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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 26, 1880 + An Illustrated Weekly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 25, 2009 [EBook #29238] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#WORKS_A_MINT_OR_WILBERT_FAIRLAWS_NOTION"><b>WORK'S A MINT; OR, WILBERT FAIRLAW'S NOTION.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#POSY_PARKERS_HALLOWEEN"><b>POSY PARKER'S HALLOWEEN.</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_SONS_OF_THE_BRAVE"><b>THE SONS OF THE BRAVE.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#MAMMA_KNOWS_HOW"><b>"MAMMA KNOWS HOW."</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_KING_JACK-O-LANTERN"><b>THE KING JACK-O'-LANTERN.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#EMBROIDERY_FOR_GIRLS"><b>EMBROIDERY FOR GIRLS.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#FILBERT"><b>FILBERT.</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="#THE_BABY-MOUSE"><b>THE BABY-MOUSE.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#IMITATION_STAINED_GLASS"><b>IMITATION STAINED GLASS.</b></a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_761" id="Page_761">[Pg 761]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;"> +<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="389" alt="Banner: Harper'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.—<span class="smcap">No</span>. 52.</td><td align='center'><span class="smcap">Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York</span>.</td><td align='right'><span class="smcap">Price Four Cents</span>.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tuesday, October 26, 1880.</td><td align='center'>Copyright, 1880, by <span class="smcap">Harper & 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="WORKS_A_MINT_OR_WILBERT_FAIRLAWS_NOTION" id="WORKS_A_MINT_OR_WILBERT_FAIRLAWS_NOTION"></a> +<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="700" height="692" alt="UNDER THE CHESTNUT-TREE." title="" /> +<span class="caption">UNDER THE CHESTNUT-TREE.</span> +</div> + +<h2>WORK'S A MINT; OR, WILBERT FAIRLAW'S NOTION.</h2> + +<h3>BY FRANK H. TAYLOR.</h3> + +<p>"What's your name, boy?"</p> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_762" id="Page_762">[Pg 762]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Wilbert Fairlaw, sir," was the timid reply.</p> + +<p>"Go to school?"</p> + +<p>"No, sir."</p> + +<p>"Do any work?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir; I 'tend marm's cows and fetch wood."</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Here, bub, get a bucket, will you, and bring my nag some water?"</p> + +<p>This time it was a keen-looking young man sitting in a light wagon who +addressed him.</p> + +<p>"Now stir your pegs, bub, and here's a nickel for you."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The driver meanwhile searched his pockets in vain for a nickel.</p> + +<p>"Got any change, bub?"</p> + +<p>"No, sir."</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Several teams watered during the morning, and one man tossed the boy ten +cents. How pleasantly his two coins jingled, to be sure!</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_763" id="Page_763">[Pg 763]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"I always believe," said the Judge, "in letting boys work out their +notions. It don't hurt 'em, and it teaches 'em patience."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>Just then the Judge caught sight of Wilbert.</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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:</p> + +<h4>FAIRLAW & CONGDON,</h4> + +<h4><span class="smcap">Manufacturers of Improved Hubs and Spokes</span>.</h4> + +<p>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:</p> + +<h3>"<span class="smcap">Work's a Mint</span>."</h3> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="600" height="422" alt="A NUTTING PARTY—BUMPING THE HICKORY-TREE." title="" /> +<span class="caption">A NUTTING PARTY—BUMPING THE HICKORY-TREE.</span> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="POSY_PARKERS_HALLOWEEN" id="POSY_PARKERS_HALLOWEEN"></a>POSY PARKER'S HALLOWEEN.</h2> + +<h3>BY MRS. E. W. LATIMER.</h3> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"But what is Halloween kept for, anyway, uncle?" said little Posy, as +they rode over the moors that evening.</p> + +<p>"'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."</p> + +<p>"What is the proper thing to eat on Halloween, uncle?" said Posy.</p> + +<p>"To eat, little Posy?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, uncle. Every great occasion in England seems to me to have +something proper to eat on that day."</p> + +<p>"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."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_764" id="Page_764">[Pg 764]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Nurse Birkenshaw used to call it Nut-crack Day," cried Posy's eldest +cousin. "But here we are!"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_765" id="Page_765">[Pg 765]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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,</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">"Who holds my thread? who holds my clew?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">For he loves me, and I him, too."</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</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 VII</span>.</h3> + +<h3>A BEAUTIFUL THEORY RUINED.</h3> + +<p>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?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_766" id="Page_766">[Pg 766]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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?"</p> + +<p>"Why, who are you going to scalp, little fellow?" asked Paul.</p> + +<p>"Oh, nobody," said Benny, in confusion. "I'd like to know, that's all."</p> + +<p>"I'm afraid you'll have to ask some one else, then," said Paul, with a +laugh. "Try me on something easier."</p> + +<p>"Then how do you ride a wild horse without saddle or bridle?" asked +Benny.</p> + +<p>"Worse and worse," said Paul. "See here, Benny, have you been reading +dime novels, and made up your mind to go West?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Well, I know enough about it to tell you to stay at home," said Paul.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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?"</p> + +<p>"Nothing," replied Will Palmer.</p> + +<p>"Then what are you all crowding around me for?"