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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, October 19, 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, October 19, 1880
+       An Illustrated Weekly
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: June 22, 2009 [EBook #29200]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, OCT 19, 1880 ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Annie McGuire
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HARPER'S
+
+YOUNG PEOPLE
+
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. I.--NO. 51. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, October 19, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: IN THE CORN FIELD.]
+
+RABBITS TO FIND.
+
+BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
+
+
+"I say, Tad Murray, what's made you so late with your cows this
+morning?"
+
+"Late? Well, I guess you'd be late if you'd had such a time as I did. It
+was all old Ben's fault."
+
+"Ben's? Why, there he is now, chasing the brindled heifer. If she'd only
+turn on him, she could pitch him over the fence like a forkful of hay."
+
+"He's a better cow-dog than that ragged little terrier of yours, Carr
+Hotchkiss; but he's an awful fellow to let into a corn field, 'specially
+'bout this time of year."
+
+"Into a corn field!"
+
+"When there's a lot of rabbits in the shocks."
+
+"Are there rabbits in your corn?"
+
+"It's just alive with 'em. And Ben he gets after 'em, and the corn's all
+cut and shocked, and he'll tear a shock of corn to pieces in no time;
+and father says it's too bad, for he hasn't any time to kill rabbits."
+
+"Tell you what, Tad, Whip's the best dog in the world for rabbits."
+
+"Is he?"
+
+"He wouldn't hurt a shock of corn if he scratched clean through it. I'll
+fetch him along soon's you get your cows in; and we'll get Dan Burrel
+and Eph McCormick and Frank Perry, and we'll have the biggest rabbit
+hunt you ever heard of."
+
+"Don't I wish I had a gun!"
+
+"Father's got one, but he won't let me put a finger on it."
+
+"So's my father got one. It's a splendid good gun, too, but one of the
+triggers is gone, and there's a hole you could stick your finger into in
+the right barrel, where it got bursted once."
+
+"We don't want any guns. You hurry your cows in. There! the brindled
+heifer's given Ben an awful dig."
+
+"He won't care."
+
+Old Ben did care, however, for he left the brindled heifer suddenly, and
+came back toward the boys, with his wise-looking head cocked on one
+side, as much as to say, "Didn't I hear you two saying something about
+rabbits?"
+
+It was less than half an hour before they were telling him a good deal
+about that kind of game. They gathered the rest of their hunting party
+on their way back to Squire Murray's, only they did not waste any time
+going to the house. It was a shorter cut through the wheat stubble and
+the wood lot to the big corn field in the hollow.
+
+Corn, corn, corn. Squire Murray said he had never before raised so good
+a crop in all his life. And then he had added that the rabbits and
+squirrels and woodchucks were likely to be his best market, for they
+were husking it for him, and not charging him a cent. Only they carried
+off all they husked without paying for it, and he was compelled to
+charge that part of his crop to "rabbit account."
+
+The old squire loved a bit of fun as well as anybody, and it was a pity
+he could not have been in his own corn field that morning.
+
+Tad Murray had to catch hold of old Ben the moment they were over the
+fence, for he half buried himself in the nearest shock of corn the first
+thing.
+
+"Oh dear! if there was only one of 'em in sight, so he'd have something
+to run after!"
+
+"Whip! Whip!" shouted Carr Hotchkiss. "Rabbits, Whip--rabbits!"
+
+Whip had been dancing around the shock as if the ground under him were
+red-hot, and he couldn't keep his feet on any one spot for two seconds;
+but now he made a sudden dive into the gap from which Tad had pulled out
+old Ben.
+
+"Find 'em, Whip--find 'em!"
+
+"There's a rabbit in there somewhere," said Dan Burrel, in a loud,
+earnest whisper.
+
+"Look out you don't scare him," whispered back Eph McCormick; and Frank
+Perry picked up a long stiff corn stalk, and began to poke it in at
+every crack he could find.
+
+"Don't, Frank; you'll scare the rabbit."
+
+"Scare him, Eph? Why, that's just what we're up to. If we don't scare
+him, he won't come out."
+
+There was a loud whine from Whip at that moment, and a sound of very
+vigorous pawing and scratching away in out of sight.
+
+"Do rabbits ever bite?" said Frank, excitedly.
+
+"Rabbits? bite a dog?" said Carr, scornfully. "I'd back Whip all alone
+against all the rabbits Squire Murray's got."
+
+Another whine from Whip, and more pawing and rustling in that mysterious
+place he had scratched into. Every boy of them wished he were in there
+with a double-barrelled gun or something.
+
+"Tad," said Frank Perry, "maybe it isn't a rabbit. Maybe it's something
+big."
+
+"Woodchucks?"
+
+"Are there any 'coons around here nowadays?"
+
+"Haven't seen any; but the rabbits are awful big ones, some of 'em."
+
+Yelp, yelp, yelp, from the dog inside, and his voice had a smothered and
+anxious sound.
+
+"He's got him!" exclaimed Tad. But he had better have kept his hold upon
+Ben for a moment longer. It had been pretty hard work the last minute or
+so, for Ben understood every sound Whip had been making. All it had
+meant really was: "Ben! boys! there's a rabbit here, and he keeps just
+about a foot ahead of me. He's three sizes smaller than I am, and he can
+get through the shock faster. One of you be on the look-out for him on
+that further side."
+
+The instant Tad loosened his arms from around Ben's neck, the sagacious
+old fellow sprang forward--not at the hole where Whip went in, but
+straight across, where there was no hole at all, till he came to make
+one.
+
+There was a big one there before any boy of them all knew what Ben was
+up to. How the corn stalks did fly as he pawed his way in and tore them
+aside with his great strong teeth! If he was not much of a hand at
+setting up a shock, he was a mouth and four paws at pulling one down.
+
+"Ben! Ben!" shouted Tad. "Come here! Rabbits, Ben--rabbits! Come here,
+sir."
+
+As if Ben needed anybody to say "rabbits" to him, after he had listened
+to all that anxious whimpering from Whip!
+
+"Shake the shock a little," said Dan Burrel. "He's in there somewhere."
+
+He suited the action to the word, but that was all that was needed, and
+down it came, flat on the ground, with a big dog and a small one and
+five excited boys tearing around among the ruins.
+
+There was a rabbit there too when the shock fell over, but he came out
+of the confusion with a great leap, and would have made his escape
+entirely if it had not been for the long legs of old Ben.
+
+There was no time given the rabbit to hunt for another hiding-place, for
+before the boys and Whip had quite made up their minds what had become
+of their game, Ben was shaking him by the back of the neck half way down
+the field.
+
+"I say, boys," said Tad, "we must set this shock up again. There comes
+Josephus, and if we leave such a mess as this is behind us, he won't let
+us go after another rabbit."
+
+Josephus was Tad's elder brother, and he had been sent down there by his
+mother to get a pumpkin for some pies. There were plenty of them, that
+had been planted among the corn, and it was easy enough to pick out a
+good one and go back to the house; but Joe saw what the boys were about,
+and he stood for a moment looking at them.
+
+"Set it up carefully," whispered Eph McCormick; "Joe's watching us."
+
+"We've got one rabbit, anyhow."
+
+"I say, what's become of Whip?"
+
+"Never mind, boys. Hurry this thing together again."
+
+So they did, and they were so intent on repairing the mischief they had
+done that they did not see what Josephus and the two dogs were doing
+meantime.
+
+"I've got him!"
+
+They were all standing back and looking at their work to see if it was
+just as good as it had been before it tumbled, when they heard Joe
+shouting that to them from the other side of the field.
+
+"I've got him! I wouldn't give much for a lot of boys that can't catch
+rabbits without tearing the corn to pieces. Send in the little dog every
+time, and wait till the rabbit comes out. The big dog's bound to catch
+him if you give him a fair chance."
+
+"That's what we'll do," said Tad. "Joe's picking up his pumpkin. He's
+all right."
+
+No doubt he was, but he would much rather have staid with them in the
+corn field than have carried that great yellow ball half a mile to the
+house.
+
+There was plenty of fun after that, for both dogs and boys had learned
+that there was a right way to work at that kind of hunting. Before noon
+they had thirteen fine large rabbits hanging on the fence, and nobody
+could have told by the look of any shock in the field that either a dog
+or a boy had been through it.
+
+"Boys," said Squire Murray, when he met them coming through the
+barn-yarn gate, "which of you caught the most rabbits?"
+
+"Which of us caught the most?"
+
+"Yes, that's what I'd like to know. Which of you is the one I want to
+hire to catch my rabbits for me?"
+
+The boys looked at one another for a moment, and then Tad slowly
+remarked, "Well, father, I guess it's Ben. He got the first bite at
+every one of 'em."
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in No. 46 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, September 14.]
+
+WHO WAS PAUL GRAYSON?
+
+BY JOHN HABBERTON,
+
+AUTHOR OF "HELEN'S BABIES."
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+THE BEANTASSEL BENEFIT.
+
+Of the many boys who were curious about Paul Grayson's antecedents, no
+one devoted more attention to the subject than Benny Mallow. Benny was
+short, and Paul was tall; Benny was fat, and Paul was thin; Benny's hair
+was light, while Paul's was black as jet; Benny had light blue eyes,
+while those of Paul were of a rich brown; Benny always had something to
+say about himself, while Paul never seemed to think his affairs of the
+slightest interest to any one but himself: so, taking all things into
+account, it is not wonderful that Benny Mallow spent whole half-hours in
+contemplating his friend with admiration and wonder.
+
+Still more, as Benny had been accepted by every one as Paul's particular
+friend, he actually was besieged with all sorts of questions, and to
+answer these without letting himself down in the estimation of the
+school was no easy matter, when he did not know any more about Paul than
+any one else did. One question, however, he settled to the entire
+satisfaction of every one but Napoleon Nott-- Grayson was not an exiled
+prince. Benny was sure of this, because he had asked Paul if he had ever
+been on the other side of the ocean, and Paul had answered that he had
+not. Notty endeavored to make light of this evidence by showing how easy
+it would have been to spirit the mysterious person away from his royal
+home and to America while he was a baby, and therefore too young to know
+anything about it, but Will Palmer told Notty that it was about time to
+stop making a fool of himself, and the other boys present said they
+thought so too, at which Notty became so angry that he vowed, in the
+presence of at least a dozen boys, that when the truth came out, and all
+the boys wanted to borrow his copy of _The Exiled Prince: a Tale of
+Woe_, he would not lend it to them, even if it were to save them from
+death; he would not even let them look at the cover, with its picture of
+the prince and the name of the publisher.
+
+Meanwhile Mr. Morton had continued his visits to the prisoners and to
+the poor of the town, and out of school hours he had so interested the
+boys in some of the suffering families of worthless men or widowed
+women, that it was agreed by the whole school that the teasing of any of
+the boys of these families about the holes in their trousers, or
+provoking fights with or between them, should entirely stop; indeed, as
+this suggestion came from Bert Sharp, who was fonder of fighting than
+any other boy in the town, the school could not well do otherwise.
+
+The boys went even farther: when one day old Peter Beantassel, whose
+family was always on the verge of starvation, spent on drink the
+accidental earnings of a week, and then fell into an abandoned well and
+was drowned, it was decided by the school to give an exhibition for the
+benefit of Mrs. Beantassel and her six children. Mr. Morton was
+delighted, and promised to secure a church or hall without expense to
+the boys, and to collect enough money from the public to pay for
+printing the tickets. The boys at once began work in tremendous earnest;
+they were for a fortnight so busy at determining upon a programme, and
+studying, rehearsing, selling tickets, and exacting promises from people
+who would not purchase in advance, that there was but little playing
+before school and during recess, blackberry hedges were neglected, and
+the trout in the single brook near the town had not the slightest excuse
+for apprehension.
+
+Paul Grayson entered into the spirit of the occasion as thoroughly as
+any one else; he volunteered to recite Longfellow's "Psalm of Life," and
+when the farce of _Box and Cox_ was about to be given up because no boy
+was willing to dress up in women's clothes, and be laughed at by all the
+larger girls, for playing the part of Mrs. Bouncer, Paul volunteered for
+that unpopular character, and saved the play. But this was not all.
+There were to be some tableaux, and as Mr. Morton had been asked to
+suggest some scenes, particularly one or two with Indians in them, and
+was as fond of pointing a moral as teachers usually are, one of his
+tableaux, to be called "Civilization," was a scene in the interior of an
+Indian's wigwam. The squaw, who had just been killed, was lying dead on
+the floor; her husband, with his hands tied, stood bleeding between two
+soldiers, while between father and mother stood the half-grown son,
+wondering what it all was about. As all of the boys wanted to see this
+tragic picture, all of them declined to take part in it; Joe Appleby had
+been heard to remark with a sneer that only very small and green boys
+cared to look at Indians, so he was asked to take the part of the
+wretched son himself; but he said that when any one saw him making a
+fool of himself by browning his face and dressing up in rags, he hoped
+some one would tell him about it: so Grayson, as the only other tall boy
+who had dark hair that was not cut short, was cast for this part also,
+and offered no objection. As for the bleeding chieftain, Napoleon Nott
+fought hard to pose in that character, and was quieted only by being
+allowed to play the dead squaw, which all the boys told him he ought
+easily to see was the more romantic part, besides being one in which he
+could by no chance make any mistake.
+
+The place selected for the entertainment was the lecture-room of the
+Presbyterian church, and the boys had therefore to give up their darling
+project of devoting half an hour of the evening to amateur negro
+minstrelsy, for one of the deacons said that while he sometimes doubted
+that even an organ was a proper musical instrument for use in sacred
+buildings, he certainly was not going to tolerate banjos and bones. This
+decision was a great disappointment to Benny Mallow, who had been
+selected by the managers to perform upon the tambourine, but in the
+revision of the programme Benny was assigned to duty in a tableau as a
+little fat goblin, and this so tickled his fancy that he did not suffer
+long by the disappointment.
+
+At last the eventful night arrived. Some of the boys did not leave the
+lecture-room at all after the last rehearsal, not even to get their
+suppers, for fear they should be late, and those who reached the room
+barely in time to take their parts had all they could do to squeeze
+through the crowd that blocked the doors and filled the aisles. The
+spectacle of so crowded a house raised the boys to a high pitch of
+excitement, which was increased by various peeps from the curtains that
+served as dressing-rooms at the Beantassel children, who by some
+thoughtful soul had been provided with free seats in the extreme front
+bench; there they were, all but the baby; they had been provided with
+clothing which, though old, was far more sightly than the rags they
+usually wore, and although they did not seem as much at ease as some
+others among the spectators, their eyes stood so very open, then and
+throughout the evening, that even Joe Appleby, who had reluctantly
+consented to pose, in his best clothes, with gloves, cane, and high hat,
+as Young America in a tableau of "The Nations," agreed with himself that
+the exhibition was rather a meritorious idea after all, and that even if
+the boys did as badly as he knew they would, he was glad it was sure to
+pay.
+
+But the boys did not do badly; on the contrary, the general performance
+would have been quite creditable to adults. The opening was somewhat
+dismal; it was announced to consist of a duet for two flutes by Will
+Palmer and Ned Johnston. The boys had practiced industriously at several
+airs in order to discover which would be best, and at last they supposed
+they had fully agreed; but when seated Ned began the "Miserere" from
+_Trovatore_, while Will started "The Old Folks at Home," and each was
+sure the other was wrong, and would correct himself, which the other in
+both cases failed to do, and finally both boys retired abruptly, amid
+considerable laughter, and fought the matter out in the dressing-room.
+
+Paul Grayson soon restored order, however, by his rendering of the
+"Psalm of Life." He had a fine voice, and he spoke the lines as if he
+meant them; so gloriously did his voice ring that even the boys in the
+dressing-room kept silence and listened, though they had heard the same
+verses a hundred times before.
+
+Most of the performances that followed went very smoothly, although
+Benny Mallow, who played the Hatter's part in _Box and Cox_, caused some
+confusion by laughing frequently and unexpectedly, because Paul's
+disguise as Mrs. Bouncer affected him powerfully in spite of the efforts
+made by Sam Wardwell, as the Printer, to restrain him. The tableaux
+pleased the audience greatly; even that of "Prometheus," with Ned
+Johnston as the sufferer, and Mrs. Battle's big red rooster as the
+vulture, brought down the house.
+
+[Illustration: PAUL AS A CHIEF'S SON.]
+
+But the great tableau of the evening was the teacher's "Civilization."
+When Paul Grayson had understood fully what the scene was to be, he
+refused so earnestly to have anything to do with it that the boys were
+startled. They did not excuse him from taking the part of the young
+Indian, however; they pleaded so steadily that at last Paul consented,
+but in worse temper than any one had ever seen him before. No one could
+complain of the manner in which he acted on the stage, however. When the
+curtain was drawn he was seen standing beside his dead mother, and
+shaking a fist at the soldiers; in color, dress, pose, and spirit he
+seemed to be a real Indian, if the audience was a competent judge; then,
+when the applause justified a recall, as it soon did, the drawn curtain
+disclosed Paul clinging to the wounded brave as if nothing should ever
+tear him away.
+
+Napoleon Nott saw all this, although, as the Indian boy's mother, he was
+supposed to be dead beyond recall. Suddenly he felt himself to be
+inspired, and when the curtain was down he flew into the dressing-room
+and exclaimed, "I've got it!"
+
+"Be careful not to hurt it," said Canning Forbes, sarcastically.
+
+"I've got it!" declared Notty, without noticing Canning's cruel speech.
+"Grayson is an Indian, a chief's son. You don't suppose he could have
+made believe so well as all that, do you? That's it. I knew he was a
+great person of some sort. Sh--h! he's coming."
+
+Somehow the boys who had been able to peep out at the tableau did not
+laugh at Notty this time. Paul, in his Indian dress, had greatly
+impressed them all before he left the dressing-room, and certainly his
+acting had been unlike anything the boys had seen other boys do. The
+subject was talked over in whispers, so that Paul should not hear,
+during the remainder of the evening, with the result that that very
+night at least six boys told other boys or their own parents, in the
+strictest confidence, of course, that there was more truth than
+make-believe about Paul Grayson as an Indian. And the parents told the
+same story to other parents, the boys told it to other boys, and within
+twenty-four hours Paul Grayson was a far more interesting mystery than
+before.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG."--FROM AN ETCHING BY W. S.
+COLEMAN.]
+
+
+
+
+THE PARASOL ANTS AND THE FORAGING ANTS.
+
+BY CHARLES MORRIS.
+
+
+Was there ever such a prattler as the warm-hearted little brook that ran
+by the foot of the garden of Woodbine Cottage? To be sure, it had good
+reason to be jolly, for the sunlight buried itself in its bubbles till
+they sparkled like diamonds; and a hedge of roses overhung it, and
+dropped crimson leaves that floated away like fairy boats on its bright
+surface; and broad-winged butterflies floated, like tiny ships of the
+air, above the happy stream. And away it ran, prattling and chattering,
+and picking its way through moss-covered stones that lifted above its
+surface, and tumbling hastily down in little cascades, as though it were
+in a desperate hurry to get on in the world, and altogether misbehaving
+itself just as any madcap little stream might when out on a frolic.
+
+Its bank beyond the garden was bordered with the white and gold of
+daisies and buttercups, and the red and green of blossoming clover, in
+which Harry Mason was almost buried, only his bright cheeks and curly
+hair showing out of this verdant nest. As for Uncle Ben, he was gravely
+seated on the bank of the brook, holding his little friend Willie on his
+knee. The little chap was quite as grave as his big uncle.
+
+"You neber tole us one word yet 'bout them soldiers an' cows an' tings,
+'mong the ants, Uncle Ben," he earnestly remarked, "an' you knows you
+said you was goin' to tell us all an' all an' all about 'em. An' I don't
+think it's fair."
+
+"Why, I certainly must have done so," replied Uncle Ben, with affected
+surprise. "You have surely forgotten. I shall have to leave this affair
+for Harry to settle."
+
+"Then Willie is right," returned Harry, from his grassy nest. "You told
+us everything else about them, but you never said one thing about the
+cows or the soldiers."
+
+"Everything else about them!" exclaimed Uncle Ben, with a sly smile.
+"Why, I know I did not say a word about the parasol ants, or the
+foraging ants, or the--"
+
+"The parasol ants!" cried Willie, quite forgetting the cows and the
+soldiers in his surprise. "You doesn't mean, Uncle Ben, that they
+carries parasols--jes like mamma, now?"
+
+Harry, too, had lifted himself up on his elbow, the light of curiosity
+gleaming in his eyes.
+
+"They are the most comical things in the world," replied their uncle.
+"Just imagine now a great line of ants, marching along like a school of
+young ladies out on a holiday, each of them holding a piece of green
+leaf over its head like a parasol. It is not strange that people fancied
+that this was done to keep the sun off, and called them parasol ants."
+
+"What do they do it for, then?" asked Harry, eagerly.
+
+"Maybe them's the soldiers," suggested Willie; "maybe it's ant guns
+they's carryin'."
+
+"We have not got to the soldiers yet," said his uncle, smiling. "These
+leaves are really used in building their nests. But the whole thing is
+very curious. The ants climb up the bushes, and run out on the leaves.
+There they cut, with their sharp jaws, a little round piece from the
+leaf. Then they pick this up, getting a tight hold on it, you may be
+sure, and away they scamper for the nest. But these ants are not the
+nest-builders; they are only like the laborers who carry bricks to the
+bricklayers. They drop their leaves beside the nest, and run back for
+more, leaving the real builders to finish the work."
+
+"Regular little hod-carriers," suggested Harry. "But they don't build a
+nest of little bits of leaf, I hope?"
+
+"Not exactly. The leaves are mingled through the earth to sustain the
+great domes which they erect. The houses which these tropical ants build
+are wonderfully different from the little ant-hills we see about here.
+They are not very high; it is true. The dome rises about two feet above
+the ground. But then it is more than forty feet across. One of them
+would reach nearly across our garden, like a great white swelling upon
+the face of the earth. They certainly need something to hold together
+the wet clay of their great domes."
+
+"But our ants here live 'way down, 'way under-ground," remarked Willie.
+
+"So do these," replied Uncle Ben. "The dome is only the roof of their
+house. They are famous diggers--I assure you of that. Talk about our
+miners, with their tunnels running deep into the mountains: why, their
+work is nothing in comparison with that of these little creatures. They
+make wonderful under-ground tunnels, which run out from the nest in all
+directions, and to incredible distances. No one sees these tunnels,
+however, unless they may happen to come to the surface in a very
+disastrous manner, as they sometimes do."
+
+"How do you mean?" asked Harry, curiously. He had now crept out of his
+lair, and was seated quietly beside his uncle, with his feet hanging
+just above the stream.
+
+"Why, in one case, in South America, they tunnelled through the bank of
+a reservoir. The first thing the people knew, the water was rushing out
+in a torrent. It was never discovered what was the trouble until the
+reservoir was quite empty, when they found that the parasol ants had
+caused the mischief."
+
+"Well, I do declare!" cried Willie, laughing so heartily that he nearly
+tumbled off Uncle Ben's knee. "Wasn't that jes ever so cunning?"
+
+"Why, you don't think they did it just a-purpose, for nothing but
+mischief, I hope?" asked Harry, with some indignation.
+
+"I s'poses so," replied Willie, laughing to that extent that he dropped
+his hat into the stream. And then there was a lively scramble until it
+was rescued again from the merry waters, which were running away with it
+as fast as they could.
+
+"You're such a comical little fellow," said Harry, as he shook the water
+from the dripping hat, and pressed it tightly down on Willie's head.
+"Anybody that can't laugh without shaking his hat overboard!"
+
+"But that was so funny 'bout the ants lettin' the water all run away!
+don' know how I's to help laughin'," retorted Willie.
+
+"There is another story told," continued Uncle Ben, "about a nest of
+parasol ants that dug a tunnel into a gold mine. The under-ground
+streams got turned into this tunnel, and the waters poured in until they
+flooded the mine. It cost thousands of dollars to pump the water out,
+and get the mine ready for working again. And the owners had first to
+send for a professional ant-killer, and destroy the ant nest, before it
+was safe to go on."
+
+"A professional ant-killer?" repeated Harry, opening his eyes wide in
+surprise.
+
+"Yes: there are persons who make a regular business of destroying these
+troublesome ants."
+
+"Guess that can't be much trouble," said Willie, disdainfully. "Jes got
+to put your foot on 'em, an' smash 'em."
+
+"I hardly think your foot would cover forty square feet of ground,"
+remarked his uncle, lifting up the diminutive foot, and very gravely
+examining it. "And then there are the tunnels, running eighty or a
+hundred feet away in all directions. I am afraid this foot would not be
+quite large enough."
+
+"I don't care," cried Willie, jerking his foot away. "I was thinkin'
+'bout ants like what we have here."
+
+"But how do they kill them, then?" asked Harry, looking up inquiringly
+into his uncle's face.
+
+"They build a sort of oven over the doorway of the nest," was the reply.
+"In this they make a fire of charcoal and pungent herbs, and some
+negroes are stationed with bellows, driving the smoke and fumes from the
+fire down into the nest. When smoke is seen rising from the ground
+anywhere, they know that a tunnel opens in that spot, and they stop it
+up with clay. But it is no light task to kill out a nest of ants. The
+negroes are kept constantly at work with their bellows for four days and
+nights, driving down the smothering fumes. At the end of that time the
+oven is taken away and the nest opened, every tunnel being laid bare. If
+any ants are found to be alive, they are instantly killed, and all the
+openings are stopped up with clay, which is stamped down hard, until the
+whole nest is filled with it."
+
+"Who would ever have thought that a nest of ants would be so hard to
+kill?" remarked Harry, reflectively.
+
+"All that trouble jes to kill some ole ants," said Willie, getting down
+and walking away disdainfully. "Guess big men with their big boots could
+smash 'em easier 'an that if they wanted to."
+
+"Are there other ants that make such tunnels?" asked Harry.
+
+"Oh yes; some of the ants are wonderful diggers. There is a Texan
+species which on one occasion was found to have run a tunnel under a
+creek, fifteen or twenty feet deep and thirty feet wide, for the purpose
+of getting at the vegetables and fruits in a gentleman's garden on the
+other side of the creek."
+
+"I think _they_ should have been smoked out anyhow," said Harry.
+
+"Guess I'd pulled eberyting 'fore the ants got over," suggested Willie.
+
+"And what were those foraging ants you spoke of, Uncle Ben?"
+
+"Jes neber mine them," exclaimed Willie. "You knows you was goin' to
+tell all 'bout the cows, an' you ain't eber goin' to tell one word. I
+b'lieves you's jes funnin' with us, Uncle Ben. I jes b'lieves that,
+now."
+
+"Oh! you want to hear about the cows?" said his uncle, with a look of
+grave surprise. "Why, of course. The ant cows, you know, are everywhere.
+There is no trouble to find them."
+
+A stray branch of a grape-vine had grown over the hedge, and stretched
+itself across the brook. Uncle Ben bent it down and examined it for a
+minute.
+
+"Why, here they are now!" he exclaimed, pointing to some very small
+insects on one of the leaves, about which several ants were busying
+themselves. "These are the ant cows. And here are their keepers looking
+after them."
+
+"Them little tings cows!" said Willie, with a look of utter disdain.
+
+"You didn't expect to find them as big as our cows, I hope?" asked
+Harry.
+
+"Their real name is aphis, or plant-louse," said Uncle Ben. "They suck
+the juices of the leaves. These juices become in their bodies a sort of
+honey, which they yield from certain pores. The ants are very fond of
+this honey-dew, and lap it up eagerly. And if you watch close you may
+see them patting or stroking the aphides to make them yield the honey
+faster. That is what has been called milking their cows."
+
+"Well, that is very curious, I know," exclaimed Harry. "I am going to
+watch them after this."
+
+"Each ant seems to claim certain cows as his own property," continued
+Uncle Ben. "And he will bristle up angrily if any other ant strays into
+his pasture fields. But that is not the whole story. They not only milk
+these cows, but they tenderly raise their calves. Some species of the
+aphis live on the roots of plants. Around these the ants make their
+nests, so as to have their cows in stables of their own. And they take
+the greatest care of the eggs and the young of the aphides, raising them
+as tenderly as they raise their own young. No human farmer could be more
+careful of his own stock of cows and calves."
+
+"You 'mos' might as well say they's folks right out," ejaculated
+Willie, indignantly. "Anyhow, it's ole honey, an' it ain't milk at all."
+
+"I am sure it is not the fault of the ants if their cows give honey
+instead of milk," replied his uncle, with an odd smile. "And I have
+certainly seen folks who were not as wise as the ants."
+
+"But never mind the cows, Uncle Ben," persisted Harry. "I want to hear
+about the foraging ants. Where do they belong, and what queer things do
+they do?"
+
+"They are a South American ant," was the reply. "They may be seen at
+certain seasons marching along the ground in a long column, much like an
+army. They have officers, too. These are large-headed ants that march
+outside the column, and keep it in order. It is an immense army they
+command, I can assure you--greater than that with which Xerxes in old
+times invaded Greece; for there may be millions of ants in the line.
+There is another species which does not march in column, but in a close
+mass, often covering from six to ten square yards of ground."
+
+"But what are they after?" asked Harry.
+
+"That's jes what I wants to know," observed Willie, whose curiosity had
+returned.
+
+"They are after food," replied their uncle. "It is amusing to see the
+insects scampering off from their line of march. They seem to know the
+danger that threatens them, for scarcely a living thing escapes the
+sharp jaws of these fierce foragers. They send out side columns to
+search the ground and the bushes and low trees. When any insect is
+found, it is instantly surrounded and covered by these marauders, and
+torn to pieces, and carried off in fragments. But it is not in the trees
+and on the ground that they find their chief prey."
+
+"Where, then?" asked Harry, his great blue eyes fixed with speaking
+interest on his uncle's countenance.
+
+"In the houses. The foraging ants are a perfect blessing to the people
+of the villages, not a pest, as ants are in our houses. These warm
+regions, you know, have multitudes of insects that we never see. The
+houses are infested not only with rats and mice, roaches and fleas, but
+with snakes and scorpions, with huge spiders and with many other
+unpleasant things; so the village folks are glad enough to see the
+approach of the foraging ants. They throw open every door in their
+houses, unlock their drawers and trunks, and pull the clothes out on the
+floor. They then vacate the houses, and leave them to the ants, who soon
+stream in. Those who have seen them say that it is a wonderful
+spectacle. Nothing living escapes them. They search every hole, nook,
+and cranny. Here, dozens may be seen surrounding a great spider or
+scorpion; there, they chase sprawling long-legged creatures across the
+window-panes; yonder, hundreds of them may be observed dragging out a
+rat or a mouse which they have killed: even snakes can not escape from
+the sharp and poisonous bite of these bold foragers. It takes from three
+to four hours for them to clear out a house. They will not leave it
+until they are sure that not a living thing remains. Then they stream
+out again, carrying their prey with them; and the inhabitants gladly
+return, satisfied that they will have a month or two of comfort after
+this ants' house-cleaning."
