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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880, by Various
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+Title: Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880
+       An Illustrated Weekly
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+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: June 25, 2009 [EBook #29238]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE ***
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+Produced by Annie McGuire
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+[Illustration: HARPER'S
+
+YOUNG PEOPLE
+
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. I.--NO. 52. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, October 26, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: UNDER THE CHESTNUT-TREE.]
+
+WORK'S A MINT; OR, WILBERT FAIRLAW'S NOTION.
+
+BY FRANK H. TAYLOR.
+
+
+"What's your name, boy?"
+
+The question came so suddenly that the boy nearly tumbled from the fence
+upon which he was perched, as Judge Barton stopped squarely in front of
+him, and waited for an answer.
+
+"Wilbert Fairlaw, sir," was the timid reply.
+
+"Go to school?"
+
+"No, sir."
+
+"Do any work?"
+
+"Yes, sir; I 'tend marm's cows and fetch wood."
+
+"Well, that's something. But don't you think there's plenty to do in
+this part of the world that's better than kicking your heels against the
+fence all the morning? Now just look around, my boy, until you find
+something that wants fixing up, and take off your coat and go at it. You
+won't have to look far about here." And the Judge gave a contemptuous
+glance toward the widow Fairlaw's neglected farm. "Take my word for it,
+boy," he added, "work's a mint--work's a mint." And then he turned away,
+walking with dignified pace toward the Willows--the name of his place.
+
+Now I think that most boys would have been tempted to talk back, but
+Wilbert only sat still and looked after the man as he walked away, and
+then down at his bare feet.
+
+"It's all true. Somehow our place does look badly, but I can't 'tend to
+everything," he thought, "like a hired man; an' if I did try to patch
+things, likely I'd get a lickin' for doin' something I oughtn't. I don't
+see as it makes any difference whether I work or not. It's all the same
+about here; but, oh, I would like to have something to do for pay, so I
+could have a little money--ever so little--and I could feel it in my
+pocket, and know it was there. I wonder what the Judge meant by saying,
+'Work's a mint.' I guess it is something about getting paid. How I wish
+I had a little money! but I would like to earn it myself."
+
+"Here, bub, get a bucket, will you, and bring my nag some water?"
+
+This time it was a keen-looking young man sitting in a light wagon who
+addressed him.
+
+"Now stir your pegs, bub, and here's a nickel for you."
+
+Wilbert was already on the way to the well, for he was always quite
+willing to do a favor, and so he didn't hear the last sentence. Then he
+unfastened the check-rein by standing upon a horse-block, and gave the
+tired animal a pail of water.
+
+The driver meanwhile searched his pockets in vain for a nickel.
+
+"Got any change, bub?"
+
+"No, sir."
+
+"Well, then, never mind; here's a quarter to start your fortune. I guess
+it'll do you more good than it would me," and away he drove at a lively
+pace up the road, and Wilbert sat down in the grass by the road-side,
+too happy even to whistle or dance.
+
+So people sometimes paid for having their horses watered? Why not keep
+watch for teams, and have a bucket ready? There was plenty of travel
+over the road. Carriage-loads of excursionists went by to the "Glen"--a
+resort about six miles distant--almost daily, and the only place to
+water on the way was always made muddy by the pigs.
+
+But people wouldn't be willing to wait while he went clear to the well
+every time for water, especially when there were two horses.
+
+Behind the barn lay an unused trough, made for feeding pigs. Wilbert
+tied a rope around it, and hitching the one old horse his mother owned
+to this, dragged it to a point in the road where the shadow of a large
+chestnut-tree rested most of the day. Then he built a stone support
+about it, out of the plentiful supply of bowlders in the fields. Next
+the water was to be brought. It took a long time to carry enough with
+one pail to even half fill the trough, and then the very first farmer
+who drove along the road stopped his horses, and looking with some
+surprise at Wilbert's "improvement," let his animals drink most of the
+contents, and was off before Wilbert returned from the pump.
+
+Several teams watered during the morning, and one man tossed the boy ten
+cents. How pleasantly his two coins jingled, to be sure!
+
+Early the next morning Wilbert was on his way to a ravine which lay back
+of the big chestnut-tree. He carried a spade, and began to dig where the
+grass was greenest, and slime was gathered upon the stones. At a depth
+of two feet he saw the hole fill with water, which speedily became
+clear, as he sat down to rest, and soon trickled down the slope.
+
+Then he went to that repository of all odds and ends, the shed back of
+the barn, and selected a number of boards left over when the fence was
+built; with these and some nails he made a trough to carry the water
+down the hill, placing them one end upon another in forked stakes, and
+after two days of hard work was delighted to find that his trough was
+easily filled with clear cool spring-water.
+
+Upon that day he made twenty cents, and a good-natured peddler gave him
+a large sponge, and taught him how to rinse out the parched mouths of
+the horses.
+
+He rode to town with the peddler, and bought a handsome bucket with his
+money, feeling sure that he would soon get it all back.
+
+Business was now fairly under way, and many were the praises bestowed by
+passers-by upon his work. Some paid, and others only said "Thank you."
+The crusty Judge, who had a kind heart in spite of his rough ways,
+halted his team, and after learning from Wilbert that it was all his own
+work, told his driver always to stop there when passing, and said he
+thought he had better pay for the season in advance, and so handed the
+boy a dollar.
+
+One day Wilbert sat by his trough under the chestnut, looking very
+thoughtful. He knew that summer would soon be over, and was thinking of
+the coming winter days, when his occupation would be gone. He had earned
+quite a nice little sum--ten dollars or more--and had formed and
+rejected many plans for using it to the best advantage. He became quite
+unhappy through his uncertain frame of mind. You see, even the
+possession of money is a cause of sorrow sometimes. There was one thing
+settled. He had determined to buy a new woollen shawl for his mother
+with a part of his riches.
+
+Wilbert took his money out of his pocket, and counted it for perhaps the
+hundredth time. While thus engaged his attention was drawn to a cloud of
+dust in the road, out of which a pair of black ponies dashed at full
+speed. They seemed to be running away. Men were shouting to the
+pale-faced boy who held the reins, and who was presently thrown
+violently from his seat, and now lay still and senseless by the
+road-side. There was but a moment in which to form a resolve. Wilbert
+seized a loose board from the fence and held it squarely across the
+road, throwing it with all his strength toward the ponies. Thus
+attacked, they became confused, and turned to the road-side, upsetting
+the watering-trough, and stopped. Wilbert scrambled up out of the dust
+into which he had been thrown by the force of his effort, and caught the
+reins. Two men ran to the horses' heads, while another brought the
+injured boy to the spot.
+
+"I guess we had better get him home as soon as we can," said one of the
+men. "He's stopping over to the Judge's, and is his nephew. Here, you,
+Wilbert, just git in, and hold his head up, while I manage these little
+scamps. Things ain't much broken, considering how the critters run."
+
+So they drove back to the Willows. Wilbert went in with the man,
+secretly wondering at the beautiful rooms, the rich carpets, pictures,
+and easy-chairs. They surpassed anything he had ever seen or dreamed of.
+Then Wilbert was sent after the doctor, and made himself so handy that
+it was agreed he should stay and help nurse Clarence, for that was the
+boy's name.
+
+For six weeks the injured lad lay in bed, and Wilbert remained
+faithfully by him. As Clarence grew stronger, the boys became very fond
+of each other, though they had never met before the accident, Clarence
+having just arrived from Boston on a visit to his uncle.
+
+He told Wilbert that his father was a manufacturer, and that his mother
+was dead. The young visitor had a great many books, some of which
+Wilbert found time to read while watching by the bedside. One of these
+was a story of the life of George Stephenson, who invented the first
+locomotive. This was such a favorite with Wilbert that the sick boy gave
+it to him.
+
+All that he read set him to thinking. Why couldn't he too invent
+something, and become famous? Long after everybody else slept Wilbert
+lay in bed with his eyes wide open, until he had thought out a plan for
+hitching horses to carriages in such a manner that they couldn't run
+away.
+
+The very next day he walked to the village and bought a few tools and
+such material as he thought his device would require, and then set about
+making a model.
+
+The Judge good-naturedly laughed at his "notion," as he termed it, but
+allowed him to work at it all of his spare time. "Work's a mint," said
+he, "and such work ain't mischief, at any rate."
+
+At last Wilbert had his model completed, save a single part, and was
+obliged to make another trip to the village to get the proper material.
+When he returned he was alarmed by the discovery that his model was
+gone. He ran down stairs to the study, but held back as he saw the Judge
+and a stranger intently examining his missing work.
+
+"I always believe," said the Judge, "in letting boys work out their
+notions. It don't hurt 'em, and it teaches 'em patience."
+
+"Of course, of course," replied the stranger. "For instance, this
+'notion,' as you call it, will never do. It isn't the thing at all; but
+see here, Judge, examine this hub. There's a 'notion' in that worth
+something. I tell you what it is, any boy who can stumble on such an
+idea, even by accident, has got good stuff in him."
+
+Just then the Judge caught sight of Wilbert.
+
+"Here's the lad himself. And so," said he to the boy, with a great show
+of severity, "this is all that your work for two weeks has brought out.
+Mr. Congdon here, Clarence's father, says your invention ain't worth
+anything. What do you say to that? Your work ain't much of a mine, after
+all, is it?"