</p> + +<p>No one answered for a moment, but finally Sam Wardwell said, "We want +you to tell us stories."</p> + +<p>"Stories about Indians," explained Ned Johnston.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"You can tell us something about birch canoes, can't you?" asked Ned +Johnston, by way of encouragement.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"How do they fasten up the ends?" asked Ned.</p> + +<p>"They first sew or tie them together with strings, and then they put +pitch over the seams to make them water-tight."</p> + +<p>"Did you ever see the Indians race in birch canoes?" asked Sam.</p> + +<p>"Oh yes, often," Paul replied; "and they make fast time too, I can tell +you."</p> + +<p>"Did you ever race yourself?" asked Benny.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"How do the Indians kill buffaloes?" asked Will Palmer.</p> + +<p>"Why, just as white men do—they shoot them with rifles. Nearly all the +Indians have rifles nowadays."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Are buffaloes really so terrible-looking as the story-papers say?" +asked Bert Sharp.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Do the Indians really kill or torture all the white people they catch?" +asked Canning Forbes.</p> + +<p>"I don't know; I suppose so, but perhaps they're not all as bad as some +white people say."</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 377px;"> +<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="377" height="400" alt=""YOU'RE A CHIEF'S SON, AREN'T YOU?"" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"YOU'RE A CHIEF'S SON, AREN'T YOU?"</span> +</div> + +<p>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,</p> + +<p>"You're a chief's son, aren't you?"</p> + +<p>"What?" exclaimed Paul, so sharply that Notty dodged behind Will Palmer, +and put his hand to his head as if to protect his scalp.</p> + +<p>"I meant," said Notty, tremblingly— "I meant to ask what tribe you +belonged to."</p> + +<p>"I? What tribe? Notty, what are you talking about?"</p> + +<p>Notty did not answer, so Paul looked around at the other boys, but they +also were silent.</p> + +<p>"Notty," said Paul, "what on earth are you thinking about? Do you +imagine I'm an Indian?"</p> + +<p>"I thought you were," said Notty, very meekly; "and," he continued, "so +did all the other boys."</p> + +<p>"Well, that's good," said Paul, laughing heartily. "What made you think +so, fellows?"</p> + +<p>"Benny told us," explained Ned.</p> + +<p>"Benny?" exclaimed Paul. "What put that fancy into your head?"</p> + +<p>"I—I dreamed it," said Benny, almost ready to cry for shame and +disappointment.</p> + +<p>"And you told all the other boys?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I believed it; I really did, or I never would have said it."</p> + +<p>Then Paul laughed again—a long, hearty laugh it was,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_767" id="Page_767">[Pg 767]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>"If you're not an Indian, how do you know so much about a birch canoe?"</p> + +<p>"Why, I've seen dozens of them in Maine, where I used to live; the +Indians make them there."</p> + +<p>"Wild Indians?" asked Ned, and all the boys listened eagerly for the +answer.</p> + +<p>"No," said Paul, contemptuously; "they're the tamest kind of tame ones."</p> + +<p>This was dreadful, yet Ned thought he would try once more. "How did you +come to know so much about buffaloes?" he asked.</p> + +<p>"I saw two in Central Park, in New York," Paul replied. "Oh, boys! boys! +you're dreadfully sold."</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_SONS_OF_THE_BRAVE" id="THE_SONS_OF_THE_BRAVE"></a>THE SONS OF THE BRAVE.</h2> + +<h4>[See double-page illustration.]</h4> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="MAMMA_KNOWS_HOW" id="MAMMA_KNOWS_HOW"></a>"MAMMA KNOWS HOW."</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">The awful fact is beyond a doubt,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">The cage was open, and Dick flew out.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">"What shall I do?" cries Pet, half wild,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And Nurse Deb says, "Why, bress you, child,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">I knows a plan dat'll nebber fail:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Jes put some salt on yer birdie's tail."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">"Why, you silly old nurse, 'twould never do;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">That plan is worthy a goose like you.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">What! salt for birds. No, sugar, I say;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">I'll coax him back to me right away."</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">But wicked Dick, with his round black eyes,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">He wouldn't be caught in this gentle wise.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Mamma comes in, and she sees the plight;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">It will take her wits to set it right:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">That big bandana on Deb's black head,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Ere Dick can jump, 'tis over him spread;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Then two soft hands they hold him fast:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">The bright little rogue is caught at last.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">As into his cage the truant goes</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Pet says, "Now, nurse, I do suppose</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">That salt and sugar, though two nice things,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Are not a match for a birdie's wings;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And, Deb, I think we must just allow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">When a thing's to be done, mamma knows how."</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_768" id="Page_768">[Pg 768]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> +<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="800" height="556" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_769" id="Page_769">[Pg 769]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> +<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="800" height="548" alt=""SONS OF THE BRAVE."—From a Painting by P. R. Morris, A.R.A.—[See Page 767.]" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"SONS OF THE BRAVE."