhile, she +felt that the great Allah had done all things well, and peace crept over +her tired little heart. + +"But, dear child," I said, as I left her, "it may be that you can do +more good with your one arm than I ever can with my two. We do not know +what may happen." + +And so I went home to my little cottage, taking the field path instead +of the railroad track, as I usually did. When I reached the house, and +called for my little girl-baby, who often came toddling out to meet me, +all was silent, and in answer to my inquiries the nurse said she had +just gone down the track a little way to meet me. + +"Down the track! Oh, the train! the train! It's time for the train! Why +do you stand here idle? Call Hassan and Mahomet. Run, and save her!" + +I rushed wildly along the embankment. How plain it all is to me now, +even to the bits of pottery gleaming in the sand, and the distant echo +of an Arab's song as it floated over the hills! I saw the white dress +of my darling far ahead, and stumbled on--how, I hardly knew. The train +was coming! I could hear it plunging on; I could see the fearful light. +Oh, if I might reach her! + +But who is that? Can it be Fatima? It is Fatima, waving her arms wildly +as she speeds onward. She is on the bank! She is there! She grasps the +child! And the train plunges past me with a wild glare; and there, +before me, is my baby, my golden-haired baby, safe and unharmed, but +Fatima lay dying on the iron rail. I clasped her to my heart, and called +her name amid my sobs. She lifted the long, dark eyelashes, and smiled. +"Allah be praised!" she murmured. Then in her weak, broken English she +said: + +"Me do something wid dis poor arm; me die for you baby!" She fell back +in my arms; and so we carried her to my home, white and insensible. + +But she did not die. The deformed arm had to be severed from the +shoulder, but her life was saved; and to-day, surrounded by all that +grateful hearts can give, she is one of the happiest little creatures on +the banks of the Nile. + + + + +A ST. ULRIC DOLL. + +BY THE AUTHOR OF "THE CATSKILL FAIRIES." + + +The steam-ship _Columbine_ was crossing the ocean from Liverpool to New +York. On the deck the passengers walked about, looking at the sea and +sky. Occasionally they saw a flock of gulls circling about overhead, or +a shoal of dolphins leaping up in the blue waves. Among these passengers +was the shy gentleman. Now the shy gentleman was tall and large, with a +full brown beard, which should have made him quite bold, but he was not. +If a stranger spoke to him, he blushed, and if he tried to say something +really wise, he merely stammered, so that his meaning was lost. As for +tea-cups and wine-glasses, he always broke them with his elbow, or by +allowing them to slip through his big fingers, while chairs and little +tables seemed placed in his way for the sole purpose of his tumbling +over them. + +In his cabin was his portmanteau, filled with all sorts of treasures. A +Paris doll and her wardrobe were given the place of honor. The beautiful +blonde hair of this fashionable lady must not be disarranged, and the +boxes containing her dresses and gloves, her boots, mantles, and +parasols, required much space. She was a very important person. In a +corner was wedged the case of one of those mechanical bears covered with +black fur, and wound up by means of a key in his side. In the opposite +corner were the Venetian lion of St. Mark, made of brass, trinkets of +straw and glass, and a little Neapolitan boy in mosaic on the lid of a +box. The St. Ulric doll, folded in a bit of tissue-paper, had been +allowed to fall down anywhere. She was made of a single stick of wood, +with a head carved on top, but without arms or legs, like the Italian +babies, who are wound about with cloths until they resemble little +mummies. + +She remained quietly where she had been placed, between a flannel +waistcoat and a pair of stockings, with her head resting on a meerschaum +pipe. She thought of her home, and sighed. Yes, she was homesick, +because she loved her own land as only the Tyrolese and the Swiss love +their native mountains. + +The shy gentleman had bought the St. Ulric doll at a booth under the +stone archway of one of the streets of Botzen. He could not carry away +with him the beautiful Austrian Tyrol, except as pictures in his own +mind, and therefore he picked up the droll and ugly little St. Ulric +doll. + +"When I give the doll to Nelly, I will tell her about the mountain peaks +where the hunters climb to shoot the chamois and the black-cock, and the +valleys down toward Italy where the grapes ripen, and all about the +castles perched like watch-towers along the Brenner route," thought the +shy gentleman, wrapping the purchase in the bit of tissue-paper. "I must +not forget to add that this Brenner Pass, where the traveller of to-day +journeys on the railway from Munich to Verona, is one of the oldest +highways in the world; the Etruscan merchants used to pass here, trading +in iron with the Northern nations, long before the Romans." + +One day a tremendous rattling was heard inside the case of the +mechanical bear. + +"What is the matter? Are you seasick?" inquired the lion of St. Mark. + +"No," grumbled the mechanical bear. "I have been standing on my head too +long, and if this voyage does not soon end, my machinery will be out of +order. I shall growl at the wrong time." + +"We must be gifts for children. I hope they will like us," said the St. +Ulric doll. + +"I hope we shall like _them_," said the French doll. "I come from a shop +window on the Boulevard des Italiens. How can I live out of Paris!" + +Just then the lid of the portmanteau was lifted, and a Custom-house +officer looked in. The steamer had reached New York. + +"Here he is, mamma!" cried a little girl, as a carriage paused before +the door of a house on Gramercy Square. + +She had been looking out of the window. Now she ran down stairs, and +opened the front door. Two gentlemen got out of the carriage; one was +her uncle Fred, and the other a traveller with a brown beard, whose arms +were full of mysterious parcels and boxes. This was the shy gentleman, +and Nelly had always found him a good friend. Soon the parcels were +distributed. The mosaic box was for mother, the brass lion for Uncle +Fred, and all the rest for Nelly. She was wild with delight. The Paris +doll fascinated her. All her friends were invited to admire the lady +from the Boulevards. Nelly could not eat, or sleep, or study her +lessons. She tried on all the dresses, gloves, bonnets, and shoes. + +The St. Ulric doll had been glanced at, laid on the table, and +forgotten. At length Nelly wearied of so much splendor, and her mother +found the Paris doll too fine for every-day play. Nelly noticed the St. +Ulric doll then. + +"You have no clothes, poor thing," she said. + +She opened her own work-box, sought in a bag for a piece of blue +flannel, and began to sew. Soon the St. Ulric doll