+
+Wilbert felt very much like choking with vexation and grief. He couldn't
+bear to have fun made of his model, especially before a stranger, but he
+wisely remained silent.
+
+"So your name is Wilbert?" inquired Mr. Congdon. "Well, now, Wilbert, I
+want you to let me take this toy of yours home with me. I have come
+after Clarence. We leave this evening for Boston. Trust me with it, and
+you won't regret doing so."
+
+So Mr. Congdon left with Wilbert's companion and his "notion," after
+which the boy seemed lost for a few days. He went back to the old farm,
+and handed his mother the wages the Judge had paid him, and an order for
+a new suit of clothes kindly added by Mrs. Barton.
+
+Toward the close of the year he sat one night, reading, as usual, by
+candle-light, and oddly enough it happened to be Christmas-eve, when a
+rap came at the door, and Judge Barton entered. He held in his hand an
+important-looking envelope, which he reached toward Wilbert, saying,
+"Here's a Christmas gift for you, boy. Work's a mint--work's a mint.
+Yes, indeed, it's better than a gold mine, for it brings its reward
+already coined."
+
+Now, you see, Wilbert had never had but one letter before in his life,
+and that was a little boyish scrawl from Clarence, and no wonder he
+opened the big envelope timidly. The contents began, "Know all men by
+these presents," and here Wilbert looked again into the envelope to see
+where the presents it spoke of were hidden.
+
+The Judge explained that this was a paper from the United States
+Patent-office, granting a patent to Wilbert Fairlaw for an improved
+carriage hub.
+
+"Now," said the Judge, "that patent was secured for you by Mr. Congdon,
+who got the hint for the hub from that 'notion' of yours. It will sell
+for considerable money, but I advise you to hold it. I think, Mrs.
+Fairlaw"--turning to the widow--"that you had better let your boy go to
+school for a couple of years. I'll see that the royalty on the
+manufacture of this hub will pay for his keeping; and when he is old
+enough, he can do as he thinks best about the patent."
+
+Ten Christmas-eves have come and gone since that visit by the Judge, and
+many changes have occurred. The old house has been partly rebuilt, and
+Mrs. Fairlaw still lives there. The Judge, too, is living, and comes
+down frequently to see the "firm" and the new factory, which stands
+close by the ravine and the big chestnut-tree. The name of the firm and
+its purpose is seen upon the large sign:
+
+  FAIRLAW & CONGDON,
+
+  MANUFACTURERS OF IMPROVED HUBS AND SPOKES.
+
+When the Judge came over upon his first visit to the works after
+business was started, he was conducted to the long work-room, full of
+whizzing machinery, by Wilbert and Clarence, and shown, greatly to his
+delight, his favorite motto, which was painted across the wall:
+
+  "WORK'S A MINT."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A NUTTING PARTY--BUMPING THE HICKORY-TREE.]
+
+
+
+
+POSY PARKER'S HALLOWEEN.
+
+BY MRS. E. W. LATIMER.
+
+
+Posy and Bob Parker, of Baltimore, went to visit their cousins in
+England. Posy, who was a little girl, was surprised to see the customs
+and observances supposed to belong in England to different days. On
+Michaelmas-day (September 29), for instance, her uncle's family all
+dined upon roast goose, because Queen Elizabeth, having received at
+dinner news of the defeat of the Armada on that day, stuck her royal
+knife into the breast of a fat goose before her, and declared that
+thenceforward no Englishman should have good luck who did not eat goose
+upon St. Michael's Day.
+
+When All-hallow Eve came (October 31) the children and their cousins
+were invited to a beautiful old country place five miles across the
+Yorkshire moors to keep Halloween.
+
+"But what is Halloween kept for, anyway, uncle?" said little Posy, as
+they rode over the moors that evening.
+
+"'Really and truly,' Posy, as you would say, the night of October 31 is
+the vigil of All-saints' Day, one of the four high festivals in the
+Roman Catholic Church, and a day on which all Christians who hold to
+ancient forms commemorate the noble doings of the holy dead. But the
+All-hallow's frolics you will see this evening have nothing whatever to
+do with Christianity. They are relics of old paganism, of the days when
+'millions of spiritual creatures' were supposed to be allowed that night
+'to walk the earth'--ghosts, fairy folk, witches, gnomes, and brownies,
+all creatures of the fancy whose home is fairy-land."
+
+"What is the proper thing to eat on Halloween, uncle?" said Posy.
+
+"To eat, little Posy?"
+
+"Yes, uncle. Every great occasion in England seems to me to have
+something proper to eat on that day."
+
+"Oh, now I understand you. Apples and nuts, Posy. A vigil was always a
+fast in the olden time, so those who kept Halloween could have no
+substantial dainties for their supper."
+
+"Nurse Birkenshaw used to call it Nut-crack Day," cried Posy's eldest
+cousin. "But here we are!"
+
+They were ushered into a low long room on the ground-floor, paved with
+flag-stones, having an immense hearth at one end. Inside the chimney,
+and on each side of the blazing fire built of logs and turf, were two
+oak benches, so that six guests could literally sit in the
+chimney-corner. This recess was made beautiful by blue and white Dutch
+tiles.
+
+About thirty people soon assembled. From the ceiling hung a stick about
+two feet long, and five feet from the floor. On one end of this stick
+was stuck an apple, to the other hung a small bag stuffed loosely with
+white sand. On one side of the room were three great washing tubs filled
+with water. Three crocks stood on a side table, and baskets filled with
+apples, walnuts, chestnuts, and fresh filberts were placed about the
+room.
+
+The performance began by reading "Tam o' Shanter," accompanied by
+illustrations, made by a magic lantern. When this was over, and lights
+were again brought into the room, the tubs of water were drawn forward.
+Twelve apples were set floating in each tub. Three little boys had their
+arms pinioned, and water-proof capes were put over their clothes. Then
+each one was led up to a tub, and told to name one of the girls present;
+if he could catch an apple in his teeth, she would be his next year's
+valentine. Fun, splashing, and laughter followed for five minutes; then
+time was up, and three more boys took their turn. After many such trials
+Posy's big cousin (an old hand, with a big mouth) brought up a little
+apple, another fellow caught an apple by its stalk, and Bob (good at a
+dive), after plunging his face to the bottom of the tub, and holding his
+apple steady between his nose and chin, rose with it in his teeth,
+triumphant but dripping.
+
+After this had gone on for some time with varying success, the wet boys
+were sent off to change their clothes, and the girls' turn came. Many
+more apples were put into the tubs, and each girl in turn was told to
+hold a fork as high as she could in her right hand over the tub, and
+drop it on the apples. If she could spear one, she might choose her
+valentine. The boys joined in this also, but hardly so many apples were
+speared as had been caught in the boys' teeth, and the victors in the
+tub fishery set up a shout of triumph.
+
+Next boys and girls had their hands tied behind them, and took turns to
+run up to the apple on the stick suspended by a string. This string had
+been twisted by the master of the revels, and the stick turned round
+rapidly. The fun was to jump up, and with their teeth to seize the
+apple. If they missed (which, of course, they did nearly every time),
+the bag of sand swung round and hit them on the face, to the amusement
+of the company.
+
+Meantime there were many nuts roasting on the hearth, each named for a
+boy or girl. If one bearing a boy's name swelled up and popped away, his
+lady-love would lose him; if it flared up and blazed, he was thinking
+about her tenderly. If two nuts named for two lovers blazed at once,
+they would soon be a happy couple.
+
+Some of the older boys and girls of the party were then blindfolded, and
+hand in hand were conducted to the gate of the walled kitchen-garden,
+where they were told to find their way into the cabbage patch, where
+each was to pull up a cabbage stump. When they returned with their
+prizes to the house, great fun and much dirt were the result. Posy's
+eldest cousin had brought in a big crooked cabbage stalk, with plenty of
+mould hanging to its roots: he was to marry a tall, stout, misshapen
+wife with a large fortune. Miss Clara, the young lady of the house,
+brought in a tall and slender stalk, with little soil adhering to it; so
+by-and-by, as some one said, she would marry a tall, straight, penniless
+bridegroom.
+
+Then the table with the three crocks was brought into the middle of the
+room. Into one crock was poured fresh water, into another soapy water,
+and the third was empty. Posy, among the rest, was blindfolded, and led
+up to the table. She was instructed to dip her fingers into one of the
+crocks. She felt around, and at last dipped into the one that held the
+soapy water: she was told that she would marry a widower. Miss Clara
+dipped into clear water, and would marry a bachelor. One of the other
+girls put her fingers into the empty crock, and would die an old maid.
+
+By this time it was nearly midnight--time for the fairy folk as well as
+children to be in bed. But Miss Clara first went up stairs to an empty
+room, and holding a candle in one hand, ate an apple before the
+looking-glass. Captain Strickland (slender and tall) crept softly up
+stairs after her, and as she ate her last mouthful, she saw his face
+over her shoulder. She dropped her candle, with a scream, and they came
+quietly down after a while in the dark together.
+
+Miss Clara's elder sister had meantime gone out into the flower garden,
+taking with her a ball of blue yarn. This she flung from her as far as
+possible, keeping hold, however, of one end, and dragging it after her.
+As she went back to the house she sang,
+
+  "Who holds my thread? who holds my clew?