—<span class="smcap">From a Painting by P. R. Morris, A.R.A.</span>—[<span class="smcap">See Page 767</span>.]</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_770" id="Page_770">[Pg 770]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_KING_JACK-O-LANTERN" id="THE_KING_JACK-O-LANTERN"></a>THE KING JACK-O'-LANTERN.</h2> + +<h3>BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.</h3> + +<p>"There, boys, that's the pumpkin."</p> + +<p>"That'll do, Phil; but what'll your father say? Doesn't he mean to take +that pumpkin to town?"</p> + +<p>"Well, no, I guess not. Anyhow, he said I might have it."</p> + +<p>"Did you tell him what it's for?"</p> + +<p>"Of course I did. Only I guess he guessed near enough that I didn't mean +to make any pies."</p> + +<p>"What did he say, Phil?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Isn't that a whopper, though! Biggest pumpkin I ever saw. Let's go +right at it."</p> + +<p>Clint Burgess had his knife out, and was opening the big blade, but Prop +Corning stopped him.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"That's so," said Clint. "I say, Phil, where'll we go?"</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"We'll show 'em something."</p> + +<p>"Teach the girls, too, not to laugh at fellows of our age."</p> + +<p>"It's too bad. When a man gets to be thirteen, it's time they let him +come in to tea."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"They look more like big apples alongside that other."</p> + +<p>"That's the King Pumpkin."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"To scoop with? I know. The rind'll be awful thick."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Now we won't break our knives, nor the shell either."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Big as that pumpkin?"</p> + +<p>"Big as the whole Sewing Society. We want a piece out of the top first, +about six inches square."</p> + +<p>The top piece came out nicely, and it was a wonder what a mass of seeds +and pulp was pulled out after it.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Can we give him any cheeks?" asked Phil, doubtfully.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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?"</p> + +<p>"Don't let 'em know a word about it, father," said Phil, anxiously. +"You'll see, by-and-by."</p> + +<p>"All right, Phil. I'll wait."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"What's that?"</p> + +<p>"Dear me!"</p> + +<p>"Something's happened!"</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Sakes alive!"</p> + +<p>"What can it be?"</p> + +<p>"Mrs. Merritt, there's somethin' awful a-stickin' on the top of one o' +your gate posts."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_771" id="Page_771">[Pg 771]</a></span> 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."</p> + +<p>One of the ladies, a second later, gave a little scream, and exclaimed, +"Look at it now!—it's on fire."</p> + +<p>"Dear me!" added another, "it's got a mouth."</p> + +<p>"And a nose."</p> + +<p>"And a cheek."</p> + +<p>"Oh, Deacon Merritt, eyes too."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"There it is."</p> + +<p>"Here comes mine too. Now for his crown. Jerk your half."</p> + +<p>"Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" More than a dozen ladies of all ages said "Oh!" in the +same breath, and Deacon Merritt himself exclaimed:</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="EMBROIDERY_FOR_GIRLS" id="EMBROIDERY_FOR_GIRLS"></a>EMBROIDERY FOR GIRLS.</h2> + +<h3>BY S. H. W.</h3> + +<p>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,<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> 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."</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 161px;"> +<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="161" height="300" alt="Fig. 1." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 1.</span> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="300" height="208" alt="Fig. 2." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 2.</span> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 285px;"> +<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="285" height="285" alt="Fig. 3." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 3.</span> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="300" height="297" alt="Fig. 4." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 4.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 260px;"> +<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="260" height="300" alt="Fig. 5." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 5.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="500" height="103" alt="Fig. 6." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 6.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_772" id="Page_772">[Pg 772]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"><a name="FILBERT" id="FILBERT"></a> +<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="400" height="306" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>FILBERT.</h2> + +<h3>BY AGNES CARR.</h3> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Who will cook the porridge now?" asked the cat.</p> + +<p>"And who will make the beds?" asked the parrot.</p> + +<p>"And who will sweep the floor?" asked the monkey.</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"But who will teach us?" asked Miss Pussy.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Oh, what a cunning little place!" cried Filbert, "and nobody home: so I +will help myself."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Frightened nearly out of her wits at sight of the queer trio, Filbert +jumped up, and ran and hid behind the curtain.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 384px;"> +<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="384" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>In came the three, as gay as could be, chattering and laughing.</p> + +<p>"For I have learned to cook porridge," said the cat.</p> + +<p>"And I have learned to make beds," said the parrot.</p> + +<p>"And I have learned to sweep the floor," said the monkey.</p> + +<p>"Then do let us hurry," cried all three, "for we are hungry and sleepy, +and the house is very, very dusty."</p> + +<p>The cat set to work first, mixed the meal and milk, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_773" id="Page_773">[Pg 773]</a></span> 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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"We can't go to our beds either unless you hurry and make them," said +the cat, who was vexed at having failed.