was clothed. To be +sure, her gown was like a bag tied about her neck. + +Nelly's mother, a pretty widow, said, "I did not know he loved me." + +Nelly whispered to the St. Ulric doll that her mother was to marry the +shy gentleman. + +"I thought there was a good reason for bringing us across the sea," said +the St. Ulric doll to the mechanical bear and the Paris lady. + +The latter was out of temper. + +"Already the little girl loves you best, because she has made your gown +herself," she said. + + + + +THE GRIZZLY BEAR. + + +The grizzly bear is the most terrible of all beasts. Its great strength, +its enormous size, its ferocity, and its courage render it a more +formidable enemy than the lion. It ranges the westward-lying slopes of +the Rocky Mountains from Mexico to British America, and is a constant +terror to the regions it inhabits. + +The average length of the grizzly bear is about seven feet, and its +weight nine hundred to a thousand pounds, although much larger specimens +have been killed in Arizona and other Southern regions. + +Grizzlies do not often attack men unless surprised or infuriated, or +driven by desperate hunger to seize upon everything which crosses their +path; but all animals, from a mouse to an enormous buffalo, fall an +easy prey to this monarch of the far West. + +[Illustration: GRIZZLY BEAR AND BUFFALOES.] + +The immense daring of the grizzly bear, and its entire confidence in its +strength, are evident from the fact that it will not hesitate to attack +buffaloes even when a whole herd are together. It has been known to kill +a buffalo with one blow of its terrible fore-paw, and afterward to drag +it away and bury it. It can easily dig a hole with its cimeter-like +claws, and it usually buries what it can not devour, as a store to fall +back upon when provisions are scarce. + +Hunters tell many stories of sharp contests between grizzlies and +buffaloes. The bear will prowl by the side of a herd, keeping under +cover of the bushes until some big fat fellow comes within easy reach, +when it rushes on its victim, and with one blow fells it to the ground. +The other buffaloes may rush to the rescue of their comrade, but the +powerful grizzly is generally a match for them all, and instances are +rare where the savage beast has been driven to crawl away defeated. + +The claws of this beast are longer than a man's finger, and are very +much prized as ornaments by the Indians. To wear a necklace of bear's +claws, taken from an animal killed by himself, is one of the highest +ambitions of an Indian brave; for if he is thus decorated, his courage +and superior strength are acknowledged by his whole tribe. An Indian +will sell his horses, his blankets, everything he possesses, but nothing +can induce him to part with his bear-claw necklace, which marks him as +an invincible warrior. To obtain this coveted prize Indians will run the +most extreme risks. Are the enormous foot-prints of a grizzly discovered +in the vicinity of the camp, the men all set out in hot pursuit, and +many a poor Indian has lost his life in fierce encounter with this +monarch of the mountains. If the bear can be traced to its den among the +rocks, the Indians will lay trails of powder leading from the lair in +different directions, which, as they burn, set fire to the dry grass and +stubble. As the animal, startled by the smoke and flame, rushes from its +hiding-place, the Indians, who lie concealed behind rocks and bushes, +pelt it with blazing pine knots, and fire volley after volley from their +rifles into its body, until some lucky shot enters the heart or brain, +and the monster staggers and falls dead to the ground. + +This beast has a strong hold on life, and has often been known to run +with great speed, and even to swim deep rivers, with twenty or more +large rifle-balls in its body. It is so difficult to kill, and so +furious when aroused, that a hunter will never attack the grizzly +single-handed if the encounter can be avoided. The hunter may escape by +climbing a tree; for although young grizzlies can climb like a cat, the +old bears can do nothing more than stand on their hind-legs in vain +endeavors to reach the branches where the man lies concealed, and growl +spitefully. Their extreme heaviness, however, is thought by the Indians +to be all that prevents them from climbing. + +A hunter once took refuge in a tree from one of these savage beasts, and +having vainly discharged all his ammunition at the monster, he +endeavored to hit it in the eye with cones, thinking to drive it away. +But the grizzly only became more infuriated, and began a brisk war-dance +around the tree, howling all the while in a terrible manner. At length +the branch upon which the hunter was sitting began to give way, and the +unfortunate man felt himself doomed to certain death. Closing his eyes, +he resigned himself to the worst, when, instead of falling, as he +expected, into the open jaws of the huge beast, he, together with the +heavy branch upon which he had been sitting, landed with a tremendous +thump upon the grizzly's head. The animal was so astonished and +frightened at this sudden and unexpected assault, that it took to its +heels, and soon disappeared in the forest. Such miraculous escapes, +however, are not frequent, and the number of Indians and hunters killed +by grizzlies is very large. + +Young grizzlies have often been captured, and when very small are as +playful and affectionate as dogs. But they are not to be trusted, for as +they grow older, their savage nature develops, and they are liable to +become dangerous property. Unless they can be surprised away from the +mother, their capture is attended by the utmost peril. Nothing can +exceed the fury of the mother bear if her little ones are molested. +Rising on her hind-legs for a moment to survey the object of her hatred, +she will utter a hoarse "huff, huff, huff," and charge madly, and wary +and courageous must be the hunter who can overcome this savage monster. + +Hunting the grizzly is usually accomplished by parties of men well +mounted, and with bands of trained dogs, but the huge beast will make a +desperate fight for its life, and often severely wounds numbers of its +assailants before being forced itself to succumb. + + + + +[Illustration: A MINIATURE YACHT REGATTA.--DRAWN BY F. S. COZZENS.