+  For he loves me, and I him, too."
+
+Suddenly the ball of yarn refused to follow her. She jerked at it in
+vain. She dared not let her clew break, because if she should lose the
+lover supposed to be holding its other end, she would die unmarried.
+"Let me see you! let me see you!" she cried, eagerly, and a figure drew
+near her in the darkness. An arm covered with dark cloth was almost
+round her. She drew away with a scream, and began to run, pursued by
+Bob, the young American, who had stolen away from the other guests to
+follow her, and whose appearance produced much laughter; for Bob was
+twelve, and she was seven-and-twenty.
+
+The children had not cared much for these last two tests. They had been
+popping nuts and eating apples. They were now called to supper. There
+was at the end of a long table a great tureen of soured oatmeal
+porridge. The master of the house, who was of Scotch descent, called it
+"sowens," and declared that every one present must eat some with butter
+and salt if he desired to have luck till next All-hallow Eve. There were
+other good things on the table, however, much better, Posy thought, than
+sour porridge. And when supper was over the children went off to bed,
+solemnly assured by their elders that the fairy folk--the witches,
+ghosts, and so on--had already gone to their beds under the earth, not
+being permitted, even on such a night as Halloween, to sit up any
+longer.
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in No. 46 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, September 14.]
+
+WHO WAS PAUL GRAYSON?
+
+BY JOHN HABBERTON,
+
+AUTHOR OF "HELEN'S BABIES."
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+A BEAUTIFUL THEORY RUINED.
+
+When Benny Mallow went to bed at night, after the great exhibition, he
+suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to ask what the grand total of
+the receipts for the Beantassel family had been. Under ordinary
+circumstances he would have got out of bed, dressed himself, and scoured
+the town for full information before he slept. On this particular night,
+however, he did not give the subject more than a moment of thought, for
+his mind was full of greater things. Paul Grayson an Indian? Why, of
+course: how had he been so stupid as not to think of it before? Paul was
+only dark, while Indians were red, but then it was easy enough for him
+to have been a half-breed; Paul was very straight, as Indians always
+were in books; Paul was a splendid shot with a rifle, as all Indians
+are; Paul had no parents--well, the tableau made by Paul's own friend
+Mr. Morton, who knew all about him, explained plainly enough how Indian
+boys came to be without fathers and mothers.
+
+Even going to sleep did not rid Benny of these thoughts. He saw Paul in
+all sorts of places all through the night, and always as an Indian. At
+one time he was on a wild horse, galloping madly at a wilder buffalo;
+then he was practicing with bow and arrow at a genuine archery target;
+then he stood in the opening of a tent made of skins; then he lay in the
+tall grass, rifle in hand, awaiting some deer that were slowly moving
+toward him. He even saw Paul tomahawk and scalp a white boy of his own
+size, and although the face of the victim was that of Joe Appleby, the
+hair somehow was long enough to tie around the belt which Paul, like all
+Indians in picture-books, wore for the express purpose of providing
+properly for the scalps he took.
+
+So fully did Benny's dreams take possession of him, that although he had
+been awake for two hours the next morning before he met Paul, he was
+rather startled and considerably disappointed to find his friend in
+ordinary dress, without a sign of belt, scalp, or tomahawk about him.
+Still, of course Paul was an Indian, and Benny promptly determined that
+no one should beat him in getting information about the young man's
+earlier life; so Benny opened conversation abruptly by asking, "Where do
+you begin to cut when you want to take a man's scalp off?"
+
+"Why, who are you going to scalp, little fellow?" asked Paul.
+
+"Oh, nobody," said Benny, in confusion. "I'd like to know, that's all."
+
+"I'm afraid you'll have to ask some one else, then," said Paul, with a
+laugh. "Try me on something easier."
+
+"Then how do you ride a wild horse without saddle or bridle?" asked
+Benny.
+
+"Worse and worse," said Paul. "See here, Benny, have you been reading
+dime novels, and made up your mind to go West?"
+
+"Not exactly," said Benny; "but," he continued, "I wouldn't mind going
+West if I had some good safe fellow to go with--some one who has been
+there and knows all about it."
+
+"Well, I know enough about it to tell you to stay at home," said Paul.
+
+This was proof enough, thought Benny; so although he was aching to ask
+Paul many other questions about Indian life, he hurried off to assure
+the other boys that it was all right--that Paul was an Indian, and no
+mistake. The consequence was that when Paul approached the school-house
+half of the boys advanced slowly to meet him, and then they clustered
+about him, and he became conscious of being looked at even more intently
+than on the day of his first appearance. He did not seem at all pleased
+by the attention; he looked rather angry, and then turned pale; finally
+he hurried up stairs into the school-room and whispered something to the
+teacher, at which Mr. Morton shook his head and patted Paul on the
+shoulder, after which the boy regained his ease and took his seat.
+
+But at recess he again found himself the centre of a crowd, no member of
+which seemed to care to begin any sort of game. Paul stopped short,
+looked around him, frowned, and asked, "Boys, what is the matter with
+me?"
+
+"Nothing," replied Will Palmer.
+
+"Then what are you all crowding around me for?"
+
+No one answered for a moment, but finally Sam Wardwell said, "We want
+you to tell us stories."
+
+"Stories about Indians," explained Ned Johnston.
+
+Paul laughed. "You're welcome to all I know," said he; "but I don't
+think they're very interesting. Really, I can't remember a single one
+that's worth telling."
+
+This was very discouraging; but Canning Forbes, who was so smart that,
+although he was only fourteen years of age, he was studying mental
+philosophy, whispered to Will Palmer that people never saw anything
+interesting about their own daily lives.
+
+"You can tell us something about birch canoes, can't you?" asked Ned
+Johnston, by way of encouragement.
+
+"Oh yes," Paul replied; "they're made out of bark, with hoops and strips
+of wood inside, to give them shape and make them strong."
+
+"How do they fasten up the ends?" asked Ned.
+
+"They first sew or tie them together with strings, and then they put
+pitch over the seams to make them water-tight."
+
+"Did you ever see the Indians race in birch canoes?" asked Sam.
+
+"Oh yes, often," Paul replied; "and they make fast time too, I can tell
+you."
+
+"Did you ever race yourself?" asked Benny.
+
+"No," said Paul, "but I learned to paddle a canoe pretty well. I'd
+rather have a good row-boat, though, than any birch I ever saw. If you
+run one of them on a sharp stone, it may be cut open, unless it's pretty
+new."
+
+"How do the Indians kill buffaloes?" asked Will Palmer.
+
+"Why, just as white men do--they shoot them with rifles. Nearly all the
+Indians have rifles nowadays."
+
+This was very unromantic, most of the boys thought, for an Indian
+without bows and arrows could not be very different from a white man.
+Still, something wonderful would undoubtedly come before Paul was done
+talking.
+
+"Are buffaloes really so terrible-looking as the story-papers say?"
+asked Bert Sharp.
+
+"Well, they don't look exactly like pets," said Paul. "A bull buffalo,
+in the winter season, when he has a full coat of hair, looks fiercer
+than a lion."
+
+"Do the Indians really kill or torture all the white people they catch?"
+asked Canning Forbes.
+
+"I don't know; I suppose so, but perhaps they're not all as bad as some
+white people say."
+
+[Illustration: "YOU'RE A CHIEF'S SON, AREN'T YOU?"]
+
+Canning shook his head encouragingly at Will Palmer: evidently this
+young Indian had a manly spirit, and was not going to have his people
+abused. There was a moment or two of silence, each boy wondering what
+next to ask. Finally, Napoleon Nott said,
+
+"You're a chief's son, aren't you?"
+
+"What?" exclaimed Paul, so sharply that Notty dodged behind Will Palmer,
+and put his hand to his head as if to protect his scalp.
+
+"I meant," said Notty, tremblingly-- "I meant to ask what tribe you
+belonged to."
+
+"I? What tribe? Notty, what are you talking about?"
+
+Notty did not answer, so Paul looked around at the other boys, but they
+also were silent.
+
+"Notty," said Paul, "what on earth are you thinking about? Do you
+imagine I'm an Indian?"
+
+"I thought you were," said Notty, very meekly; "and," he continued, "so
+did all the other boys."
+
+"Well, that's good," said Paul, laughing heartily. "What made you think
+so, fellows?"
+
+"Benny told us," explained Ned.
+
+"Benny?" exclaimed Paul. "What put that fancy into your head?"
+
+"I--I dreamed it," said Benny, almost ready to cry for shame and
+disappointment.
+
+"And you told all the other boys?"
+
+"Yes, I believed it; I really did, or I never would have said it."
+
+Then Paul laughed again--a long, hearty laugh it was, but no one helped
+him. Most of the boys felt as if in some way Paul had cheated them. As
+for Ned Johnston, he evidently did not believe Paul, for he began to ask
+questions.
+
+"If you're not an Indian, how do you know so much about a birch canoe?"
+
+"Why, I've seen dozens of them in Maine, where I used to live; the
+Indians make them there."
+
+"Wild Indians?" asked Ned, and all the boys listened eagerly for the
+answer.
+
+"No," said Paul, contemptuously; "they're the tamest kind of tame ones."
+
+This was dreadful, yet Ned thought he would try once more. "How did you
+come to know so much about buffaloes?" he asked.