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 335px;"> +<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="335" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"Oh dear, we shall have to sleep on the floor," cried the other two.</p> + +<p>"Then you had better sweep it first," retorted the parrot.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="400" height="383" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"What! leave our own pretty little house, where we have lived so long," +said the cat.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 592px;"> +<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="592" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"What good fairy has been here!" they all exclaimed.</p> + +<p>"A nut-brown maiden, nut-brown maiden," chirped a cricket on the hearth.</p> + +<p>"And where has she gone?" they asked.</p> + +<p>"Behind the curtain, behind the curtain," sang the cricket.</p> + +<p>And in a twinkling Filbert was dragged, blushing and trembling, from her +hiding-place.</p> + +<p>"Who are you, and how came you here?" asked the cat.</p> + +<p>"My name is Filbert, and I came in to rest," said the girl, "for I have +no friends and no home."</p> + +<p>"And can you cook and sweep and sew?" asked the parrot.</p> + +<p>"Yes, indeed, and many other things."</p> + +<p>"Oh! will you stay and live with us?" asked the monkey.</p> + +<p>"What will you give me?" asked Filbert.</p> + +<p>"A good home," said the cat.</p> + +<p>"Brand-new clothes," said the parrot.</p> + +<p>"And a brass, a silver, and a gold penny every week," said the monkey.</p> + +<p>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.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_774" id="Page_774">[Pg 774]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 306px;"> +<img src="images/ill_018.jpg" width="306" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<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_019.jpg" width="600" height="257" alt="OUR POST-OFFICE BOX." title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The present Number closes the first volume of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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, <span class="smcap">Young +People</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Dorset, Canada</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am fourteen years old, and I live in the northern part of +Canada. My sister takes <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. 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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Erastus W. L.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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 <span class="smcap">Young +People</span> very much.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Nettie L.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Addie Lockman</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Dorset P. O., Haliburton, Ontario, Canada.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Marengo, Iowa</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I like <span class="smcap">Young People</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Can any one tell me a good way to make a scrap-book?</p> + +<p>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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Jessie Lee R.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Claremont, Minnesota</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I have taken <span class="smcap">Young People</span> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Will you tell me whether the stamps the readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> +are collecting are used or new? I have quite a number of used +ones.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">George H. H.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Asheville, North Carolina</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I like <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> 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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Emily T. H.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Boston, Massachusetts</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>With much love to you, dear <span class="smcap">Young People</span>,</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">"Wee Tot" Brainard</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">257 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Lewisburg, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">William A. L.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Brooklyn, New York</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I have taken <span class="smcap">Young People</span> from the first number, and have learned +a great deal from it.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The young chemists' club have elected me President, and I am +desired to thank the readers of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> for the +experiments they have sent, and to request them to favor the club +with more.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Charles H. W.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Dubuque, Iowa</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I like <span class="smcap">Young People</span> so much! and I always read all the letters in +the Post-office Box.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Will any correspondent tell me how to keep goldfish healthy in a +globe?</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Georgia G. S.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange rare foreign stamps. I have fifteen +hundred in my collection. I would especially like to obtain new +issues.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">W. Page Gardner</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">16 Hanson Street, Boston, Massachusetts.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange postmarks for birds' eggs with any reader +of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. 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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">James Thompson</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Middlefield, Geauga County, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Milton D. Close</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Berlin Heights, Erie County, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>If any reader of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> will send me twenty different +foreign postage stamps, I will send by return mail a Chinese coin.