--[SEE +NEXT PAGE.]] + +MINIATURE YACHTS. + + +On the preceding page is an illustration of a miniature yacht regatta on +the Lake in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. In that beautiful Park there are +few sights to be seen as beautiful as this. The dainty yachts, perfect +in every detail, look like graceful white-winged birds skimming over the +water, and the announcement of a regatta on the Lake often attracts more +spectators than similar announcements of "grown-up" regattas down the +bay. Many of these spectators are very critical, and attend these +regattas in order to study fine points of sailing, and to learn what +models will show the greatest speed. + +The little yachts are so carefully planned and built that they often +serve as models for those of many tons. Some of the finest yachts of the +New York, Brooklyn, Atlantic, and Seawanhaka Yacht Clubs are built from +models furnished by winners of races and regattas on the lakes of +Central and Prospect Parks. + +Two regularly organized and officered clubs, the New York and Brooklyn +Miniature Yacht Clubs, are the rivals of these lakes, and many exciting +match races are sailed between the flyers of the two clubs. These races +and all the regattas are governed by the regular rules of yachting, time +allowances being made for differences of measurement, and the amount of +canvas allowed each boat, as well as the course to be sailed, being +accurately defined. + +Of the miniature yachts, schooners of the first class are generally +about sixty inches long, are heavily sparred--that is, they have very +tall masts, long booms, and bow-sprit--and are ballasted with very deep +and heavy lead keels. They are either "built" or "cut"--that is, ribbed +and planked, or worked out from a single block of wood. + +They carry rudders merely to make them look ship-shape, and are steered +entirely by their sails. These are so arranged as to balance fore and +aft, and the jib and main sheets are made of elastic rubber, so nicely +adjusted that if the boat is inclined to sail too close to the wind, the +main-sheet stretches, the mainsail is eased off, and she resumes her +proper course, with the wind free. If she is inclined to "fall off" too +much, and run before the wind, the jib-sheet stretches, the wind spills +out of the jib, and the pressure upon her aftersails quickly brings her +up on the wind again. + +The fleet at Prospect Park this season numbers some fifty sail, from +sixty-inch schooners down to ten-inch cat-boats, and contains schooners, +sloops, cat-boats, catamarans, and one square-rigged steamer. An English +cutter will probably be added to the fleet very soon, and interesting +races between her and the boats of American model are expected. + + + + +EASY BOTANY. + + +JUNE. + +June has many beautiful flowering trees, and many rare and remarkable +plants. Some of the anemones bloom in April and May, but several wait +for June. Among these the rare red anemone is found on rocky banks in +Western Vermont, in Northern New York, and Pennsylvania. + +Among the pines and maples of Cape Ann, at Manchester, Massachusetts, we +find the laurel-magnolia, or sweet-bay, with silky leaves and buds, and +deliciously fragrant cream-white flowers. This charming shrub seems to +belong to the South, but has strangely strayed away, and made for itself +a cozy home on the "stern and rock-bound coast" of New England. This +magnolia also grows in Pennsylvania and Southern New York. + +Belonging to the same fair family is the tulip-tree, with large +tulip-shaped flowers tinged with yellow, orange, and green. These trees +are found in rich soil in the Middle, Southern, and Western States. + +Another wonderful plant of June is the large water-lily the _Nelumbo +luteum_, or water-chinquepin. This plant apparently belongs to the East +Indies, and seems to be nearly related to the pink lotus, or sacred bean +of India. The American species is rare, being found at but few places; +but Connecticut professes to possess it in the Connecticut River, near +Lyme; and it is found in the Delaware River, near Philadelphia, at +Woodstown and Swedesborough, New Jersey, and in several Western lakes. +The leaves are circular, from one to two feet in diameter, and raised +high above the water; the fragrant flowers are pale yellow; the seeds, +sunk deeply in a receptacle, are as large as acorns. + +Our own beautiful white pond-lily is well known and well beloved; and +few New-Englanders are unfamiliar with the serene ponds and still waters +where the lily pods make a carpet on which rest the lovely heads of +these delicious favorites. + +At Sandwich and Barnstable, Massachusetts, and Kennebunk, Maine, are +found lilies of a fine rose-color. The common cow-lily, as it is called, +though not a beauty like its relatives, is a pleasing variety, being of +a rich yellow color. + +Next we come to the wonderful pitcher-plants, whose chosen homes are in +the black mud of peat-bogs and swamps. + +The one with which we are most familiar is favored not only with a +botanical name of seven syllables, but has the common names of +side-saddle-flower, pitcher-plant, and hunter's-cup--all referring more +or less to the curious leaves, which are hollow, and shaped like little +pitchers, and are always found partly filled with water. The flower, +nodding on a tall stalk, is as singular as the leaves; it is of a deep +reddish-purple color, the petals arching over a little green umbrella in +the centre, which covers the stamens. This striking and interesting +plant may be easily found by any enterprising young botanist who is not +afraid of mud and water, as it grows from Maine to Illinois and +southward. + +Another queer little dweller in bogs and swamps and wet meadows is the +sundew, one species of which may be found in June, and others later. The +leaves of this peculiar plant are covered with fine reddish-brown hairs, +or glands, which furnish small drops of fluid, glittering like +dew-drops. + +Three species of wild oxalis, or wood-sorrel, should not be overlooked. +The _yellow_, which is found everywhere, is so common as to be +unappreciated; but the _white_, with petals streaked with red lines, is +very pretty: it is found in deep, cold woods in Massachusetts and the +Middle States. The _violet_ wood-sorrel is, however, the beauty of the +family, and rare enough to require being searched for. It springs from a +bulb in shady, rocky woods in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York; +three or four soft purple blossoms nod on a slender stalk, and it is a +lovely little plant. All the wood-sorrels are attractive and interesting +from the graceful and pathetic habit which they have of folding up and +drooping their delicate leaves at night-fall, opening them at the early +light of morning. + +The showy wild lupine comes out with long racemes of purple, pink, blue, +and white blossoms, covering sandy fields with a flush of color. + +The dear wild roses make the wood paths beautiful, and the indescribably +delicious fragrance of the sweet-brier betrays its location on the dry +banks and rocky road-sides. + +The flowering raspberry, found in moist woods and shady dells, is as +beautiful as the rose, and the buds, if possible, more beautiful than +rose-buds. The flowers are large, of a vivid deep rose-red, and the +leaves maple-shaped, and very graceful. + +In June, also, come six or eight species of _Cornus_, or dogwood, each +beautiful in its way. These shrubs, which are generally found in rich +soil in rocky, open woods, are rare in New England, but abundant in the +Middle States. The brilliant