+
+"I do b'lieve you's half funnin' again, Uncle Ben," declared Willie,
+with an aspect of severe doubt. "How's little tings like ants goin' to
+pull out snakes an' rats? I'd jes like to know that!"
+
+"But I forgot to tell you that these ants are much larger than any we
+have here. Some of the tropical ants are an inch long, and as large as a
+large wasp; so you may imagine that a whole army of them is not to be
+trifled with."
+
+"Is it them that's the soldiers, Uncle Ben?" asked Willie.
+
+"The soldiers? Oh, you want to hear about the soldiers--But, I declare,
+if there isn't the dinner-bell! Who would have thought that we had spent
+so much time over the ants?"
+
+
+
+
+THE PLUMES OF CRÉCY.[1]
+
+BY LILLIE E. BARR.
+
+
+  I was reading of kings and nobles,
+    Tourney and knightly gage,
+  Till the summer twilight faded
+    From Froissart's ancient page.
+  Then in the darkened parlor
+    I saw a fairer sight--
+  The brave old King whose valor makes
+    The shame of Crécy light.
+
+  He stood on the little hill-side,
+    Taller than all his peers,
+  Quite blind, but with eyes uplifted,
+    Hoary with many years.
+  Still wearing his golden armor,
+    Crowned with his royal crown,
+  Leaning upon the sword with which
+    He struck the Soldan down.
+
+  And high in his gleaming helmet
+    Three ostrich plumes, snow white--
+  From the Paynim's brow he tore them
+    In some Jabluna fight.
+  All scarred with Carpathian arrows,
+    His heart with Honor flames:
+  "Advance!" he cries, "and fight for France,
+    Bohemia, and St. James!"
+
+  But two of his knights staid by him,
+    And little did they say;
+  The blind old King talked with his heart,
+    And that was in the fray.
+  Alas! alas! He heard too soon
+    The sounds of shameful flight;
+  "Thank God," he sighed, "Bohemia's blind!"--
+    He would not see this sight.
+
+  "Now, friends, one more good deed I claim,
+    Last service for your lord:
+  I ask a soldier's grave, good knights;
+    I'll dig it with my sword.
+  My horse's reins tie fast to yours--
+    A friend on either hand--
+  Then ride straight on to where you see
+    The English archers stand."
+
+  They kissed their King most tenderly,
+    Then three as one they went
+  Down to the field of certain death
+    With proud and glad content.
+  They cut a path to where Prince Charles,
+    The King's son, stood at bay:
+  'Twas spirits, and not flesh and blood,
+    For honor fought that day.
+
+  The three white plumes above the gloom
+    Gleamed like a snowy wing;
+  Victors and vanquished paused to watch
+    The blind Bohemian King.
+  Pierced oft by arrows, stained with blood,
+    The Soldan's plumes still wave,
+  Until Bohemia's sword had cut
+    Honor's unsullied grave.
+
+  Next day, when English heralds sought
+    Over the fatal field
+  Trampled lilies and flags of France,
+    They found upon his shield
+  The blind old King of Bohemia,
+    Son and friends by his side;
+  But torn and stained the snowy plumes
+    That long had been his pride.
+
+  Then said the Black Prince over him,
+    "O knight, the bravest, best,
+  Thy plumes are dyed in hero's blood--
+    Henceforth they are my crest!"
+  And still they wave o'er England's crown,
+    And teach the young and brave,
+  When all is lost but honor, then
+    Valor digs Honor's grave.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[1] _Froissart's Chronicle_, vol. i., p. 164.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: JANUARY.]
+
+[Illustration: FEBRUARY.]
+
+[Illustration: MARCH.]
+
+[Illustration: APRIL.]
+
+[Illustration: MAY.]
+
+[Illustration: JUNE.]
+
+[Illustration: JULY.]
+
+[Illustration: AUGUST.]
+
+[Illustration: SEPTEMBER.]
+
+[Illustration: OCTOBER.]
+
+[Illustration: NOVEMBER.]
+
+[Illustration: DECEMBER.]
+
+THE MONTHS.--BY KATE GREENAWAY.
+
+
+
+
+SUMAC HUNTING.
+
+BY J. ESTEN COOKE.
+
+
+Anybody visiting the valley of Virginia in the autumn will be sure to
+notice, after sunset, all along the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains,
+little glimmering lights like stars. These are the fires in front of the
+small tents of the sumac hunters, who, after gathering sumac all day
+long, are laughing and talking with their wives and children as they eat
+their suppers before lying down to sleep.
+
+Sumac is a very pretty plant or shrub which grows a few feet high only,
+and has beautiful blood-red leaves springing from a delicate shoot, or
+bough. The stalk is smooth, and the leaves are almond-shaped, only more
+pointed. On the top of the plant and its larger boughs grow bunches of
+red berries in the shape of grape bunches; and the leaves and berries
+are of such a deep, rich crimson in the late autumn that they sometimes
+make the slopes of the hills appear as if they were on fire. If any
+little girl would like to dress the vases on the parlor mantelpiece
+prettily, she could not do better than collect a handful of these
+delicate tendrils with their scarlet leaves, and use them as a
+background to the lovely little autumn flowers--late primroses,
+stars-of-Bethlehem, wild honeysuckles, and fringed ferns--which grow in
+the woods and fields at this time of the year.
+
+But the honest country people who take so much pains about collecting
+sumac are not thinking about dressing vases with it. They gather it to
+sell, and are paid from one cent to a cent and a half a pound for it at
+the sumac mills. This may not seem much, but then the ocean is made up
+of drops, and with poor people a little money goes a long way. As little
+children can pull sumac just as well as grown people, a whole family may
+gather in a day several dollars' worth.
+
+It is used for dyeing, and is said to be better for that purpose than
+anything else to color fair leather and certain other fabrics. Great
+quantities of it are employed in printing calicoes in rich patterns, and
+the dresses worn by ladies and girls often owe their bright colors to
+the leaves of the sumac. The way in which it is collected and prepared
+for use is very simple. As soon as the leaves turn red, which is toward
+the end of summer, the sumac hunters begin their work. They scatter
+through the fields, or along the sides of the mountain, and break off
+the twigs on which the leaves are growing; for these twigs do not make
+the leaves less valuable. Then, when they have collected an armful, they
+put it in a pile or into bags, and as night comes on the whole is taken
+to one spot, from which it is hauled home in wagons. Here it is laid on
+the floor of the barn or any out-house, in the shade, so that it may dry
+very gradually, and keep the juices which afford the coloring matter.
+When this process of drying is gone through with, and the leaves are in
+a proper state, it is loaded on carts or wagons, in bags, and taken to
+the sumac mills, where it is weighed, and paid for by the owner of the
+mills at the rate, as I have said, of from one cent to a cent and a half
+a pound. The largest mills in Virginia, where the finest sumac grows--or
+at least a very fine article--are at Richmond; but at Winchester, in the
+lower part of the Shenandoah Valley, toward the Potomac, there is a big
+mill, where great quantities are purchased, and prepared for the use of
+the dyers. The leaves and small twigs are pounded and reduced to a fine
+dust, and then it is ready to be sent away. When it reaches the
+manufactories where it is to be used as a dye for leather, calico, etc.,
+it is mixed with what are called _mordants_, certain substances that
+make it _bite in_, as the word means, and take fast hold of the material
+to be dyed; and then there is the pretty calico with its bright colors,
+which can not be washed out.
+
+It is only of late years that much attention has been paid to it in
+Virginia. People thought more about raising corn and wheat than of
+gathering sumac; but in twenty years they have learned a great deal, and
+now begin to understand that "every little helps," and that if they can
+go with their wives and children and pull sumac, and then sell it, they
+can take their money and buy sugar and coffee, and perhaps some of the
+very calico for their little girls' dresses which the red leaves of the
+sumac make so pretty.
+
+The children like the "camping out" on the mountain in the pleasant
+summer and fall nights very much. It is a sort of frolic, and it is a
+very good thing to mix up pleasure with work: it makes the work much
+easier. The tents are very simple little affairs--only a breadth of
+canvas stretched across a ridge-pole, like the "comb" of a house, held
+up by forked sticks set in the ground. In this are spread what in
+Virginia are called "pine tags," that is, the tassels, or needles, of
+the pine-trees, which are dry and brown, and by spreading a blanket or
+old comforter on these you have an excellent soft bed. In front of the
+tent a fire is built to cook by, and by means of forked sticks a pot can
+be hung above the fire for making soup, boiling meat, etc. By this fire,
+as I have told you, the sumac hunters gather in the evening, after work,
+and laugh and talk and sing, and eat their suppers; or perhaps some one
+of them can play the fiddle, and he strikes up a dancing tune, and the
+girls and boys dance on the grass, and laugh and enjoy themselves much
+more than if they were in fine drawing-rooms. After a while the long
+day's work makes them sleepy, and they lie down on the fresh pine tags
+in the tent, and go to sleep--to be up at daylight, and once more at
+work hunting and gathering their sumac.
+
+
+
+
+OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES.
+
+BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.
+
+
+No. VIII.
+
+THE BATTLE OF THE RANGERS.
+
+When war broke out between France and England in 1755, the French and
+Indians came down from Canada and attacked the settlers of New England
+and New York, as they had done in previous wars, burning their
+dwellings, killing men and women, or carrying them to Canada as
+prisoners.
+
+The French had a fort at Crown Point, on Lake Champlain, and another at
+Ticonderoga; while the English had Fort William Henry, at the southern
+end of Lake George, and Fort Edward, on the Hudson.
+
+The English officers who had been sent over by the King to command the
+"Provincials," as the people of England called all who lived in America,
+thought that soldiers must march in the wilderness with just as much
+precision as along a hard beaten road, that they must move in platoons
+and columns, keeping step to the drum-beat. The French officers, on the
+other hand, adopted the plan of the Indians, marching in single file,
+each man carrying his provisions. They made quick movements, falling
+suddenly upon a settlement, with their Indian allies, making all the
+havoc possible, and before the settlers could gather to resist them,
+would be far on their way to Crown Point or Canada.
+
+Robert Rogers, of New Hampshire, who was fighting the French, prevailed
+upon Lord Loudon, the English commander-in-chief, to allow him to form a
+battalion of troops, who should have the privilege of scouting the woods
+around Lake George and Lake Champlain, to discover the movements of the
+French and Indians, to fall upon them just as they were stealing upon
+the English, strike a blow, and be gone before the French would know
+what had happened. He would play their own game upon them.
+
+Lord Loudon having given his consent, Major Rogers went to New
+Hampshire and enlisted his men. They were all young, strong, athletic.
+They had tramped over the hills and mountains of that province, hunting
+bears, and had set their traps along the streams for beavers. They could
+pick their way through the forest on a cloudy day when there was no sun
+to guide them, and could tell in the darkest and cloudiest night which
+way was north by feeling the bark on the trees--for the bark is always
+more mossy on the northern than on the side exposed to the sun.
+
+It was to be a service of hardship and privation. They would have to
+make long marches; to sleep on the ground; to endure great fatigue;
+brave the cold of winter, wrapping themselves in their blankets at
+night, and lying down with the snow for their bed.
+
+Although the hardships would be so great, Robert Rogers had no
+difficulty in obtaining all the men he wanted. The settlers had suffered
+so much from the enemy that they were eager to take their revenge. There
+was a fascination in the service. How stirring the thought of stealing
+through the woods, making roundabout marches, shooting a deer or bear,
+eating the nice steaks, lying down to sleep beneath the trees; up again
+in the morning, coming upon the French and Indians unawares, pouring in
+a volley, killing the savages or taking them prisoners, and returning in
+triumph!
+
+Major Rogers chose as lieutenant the man who had knocked the Indians
+about, right and left, when called upon to run the gauntlet--John Stark,
+who could follow a trail as well as any Indian, who was always cool and
+collected, and as brave as a lion. The men were called Rangers. They
+wore green frocks, and besides their rifles each man had a long knife
+which he could use in a close fight. They wore boots and leather
+leggings, and each man carried his rations--bread and cold corned
+beef--in a bag.
+
+The ice on Lake George was thick and strong in March, 1757, when the
+Rangers, seventy-four in number, with iron spurs on their feet, several
+days' rations in their bags, their blankets rolled upon their shoulders,
+marching in single file, with trailed arms, Major Rogers at the head,
+and John Stark in the rear, started from Fort William Henry.
+
+They made their way over the gleaming ice for two days, but on the third
+day they left the lake, put on their snow-shoes, entered the woods,
+marched past Ticonderoga, and came out upon the western shore of Lake
+Champlain, discovered a party of French, with horses and sleds, on their
+way from Ticonderoga to Crown Point. Stark, with a part of the Rangers,
+made a dash and captured seven prisoners. He did not see another party
+of French around a point of land in season to capture them. They escaped
+to Ticonderoga, and gave the alarm.
+
+Major Rogers knew that a large party of French and Indians would be sent
+out from Ticonderoga to intercept him, and at once started to return.
+
+It was a rainy day. The snow was damp and heavy. "We will go to our last
+night's camp, and dry our guns," said Major Rogers.
+
+They reached the camping-place, where the fires were still burning,
+dried their guns, put in new priming, and started once more, Rogers in
+front, Stark bringing up the rear.
+
+It was two o'clock in the afternoon. Rogers descended a hill, crossed a
+brook, and was picking his way up another hill, when he found himself
+face to face with more than two hundred French and Indians, the nearest
+not twenty feet distant.
+
+A volley. Lieutenant Kennedy and John Gardiner fall dead; a bullet
+glances from Rogers's skull, for a moment taking away his senses; the
+blood flows down his face, blinding him. Several other Rangers are
+wounded.
+
+"Form here."
+
+Lieutenant Stark issues the order, and the Rangers under his command
+take position on a little hill. The Rangers down in the valley fire a
+volley at the French, holding their ground till all the wounded can make
+their way back to Stark's position.
+
+Rogers wipes the blood from his face, and issues his orders.
+
+"You are to command the centre," he says to Stark.
+
+He sends Sergeants Walker and Phillips with eight men to the rear, to
+give notice of any attempt of the enemy to crawl round and attack from
+that direction.
+
+"Don't throw away your ammunition; keep cool; don't expose yourselves,"
+are the orders, and each Ranger takes position behind a tree. They know
+that the enemy outnumber them three to one, that they have had the
+advantage of the first fire; but each Ranger prepares to fight to the
+bitter end.
+
+Round through the woods steal a part of the French and Indians, making a
+wide circuit. Major Rogers reasoned correctly, and he posted the two
+sergeants in the right place. The eight Rangers pick off the French one
+by one, giving them such a warm reception that instead of rushing on,
+they remain at a distance.
+
+The other French, with a horde of Indians howling the war-whoop, begin
+the attack in front, the Indians springing from tree to tree, getting
+nearer and nearer. But the Rangers are on the watch, and many of the
+savages leap into the air and fall dead, or crawl away, leaving bloody
+trails upon the snow.
+
+"If you will surrender, we will give you good quarter," shouts the
+French commander.
+
+Major Rogers was faint from the loss of blood, and at the moment was
+faint-hearted. He feared that the Rangers would all be picked off before
+the fight would cease. It would be three hours to sunset. Could they
+hold out till then? He had no thought of surrendering, but would it not
+be best to retreat?
+
+John Stark's blood is up.
+
+"Retreat! No; that will be certain destruction. We can beat them here.
+I'll shoot the first man that attempts to retreat."
+
+It was bold language for him to use to his commander, but he knew that
+Rogers had been stunned by the bullet that had glanced from his skull,
+and was not quite himself.
+
+The fight goes on, the Rangers taking sure aim, the French firing more
+wildly, but still one by one the Rangers drop. Captain Spikeman and Mr.
+Baker are killed. A bullet strikes the lock of Stark's gun, and renders
+it useless. He sees a Frenchman fall at the instant, springs forward,
+seizes his gun, returns to his tree, and renews the fight.
+
+A bullet tears through Rogers's wrist, and the blood spurts out in a
+stream. It must be stopped, or he will bleed to death. Rogers wears his
+back hair braided in a queue.
+
+[Illustration: CUTTING OFF A QUEUE TO BIND A WOUND.]
+
+"Take your knife and cut off my queue," he says to one of the Rangers,
+who whips out his hunting-knife, cuts off the queue, and Rogers sticks
+it into the wound to stop the flowing of the blood.
+
+All through the dreary afternoon the fight goes on. The snow is
+crimsoned with blood. The killed and mortally wounded lie where they
+fall. For the Rangers there is no escape; they must conquer or die.
+
+The shades of night steal on; the fire of the French and Indians has
+been growing less; the war-whoop dies away; the last gun is fired. The
+enemy, picking up their wounded, retire to Ticonderoga, leaving the
+Rangers victors. What a dear-bought victory!--one-half of them killed or
+wounded. Of the enemy one hundred and sixteen have fallen!
+
+The Rangers were only four miles from Ticonderoga, and might expect to
+be attacked again in the morning. They were forty miles from Fort
+William Henry. They were weary and worn, but they must move on. They
+made litters for the wounded, and started, marching all night, but
+making only a few miles.
+
+The snow had ceased, the air was chill. They must have help. John Stark,
+leaving them, started for Fort William Henry, reaching it at sunset.
+Soldiers with horses and sleds started at once, and John Stark with
+them, stopping not a moment to rest his weary limbs. At sunrise he was
+back to the Rangers with the re-enforcements and supplies. The French
+had not followed them, and they made their way safely back to Fort
+William Henry, having fought one of the most obstinate, unequal, yet
+victorious battles recorded in history.
+
+
+
+
+THE ANGEL IN THE LILLY FAMILY.
+
+BY SHERWOOD BONNER.
+
+
+There was something rather queer about the Lilly family. In the first
+place there were so many of them--fourteen precious children. This alone
+is queer, when it is the fashion of the day to have small families, and
+"well-springs of pleasure" are as scarce as diamonds in any properly
+regulated household. But Mrs. Lilly's heart was made on the omnibus
+plan; and there was no miserable little "Complet" ever scrawled over its
+door.
+
+Then it was queer how they avoided nicknames in the Lilly family. Each
+child was called by its full name, which sometimes happened to be a
+pretty long one.
+
+It was through a sad accident that one of the Lilly children turned into
+a regular little angel.
+
+The day after Christmas Mrs. Lilly's aunt--grandaunt of the
+children--carelessly allowed poor Katharine Kirk Lilly to fall on a
+marble floor. A serious injury to her spine was the result.
+
+Dear! dear! how Mrs. Lilly screamed! She threw herself on the bed, and
+poured forth tears enough to put out a Christmas bonfire. She was not
+soothed until the doctor came, and after a careful examination--which
+the sufferer bore without a word or moan--pronounced that poor Katharine
+Kirk would live. But, alas! he added that she must always be an invalid.
+And smiling with the patient sweetness that distinguished her, the dear
+child sank back on the pillows from which she was never to lift her
+golden head. All the rest of the Lilly children stood round, showing by
+a sort of paralyzed expression on their faces how deeply they were
+moved; but none of them cried.
+
+"Perhaps, dears," said the poor little mother, sobbing, "this affliction
+will be blessed to you."
+
+"It will," cried the penitent great-aunt, clasping Mrs. Lilly in her
+arms; "it will teach them lessons of patience, of self-denial, of love,
+that will be as good as--"
+
+"As the Prince's pricking-conscience ring in the family," suggested Mrs.
+Lilly's mother, who had a way of turning things into fun, and never gave
+way to her feelings.
+
+It was surprising what a change from that time dated in the Lilly
+family. They had been like other children, a little faulty, perhaps,
+rather apt to stand on their rights--a fierce footing--but merely to
+look at the darling invalid, her shining hair outspread, her blue eyes
+ever bright, was to receive a lesson in sweetness and good temper.
+
+Take the case of Phillips Arthur Cliff Lilly. This young gentleman was
+the youngest of the family, and his mother's favorite. Why, no one knew,
+except that he was so ugly. He had so many scars on his face, from falls
+and fights, that somehow he produced the impression of a target. His
+hair stood out like a halo of straw, and one defiant wisp reared itself
+above his forehead with the grace of a cat's whisker. Mrs. Lilly could
+never sleep until he was safe in her arms, and his life knew no cross
+until after the accident to Katharine Kirk, who became, in her turn, the
+pivot round which the family revolved. Horrible to relate, his mother
+one evening, in her hurry to get back to the invalid, forgot her
+youngest, and left him in the Common. There he lay all night, like a
+tramp, with the stars twinkling at him, and stray dogs sniffing as they
+passed him by. Yet when he was found he _did not utter one word_. He
+opened his blue eyes as he was picked up, and only gave a single
+plaintive cry as he was pressed to his frantic mother's bosom.
+
+Then there was Myra Miles. She was one of the young ladies of the
+family, and, as might be forgiven in a beauty, a trifle vain. She was to
+receive calls on New-Year's Day, and had expected to come out in a fine
+new dress. Pink tarlatan it was to be, trimmed in the French taste with
+blue, with a train to thrill you to your finger-tips, which seemed to
+bear the same relation to Myra Miles as the rest of a snake does to its
+head. Mrs. Lilly's mamma was making it; but her time was suddenly
+demanded to do something for the invalid, and the dress was thrown
+aside. The consequence was that poor Myra Miles appeared in the gorgeous
+pink dress with a black lace scarf instead of the waist. Still, not one
+word of complaint did she utter, although her sisters Dorothy Dimple and
+Martha Bonn--the favorites of Mrs. Lilly's aunt--appeared in exquisite
+raiment of green and blue. There was something very beautiful about her
+resignation.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the lovely Susan Mears Lilly was married, Katharine Kirk was taken
+in her pretty bed to view the ceremony, and was quite a feature of the
+occasion. Indeed, she did not begin to look so weak and ill as the
+bridegroom, who, poor youth, was so tottering that Mrs. Lilly's aunt
+cruelly suggested that his back should be propped with a hair-pin. You
+may imagine how the girls laughed at this, especially Teresa Fehmer
+Lilly, a wicked little bridemaid in red satin.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And such attentions as the sufferer had from friends of the Lilly
+family! The beautiful belle Miss Lilian Love spent many hours over a
+dainty quilt of silk and lace to adorn the sick-bed. A glorious poet
+sent in a box of agreeable medicine, with a note running like this:
+
+     "MY DEAR MRS. LILLY,--I send you a little book for your sick
+     child, and some medicine for her poor broken back. The peculiarity
+     of this medicine is that in order to produce any good effect it
+     must be taken by the nurse. This is rather hard upon the nurse;
+     but if she is a good nurse she will not mind it much."
+
+Jane Jumper was the nurse really; but while the medicine lasted Mrs.
+Lilly herself took entire charge, and administered the sweet doses to
+herself, without one word from Katharine Kirk.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It may have occurred by this time to some shrewd little reader that
+under no circumstance was any member of this household apt to give
+utterance to silver speech. Shall I confess? Or, my dear children, have
+you guessed that Katharine Kirk and all the cherished fourteen belonged
+to the beloved, the beautiful, the _dumb_, family of--Dolls?
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]
+
+
+  VIAREGGIO, ITALY.
+
+     I am nearly six years old. I would like to have a tea party on my
+     birthday. After my birthday has come I will write again, and tell
+     you all about it.
+
+     In Rome I have a big play horse and two kitties. My little cat is
+     gray and white, and is called Bimbo. He walks on his toes, and
+     makes a long face. Papa's cat's name is Cavaliere. He is a big
+     Maltese cat.
+
+     In Rome we have a nice house and a nice garden, and in the garden
+     there is a straw hut.
+
+     We are finishing the summer at Viareggio, and we have nice
+     sea-baths.
+
+  IMOGEN R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SMITH'S HILL, FEATHER RIVER, CALIFORNIA.
+
+     I enjoy the letters in YOUNG PEOPLE, especially those that tell of
+     birds and flowers I have not seen. There are mocking-birds here in
+     summer, and a beautiful bird called goldfinch. There are also
+     robins, bluebirds, and many varieties of sparrows. The bluebirds
+     and robins stay here all winter. It is too bad to take eggs from
+     the birds to give away in exchange. The pitcher-plant grows in a
+     valley not far from here.
+
+     My sister Bell went to Lassens Peak last week. It is 10,600 feet
+     high. There is no snow on the mountain now except a small patch on
+     top. Hundreds of small butterflies were flitting about on the
+     mountain-side and alighting on the rocks. As there is no
+     vegetation, except a few hardy plants scattered among the ledges,
+     I wonder what they find to live on. A lake which could be seen
+     from the top of the peak had the appearance of being frozen. In
+     the valley below there are hot boiling springs.
+
+  LOU R. K.
+
+Yes, it is too bad to take so many birds' eggs. But if our
+correspondents are careful to take only one or two from each nest, and
+to always leave more than half, as we have already begged them to do,
+the mother-bird will not suffer. If we could believe for a moment that
+our little friends would be so cruel as to disturb the brooding mother,
+and rob her nest of all its eggs, we would never publish another letter
+requesting an exchange of these pretty natural curiosities. The nesting
+season is now over in all the Northern States, but when it returns, we
+trust the young egg collectors will never allow their eagerness to
+secure the coveted treasure to overcome their sense of honor and their
+kindness of heart.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
+
+     I am ten years old. I take HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it
+     very much. I am always glad when Wednesday comes, for that is the
+     day I get it. I think it is a very nice paper for boys and girls.
+     I have a pet dog whose name is Lion.
+
+  SAMUEL P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BELLEVILLE, TEXAS.
+
+     I am ten years old. I have no pets except a Maltese cat and a dog.
+     I was very much interested in the dog and cat of Madelaine, the
+     little French girl. I like "The Moral Pirates" and "Who was Paul
+     Grayson?" best of all the stories. My father gave me a piano for
+     my birthday present; and when I was seven years old he gave me a
+     pony, and I named him Button. I dearly love to gallop over the
+     hills.
+
+     I went to New Hampshire in 1875 to see my grandfather, and we
+     visited the White Mountains.
+
+     I think YOUNG PEOPLE is the nicest paper I ever saw, and I intend
+     to take it until I grow up.
+
+  JOSIE C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  NEW YORK CITY.
+
+     B. I., of Radnor, Ohio, asks how to feather arrows. Choose goose
+     or turkey feathers of a suitable size. Cut them carefully from the
+     quill; put on hot glue, and fasten them to the sides of the arrow,
+     about an inch from the notch, at equal distances apart. There
+     should always be three feathers.
+
+  A. H.
+
+It is a good plan to fasten the feathers to the arrow with pins until
+the glue is perfectly dry, when they can be carefully removed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
+
+     I have a pet now, a lovely little dog, with long curly hair and
+     large bright eyes. He is snowy white all over, and his name is
+     Mischief. I am going to have his picture taken some time. He looks
+     just like a bundle of cotton, with three black spots shining
+     through. Those are his eyes and nose.
+
+     The tree represented in the illustration of the beetles in YOUNG
+     PEOPLE No. 38 is just like the California buckeye-tree. The
+     blossoms are exactly the same.
+
+     I am very much interested in the directions for making salt and
+     fresh water aquariums. When I was in Monterey I might have
+     collected lots of sea-anemones, snails, and pink and white
+     star-fish, but I did not think of it. One of the gentlemen at the
+     hotel went fishing with a net, and caught a little baby
+     cuttle-fish, or devil-fish, as it is commonly called. It had seven
+     or eight long legs, all lined with little suckers, like buttons.
+     It was a dreadful ugly-looking thing. It must have been very
+     young, for it was only ten or eleven inches long. The gentleman
+     was going to keep it for a curiosity, and until he could get
+     something better he put it in a pan of salt-water; but he forgot
+     to cover the pan, and in the night the fish crawled out on to the
+     floor, and died.
+
+     I have exchanged Farallon Island eggs and leaves and specimens of
+     trees with a good many children since my letter was printed.
+
+     Is there any difference between postage stamps and postmarks? I
+     don't believe I know what postmarks are.
+
+  IDA BELLE DISERENS.
+
+A postmark is the stamp put on the outside of a letter at the office
+where it is posted. It certainly is not of much value in itself, but if
+a collection is neatly pasted in a book, States and countries being
+arranged together, counties being written under towns in the United
+States, and a note made of any manufactories or natural productions for
+which the town is celebrated, such a collection may become an
+interesting gazetteer, and valuable as a book of reference.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.
+
+     On September 27 I found a blossom on the peach-tree in our back
+     yard. I picked it, and have pressed it to send to you. I think it
+     is very odd to have peach blossoms in September, and I would like
+     to know if any girl or boy has ever seen them blooming in that
+     month in this climate.
+
+     I think the story "Who was Paul Grayson?" is splendid.
+
+  REBA H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SOUTH ELIOT, MAINE.
+
+     I bought three silk-worms' cocoons at the Educational Department
+     of the Permanent Exhibition at Philadelphia. In about a week's
+     time the cocoons broke, and the moths came out and began to lay
+     their eggs on a sheet of brown paper which I laid them on. They
+     have laid about all their eggs now, and there are a great many.
+
+  CHESTER B. F.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  HOWARD, TEXAS.
+
+     I am seven years old. Mother teaches me at home. I am studying
+     spelling, geography, arithmetic, and the Third Reader.
+
+     I love so much when Wednesday morning comes, for then I get my
+     YOUNG PEOPLE, and I read until I have finished it.
+
+     I received a beautiful pressed bouquet, from Mary Lowry. It was
+     real nice, and I am going to send her some seeds very soon.
+
+     I have three dolls, one wax and two china ones. Every day, when I
+     am through with my lessons, my sister Myrtle and I have nice times
+     playing with them.
+
+  MABEL P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     I live on a farm about one mile from town.
+
+     We had a ring-dove given to us, and we bought a mate for it, and
+     now we have four more. One is just hatched. Last summer, a year
+     ago, we had a present of a pair of guinea-pigs, and we have raised
+     six others. One of the little ones is pure white, except its head,
+     which is black. It looks as if it had a mask on. My brother, who
+     is ten years old, has a pigeon-house and about thirty pigeons. And
+     he has six rabbits, which are all the time burrowing out of the
+     pen, and a young shepherd dog. We have black and brown bantams,
+     and two little red calves we call Spot and Lina, because one has a
+     red spot on its back, and the other a white line.