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Willie B. Gordon</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">P. O. Box 116, Upper Sandusky, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange birds' eggs with any of the readers of +<span class="smcap">Young People</span>. 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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Fred C. Todd</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Milltown, New Brunswick.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">H. Jacob</span>, Darlington Heights,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Prince Edward County, Virginia.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">William Winslow</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">74 De Soto Street, St. Paul, Minnesota.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p> + +<p>Can any one tell me the price of silk-worm cocoons?</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Philip Tyng</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">403 North Madison Street, Peoria, Illinois.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I take <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. 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<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_775" id="Page_775">[Pg 775]</a></span> postmarks and minerals, and I will +gladly exchange a specimen of iron ore for any other mineral.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Bennie C. Graham</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">165 West Goodale Street, Columbus, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange United States and foreign coins with any +reader of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">William F. Saltmarsh</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">512 North New Jersey St., Indianapolis, Indiana.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Nellie S. G. Vaughan</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Chazy, Clinton County, New York.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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 <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">W. Paul D. Moross</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Care of C. A. Morass & Co.,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Chattanooga, Tennessee.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Elizabeth Koren</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Decorah, Winnesheik County, Iowa.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange postmarks or stamps with any one in the +United States or Canada.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Clifford Potts</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">412 Walnut Street, Reading, Pennsylvania.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A little girl who is making an interesting collection of monograms +would be very glad to exchange with any boy or girl. Please +address</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">E. M.</span>, P. O. Box 1132,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Plainfield, New Jersey.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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 +<span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Isabelle Van Brunt</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">27 West Thirtieth Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>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,</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">N. L. Collamer</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">Room 49, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I would like to exchange stamps or postmarks with any readers of +<span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p> + +<p>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.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">George G. Omerly</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;">616 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">E. M. W.</span>—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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">A. C.</span>—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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Charlie</span>.—You will find the advertisement of the "Royal Middy" costume +in <span class="smcap">Young People</span> 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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">W. S. W.</span>—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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Harry I. F.</span>—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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">N. W. J.</span>—We have not made the arrangements about which you inquire. We +thank you sincerely for your pretty letter and your kind intentions.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Miriam B., Florence N., Harry F. H., and many others</span>.—We refer you to +the introductory note to the Post-office Box of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> 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.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<h3>WORD SQUARES.</h3> + +<p class="center">1. First, a household pet. Second, a surface. Third, an animal. Fourth, +a measure.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Winnie</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p class="center">2. First, a narrow board. Second, vitality. Third, at a distance. +Fourth, a portion of time.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">H. N. T.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<h3>MALTESE CROSS.</h3> + +<p>Central letter.—In valetudinarianism.</p> + +<p>Top.—A vegetable. Something found in nearly every newspaper. An +untruth. Snug. A metal. A letter.</p> + +<p>Right.—Having many names. A register of deaths. Having two ways. One +who assumes a part. Excommunication. A letter.</p> + +<p>Left.—A root. Decrease. An officer of a university. Pertaining to a +wall. A loud noise. A letter.</p> + +<p>Down.—To personify. Dimly. A violent revolutionist. A cone-bearing +tree. A small cask. A letter.</p> + +<p>Centrals read downward spell a word applied to certain species of +minerals; read across, a word signifying a counter-accusation.