little bunchberry, however, which belongs +to the _Cornus_ family, delights in the deep cold woods of Maine, where +it grows luxuriantly, its rich red berries charming the eye in the +depths of the forest. + +In the gloom of shady woods, at the roots of pine and oak trees, the +young botanist may perhaps be startled to see an array of little +_ghosts_, as it were, springing from dead leaves, and without one touch +of the green of summer, but waxen-white in every part, leaves, stems, +and all, sometimes having a faint shade of pink or tawny yellow. This is +the Indian-pipe, with none of the healthful honesty of other plants, but +stealing its existence from surrounding neighbors; and with this ghostly +parasite we will close the list for June, not that it is exhausted, for +hundreds stand waiting, but it would take a _book_ to tell of them all. + + FLOWERS OF JUNE. + + COMMON NAME. COLOR. LOCALITY, ETC. + + Alpine azalea Wh., rose-color White Mts., rocky hills; N. E. + Alum-root Greenish-purple Rocky woodlands; Conn. to Wis. + Alum-root, downy Purplish-white Rich woods; Lancaster, Pa. + American ipecac Rose-color Deep woods; N. Y., Pa., and + West. + Arrow-wood White, light + blue berries Wet places. Common North. + Bell-shaped + sullivantia White Limestone cliffs; Ohio, Wis. + Bird's-eye primrose Pale lilac Shores of Western lakes; Mt. + Kineo, Me. + Black snakeroot Greenish-yellow Copses, open glades. Common. + Black huckleberry Reddish, berries + black Woodlands. Common. + Blue-tangle White, berries + dark blue Low copses; New England. + Bunchberry White flowers, + red berries Damp, cold, deep woods; Me. + Burning-bush Dark purple Shaded woods; N. Y., Pa., + South. + Bush honeysuckle Honey yellow Rocks and thickets; Northward. + Buttercups Yellow Banks and fields. Common. + Cassiope Wh., rose-color White Mts., Adirondacks, Me. + Rare. + Chervil White Fields and copses; Lancaster, + Pa., N. J. + Chinquepin, American + lotus Pale yellow Conn., N. J., West. lakes. Rare. + Clustered + bell-flower Deeper blue Road-sides; Danvers, Mass. + Coffee-tree White racemes River-banks, rich soil; N. Y., + Pa., West. + Collinsia Blue and white Moist soil; N. Y., Pa., West. + Common elder Flowers white, + berries black Banks, rich soil. Common. + Cornel, panicled Flowers and + berries white Thickets and river-banks. + Cornel, red osier Whitish, berries + white Damp New England pastures. + Cornel, silky White, berries + pale blue Wet places. Common. + Cow-lily Bright yellow Still waters. Very common. + Cranberry-tree Wh., red berries Low, damp grounds; N. J. + Crowberry White Mountains; New England. + Cuckoo-flower Rose-color, wh. Bogs, swamps; Vt., N. J. + Dahoon holly Yellow-white Swamps of Virginia. + Dwarf raspberry White Hill-sides; N. E. to Pa. + Common. + Dwarf wild rose Deep pink Dry rocky banks and fields; + N. E. + Evening primrose Pale yellow Sandy fields; N. J. and South. + False indigo Violet River-banks; Pa., South, West. + Feverwort B'wnish-purple Rich woodlands. Common. + Flowering dogwood Purplish-white, Rocky woods; Conn., N. J., + red berries South. + Flowering raspberry Deep red purple Copses, wooded banks; New Eng. + Fumitory, climbing Purplish-white Wet woods; West. + Great-spurred violet Pale violet Damp shady woods; Mass. Rare. + Great willow-herb Pink-purple Low grounds, burned pastures, + and woods. + Green violet Greenish-white Open woods; N. Y., Pa. Rare. + Green-weed Yellow Dry hills; Mass., Middle + States, W. + Hedysarum Violet-purple Mountains; New England, Me. + Herb-robert Red-purple Shady ravines, wet woods; + N. E. + High blackberry White Woods, pastures, banks. + Common. + Ilex holly Greenish Moist woodlands; sea-coast, + N. J. + Indian-pipe Waxy white Dark shady woods; New England. + Inkberry White flowers, + berries black Sandy grounds; Cape Ann. + Labrador tea White Cold bogs and mountain woods; + New England. + Leather-flower Purple Rich woods; N. J., N. Y., + West. + Low blackberry White Low woods, road-sides. Common. + Magnolia, sweet-bay White Cape Ann, Gloucester and + Manchester woods. + Marsh five-finger Purple Cool bogs; New England to Pa. + Marsh violet Pale lilac White Mts., high lands N. Rare. + Meadow-sweet White Damp soil, banks; N. J., West. + Mountain laurel Pink and white Rocky hills, damp soil. Common. + Mountain sandwort White Mountains; New England. + Nine-bark Wh., rose-color Rocky river-banks; West. + One-flowered pyrola White-pink Deep cold New England woods. + Pale laurel Light purple Cold peat bogs and mountains. + Partridge-berry Purple and white, + red berries Dry woods, creeping. Common. + Persimmon Pale yellow Woods and old fields; R. I., + N. Y. + Pimpernel Scarlet, blue, + wh. Waste sandy fields; Mass., N. J. + Pitcher-plant Deep purple Peat-bogs and swamps; New Eng. + Poison-ivy, climbing Greenish Rocky thickets, low grounds. + Poison sumac Dull color, + very poisonous Swamps and wet pastures. + Pond-lily White, pink Ponds, pools, and still waters. + Common. + Prince's-pine Pale pink Dry woods. Common. + Pyrola Greenish-white Rich woods; Conn., N. J., N. Y. + Queen of the prairie Peach-color Open meadows; Pa., prairies W. + Red anemone Red Rocky hills; Vt., N. Y. Rare. + Red elder Flowers white, + berries red Rocky woods; New England. + Round-leaved cornus White, berries Rich soil, copses; Middle + blue States. + Roxbury wax-work, + climbing Red berries Thickets; N. E., Middle States. + Seneca snakeroot White Rocky soil; N. E., West, South. + Sheep-laurel Crimson Hill-sides, pastures. Common. + Shrubby cinque-foil Yellow Wet grounds; N. E. Common. + Silver-weed Yellow Brackish marshes and meadows; + New England, West. + Small cranberry Rose-color Peat bogs; N. E., Middle + States. + Spotted wintergreen Pink and white Open woods; Middle States. + Staghorn sumac Greenish Hill-sides, dry banks. Common. + Strawberry-bush Greenish-purple Wooded banks; N. Y., Ill., + South. + Sundew White Bogs, wet pastures; New Eng. + Sundrops Yellow Open fields; N. J., N. Y., Pa. + Supple-jack, + climb'g. Greenish-white Damp meadows; Va. and South. + Swamp-honeysuckle White-pink Swamps; New England sea-coast. + Swamp-rose Pink Swamps and pastures. Common. + Swamp-saxifrage Greenish Bogs, wet pastures. Common. + Sweet-brier Pale pink Rocky banks, road-sides; N. E. + Sweet-cicely White Rich moist Northern woods. + Tall bell-flower Bright blue Rich soil; N. Y., N. J., West. + Three-toothed Brunswick, Me., White Mts., + cinque-foil White Cape Cod. Rare. + Twin-flower Pale pink Moist, mossy woods; Me., + N. J., N. Y. + Valerian Pale pink Wooded banks; Lancaster, Pa., + O. + Wild elder Greenish-white Rocky banks, thickets. Common. + Wild flax Yellow Wet, boggy grounds; New + England, West. Rare. + Wild honeysuckle Light yellow Rocky banks; Catskill, Ohio, W. + Wild licorice White Sandy shores; Western N. Y. + Wild lupine Purple, blue, + pink, white Sandy open fields; Mass., Conn. + Wild monk's-hood Bright blue Rich shady hills; N. Y., N. J., + S. + Wild pea Purple, white Dry sandy soil; North and + South. + Wild red raspberry White Thickets, road-sides; N. E., + South, and West. + Wild sarsaparilla White Moist woods; North and West. + Wild touch-me-not Orange, brown Thickets, shades, beside + streams. Common. + Wood-sorrel Violet Rocky, damp woods; Orange, + N. J., South. Rare. + Wood-sorrel White, red veins Deep cold woods; Mass. to Pa. + Wood-sorrel Yellow Copses and open fields; + everywhere. + Yellow-wood Showy white Rich woods and hills; + flowers Middle States. + + + + +[Illustration: SWINGING "BRER RABBIT."