+
+"I saw two in Central Park, in New York," Paul replied. "Oh, boys! boys!
+you're dreadfully sold."
+
+"Say, Paul," said Benny, edging to the front, and looking appealingly at
+his friend, "you've been away out West anyhow, haven't you?--because you
+told me you knew about it." Benny awaited the answer with fear and
+trembling, for he felt he never would hear the end of the affair if he
+did not get some help from Paul.
+
+"No, I've never been farther West than Laketon," was the disheartening
+reply. "All I know of the West I've learned from books and newspapers."
+
+"Dear me!" sighed Benny; and for the first time in his life he wished
+the bell would ring, and give him an excuse to get away. Within a moment
+his wish was gratified, and he scampered up stairs very briskly, but not
+before Bert Sharp had caught up with him, and called him "Smarty," and
+asked him if he hadn't some more dreams that he could go about telling
+as truth. Poor Benny's only consolation, as he took his seat, was that
+Notty had been the first to suggest the Indian theory, and he ought
+therefore to bear a part of whatever abuse might come of the mistake.
+
+At any rate he had learned that Paul had been in Maine and New York;
+certainly that was more than he had known an hour before.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+THE SONS OF THE BRAVE.
+
+[See double-page illustration.]
+
+
+Boys and girls now travel so much and so far that no doubt a great
+number of "Harper's Young People" will have an opportunity to see these
+fine little fellows, perhaps some pleasant day next summer. Mr. Morris
+has drawn them just as they are leaving their school for their weekly
+parade.
+
+This school is in Chelsea, England, and is for the support and education
+of seven hundred boys and three hundred girls, whose fathers have either
+been killed in battle or died on foreign stations, or whose mothers have
+died while their fathers were on duty in foreign lands. The school is a
+fine building of brick and stone, and the front entrance, out of which
+you see the boys filing, has a spacious stone portico, supported by four
+noble pillars of the Doric order, the frieze bearing the following
+inscription: "The Royal Military Asylum for the Children of Soldiers of
+the Regular Army."
+
+The Asylum is inclosed by high walls, except before the great front,
+where there is an iron railing. The grounds connected with this part are
+beautifully laid out in flower and grass plats, and shaded with fine
+trees. Attached to each wing are spacious play-grounds, as well as a
+number of covered arcades. In the latter the children play when the
+weather is too wet or cold for open-air exercise.
+
+All the domestic affairs are regulated by Commissioners appointed by the
+Queen's sign-manual, and the officials consist of a commandant,
+adjutant, and secretary, chaplain, quartermaster, surgeon, matron, and
+various other persons; for everything about the school is conducted
+according to military discipline.
+
+The boys are taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, and after they are
+eleven years of age they are employed on alternate days in works of
+industry. Five hours daily in summer and four in winter is the time
+required of them, and in this short period they make every article of
+clothing they require for their own use. About one hundred boys work as
+tailors, fifty each day alternately; about one hundred are employed in a
+similar manner as shoe-makers, capmakers, and coverers and repairers of
+the school's books. Besides, there are two sets or companies of knitters
+and of shirtmakers, and others who are engaged as porters, gardeners,
+etc. Everything is done by those who work at the trades, except the
+cutting out. This branch, requiring experience, is managed by old
+regimental shoe-makers, tailors, etc., who, with aged sergeants and
+corporals and their wives, manage the affairs of the institution.
+
+The school also furnishes its own drum and fife corps and a very fine
+military band, the players, of course, devoting a proper proportion of
+their time to the practice on their instruments. Friday is the best day
+on which to visit the school, for on that day the entire force is turned
+out for a dress parade. The boys are then dressed in full uniform--red
+jackets, blue trousers, and little black caps--and with their flags
+flying, drums beating, and band playing, they march to the
+parade-ground, where they give a fine exhibition drill. After the parade
+they are trained in various difficult and skillful gymnastic exercises.
+
+There is no compulsion on any boy to join the army; but when any
+regiment is in want of recruits, a notice is placed in the school-rooms,
+and any boys above fourteen years of age who wish to go into the army
+are allowed to join that regiment. For those who prefer trades or other
+occupations situations are provided, and if at the end of a certain
+number of years they can produce certificates of good conduct from those
+who employ them, they are publicly rewarded in the chapel of the
+institution.
+
+The girls, in addition to the usual branches of a good common-school
+education, are taught needle-work of all kinds, and fitted for
+lady's-maids, dressmakers, cooks, and the various higher positions of
+household services. Their dress is uniform, and consists of blue
+petticoats, red gowns, and straw hats.
+
+The school is supported by an annual grant from Parliament, and by the
+gift of one day's pay in every year from the whole army.
+
+
+
+
+"MAMMA KNOWS HOW."
+
+
+  The awful fact is beyond a doubt,
+  The cage was open, and Dick flew out.
+  "What shall I do?" cries Pet, half wild,
+  And Nurse Deb says, "Why, bress you, child,
+  I knows a plan dat'll nebber fail:
+  Jes put some salt on yer birdie's tail."
+
+  "Why, you silly old nurse, 'twould never do;
+  That plan is worthy a goose like you.
+  What! salt for birds. No, sugar, I say;
+  I'll coax him back to me right away."
+  But wicked Dick, with his round black eyes,
+  He wouldn't be caught in this gentle wise.
+
+  Mamma comes in, and she sees the plight;
+  It will take her wits to set it right:
+  That big bandana on Deb's black head,
+  Ere Dick can jump, 'tis over him spread;
+  Then two soft hands they hold him fast:
+  The bright little rogue is caught at last.
+
+  As into his cage the truant goes
+  Pet says, "Now, nurse, I do suppose
+  That salt and sugar, though two nice things,
+  Are not a match for a birdie's wings;
+  And, Deb, I think we must just allow,
+  When a thing's to be done, mamma knows how."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: "SONS OF THE BRAVE."--FROM A PAINTING BY P. R. MORRIS,
+A.R.A.--[SEE PAGE 767.]]
+
+
+
+
+THE KING JACK-O'-LANTERN.
+
+BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
+
+
+"There, boys, that's the pumpkin."
+
+"That'll do, Phil; but what'll your father say? Doesn't he mean to take
+that pumpkin to town?"
+
+"Well, no, I guess not. Anyhow, he said I might have it."
+
+"Did you tell him what it's for?"
+
+"Of course I did. Only I guess he guessed near enough that I didn't mean
+to make any pies."
+
+"What did he say, Phil?"
+
+"Why, he laughed right out--it's easy to get him laughing--and he said
+if we could invent anything ugly enough to scare the Sewing Society, we
+might have a cart-load of pumpkins, if we'd see that they were pitched
+into the big feed kettle after we got done with them, so they could be
+boiled for the cows."
+
+"Isn't that a whopper, though! Biggest pumpkin I ever saw. Let's go
+right at it."
+
+Clint Burgess had his knife out, and was opening the big blade, but Prop
+Corning stopped him.
+
+"Hold on, Clint. Let's practice on some of the little ones first.
+Besides, we don't want to carry the big one too far after it's done. We
+might drop it and break it."
+
+"That's so," said Clint. "I say, Phil, where'll we go?"
+
+"Up behind the corn-crib--close to the barn; best place in the world to
+hide 'em till we want 'em. The Sewing Society don't half get here till
+pretty near tea-time."
+
+"We'll show 'em something."
+
+"Teach the girls, too, not to laugh at fellows of our age."
+
+"It's too bad. When a man gets to be thirteen, it's time they let him
+come in to tea."
+
+That was where the rules of the Plumville Sewing Society were pinching
+the self-esteem of Phil Merritt and his two friends, and Phil's father
+and his uncle and his two grown-up brothers had gravely expressed their
+entire sympathy, even to the extent of furnishing unlimited pumpkins.
+
+That was a large pumpkin. It had grown by itself in a corner of the corn
+field, where it had plenty of room, and, as Clint Burgess remarked when
+they were rolling it in behind the corn-crib, "it had just sat still and
+swelled."
+
+Prop Corning was the best hand any of them knew of with a jackknife, and
+he knew all about jack-o'-lanterns; but they all had learned more by the
+time they had worked up four of the smaller pumpkins.
+
+"They look more like big apples alongside that other."
+
+"That's the King Pumpkin."
+
+"That's it," shouted Prop. "We'll make the King Jack-o'-lantern. I'll
+show you! Phil, you run to the house for a big iron spoon."
+
+"To scoop with? I know. The rind'll be awful thick."
+
+So they found it; and the outer shell was so hard that Phil went to the
+tool-room after one of his father's small key saws and a gimlet.
+
+"Now we won't break our knives, nor the shell either."
+
+"Nor cut our fingers. But we must keep every piece of shell we cut out,"
+said Prop. "I've got a big idea in my head."
+
+"Big as that pumpkin?"
+
+"Big as the whole Sewing Society. We want a piece out of the top first,
+about six inches square."
+
+The top piece came out nicely, and it was a wonder what a mass of seeds
+and pulp was pulled out after it.
+
+Then the spoon was plied till the boys all had a turn at getting tired
+of scraping, and then Prop Corning went to work with the little saw.
+
+"I'll just cut through the rind," he said, "and we won't make a hole
+anywhere. We'll cut the pieces out so they'll all stick in again, and
+then we'll scoop the places thin from the inside--thin as we want 'em,
+and no thinner. When we come to light it up out here after dark, and try
+it, we can scrape any spots thinner if they need it."