+
+     Last spring I planted one small ear of pop-corn, and now I have
+     gathered nearly eighty ears from it. I also planted ground-nuts.
+
+     My brother, my sister, and I have each a pair of stilts, and we
+     have lots of fun inventing new ways to walk on them.
+
+  BESSIE R. H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange postage stamps of France and Germany with
+     any readers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. Correspondents will please
+     put "Viâ England" on the envelope, as letters thus addressed are
+     more likely to come safely.
+
+  B. D. WOODWARD, 49 im Trutz,
+  Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange postmarks for foreign postage stamps, or
+     for other postmarks, with any boy in the South or West.
+
+  WILLIAM F. PENNEY,
+  559 Henry Street, Brooklyn, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have a collection of postage and revenue stamps, and would like
+     to exchange with readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  W. H. EASTMAN,
+  Emporia, Kansas.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     My mamma takes YOUNG PEOPLE for my sister Laura and me. We read
+     all the stories, and are never tired of it.
+
+     We have a pair of pet pigeons named Polly and Dolly. When we first
+     got them we had to put the food in their mouths, but now they can
+     eat alone. When we come they hunt in our hands for something to
+     eat.
+
+     I am a little Iowa girl, but my father came to live in Old
+     Virginia almost five years ago. We live near Greenway Court, the
+     old home of Lord Fairfax, and where General Washington surveyed
+     the land when he was a very young man.
+
+     I am thirteen years old. I have a cabinet and a museum, and am
+     collecting postmarks and stamps, which I would like to exchange
+     with any correspondent.
+
+  MAY BELL MILLER,
+  Care of Joseph A. Miller,
+  Nineveh, Warren County, Virginia.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am having a splendid time in Mamaroneck. I have a lot of
+     chickens, and it is very funny to see the young roosters fight. I
+     shall leave the country soon, and I would like to say to those
+     wishing to exchange stamps with me that after October 25 my
+     address will be
+
+  PIERRE JAY,
+  291 Madison Avenue, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am making a collection of postmarks, and would like to exchange
+     with any correspondents of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  C. H. MCBRIDE,
+  Rexford Flats, Saratoga County, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am making a collection of birds' eggs, and would like to
+     exchange with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  JOSEPH SKIRM, Santa Cruz,
+  Santa Cruz County, California.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am very much interested in the letters in YOUNG PEOPLE. I would
+     like to exchange birds' eggs with any of the readers.
+
+  H. GRAY,
+  Albion, Orleans County, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     My younger sister takes YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it as well as she
+     does. I have no pets, but I have a flower garden and a good many
+     house plants. I would like to exchange flower seeds with any
+     correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE. I have sweet-pea, cypress,
+     rose-moss, dew-plant, and other seeds.
+
+  MOLLIE C. MICHENER,
+  Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have read YOUNG PEOPLE ever since it started, and like it very
+     much. I like "The Moral Pirates" and Jimmy Brown's stories about
+     Mr. Martin the best.
+
+     I have a Chilian, a Greek, and a Portuguese coin which I would
+     like to exchange with any reader who is collecting foreign coin. I
+     have a collection of almost two hundred.
+
+  JOHN PYNE,
+  Wiscasset, Maine.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I thought you would like a letter from this town, where a great
+     battle was fought.
+
+     I spend many happy hours with the dear YOUNG PEOPLE. I love, most
+     of all, the little letters, as it seems like talking to little
+     people.
+
+     I am sick in bed, and have been for almost ten weeks. If my cough
+     would get better, then I would get strong again. I am nine years
+     old. I can read and write, and play little tunes on the piano. I
+     fear the other little girls will get ahead of me now.
+
+     I wish "Wee Tot," or any of the little readers, would send me some
+     ocean curiosities or quartz crystals for pressed leaves and ferns
+     gathered on Round Top. My pet canary died last week.
+
+  NERVA WIBLE,
+  Care of J. Ed. Wible, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have a nice collection of curiosities, and would like to
+     exchange with any correspondent for sea-shells or other
+     curiosities. I have iron ore, soft gypsum crystals, stalactites,
+     stalagmites, pretty pebbles, different kinds of limestone, pressed
+     ferns, and other things. In sending specimens, correspondents will
+     please mark each plainly with the name and the locality where it
+     was found.
+
+     A few days ago I got my hand mashed in a cider mill, and can not
+     use it now. My brother is writing this letter for me.
+
+  HARRY R. BARTLETT,
+  Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange curiosities and stuffed birds with any
+     correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  C. H. MATHIAS, Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have taken every number of YOUNG PEOPLE since it was published,
+     and I think it is just splendid.
+
+     I am gathering specimens and curiosities, and would be glad to
+     exchange with any one.
+
+  CHARLIE LEADBETTER,
+  174 Plum Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have a printing-press and a small breech-loading shot-gun that
+     father made for me. I had a cat named Bill, but he is dead. He
+     would jump over my arms, and stand up on his hind-feet and kiss
+     me, and sit up in the corner.
+
+     I like the story of "The Moral Pirates" best of all. I and some
+     other boys are planning to go off on a cruise next summer.
+
+     I have a lot of foreign stamps which I would like to exchange for
+     Indian arrow-heads or Indian relics. I am eleven years old.
+
+  BERTIE HARRISON,
+  Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am just beginning a collection of curiosities, and would like to
+     exchange with some of the correspondents.
+
+     I have one brother. We live near a pond. Our pet kitten is very
+     fond of fish; and I go out in a row-boat and catch minnows for it.
+     I tie mussels on a string, and the minnows bite the bait and hold
+     fast. I caught two large minnows with a string alone.
+
+  JESSIE A. BROWN,
+  South Norwalk, Connecticut.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I should like to exchange birds' eggs with any correspondent of
+     YOUNG PEOPLE. I have eggs of the following birds: hedge, song,
+     house, and chipping sparrow, bluebird, swallow, brown and red
+     thrush, peewit, woodpecker, meadow-lark, cat-bird, pigeon,
+     turtle-dove, ring-dove, and cardinal-grosbeak.
+
+  R. D. BRITTON, Wyoming, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange postage stamps, minerals, shells, and
+     Indian arrow-heads for stamps, pressed sea-weeds, or birds' eggs.
+     The shells are labelled with their scientific names.
+
+  E. G. W.,
+  P. O. Box 487, Binghamton, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We would request all correspondents not to send us long lists of stamps,
+eggs, and other things, as they occupy too much space in the Post-office
+Department. It is much better for them to prepare their lists neatly,
+and have them ready to send to those who write to them for exchange,
+after their request has been published in YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+We are compelled to condense the requests for exchange from the
+following correspondents:
+
+     Postage stamps and birds' eggs for postage stamps.
+
+  WILLIAM S. ALDRICH,
+  Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps, postmarks, and Indian relics for postage stamps.
+
+  A. S. BARRETT,
+  Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage, Treasury, and revenue stamps for others.
+
+  HANDY DANIEL,
+  Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps and postmarks for postage stamps.
+
+  JOHN A. WOLFF,
+  92 Second Street, Albany, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Foreign and United States postage stamps for others.
+
+  W. C. V. CHADWICK,
+  44 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MABEL.--The recipes you wish are in YOUNG PEOPLE Nos. 24 and 28.--A good
+method for varnishing leaves is described by Edith L. in Post-office Box
+No. 38.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+W. DE VEAU.--The different species of the order _Chelonia_, to which
+turtles and tortoises belong, are distinguished mainly by the limbs. The
+common fresh-water turtles have distinct toes, which are webbed and
+provided with long nails. They are easy and powerful swimmers, but are
+very helpless on land. They feed upon all kinds of aquatic worms and
+insects. The tortoises, or land turtles, have short clubbed feet adapted
+for travelling on the ground, and stout, short claws. They feed upon
+roots, vegetables, fruit, and small bugs and flies. Their upper shell is
+more rounded than that of the water turtle. They are capable of
+swimming, but seldom enter the water.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+W. S. B.--Alaric the Goth was proclaimed King of the Visigoths about
+A.D. 400. He was a bold and artful warrior, and under his leadership the
+Goths ravaged Greece, and entered Athens. He afterward determined to
+invade Italy, and after numerous repulses and misfortunes his armies
+succeeded in entering Rome in 410, eleven hundred and sixty-three years
+after the foundation of the city, which for six hundred years previous
+to the Gothic conquest had remained unviolated by the presence of any
+foreign enemy. Alaric, who had already embraced Christianity, showed
+much moderation in his treatment of the vanquished city, and after a
+short occupation he retired his troops, and proceeded to ravage Southern
+Italy. He was about to invade Sicily, and form an expedition to Africa,
+when his death, after a short illness, put an end to his conquests. His
+army, anxious to conceal his death, and even his burial-place, from the
+enemy, employed a band of captives to divert the course of the Busento,
+a small river which washes the walls of Cozenza, an ancient fortified
+town, and secretly at night a grave was dug in the river-bed, and the
+body of the dead chieftain was buried. The waters of the Busento were
+then turned back, and underneath the peaceful river the grave of the
+warlike Goth was securely concealed. His death occurred in 410, only a
+few months after his triumphal entry into Rome.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GERTRUDE C.--Your letter is very gratifying, and we are sorry we can not
+accede to your request, but the article in question would occupy too
+large a space in YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Favors are acknowledged from Hamilton W., Willie C. Bartlett, Isabelle
+Van Brunt, M. L. Hannam, Macy Walcutt, C. F. Moses.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles are received from Ida Belle Diserens, A. H.
+Ellard, Mary R. De La Mater, Harvey B. Ridgway, Miss N. J. Tiddy, Nella
+Coover, N. Bumpus, Clarence J. Washington, W. S. Ferguson, May Wells,
+H. A. Bent.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+ACROSTIC.
+
+Place the names of five trees in such order that their initials read
+downward spell the name of another tree.
+
+  BOLUS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+UNITED DIAMONDS.
+
+1. In Nebraska. An insect. A fluid. At a distance. In Nevada.
+
+2. In Idaho. A graceful animal. An animal often trained for a special
+purpose. The limit. In Colorado. Centrals of diamonds read across spell
+the name of a savage beast.
+
+  OWLET.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+WORD SQUARES.
+
+1. First, a character in mythology. Second, ascended. Third, a body of
+land. Fourth, a prophet.
+
+  S. F. W.
+
+2. First, lineage. Second, sour. Third, to quote. Fourth, a garden.
+
+  KATIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 4.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  My first is in lily, but not in white.
+  My second in sleep, but not in night.
+  My third is in man, but not in beast.
+  My fourth is in sorrow, but not in feast.
+  My fifth is in no, but not in yes.
+  My whole is a fruit which you must guess.
+
+  MATTIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 5.
+
+HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.
+
+An associate. A ravine. A reward. In Lexington. Devoured. One of a
+certain sect of philosophers. A boy's name. Centrals read downward spell
+the name of a celebrated battle.
+
+  ZELOTES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 48.
+
+No. 1.
+
+  P I S A   Y A C H T
+  I S A R   A B H O R
+  S A C O   C H A S E
+  A R O N   H O S T S
+            T R E S S
+
+No. 2.
+
+      N         S
+    D I S     W H O
+  N I G H T-S H A D E
+    S H E     O D D
+      T         E
+
+No. 3.
+
+Cornwallis, Washington.
+
+No. 4.
+
+1. Ava, Orfah, Jiddah, Riad, Pekin, Surat, Omsk. 2. Exeter, Alabama,
+Paraná, Caracas, Panama.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WIGGLES.
+
+For the benefit of those who have not read the original article on
+"Wiggles," we would say that the Wiggle is a line that may be turned
+into a picture by having other lines added to it. For example, take the
+new Wiggle, No. 15, given in this Number. Trace it carefully, so as to
+preserve the _exact_ outlines, and then see what you can make of it. Add
+to it as much as you please, but do not change the original line. Send
+answers as promptly as possible.
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS.
+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
+
+
+_Notice._
+
+Now is the Time to Subscribe.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Within a year of its first appearance HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE has secured
+a leading place among the periodicals designed for juvenile readers. The
+object of those who have the paper in charge is to provide for boys and
+girls from the age of six to sixteen a weekly treat in the way of
+entertaining stories, poems, historical sketches, and other attractive
+reading matter, with profuse and beautiful illustrations.
+
+The conductors of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE proceed upon the theory that it
+is not necessary, in order to engage the attention of youthful minds, to
+fill its pages with exaggerated and sensational stories, to make heroes
+of criminals, or throw the glamour of romance over bloody deeds. Their
+design is to make the spirit and influence of the paper harmonize with
+the moral atmosphere which pervades every cultivated Christian
+household. The lessons taught are those which all parents who desire the
+welfare of their children would wish to see inculcated. HARPER'S YOUNG
+PEOPLE aims to do this by combining the best literary and artistic
+talent, so that fiction shall appear in bright and innocent colors,
+sober facts assume such a holiday dress as to be no longer dry or dull,
+and mental exercise, in the solution of puzzles, problems, and other
+devices, become a delight.
+
+The cordial approval extended to HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE by the
+intelligent and exacting audience for whose special benefit it was
+projected shows that its conductors have not miscalculated the
+requirements of juvenile periodical literature. The paper has attained a
+wide circulation in the United States, Canada, Europe, the West Indies,
+and South America. The "Post-office Box," the most complete department
+of the kind ever attempted, contains letters from almost every quarter
+of the globe, and not only serves to bring the boys and girls of
+different states and countries into pleasant acquaintance, but, through
+its exchanges and answers to questions, to extend their knowledge and
+quicken their intelligence.
+
+The Bound Volume for 1880 has been gotten up in the most attractive
+manner, the cover being embellished with a tasteful and appropriate
+design. It will be one of the most handsome, entertaining, and useful
+books for boys and girls published for the ensuing holidays.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TERMS.
+
+FOUR CENTS a Number. SINGLE SUBSCRIPTIONS for one year, $1.50 each; FIVE
+SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7--payable in advance: postage free.
+Subscriptions will be commenced with the Number current at the time of
+receipt of order, except in cases where the subscribers otherwise
+direct.
+
+The Second Volume will begin with No. 53, to be issued November 2, 1880.
+Subscriptions should be sent in before that date, or as early as
+possible thereafter.
+
+The Bound Volume for 1880, containing the first fifty-two Numbers, will
+be ready early in November. Price $3, postage prepaid. The cover for
+YOUNG PEOPLE for 1880 is now ready. Price 35 cents; postage 13 cents
+additional.
+
+Remittances should be made by _Post-office Money Order or Draft_, to
+avoid risk of loss.
+
+  Address
+  HARPER & BROTHERS,
+  FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: SOME ANSWERS TO WIGGLE No. 14, OUR ARTIST'S IDEA, AND NEW
+WIGGLE No. 15.]
+
+
+The following names are of those who sent answers to Wiggle No. 14:
+
+G. B. Dimmick, Willie R. Perkins, G. C. Meyer, Mary A. Hale, H. M. P.,
+Hudson Taylor, Wee Tot, M. Prall Grant, Eddie Hunter, Cloyd D. Browns,
+Alice Rhawn, Arthur L. Bumpus, Robert M., S. J. G., B. R. Howell, Edith
+Bidwell, E. C. K., C. F. Peck, Jun., James L. Busbee, Catharine, S. C.
+Register, Dimple McCrea, Irish Stew, George Broomhall, Bernie
+Wurriochke, F. R. Powley, Robert G. Bidwell, W. H. Western, D. C. Hick,
+H. Jacobs, Isabel Jacobs, Julia Maude Sickels, May Rickerson, Wiggle
+Maker, A. H. Addington, Bessie B. Anderson, Horace F. Ames, Everett C.
+Fay, Bront Smith, L. D. H., Glen Hughes, S. Knight Satterlee, William
+McClellands, George McClellands, John A. Tompkins, Herbert Fusselle,
+Effie Meacham, Jasper Bines, Sol. Jacobs, J. L. Bushnell, Hal, M. F.
+Krum, Fannie Hartwell, M. E. Farrell, Hebe, Tom, C. S. W., D. Brookmire,
+Vinnie J., S. F. Rupert, Sol, C. L. McL., Gid, A. J. D., Marvin Burt,
+Charles D. Rhodes, Theresa Morro, Toots, Frank Ostrandes, Matilda R.
+Bowie, Jennie Stille, E. W. L., V. L. Seche, Alfred Hossler, Robert
+Andrews, Jun., C. L. Hooper, Dudley Willinnes, George Oakley, Rosa Kent
+Gregory, Jun., M. E. B., S. McL., John McK. Burno, Charles N. Hoar, F.
+Uhlenhaut, C. W. P., Mark Manley, Eddie S. Hequembourg, Goldie Williams,
+H. W. Smith, Donna Aline, Eva Prichard, John White, Myrtle Lake, Fredy
+Leser, Edwin Preston, A. S., W. S., E. S., F. B., Mary Green, J. N.
+Howe, O. A. Mueller, E. J. B., Walter Plumb, Pet Bowman, Nattie L.
+Francis, Charley B. Hall, Katie Hall, R. L. Hall, Jun., H. L. Easton,
+Bessie Linn, Georgie Linn, Eliza B. Bartlett, Harry R. Bartlett, John H.
+Bartlett, Jun., Eddie Bartlett, William O. Brackett, Pearl Hare.
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left'><a href="#RABBITS_TO_FIND"><b>RABBITS TO FIND.</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><a href="#WHO_WAS_PAUL_GRAYSON"><b>WHO WAS PAUL GRAYSON?</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_PARASOL_ANTS_AND_THE_FORAGING_ANTS"><b>THE PARASOL ANTS AND THE FORAGING ANTS.</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_PLUMES_OF_CRECY1"><b>THE PLUMES OF CR&Eacute;CY.</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><a href="#SUMAC_HUNTING"><b>SUMAC HUNTING.</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><a href="#OLD_TIMES_IN_THE_COLONIES"><b>OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES.</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_ANGEL_IN_THE_LILLY_FAMILY"><b>THE ANGEL IN THE LILLY FAMILY.</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><a href="#OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX"><b>OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.</b></a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><a href="#WIGGLES"><b>WIGGLES.</b></a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_745" id="Page_745">[Pg 745]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;">
+<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="387" alt="Banner: Harper&#39;s Young People" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style='width: 100%;' />
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Vol</span>. I.&mdash;<span class="smcap">No</span>. 51.</td><td align='center'><span class="smcap">Published by HARPER &amp; BROTHERS, New York</span>.</td><td align='right'><span class="smcap">Price Four Cents</span>.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Tuesday, October 19, 1880.</td><td align='center'>Copyright, 1880, by <span class="smcap">Harper &amp; Brothers</span>.</td><td align='right'>$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<hr style='width: 100%;' />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"><a name="RABBITS_TO_FIND" id="RABBITS_TO_FIND"></a>
+<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="700" height="493" alt="IN THE CORN FIELD." title="" />
+<span class="caption">IN THE CORN FIELD.</span>
+</div>
+
+<h2>RABBITS TO FIND.</h2>
+
+<h3>BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.</h3>
+
+<p>"I say, Tad Murray, what's made you so late with your cows this
+morning?"</p>
+
+<p>"Late? Well, I guess you'd be late if you'd had such a time as I did. It
+was all old Ben's fault."</p>
+
+<p>"Ben's? Why, there he is now, chasing the brindled heifer. If she'd only
+turn on him, she could pitch him over the fence like a forkful of hay."</p>
+
+<p>"He's a better cow-dog than that ragged little terrier of yours, Carr
+Hotchkiss; but he's an awful fellow to let into a corn field, 'specially
+'bout this time of year."</p>
+
+<p>"Into a corn field!"</p>
+
+<p>"When there's a lot of rabbits in the shocks."</p>
+
+<p>"Are there rabbits in your corn?"</p>
+
+<p>"It's just alive with 'em. And Ben he gets after 'em, and the corn's all
+cut and shocked, and he'll tear a shock of corn to pieces in no time;
+and father says it's too bad, for he hasn't any time to kill rabbits."</p>
+
+<p>"Tell you what, Tad, Whip's the best dog in the world for rabbits."</p>
+
+<p>"Is he?"</p>
+
+<p>"He wouldn't hurt a shock of corn if he scratched clean through it. I'll
+fetch him along soon's you get your cows in; and we'll get Dan Burrel
+and Eph McCormick and Frank Perry, and we'll have the biggest rabbit
+hunt you ever heard of."</p>
+
+<p>"Don't I wish I had a gun!"</p>
+
+<p>"Father's got one, but he won't let me put a finger on it."</p>
+
+<p>"So's my father got one. It's a splendid good gun, too, but one of the
+triggers is gone, and there's a hole you could stick your finger into in
+the right barrel, where it got bursted once."</p>
+
+<p>"We don't want any guns. You hurry your cows in. There! the brindled
+heifer's given Ben an awful dig."</p>
+
+<p>"He won't care."</p>
+
+<p>Old Ben did care, however, for he left the brindled heifer suddenly, and
+came back toward the boys, with his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_746" id="Page_746">[Pg 746]</a></span> wise-looking head cocked on one
+side, as much as to say, "Didn't I hear you two saying something about
+rabbits?"</p>
+
+<p>It was less than half an hour before they were telling him a good deal
+about that kind of game. They gathered the rest of their hunting party
+on their way back to Squire Murray's, only they did not waste any time
+going to the house. It was a shorter cut through the wheat stubble and
+the wood lot to the big corn field in the hollow.</p>
+
+<p>Corn, corn, corn. Squire Murray said he had never before raised so good
+a crop in all his life. And then he had added that the rabbits and
+squirrels and woodchucks were likely to be his best market, for they
+were husking it for him, and not charging him a cent. Only they carried
+off all they husked without paying for it, and he was compelled to
+charge that part of his crop to "rabbit account."</p>
+
+<p>The old squire loved a bit of fun as well as anybody, and it was a pity
+he could not have been in his own corn field that morning.</p>
+
+<p>Tad Murray had to catch hold of old Ben the moment they were over the
+fence, for he half buried himself in the nearest shock of corn the first
+thing.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh dear! if there was only one of 'em in sight, so he'd have something
+to run after!"</p>
+
+<p>"Whip! Whip!" shouted Carr Hotchkiss. "Rabbits, Whip&mdash;rabbits!"</p>
+
+<p>Whip had been dancing around the shock as if the ground under him were
+red-hot, and he couldn't keep his feet on any one spot for two seconds;
+but now he made a sudden dive into the gap from which Tad had pulled out
+old Ben.</p>
+
+<p>"Find 'em, Whip&mdash;find 'em!"</p>
+
+<p>"There's a rabbit in there somewhere," said Dan Burrel, in a loud,
+earnest whisper.</p>
+
+<p>"Look out you don't scare him," whispered back Eph McCormick; and Frank
+Perry picked up a long stiff corn stalk, and began to poke it in at
+every crack he could find.</p>
+
+<p>"Don't, Frank; you'll scare the rabbit."</p>
+
+<p>"Scare him, Eph? Why, that's just what we're up to. If we don't scare
+him, he won't come out."</p>
+
+<p>There was a loud whine from Whip at that moment, and a sound of very
+vigorous pawing and scratching away in out of sight.</p>
+
+<p>"Do rabbits ever bite?" said Frank, excitedly.</p>
+
+<p>"Rabbits? bite a dog?" said Carr, scornfully. "I'd back Whip all alone
+against all the rabbits Squire Murray's got."</p>
+
+<p>Another whine from Whip, and more pawing and rustling in that mysterious
+place he had scratched into. Every boy of them wished he were in there
+with a double-barrelled gun or something.</p>
+
+<p>"Tad," said Frank Perry, "maybe it isn't a rabbit. Maybe it's something
+big."</p>
+
+<p>"Woodchucks?"</p>
+
+<p>"Are there any 'coons around here nowadays?"</p>
+
+<p>"Haven't seen any; but the rabbits are awful big ones, some of 'em."</p>
+
+<p>Yelp, yelp, yelp, from the dog inside, and his voice had a smothered and
+anxious sound.</p>
+
+<p>"He's got him!" exclaimed Tad. But he had better have kept his hold upon
+Ben for a moment longer. It had been pretty hard work the last minute or
+so, for Ben understood every sound Whip had been making. All it had
+meant really was: "Ben! boys! there's a rabbit here, and he keeps just
+about a foot ahead of me. He's three sizes smaller than I am, and he can
+get through the shock faster. One of you be on the look-out for him on
+that further side."</p>
+
+<p>The instant Tad loosened his arms from around Ben's neck, the sagacious
+old fellow sprang forward&mdash;not at the hole where Whip went in, but
+straight across, where there was no hole at all, till he came to make
+one.</p>
+
+<p>There was a big one there before any boy of them all knew what Ben was
+up to. How the corn stalks did fly as he pawed his way in and tore them
+aside with his great strong teeth! If he was not much of a hand at
+setting up a shock, he was a mouth and four paws at pulling one down.</p>
+
+<p>"Ben! Ben!" shouted Tad. "Come here! Rabbits, Ben&mdash;rabbits! Come here,
+sir."</p>
+
+<p>As if Ben needed anybody to say "rabbits" to him, after he had listened
+to all that anxious whimpering from Whip!</p>
+
+<p>"Shake the shock a little," said Dan Burrel. "He's in there somewhere."</p>
+
+<p>He suited the action to the word, but that was all that was needed, and
+down it came, flat on the ground, with a big dog and a small one and
+five excited boys tearing around among the ruins.</p>
+
+<p>There was a rabbit there too when the shock fell over, but he came out
+of the confusion with a great leap, and would have made his escape
+entirely if it had not been for the long legs of old Ben.</p>
+
+<p>There was no time given the rabbit to hunt for another hiding-place, for
+before the boys and Whip had quite made up their minds what had become
+of their game, Ben was shaking him by the back of the neck half way down
+the field.</p>
+
+<p>"I say, boys," said Tad, "we must set this shock up again. There comes
+Josephus, and if we leave such a mess as this is behind us, he won't let
+us go after another rabbit."</p>
+
+<p>Josephus was Tad's elder brother, and he had been sent down there by his
+mother to get a pumpkin for some pies. There were plenty of them, that
+had been planted among the corn, and it was easy enough to pick out a
+good one and go back to the house; but Joe saw what the boys were about,
+and he stood for a moment looking at them.</p>
+
+<p>"Set it up carefully," whispered Eph McCormick; "Joe's watching us."</p>
+
+<p>"We've got one rabbit, anyhow."</p>
+
+<p>"I say, what's become of Whip?"</p>
+
+<p>"Never mind, boys. Hurry this thing together again."</p>
+
+<p>So they did, and they were so intent on repairing the mischief they had
+done that they did not see what Josephus and the two dogs were doing
+meantime.</p>
+
+<p>"I've got him!"</p>
+
+<p>They were all standing back and looking at their work to see if it was
+just as good as it had been before it tumbled, when they heard Joe
+shouting that to them from the other side of the field.</p>
+
+<p>"I've got him! I wouldn't give much for a lot of boys that can't catch
+rabbits without tearing the corn to pieces. Send in the little dog every
+time, and wait till the rabbit comes out. The big dog's bound to catch
+him if you give him a fair chance."</p>
+
+<p>"That's what we'll do," said Tad. "Joe's picking up his pumpkin. He's
+all right."</p>
+
+<p>No doubt he was, but he would much rather have staid with them in the
+corn field than have carried that great yellow ball half a mile to the
+house.</p>
+
+<p>There was plenty of fun after that, for both dogs and boys had learned
+that there was a right way to work at that kind of hunting. Before noon
+they had thirteen fine large rabbits hanging on the fence, and nobody
+could have told by the look of any shock in the field that either a dog
+or a boy had been through it.</p>
+
+<p>"Boys," said Squire Murray, when he met them coming through the
+barn-yarn gate, "which of you caught the most rabbits?"</p>
+
+<p>"Which of us caught the most?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, that's what I'd like to know. Which of you is the one I want to
+hire to catch my rabbits for me?"</p>
+
+<p>The boys looked at one another for a moment, and then Tad slowly
+remarked, "Well, father, I guess it's Ben. He got the first bite at
+every one of 'em."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_747" id="Page_747">[Pg 747]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h4><a name="WHO_WAS_PAUL_GRAYSON" id="WHO_WAS_PAUL_GRAYSON"></a>[Begun in No. 46 of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, September 14.]</h4>
+
+<h2>WHO WAS PAUL GRAYSON?</h2>
+
+<h3>BY JOHN HABBERTON,</h3>
+
+<h4><span class="smcap">Author of "Helen's Babies."</span></h4>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter VI</span>.</h3>
+
+<h3>THE BEANTASSEL BENEFIT.</h3>
+
+<p>Of the many boys who were curious about Paul Grayson's antecedents, no
+one devoted more attention to the subject than Benny Mallow. Benny was
+short, and Paul was tall; Benny was fat, and Paul was thin; Benny's hair
+was light, while Paul's was black as jet; Benny had light blue eyes,
+while those of Paul were of a rich brown; Benny always had something to
+say about himself, while Paul never seemed to think his affairs of the
+slightest interest to any one but himself: so, taking all things into
+account, it is not wonderful that Benny Mallow spent whole half-hours in
+contemplating his friend with admiration and wonder.</p>
+
+<p>Still more, as Benny had been accepted by every one as Paul's particular
+friend, he actually was besieged with all sorts of questions, and to
+answer these without letting himself down in the estimation of the
+school was no easy matter, when he did not know any more about Paul than
+any one else did. One question, however, he settled to the entire
+satisfaction of every one but Napoleon Nott&mdash; Grayson was not an exiled
+prince. Benny was sure of this, because he had asked Paul if he had ever
+been on the other side of the ocean, and Paul had answered that he had
+not. Notty endeavored to make light of this evidence by showing how easy
+it would have been to spirit the mysterious person away from his royal
+home and to America while he was a baby, and therefore too young to know
+anything about it, but Will Palmer told Notty that it was about time to
+stop making a fool of himself, and the other boys present said they
+thought so too, at which Notty became so angry that he vowed, in the
+presence of at least a dozen boys, that when the truth came out, and all
+the boys wanted to borrow his copy of <i>The Exiled Prince: a Tale of
+Woe</i>, he would not lend it to them, even if it were to save them from
+death; he would not even let them look at the cover, with its picture of
+the prince and the name of the publisher.</p>
+
+<p>Meanwhile Mr. Morton had continued his visits to the prisoners and to
+the poor of the town, and out of school hours he had so interested the
+boys in some of the suffering families of worthless men or widowed
+women, that it was agreed by the whole school that the teasing of any of
+the boys of these families about the holes in their trousers, or
+provoking fights with or between them, should entirely stop; indeed, as
+this suggestion came from Bert Sharp, who was fonder of fighting than
+any other boy in the town, the school could not well do otherwise.</p>
+
+<p>The boys went even farther: when one day old Peter Beantassel, whose
+family was always on the verge of starvation, spent on drink the
+accidental earnings of a week, and then fell into an abandoned well and
+was drowned, it was decided by the school to give an exhibition for the
+benefit of Mrs. Beantassel and her six children. Mr. Morton was
+delighted, and promised to secure a church or hall without expense to
+the boys, and to collect enough money from the public to pay for
+printing the tickets. The boys at once began work in tremendous earnest;
+they were for a fortnight so busy at determining upon a programme, and
+studying, rehearsing, selling tickets, and exacting promises from people
+who would not purchase in advance, that there was but little playing
+before school and during recess, blackberry hedges were neglected, and
+the trout in the single brook near the town had not the slightest excuse
+for apprehension.</p>
+
+<p>Paul Grayson entered into the spirit of the occasion as thoroughly as
+any one else; he volunteered to recite Longfellow's "Psalm of Life," and
+when the farce of <i>Box and Cox</i> was about to be given up because no boy
+was willing to dress up in women's clothes, and be laughed at by all the
+larger girls, for playing the part of Mrs. Bouncer, Paul volunteered for
+that unpopular character, and saved the play. But this was not all.