-DRAWN BY PALMER COX.] + + + + +THE ADVENTURES OF A RAT RACE. + +BY JAMES B. MARSHALL. + + +The carpenters came on a certain Monday morning to make some needed +alterations about Mr. Wilson's stable at the rear of his house yard. And +you know what a noise carpenters will make when working; far more than +enough to disturb the most contented of rats. + +Peggy O'Conner, who was moving to and from the kitchen hanging up linen +to dry in the yard, said she saw no rat pass by her; but as a rat was +found in the library, it must have come there by way of the side yard +from the stable. + +It was a rather warm summer morning, but with enough of a breeze blowing +to start Uncle Leonard sneezing if he should drop off to sleep while +sitting in a draught. Now, merry Uncle Leonard was asleep in an +easy-chair down in the library, where the two window-sashes were raised +and both doors were open. He had gone there, as usual, to read the +morning paper, but gradually it drooped nearer and nearer the end of his +nose, as usual, until it finally spread itself adroitly over his closed +eyes, to fend off the flies. Then he began to make that soft +steam-enginery sound that most stout gentlemen make when asleep, about +as loud as the purring of "Cattegat," Lou and Amy's cat. + +Cattegat always followed Uncle Leonard to the library if possible, to +escape Lou and Amy, who, during their vacation, were trying to teach him +to hold a lump of sugar on the end of his nose while seated on his hind +paws. Cattegat, who liked the sugar but not the trick, had been so named +by a Danish gentleman who had presented him to Lou and Amy. + +The rat as it entered the library thought, doubtless, that it was a +pretty comfortable-looking place, or else it wouldn't have gone about +the room smelling and sniffing until it found a piece of sponge-cake, +knocked by the canary from the wires of its cage. + +That little breeze went on blowing across Uncle Leonard's head, and +directly he gave a rousing "ashoo!" of a sneeze. Such an +"a-a-sh-sh-shoo," that he actually sneezed himself into a sitting +position. The rat was more startled at such a noise than at all the +carpenters had made, and dropping the cake, peeped from behind an +ottoman where it took refuge. + +Cattegat jumped up and looked at Uncle Leonard as if to ask him if he +had made that noise, and then glanced about the room. + +"What can ail the cat!" exclaimed Uncle Leonard, as Cattegat went across +the floor in about three springs. Then quickly closing the yard door, he +called, "A rat! a rat!" as the rat ran from behind the ottoman. + +Cattegat and the rat raced headlong around the room once, and Uncle +Leonard nearly kicked himself off his feet as the rat slipped unhurt by +him. Then away went the rat out of the library through the other door, +along the hall, and up the front stairs; away tore Cattegat not far +behind it; and quickly in pursuit trotted Uncle Leonard, calling, "Catch +him, Cattegat; catch him, Cattegat!" + +At the moment, Lou, a very handy boy about the house, was in a +second-story room near the head of the stairs, and had just finished +gluing in the leg of Amy's rocking-chair. He had taken the chair there +to mend, because the floor was not carpeted, but smoothly varnished, and +any glue dropped could be easily removed. Amy stood watching him as she +slowly untied a package of prepared chalk for the teeth, with which she +had shortly before returned from the drug store. + +"Gracious! what's coming up stairs?" said Lou, placing the glue brush on +the chair beside the glue-pot, and stepping to the door. + +"Look out for the rat!" shouted Uncle Leonard. + +Amy instantly sprang on the first object at hand, her just-mended +rocking-chair, which gave way, of course, and over she went. However, +she broke her fall by catching at the chair holding the glue-pot and +brush, though the glue rolled to the right and the brush to the left. +The package of prepared chalk, that had received an upward pitch as Amy +had toppled over, then came down in time to plentifully powder both her +and Lou. + +The latter had turned to clear the way for the rat and Cattegat, not +more than an instant later than Amy had taken alarm, but the glue had +been spilled more quickly. And though Lou jumped over the pool of glue +safely, he landed right under the shower of chalk, and directly upon the +slippery glue brush. Presto! down went Lou, and shooting over the smooth +floor, vanished under the bed at the far end of the room, as though he +had been a clown playing in a pantomime. + +Amy, so filled with laughter, could scarce manage to climb on the sound +chair before the rat and Cattegat came whizzing through the doorway; +both leaped clear of the spilled glue, and scampered in a flash across +the floor into the next room, and so on through several other rooms that +communicated. + +"Oho! bravo, Cattegat!" said Uncle Leonard, as he came on, running at a +wonderful rate for him. Right through the doorway he ran, but on seeing +Amy, he was about to lessen his speed, and have her join in the chase, +when he stepped in the pool of glue. Slip, slip, slide across the room, +went Uncle Leonard, with his feet getting farther apart, as though the +floor was the slipperiest of ice. He slid to and against a wash-stand, +and then sank down slowly and gracefully at its foot in a way that would +have done credit to a champion gymnast. But he shook the stand so +violently that the water-pitcher was shaken over within its basin, and +emptied half its contents upon his head. + +Amy rushed to his aid, righted the pitcher, and inquired if he was hurt. + +"Not a bit," said Uncle Leonard, getting again on his feet, smiling +mirthfully at his own dripping coat, and giving one of those jolly +laughs of his at Amy's chalk-powdered head. "Come along, my dear," +continued he; "keep the chase up, or the rat will yet have the best of +it. But where's Lou?" + +"Here I am!" answered Lou, poking his laughing, powdered face from under +the bed, and crawling out. And away they all followed the chase, Uncle +Leonard kicking off his gluey slippers, and catching up a pair of Papa +Wilson's. + +Cattegat and the rat in the mean time had been racing up and down the +front bedrooms, frightening Mamma Wilson and Aunt Laura into climbing up +on one of the beds, and Cattegat had distinguished himself by knocking +over a sewing basket and a screen. As