+
+"That's the way. You never know just how a jack-o'-lantern's going to
+look till after you've got a candle in it," said Clint Burgess, very
+seriously. "We must make this one so it would scare a cow if she'd been
+eating pumpkins all day."
+
+"There," remarked Prop, "that round spot down there'll stand for his
+chin. Now for his mouth. We must make it turn up at the corners, and
+have teeth like a mill saw."
+
+That was the hardest kind of a thing to do, and do it right; but Prop
+was a patient worker, and there was nothing to be said against such a
+mouth as he sawed for that pumpkin.
+
+"He mustn't have too much nose. Two round holes at the bottom: they're
+his smellers. Then a long slit away up to above his eyes; that's the
+bridge of his nose, and they'll have to imagine the rest of it."
+
+"Can we give him any cheeks?" asked Phil, doubtfully.
+
+"Yes, but there mustn't too much light come through 'em. It's to be a
+Goblin King, and they always have most fire coming out of their mouths
+and eyes."
+
+Clint and Phil both admitted that Prop was right about that, but they
+ventured to suggest, "He won't be a King worth a cent if we don't give
+him some kind of a crown."
+
+"Crown? You wait and see. His teeth won't be anything to the crown we'll
+put on him. But I mustn't lose a square inch of the rind. He must have
+ears too--a half-moon on each side--and you can let any amount of blaze
+shine out there."
+
+It was a long job of sculptor work; but when it was done the three boys
+could hardly take their eyes away from it. Not until Prop had carefully
+fitted back to their places all the pieces of rind he had sawed out.
+
+There was nothing to be done after that but for Prop and Clint to go
+home and attend to their "chores," and for Phil to go after his cows;
+but the Sewing Society had an experience before it that evening.
+
+It was just as Phil Merritt said it would be about their coming
+together, and his mother had never before seen him so cheerful and
+willing about doing all he could, and about not going in to tea with the
+rest. His father noticed it too, and he whispered to him, once, "Phil,
+did you take the pumpkin?"
+
+"Don't let 'em know a word about it, father," said Phil, anxiously.
+"You'll see, by-and-by."
+
+"All right, Phil. I'll wait."
+
+He had to wait until about nine o'clock, and some of the ladies were
+almost ready to go home, when suddenly there was a great noise out by
+the front gate.
+
+"What's that?"
+
+"Dear me!"
+
+"Something's happened!"
+
+Whoever made that sound must have been dreadfully unhappy about
+something; they all felt sure of that--and there was a grand rush to the
+front door and the windows.
+
+"Sakes alive!"
+
+"What can it be?"
+
+"Mrs. Merritt, there's somethin' awful a-stickin' on the top of one o'
+your gate posts."
+
+So there was, indeed. Something very large and round, and that looked
+very dark in spite of strange, mysterious rays of light that crept out
+of it here and there.
+
+The whole gate post looked like a wooden man without any arms, but with
+more head than would have answered for half a dozen such men.
+
+Nobody in the house heard Prop Corning whisper at that moment across the
+front-door walk, "Keep down, Clint, keep under the bushes. We're all
+ready. Pull out his chin." And then he added, in a lower whisper,
+"Ain't I glad I brought along my kite-string?--we've used it 'most all
+up, but we can show 'em that King."
+
+One of the ladies, a second later, gave a little scream, and exclaimed,
+"Look at it now!--it's on fire."
+
+"Dear me!" added another, "it's got a mouth."
+
+"And a nose."
+
+"And a cheek."
+
+"Oh, Deacon Merritt, eyes too."
+
+There was a subdued chuckle down there among the lilac-bushes, as if
+somebody were listening to all that was said by the growing crowd on the
+front-door step, and another whisper went across the walk: "Clint, give
+him his right ear. The left sticks. I'm afraid I'll pull him off the
+post."
+
+"There it is."
+
+"Here comes mine too. Now for his crown. Jerk your half."
+
+"Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" More than a dozen ladies of all ages said "Oh!" in the
+same breath, and Deacon Merritt himself exclaimed:
+
+"Capital! capital! The boys have done it. It's by all odds the best
+jack-o'-lantern I ever saw in my life. It's a King Jack-o'-lantern."
+
+
+
+
+EMBROIDERY FOR GIRLS.
+
+BY S. H. W.
+
+
+There is lying beside me on the table as I write a sampler, worked in
+pink, green, blue, and dull purple-red silks, on which I read these wise
+sentences, "Order is the first law of Nature and of Nature's God," "The
+moon, stars, and tides vary not a moment," and "The sun knoweth the hour
+of its going down." Below, inclosed in a wreath of tambour-work,[1] are
+two words, "Appreciate Time." Under the first four alphabets (there are
+five in all) comes the date, "September 19, 1823," and in the lower
+corner another date, "October 24," when the square was completed, with
+the name of the child who wrought it, long since grown to womanhood, and
+now nearly forty years dead, but there recorded, in pink silk cross
+stitch, as "aged eight years."
+
+And these dainty stitches, set so exactly, assure me that the little
+girls for whom I write are not too young to embroider neatly. Will you
+let its two mottoes remind you that a few moments carefully used each
+day will make you as good needle-women as your grandmothers were, and
+that your work-boxes or baskets should be in such order that you can
+find your thimbles in the dark, and can tell each several shade of wool
+by lamp-light? But I leave you to apply the mottoes for yourselves.
+
+If you are to begin work with me, will you buy a few crewel-needles, No.
+5 or 6, and two or three shades of crewel of any given color, such as
+old blue, dull mahogany, or pomegranate reds, or old gold shading into
+gold browns? These are colors that will always be useful.
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 1.]
+
+First, your wools must be prepared so they can be used in making tidies,
+or anything that must be washed. The best crewels are not twisted, and
+will wash; still, as you are never sure of getting the best, it is well
+to unwind your skeins, pour scalding water on the wools, and rinse them
+well in it, squeeze out the water, shake the wools thoroughly, and hang
+them up. When dry, cut the skein across where it is tied double, and
+with a bodkin and string, or with a long hair-pin, draw the crewel into
+its case. This case (see Fig. 1) is made by folding together a long
+piece of thin cotton cloth a foot wide, and running parallel lines
+across its width half an inch or so apart. When the wools are drawn in
+in groups--reds, blues, greens, yellows, each by themselves, carefully
+arranged as to shades--cut the upper end so you need not be tempted to
+use too long needlefuls, and there your wools are neatly put away, and
+soon you can distinguish any shade by its position in the case, no
+matter how deceptive the lamp-light may be. Still, you will not need
+your case till you have a dozen different colors. If you buy your wools
+at first by the dozen, which is the cheaper way, be sure that your
+pinks, blues, greens, etc., have, so far as may be, a yellowish tone.
+Remember that yellow is the color of sunlight, and that without it your
+work will look cold and lifeless; and always avoid vivid greens and
+reds.
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 2.]
+
+First learn the stem stitch, and you can practice on any bit of coarse
+linen or crash. Draw a line with a pencil (see dotted line Fig. 2); then
+put your needle in at the back, bringing it out at 1; then put it in at
+2, taking up on the needle the threads of cloth from 2 to 3, so making a
+stitch that is long on the upper but short on the under side of your
+cloth. The needle points toward you, but your work runs from you, and
+you put in the needle to the right of your thread. When you wish a wide
+stem, slant your stitches across the line; if it must be narrow, take up
+the threads exactly on the line, or you can make two or more rows of
+stem stitch where you wish the line broadened.
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 3.]
+
+Stem stitch can be used by beginners in many ways. Squares of duck,
+fringed out on the edges, and overcast or hem-stitched, can have simple
+borders or stripes of any desired width worked in this stitch (see Fig.
+3). You can draw the lines yourself with a pencil and ruler; those lines
+which slant in one direction may be worked in one shade, those slanting
+in the opposite direction in another shade. The heavier lines can be
+worked with double crewel, and these squares make very pretty tidies to
+protect the arms of chairs. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are set patterns that can
+be used for borders upon doylies, towels, or table-covers. They should
+be worked with crewels, outlining crewels--exceedingly fine wools--or
+fine silks, according to the quality of the linen or other stuffs used.
+Stem stitch is the foundation of good modern embroidery, and we must not
+go on with the building until this foundation is laid.
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 4.]
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 5.]
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 6.]
+
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[1] Tambour-work is a chain stitch in which the thread is drawn
+up through the cloth by a hook. Muslins and thin cloths used to be
+embroidered in this way.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+FILBERT.
+
+BY AGNES CARR.
+
+
+A pussy cat, a parrot, and a monkey once lived together in a funny
+little red house, with one great round window like a big eye set in the
+front. And they were a very happy family as long as they had an old
+woman to cook their dinner and mend their clothes. But one sad day the
+old woman was taken ill and died, and then the cat, the parrot, and the
+monkey were left to take care of themselves and the red house, and very
+little they knew about it.
+
+"Who will cook the porridge now?" asked the cat.
+
+"And who will make the beds?" asked the parrot.
+
+"And who will sweep the floor?" asked the monkey.
+
+But none could answer, and they thought and thought a long time, but
+could come to no decision, until at last the parrot nodded his head
+wisely, and said, "We must learn to do them ourselves."