+There were to be some tableaux, and as Mr. Morton had been asked to
+suggest some scenes, particularly one or two with Indians in them, and
+was as fond of pointing a moral as teachers usually are, one of his
+tableaux, to be called "Civilization," was a scene in the interior of an
+Indian's wigwam. The squaw, who had just been killed, was lying dead on
+the floor; her husband, with his hands tied, stood bleeding between two
+soldiers, while between father and mother stood the half-grown son,
+wondering what it all was about. As all of the boys wanted to see this
+tragic picture, all of them declined to take part in it; Joe Appleby had
+been heard to remark with a sneer that only very small and green boys
+cared to look at Indians, so he was asked to take the part of the
+wretched son himself; but he said that when any one saw him making a
+fool of himself by browning his face and dressing up in rags, he hoped
+some one would tell him about it: so Grayson, as the only other tall boy
+who had dark hair that was not cut short, was cast for this part also,
+and offered no objection. As for the bleeding chieftain, Napoleon Nott
+fought hard to pose in that character, and was quieted only by being
+allowed to play the dead squaw, which all the boys told him he ought
+easily to see was the more romantic part, besides being one in which he
+could by no chance make any mistake.</p>
+
+<p>The place selected for the entertainment was the lecture-room of the
+Presbyterian church, and the boys had therefore to give up their darling
+project of devoting half an hour of the evening to amateur negro
+minstrelsy, for one of the deacons said that while he sometimes doubted
+that even an organ was a proper musical instrument for use in sacred
+buildings, he certainly was not going to tolerate banjos and bones. This
+decision was a great disappointment to Benny Mallow, who had been
+selected by the managers to perform upon the tambourine, but in the
+revision of the programme Benny was assigned to duty in a tableau as a
+little fat goblin, and this so tickled his fancy that he did not suffer
+long by the disappointment.</p>
+
+<p>At last the eventful night arrived. Some of the boys did not leave the
+lecture-room at all after the last rehearsal, not even to get their
+suppers, for fear they should be late, and those who reached the room
+barely in time to take their parts had all they could do to squeeze
+through the crowd that blocked the doors and filled the aisles. The
+spectacle of so crowded a house raised the boys to a high pitch of
+excitement, which was increased by various peeps from the curtains that
+served as dressing-rooms at the Beantassel children, who by some
+thoughtful soul had been provided with free seats in the extreme front
+bench; there they were, all but the baby; they had been provided with
+clothing which, though old, was far more sightly than the rags they
+usually wore, and although they did not seem as much at ease as some
+others among the spectators, their eyes stood so very open, then and
+throughout the evening, that even Joe Appleby, who had reluctantly
+consented to pose, in his best clothes, with gloves, cane, and high hat,
+as Young America in a tableau of "The Nations," agreed with himself that
+the exhibition was rather a meritorious idea after all, and that even if
+the boys did as badly as he knew they would, he was glad it was sure to
+pay.</p>
+
+<p>But the boys did not do badly; on the contrary, the general performance
+would have been quite creditable to adults. The opening was somewhat
+dismal; it was announced to consist of a duet for two flutes by Will
+Palmer and Ned Johnston. The boys had practiced industriously at several
+airs in order to discover which would be best, and at last they supposed
+they had fully agreed; but when<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_748" id="Page_748">[Pg 748]</a></span> seated Ned began the "Miserere" from
+<i>Trovatore</i>, while Will started "The Old Folks at Home," and each was
+sure the other was wrong, and would correct himself, which the other in
+both cases failed to do, and finally both boys retired abruptly, amid
+considerable laughter, and fought the matter out in the dressing-room.</p>
+
+<p>Paul Grayson soon restored order, however, by his rendering of the
+"Psalm of Life." He had a fine voice, and he spoke the lines as if he
+meant them; so gloriously did his voice ring that even the boys in the
+dressing-room kept silence and listened, though they had heard the same
+verses a hundred times before.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 244px;">
+<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="244" height="400" alt="PAUL AS A CHIEF&#39;S SON." title="" />
+<span class="caption">PAUL AS A CHIEF&#39;S SON.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>Most of the performances that followed went very smoothly, although
+Benny Mallow, who played the Hatter's part in <i>Box and Cox</i>, caused some
+confusion by laughing frequently and unexpectedly, because Paul's
+disguise as Mrs. Bouncer affected him powerfully in spite of the efforts
+made by Sam Wardwell, as the Printer, to restrain him. The tableaux
+pleased the audience greatly; even that of "Prometheus," with Ned
+Johnston as the sufferer, and Mrs. Battle's big red rooster as the
+vulture, brought down the house.</p>
+
+<p>But the great tableau of the evening was the teacher's "Civilization."
+When Paul Grayson had understood fully what the scene was to be, he
+refused so earnestly to have anything to do with it that the boys were
+startled. They did not excuse him from taking the part of the young
+Indian, however; they pleaded so steadily that at last Paul consented,
+but in worse temper than any one had ever seen him before. No one could
+complain of the manner in which he acted on the stage, however. When the
+curtain was drawn he was seen standing beside his dead mother, and
+shaking a fist at the soldiers; in color, dress, pose, and spirit he
+seemed to be a real Indian, if the audience was a competent judge; then,
+when the applause justified a recall, as it soon did, the drawn curtain
+disclosed Paul clinging to the wounded brave as if nothing should ever
+tear him away.</p>
+
+<p>Napoleon Nott saw all this, although, as the Indian boy's mother, he was
+supposed to be dead beyond recall. Suddenly he felt himself to be
+inspired, and when the curtain was down he flew into the dressing-room
+and exclaimed, "I've got it!"</p>
+
+<p>"Be careful not to hurt it," said Canning Forbes, sarcastically.</p>
+
+<p>"I've got it!" declared Notty, without noticing Canning's cruel speech.
+"Grayson is an Indian, a chief's son. You don't suppose he could have
+made believe so well as all that, do you? That's it. I knew he was a
+great person of some sort. Sh&mdash;h! he's coming."</p>
+
+<p>Somehow the boys who had been able to peep out at the tableau did not
+laugh at Notty this time. Paul, in his Indian dress, had greatly
+impressed them all before he left the dressing-room, and certainly his
+acting had been unlike anything the boys had seen other boys do. The
+subject was talked over in whispers, so that Paul should not hear,
+during the remainder of the evening, with the result that that very
+night at least six boys told other boys or their own parents, in the
+strictest confidence, of course, that there was more truth than
+make-believe about Paul Grayson as an Indian. And the parents told the
+same story to other parents, the boys told it to other boys, and within
+twenty-four hours Paul Grayson was a far more interesting mystery than
+before.</p>
+
+<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 311px;">
+<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="311" height="600" alt="&quot;HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG.&quot;&mdash;From an Etching by W.&nbsp;S. Coleman." title="" />
+<span class="caption">&quot;HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG.&quot;&mdash;<span class="smcap">From an Etching by W.&nbsp;S. Coleman</span>.</span>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_PARASOL_ANTS_AND_THE_FORAGING_ANTS" id="THE_PARASOL_ANTS_AND_THE_FORAGING_ANTS"></a>THE PARASOL ANTS AND THE FORAGING ANTS.</h2>
+
+<h3>BY CHARLES MORRIS.</h3>
+
+<p>Was there ever such a prattler as the warm-hearted little brook that ran
+by the foot of the garden of Woodbine Cottage? To be sure, it had good
+reason to be jolly, for the sunlight buried itself in its bubbles till
+they sparkled like diamonds; and a hedge of roses overhung it, and
+dropped crimson leaves that floated away like fairy boats on its bright
+surface; and broad-winged butterflies floated, like tiny ships of the
+air, above the happy stream. And away it ran, prattling and chattering,
+and picking its way through moss-covered stones that lifted above its
+surface, and tumbling hastily down in little cascades, as though it were
+in a desperate hurry to get on in the world, and altogether<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_749" id="Page_749">[Pg 749]</a></span> misbehaving
+itself just as any madcap little stream might when out on a frolic.</p>
+
+<p>Its bank beyond the garden was bordered with the white and gold of
+daisies and buttercups, and the red and green of blossoming clover, in
+which Harry Mason was almost buried, only his bright cheeks and curly
+hair showing out of this verdant nest. As for Uncle Ben, he was gravely
+seated on the bank of the brook, holding his little friend Willie on his
+knee. The little chap was quite as grave as his big uncle.</p>
+
+<p>"You neber tole us one word yet 'bout them soldiers an' cows an' tings,
+'mong the ants, Uncle Ben," he earnestly remarked, "an' you knows you
+said you was goin' to tell us all an' all an' all about 'em. An' I don't
+think it's fair."</p>
+
+<p>"Why, I certainly must have done so," replied Uncle Ben, with affected
+surprise. "You have surely forgotten. I shall have to leave this affair
+for Harry to settle."</p>
+
+<p>"Then Willie is right," returned Harry, from his grassy nest. "You told
+us everything else about them, but you never said one thing about the
+cows or the soldiers."</p>
+
+<p>"Everything else about them!" exclaimed Uncle Ben, with a sly smile.
+"Why, I know I did not say a word about the parasol ants, or the
+foraging ants, or the&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"The parasol ants!" cried Willie, quite forgetting the cows and the
+soldiers in his surprise. "You doesn't mean, Uncle Ben, that they
+carries parasols&mdash;jes like mamma, now?"</p>
+
+<p>Harry, too, had lifted himself up on his elbow, the light of curiosity
+gleaming in his eyes.</p>
+
+<p>"They are the most comical things in the world," replied their uncle.
+"Just imagine now a great line of ants, marching along like a school of
+young ladies out on a holiday, each of them holding a piece of green
+leaf over its head like a parasol. It is not strange that people fancied
+that this was done to keep the sun off, and called them parasol ants."</p>
+
+<p>"What do they do it for, then?" asked Harry, eagerly.</p>
+
+<p>"Maybe them's the soldiers," suggested Willie; "maybe it's ant guns
+they's carryin'."</p>
+
+<p>"We have not got to the soldiers yet," said his uncle, smiling. "These
+leaves are really used in building their nests. But the whole thing is
+very curious. The ants climb up the bushes, and run out on the leaves.
+There they cut, with their sharp jaws, a little round piece from the
+leaf. Then they pick this up, getting a tight hold on it, you may be
+sure, and away they scamper for the nest. But these ants are not the
+nest-builders; they are only like the laborers who carry bricks to the
+bricklayers. They drop their leaves beside the nest, and run back for
+more, leaving the real builders to finish the work."</p>
+
+<p>"Regular little hod-carriers," suggested Harry. "But they don't build a
+nest of little bits of leaf, I hope?"</p>
+
+<p>"Not exactly. The leaves are mingled through the earth to sustain the
+great domes which they erect. The houses which these tropical ants build
+are wonderfully different from the little ant-hills we see about here.
+They are not very high; it is true. The dome rises about two feet above
+the ground. But then it is more than forty<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_750" id="Page_750">[Pg 750]</a></span> feet across. One of them
+would reach nearly across our garden, like a great white swelling upon
+the face of the earth. They certainly need something to hold together
+the wet clay of their great domes."</p>
+
+<p>"But our ants here live 'way down, 'way under-ground," remarked Willie.</p>
+
+<p>"So do these," replied Uncle Ben. "The dome is only the roof of their
+house. They are famous diggers&mdash;I assure you of that. Talk about our
+miners, with their tunnels running deep into the mountains: why, their
+work is nothing in comparison with that of these little creatures. They
+make wonderful under-ground tunnels, which run out from the nest in all
+directions, and to incredible distances. No one sees these tunnels,
+however, unless they may happen to come to the surface in a very
+disastrous manner, as they sometimes do."</p>
+
+<p>"How do you mean?" asked Harry, curiously. He had now crept out of his
+lair, and was seated quietly beside his uncle, with his feet hanging
+just above the stream.</p>
+
+<p>"Why, in one case, in South America, they tunnelled through the bank of
+a reservoir. The first thing the people knew, the water was rushing out
+in a torrent. It was never discovered what was the trouble until the
+reservoir was quite empty, when they found that the parasol ants had
+caused the mischief."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, I do declare!" cried Willie, laughing so heartily that he nearly
+tumbled off Uncle Ben's knee. "Wasn't that jes ever so cunning?"</p>
+
+<p>"Why, you don't think they did it just a-purpose, for nothing but
+mischief, I hope?" asked Harry, with some indignation.</p>
+
+<p>"I s'poses so," replied Willie, laughing to that extent that he dropped
+his hat into the stream. And then there was a lively scramble until it
+was rescued again from the merry waters, which were running away with it
+as fast as they could.</p>
+
+<p>"You're such a comical little fellow," said Harry, as he shook the water
+from the dripping hat, and pressed it tightly down on Willie's head.
+"Anybody that can't laugh without shaking his hat overboard!"</p>
+
+<p>"But that was so funny 'bout the ants lettin' the water all run away!
+don' know how I's to help laughin'," retorted Willie.</p>
+
+<p>"There is another story told," continued Uncle Ben, "about a nest of
+parasol ants that dug a tunnel into a gold mine. The under-ground
+streams got turned into this tunnel, and the waters poured in until they
+flooded the mine. It cost thousands of dollars to pump the water out,
+and get the mine ready for working again. And the owners had first to
+send for a professional ant-killer, and destroy the ant nest, before it
+was safe to go on."</p>
+
+<p>"A professional ant-killer?" repeated Harry, opening his eyes wide in
+surprise.</p>
+
+<p>"Yes: there are persons who make a regular business of destroying these
+troublesome ants."</p>
+
+<p>"Guess that can't be much trouble," said Willie, disdainfully. "Jes got
+to put your foot on 'em, an' smash 'em."</p>
+
+<p>"I hardly think your foot would cover forty square feet of ground,"
+remarked his uncle, lifting up the diminutive foot, and very gravely
+examining it. "And then there are the tunnels, running eighty or a
+hundred feet away in all directions. I am afraid this foot would not be
+quite large enough."</p>
+
+<p>"I don't care," cried Willie, jerking his foot away. "I was thinkin'
+'bout ants like what we have here."</p>
+
+<p>"But how do they kill them, then?" asked Harry, looking up inquiringly
+into his uncle's face.</p>
+
+<p>"They build a sort of oven over the doorway of the nest," was the reply.
+"In this they make a fire of charcoal and pungent herbs, and some
+negroes are stationed with bellows, driving the smoke and fumes from the
+fire down into the nest. When smoke is seen rising from the ground
+anywhere, they know that a tunnel opens in that spot, and they stop it
+up with clay. But it is no light task to kill out a nest of ants. The
+negroes are kept constantly at work with their bellows for four days and
+nights, driving down the smothering fumes. At the end of that time the
+oven is taken away and the nest opened, every tunnel being laid bare. If
+any ants are found to be alive, they are instantly killed, and all the
+openings are stopped up with clay, which is stamped down hard, until the
+whole nest is filled with it."</p>
+
+<p>"Who would ever have thought that a nest of ants would be so hard to
+kill?" remarked Harry, reflectively.</p>
+
+<p>"All that trouble jes to kill some ole ants," said Willie, getting down
+and walking away disdainfully. "Guess big men with their big boots could
+smash 'em easier 'an that if they wanted to."</p>
+
+<p>"Are there other ants that make such tunnels?" asked Harry.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh yes; some of the ants are wonderful diggers. There is a Texan
+species which on one occasion was found to have run a tunnel under a
+creek, fifteen or twenty feet deep and thirty feet wide, for the purpose
+of getting at the vegetables and fruits in a gentleman's garden on the
+other side of the creek."</p>
+
+<p>"I think <i>they</i> should have been smoked out anyhow," said Harry.</p>
+
+<p>"Guess I'd pulled eberyting 'fore the ants got over," suggested Willie.</p>
+
+<p>"And what were those foraging ants you spoke of, Uncle Ben?"</p>
+
+<p>"Jes neber mine them," exclaimed Willie. "You knows you was goin' to
+tell all 'bout the cows, an' you ain't eber goin' to tell one word. I
+b'lieves you's jes funnin' with us, Uncle Ben. I jes b'lieves that,
+now."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh! you want to hear about the cows?" said his uncle, with a look of
+grave surprise. "Why, of course. The ant cows, you know, are everywhere.
+There is no trouble to find them."</p>
+
+<p>A stray branch of a grape-vine had grown over the hedge, and stretched
+itself across the brook. Uncle Ben bent it down and examined it for a
+minute.</p>
+
+<p>"Why, here they are now!" he exclaimed, pointing to some very small
+insects on one of the leaves, about which several ants were busying
+themselves. "These are the ant cows. And here are their keepers looking
+after them."</p>
+
+<p>"Them little tings cows!" said Willie, with a look of utter disdain.</p>
+
+<p>"You didn't expect to find them as big as our cows, I hope?" asked
+Harry.</p>
+
+<p>"Their real name is aphis, or plant-louse," said Uncle Ben. "They suck
+the juices of the leaves. These juices become in their bodies a sort of
+honey, which they yield from certain pores. The ants are very fond of
+this honey-dew, and lap it up eagerly. And if you watch close you may
+see them patting or stroking the aphides to make them yield the honey
+faster. That is what has been called milking their cows."</p>
+
+<p>"Well, that is very curious, I know," exclaimed Harry. "I am going to
+watch them after this."</p>
+
+<p>"Each ant seems to claim certain cows as his own property," continued
+Uncle Ben. "And he will bristle up angrily if any other ant strays into
+his pasture fields. But that is not the whole story. They not only milk
+these cows, but they tenderly raise their calves. Some species of the
+aphis live on the roots of plants. Around these the ants make their
+nests, so as to have their cows in stables of their own. And they take
+the greatest care of the eggs and the young of the aphides, raising them
+as tenderly as they raise their own young. No human farmer could be more
+careful of his own stock of cows and calves."</p>
+
+<p>"You 'mos' might as well say they's folks right out,"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_751" id="Page_751">[Pg 751]</a></span> ejaculated
+Willie, indignantly. "Anyhow, it's ole honey, an' it ain't milk at all."</p>
+
+<p>"I am sure it is not the fault of the ants if their cows give honey
+instead of milk," replied his uncle, with an odd smile. "And I have
+certainly seen folks who were not as wise as the ants."</p>
+
+<p>"But never mind the cows, Uncle Ben," persisted Harry. "I want to hear
+about the foraging ants. Where do they belong, and what queer things do
+they do?"</p>
+
+<p>"They are a South American ant," was the reply. "They may be seen at
+certain seasons marching along the ground in a long column, much like an
+army. They have officers, too. These are large-headed ants that march
+outside the column, and keep it in order. It is an immense army they
+command, I can assure you&mdash;greater than that with which Xerxes in old
+times invaded Greece; for there may be millions of ants in the line.
+There is another species which does not march in column, but in a close
+mass, often covering from six to ten square yards of ground."</p>
+
+<p>"But what are they after?" asked Harry.</p>
+
+<p>"That's jes what I wants to know," observed Willie, whose curiosity had
+returned.</p>
+
+<p>"They are after food," replied their uncle. "It is amusing to see the
+insects scampering off from their line of march. They seem to know the
+danger that threatens them, for scarcely a living thing escapes the
+sharp jaws of these fierce foragers. They send out side columns to
+search the ground and the bushes and low trees. When any insect is
+found, it is instantly surrounded and covered by these marauders, and
+torn to pieces, and carried off in fragments. But it is not in the trees
+and on the ground that they find their chief prey."</p>
+
+<p>"Where, then?" asked Harry, his great blue eyes fixed with speaking
+interest on his uncle's countenance.</p>
+
+<p>"In the houses. The foraging ants are a perfect blessing to the people
+of the villages, not a pest, as ants are in our houses. These warm
+regions, you know, have multitudes of insects that we never see. The
+houses are infested not only with rats and mice, roaches and fleas, but
+with snakes and scorpions, with huge spiders and with many other
+unpleasant things; so the village folks are glad enough to see the
+approach of the foraging ants. They throw open every door in their
+houses, unlock their drawers and trunks, and pull the clothes out on the
+floor. They then vacate the houses, and leave them to the ants, who soon
+stream in. Those who have seen them say that it is a wonderful
+spectacle. Nothing living escapes them. They search every hole, nook,
+and cranny. Here, dozens may be seen surrounding a great spider or
+scorpion; there, they chase sprawling long-legged creatures across the
+window-panes; yonder, hundreds of them may be observed dragging out a
+rat or a mouse which they have killed: even snakes can not escape from
+the sharp and poisonous bite of these bold foragers. It takes from three
+to four hours for them to clear out a house. They will not leave it
+until they are sure that not a living thing remains. Then they stream
+out again, carrying their prey with them; and the inhabitants gladly
+return, satisfied that they will have a month or two of comfort after
+this ants' house-cleaning."</p>
+
+<p>"I do b'lieve you's half funnin' again, Uncle Ben," declared Willie,
+with an aspect of severe doubt. "How's little tings like ants goin' to
+pull out snakes an' rats? I'd jes like to know that!"</p>
+
+<p>"But I forgot to tell you that these ants are much larger than any we
+have here. Some of the tropical ants are an inch long, and as large as a
+large wasp; so you may imagine that a whole army of them is not to be
+trifled with."</p>
+
+<p>"Is it them that's the soldiers, Uncle Ben?" asked Willie.</p>
+
+<p>"The soldiers? Oh, you want to hear about the soldiers&mdash;But, I declare,
+if there isn't the dinner-bell! Who would have thought that we had spent
+so much time over the ants?"</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_PLUMES_OF_CRECY1" id="THE_PLUMES_OF_CRECY1"></a>THE PLUMES OF CR&Eacute;CY.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></h2>
+
+<h3>BY LILLIE E. BARR.</h3>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">I was reading of kings and nobles,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Tourney and knightly gage,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Till the summer twilight faded</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">From Froissart's ancient page.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Then in the darkened parlor</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">I saw a fairer sight&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">The brave old King whose valor makes</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">The shame of Cr&eacute;cy light.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">He stood on the little hill-side,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Taller than all his peers,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Quite blind, but with eyes uplifted,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Hoary with many years.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Still wearing his golden armor,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Crowned with his royal crown,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Leaning upon the sword with which</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">He struck the Soldan down.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And high in his gleaming helmet</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Three ostrich plumes, snow white&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">From the Paynim's brow he tore them</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">In some Jabluna fight.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">All scarred with Carpathian arrows,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">His heart with Honor flames:</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"Advance!" he cries, "and fight for France,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Bohemia, and St. James!"</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">But two of his knights staid by him,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">And little did they say;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">The blind old King talked with his heart,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">And that was in the fray.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Alas! alas! He heard too soon</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">The sounds of shameful flight;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"Thank God," he sighed, "Bohemia's blind!"&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">He would not see this sight.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"Now, friends, one more good deed I claim,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Last service for your lord:</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">I ask a soldier's grave, good knights;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">I'll dig it with my sword.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">My horse's reins tie fast to yours&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">A friend on either hand&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Then ride straight on to where you see</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">The English archers stand."</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">They kissed their King most tenderly,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Then three as one they went</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Down to the field of certain death</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">With proud and glad content.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">They cut a path to where Prince Charles,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">The King's son, stood at bay:</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">'Twas spirits, and not flesh and blood,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">For honor fought that day.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">The three white plumes above the gloom</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Gleamed like a snowy wing;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Victors and vanquished paused to watch</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">The blind Bohemian King.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Pierced oft by arrows, stained with blood,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">The Soldan's plumes still wave,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Until Bohemia's sword had cut</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Honor's unsullied grave.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Next day, when English heralds sought</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Over the fatal field</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Trampled lilies and flags of France,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">They found upon his shield</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">The blind old King of Bohemia,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Son and friends by his side;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">But torn and stained the snowy plumes</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">That long had been his pride.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Then said the Black Prince over him,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">"O knight, the bravest, best,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Thy plumes are dyed in hero's blood&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Henceforth they are my crest!"</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And still they wave o'er England's crown,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">And teach the young and brave,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">When all is lost but honor, then</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 27em;">Valor digs Honor's grave.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_752" id="Page_752">[Pg 752]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 398px;">
+<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="398" height="400" alt="JANUARY." title="" />
+<span class="caption">JANUARY.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="400" height="393" alt="FEBRUARY." title="" />
+<span class="caption">FEBRUARY.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="400" height="396" alt="MARCH." title="" />
+<span class="caption">MARCH.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="400" height="389" alt="APRIL." title="" />
+<span class="caption">APRIL.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 391px;">
+<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="391" height="400" alt="MAY." title="" />
+<span class="caption">MAY.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 394px;">
+<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="394" height="400" alt="JUNE." title="" />
+<span class="caption">JUNE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 5%;" />
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_753" id="Page_753">[Pg 753]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="400" height="400" alt="JULY." title="" />
+<span class="caption">JULY.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 395px;">
+<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="395" height="400" alt="AUGUST." title="" />
+<span class="caption">AUGUST.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 398px;">
+<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="398" height="400" alt="SEPTEMBER." title="" />
+<span class="caption">SEPTEMBER.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="400" height="398" alt="OCTOBER." title="" />
+<span class="caption">OCTOBER.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 396px;">
+<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="396" height="400" alt="NOVEMBER." title="" />
+<span class="caption">NOVEMBER.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 377px;">
+<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="377" height="400" alt="DECEMBER." title="" />
+<span class="caption">DECEMBER.</span>
+</div>
+
+<h3>THE MONTHS.&mdash;<span class="smcap">By Kate Greenaway</span>.</h3>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_754" id="Page_754">[Pg 754]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="SUMAC_HUNTING" id="SUMAC_HUNTING"></a>SUMAC HUNTING.</h2>
+
+<h3>BY J. ESTEN COOKE.</h3>
+
+<p>Anybody visiting the valley of Virginia in the autumn will be sure to
+notice, after sunset, all along the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains,
+little glimmering lights like stars. These are the fires in front of the
+small tents of the sumac hunters, who, after gathering sumac all day
+long, are laughing and talking with their wives and children as they eat
+their suppers before lying down to sleep.</p>
+
+<p>Sumac is a very pretty plant or shrub which grows a few feet high only,
+and has beautiful blood-red leaves springing from a delicate shoot, or
+bough. The stalk is smooth, and the leaves are almond-shaped, only more
+pointed. On the top of the plant and its larger boughs grow bunches of
+red berries in the shape of grape bunches; and the leaves and berries
+are of such a deep, rich crimson in the late autumn that they sometimes
+make the slopes of the hills appear as if they were on fire. If any
+little girl would like to dress the vases on the parlor mantelpiece
+prettily, she could not do better than collect a handful of these
+delicate tendrils with their scarlet leaves, and use them as a
+background to the lovely little autumn flowers&mdash;late primroses,
+stars-of-Bethlehem, wild honeysuckles, and fringed ferns&mdash;which grow in
+the woods and fields at this time of the year.</p>
+
+<p>But the honest country people who take so much pains about collecting
+sumac are not thinking about dressing vases with it. They gather it to
+sell, and are paid from one cent to a cent and a half a pound for it at
+the sumac mills. This may not seem much, but then the ocean is made up
+of drops, and with poor people a little money goes a long way. As little
+children can pull sumac just as well as grown people, a whole family may
+gather in a day several dollars' worth.</p>
+
+<p>It is used for dyeing, and is said to be better for that purpose than
+anything else to color fair leather and certain other fabrics. Great
+quantities of it are employed in printing calicoes in rich patterns, and
+the dresses worn by ladies and girls often owe their bright colors to
+the leaves of the sumac. The way in which it is collected and prepared
+for use is very simple. As soon as the leaves turn red, which is toward
+the end of summer, the sumac hunters begin their work. They scatter
+through the fields, or along the sides of the mountain, and break off
+the twigs on which the leaves are growing; for these twigs do not make
+the leaves less valuable. Then, when they have collected an armful, they
+put it in a pile or into bags, and as night comes on the whole is taken
+to one spot, from which it is hauled home in wagons. Here it is laid on
+the floor of the barn or any out-house, in the shade, so that it may dry
+very gradually, and keep the juices which afford the coloring matter.