the pursuers appeared upon the +scene, rat and cat ran out into the hallway again, through a door that +Aunt Laura had opened, hoping to get clear of them. + +Then pat, pat, pat, again in chase went Lou and Amy's shoes; flap, flap, +flap, followed Uncle Leonard's slippers; and Mamma Wilson and Aunt Laura +brought up the rear with an irregular run and walk. Right through the +length of the whole second story, through the hallway, and from room to +room they rushed, with such a clatter and whoop as had never before been +heard in that house, merry as were its people. + +Cattegat will now surely catch that ferocious rat in the last room, +thought every one. But no; straight down the back stairs plunged the +rat, and jump, jump, followed Cattegat, still several feet behind it. +And at the bottom of the stairway, closed by a door, the race would have +been doubtlessly won by Cattegat, but Peggy O'Conner, hearing such an +unusual commotion overhead, came to the door to inquire its cause. As +Peggy opened the door she heard several voices call: "Don't open that +door; Cattegat's after a rat." + +Bang! went the door--closed quickly, I assure you; but something flew +past Peggy, and she only shut the door in Cattegat's face. + +As that something, very much like a rat, flew past Peggy, and vanished +out of the kitchen, a piece of soap that Katie, the other girl, threw +with a very bad aim, went flying after it. But frightened Peggy, in +dismay, raised her hands, backed awkwardly against a tub of blue water +on the floor, and before she could recover her balance, splashed down +into the water, which flew about like the spray of a great fountain. + +As the whole party filed down the back stairs, Katie was trying amidst +her merriment to help wringing-wet Peggy out of her queer bath, and all +but Cattegat had something to laugh at. + +Cattegat seemed very much disappointed because the rat had escaped, and +went out in the yard, and hid himself under a rose-bush. + +As for the rat, Lou is pretty certain that he sees it occasionally +capering about the stable, very much unlike a common rat that has never +had an adventure. + + + + +[Illustration] + +THE MORNING MESSAGE. + +BY K. M. M. + + + A beam was sent out by the morning sun + To carry the message that day had begun. + + First the gay courier told his story + To the opening buds of the morning-glory. + + The birds in their nest on the branch o'erhead + Heard every word that the sunbeam said, + + And all at once in the trees was heard + The twittered "good-morning" of each little bird. + + Then in at the window the messenger flew, + And all around him his gold he threw. + + He scattered it here, and everywhere, + He gilded the braids of the mother's hair. + + He glanced at the baby, who laughed with glee, + And danced for joy on his mother's knee. + + And little Clara, the three-year-old, + Tried to catch at the shining gold; + + And she said, "Mamma, if I'm good to-day, + Perhaps this beautiful sunbeam will stay." + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] + + + BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. + + About a month ago my papa came home from Panama, and brought me + two beautiful little birds for pets. I do not know any English + name for them, but in Spanish they are called _Verdones del + Pacifico_. They are about the size of a canary. Their bodies are + beautiful dark blue, the wings and back are glossy black with a + blue stripe, and the top of the head irised green. The under side + of the wings is golden yellow. They have little bright black eyes, + long bills like a humming-bird, and dainty little red legs and + toes. They feed on bananas, and eat all day long. They are very + queer little gymnasts, and hang head downward from their perch to + reach their food. They do not sing, but the moment daylight begins + they commence a sweet little peeping, which they keep up from + morning till night. + + We did not know they would eat insects; but one afternoon a big + fly came buzzing round their cage, and they fluttered and peeped + and pushed their bills through the wires in their efforts to catch + it. My brother caught it and gave it to them in his fingers. They + both dived for it, and had a fight to see which should get the + biggest half. Since then we catch flies for them all the time, and + whenever any one goes near their cage they begin to peep and + watch, hoping for a fly. + + Sometimes we shut the windows and let them fly around the room and + hunt for themselves. They dart like lightning, and not a fly + escapes them. They are growing very tame, and will come and perch + upon my finger when they are tired flying. + + I wonder if any other little boy or girl has any _Verdones_? Their + home is in the forests along the tropical Pacific coast. They + build a nest similar to that of the humming-bird, and are + considered members of the same family, although they do not hover + over their food like the humming-bird. + + CARRIE R. + + * * * * * + + FORT ONTARIO, OSWEGO, NEW YORK. + + My father is a lieutenant in the Second Artillery. We have been in + Oswego seventeen months. The fort is on the lake, and a very old + fort it is. The scarf wall facing Lake Ontario has never been + finished. In the fort grave-yard are some very old graves. There + is one of George Fykes, a Revolutionary soldier, who died in 1776. + + This is a very pleasant post. In summer there is plenty of boating + and fishing. I went fishing the other day, but did not have very + good luck. There were a great many wrecks on the lake last fall. + + I have one little brother four months old. When he gets old enough + I will write a letter for him too. I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. + I am ten years old. + + HOWARD M. + + * * * * * + + TABLE ROCK, NEBRASKA. + + I like YOUNG PEOPLE ever so much. I have no pets except my little + baby brother, but there are lots of birds' nests in our orchard. + One day when we were in the orchard we saw a big nest with rags + woven in it, and I spied a corner of an embroidered handkerchief + that was given me a year ago last Christmas. Papa was up in the + tree, and he pulled it out and threw it down to me. I think it was + a blackbird's nest. The eggs were green, with dark brown spots on + them. + + GERTIE B. + + * * * * * + + BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS. + + Here is a game that I invented. I have played it very often, and + it is very good fun. Two boys stand opposite each other, about ten + feet apart. Each boy has a ball--rubber ones are best, as they + will bounce. The balls must be thrown from one boy to the other, + both at the same time. When they hit in the air--which they do + oftener than you would think--each boy tries to catch one on the + first bounce or fly. Each ball so captured counts one. Whoever + gets ten first beats. + + I have some tracing paper and a lithogram which papa gave me, and + I have a great deal of fun tracing