+
+"But who will teach us?" asked Miss Pussy.
+
+"I know," said the monkey. "We will go to town, and watch how the men
+and women cook their meals and take care of their homes, and then we
+will be able to do the same."
+
+"So we will," said the other two, and all three immediately put on their
+scarlet cloaks and blue sun-bonnets, and set off for the town, but they
+were in such haste that they forgot to lock the door.
+
+They had not been gone long when a ragged little girl, with bare feet
+and sunburned face, came up the dusty road, and she was very tired and
+very hungry. Her real name nobody knew, not even herself, but she was
+always called Filbert, because her hair, eyes, and skin were all as
+brown as a nut.
+
+"Oh dear! oh dear!" sighed Filbert, as she dragged her weary feet along,
+"I wish I had a fairy godmother, like the girl in the fairy book, for
+then I could wear silk dresses every day, and ride in a golden coach."
+
+Just then she spied the funny little house, and thought, "Well, as I am
+not so lucky as to have a rich godmother, I will go in here and ask for
+a drink of milk, and rest awhile on the door-step."
+
+So she went up to the door and knocked, but nobody came. Again
+rap-tap-tap; still nobody; and at last she lifted the latch and walked
+in.
+
+"Oh, what a cunning little place!" cried Filbert, "and nobody home: so I
+will help myself."
+
+In the closet she found meal and milk, which she boiled over the fire,
+and ate with a great relish. Then she went all over the house, exploring
+the nooks and corners of every room, and wondering what had become of
+the people who lived there.
+
+She also thought it very queer that in so pretty a house, where almost
+everything was neat and well kept, the floors should be dirty and the
+beds not yet made up.
+
+At last the little girl, who had walked far along the dusty road in the
+hot sun that morning, found herself growing very tired and sleepy, and
+as the tumbled beds did not look very inviting, she went down stairs and
+took a nap in a large rocking-chair that had belonged to the old woman.
+When she was quite rested, she helped herself to a needle and thread out
+of the work-basket, and went to work to mend her dress, which was badly
+torn. Just as she had sewed up the last rent she heard steps outside,
+and glancing out of the round window, saw the pussy cat, the parrot, and
+the monkey coming in at the gate.
+
+Frightened nearly out of her wits at sight of the queer trio, Filbert
+jumped up, and ran and hid behind the curtain.
+
+In came the three, as gay as could be, chattering and laughing.
+
+"For I have learned to cook porridge," said the cat.
+
+"And I have learned to make beds," said the parrot.
+
+"And I have learned to sweep the floor," said the monkey.
+
+"Then do let us hurry," cried all three, "for we are hungry and sleepy,
+and the house is very, very dusty."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The cat set to work first, mixed the meal and milk, and set it over the
+fire to boil; and it smelled so good they all felt hungrier than ever;
+but when they came to taste the porridge they found it was burned, and
+pussy had forgotten the salt.
+
+"Bah! bah!" cried the parrot and monkey, throwing down their spoons in
+disgust; "you can't cook, and we shall have to go to bed hungry."
+
+"We can't go to our beds either unless you hurry and make them," said
+the cat, who was vexed at having failed.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So the parrot set to, and tried to spread the clothes on the bed with
+her beak; but as fast as she pulled them up one side, they slipped off
+the other, and at last she gave up in despair.
+
+"Oh dear, we shall have to sleep on the floor," cried the other two.
+
+"Then you had better sweep it first," retorted the parrot.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So the monkey took the broom and began to sweep, but only succeeded in
+raising such a dust that they were nearly blinded, and had to run out of
+the house and sit on the door-step until it settled.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And they were so discouraged that they cried, and cried, until their
+tiny handkerchiefs were wet through, and the tears ran down and formed
+quite a pool in front of the door.
+
+"It's of no use to try and keep house by ourselves," said the monkey;
+"we shall have to go to some museum and board."
+
+"What! leave our own pretty little house, where we have lived so long,"
+said the cat.
+
+"I'll stay here and starve before I'll go to the old museum," said the
+parrot. And overcome with grief at the idea of breaking up their happy
+home they embraced, and sobbed aloud on each other's necks.
+
+Now Filbert had watched all that was going on, and felt very sorry for
+the little creatures; so as soon as they left the room she slipped out
+from behind the curtain, and in a few minutes did all they had tried so
+hard to accomplish, and returned to her hiding-place just as the three
+came in, saying sadly to one another, "The dust must have settled, so we
+will try and sleep on the floor and forget how hungry we are; and
+to-morrow we will go to town again, and try very much harder than we did
+to-day to learn how to keep house."
+
+But here they stopped short and stared in surprise, for the floor was as
+clean and bright as a new penny; the little white beds were tucked
+smoothly up, and on the table smoked three bowls of nice hot porridge.
+
+"What good fairy has been here!" they all exclaimed.
+
+"A nut-brown maiden, nut-brown maiden," chirped a cricket on the hearth.
+
+"And where has she gone?" they asked.
+
+"Behind the curtain, behind the curtain," sang the cricket.
+
+And in a twinkling Filbert was dragged, blushing and trembling, from her
+hiding-place.
+
+"Who are you, and how came you here?" asked the cat.
+
+"My name is Filbert, and I came in to rest," said the girl, "for I have
+no friends and no home."
+
+"And can you cook and sweep and sew?" asked the parrot.
+
+"Yes, indeed, and many other things."
+
+"Oh! will you stay and live with us?" asked the monkey.
+
+"What will you give me?" asked Filbert.
+
+"A good home," said the cat.
+
+"Brand-new clothes," said the parrot.
+
+"And a brass, a silver, and a gold penny every week," said the monkey.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So Filbert staid, and was as happy as a bird in the one-eyed house. She
+sang so cheerfully as she went about her work that things seemed almost
+to do themselves for her. The monkey watched in admiration whenever she
+swept the floor, and wondered why there was no dust. They all learned to
+love her dearly, and were as good as fairy godmothers to her, giving her
+everything she wished, and her pile of pennies grew so fast that she
+became quite rich; and, at last, if she had chosen, could have married a
+prince.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]
+
+
+The present Number closes the first volume of YOUNG PEOPLE, and we wish
+to express our great pleasure at the thought that thousands and
+thousands of children who one year ago were strangers to us are now our
+little friends, and, we might say, seem to us like one large family. We
+have done our best to amuse and instruct them, and to make them happy;
+and by giving them weekly a rich fund of beautiful pictures, stories,
+poems, and instructive reading, to awaken in them noble thoughts and
+impulses, a desire for information, and also to teach them to think for
+themselves.
+
+Through the letters addressed to our Post-office Box we have become
+acquainted with large numbers of our readers, and feel as much interest
+in their little enjoyments, their pets, their studies, and their plans
+for the future as if they were personally known to us.
+
+Our Post-office Box is the most complete department of its kind in
+existence. We print all the letters we possibly can, and would be glad
+to print every one if our space allowed, for each contains some pretty
+bit of childish life which we are sure would be delightful to other
+little folks. Our letters come to us from all parts of the globe--from
+every corner of the United States and Canada; from England, Germany,
+France, and Italy; from the West Indies and South America; and even from
+distant islands far across the sea. It would seem that wherever there
+are English-speaking children, even in the most remote localities, YOUNG
+PEOPLE has found its way to their hands; and critical and exacting as
+little folks are, their expressions of delight in their "little paper"
+are unqualified.
+
+Our exchange department has developed a fact that is very gratifying,
+and that is that boys and girls throughout the country are interested in
+making collections of minerals, pressed flowers and ferns, ocean
+curiosities, and other specimens of nature's beautiful and perfect
+handiwork. It affords us much pleasure to bring them into communication
+with each other for the exchange of these instructive objects, thus
+cultivating in them a desire for useful information, which, as they grow
+older, may develop, in many instances, in ways which will lead to a
+life-long benefit to themselves and others.
+
+It has also afforded us the greatest satisfaction to answer the numerous
+and varied questions of our inquisitive little readers; and except in
+instances where the answer, were it given correctly, would occupy too
+much space in our columns, or be too scientific for the comprehension of
+the youthful querist, we have left but two or three questions to be
+noticed.
+
+We thank all of our readers most sincerely for the hearty expressions of
+approval and delight which we have received; and we promise them that
+the new volume of Young People shall continue to bring them weekly an
+entertaining and instructive variety of stories and papers by the most
+popular writers, good puzzles of all kinds, directions for making
+various articles useful to boys and girls, and a very full and
+interesting Post-office Box. We are confident that before the end of the
+second volume we shall make friends with thousands of little people
+whose handwriting is still unknown to us.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  DORSET, CANADA.
+
+     I am fourteen years old, and I live in the northern part of
+     Canada. My sister takes YOUNG PEOPLE. I liked the story of "The
+     Moral Pirates" very much. Our nearest neighbor is about six miles
+     away. There are lots of lakes here in which are a great many
+     speckled and salmon trout, and there are troops of red deer in the
+     woods. I have killed thirteen myself. We have two hounds which run
+     the deer in the lakes, and we have birch-bark canoes in which we
+     row. There is a sporting club comes here every year from New York
+     and Toronto.