+When this process of drying is gone through with, and the leaves are in
+a proper state, it is loaded on carts or wagons, in bags, and taken to
+the sumac mills, where it is weighed, and paid for by the owner of the
+mills at the rate, as I have said, of from one cent to a cent and a half
+a pound. The largest mills in Virginia, where the finest sumac grows&mdash;or
+at least a very fine article&mdash;are at Richmond; but at Winchester, in the
+lower part of the Shenandoah Valley, toward the Potomac, there is a big
+mill, where great quantities are purchased, and prepared for the use of
+the dyers. The leaves and small twigs are pounded and reduced to a fine
+dust, and then it is ready to be sent away. When it reaches the
+manufactories where it is to be used as a dye for leather, calico, etc.,
+it is mixed with what are called <i>mordants</i>, certain substances that
+make it <i>bite in</i>, as the word means, and take fast hold of the material
+to be dyed; and then there is the pretty calico with its bright colors,
+which can not be washed out.</p>
+
+<p>It is only of late years that much attention has been paid to it in
+Virginia. People thought more about raising corn and wheat than of
+gathering sumac; but in twenty years they have learned a great deal, and
+now begin to understand that "every little helps," and that if they can
+go with their wives and children and pull sumac, and then sell it, they
+can take their money and buy sugar and coffee, and perhaps some of the
+very calico for their little girls' dresses which the red leaves of the
+sumac make so pretty.</p>
+
+<p>The children like the "camping out" on the mountain in the pleasant
+summer and fall nights very much. It is a sort of frolic, and it is a
+very good thing to mix up pleasure with work: it makes the work much
+easier. The tents are very simple little affairs&mdash;only a breadth of
+canvas stretched across a ridge-pole, like the "comb" of a house, held
+up by forked sticks set in the ground. In this are spread what in
+Virginia are called "pine tags," that is, the tassels, or needles, of
+the pine-trees, which are dry and brown, and by spreading a blanket or
+old comforter on these you have an excellent soft bed. In front of the
+tent a fire is built to cook by, and by means of forked sticks a pot can
+be hung above the fire for making soup, boiling meat, etc. By this fire,
+as I have told you, the sumac hunters gather in the evening, after work,
+and laugh and talk and sing, and eat their suppers; or perhaps some one
+of them can play the fiddle, and he strikes up a dancing tune, and the
+girls and boys dance on the grass, and laugh and enjoy themselves much
+more than if they were in fine drawing-rooms. After a while the long
+day's work makes them sleepy, and they lie down on the fresh pine tags
+in the tent, and go to sleep&mdash;to be up at daylight, and once more at
+work hunting and gathering their sumac.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="OLD_TIMES_IN_THE_COLONIES" id="OLD_TIMES_IN_THE_COLONIES"></a>OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES.</h2>
+
+<h3>BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.</h3>
+
+<h3>No. VIII.</h3>
+
+<h3>THE BATTLE OF THE RANGERS.</h3>
+
+<p>When war broke out between France and England in 1755, the French and
+Indians came down from Canada and attacked the settlers of New England
+and New York, as they had done in previous wars, burning their
+dwellings, killing men and women, or carrying them to Canada as
+prisoners.</p>
+
+<p>The French had a fort at Crown Point, on Lake Champlain, and another at
+Ticonderoga; while the English had Fort William Henry, at the southern
+end of Lake George, and Fort Edward, on the Hudson.</p>
+
+<p>The English officers who had been sent over by the King to command the
+"Provincials," as the people of England called all who lived in America,
+thought that soldiers must march in the wilderness with just as much
+precision as along a hard beaten road, that they must move in platoons
+and columns, keeping step to the drum-beat. The French officers, on the
+other hand, adopted the plan of the Indians, marching in single file,
+each man carrying his provisions. They made quick movements, falling
+suddenly upon a settlement, with their Indian allies, making all the
+havoc possible, and before the settlers could gather to resist them,
+would be far on their way to Crown Point or Canada.</p>
+
+<p>Robert Rogers, of New Hampshire, who was fighting the French, prevailed
+upon Lord Loudon, the English commander-in-chief, to allow him to form a
+battalion of troops, who should have the privilege of scouting the woods
+around Lake George and Lake Champlain, to discover the movements of the
+French and Indians, to fall upon them just as they were stealing upon
+the English, strike a blow, and be gone before the French would know
+what had happened. He would play their own game upon them.</p>
+
+<p>Lord Loudon having given his consent, Major Rogers<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_755" id="Page_755">[Pg 755]</a></span> went to New
+Hampshire and enlisted his men. They were all young, strong, athletic.
+They had tramped over the hills and mountains of that province, hunting
+bears, and had set their traps along the streams for beavers. They could
+pick their way through the forest on a cloudy day when there was no sun
+to guide them, and could tell in the darkest and cloudiest night which
+way was north by feeling the bark on the trees&mdash;for the bark is always
+more mossy on the northern than on the side exposed to the sun.</p>
+
+<p>It was to be a service of hardship and privation. They would have to
+make long marches; to sleep on the ground; to endure great fatigue;
+brave the cold of winter, wrapping themselves in their blankets at
+night, and lying down with the snow for their bed.</p>
+
+<p>Although the hardships would be so great, Robert Rogers had no
+difficulty in obtaining all the men he wanted. The settlers had suffered
+so much from the enemy that they were eager to take their revenge. There
+was a fascination in the service. How stirring the thought of stealing
+through the woods, making roundabout marches, shooting a deer or bear,
+eating the nice steaks, lying down to sleep beneath the trees; up again
+in the morning, coming upon the French and Indians unawares, pouring in
+a volley, killing the savages or taking them prisoners, and returning in
+triumph!</p>
+
+<p>Major Rogers chose as lieutenant the man who had knocked the Indians
+about, right and left, when called upon to run the gauntlet&mdash;John Stark,
+who could follow a trail as well as any Indian, who was always cool and
+collected, and as brave as a lion. The men were called Rangers. They
+wore green frocks, and besides their rifles each man had a long knife
+which he could use in a close fight. They wore boots and leather
+leggings, and each man carried his rations&mdash;bread and cold corned
+beef&mdash;in a bag.</p>
+
+<p>The ice on Lake George was thick and strong in March, 1757, when the
+Rangers, seventy-four in number, with iron spurs on their feet, several
+days' rations in their bags, their blankets rolled upon their shoulders,
+marching in single file, with trailed arms, Major Rogers at the head,
+and John Stark in the rear, started from Fort William Henry.</p>
+
+<p>They made their way over the gleaming ice for two days, but on the third
+day they left the lake, put on their snow-shoes, entered the woods,
+marched past Ticonderoga, and came out upon the western shore of Lake
+Champlain, discovered a party of French, with horses and sleds, on their
+way from Ticonderoga to Crown Point. Stark, with a part of the Rangers,
+made a dash and captured seven prisoners. He did not see another party
+of French around a point of land in season to capture them. They escaped
+to Ticonderoga, and gave the alarm.</p>
+
+<p>Major Rogers knew that a large party of French and Indians would be sent
+out from Ticonderoga to intercept him, and at once started to return.</p>
+
+<p>It was a rainy day. The snow was damp and heavy. "We will go to our last
+night's camp, and dry our guns," said Major Rogers.</p>
+
+<p>They reached the camping-place, where the fires were still burning,
+dried their guns, put in new priming, and started once more, Rogers in
+front, Stark bringing up the rear.</p>
+
+<p>It was two o'clock in the afternoon. Rogers descended a hill, crossed a
+brook, and was picking his way up another hill, when he found himself
+face to face with more than two hundred French and Indians, the nearest
+not twenty feet distant.</p>
+
+<p>A volley. Lieutenant Kennedy and John Gardiner fall dead; a bullet
+glances from Rogers's skull, for a moment taking away his senses; the
+blood flows down his face, blinding him. Several other Rangers are
+wounded.</p>
+
+<p>"Form here."</p>
+
+<p>Lieutenant Stark issues the order, and the Rangers under his command
+take position on a little hill. The Rangers down in the valley fire a
+volley at the French, holding their ground till all the wounded can make
+their way back to Stark's position.</p>
+
+<p>Rogers wipes the blood from his face, and issues his orders.</p>
+
+<p>"You are to command the centre," he says to Stark.</p>
+
+<p>He sends Sergeants Walker and Phillips with eight men to the rear, to
+give notice of any attempt of the enemy to crawl round and attack from
+that direction.</p>
+
+<p>"Don't throw away your ammunition; keep cool; don't expose yourselves,"
+are the orders, and each Ranger takes position behind a tree. They know
+that the enemy outnumber them three to one, that they have had the
+advantage of the first fire; but each Ranger prepares to fight to the
+bitter end.</p>
+
+<p>Round through the woods steal a part of the French and Indians, making a
+wide circuit. Major Rogers reasoned correctly, and he posted the two
+sergeants in the right place. The eight Rangers pick off the French one
+by one, giving them such a warm reception that instead of rushing on,
+they remain at a distance.</p>
+
+<p>The other French, with a horde of Indians howling the war-whoop, begin
+the attack in front, the Indians springing from tree to tree, getting
+nearer and nearer. But the Rangers are on the watch, and many of the
+savages leap into the air and fall dead, or crawl away, leaving bloody
+trails upon the snow.</p>
+
+<p>"If you will surrender, we will give you good quarter," shouts the
+French commander.</p>
+
+<p>Major Rogers was faint from the loss of blood, and at the moment was
+faint-hearted. He feared that the Rangers would all be picked off before
+the fight would cease. It would be three hours to sunset. Could they
+hold out till then? He had no thought of surrendering, but would it not
+be best to retreat?</p>
+
+<p>John Stark's blood is up.</p>
+
+<p>"Retreat! No; that will be certain destruction. We can beat them here.
+I'll shoot the first man that attempts to retreat."</p>
+
+<p>It was bold language for him to use to his commander, but he knew that
+Rogers had been stunned by the bullet that had glanced from his skull,
+and was not quite himself.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 342px;">
+<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="342" height="400" alt="CUTTING OFF A QUEUE TO BIND A WOUND." title="" />
+<span class="caption">CUTTING OFF A QUEUE TO BIND A WOUND.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The fight goes on, the Rangers taking sure aim, the French firing more
+wildly, but still one by one the Rangers drop. Captain Spikeman and Mr.
+Baker are killed. A bullet strikes the lock of Stark's gun, and renders
+it useless. He sees a Frenchman fall at the instant, springs forward,
+seizes his gun, returns to his tree, and renews the fight.</p>
+
+<p>A bullet tears through Rogers's wrist, and the blood spurts out in a
+stream. It must be stopped, or he will bleed to death. Rogers wears his
+back hair braided in a queue.</p>
+
+<p>"Take your knife and cut off my queue," he says to one of the Rangers,
+who whips out his hunting-knife, cuts off the queue, and Rogers sticks
+it into the wound to stop the flowing of the blood.</p>
+
+<p>All through the dreary afternoon the fight goes on. The snow is
+crimsoned with blood. The killed and mortally wounded lie where they
+fall. For the Rangers there is no escape; they must conquer or die.</p>
+
+<p>The shades of night steal on; the fire of the French and Indians has
+been growing less; the war-whoop dies away; the last gun is fired. The
+enemy, picking up their wounded, retire to Ticonderoga, leaving the
+Rangers victors. What a dear-bought victory!&mdash;one-half of them killed or
+wounded. Of the enemy one hundred and sixteen have fallen!</p>
+
+<p>The Rangers were only four miles from Ticonderoga, and might expect to
+be attacked again in the morning. They were forty miles from Fort
+William Henry. They were weary and worn, but they must move on. They
+made litters for the wounded, and started, marching all night, but
+making only a few miles.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_756" id="Page_756">[Pg 756]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The snow had ceased, the air was chill. They must have help. John Stark,
+leaving them, started for Fort William Henry, reaching it at sunset.
+Soldiers with horses and sleds started at once, and John Stark with
+them, stopping not a moment to rest his weary limbs. At sunrise he was
+back to the Rangers with the re-enforcements and supplies. The French
+had not followed them, and they made their way safely back to Fort
+William Henry, having fought one of the most obstinate, unequal, yet
+victorious battles recorded in history.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_ANGEL_IN_THE_LILLY_FAMILY" id="THE_ANGEL_IN_THE_LILLY_FAMILY"></a>THE ANGEL IN THE LILLY FAMILY.</h2>
+
+<h3>BY SHERWOOD BONNER.</h3>
+
+<p>There was something rather queer about the Lilly family. In the first
+place there were so many of them&mdash;fourteen precious children. This alone
+is queer, when it is the fashion of the day to have small families, and
+"well-springs of pleasure" are as scarce as diamonds in any properly
+regulated household. But Mrs. Lilly's heart was made on the omnibus
+plan; and there was no miserable little "Complet" ever scrawled over its
+door.</p>
+
+<p>Then it was queer how they avoided nicknames in the Lilly family. Each
+child was called by its full name, which sometimes happened to be a
+pretty long one.</p>
+
+<p>It was through a sad accident that one of the Lilly children turned into
+a regular little angel.</p>
+
+<p>The day after Christmas Mrs. Lilly's aunt&mdash;grandaunt of the
+children&mdash;carelessly allowed poor Katharine Kirk Lilly to fall on a
+marble floor. A serious injury to her spine was the result.</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 338px;">
+<img src="images/ill_018.jpg" width="338" height="700" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Dear! dear! how Mrs. Lilly screamed! She threw herself on the bed, and
+poured forth tears enough to put out a Christmas bonfire. She was not
+soothed until the doctor came, and after a careful examination&mdash;which
+the sufferer bore without a word or moan&mdash;pronounced that poor Katharine
+Kirk would live. But, alas! he added that she must always be an invalid.
+And smiling with the patient sweetness that distinguished her, the dear
+child sank back on the pillows from which she was never to lift her
+golden head. All the rest of the Lilly children stood round, showing by
+a sort of paralyzed expression on their faces how deeply they were
+moved; but none of them cried.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 270px;">
+<img src="images/ill_019.jpg" width="270" height="300" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>"Perhaps, dears," said the poor little mother, sobbing, "this affliction
+will be blessed to you."</p>
+
+<p>"It will," cried the penitent great-aunt, clasping Mrs. Lilly in her
+arms; "it will teach them lessons of patience, of self-denial, of love,
+that will be as good as&mdash;"</p>
+
+<p>"As the Prince's pricking-conscience ring in the family," suggested Mrs.
+Lilly's mother, who had a way of turning things into fun, and never gave
+way to her feelings.</p>
+
+<p>It was surprising what a change from that time dated in the Lilly
+family. They had been like other children, a little faulty, perhaps,
+rather apt to stand on their rights&mdash;a fierce footing&mdash;but merely to
+look at the darling invalid, her shining hair outspread, her blue eyes
+ever bright, was to receive a lesson in sweetness and good temper.</p>
+
+<p>Take the case of Phillips Arthur Cliff Lilly. This young gentleman was
+the youngest of the family, and his mother's favorite. Why, no one knew,
+except that he was so ugly. He had so many scars on his face, from falls
+and fights, that somehow he produced the impression of a target. His
+hair stood out like a halo of straw, and one defiant wisp reared itself
+above his forehead with the grace of a cat's whisker. Mrs. Lilly could
+never sleep until he was safe in her arms, and his life knew no cross
+until after the accident to Katharine Kirk, who became, in her turn, the
+pivot round which the family revolved. Horrible to relate, his mother
+one evening, in her hurry to get back to the invalid, forgot her
+youngest, and left him in the Common. There he lay all night, like a
+tramp, with the stars twinkling at him, and stray dogs sniffing as they
+passed him by. Yet when he was found he <i>did not utter one word</i>. He
+opened his blue eyes as he was picked up, and only gave a single
+plaintive cry as he was pressed to his frantic mother's bosom.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/ill_020.jpg" width="300" height="295" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Then there was Myra Miles. She was one of the young ladies of the
+family, and, as might be forgiven in a beauty, a trifle vain. She was to
+receive calls on New-Year's Day, and had expected to come out in a fine
+new dress. Pink tarlatan it was to be, trimmed in the French taste with
+blue, with a train to thrill you to your finger-tips, which seemed to
+bear the same relation to Myra Miles as the rest of a snake does to its
+head. Mrs. Lilly's mamma was making it; but her time was suddenly
+demanded to do something for the invalid, and the dress was thrown<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_757" id="Page_757">[Pg 757]</a></span>
+aside. The consequence was that poor Myra Miles appeared in the gorgeous
+pink dress with a black lace scarf instead of the waist. Still, not one
+word of complaint did she utter, although her sisters Dorothy Dimple and
+Martha Bonn&mdash;the favorites of Mrs. Lilly's aunt&mdash;appeared in exquisite
+raiment of green and blue. There was something very beautiful about her
+resignation.</p>
+
+<p>When the lovely Susan Mears Lilly was married, Katharine Kirk was taken
+in her pretty bed to view the ceremony, and was quite a feature of the
+occasion. Indeed, she did not begin to look so weak and ill as the
+bridegroom, who, poor youth, was so tottering that Mrs. Lilly's aunt
+cruelly suggested that his back should be propped with a hair-pin. You
+may imagine how the girls laughed at this, especially Teresa Fehmer
+Lilly, a wicked little bridemaid in red satin.</p>
+
+<p>And such attentions as the sufferer had from friends of the Lilly
+family! The beautiful belle Miss Lilian Love spent many hours over a
+dainty quilt of silk and lace to adorn the sick-bed. A glorious poet
+sent in a box of agreeable medicine, with a note running like this:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"<span class="smcap">My dear Mrs. Lilly</span>,&mdash;I send you a little book for your sick
+child, and some medicine for her poor broken back. The peculiarity
+of this medicine is that in order to produce any good effect it
+must be taken by the nurse. This is rather hard upon the nurse;
+but if she is a good nurse she will not mind it much."</p></div>
+
+<p>Jane Jumper was the nurse really; but while the medicine lasted Mrs.
+Lilly herself took entire charge, and administered the sweet doses to
+herself, without one word from Katharine Kirk.</p>
+
+<p>It may have occurred by this time to some shrewd little reader that
+under no circumstance was any member of this household apt to give
+utterance to silver speech. Shall I confess? Or, my dear children, have
+you guessed that Katharine Kirk and all the cherished fourteen belonged
+to the beloved, the beautiful, the <i>dumb</i>, family of&mdash;Dolls?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_758" id="Page_758">[Pg 758]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX" id="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX"></a>
+<img src="images/ill_021.jpg" width="600" height="257" alt="OUR POST-OFFICE BOX." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Viareggio, Italy</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am nearly six years old. I would like to have a tea party on my
+birthday. After my birthday has come I will write again, and tell
+you all about it.</p>
+
+<p>In Rome I have a big play horse and two kitties. My little cat is
+gray and white, and is called Bimbo. He walks on his toes, and
+makes a long face. Papa's cat's name is Cavaliere. He is a big
+Maltese cat.</p>
+
+<p>In Rome we have a nice house and a nice garden, and in the garden
+there is a straw hut.</p>
+
+<p>We are finishing the summer at Viareggio, and we have nice
+sea-baths.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Imogen R.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Smith's Hill, Feather River, California</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I enjoy the letters in <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, especially those that tell of
+birds and flowers I have not seen. There are mocking-birds here in
+summer, and a beautiful bird called goldfinch. There are also
+robins, bluebirds, and many varieties of sparrows. The bluebirds
+and robins stay here all winter. It is too bad to take eggs from
+the birds to give away in exchange. The pitcher-plant grows in a
+valley not far from here.</p>
+
+<p>My sister Bell went to Lassens Peak last week. It is 10,600 feet
+high. There is no snow on the mountain now except a small patch on
+top. Hundreds of small butterflies were flitting about on the
+mountain-side and alighting on the rocks. As there is no
+vegetation, except a few hardy plants scattered among the ledges,
+I wonder what they find to live on. A lake which could be seen
+from the top of the peak had the appearance of being frozen. In
+the valley below there are hot boiling springs.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Lou R.&nbsp;K.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>Yes, it is too bad to take so many birds' eggs. But if our
+correspondents are careful to take only one or two from each nest, and
+to always leave more than half, as we have already begged them to do,
+the mother-bird will not suffer. If we could believe for a moment that
+our little friends would be so cruel as to disturb the brooding mother,
+and rob her nest of all its eggs, we would never publish another letter
+requesting an exchange of these pretty natural curiosities. The nesting
+season is now over in all the Northern States, but when it returns, we
+trust the young egg collectors will never allow their eagerness to
+secure the coveted treasure to overcome their sense of honor and their
+kindness of heart.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Charleston, South Carolina</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am ten years old. I take <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, and I like it
+very much. I am always glad when Wednesday comes, for that is the
+day I get it. I think it is a very nice paper for boys and girls.
+I have a pet dog whose name is Lion.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Samuel P.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Belleville, Texas</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am ten years old. I have no pets except a Maltese cat and a dog.
+I was very much interested in the dog and cat of Madelaine, the
+little French girl. I like "The Moral Pirates" and "Who was Paul
+Grayson?" best of all the stories. My father gave me a piano for
+my birthday present; and when I was seven years old he gave me a
+pony, and I named him Button. I dearly love to gallop over the
+hills.</p>
+
+<p>I went to New Hampshire in 1875 to see my grandfather, and we
+visited the White Mountains.</p>
+
+<p>I think <span class="smcap">Young People</span> is the nicest paper I ever saw, and I intend
+to take it until I grow up.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Josie C.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">New York City</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>B.&nbsp;I., of Radnor, Ohio, asks how to feather arrows. Choose goose
+or turkey feathers of a suitable size. Cut them carefully from the
+quill; put on hot glue, and fasten them to the sides of the arrow,
+about an inch from the notch, at equal distances apart. There
+should always be three feathers.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">A.&nbsp;H.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>It is a good plan to fasten the feathers to the arrow with pins until
+the glue is perfectly dry, when they can be carefully removed.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">San Francisco, California</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I have a pet now, a lovely little dog, with long curly hair and
+large bright eyes. He is snowy white all over, and his name is
+Mischief. I am going to have his picture taken some time. He looks
+just like a bundle of cotton, with three black spots shining
+through. Those are his eyes and nose.</p>
+
+<p>The tree represented in the illustration of the beetles in <span class="smcap">Young
+People</span> No. 38 is just like the California buckeye-tree. The
+blossoms are exactly the same.</p>
+
+<p>I am very much interested in the directions for making salt and
+fresh water aquariums. When I was in Monterey I might have
+collected lots of sea-anemones, snails, and pink and white
+star-fish, but I did not think of it. One of the gentlemen at the
+hotel went fishing with a net, and caught a little baby
+cuttle-fish, or devil-fish, as it is commonly called. It had seven
+or eight long legs, all lined with little suckers, like buttons.
+It was a dreadful ugly-looking thing. It must have been very
+young, for it was only ten or eleven inches long. The gentleman
+was going to keep it for a curiosity, and until he could get
+something better he put it in a pan of salt-water; but he forgot
+to cover the pan, and in the night the fish crawled out on to the
+floor, and died.</p>
+
+<p>I have exchanged Farallon Island eggs and leaves and specimens of
+trees with a good many children since my letter was printed.</p>
+
+<p>Is there any difference between postage stamps and postmarks? I
+don't believe I know what postmarks are.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Ida Belle Diserens</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>A postmark is the stamp put on the outside of a letter at the office
+where it is posted. It certainly is not of much value in itself, but if
+a collection is neatly pasted in a book, States and countries being
+arranged together, counties being written under towns in the United
+States, and a note made of any manufactories or natural productions for
+which the town is celebrated, such a collection may become an
+interesting gazetteer, and valuable as a book of reference.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Hoboken, New Jersey</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>On September 27 I found a blossom on the peach-tree in our back
+yard. I picked it, and have pressed it to send to you. I think it
+is very odd to have peach blossoms in September, and I would like
+to know if any girl or boy has ever seen them blooming in that
+month in this climate.</p>
+
+<p>I think the story "Who was Paul Grayson?" is splendid.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Reba H.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">South Eliot, Maine</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I bought three silk-worms' cocoons at the Educational Department
+of the Permanent Exhibition at Philadelphia. In about a week's
+time the cocoons broke, and the moths came out and began to lay
+their eggs on a sheet of brown paper which I laid them on. They
+have laid about all their eggs now, and there are a great many.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Chester B.&nbsp;F.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Howard, Texas</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am seven years old. Mother teaches me at home. I am studying
+spelling, geography, arithmetic, and the Third Reader.</p>
+
+<p>I love so much when Wednesday morning comes, for then I get my
+<span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and I read until I have finished it.</p>
+
+<p>I received a beautiful pressed bouquet, from Mary Lowry. It was
+real nice, and I am going to send her some seeds very soon.</p>
+
+<p>I have three dolls, one wax and two china ones. Every day, when I
+am through with my lessons, my sister Myrtle and I have nice times
+playing with them.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Mabel P.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">West Chester, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I live on a farm about one mile from town.</p>
+
+<p>We had a ring-dove given to us, and we bought a mate for it, and
+now we have four more. One is just hatched. Last summer, a year
+ago, we had a present of a pair of guinea-pigs, and we have raised
+six others. One of the little ones is pure white, except its head,
+which is black. It looks as if it had a mask on. My brother, who
+is ten years old, has a pigeon-house and about thirty pigeons. And
+he has six rabbits, which are all the time burrowing out of the
+pen, and a young shepherd dog. We have black and brown bantams,
+and two little red calves we call Spot and Lina, because one has a
+red spot on its back, and the other a white line.</p>
+
+<p>Last spring I planted one small ear of pop-corn, and now I have
+gathered nearly eighty ears from it. I also planted ground-nuts.</p>
+
+<p>My brother, my sister, and I have each a pair of stilts, and we
+have lots of fun inventing new ways to walk on them.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Bessie R.&nbsp;H.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange postage stamps of France and Germany with
+any readers of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>. Correspondents will please
+put "Vi&acirc; England" on the envelope, as letters thus addressed are
+more likely to come safely.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">B.&nbsp;D. Woodward</span>, 49 im Trutz,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange postmarks for foreign postage stamps, or
+for other postmarks, with any boy in the South or West.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">William F. Penney</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">559 Henry Street, Brooklyn, New York.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I have a collection of postage and revenue stamps, and would like
+to exchange with readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">W.&nbsp;H. Eastman</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Emporia, Kansas.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>My mamma takes <span class="smcap">Young People</span> for my sister Laura and me. We read
+all the stories, and are never tired of it.</p>
+
+<p>We have a pair of pet pigeons named Polly and Dolly. When we first
+got them we had to put the food in their mouths, but now they can
+eat alone. When we come they hunt in our hands for something to
+eat.</p>
+
+<p>I am a little Iowa girl, but my father came to live in Old
+Virginia almost five years ago. We live near Greenway Court, the
+old home of Lord Fairfax, and where General Washington surveyed
+the land when he was a very young man.</p>
+
+<p>I am thirteen years old. I have a cabinet and a museum, and am
+collecting postmarks and stamps, which I would like to exchange
+with any correspondent.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">May Bell Miller</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Care of Joseph A. Miller,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Nineveh, Warren County, Virginia.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am having a splendid time in Mamaroneck. I have a lot of
+chickens, and it is very funny to see the young roosters fight. I
+shall leave the country soon, and I would like to say to those
+wishing to exchange stamps with me that after October 25 my
+address will be</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Pierre Jay</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">291 Madison Avenue, New York City.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am making a collection of postmarks, and would like to exchange
+with any correspondents of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;H. McBride</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Rexford Flats, Saratoga County, New York.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am making a collection of birds' eggs, and would like to
+exchange with any readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Joseph Skirm</span>, Santa Cruz,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Santa Cruz County, California.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am very much interested in the letters in <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I would
+like to exchange birds' eggs with any of the readers.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">H. Gray</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Albion, Orleans County, New York.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>My younger sister takes <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and I like it as well as she
+does. I have no pets, but I have a flower garden and a good many
+house plants. I would like to exchange flower seeds with any
+correspondent of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I have sweet-pea, cypress,
+rose-moss, dew-plant, and other seeds.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Mollie C. Michener</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I have read <span class="smcap">Young People</span> ever since it started, and like it very
+much. I like "The Moral Pirates" and Jimmy Brown's stories about
+Mr. Martin the best.</p>
+
+<p>I have a Chilian, a Greek, and a Portuguese coin which I would
+like to exchange with any reader who is collecting foreign coin. I
+have a collection of almost two hundred.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">John Pyne</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Wiscasset, Maine.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I thought you would like a letter from this town, where a great
+battle was fought.</p>
+
+<p>I spend many happy hours with the dear <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I love, most
+of all, the little letters, as it seems like talking to little
+people.</p>
+
+<p>I am sick in bed, and have been for almost ten weeks. If my cough
+would get better, then I would get strong again. I am nine years
+old. I can read and write, and play little tunes on the piano. I
+fear the other little girls will get ahead of me now.</p>
+
+<p>I wish "Wee Tot," or any of the little readers, would send me some
+ocean curiosities or quartz crystals for pressed leaves and ferns
+gathered on Round Top. My pet canary died last week.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Nerva Wible</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Care of J. Ed. Wible, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I have a nice collection of curiosities, and would like to
+exchange with any correspondent for sea-shells or other
+curiosities. I have iron ore, soft gypsum crystals, stalactites,
+stalagmites, pretty pebbles, different kinds of limestone, pressed
+ferns, and other things. In sending specimens, correspondents will
+please mark each plainly with the name and the locality where it
+was found.</p>
+
+<p>A few days ago I got my hand mashed in a cider mill, and can not
+use it now. My brother is writing this letter for me.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Harry R. Bartlett</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange curiosities and stuffed birds with any
+correspondent of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;H. Mathias</span>, Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I have taken every number of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> since it was published,
+and I think it is just splendid.</p>
+
+<p>I am gathering specimens and curiosities, and would be glad to
+exchange with any one.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Charlie Leadbetter</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">174 Plum Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I have a printing-press and a small breech-loading shot-gun that
+father made for me. I had a cat named Bill, but he is dead. He
+would jump over my arms, and stand up on his hind-feet and kiss
+me, and sit up in the corner.</p>
+
+<p>I like the story of "The Moral Pirates" best of all. I and some
+other boys are planning to go off on a cruise next summer.</p>
+
+<p>I have a lot of foreign stamps which I would like to exchange for
+Indian arrow-heads or Indian relics. I am eleven years old.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Bertie Harrison</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I am just beginning a collection of curiosities, and would like to
+exchange with some of the correspondents.</p>
+
+<p>I have one brother. We live near a pond. Our<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_759" id="Page_759">[Pg 759]</a></span> pet kitten is very
+fond of fish; and I go out in a row-boat and catch minnows for it.
+I tie mussels on a string, and the minnows bite the bait and hold
+fast. I caught two large minnows with a string alone.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Jessie A. Brown</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">South Norwalk, Connecticut.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I should like to exchange birds' eggs with any correspondent of
+<span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I have eggs of the following birds: hedge, song,
+house, and chipping sparrow, bluebird, swallow, brown and red
+thrush, peewit, woodpecker, meadow-lark, cat-bird, pigeon,
+turtle-dove, ring-dove, and cardinal-grosbeak.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">R.&nbsp;D. Britton</span>, Wyoming, Ohio.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange postage stamps, minerals, shells, and
+Indian arrow-heads for stamps, pressed sea-weeds, or birds' eggs.