pictures and copying them on + the lithogram. + + WILLY A. + + * * * * * + + BEREA, KENTUCKY. + + I have a pair of canaries. The singer I have named Sankey; the + other is Jenny. When I put mamma's mirror in the cage, Sankey will + look at himself and sing beautifully, and then he will peep behind + the mirror to see if any other bird is there. I am ten years old. + + JULIA B. H. + + * * * * * + + HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY. + + I thought you would like to hear about our kitty. At night when we + go to bed he climbs over two sheds and a grape arbor up to mamma's + window, and shakes the shutter until mamma gets up and lets him + in. Then he goes down and waits at the front door till papa comes + in. Then he follows papa down stairs, and papa gives him something + to eat, and shuts him up in the kitchen. In the morning he runs + out in the yard and plays around until breakfast-time, when he + comes in and goes right to papa's place at the table. He puts his + fore-paws upon the table, and claws papa's arm until he gets a + piece of meat, or bread, which he likes best. + + Here is a recipe for Puss Hunter and her club. I call it + jaw-breaker candy. It is a little different from Nellie H.'s + recipe. One cup of brown sugar; half a cup of vinegar; a piece of + butter the size of a hickory-nut. When I think it is boiled + enough, I drop a little into a glass of cold water, and if it + hardens, it is done, and I pour it into a buttered dish to cool. + + REBECCA H. + + * * * * * + + CAMDEN, ALABAMA. + + I am a subscriber to YOUNG PEOPLE, and this is the first letter I + have written for "Our Post-office Box." I had a large doll given + me last Christmas, and I have named her Fannie Sue. She has a + pretty little red trunk full of clothes, and a black satin hat + with red flowers on it. My papa got me a donkey a few weeks ago, + and when I learn to ride nicely he is going to give me a horse. + + KATE C. + + * * * * * + + CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS. + + I thought the boys and girls would like to hear about my auntie's + pets. She has four big birds and four baby birds. One of the baby + birds got out of its nest this morning, and hopped about the cage. + Another bird is sitting on five eggs. Then we have four cats and + four kittens, and a great big Newfoundland dog. I am eight years + old. I live in Indianapolis, but I am visiting auntie now. + + FRED D. S. + + * * * * * + + NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. + + I write to tell you of my success with the tarantula in YOUNG + PEOPLE No. 29. I had to work hard to get the body cut out nicely, + but at last it was done. A little girl showed it to her father, + and he thought it was a big live spider, and gave it a knock which + sent three of its legs flying, but I soon mended it. + + EDDIE W. H. + + * * * * * + + DEEP RIVER, CONNECTICUT, _May 19, 1880_. + + My sister subscribed for YOUNG PEOPLE for my Christmas present. I + learned the song "I am the Lad in the Blue and White," and now I + am learning "I am the Lad in the Cadet Gray." + + I caught two baby trout out of a brook with a cup, but papa told + me to put them back in the water, so I did. There are lots of + violets here now, and our rose-bushes are budded. For the last two + weeks the air has been very sweet with apple blossoms. I was + eleven years old yesterday. + + EDITH P. + + * * * * * + + PINE RIVER, COLORADO. + + I live in Southwest Colorado, close to the Ute Indian Reservation. + My papa has a store, and the Indians often come to trade. These + Utes are not bad, like the Utes who killed Mr. Meeker. We had six + wild geese, but a bad dog killed one of them. Some time I will + write more about the Indians here. + + HATTIE J. + + * * * * * + + BONANZA, IDAHO. + + I like to read all the letters from the children in YOUNG PEOPLE, + and I thought I would tell about my puppies. They bark if any one + comes in the room. One catches another by the tail and growls, and + the other jumps around and barks. There are three of them. Their + mother is sick, and coughs up blood. I wish some boy could tell me + what to do for her. + + The snow is eighteen inches deep here yet (May 8), but it has been + over six feet deep here this winter. + + F. M. G. + + * * * * * + + MILLS CITY, MONTANA. + + I am always glad when YOUNG PEOPLE comes. I like all the stories + very much. We have two buffaloes, ten cows, a little calf, two + horses, and a little colt; and I have two cats, a dog named Rose, + and some chickens of my own. We have beautiful house plants, and + flowers growing in the garden in summer. I have two sisters and a + brother. My oldest sister is at school in Bismarck. I am eleven + years old. + + LAURA B. + + * * * * * + + BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. + + I have a pet guinea-pig, which came across the ocean with me. It + is pure white. I have made a house for it to live in during the + summer. I visited Paris, and saw the last Exposition. It was not + as large as ours, but it was very fine. I have a very nice + collection of stamps and coins. My oldest coin, a Moorish one, is + dated 1270. I have another dated 1275. Both the coins were given + to me by Captain Boyton. Is it true that he was killed? I would + like to know. + + CHARLES L. S. + +Captain Boyton is not dead, but is in good health, and on the occasion +of a recent boat-race at Washington was floating about in his famous +life-saving costume. + + * * * * * + + PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + I have copied all the recipes, and we have a nice cook that lets + me try them, and helps me, too. She makes the crust for me, and I + make the inside for an awful good lemon pie. Here is the recipe, + and I wish Puss Hunter and the girls would try it and say what + they think of it. Take one tea-cup of white sugar; one + table-spoonful of butter; one egg; one large lemon; one tea-cup of + boiling water; one table-spoonful of corn starch. Mix the butter + and sugar in a bowl; then put the boiling water over the fire, and + stir the corn starch (which you must first wet in a little cold + water) into it till it thickens. Now pour it over the butter and + sugar, and set it away to cool. When it is cold, add the juice and + grated peel of the lemon (carefully removing the seeds) and the + beaten egg. Bake it without any top crust. Three times all this + makes two nice pies for big people, our cook says. + + YOUNG PEOPLE is--oh, too good for anything. When I grow older, I + am going to take a dozen copies for poor little boys and girls + whose papa and mamma can not take it for them, as mine do for me. + + HELEN. + + * * * * * + + U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY, ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND. + + This is a lovely place to live in. Every morning and afternoon the + band plays in the Naval Academy grounds, and almost every + afternoon we play croquet until the band stops. The