+
+  ERASTUS W. L.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am seven years old. I live North, among the rocks and mountains
+     and lakes of Canada. I never went to school, except once for five
+     weeks, but I can read in the Fourth Reader. I have a pet cat and a
+     chicken, and papa says he will catch me a fawn. I love YOUNG
+     PEOPLE very much.
+
+  NETTIE L.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     My sister Nettie and I can crochet, and we would be very much
+     obliged if Gracie Meads would send us the pattern she wrote about
+     in her letter. We would send her some flower seeds in return.
+
+  ADDIE LOCKMAN,
+  Dorset P. O., Haliburton, Ontario, Canada.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  MARENGO, IOWA.
+
+     I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much, but I like best of all the
+     Post-office Box, and all the pretty things. I am going to make a
+     Manes life-boat, and a cucuius.
+
+     My sister has two white mice and a brown one, and I have a
+     canary-bird. One of our white mice was sick, but is getting
+     better.
+
+     Can any one tell me a good way to make a scrap-book?
+
+     I am beginning a collection of stamps. I have only eight different
+     kinds, but will soon have more. I am also collecting birds' eggs
+     and nests. I would like to know what bird lays a white egg
+     speckled with brown.
+
+  JESSIE LEE R.
+
+There are several varieties of birds that lay white eggs speckled with
+brown. The king-bird's egg has brown blotches on one end, and is
+speckled all over; the wood-peewit lays a small white egg speckled with
+brown, the spots forming a ring around one end; the egg of the
+meadow-lark is long and white, with brown spots on the large end;
+swallows' eggs are white, covered with brown spots; and other common
+varieties of birds lay eggs of a similar appearance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  CLAREMONT, MINNESOTA.
+
+     I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE ever since it was published, and I like
+     it very much. I enjoy reading the letters from all the children in
+     the Post-office Box. I am thirteen years old.
+
+     There is nothing much to do here except go to school and play. My
+     father keeps a store, and during the summer I worked for him.
+     School began on the 4th of October. I have ten chickens, and am
+     building a coop for them; and I have a very large cat named Buff.
+     I am saving money now to buy a cornet.
+
+     Will you tell me whether the stamps the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE
+     are collecting are used or new? I have quite a number of used
+     ones.
+
+  GEORGE H. H.
+
+The stamps in the albums of young collectors, if they are genuine
+issues, have, with but few exceptions, done service on some letter or
+package before they find their way to the collector's hands. Unless they
+are too much defaced by postal marks they form as valuable specimens as
+if they were new, and are perhaps more interesting. To obtain full
+collections of new foreign stamps would be difficult and very expensive.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.
+
+     I like HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE very much. I have a paint-box, and I
+     am going to color all the pretty pictures. I have a pony named
+     Tiny, two cats, and a canary which sings delightfully. I am eight
+     years old.
+
+  EMILY T. H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
+
+     Little "Wee Tot" wishes to say that she is getting a great many
+     requests for ocean curiosities. She can not possibly answer all
+     the letters, but whoever will send her a box of pretty curiosities
+     in minerals, insects, birds' eggs, skulls and skeletons of
+     reptiles, rare postage stamps, coins, relics, Revolutionary
+     mementos, ancient newspapers, or anything else that is of value,
+     shall receive an equivalent in things from the ocean.
+
+     Last week "Wee Tot" received through the Post-office a beautiful
+     Indian bow and three arrows from the Indian country, and yesterday
+     she received fifty-six baby water-snakes and some beautiful
+     butterflies.
+
+     With much love to you, dear YOUNG PEOPLE,
+
+  "WEE TOT" BRAINARD,
+  257 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  LEWISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     I can give some good directions to Daisy F. for pressing
+     sea-weeds. The implements used are a dish of water, a camel's-hair
+     brush, sheets of paper, blotting-paper, and linen or cotton rags.
+     After cleaning all the sand and dirt from the weeds, put one in a
+     dish of water, and slip a sheet of paper under it. Then lift it
+     carefully nearly out of the water, and arrange all the little
+     branches naturally with the brush. Now lay the paper which
+     contains the weed on a piece of blotting-paper: over it put a rag,
+     so that the weed is entirely covered by it, and over that another
+     piece of blotting-paper, and on this in turn lay another sheet of
+     paper upon which a weed has been floated. Proceed in this manner
+     until you have a pile ready. Place it between two boards, and
+     leave it under heavy pressure for three or four days, until it is
+     dry. Then remove the blotting-papers and rags very gently, taking
+     care not to pull the sea-weeds from the paper on which they are
+     pressed.
+
+  WILLIAM A. L.
+
+When floating certain kinds of sea-weeds on to the paper it will be
+found necessary to cut away, with a sharp, fine-pointed scissors, many
+superfluous stems and branches, as otherwise the sea-weed when pressed
+will present a matted appearance, and much of the delicacy be lost.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
+
+     I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE from the first number, and have learned
+     a great deal from it.
+
+     I have a collection of three thousand five hundred and thirty-one
+     stamps, no two alike, six hundred and six of which are American
+     varieties. I would like to know if any reader has one as large.
+
+     The young chemists' club have elected me President, and I am
+     desired to thank the readers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE for the
+     experiments they have sent, and to request them to favor the club
+     with more.
+
+  CHARLES H. W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  DUBUQUE, IOWA.
+
+     I like YOUNG PEOPLE so much! and I always read all the letters in
+     the Post-office Box.
+
+     Ann A. N. is just my age, and I would like to tell her some more
+     things that a birdie likes. There is a little seed called millet,
+     which I get at the market in the heads as it grows, and the
+     birdies love to pick out the little round seeds. A bit of cabbage
+     leaf is a treat to them, and any one living in the country can
+     give birds the long seed heads of the plantain, or the little
+     satchel-like seeds of the pouch-weed. I sometimes give my birds a
+     little hard-boiled egg, but one must be careful not to give enough
+     of these things to make the bird too fat.
+
+     Tell Anna Wierum it would be better to put her cuttings in warm
+     moist sand for a few days, until they throw out little white
+     roots; then wrap each in a bit of florist's moss or cotton-wool,
+     and put a bit of oiled paper around the roots. Very thin brown
+     paper, oiled with butter or lard, will do, so it will not absorb
+     moisture. Pack all carefully in a small pasteboard box, and tie it
+     up instead of sealing it. A package tied, with no writing in it,
+     goes cheaply through the mails as third-class matter.
+
+     Will any correspondent tell me how to keep goldfish healthy in a
+     globe?
+
+  GEORGIA G. S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange rare foreign stamps. I have fifteen
+     hundred in my collection. I would especially like to obtain new
+     issues.
+
+  W. PAGE GARDNER,
+  16 Hanson Street, Boston, Massachusetts.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange postmarks for birds' eggs with any reader
+     of YOUNG PEOPLE. To any one who will send me ten varieties of
+     birds' eggs, I will send twenty-five postmarks, or for five
+     varieties, I will send twelve postmarks.
+
+  JAMES THOMPSON,
+  Middlefield, Geauga County, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Can any correspondent tell me where I can get a catalogue of
+     birds' eggs? I am starting a collection of eggs, and would like to
+     exchange an egg of a brown thrush for one of a meadow-lark.
+
+  MILTON D. CLOSE,
+  Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     If any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE will send me twenty different
+     foreign postage stamps, I will send by return mail a Chinese coin.
+
+  WILLIE B. GORDON,
+  P. O. Box 116, Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange birds' eggs with any of the readers of
+     YOUNG PEOPLE. To any one who will send me a list, and the number
+     of each kind he has for exchange, I will send my list in return.
+
+  FRED C. TODD,
+  Milltown, New Brunswick.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange a little of the soil of Virginia for that
+     of any of the Western States. I am twelve years old.
+
+  H. JACOB, Darlington Heights,
+  Prince Edward County, Virginia.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have received a letter from a correspondent desiring exchange,
+     but there is no name or address. I think the postmark is Harrison,
+     but am not sure. Please publish this, as I do not wish the writer
+     to think it is my fault that no attention is paid to his letter.
+
+  WILLIAM WINSLOW,
+  74 De Soto Street, St. Paul, Minnesota.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have a collection of postage stamps and a number of duplicates.
+     To any correspondent sending me twenty good stamps, I will send
+     the same number in return.
+
+     Can any one tell me the price of silk-worm cocoons?
+
+  PHILIP TYNG,
+  403 North Madison Street, Peoria, Illinois.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I take YOUNG PEOPLE. I am very much interested in the Post-office
+     Box, because I like to read of the boys and girls who make
+     collections. I am collecting postmarks and minerals, and I will
+     gladly exchange a specimen of iron ore for any other mineral.
+
+  BENNIE C. GRAHAM,
+  165 West Goodale Street, Columbus, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange United States and foreign coins with any
+     reader of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  WILLIAM F. SALTMARSH,
+  512 North New Jersey St., Indianapolis, Indiana.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have been gathering autumn leaves, and preparing them for
+     decorating lace curtains, picture-frames, and other things. They
+     are mostly maple, as we have very few others here. I would like to
+     send some to any little girl or boy in exchange for sea-shells or
+     other ocean treasures. To any one sending me an address I will
+     send some leaves right away.