+The shells are labelled with their scientific names.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">E.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;W.</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">P.&nbsp;O. Box 487, Binghamton, New York.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>We would request all correspondents not to send us long lists of stamps,
+eggs, and other things, as they occupy too much space in the Post-office
+Department. It is much better for them to prepare their lists neatly,
+and have them ready to send to those who write to them for exchange,
+after their request has been published in <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p>
+
+<p>We are compelled to condense the requests for exchange from the
+following correspondents:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Postage stamps and birds' eggs for postage stamps.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">William S. Aldrich</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Postage stamps, postmarks, and Indian relics for postage stamps.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">A.&nbsp;S. Barrett</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Postage, Treasury, and revenue stamps for others.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Handy Daniel</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Postage stamps and postmarks for postage stamps.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">John A. Wolff</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">92 Second Street, Albany, New York.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Foreign and United States postage stamps for others.</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">W.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;V. Chadwick</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;">44 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p><small>Mabel</small>.&mdash;The recipes you wish are in <span class="smcap">Young People</span> Nos. 24 and 28.&mdash;A good
+method for varnishing leaves is described by Edith L. in Post-office Box
+No. 38.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">W. De Veau</span>.&mdash;The different species of the order <i>Chelonia</i>, to which
+turtles and tortoises belong, are distinguished mainly by the limbs. The
+common fresh-water turtles have distinct toes, which are webbed and
+provided with long nails. They are easy and powerful swimmers, but are
+very helpless on land. They feed upon all kinds of aquatic worms and
+insects. The tortoises, or land turtles, have short clubbed feet adapted
+for travelling on the ground, and stout, short claws. They feed upon
+roots, vegetables, fruit, and small bugs and flies. Their upper shell is
+more rounded than that of the water turtle. They are capable of
+swimming, but seldom enter the water.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">W.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;B.</span>&mdash;Alaric the Goth was proclaimed King of the Visigoths about
+<span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 400. He was a bold and artful warrior, and under his leadership the
+Goths ravaged Greece, and entered Athens. He afterward determined to
+invade Italy, and after numerous repulses and misfortunes his armies
+succeeded in entering Rome in 410, eleven hundred and sixty-three years
+after the foundation of the city, which for six hundred years previous
+to the Gothic conquest had remained unviolated by the presence of any
+foreign enemy. Alaric, who had already embraced Christianity, showed
+much moderation in his treatment of the vanquished city, and after a
+short occupation he retired his troops, and proceeded to ravage Southern
+Italy. He was about to invade Sicily, and form an expedition to Africa,
+when his death, after a short illness, put an end to his conquests. His
+army, anxious to conceal his death, and even his burial-place, from the
+enemy, employed a band of captives to divert the course of the Busento,
+a small river which washes the walls of Cozenza, an ancient fortified
+town, and secretly at night a grave was dug in the river-bed, and the
+body of the dead chieftain was buried. The waters of the Busento were
+then turned back, and underneath the peaceful river the grave of the
+warlike Goth was securely concealed. His death occurred in 410, only a
+few months after his triumphal entry into Rome.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Gertrude C.</span>&mdash;Your letter is very gratifying, and we are sorry we can not
+accede to your request, but the article in question would occupy too
+large a space in <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Favors are acknowledged from Hamilton W., Willie C. Bartlett, Isabelle
+Van Brunt, M.&nbsp;L. Hannam, Macy Walcutt, C.&nbsp;F. Moses.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Correct answers to puzzles are received from Ida Belle Diserens, A.&nbsp;H.
+Ellard, Mary R. De La Mater, Harvey B. Ridgway, Miss N.&nbsp;J. Tiddy, Nella
+Coover, N. Bumpus, Clarence J. Washington, W.&nbsp;S. Ferguson, May Wells, H.&nbsp;A.
+Bent.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<h3>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h3>
+
+<h3>No. 1.</h3>
+
+<h3>ACROSTIC.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">Place the names of five trees in such order that their initials read
+downward spell the name of another tree.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Bolus</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<h3>No. 2.</h3>
+
+<h3>UNITED DIAMONDS.</h3>
+
+<p>1. In Nebraska. An insect. A fluid. At a distance. In Nevada.</p>
+
+<p>2. In Idaho. A graceful animal. An animal often trained for a special
+purpose. The limit. In Colorado. Centrals of diamonds read across spell
+the name of a savage beast.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Owlet</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<h3>No. 3.</h3>
+
+<h3>WORD SQUARES.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">1. First, a character in mythology. Second, ascended. Third, a body of
+land. Fourth, a prophet.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">S.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;W.</span></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p class="center">2. First, lineage. Second, sour. Third, to quote. Fourth, a garden.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Katie</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<h3>No. 4.</h3>
+
+<h3>ENIGMA.</h3>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My first is in lily, but not in white.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My second in sleep, but not in night.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My third is in man, but not in beast.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My fourth is in sorrow, but not in feast.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My fifth is in no, but not in yes.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">My whole is a fruit which you must guess.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Mattie</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<h3>No. 5.</h3>
+
+<h3>HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.</h3>
+
+<p>An associate. A ravine. A reward. In Lexington. Devoured. One of a
+certain sect of philosophers. A boy's name. Centrals read downward spell
+the name of a celebrated battle.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Zelotes</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<h3>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 48.</h3>
+
+<h3>No. 1.</h3>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="10%" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left'>P</td><td align='left'>I</td><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>Y</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>C</td><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>T</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>I</td><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>B</td><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>O</td><td align='left'>R</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>C</td><td align='left'>O</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>C</td><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>E</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>O</td><td align='left'>N</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>O</td><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>S</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>S</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<h3>No. 2.</h3>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="10%" summary="">
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>N</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>S</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>D</td><td align='left'>I</td><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>W</td><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>O</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>N</td><td align='left'>I</td><td align='left'>G</td><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>T-S</td><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>D</td><td align='left'>E</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>O</td><td align='left'>D</td><td align='left'>D</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>E</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<h3>No. 3.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">Cornwallis, Washington.</p>
+
+<h3>No. 4.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">1. Ava, Orfah, Jiddah, Riad, Pekin, Surat, Omsk. 2. Exeter, Alabama,
+Paran&aacute;, Caracas, Panama.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<h3>WIGGLES.</h3>
+
+<p>For the benefit of those who have not read the original article on
+"Wiggles," we would say that the Wiggle is a line that may be turned
+into a picture by having other lines added to it. For example, take the
+new Wiggle, No. 15, given in this Number. Trace it carefully, so as to
+preserve the <i>exact</i> outlines, and then see what you can make of it. Add
+to it as much as you please, but do not change the original line. Send
+answers as promptly as possible.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>COLUMBIA BICYCLE.</h2>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 132px;">
+<img src="images/ill_022.jpg" width="132" height="150" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Bicycle riding is the best as well as the healthiest of out-door sports;
+is easily learned and never forgotten. Send 3c. stamp for 24-page
+Illustrated Catalogue, containing Price-Lists and full information.</p>
+
+<h3>THE POPE MFG. CO.,</h3>
+
+<h4>79 Summer St., Boston, Mass.</h4>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h3><i>Notice.</i></h3>
+
+<h2>Now is the Time to Subscribe.</h2>
+
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+
+<p>Within a year of its first appearance <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> has secured
+a leading place among the periodicals designed for juvenile readers. The
+object of those who have the paper in charge is to provide for boys and
+girls from the age of six to sixteen a weekly treat in the way of
+entertaining stories, poems, historical sketches, and other attractive
+reading matter, with profuse and beautiful illustrations.</p>
+
+<p>The conductors of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> proceed upon the theory that it
+is not necessary, in order to engage the attention of youthful minds, to
+fill its pages with exaggerated and sensational stories, to make heroes
+of criminals, or throw the glamour of romance over bloody deeds. Their
+design is to make the spirit and influence of the paper harmonize with
+the moral atmosphere which pervades every cultivated Christian
+household. The lessons taught are those which all parents who desire the
+welfare of their children would wish to see inculcated. <span class="smcap">Harper's Young
+People</span> aims to do this by combining the best literary and artistic
+talent, so that fiction shall appear in bright and innocent colors,
+sober facts assume such a holiday dress as to be no longer dry or dull,
+and mental exercise, in the solution of puzzles, problems, and other
+devices, become a delight.</p>
+
+<p>The cordial approval extended to <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> by the
+intelligent and exacting audience for whose special benefit it was
+projected shows that its conductors have not miscalculated the
+requirements of juvenile periodical literature. The paper has attained a
+wide circulation in the United States, Canada, Europe, the West Indies,
+and South America. The "Post-office Box," the most complete department
+of the kind ever attempted, contains letters from almost every quarter
+of the globe, and not only serves to bring the boys and girls of
+different states and countries into pleasant acquaintance, but, through
+its exchanges and answers to questions, to extend their knowledge and
+quicken their intelligence.</p>
+
+<p>The Bound Volume for 1880 has been gotten up in the most attractive
+manner, the cover being embellished with a tasteful and appropriate
+design. It will be one of the most handsome, entertaining, and useful
+books for boys and girls published for the ensuing holidays.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 25%;' />
+
+<h3>TERMS.</h3>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Four Cents</span> a Number. <span class="smcap">Single Subscriptions</span> for one year, $1.50 each; <span class="smcap">Five
+Subscriptions</span>, one year, $7&mdash;payable in advance: postage free.
+Subscriptions will be commenced with the Number current at the time of
+receipt of order, except in cases where the subscribers otherwise
+direct.</p>
+
+<p>The Second Volume will begin with No. 53, to be issued November 2, 1880.
+Subscriptions should be sent in before that date, or as early as
+possible thereafter.</p>
+
+<p>The Bound Volume for 1880, containing the first fifty-two Numbers, will
+be ready early in November. Price $3, postage prepaid. The cover for
+<span class="smcap">Young People</span> for 1880 is now ready. Price 35 cents; postage 13 cents
+additional.</p>
+
+<p>Remittances should be made by <i>Post-office Money Order or Draft</i>, to
+avoid risk of loss.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Address</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 30em;">HARPER &amp; BROTHERS,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 35em;"><span class="smcap">Franklin Square, New York</span>.</span><br />
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_760" id="Page_760">[Pg 760]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 615px;"><a name="WIGGLES" id="WIGGLES"></a>
+<img src="images/ill_023.jpg" width="615" height="800" alt="SOME ANSWERS TO WIGGLE No. 14, OUR ARTIST&#39;S IDEA, AND NEW WIGGLE No. 15." title="" />
+<span class="caption">SOME ANSWERS TO WIGGLE No. 14, OUR ARTIST&#39;S IDEA, AND NEW WIGGLE No. 15.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>The following names are of those who sent answers to Wiggle No. 14:</p>
+
+<p>G.&nbsp;B. Dimmick, Willie R. Perkins, G.&nbsp;C. Meyer, Mary A. Hale, H.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;P.,
+Hudson Taylor, Wee Tot, M. Prall Grant, Eddie Hunter, Cloyd D. Browns,
+Alice Rhawn, Arthur L. Bumpus, Robert M., S.&nbsp;J.&nbsp;G., B.&nbsp;R. Howell, Edith
+Bidwell, E.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;K., C.&nbsp;F. Peck, Jun., James L. Busbee, Catharine, S.&nbsp;C.
+Register, Dimple McCrea, Irish Stew, George Broomhall, Bernie
+Wurriochke, F.&nbsp;R. Powley, Robert G. Bidwell, W.&nbsp;H. Western, D.&nbsp;C. Hick,
+H. Jacobs, Isabel Jacobs, Julia Maude Sickels, May Rickerson, Wiggle
+Maker, A.&nbsp;H. Addington, Bessie B. Anderson, Horace F. Ames, Everett C.
+Fay, Bront Smith, L.&nbsp;D.&nbsp;H., Glen Hughes, S. Knight Satterlee, William
+McClellands, George McClellands, John A. Tompkins, Herbert Fusselle,
+Effie Meacham, Jasper Bines, Sol. Jacobs, J.&nbsp;L. Bushnell, Hal, M.&nbsp;F.
+Krum, Fannie Hartwell, M.&nbsp;E. Farrell, Hebe, Tom, C.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;W., D. Brookmire,
+Vinnie J., S.&nbsp;F. Rupert, Sol, C.&nbsp;L. McL., Gid, A.&nbsp;J.&nbsp;D., Marvin Burt,
+Charles D. Rhodes, Theresa Morro, Toots, Frank Ostrandes, Matilda R.
+Bowie, Jennie Stille, E.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;L., V.&nbsp;L. Seche, Alfred Hossler, Robert
+Andrews, Jun., C.&nbsp;L. Hooper, Dudley Willinnes, George Oakley, Rosa Kent
+Gregory, Jun., M.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;B., S. McL., John McK. Burno, Charles N. Hoar, F.
+Uhlenhaut, C.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;P., Mark Manley, Eddie S. Hequembourg, Goldie Williams,
+H.&nbsp;W. Smith, Donna Aline, Eva Prichard, John White, Myrtle Lake, Fredy
+Leser, Edwin Preston, A.&nbsp;S., W.&nbsp;S., E.&nbsp;S., F.&nbsp;B., Mary Green, J.&nbsp;N.
+Howe, O.&nbsp;A. Mueller, E.&nbsp;J.&nbsp;B., Walter Plumb, Pet Bowman, Nattie L.
+Francis, Charley B. Hall, Katie Hall, R.&nbsp;L. Hall, Jun., H.&nbsp;L. Easton,
+Bessie Linn, Georgie Linn, Eliza B. Bartlett, Harry R. Bartlett, John H.
+Bartlett, Jun., Eddie Bartlett, William O. Brackett, Pearl Hare.<br /><br /></p>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> <i>Froissart's Chronicle</i>, vol. i., p. 164.</p></div>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, October 19, 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, October 19, 1880
+       An Illustrated Weekly
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: June 22, 2009 [EBook #29200]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, OCT 19, 1880 ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Annie McGuire
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HARPER'S
+
+YOUNG PEOPLE
+
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. I.--NO. 51. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, October 19, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: IN THE CORN FIELD.]
+
+RABBITS TO FIND.
+
+BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
+
+
+"I say, Tad Murray, what's made you so late with your cows this
+morning?"
+
+"Late? Well, I guess you'd be late if you'd had such a time as I did. It
+was all old Ben's fault."
+
+"Ben's? Why, there he is now, chasing the brindled heifer. If she'd only
+turn on him, she could pitch him over the fence like a forkful of hay."
+
+"He's a better cow-dog than that ragged little terrier of yours, Carr
+Hotchkiss; but he's an awful fellow to let into a corn field, 'specially
+'bout this time of year."
+
+"Into a corn field!"
+
+"When there's a lot of rabbits in the shocks."
+
+"Are there rabbits in your corn?"
+
+"It's just alive with 'em. And Ben he gets after 'em, and the corn's all
+cut and shocked, and he'll tear a shock of corn to pieces in no time;
+and father says it's too bad, for he hasn't any time to kill rabbits."
+
+"Tell you what, Tad, Whip's the best dog in the world for rabbits."
+
+"Is he?"
+
+"He wouldn't hurt a shock of corn if he scratched clean through it. I'll
+fetch him along soon's you get your cows in; and we'll get Dan Burrel
+and Eph McCormick and Frank Perry, and we'll have the biggest rabbit
+hunt you ever heard of."
+
+"Don't I wish I had a gun!"
+
+"Father's got one, but he won't let me put a finger on it."
+
+"So's my father got one. It's a splendid good gun, too, but one of the
+triggers is gone, and there's a hole you could stick your finger into in
+the right barrel, where it got bursted once."
+
+"We don't want any guns. You hurry your cows in. There! the brindled
+heifer's given Ben an awful dig."
+
+"He won't care."
+
+Old Ben did care, however, for he left the brindled heifer suddenly, and
+came back toward the boys, with his wise-looking head cocked on one
+side, as much as to say, "Didn't I hear you two saying something about
+rabbits?"
+
+It was less than half an hour before they were telling him a good deal
+about that kind of game. They gathered the rest of their hunting party
+on their way back to Squire Murray's, only they did not waste any time
+going to the house. It was a shorter cut through the wheat stubble and
+the wood lot to the big corn field in the hollow.
+
+Corn, corn, corn. Squire Murray said he had never before raised so good
+a crop in all his life. And then he had added that the rabbits and
+squirrels and woodchucks were likely to be his best market, for they
+were husking it for him, and not charging him a cent. Only they carried
+off all they husked without paying for it, and he was compelled to
+charge that part of his crop to "rabbit account."
+
+The old squire loved a bit of fun as well as anybody, and it was a pity
+he could not have been in his own corn field that morning.
+
+Tad Murray had to catch hold of old Ben the moment they were over the
+fence, for he half buried himself in the nearest shock of corn the first
+thing.
+
+"Oh dear! if there was only one of 'em in sight, so he'd have something
+to run after!"
+
+"Whip! Whip!" shouted Carr Hotchkiss. "Rabbits, Whip--rabbits!"
+
+Whip had been dancing around the shock as if the ground under him were
+red-hot, and he couldn't keep his feet on any one spot for two seconds;
+but now he made a sudden dive into the gap from which Tad had pulled out
+old Ben.
+
+"Find 'em, Whip--find 'em!"
+
+"There's a rabbit in there somewhere," said Dan Burrel, in a loud,
+earnest whisper.
+
+"Look out you don't scare him," whispered back Eph McCormick; and Frank
+Perry picked up a long stiff corn stalk, and began to poke it in at
+every crack he could find.
+
+"Don't, Frank; you'll scare the rabbit."
+
+"Scare him, Eph? Why, that's just what we're up to. If we don't scare
+him, he won't come out."
+
+There was a loud whine from Whip at that moment, and a sound of very
+vigorous pawing and scratching away in out of sight.
+
+"Do rabbits ever bite?" said Frank, excitedly.
+
+"Rabbits? bite a dog?" said Carr, scornfully. "I'd back Whip all alone
+against all the rabbits Squire Murray's got."
+
+Another whine from Whip, and more pawing and rustling in that mysterious
+place he had scratched into. Every boy of them wished he were in there
+with a double-barrelled gun or something.
+
+"Tad," said Frank Perry, "maybe it isn't a rabbit. Maybe it's something
+big."
+
+"Woodchucks?"
+
+"Are there any 'coons around here nowadays?"
+
+"Haven't seen any; but the rabbits are awful big ones, some of 'em."
+
+Yelp, yelp, yelp, from the dog inside, and his voice had a smothered and
+anxious sound.
+
+"He's got him!" exclaimed Tad. But he had better have kept his hold upon
+Ben for a moment longer. It had been pretty hard work the last minute or
+so, for Ben understood every sound Whip had been making. All it had
+meant really was: "Ben! boys! there's a rabbit here, and he keeps just
+about a foot ahead of me. He's three sizes smaller than I am, and he can
+get through the shock faster. One of you be on the look-out for him on
+that further side."
+
+The instant Tad loosened his arms from around Ben's neck, the sagacious
+old fellow sprang forward--not at the hole where Whip went in, but
+straight across, where there was no hole at all, till he came to make
+one.
+
+There was a big one there before any boy of them all knew what Ben was
+up to. How the corn stalks did fly as he pawed his way in and tore them
+aside with his great strong teeth! If he was not much of a hand at
+setting up a shock, he was a mouth and four paws at pulling one down.
+
+"Ben! Ben!" shouted Tad. "Come here! Rabbits, Ben--rabbits! Come here,
+sir."
+
+As if Ben needed anybody to say "rabbits" to him, after he had listened
+to all that anxious whimpering from Whip!
+
+"Shake the shock a little," said Dan Burrel. "He's in there somewhere."
+
+He suited the action to the word, but that was all that was needed, and
+down it came, flat on the ground, with a big dog and a small one and
+five excited boys tearing around among the ruins.
+
+There was a rabbit there too when the shock fell over, but he came out
+of the confusion with a great leap, and would have made his escape
+entirely if it had not been for the long legs of old Ben.
+
+There was no time given the rabbit to hunt for another hiding-place, for
+before the boys and Whip had quite made up their minds what had become
+of their game, Ben was shaking him by the back of the neck half way down
+the field.
+
+"I say, boys," said Tad, "we must set this shock up again. There comes
+Josephus, and if we leave such a mess as this is behind us, he won't let
+us go after another rabbit."
+
+Josephus was Tad's elder brother, and he had been sent down there by his
+mother to get a pumpkin for some pies. There were plenty of them, that
+had been planted among the corn, and it was easy enough to pick out a
+good one and go back to the house; but Joe saw what the boys were about,
+and he stood for a moment looking at them.
+
+"Set it up carefully," whispered Eph McCormick; "Joe's watching us."
+
+"We've got one rabbit, anyhow."
+
+"I say, what's become of Whip?"
+
+"Never mind, boys. Hurry this thing together again."
+
+So they did, and they were so intent on repairing the mischief they had
+done that they did not see what Josephus and the two dogs were doing
+meantime.
+
+"I've got him!"
+
+They were all standing back and looking at their work to see if it was
+just as good as it had been before it tumbled, when they heard Joe
+shouting that to them from the other side of the field.
+
+"I've got him! I wouldn't give much for a lot of boys that can't catch
+rabbits without tearing the corn to pieces. Send in the little dog every
+time, and wait till the rabbit comes out. The big dog's bound to catch
+him if you give him a fair chance."
+
+"That's what we'll do," said Tad. "Joe's picking up his pumpkin. He's
+all right."
+
+No doubt he was, but he would much rather have staid with them in the
+corn field than have carried that great yellow ball half a mile to the
+house.
+
+There was plenty of fun after that, for both dogs and boys had learned
+that there was a right way to work at that kind of hunting. Before noon
+they had thirteen fine large rabbits hanging on the fence, and nobody
+could have told by the look of any shock in the field that either a dog
+or a boy had been through it.
+
+"Boys," said Squire Murray, when he met them coming through the
+barn-yarn gate, "which of you caught the most rabbits?"
+
+"Which of us caught the most?"
+
+"Yes, that's what I'd like to know. Which of you is the one I want to
+hire to catch my rabbits for me?"
+
+The boys looked at one another for a moment, and then Tad slowly
+remarked, "Well, father, I guess it's Ben. He got the first bite at
+every one of 'em."
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in No. 46 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, September 14.]
+
+WHO WAS PAUL GRAYSON?
+
+BY JOHN HABBERTON,
+
+AUTHOR OF "HELEN'S BABIES."
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+THE BEANTASSEL BENEFIT.
+
+Of the many boys who were curious about Paul Grayson's antecedents, no
+one devoted more attention to the subject than Benny Mallow. Benny was
+short, and Paul was tall; Benny was fat, and Paul was thin; Benny's hair
+was light, while Paul's was black as jet; Benny had light blue eyes,
+while those of Paul were of a rich brown; Benny always had something to
+say about himself, while Paul never seemed to think his affairs of the
+slightest interest to any one but himself: so, taking all things into
+account, it is not wonderful that Benny Mallow spent whole half-hours in
+contemplating his friend with admiration and wonder.
+
+Still more, as Benny had been accepted by every one as Paul's particular
+friend, he actually was besieged with all sorts of questions, and to
+answer these without letting himself down in the estimation of the
+school was no easy matter, when he did not know any more about Paul than
+any one else did. One question, however, he settled to the entire
+satisfaction of every one but Napoleon Nott-- Grayson was not an exiled
+prince. Benny was sure of this, because he had asked Paul if he had ever
+been on the other side of the ocean, and Paul had answered that he had
+not. Notty endeavored to make light of this evidence by showing how easy
+it would have been to spirit the mysterious person away from his royal
+home and to America while he was a baby, and therefore too young to know
+anything about it, but Will Palmer told Notty that it was about time to
+stop making a fool of himself, and the other boys present said they
+thought so too, at which Notty became so angry that he vowed, in the
+presence of at least a dozen boys, that when the truth came out, and all
+the boys wanted to borrow his copy of _The Exiled Prince: a Tale of
+Woe_, he would not lend it to them, even if it were to save them from
+death; he would not even let them look at the cover, with its picture of
+the prince and the name of the publisher.
+
+Meanwhile Mr. Morton had continued his visits to the prisoners and to
+the poor of the town, and out of school hours he had so interested the
+boys in some of the suffering families of worthless men or widowed
+women, that it was agreed by the whole school that the teasing of any of
+the boys of these families about the holes in their trousers, or
+provoking fights with or between them, should entirely stop; indeed, as
+this suggestion came from Bert Sharp, who was fonder of fighting than
+any other boy in the town, the school could not well do otherwise.
+
+The boys went even farther: when one day old Peter Beantassel, whose
+family was always on the verge of starvation, spent on drink the
+accidental earnings of a week, and then fell into an abandoned well and
+was drowned, it was decided by the school to give an exhibition for the
+benefit of Mrs. Beantassel and her six children. Mr. Morton was
+delighted, and promised to secure a church or hall without expense to
+the boys, and to collect enough money from the public to pay for
+printing the tickets. The boys at once began work in tremendous earnest;
+they were for a fortnight so busy at determining upon a programme, and
+studying, rehearsing, selling tickets, and exacting promises from people
+who would not purchase in advance, that there was but little playing
+before school and during recess, blackberry hedges were neglected, and
+the trout in the single brook near the town had not the slightest excuse
+for apprehension.
+
+Paul Grayson entered into the spirit of the occasion as thoroughly as
+any one else; he volunteered to recite Longfellow's "Psalm of Life," and
+when the farce of _Box and Cox_ was about to be given up because no boy
+was willing to dress up in women's clothes, and be laughed at by all the
+larger girls, for playing the part of Mrs. Bouncer, Paul volunteered for
+that unpopular character, and saved the play. But this was not all.
+There were to be some tableaux, and as Mr. Morton had been asked to
+suggest some scenes, particularly one or two with Indians in them, and
+was as fond of pointing a moral as teachers usually are, one of his
+tableaux, to be called "Civilization," was a scene in the interior of an
+Indian's wigwam. The squaw, who had just been killed, was lying dead on
+the floor; her husband, with his hands tied, stood bleeding between two
+soldiers, while between father and mother stood the half-grown son,
+wondering what it all was about. As all of the boys wanted to see this
+tragic picture, all of them declined to take part in it; Joe Appleby had
+been heard to remark with a sneer that only very small and green boys
+cared to look at Indians, so he was asked to take the part of the
+wretched son himself; but he said that when any one saw him making a
+fool of himself by browning his face and dressing up in rags, he hoped
+some one would tell him about it: so Grayson, as the only other tall boy
+who had dark hair that was not cut short, was cast for this part also,
+and offered no objection. As for the bleeding chieftain, Napoleon Nott
+fought hard to pose in that character, and was quieted only by being
+allowed to play the dead squaw, which all the boys told him he ought
+easily to see was the more romantic part, besides being one in which he
+could by no chance make any mistake.
+
+The place selected for the entertainment was the lecture-room of the
+Presbyterian church, and the boys had therefore to give up their darling
+project of devoting half an hour of the evening to amateur negro
+minstrelsy, for one of the deacons said that while he sometimes doubted
+that even an organ was a proper musical instrument for use in sacred
+buildings, he certainly was not going to tolerate banjos and bones. This
+decision was a great disappointment to Benny Mallow, who had been
+selected by the managers to perform upon the tambourine, but in the
+revision of the programme Benny was assigned to duty in a tableau as a
+little fat goblin, and this so tickled his fancy that he did not suffer
+long by the disappointment.
+
+At last the eventful night arrived. Some of the boys did not leave the
+lecture-room at all after the last rehearsal, not even to get their
+suppers, for fear they should be late, and those who reached the room
+barely in time to take their parts had all they could do to squeeze
+through the crowd that blocked the doors and filled the aisles. The
+spectacle of so crowded a house raised the boys to a high pitch of
+excitement, which was increased by various peeps from the curtains that
+served as dressing-rooms at the Beantassel children, who by some
+thoughtful soul had been provided with free seats in the extreme front
+bench; there they were, all but the baby; they had been provided with
+clothing which, though old, was far more sightly than the rags they
+usually wore, and although they did not seem as much at ease as some
+others among the spectators, their eyes stood so very open, then and
+throughout the evening, that even Joe Appleby, who had reluctantly
+consented to pose, in his best clothes, with gloves, cane, and high hat,
+as Young America in a tableau of "The Nations," agreed with himself that
+the exhibition was rather a meritorious idea after all, and that even if
+the boys did as badly as he knew they would, he was glad it was sure to
+pay.
+
+But the boys did not do badly; on the contrary, the general performance
+would have been quite creditable to adults. The opening was somewhat
+dismal; it was announced to consist of a duet for two flutes by Will
+Palmer and Ned Johnston. The boys had practiced industriously at several
+airs in order to discover which would be best, and at last they supposed
+they had fully agreed; but when seated Ned began the "Miserere" from
+_Trovatore_, while Will started "The Old Folks at Home," and each was
+sure the other was wrong, and would correct himself, which the other in
+both cases failed to do, and finally both boys retired abruptly, amid
+considerable laughter, and fought the matter out in the dressing-room.
+
+Paul Grayson soon restored order, however, by his rendering of the
+"Psalm of Life." He had a fine voice, and he spoke the lines as if he
+meant them; so gloriously did his voice ring that even the boys in the
+dressing-room kept silence and listened, though they had heard the same
+verses a hundred times before.
+
+Most of the performances that followed went very smoothly, although
+Benny Mallow, who played the Hatter's part in _Box and Cox_, caused some
+confusion by laughing frequently and unexpectedly, because Paul's
+disguise as Mrs. Bouncer affected him powerfully in spite of the efforts
+made by Sam Wardwell, as the Printer, to restrain him. The tableaux
+pleased the audience greatly; even that of "Prometheus," with Ned
+Johnston as the sufferer, and Mrs. Battle's big red rooster as the
+vulture, brought down the house.
+
+[Illustration: PAUL AS A CHIEF'S SON.]
+
+But the great tableau of the evening was the teacher's "Civilization."
+When Paul Grayson had understood fully what the scene was to be, he
+refused so earnestly to have anything to do with it that the boys were
+startled. They did not excuse him from taking the part of the young
+Indian, however; they pleaded so steadily that at last Paul consented,
+but in worse temper than any one had ever seen him before. No one could
+complain of the manner in which he acted on the stage, however. When the
+curtain was drawn he was seen standing beside his dead mother, and
+shaking a fist at the soldiers; in color, dress, pose, and spirit he
+seemed to be a real Indian, if the audience was a competent judge; then,
+when the applause justified a recall, as it soon did, the drawn curtain
+disclosed Paul clinging to the wounded brave as if nothing should ever
+tear him away.
+
+Napoleon Nott saw all this, although, as the Indian boy's mother, he was
+supposed to be dead beyond recall. Suddenly he felt himself to be
+inspired, and when the curtain was down he flew into the dressing-room
+and exclaimed, "I've got it!"