music always + begins with "The Star-spangled Banner," and ends with "Hail, + Columbia." + + LIZZIE C. F. + + * * * * * + + DANVILLE, ILLINOIS. + + I thank you, dear contributors, for the recipes you have already + sent me, and I would like some more, especially a good recipe for + bread. + + I would like to know the name of this little flower. It was given + to me, and I think it was found growing in the water. + + PUSS HUNTER. + +Your flower is a cowslip, which grows in wet meadows, and is one of the +earliest blossoms of spring. + + * * * * * + + PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + I am twelve years old, and I am very fond of flowers, and take + great delight in hunting for them. There is a flower which grows + in the woods and open fields here, called the "Star of Bethlehem." + The blossom is a little white five-pointed star, and it blooms in + great quantities in the month of May. If "Genevieve," of + California, sends her address, I shall like to exchange pressed + flowers with her. + + BERTHA S. + + * * * * * + + I would be pleased to exchange pressed leaves with Mary Wright, of + Kansas, if she will wait until fall, as I always have a very nice + collection of autumn leaves. I would also like to exchange pressed + ferns with some little girl in the fall. I think HARPER'S YOUNG + PEOPLE is a splendid paper. + + EMMA FOLTZ, + Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. + + * * * * * + + QUITMAN, GEORGIA. + + I am a little Southern girl, eight years old to-day. Grandpa gave + me a gold ring, and papa gave me a beautiful doll. Oranges, + bananas, and sugar-cane grow here, and we have flowers and + mocking-birds all winter. Please tell me what willow "pussies" + are. + + INDIA T. + +If you look in the Post-office Box of No. 25 you will find a description +of willow "pussies," given in answer to questions from other young +correspondents in the far South. + + * * * * * + +JULIAN G.--The first volume of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE will be finished +with the fifty-second number, issued the last Tuesday in October, 1880. + + * * * * * + +S. G. SMITH.--"Tumble home" indicates curving in toward the top; +"tumbling in aft," curving under. + + * * * * * + +H. T. M.--The characters you inquire about are not letters, but signs +understood only by the members of a certain society. + + * * * * * + + NEW YORK CITY. + + Could you tell me the origin of the name "Forget-me-not" as + applied to flowers? I have heard there is some historical legend + or story concerning it. I should be very glad if any of the + readers of YOUNG PEOPLE could inform me where such a legend is to + be found. + + A CONSTANT READER. + +There are many graceful, poetic stories told by poets and romancers, +especially by German authors, concerning the origin of the name +"Forget-me-not," but it is unlikely that any one of them has a +historical foundation. We leave the subject open for our youthful +correspondents to discuss. + + * * * * * + +"TOUT OU RIEN."--To send us your name and address once is sufficient. + + * * * * * + +CHARLES F. R.--If you send forty-eight cents in clean postage stamps, +the papers you require will be forwarded to you. + + * * * * * + +NINA.--The wife of an Earl has the title of Countess. There is nothing +to be said of the Countess of Rosebery beyond what you read of her in +HARPER'S BAZAR. She is a very estimable and charitable lady, and +universally respected. + + * * * * * + +RICHARD S. C.--The best thing for you to do is to visit some +establishment where the article you require is for sale. There are so +many kinds and so many sizes of bicycles that it is impossible for us to +give you any idea of prices. + + * * * * * + +PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. + +No. 1. + +ENIGMA. + + My first in fortune, not in luck. + My second in canvas, not in duck. + My third in squadron, not in fleet. + My fourth in conquer, not in beat. + My fifth in battle, not in wreck. + My sixth in rigging, not in deck. + My seventh in union, not in flag. + My eighth in steadfast, not in brag. + All these letters will show to you + An officer gallant, tender, and true. + + MARY D. + + * * * * * + +No. 2. + +DROP-LETTER PUZZLE. + +A familiar proverb: + +--e--t--r--a--e--h--n--e--e--. + + C. K. S. + + * * * * * + +No. 3. + +WORD CHANGES. + +[Taking two words of an equal number of letters, the change must be made +by altering one letter at a time, thus forming a new word, which must be +an English proper name, or a word given in an English dictionary. In +altering a letter, its position in the word must not be changed. Any +answers making the change correctly will be credited, although the +intermediate words may vary from the solution sent with the puzzle. Here +is an example changing Tom to Sam: Tom, T_i_m, _r_im, ri_p_, r_a_p, +ra_t_, _s_at, Sa_m_.] + +1. Love to hate. 2. Vest to coat. 3. Cent to dime. 4. Head to foot. +5. Bear to stag. 6. Hard to soft. 7. Storm to quiet. + + C. P. T. + + * * * * * + +No. 4. + +ENIGMA. + + My first is in schooner, not in ship. + My second is in beat, but not in whip. + My third is in bran, but not in meal. + My fourth is in cure, but not in heal. + My fifth is in pie, but not in cake. + My sixth is in shovel, but not in rake. + My seventh is in sick, but not in well. + My eighth is in tongue, but not in bell. + My ninth is in castle, but not in tower. + My whole is a fragrant, beautiful flower. + + BELLE H. + + * * * * * + +No. 5. + +NUMERICAL CHARADE. + + My whole is a strait composed of 11 letters. + My 11, 7, 1, 4, 5 is a celebrated tower. + My 3, 10, 9 is useful at night. + My 6, 2, 8 is a member of the human family. + + ADA. + + * * * * * + +No. 6. + +DIAMOND PUZZLE. + +In artist. A Spanish hero. A ferocious beast. A cavern. In artist. + + M. V. + + * * * * * + +ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 29. + +No. 1. + +1. Troy, Galveston. 2. Ithaca, Trenton. 3. Mobile, Lima. 4. Utica, +Macon. 5. Salem, Alton. + +No. 2. + +Macbeth. + +No. 3. + + O R G A N + R O L L A + G L O O M + A L O N E + N A M E S + +No. 4. + +The nineteenth century. + +Ho. 5. + + W + W A R + W A L E S + R E D + S + +No. 6. + + N anki N + A labam A + P eki N + L ockpor T + E urop E + S amo S + +Naples, Nantes. + + * * * * * + +"Aunt Flora's Answer," a broken rhyme, on page 408: + + Start, tart, art. + Skill, kill, ill. + Blend, lend, end. + Smothers, mothers, others. + + * * * * * + +Answer to "Throwing Light," on page 408.--Cruise, crews. + + * * * * * + +Correct answers to puzzles are received from Grace N. Whiting, Dollie +Murdoch, Clarence Howard, W. L. Naldrett, "Tout on rien," A. H. Ellard, +"Fatinitza," Alice and Mamie Grady, H. Starr Kealhofer, John B. +Whitlock, Robie D. Caldwell, Howard Rathbone, Harry E. Furber. + + * * * * * + +Favors are acknowledged from W. Holloway, Nelly, Willie H. D., J. F. K., +Edith Bidwell, Lizzie B., J. W. Riley, Charles H. 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