+
+  NELLIE S. G. VAUGHAN,
+  Chazy, Clinton County, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have a cabinet in which I have a number of war relics. I also
+     have an aquarium. I would like to exchange foreign and United
+     States postmarks and stamps with any readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  W. PAUL D. MOROSS,
+  Care of C. A. Morass & Co.,
+  Chattanooga, Tennessee.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have several kinds of Norwegian stamps, and if any stamp
+     collector will send me some shells, sea-weeds, or any such things,
+     I will be very glad to send some of my stamps in return.
+
+  ELIZABETH KOREN,
+  Decorah, Winnesheik County, Iowa.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange postmarks or stamps with any one in the
+     United States or Canada.
+
+  CLIFFORD POTTS,
+  412 Walnut Street, Reading, Pennsylvania.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     A little girl who is making an interesting collection of monograms
+     would be very glad to exchange with any boy or girl. Please
+     address
+
+  E. M., P. O. Box 1132,
+  Plainfield, New Jersey.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am just beginning a collection of monograms. As yet I have but
+     very few, but I would be very glad to exchange with any readers of
+     YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  ISABELLE VAN BRUNT,
+  27 West Thirtieth Street, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     All boys from fourteen to twenty are invited to become members of
+     a debating club on a legal basis. The debates are carried on by
+     mail. For further information address the recording secretary,
+
+  N. L. COLLAMER,
+  Room 49, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange stamps or postmarks with any readers of
+     YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+     I have mislaid the address of May A. J. Cornish, of Washington,
+     and if she will kindly send it to me I will answer her letter
+     requesting exchange.
+
+  GEORGE G. OMERLY,
+  616 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+E. M. W.--Many thanks for your trouble in copying the pretty version of
+the legend of the forget-me-not. But as it is very long, and is not new,
+we can not print it.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A. C.--The military organization of the ancient Romans which was called
+a legion numbered from 3000 to 6000 men. It combined cavalry and
+infantry and all the constituent elements of an army. Originally only
+Roman citizens of property were admitted to the legion, but at a later
+period the enrollment of all classes became common.--There are so many
+large printing establishments in New York city that it is difficult to
+answer your other question. The best thing for you to do is to make a
+personal application to any one you may select.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHARLIE.--You will find the advertisement of the "Royal Middy" costume
+in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 27.--The Indian ponies of the far West are very
+serviceable and hardy little animals. The Canadian ponies and Texan
+mustangs are useful, but sometimes too vicious for a little boy like
+you. A shaggy little Shetland is pretty, if you can obtain one.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+W. S. W.--Your florist friend will know better than we can tell you in
+what way to procure you a plant of the Venus's-flytrap. He can, no
+doubt, send you some young roots. As the plant is only a cluster of
+leaves, low on the ground, from which springs a single stalk, about six
+inches high, crowned with a bunch of white flowers, it can not easily be
+propagated by cuttings. It is a matter of dispute if this plant feeds
+upon the insects it captures or not. The unfortunate fly imprisoned in
+its leaves is macerated in a juice which the leaf again absorbs, but the
+plant would probably thrive as well from the nourishment derived from
+the sun and air and earth alone.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HARRY I. F.--We can not print your request for exchange, as you gave no
+address, not even the town in which you live.--We can not give addresses
+of correspondents, but if you have any questions to ask of the one you
+name, you can write them to the Post-office Box, and if they are
+suitable, we will print your letter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+N. W. J.--We have not made the arrangements about which you inquire. We
+thank you sincerely for your pretty letter and your kind intentions.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MIRIAM B., FLORENCE N., HARRY F. H., AND MANY OTHERS.--We refer you to
+the introductory note to the Post-office Box of YOUNG PEOPLE No. 45 for
+the reason why your requests for exchange are not published. Such
+collections as yours are very pretty and interesting, but as our
+Post-office Box is not large enough to contain every pretty thing, we
+can only print those requests for exchanges of articles which we
+consider in some way instructive.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+WORD SQUARES.
+
+1. First, a household pet. Second, a surface. Third, an animal. Fourth,
+a measure.
+
+  WINNIE.
+
+2. First, a narrow board. Second, vitality. Third, at a distance.
+Fourth, a portion of time.
+
+  H. N. T.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+MALTESE CROSS.
+
+Central letter.--In valetudinarianism.
+
+Top.--A vegetable. Something found in nearly every newspaper. An
+untruth. Snug. A metal. A letter.
+
+Right.--Having many names. A register of deaths. Having two ways. One
+who assumes a part. Excommunication. A letter.
+
+Left.--A root. Decrease. An officer of a university. Pertaining to a
+wall. A loud noise. A letter.
+
+Down.--To personify. Dimly. A violent revolutionist. A cone-bearing
+tree. A small cask. A letter.
+
+Centrals read downward spell a word applied to certain species of
+minerals; read across, a word signifying a counter-accusation.
+
+  RIP VAN WINKLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+DROP-LETTER PUZZLE--FOR LITTLE READERS.
+
+A familiar verse:
+
+  M--r--h--d--l--t--l--l--m--,
+    I--s--l--e--e--a--w--i--e--s--n--w;
+  A--d--v--r--w--e--e--h--t--a--y--e--t
+    T--e--a--b--a--s--r--t--g--.
+
+  LITTLE ROSIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 49.
+
+No. 1.
+
+  S P A R E    H E A T H
+  P A N E L    E X T R A
+  A N G L E    A T L A S
+  R E L I C    T R A C T
+  E L E C T    H A S T E
+
+No. 2.
+
+        O
+      F R O
+    F E T I D
+  O R T O L A N
+    O I L E D
+      D A D
+        N
+
+No. 3.
+
+  D I R E F U L
+    N O M A D
+      Y E A
+        R
+      A S S
+    D R O L L
+  Q U I N I N E
+
+No. 4.
+
+October.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Charade on page 728--Vane, vein, vain.
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS.
+
+
+
+
+COLUMBIA BICYCLE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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.
+
+THE POPE MFG. CO.,
+
+79 Summer St., Boston, Mass.
+
+
+
+
+_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]
+
+THE BABY-MOUSE.
+
+
+  Oh, rock-a-by, baby-mouse, rock-a-by, so!
+  When baby's asleep to the baker's I'll go,
+  And while he's not looking I'll pop from a hole,
+  And bring to my baby a fresh penny roll.
+
+
+
+
+IMITATION STAINED GLASS.
+
+BY FRANK BELLEW.
+
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 1.]
+
+A very pretty and cheap imitation of stained glass can be made by any
+one possessing a little ingenuity, a pair of scissors, a few sheets of
+colored tissue-paper, and a paste-pot, and the humblest cottage window
+can be made resplendent as those of a cathedral--more or less.
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 2.]
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 3.]
+
+Take a sheet of white or yellow tissue-paper of the exact size of your
+window-pane, and with some very fine boiled paste paste it thereon. When
+this is dry, take two sheets of another color, and fold them; then cut
+from these folded sheets a form like Fig. 1. You will now, on opening
+them, have two shields, as in Fig. 2. Now paste one of these shields in
+the centre of your yellow window-pane. When this is perfectly dry, paste
+the second shield over the first, only a little to one side and lower
+down, as represented in Fig. 3, and you will have an effect much
+resembling stained glass. If you choose you can cut out some design from
+a fourth sheet to resemble a crest--say, the head of a lion--and paste
+that in the centre of the shield; this should be of some other colored
+paper. Or, to produce another effect, you may, after first neatly
+outlining the design with a pencil, cut and scrape away all the paper
+within the limits of the design with a sharp-pointed knife, so as to
+leave the plain glass, which will have a very pretty effect,
+particularly if you shade the design on the edges with Indian ink. Or,
+again, you may fill in this space with some bright contrasting color;
+say, red on blue, or blue on red.
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 4.]
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 5.]
+
+Of course, in decorating your window, it will be desirable to have a
+different design on every pane, or at least a great variety. To obtain
+another and more elaborate form it is only necessary to fold your two
+sheets of tissue-paper twice, and then cut out, say, a figure like Fig.
+4, when, on unfolding it, you will have two patterns like Fig. 5, which
+will, when pasted over each other, produce a rich effect.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Bravery is of no Nation.=--It is admitted on all hands that the
+Afghans, of whom we are hearing so much just now, fought bravely, and
+the same as to the Zulus. In Sir Charles James Napier's _History of the
+Administration in Scinde_ there is a story relating to the brave
+hills-men of Trukkee, which is well worth repeating. It was their
+custom, when their friends fell fighting bravely, face to the foe, to
+strip them and leave them unburied, but to tie round the right wrist a
+thread either of green or red. The red thread was the very highest honor
+that a brave man slain could receive. In the course of one of Sir
+Charles James Napier's campaigns eleven out of an army of English
+soldiers lost their way in the mountain gorges, and came "full butt"
+upon a fort guarded by forty of these formidable mountaineers. The
+little band of eleven English soldiers at once attacked the fort, and
+reduced the number of the mountaineers to sixteen. They themselves were
+all slain, as might be expected. When the English came for the dead
+bodies of their comrades they found them naked, under the open sky, with
+a red thread tied round the wrist of every man. The savage hills-men had
+bestowed upon the corpses of their enemies the highest honor in their
+code of homage to the brave.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: No. 1.--FALL SPORTS.]
+
+[Illustration: No. 2.--THE SPORT.]
+
+[Illustration: No. 3.--THE FALL.]
+
+
+
+
+
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