+
+"Be careful not to hurt it," said Canning Forbes, sarcastically.
+
+"I've got it!" declared Notty, without noticing Canning's cruel speech.
+"Grayson is an Indian, a chief's son. You don't suppose he could have
+made believe so well as all that, do you? That's it. I knew he was a
+great person of some sort. Sh--h! he's coming."
+
+Somehow the boys who had been able to peep out at the tableau did not
+laugh at Notty this time. Paul, in his Indian dress, had greatly
+impressed them all before he left the dressing-room, and certainly his
+acting had been unlike anything the boys had seen other boys do. The
+subject was talked over in whispers, so that Paul should not hear,
+during the remainder of the evening, with the result that that very
+night at least six boys told other boys or their own parents, in the
+strictest confidence, of course, that there was more truth than
+make-believe about Paul Grayson as an Indian. And the parents told the
+same story to other parents, the boys told it to other boys, and within
+twenty-four hours Paul Grayson was a far more interesting mystery than
+before.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "HAPPY AS THE DAY IS LONG."--FROM AN ETCHING BY W. S.
+COLEMAN.]
+
+
+
+
+THE PARASOL ANTS AND THE FORAGING ANTS.
+
+BY CHARLES MORRIS.
+
+
+Was there ever such a prattler as the warm-hearted little brook that ran
+by the foot of the garden of Woodbine Cottage? To be sure, it had good
+reason to be jolly, for the sunlight buried itself in its bubbles till
+they sparkled like diamonds; and a hedge of roses overhung it, and
+dropped crimson leaves that floated away like fairy boats on its bright
+surface; and broad-winged butterflies floated, like tiny ships of the
+air, above the happy stream. And away it ran, prattling and chattering,
+and picking its way through moss-covered stones that lifted above its
+surface, and tumbling hastily down in little cascades, as though it were
+in a desperate hurry to get on in the world, and altogether misbehaving
+itself just as any madcap little stream might when out on a frolic.
+
+Its bank beyond the garden was bordered with the white and gold of
+daisies and buttercups, and the red and green of blossoming clover, in
+which Harry Mason was almost buried, only his bright cheeks and curly
+hair showing out of this verdant nest. As for Uncle Ben, he was gravely
+seated on the bank of the brook, holding his little friend Willie on his
+knee. The little chap was quite as grave as his big uncle.
+
+"You neber tole us one word yet 'bout them soldiers an' cows an' tings,
+'mong the ants, Uncle Ben," he earnestly remarked, "an' you knows you
+said you was goin' to tell us all an' all an' all about 'em. An' I don't
+think it's fair."
+
+"Why, I certainly must have done so," replied Uncle Ben, with affected
+surprise. "You have surely forgotten. I shall have to leave this affair
+for Harry to settle."
+
+"Then Willie is right," returned Harry, from his grassy nest. "You told
+us everything else about them, but you never said one thing about the
+cows or the soldiers."
+
+"Everything else about them!" exclaimed Uncle Ben, with a sly smile.
+"Why, I know I did not say a word about the parasol ants, or the
+foraging ants, or the--"
+
+"The parasol ants!" cried Willie, quite forgetting the cows and the
+soldiers in his surprise. "You doesn't mean, Uncle Ben, that they
+carries parasols--jes like mamma, now?"
+
+Harry, too, had lifted himself up on his elbow, the light of curiosity
+gleaming in his eyes.
+
+"They are the most comical things in the world," replied their uncle.
+"Just imagine now a great line of ants, marching along like a school of
+young ladies out on a holiday, each of them holding a piece of green
+leaf over its head like a parasol. It is not strange that people fancied
+that this was done to keep the sun off, and called them parasol ants."
+
+"What do they do it for, then?" asked Harry, eagerly.
+
+"Maybe them's the soldiers," suggested Willie; "maybe it's ant guns
+they's carryin'."
+
+"We have not got to the soldiers yet," said his uncle, smiling. "These
+leaves are really used in building their nests. But the whole thing is
+very curious. The ants climb up the bushes, and run out on the leaves.
+There they cut, with their sharp jaws, a little round piece from the
+leaf. Then they pick this up, getting a tight hold on it, you may be
+sure, and away they scamper for the nest. But these ants are not the
+nest-builders; they are only like the laborers who carry bricks to the
+bricklayers. They drop their leaves beside the nest, and run back for
+more, leaving the real builders to finish the work."
+
+"Regular little hod-carriers," suggested Harry. "But they don't build a
+nest of little bits of leaf, I hope?"
+
+"Not exactly. The leaves are mingled through the earth to sustain the
+great domes which they erect. The houses which these tropical ants build
+are wonderfully different from the little ant-hills we see about here.
+They are not very high; it is true. The dome rises about two feet above
+the ground. But then it is more than forty feet across. One of them
+would reach nearly across our garden, like a great white swelling upon
+the face of the earth. They certainly need something to hold together
+the wet clay of their great domes."
+
+"But our ants here live 'way down, 'way under-ground," remarked Willie.
+
+"So do these," replied Uncle Ben. "The dome is only the roof of their
+house. They are famous diggers--I assure you of that. Talk about our
+miners, with their tunnels running deep into the mountains: why, their
+work is nothing in comparison with that of these little creatures. They
+make wonderful under-ground tunnels, which run out from the nest in all
+directions, and to incredible distances. No one sees these tunnels,
+however, unless they may happen to come to the surface in a very
+disastrous manner, as they sometimes do."
+
+"How do you mean?" asked Harry, curiously. He had now crept out of his
+lair, and was seated quietly beside his uncle, with his feet hanging
+just above the stream.
+
+"Why, in one case, in South America, they tunnelled through the bank of
+a reservoir. The first thing the people knew, the water was rushing out
+in a torrent. It was never discovered what was the trouble until the
+reservoir was quite empty, when they found that the parasol ants had
+caused the mischief."
+
+"Well, I do declare!" cried Willie, laughing so heartily that he nearly
+tumbled off Uncle Ben's knee. "Wasn't that jes ever so cunning?"
+
+"Why, you don't think they did it just a-purpose, for nothing but
+mischief, I hope?" asked Harry, with some indignation.
+
+"I s'poses so," replied Willie, laughing to that extent that he dropped
+his hat into the stream. And then there was a lively scramble until it
+was rescued again from the merry waters, which were running away with it
+as fast as they could.
+
+"You're such a comical little fellow," said Harry, as he shook the water
+from the dripping hat, and pressed it tightly down on Willie's head.
+"Anybody that can't laugh without shaking his hat overboard!"
+
+"But that was so funny 'bout the ants lettin' the water all run away!
+don' know how I's to help laughin'," retorted Willie.
+
+"There is another story told," continued Uncle Ben, "about a nest of
+parasol ants that dug a tunnel into a gold mine. The under-ground
+streams got turned into this tunnel, and the waters poured in until they
+flooded the mine. It cost thousands of dollars to pump the water out,
+and get the mine ready for working again. And the owners had first to
+send for a professional ant-killer, and destroy the ant nest, before it
+was safe to go on."
+
+"A professional ant-killer?" repeated Harry, opening his eyes wide in
+surprise.
+
+"Yes: there are persons who make a regular business of destroying these
+troublesome ants."
+
+"Guess that can't be much trouble," said Willie, disdainfully. "Jes got
+to put your foot on 'em, an' smash 'em."
+
+"I hardly think your foot would cover forty square feet of ground,"
+remarked his uncle, lifting up the diminutive foot, and very gravely
+examining it. "And then there are the tunnels, running eighty or a
+hundred feet away in all directions. I am afraid this foot would not be
+quite large enough."
+
+"I don't care," cried Willie, jerking his foot away. "I was thinkin'
+'bout ants like what we have here."
+
+"But how do they kill them, then?" asked Harry, looking up inquiringly
+into his uncle's face.
+
+"They build a sort of oven over the doorway of the nest," was the reply.
+"In this they make a fire of charcoal and pungent herbs, and some
+negroes are stationed with bellows, driving the smoke and fumes from the
+fire down into the nest. When smoke is seen rising from the ground
+anywhere, they know that a tunnel opens in that spot, and they stop it
+up with clay. But it is no light task to kill out a nest of ants. The
+negroes are kept constantly at work with their bellows for four days and
+nights, driving down the smothering fumes. At the end of that time the
+oven is taken away and the nest opened, every tunnel being laid bare. If
+any ants are found to be alive, they are instantly killed, and all the
+openings are stopped up with clay, which is stamped down hard, until the
+whole nest is filled with it."
+
+"Who would ever have thought that a nest of ants would be so hard to
+kill?" remarked Harry, reflectively.
+
+"All that trouble jes to kill some ole ants," said Willie, getting down
+and walking away disdainfully. "Guess big men with their big boots could
+smash 'em easier 'an that if they wanted to."
+
+"Are there other ants that make such tunnels?" asked Harry.
+
+"Oh yes; some of the ants are wonderful diggers. There is a Texan
+species which on one occasion was found to have run a tunnel under a
+creek, fifteen or twenty feet deep and thirty feet wide, for the purpose
+of getting at the vegetables and fruits in a gentleman's garden on the
+other side of the creek."
+
+"I think _they_ should have been smoked out anyhow," said Harry.
+
+"Guess I'd pulled eberyting 'fore the ants got over," suggested Willie.
+
+"And what were those foraging ants you spoke of, Uncle Ben?"
+
+"Jes neber mine them," exclaimed Willie. "You knows you was goin' to
+tell all 'bout the cows, an' you ain't eber goin' to tell one word. I
+b'lieves you's jes funnin' with us, Uncle Ben. I jes b'lieves that,
+now."
+
+"Oh! you want to hear about the cows?" said his uncle, with a look of
+grave surprise. "Why, of course. The ant cows, you know, are everywhere.
+There is no trouble to find them."
+
+A stray branch of a grape-vine had grown over the hedge, and stretched
+itself across the brook. Uncle Ben bent it down and examined it for a
+minute.
+
+"Why, here they are now!" he exclaimed, pointing to some very small
+insects on one of the leaves, about which several ants were busying
+themselves. "These are the ant cows. And here are their keepers looking
+after them."
+
+"Them little tings cows!" said Willie, with a look of utter disdain.
+
+"You didn't expect to find them as big as our cows, I hope?" asked
+Harry.
+
+"Their real name is aphis, or plant-louse," said Uncle Ben. "They suck
+the juices of the leaves. These juices become in their bodies a sort of
+honey, which they yield from certain pores. The ants are very fond of
+this honey-dew, and lap it up eagerly. And if you watch close you may
+see them patting or stroking the aphides to make them yield the honey
+faster. That is what has been called milking their cows."
+
+"Well, that is very curious, I know," exclaimed Harry. "I am going to
+watch them after this."
+
+"Each ant seems to claim certain cows as his own property," continued
+Uncle Ben. "And he will bristle up angrily if any other ant strays into
+his pasture fields. But that is not the whole story. They not only milk
+these cows, but they tenderly raise their calves. Some species of the
+aphis live on the roots of plants. Around these the ants make their
+nests, so as to have their cows in stables of their own. And they take
+the greatest care of the eggs and the young of the aphides, raising them
+as tenderly as they raise their own young. No human farmer could be more
+careful of his own stock of cows and calves."
+
+"You 'mos' might as well say they's folks right out," ejaculated
+Willie, indignantly. "Anyhow, it's ole honey, an' it ain't milk at all."
+
+"I am sure it is not the fault of the ants if their cows give honey
+instead of milk," replied his uncle, with an odd smile. "And I have
+certainly seen folks who were not as wise as the ants."
+
+"But never mind the cows, Uncle Ben," persisted Harry. "I want to hear
+about the foraging ants. Where do they belong, and what queer things do
+they do?"
+
+"They are a South American ant," was the reply. "They may be seen at
+certain seasons marching along the ground in a long column, much like an
+army. They have officers, too. These are large-headed ants that march
+outside the column, and keep it in order. It is an immense army they
+command, I can assure you--greater than that with which Xerxes in old
+times invaded Greece; for there may be millions of ants in the line.
+There is another species which does not march in column, but in a close
+mass, often covering from six to ten square yards of ground."
+
+"But what are they after?" asked Harry.
+
+"That's jes what I wants to know," observed Willie, whose curiosity had
+returned.
+
+"They are after food," replied their uncle. "It is amusing to see the
+insects scampering off from their line of march. They seem to know the
+danger that threatens them, for scarcely a living thing escapes the
+sharp jaws of these fierce foragers. They send out side columns to
+search the ground and the bushes and low trees. When any insect is
+found, it is instantly surrounded and covered by these marauders, and
+torn to pieces, and carried off in fragments. But it is not in the trees
+and on the ground that they find their chief prey."
+
+"Where, then?" asked Harry, his great blue eyes fixed with speaking
+interest on his uncle's countenance.
+
+"In the houses. The foraging ants are a perfect blessing to the people
+of the villages, not a pest, as ants are in our houses. These warm
+regions, you know, have multitudes of insects that we never see. The
+houses are infested not only with rats and mice, roaches and fleas, but
+with snakes and scorpions, with huge spiders and with many other
+unpleasant things; so the village folks are glad enough to see the
+approach of the foraging ants. They throw open every door in their
+houses, unlock their drawers and trunks, and pull the clothes out on the
+floor. They then vacate the houses, and leave them to the ants, who soon
+stream in. Those who have seen them say that it is a wonderful
+spectacle. Nothing living escapes them. They search every hole, nook,
+and cranny. Here, dozens may be seen surrounding a great spider or
+scorpion; there, they chase sprawling long-legged creatures across the
+window-panes; yonder, hundreds of them may be observed dragging out a
+rat or a mouse which they have killed: even snakes can not escape from
+the sharp and poisonous bite of these bold foragers. It takes from three
+to four hours for them to clear out a house. They will not leave it
+until they are sure that not a living thing remains. Then they stream
+out again, carrying their prey with them; and the inhabitants gladly
+return, satisfied that they will have a month or two of comfort after
+this ants' house-cleaning."
+
+"I do b'lieve you's half funnin' again, Uncle Ben," declared Willie,
+with an aspect of severe doubt. "How's little tings like ants goin' to
+pull out snakes an' rats? I'd jes like to know that!"
+
+"But I forgot to tell you that these ants are much larger than any we
+have here. Some of the tropical ants are an inch long, and as large as a
+large wasp; so you may imagine that a whole army of them is not to be
+trifled with."
+
+"Is it them that's the soldiers, Uncle Ben?" asked Willie.
+
+"The soldiers? Oh, you want to hear about the soldiers--But, I declare,
+if there isn't the dinner-bell! Who would have thought that we had spent
+so much time over the ants?"
+
+
+
+
+THE PLUMES OF CRECY.[1]
+
+BY LILLIE E. BARR.
+
+
+  I was reading of kings and nobles,
+    Tourney and knightly gage,
+  Till the summer twilight faded
+    From Froissart's ancient page.
+  Then in the darkened parlor
+    I saw a fairer sight--
+  The brave old King whose valor makes
+    The shame of Crecy light.
+
+  He stood on the little hill-side,
+    Taller than all his peers,
+  Quite blind, but with eyes uplifted,
+    Hoary with many years.
+  Still wearing his golden armor,
+    Crowned with his royal crown,
+  Leaning upon the sword with which
+    He struck the Soldan down.
+
+  And high in his gleaming helmet
+    Three ostrich plumes, snow white--
+  From the Paynim's brow he tore them
+    In some Jabluna fight.
+  All scarred with Carpathian arrows,
+    His heart with Honor flames:
+  "Advance!" he cries, "and fight for France,
+    Bohemia, and St. James!"
+
+  But two of his knights staid by him,
+    And little did they say;
+  The blind old King talked with his heart,
+    And that was in the fray.
+  Alas! alas! He heard too soon
+    The sounds of shameful flight;
+  "Thank God," he sighed, "Bohemia's blind!"--
+    He would not see this sight.
+
+  "Now, friends, one more good deed I claim,
+    Last service for your lord:
+  I ask a soldier's grave, good knights;
+    I'll dig it with my sword.
+  My horse's reins tie fast to yours--
+    A friend on either hand--
+  Then ride straight on to where you see
+    The English archers stand."
+
+  They kissed their King most tenderly,
+    Then three as one they went
+  Down to the field of certain death
+    With proud and glad content.
+  They cut a path to where Prince Charles,
+    The King's son, stood at bay:
+  'Twas spirits, and not flesh and blood,
+    For honor fought that day.
+
+  The three white plumes above the gloom
+    Gleamed like a snowy wing;
+  Victors and vanquished paused to watch
+    The blind Bohemian King.
+  Pierced oft by arrows, stained with blood,
+    The Soldan's plumes still wave,
+  Until Bohemia's sword had cut
+    Honor's unsullied grave.
+
+  Next day, when English heralds sought
+    Over the fatal field
+  Trampled lilies and flags of France,
+    They found upon his shield
+  The blind old King of Bohemia,
+    Son and friends by his side;
+  But torn and stained the snowy plumes
+    That long had been his pride.
+
+  Then said the Black Prince over him,
+    "O knight, the bravest, best,
+  Thy plumes are dyed in hero's blood--
+    Henceforth they are my crest!"
+  And still they wave o'er England's crown,
+    And teach the young and brave,
+  When all is lost but honor, then
+    Valor digs Honor's grave.
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[1] _Froissart's Chronicle_, vol. i., p. 164.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: JANUARY.]
+
+[Illustration: FEBRUARY.]
+
+[Illustration: MARCH.]
+
+[Illustration: APRIL.]
+
+[Illustration: MAY.]
+
+[Illustration: JUNE.]
+
+[Illustration: JULY.]
+
+[Illustration: AUGUST.]
+
+[Illustration: SEPTEMBER.]
+
+[Illustration: OCTOBER.]
+
+[Illustration: NOVEMBER.]
+
+[Illustration: DECEMBER.]
+
+THE MONTHS.--BY KATE GREENAWAY.
+
+
+
+
+SUMAC HUNTING.
+
+BY J. ESTEN COOKE.
+
+
+Anybody visiting the valley of Virginia in the autumn will be sure to
+notice, after sunset, all along the slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains,
+little glimmering lights like stars. These are the fires in front of the
+small tents of the sumac hunters, who, after gathering sumac all day
+long, are laughing and talking with their wives and children as they eat
+their suppers before lying down to sleep.
+
+Sumac is a very pretty plant or shrub which grows a few feet high only,
+and has beautiful blood-red leaves springing from a delicate shoot, or
+bough. The stalk is smooth, and the leaves are almond-shaped, only more
+pointed. On the top of the plant and its larger boughs grow bunches of
+red berries in the shape of grape bunches; and the leaves and berries
+are of such a deep, rich crimson in the late autumn that they sometimes
+make the slopes of the hills appear as if they were on fire. If any
+little girl would like to dress the vases on the parlor mantelpiece
+prettily, she could not do better than collect a handful of these
+delicate tendrils with their scarlet leaves, and use them as a
+background to the lovely little autumn flowers--late primroses,
+stars-of-Bethlehem, wild honeysuckles, and fringed ferns--which grow in
+the woods and fields at this time of the year.
+
+But the honest country people who take so much pains about collecting
+sumac are not thinking about dressing vases with it. They gather it to
+sell, and are paid from one cent to a cent and a half a pound for it at
+the sumac mills. This may not seem much, but then the ocean is made up
+of drops, and with poor people a little money goes a long way. As little
+children can pull sumac just as well as grown people, a whole family may
+gather in a day several dollars' worth.
+
+It is used for dyeing, and is said to be better for that purpose than
+anything else to color fair leather and certain other fabrics. Great
+quantities of it are employed in printing calicoes in rich patterns, and
+the dresses worn by ladies and girls often owe their bright colors to
+the leaves of the sumac. The way in which it is collected and prepared
+for use is very simple. As soon as the leaves turn red, which is toward
+the end of summer, the sumac hunters begin their work. They scatter
+through the fields, or along the sides of the mountain, and break off
+the twigs on which the leaves are growing; for these twigs do not make
+the leaves less valuable. Then, when they have collected an armful, they
+put it in a pile or into bags, and as night comes on the whole is taken
+to one spot, from which it is hauled home in wagons. Here it is laid on
+the floor of the barn or any out-house, in the shade, so that it may dry
+very gradually, and keep the juices which afford the coloring matter.
+When this process of drying is gone through with, and the leaves are in
+a proper state, it is loaded on carts or wagons, in bags, and taken to
+the sumac mills, where it is weighed, and paid for by the owner of the
+mills at the rate, as I have said, of from one cent to a cent and a half
+a pound. The largest mills in Virginia, where the finest sumac grows--or
+at least a very fine article--are at Richmond; but at Winchester, in the
+lower part of the Shenandoah Valley, toward the Potomac, there is a big
+mill, where great quantities are purchased, and prepared for the use of
+the dyers. The leaves and small twigs are pounded and reduced to a fine
+dust, and then it is ready to be sent away. When it reaches the
+manufactories where it is to be used as a dye for leather, calico, etc.,
+it is mixed with what are called _mordants_, certain substances that
+make it _bite in_, as the word means, and take fast hold of the material
+to be dyed; and then there is the pretty calico with its bright colors,
+which can not be washed out.
+
+It is only of late years that much attention has been paid to it in
+Virginia. People thought more about raising corn and wheat than of
+gathering sumac; but in twenty years they have learned a great deal, and
+now begin to understand that "every little helps," and that if they can
+go with their wives and children and pull sumac, and then sell it, they
+can take their money and buy sugar and coffee, and perhaps some of the
+very calico for their little girls' dresses which the red leaves of the
+sumac make so pretty.
+
+The children like the "camping out" on the mountain in the pleasant
+summer and fall nights very much. It is a sort of frolic, and it is a
+very good thing to mix up pleasure with work: it makes the work much
+easier. The tents are very simple little affairs--only a breadth of
+canvas stretched across a ridge-pole, like the "comb" of a house, held
+up by forked sticks set in the ground. In this are spread what in
+Virginia are called "pine tags," that is, the tassels, or needles, of
+the pine-trees, which are dry and brown, and by spreading a blanket or
+old comforter on these you have an excellent soft bed. In front of the
+tent a fire is built to cook by, and by means of forked sticks a pot can
+be hung above the fire for making soup, boiling meat, etc. By this fire,
+as I have told you, the sumac hunters gather in the evening, after work,
+and laugh and talk and sing, and eat their suppers; or perhaps some one
+of them can play the fiddle, and he strikes up a dancing tune, and the
+girls and boys dance on the grass, and laugh and enjoy themselves much
+more than if they were in fine drawing-rooms. After a while the long
+day's work makes them sleepy, and they lie down on the fresh pine tags
+in the tent, and go to sleep--to be up at daylight, and once more at
+work hunting and gathering their sumac.
+
+
+
+
+OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES.
+
+BY CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.
+
+
+No. VIII.
+
+THE BATTLE OF THE RANGERS.
+
+When war broke out between France and England in 1755, the French and
+Indians came down from Canada and attacked the settlers of New England
+and New York, as they had done in previous wars, burning their
+dwellings, killing men and women, or carrying them to Canada as
+prisoners.
+
+The French had a fort at Crown Point, on Lake Champlain, and another at
+Ticonderoga; while the English had Fort William Henry, at the southern
+end of Lake George, and Fort Edward, on the Hudson.
+
+The English officers who had been sent over by the King to command the
+"Provincials," as the people of England called all who lived in America,
+thought that soldiers must march in the wilderness with just as much
+precision as along a hard beaten road, that they must move in platoons
+and columns, keeping step to the drum-beat. The French officers, on the
+other hand, adopted the plan of the Indians, marching in single file,
+each man carrying his provisions. They made quick movements, falling
+suddenly upon a settlement, with their Indian allies, making all the
+havoc possible, and before the settlers could gather to resist them,
+would be far on their way to Crown Point or Canada.
+
+Robert Rogers, of New Hampshire, who was fighting the French, prevailed
+upon Lord Loudon, the English commander-in-chief, to allow him to form a
+battalion of troops, who should have the privilege of scouting the woods
+around Lake George and Lake Champlain, to discover the movements of the
+French and Indians, to fall upon them just as they were stealing upon
+the English, strike a blow, and be gone before the French would know
+what had happened. He would play their own game upon them.
+
+Lord Loudon having given his consent, Major Rogers went to New
+Hampshire and enlisted his men. They were all young, strong, athletic.
+They had tramped over the hills and mountains of that province, hunting
+bears, and had set their traps along the streams for beavers. They could
+pick their way through the forest on a cloudy day when there was no sun
+to guide them, and could tell in the darkest and cloudiest night which
+way was north by feeling the bark on the trees--for the bark is always
+more mossy on the northern than on the side exposed to the sun.
+
+It was to be a service of hardship and privation. They would have to
+make long marches; to sleep on the ground; to endure great fatigue;
+brave the cold of winter, wrapping themselves in their blankets at
+night, and lying down with the snow for their bed.
+
+Although the hardships would be so great, Robert Rogers had no
+difficulty in obtaining all the men he wanted. The settlers had suffered
+so much from the enemy that they were eager to take their revenge. There
+was a fascination in the service. How stirring the thought of stealing
+through the woods, making roundabout marches, shooting a deer or bear,
+eating the nice steaks, lying down to sleep beneath the trees; up again
+in the morning, coming upon the French and Indians unawares, pouring in
+a volley, killing the savages or taking them prisoners, and returning in
+triumph!
+
+Major Rogers chose as lieutenant the man who had knocked the Indians
+about, right and left, when called upon to run the gauntlet--John Stark,
+who could follow a trail as well as any Indian, who was always cool and
+collected, and as brave as a lion. The men were called Rangers. They
+wore green frocks, and besides their rifles each man had a long knife
+which he could use in a close fight. They wore boots and leather
+leggings, and each man carried his rations--bread and cold corned
+beef--in a bag.
+
+The ice on Lake George was thick and strong in March, 1757, when the
+Rangers, seventy-four in number, with iron spurs on their feet, several
+days' rations in their bags, their blankets rolled upon their shoulders,
+marching in single file, with trailed arms, Major Rogers at the head,
+and John Stark in the rear, started from Fort William Henry.
+
+They made their way over the gleaming ice for two days, but on the third
+day they left the lake, put on their snow-shoes, entered the woods,
+marched past Ticonderoga, and came out upon the western shore of Lake
+Champlain, discovered a party of French, with horses and sleds, on their
+way from Ticonderoga to Crown Point. Stark, with a part of the Rangers,
+made a dash and captured seven prisoners. He did not see another party
+of French around a point of land in season to capture them. They escaped
+to Ticonderoga, and gave the alarm.
+
+Major Rogers knew that a large party of French and Indians would be sent
+out from Ticonderoga to intercept him, and at once started to return.
+
+It was a rainy day. The snow was damp and heavy. "We will go to our last
+night's camp, and dry our guns," said Major Rogers.
+
+They reached the camping-place, where the fires were still burning,
+dried their guns, put in new priming, and started once more, Rogers in
+front, Stark bringing up the rear.
+
+It was two o'clock in the afternoon. Rogers descended a hill, crossed a
+brook, and was picking his way up another hill, when he found himself
+face to face with more than two hundred French and Indians, the nearest
+not twenty feet distant.
+
+A volley. Lieutenant Kennedy and John Gardiner fall dead; a bullet
+glances from Rogers's skull, for a moment taking away his senses; the
+blood flows down his face, blinding him. Several other Rangers are
+wounded.
+
+"Form here."
+
+Lieutenant Stark issues the order, and the Rangers under his command
+take position on a little hill. The Rangers down in the valley fire a
+volley at the French, holding their ground till all the wounded can make
+their way back to Stark's position.
+
+Rogers wipes the blood from his face, and issues his orders.
+
+"You are to command the centre," he says to Stark.
+
+He sends Sergeants Walker and Phillips with eight men to the rear, to
+give notice of any attempt of the enemy to crawl round and attack from
+that direction.
+
+"Don't throw away your ammunition; keep cool; don't expose yourselves,"
+are the orders, and each Ranger takes position behind a tree. They know
+that the enemy outnumber them three to one, that they have had the
+advantage of the first fire; but each Ranger prepares to fight to the
+bitter end.
+
+Round through the woods steal a part of the French and Indians, making a
+wide circuit. Major Rogers reasoned correctly, and he posted the two
+sergeants in the right place. The eight Rangers pick off the French one
+by one, giving them such a warm reception that instead of rushing on,
+they remain at a distance.
+
+The other French, with a horde of Indians howling the war-whoop, begin
+the attack in front, the Indians springing from tree to tree, getting
+nearer and nearer. But the Rangers are on the watch, and many of the
+savages leap into the air and fall dead, or crawl away, leaving bloody
+trails upon the snow.
+
+"If you will surrender, we will give you good quarter," shouts the
+French commander.
+
+Major Rogers was faint from the loss of blood, and at the moment was
+faint-hearted. He feared that the Rangers would all be picked off before
+the fight would cease. It would be three hours to sunset. Could they
+hold out till then? He had no thought of surrendering, but would it not
+be best to retreat?
+
+John Stark's blood is up.
+
+"Retreat! No; that will be certain destruction. We can beat them here.
+I'll shoot the first man that attempts to retreat."
+
+It was bold language for him to use to his commander, but he knew that
+Rogers had been stunned by the bullet that had glanced from his skull,
+and was not quite himself.
+
+The fight goes on, the Rangers taking sure aim, the French firing more
+wildly, but still one by one the Rangers drop. Captain Spikeman and Mr.
+Baker are killed. A bullet strikes the lock of Stark's gun, and renders
+it useless. He sees a Frenchman fall at the instant, springs forward,
+seizes his gun, returns to his tree, and renews the fight.
+
+A bullet tears through Rogers's wrist, and the blood spurts out in a
+stream. It must be stopped, or he will bleed to death. Rogers wears his
+back hair braided in a queue.
+
+[Illustration: CUTTING OFF A QUEUE TO BIND A WOUND.]
+
+"Take your knife and cut off my queue," he says to one of the Rangers,
+who whips out his hunting-knife, cuts off the queue, and Rogers sticks
+it into the wound to stop the flowing of the blood.
+
+All through the dreary afternoon the fight goes on. The snow is
+crimsoned with blood. The killed and mortally wounded lie where they
+fall. For the Rangers there is no escape; they must conquer or die.
+
+The shades of night steal on; the fire of the French and Indians has
+been growing less; the war-whoop dies away; the last gun is fired. The
+enemy, picking up their wounded, retire to Ticonderoga, leaving the
+Rangers victors. What a dear-bought victory!--one-half of them killed or
+wounded. Of the enemy one hundred and sixteen have fallen!
+
+The Rangers were only four miles from Ticonderoga, and might expect to
+be attacked again in the morning. They were forty miles from Fort
+William Henry. They were weary and worn, but they must move on. They
+made litters for the wounded, and started, marching all night, but
+making only a few miles.
+
+The snow had ceased, the air was chill. They must have help. John Stark,
+leaving them, started for Fort William Henry, reaching it at sunset.
+Soldiers with horses and sleds started at once, and John Stark with
+them, stopping not a moment to rest his weary limbs. At sunrise he was
+back to the Rangers with the re-enforcements and supplies. The French
+had not followed them, and they made their way safely back to Fort
+William Henry, having fought one of the most obstinate, unequal, yet
+victorious battles recorded in history.
+
+
+
+
+THE ANGEL IN THE LILLY FAMILY.
+
+BY SHERWOOD BONNER.
+
+
+There was something rather queer about the Lilly family. In the first
+place there were so many of them--fourteen precious children. This alone
+is queer, when it is the fashion of the day to have small families, and
+"well-springs of pleasure" are as scarce as diamonds in any properly
+regulated household. But Mrs. Lilly's heart was made on the omnibus
+plan; and there was no miserable little "Complet" ever scrawled over its
+door.
+
+Then it was queer how they avoided nicknames in the Lilly family. Each
+child was called by its full name, which sometimes happened to be a
+pretty long one.
+
+It was through a sad accident that one of the Lilly children turned into
+a regular little angel.
+
+The day after Christmas Mrs. Lilly's aunt--grandaunt of the
+children--carelessly allowed poor Katharine Kirk Lilly to fall on a
+marble floor. A serious injury to her spine was the result.
+
+Dear! dear! how Mrs. Lilly screamed! She threw herself on the bed, and
+poured forth tears enough to put out a Christmas bonfire. She was not
+soothed until the doctor came, and after a careful examination--which
+the sufferer bore without a word or moan--pronounced that poor Katharine
+Kirk would live. But, alas! he added that she must always be an invalid.
+And smiling with the patient sweetness that distinguished her, the dear
+child sank back on the pillows from which she was never to lift her
+golden head. All the rest of the Lilly children stood round, showing by
+a sort of paralyzed expression on their faces how deeply they were
+moved; but none of them cried.
+
+"Perhaps, dears," said the poor little mother, sobbing, "this affliction
+will be blessed to you."
+
+"It will," cried the penitent great-aunt, clasping Mrs. Lilly in her
+arms; "it will teach them lessons of patience, of self-denial, of love,
+that will be as good as--"
+
+"As the Prince's pricking-conscience ring in the family," suggested Mrs.
+Lilly's mother, who had a way of turning things into fun, and never gave
+way to her feelings.
+
+It was surprising what a change from that time dated in the Lilly
+family. They had been like other children, a little faulty, perhaps,
+rather apt to stand on their rights--a fierce footing--but merely to
+look at the darling invalid, her shining hair outspread, her blue eyes
+ever bright, was to receive a lesson in sweetness and good temper.
+
+Take the case of Phillips Arthur Cliff Lilly. This young gentleman was
+the youngest of the family, and his mother's favorite. Why, no one knew,
+except that he was so ugly. He had so many scars on his face, from falls
+and fights, that somehow he produced the impression of a target. His
+hair stood out like a halo of straw, and one defiant wisp reared itself
+above his forehead with the grace of a cat's whisker. Mrs. Lilly could
+never sleep until he was safe in her arms, and his life knew no cross
+until after the accident to Katharine Kirk, who became, in her turn, the
+pivot round which the family revolved. Horrible to relate, his mother
+one evening, in her hurry to get back to the invalid, forgot her
+youngest, and left him in the Common. There he lay all night, like a
+tramp, with the stars twinkling at him, and stray dogs sniffing as they
+passed him by. Yet when he was found he _did not utter one word_. He
+opened his blue eyes as he was picked up, and only gave a single
+plaintive cry as he was pressed to his frantic mother's bosom.
+
+Then there was Myra Miles. She was one of the young ladies of the
+family, and, as might be forgiven in a beauty, a trifle vain. She was to
+receive calls on New-Year's Day, and had expected to come out in a fine
+new dress. Pink tarlatan it was to be, trimmed in the French taste with
+blue, with a train to thrill you to your finger-tips, which seemed to
+bear the same relation to Myra Miles as the rest of a snake does to its
+head. Mrs. Lilly's mamma was making it; but her time was suddenly
+demanded to do something for the invalid, and the dress was thrown
+aside. The consequence was that poor Myra Miles appeared in the gorgeous
+pink dress with a black lace scarf instead of the waist. Still, not one
+word of complaint did she utter, although her sisters Dorothy Dimple and
+Martha Bonn--the favorites of Mrs. Lilly's aunt--appeared in exquisite
+raiment of green and blue. There was something very beautiful about her
+resignation.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the lovely Susan Mears Lilly was married, Katharine Kirk was taken
+in her pretty bed to view the ceremony, and was quite a feature of the
+occasion. Indeed, she did not begin to look so weak and ill as the
+bridegroom, who, poor youth, was so tottering that Mrs. Lilly's aunt
+cruelly suggested that his back should be propped with a hair-pin. You
+may imagine how the girls laughed at this, especially Teresa Fehmer
+Lilly, a wicked little bridemaid in red satin.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And such attentions as the sufferer had from friends of the Lilly
+family! The beautiful belle Miss Lilian Love spent many hours over a
+dainty quilt of silk and lace to adorn the sick-bed. A glorious poet
+sent in a box of agreeable medicine, with a note running like this:
+
+     "MY DEAR MRS. LILLY,--I send you a little book for your sick
+     child, and some medicine for her poor broken back. The peculiarity
+     of this medicine is that in order to produce any good effect it
+     must be taken by the nurse. This is rather hard upon the nurse;
+     but if she is a good nurse she will not mind it much."
+
+Jane Jumper was the nurse really; but while the medicine lasted Mrs.
+Lilly herself took entire charge, and administered the sweet doses to
+herself, without one word from Katharine Kirk.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It may have occurred by this time to some shrewd little reader that
+under no circumstance was any member of this household apt to give
+utterance to silver speech. Shall I confess? Or, my dear children, have
+you guessed that Katharine Kirk and all the cherished fourteen belonged
+to the beloved, the beautiful, the _dumb_, family of--Dolls?
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]
+
+
+  VIAREGGIO, ITALY.
+
+     I am nearly six years old. I would like to have a tea party on my
+     birthday. After my birthday has come I will write again, and tell
+     you all about it.
+
+     In Rome I have a big play horse and two kitties. My little cat is
+     gray and white, and is called Bimbo. He walks on his toes, and
+     makes a long face. Papa's cat's name is Cavaliere. He is a big
+     Maltese cat.
+
+     In Rome we have a nice house and a nice garden, and in the garden
+     there is a straw hut.
+
+     We are finishing the summer at Viareggio, and we have nice
+     sea-baths.
+
+  IMOGEN R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SMITH'S HILL, FEATHER RIVER, CALIFORNIA.
+
+     I enjoy the letters in YOUNG PEOPLE, especially those that tell of
+     birds and flowers I have not seen. There are mocking-birds here in
+     summer, and a beautiful bird called goldfinch. There are also
+     robins, bluebirds, and many varieties of sparrows. The bluebirds
+     and robins stay here all winter. It is too bad to take eggs from
+     the birds to give away in exchange. The pitcher-plant grows in a
+     valley not far from here.
+
+     My sister Bell went to Lassens Peak last week. It is 10,600 feet
+     high. There is no snow on the mountain now except a small patch on
+     top. Hundreds of small butterflies were flitting about on the
+     mountain-side and alighting on the rocks. As there is no
+     vegetation, except a few hardy plants scattered among the ledges,
+     I wonder what they find to live on. A lake which could be seen
+     from the top of the peak had the appearance of being frozen. In
+     the valley below there are hot boiling springs.
+
+  LOU R. K.
+
+Yes, it is too bad to take so many birds' eggs. But if our
+correspondents are careful to take only one or two from each nest, and
+to always leave more than half, as we have already begged them to do,
+the mother-bird will not suffer. If we could believe for a moment that
+our little friends would be so cruel as to disturb the brooding mother,
+and rob her nest of all its eggs, we would never publish another letter
+requesting an exchange of these pretty natural curiosities. The nesting
+season is now over in all the Northern States, but when it returns, we
+trust the young egg collectors will never allow their eagerness to
+secure the coveted treasure to overcome their sense of honor and their
+kindness of heart.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
+
+     I am ten years old. I take HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it
+     very much. I am always glad when Wednesday comes, for that is the
+     day I get it. I think it is a very nice paper for boys and girls.
+     I have a pet dog whose name is Lion.
+
+  SAMUEL P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BELLEVILLE, TEXAS.
+
+     I am ten years old. I have no pets except a Maltese cat and a dog.
+     I was very much interested in the dog and cat of Madelaine, the
+     little French girl. I like "The Moral Pirates" and "Who was Paul
+     Grayson?" best of all the stories. My father gave me a piano for
+     my birthday present; and when I was seven years old he gave me a
+     pony, and I named him Button. I dearly love to gallop over the
+     hills.
+
+     I went to New Hampshire in 1875 to see my grandfather, and we
+     visited the White Mountains.
+
+     I think YOUNG PEOPLE is the nicest paper I ever saw, and I intend
+     to take it until I grow up.
+
+  JOSIE C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  NEW YORK CITY.
+
+     B. I., of Radnor, Ohio, asks how to feather arrows. Choose goose
+     or turkey feathers of a suitable size. Cut them carefully from the
+     quill; put on hot glue, and fasten them to the sides of the arrow,
+     about an inch from the notch, at equal distances apart. There
+     should always be three feathers.
+
+  A. H.
+
+It is a good plan to fasten the feathers to the arrow with pins until
+the glue is perfectly dry, when they can be carefully removed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
+
+     I have a pet now, a lovely little dog, with long curly hair and
+     large bright eyes. He is snowy white all over, and his name is
+     Mischief. I am going to have his picture taken some time. He looks
+     just like a bundle of cotton, with three black spots shining
+     through. Those are his eyes and nose.
+
+     The tree represented in the illustration of the beetles in YOUNG
+     PEOPLE No. 38 is just like the California buckeye-tree. The
+     blossoms are exactly the same.
+
+     I am very much interested in the directions for making salt and
+     fresh water aquariums. When I was in Monterey I might have
+     collected lots of sea-anemones, snails, and pink and white
+     star-fish, but I did not think of it. One of the gentlemen at the
+     hotel went fishing with a net, and caught a little baby
+     cuttle-fish, or devil-fish, as it is commonly called. It had seven
+     or eight long legs, all lined with little suckers, like buttons.
+     It was a dreadful ugly-looking thing. It must have been very
+     young, for it was only ten or eleven inches long. The gentleman
+     was going to keep it for a curiosity, and until he could get
+     something better he put it in a pan of salt-water; but he forgot
+     to cover the pan, and in the night the fish crawled out on to the
+     floor, and died.
+
+     I have exchanged Farallon Island eggs and leaves and specimens of
+     trees with a good many children since my letter was printed.
+
+     Is there any difference between postage stamps and postmarks? I
+     don't believe I know what postmarks are.
+
+  IDA BELLE DISERENS.
+
+A postmark is the stamp put on the outside of a letter at the office
+where it is posted. It certainly is not of much value in itself, but if
+a collection is neatly pasted in a book, States and countries being
+arranged together, counties being written under towns in the United
+States, and a note made of any manufactories or natural productions for
+which the town is celebrated, such a collection may become an
+interesting gazetteer, and valuable as a book of reference.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.
+
+     On September 27 I found a blossom on the peach-tree in our back
+     yard. I picked it, and have pressed it to send to you. I think it
+     is very odd to have peach blossoms in September, and I would like
+     to know if any girl or boy has ever seen them blooming in that
+     month in this climate.
+
+     I think the story "Who was Paul Grayson?" is splendid.
+
+  REBA H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SOUTH ELIOT, MAINE.
+
+     I bought three silk-worms' cocoons at the Educational Department
+     of the Permanent Exhibition at Philadelphia. In about a week's
+     time the cocoons broke, and the moths came out and began to lay
+     their eggs on a sheet of brown paper which I laid them on. They
+     have laid about all their eggs now, and there are a great many.
+
+  CHESTER B. F.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  HOWARD, TEXAS.
+
+     I am seven years old. Mother teaches me at home. I am studying
+     spelling, geography, arithmetic, and the Third Reader.
+
+     I love so much when Wednesday morning comes, for then I get my
+     YOUNG PEOPLE, and I read until I have finished it.
+
+     I received a beautiful pressed bouquet, from Mary Lowry. It was
+     real nice, and I am going to send her some seeds very soon.
+
+     I have three dolls, one wax and two china ones. Every day, when I
+     am through with my lessons, my sister Myrtle and I have nice times
+     playing with them.
+
+  MABEL P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     I live on a farm about one mile from town.
+
+     We had a ring-dove given to us, and we bought a mate for it, and
+     now we have four more. One is just hatched. Last summer, a year
+     ago, we had a present of a pair of guinea-pigs, and we have raised
+     six others. One of the little ones is pure white, except its head,
+     which is black. It looks as if it had a mask on. My brother, who
+     is ten years old, has a pigeon-house and about thirty pigeons. And
+     he has six rabbits, which are all the time burrowing out of the
+     pen, and a young shepherd dog. We have black and brown bantams,
+     and two little red calves we call Spot and Lina, because one has a
+     red spot on its back, and the other a white line.
+
+     Last spring I planted one small ear of pop-corn, and now I have
+     gathered nearly eighty ears from it. I also planted ground-nuts.
+
+     My brother, my sister, and I have each a pair of stilts, and we
+     have lots of fun inventing new ways to walk on them.
+
+  BESSIE R. H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange postage stamps of France and Germany with
+     any readers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. Correspondents will please
+     put "Via England" on the envelope, as letters thus addressed are
+     more likely to come safely.
+
+  B. D. WOODWARD, 49 im Trutz,
+  Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange postmarks for foreign postage stamps, or
+     for other postmarks, with any boy in the South or West.
+
+  WILLIAM F. PENNEY,
+  559 Henry Street, Brooklyn, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have a collection of postage and revenue stamps, and would like
+     to exchange with readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  W. H. EASTMAN,
+  Emporia, Kansas.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     My mamma takes YOUNG PEOPLE for my sister Laura and me. We read
+     all the stories, and are never tired of it.
+
+     We have a pair of pet pigeons named Polly and Dolly. When we first
+     got them we had to put the food in their mouths, but now they can
+     eat alone. When we come they hunt in our hands for something to
+     eat.
+
+     I am a little Iowa girl, but my father came to live in Old
+     Virginia almost five years ago. We live near Greenway Court, the
+     old home of Lord Fairfax, and where General Washington surveyed
+     the land when he was a very young man.
+
+     I am thirteen years old. I have a cabinet and a museum, and am
+     collecting postmarks and stamps, which I would like to exchange
+     with any correspondent.
+
+  MAY BELL MILLER,
+  Care of Joseph A. Miller,
+  Nineveh, Warren County, Virginia.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am having a splendid time in Mamaroneck. I have a lot of
+     chickens, and it is very funny to see the young roosters fight. I
+     shall leave the country soon, and I would like to say to those
+     wishing to exchange stamps with me that after October 25 my
+     address will be
+
+  PIERRE JAY,
+  291 Madison Avenue, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am making a collection of postmarks, and would like to exchange
+     with any correspondents of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  C. H. MCBRIDE,
+  Rexford Flats, Saratoga County, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am making a collection of birds' eggs, and would like to
+     exchange with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  JOSEPH SKIRM, Santa Cruz,
+  Santa Cruz County, California.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am very much interested in the letters in YOUNG PEOPLE. I would
+     like to exchange birds' eggs with any of the readers.
+
+  H. GRAY,
+  Albion, Orleans County, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     My younger sister takes YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it as well as she
+     does. I have no pets, but I have a flower garden and a good many
+     house plants. I would like to exchange flower seeds with any
+     correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE. I have sweet-pea, cypress,
+     rose-moss, dew-plant, and other seeds.
+
+  MOLLIE C. MICHENER,
+  Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have read YOUNG PEOPLE ever since it started, and like it very
+     much. I like "The Moral Pirates" and Jimmy Brown's stories about
+     Mr. Martin the best.
+
+     I have a Chilian, a Greek, and a Portuguese coin which I would
+     like to exchange with any reader who is collecting foreign coin. I
+     have a collection of almost two hundred.
+
+  JOHN PYNE,
+  Wiscasset, Maine.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I thought you would like a letter from this town, where a great
+     battle was fought.
+
+     I spend many happy hours with the dear YOUNG PEOPLE. I love, most
+     of all, the little letters, as it seems like talking to little
+     people.
+
+     I am sick in bed, and have been for almost ten weeks. If my cough
+     would get better, then I would get strong again. I am nine years
+     old. I can read and write, and play little tunes on the piano. I
+     fear the other little girls will get ahead of me now.
+
+     I wish "Wee Tot," or any of the little readers, would send me some
+     ocean curiosities or quartz crystals for pressed leaves and ferns
+     gathered on Round Top. My pet canary died last week.
+
+  NERVA WIBLE,
+  Care of J. Ed. Wible, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have a nice collection of curiosities, and would like to
+     exchange with any correspondent for sea-shells or other
+     curiosities. I have iron ore, soft gypsum crystals, stalactites,
+     stalagmites, pretty pebbles, different kinds of limestone, pressed
+     ferns, and other things. In sending specimens, correspondents will
+     please mark each plainly with the name and the locality where it
+     was found.
+
+     A few days ago I got my hand mashed in a cider mill, and can not
+     use it now. My brother is writing this letter for me.
+
+  HARRY R. BARTLETT,
+  Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange curiosities and stuffed birds with any
+     correspondent of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  C. H. MATHIAS, Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have taken every number of YOUNG PEOPLE since it was published,
+     and I think it is just splendid.
+
+     I am gathering specimens and curiosities, and would be glad to
+     exchange with any one.
+
+  CHARLIE LEADBETTER,
+  174 Plum Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have a printing-press and a small breech-loading shot-gun that
+     father made for me. I had a cat named Bill, but he is dead. He
+     would jump over my arms, and stand up on his hind-feet and kiss
+     me, and sit up in the corner.
+
+     I like the story of "The Moral Pirates" best of all. I and some
+     other boys are planning to go off on a cruise next summer.
+
+     I have a lot of foreign stamps which I would like to exchange for
+     Indian arrow-heads or Indian relics. I am eleven years old.
+
+  BERTIE HARRISON,
+  Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am just beginning a collection of curiosities, and would like to
+     exchange with some of the correspondents.
+
+     I have one brother. We live near a pond. Our pet kitten is very
+     fond of fish; and I go out in a row-boat and catch minnows for it.
+     I tie mussels on a string, and the minnows bite the bait and hold
+     fast. I caught two large minnows with a string alone.
+
+  JESSIE A. BROWN,
+  South Norwalk, Connecticut.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I should like to exchange birds' eggs with any correspondent of
+     YOUNG PEOPLE. I have eggs of the following birds: hedge, song,
+     house, and chipping sparrow, bluebird, swallow, brown and red
+     thrush, peewit, woodpecker, meadow-lark, cat-bird, pigeon,
+     turtle-dove, ring-dove, and cardinal-grosbeak.
+
+  R. D. BRITTON, Wyoming, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange postage stamps, minerals, shells, and
+     Indian arrow-heads for stamps, pressed sea-weeds, or birds' eggs.
+     The shells are labelled with their scientific names.
+
+  E. G. W.,
+  P. O. Box 487, Binghamton, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We would request all correspondents not to send us long lists of stamps,
+eggs, and other things, as they occupy too much space in the Post-office
+Department. It is much better for them to prepare their lists neatly,
+and have them ready to send to those who write to them for exchange,
+after their request has been published in YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+We are compelled to condense the requests for exchange from the
+following correspondents:
+
+     Postage stamps and birds' eggs for postage stamps.
+
+  WILLIAM S. ALDRICH,
+  Freeport, Cumberland County, Maine.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps, postmarks, and Indian relics for postage stamps.
+
+  A. S. BARRETT,
+  Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage, Treasury, and revenue stamps for others.
+
+  HANDY DANIEL,
+  Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps and postmarks for postage stamps.
+
+  JOHN A. WOLFF,
+  92 Second Street, Albany, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Foreign and United States postage stamps for others.
+
+  W. C. V. CHADWICK,
+  44 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MABEL.--The recipes you wish are in YOUNG PEOPLE Nos. 24 and 28.--A good
+method for varnishing leaves is described by Edith L. in Post-office Box
+No. 38.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+W. DE VEAU.--The different species of the order _Chelonia_, to which
+turtles and tortoises belong, are distinguished mainly by the limbs. The
+common fresh-water turtles have distinct toes, which are webbed and
+provided with long nails. They are easy and powerful swimmers, but are
+very helpless on land. They feed upon all kinds of aquatic worms and
+insects. The tortoises, or land turtles, have short clubbed feet adapted
+for travelling on the ground, and stout, short claws. They feed upon
+roots, vegetables, fruit, and small bugs and flies. Their upper shell is
+more rounded than that of the water turtle. They are capable of
+swimming, but seldom enter the water.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+W. S. B.--Alaric the Goth was proclaimed King of the Visigoths about
+A.D. 400. He was a bold and artful warrior, and under his leadership the
+Goths ravaged Greece, and entered Athens. He afterward determined to
+invade Italy, and after numerous repulses and misfortunes his armies
+succeeded in entering Rome in 410, eleven hundred and sixty-three years
+after the foundation of the city, which for six hundred years previous
+to the Gothic conquest had remained unviolated by the presence of any
+foreign enemy. Alaric, who had already embraced Christianity, showed
+much moderation in his treatment of the vanquished city, and after a
+short occupation he retired his troops, and proceeded to ravage Southern
+Italy. He was about to invade Sicily, and form an expedition to Africa,
+when his death, after a short illness, put an end to his conquests. His
+army, anxious to conceal his death, and even his burial-place, from the
+enemy, employed a band of captives to divert the course of the Busento,
+a small river which washes the walls of Cozenza, an ancient fortified
+town, and secretly at night a grave was dug in the river-bed, and the
+body of the dead chieftain was buried. The waters of the Busento were
+then turned back, and underneath the peaceful river the grave of the
+warlike Goth was securely concealed. His death occurred in 410, only a
+few months after his triumphal entry into Rome.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GERTRUDE C.--Your letter is very gratifying, and we are sorry we can not
+accede to your request, but the article in question would occupy too
+large a space in YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Favors are acknowledged from Hamilton W., Willie C. Bartlett, Isabelle
+Van Brunt, M. L. Hannam, Macy Walcutt, C. F. Moses.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles are received from Ida Belle Diserens, A. H.
+Ellard, Mary R. De La Mater, Harvey B. Ridgway, Miss N. J. Tiddy, Nella
+Coover, N. Bumpus, Clarence J. Washington, W. S. Ferguson, May Wells,
+H. A. Bent.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+ACROSTIC.
+
+Place the names of five trees in such order that their initials read
+downward spell the name of another tree.
+
+  BOLUS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+UNITED DIAMONDS.
+
+1. In Nebraska. An insect. A fluid. At a distance. In Nevada.
+
+2. In Idaho. A graceful animal. An animal often trained for a special
+purpose. The limit. In Colorado. Centrals of diamonds read across spell
+the name of a savage beast.
+
+  OWLET.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+WORD SQUARES.
+
+1. First, a character in mythology. Second, ascended. Third, a body of
+land. Fourth, a prophet.
+
+  S. F. W.
+
+2. First, lineage. Second, sour. Third, to quote. Fourth, a garden.
+
+  KATIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 4.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  My first is in lily, but not in white.
+  My second in sleep, but not in night.
+  My third is in man, but not in beast.
+  My fourth is in sorrow, but not in feast.
+  My fifth is in no, but not in yes.
+  My whole is a fruit which you must guess.
+
+  MATTIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 5.
+
+HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.
+
+An associate. A ravine. A reward. In Lexington. Devoured. One of a
+certain sect of philosophers. A boy's name. Centrals read downward spell
+the name of a celebrated battle.
+
+  ZELOTES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 48.
+
+No. 1.
+
+  P I S A   Y A C H T
+  I S A R   A B H O R
+  S A C O   C H A S E
+  A R O N   H O S T S
+            T R E S S
+
+No. 2.
+
+      N         S
+    D I S     W H O
+  N I G H T-S H A D E
+    S H E     O D D
+      T         E
+
+No. 3.
+
+Cornwallis, Washington.
+
+No. 4.
+
+1. Ava, Orfah, Jiddah, Riad, Pekin, Surat, Omsk. 2. Exeter, Alabama,
+Parana, Caracas, Panama.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WIGGLES.
+
+For the benefit of those who have not read the original article on
+"Wiggles," we would say that the Wiggle is a line that may be turned
+into a picture by having other lines added to it. For example, take the
+new Wiggle, No. 15, given in this Number. Trace it carefully, so as to
+preserve the _exact_ outlines, and then see what you can make of it. Add
+to it as much as you please, but do not change the original line. Send
+answers as promptly as possible.
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS.
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+_Notice._
+
+Now is the Time to Subscribe.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Within a year of its first appearance HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE has secured
+a leading place among the periodicals designed for juvenile readers. The
+object of those who have the paper in charge is to provide for boys and
+girls from the age of six to sixteen a weekly treat in the way of
+entertaining stories, poems, historical sketches, and other attractive
+reading matter, with profuse and beautiful illustrations.
+
+The conductors of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE proceed upon the theory that it
+is not necessary, in order to engage the attention of youthful minds, to
+fill its pages with exaggerated and sensational stories, to make heroes
+of criminals, or throw the glamour of romance over bloody deeds. Their
+design is to make the spirit and influence of the paper harmonize with
+the moral atmosphere which pervades every cultivated Christian
+household. The lessons taught are those which all parents who desire the
+welfare of their children would wish to see inculcated. HARPER'S YOUNG
+PEOPLE aims to do this by combining the best literary and artistic
+talent, so that fiction shall appear in bright and innocent colors,
+sober facts assume such a holiday dress as to be no longer dry or dull,
+and mental exercise, in the solution of puzzles, problems, and other
+devices, become a delight.
+
+The cordial approval extended to HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE by the
+intelligent and exacting audience for whose special benefit it was
+projected shows that its conductors have not miscalculated the
+requirements of juvenile periodical literature. The paper has attained a
+wide circulation in the United States, Canada, Europe, the West Indies,
+and South America. The "Post-office Box," the most complete department
+of the kind ever attempted, contains letters from almost every quarter
+of the globe, and not only serves to bring the boys and girls of
+different states and countries into pleasant acquaintance, but, through
+its exchanges and answers to questions, to extend their knowledge and
+quicken their intelligence.
+
+The Bound Volume for 1880 has been gotten up in the most attractive
+manner, the cover being embellished with a tasteful and appropriate
+design. It will be one of the most handsome, entertaining, and useful
+books for boys and girls published for the ensuing holidays.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TERMS.
+
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+SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7--payable in advance: postage free.
+Subscriptions will be commenced with the Number current at the time of
+receipt of order, except in cases where the subscribers otherwise
+direct.
+
+The Second Volume will begin with No. 53, to be issued November 2, 1880.
+Subscriptions should be sent in before that date, or as early as
+possible thereafter.
+
+The Bound Volume for 1880, containing the first fifty-two Numbers, will
+be ready early in November. Price $3, postage prepaid. The cover for
+YOUNG PEOPLE for 1880 is now ready. Price 35 cents; postage 13 cents
+additional.
+
+Remittances should be made by _Post-office Money Order or Draft_, to
+avoid risk of loss.
+
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+  HARPER & BROTHERS,
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+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: SOME ANSWERS TO WIGGLE No. 14, OUR ARTIST'S IDEA, AND NEW
+WIGGLE No. 15.]
+
+
+The following names are of those who sent answers to Wiggle No. 14:
+
+G. B. Dimmick, Willie R. Perkins, G. C. Meyer, Mary A. Hale, H. M. P.,
+Hudson Taylor, Wee Tot, M. Prall Grant, Eddie Hunter, Cloyd D. Browns,
+Alice Rhawn, Arthur L. Bumpus, Robert M., S. J. G., B. R. Howell, Edith
+Bidwell, E. C. K., C. F. Peck, Jun., James L. Busbee, Catharine, S. C.
+Register, Dimple McCrea, Irish Stew, George Broomhall, Bernie
+Wurriochke, F. R. Powley, Robert G. Bidwell, W. H. Western, D. C. Hick,
+H. Jacobs, Isabel Jacobs, Julia Maude Sickels, May Rickerson, Wiggle
+Maker, A. H. Addington, Bessie B. Anderson, Horace F. Ames, Everett C.
+Fay, Bront Smith, L. D. H., Glen Hughes, S. Knight Satterlee, William
+McClellands, George McClellands, John A. Tompkins, Herbert Fusselle,
+Effie Meacham, Jasper Bines, Sol. Jacobs, J. L. Bushnell, Hal, M. F.
+Krum, Fannie Hartwell, M. E. Farrell, Hebe, Tom, C. S. W., D. Brookmire,
+Vinnie J., S. F. Rupert, Sol, C. L. McL., Gid, A. J. D., Marvin Burt,
+Charles D. Rhodes, Theresa Morro, Toots, Frank Ostrandes, Matilda R.
+Bowie, Jennie Stille, E. W. L., V. L. Seche, Alfred Hossler, Robert
+Andrews, Jun., C. L. Hooper, Dudley Willinnes, George Oakley, Rosa Kent
+Gregory, Jun., M. E. B., S. McL., John McK. Burno, Charles N. Hoar, F.
+Uhlenhaut, C. W. P., Mark Manley, Eddie S. Hequembourg, Goldie Williams,
+H. W. Smith, Donna Aline, Eva Prichard, John White, Myrtle Lake, Fredy
+Leser, Edwin Preston, A. S., W. S., E. S., F. B., Mary Green, J. N.
+Howe, O. A. Mueller, E. J. B., Walter Plumb, Pet Bowman, Nattie L.
+Francis, Charley B. Hall, Katie Hall, R. L. Hall, Jun., H. L. Easton,
+Bessie Linn, Georgie Linn, Eliza B. Bartlett, Harry R. Bartlett, John H.
+Bartlett, Jun., Eddie Bartlett, William O. Brackett, Pearl Hare.
+
+
+
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