</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Rip Van Winkle</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<h3>DROP-LETTER PUZZLE—FOR LITTLE READERS.</h3> + +<p class="center">A familiar verse:</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">M—r—h—d—l—t—l—l—m—,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">I—s—l—e—e—a—w—i—e—s—n—w;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">A—d—v—r—w—e—e—h—t—a—y—e—t</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">T—e—a—b—a—s—r—t—g—.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Little Rosie</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 49.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="15%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>P</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>H</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>P</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>N</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>L</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>X</td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>A</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>N</td><td align='left'>G</td><td align='left'>L</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>L</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>S</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>L</td><td align='left'>I</td><td align='left'>C</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>C</td><td align='left'>T</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>L</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>C</td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>H</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>E</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'></td><td align='left'>O</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>F</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>O</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>F</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>I</td><td align='left'>D</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>O</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>T</td><td align='left'>O</td><td align='left'>L</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>N</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>O</td><td align='left'>I</td><td align='left'>L</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>D</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>D</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>D</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>N</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="10%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>D</td><td align='left'>I</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>F</td><td align='left'>U</td><td align='left'>L</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>N</td><td align='left'>O</td><td align='left'>M</td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>D</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>Y</td><td align='left'>E</td><td align='left'>A</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>R</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>A</td><td align='left'>S</td><td align='left'>S</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>D</td><td align='left'>R</td><td align='left'>O</td><td align='left'>L</td><td align='left'>L</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Q</td><td align='left'>U</td><td align='left'>I</td><td align='left'>N</td><td align='left'>I</td><td align='left'>N</td><td align='left'>E</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 4.</h3> + +<p class="center">October.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p class="center">Charade on page 728—Vane, vein, vain.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>COLUMBIA BICYCLE.</h2> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 136px;"> +<img src="images/ill_020.jpg" width="136" 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%;" /> +<h2><i>Notice.</i></h2> + +<h3>Now is the Time to Subscribe.</h3> + +<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—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 & BROTHERS,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 35em;"><span class="smcap">Franklin Square, New York</span>.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_776" id="Page_776">[Pg 776]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"><a name="THE_BABY-MOUSE" id="THE_BABY-MOUSE"></a> +<img src="images/ill_021.jpg" width="400" height="398" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>THE BABY-MOUSE.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Oh, rock-a-by, baby-mouse, rock-a-by, so!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">When baby's asleep to the baker's I'll go,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And while he's not looking I'll pop from a hole,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And bring to my baby a fresh penny roll.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="IMITATION_STAINED_GLASS" id="IMITATION_STAINED_GLASS"></a>IMITATION STAINED GLASS.</h2> + +<h3>BY FRANK BELLEW.</h3> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 110px;"> +<img src="images/ill_022.jpg" width="110" height="200" alt="Fig. 1." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 1.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 199px;"> +<img src="images/ill_023.jpg" width="199" height="200" alt="Fig. 2." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 2.</span> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 199px;"> +<img src="images/ill_024.jpg" width="199" height="200" alt="Fig. 3." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 3.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 101px;"> +<img src="images/ill_025.jpg" width="101" height="150" alt="Fig. 4." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 4.</span> +</div> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 125px;"> +<img src="images/ill_026.jpg" width="125" height="200" alt="Fig. 5." title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 5.</span> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><b>Bravery is of no Nation.</b>—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 <i>History of the +Administration in Scinde</i> 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.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_027.jpg" width="600" height="295" alt="No. 1.—FALL SPORTS." title="" /> +<span class="caption">No. 1.—FALL SPORTS.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_028.jpg" width="600" height="229" alt="No. 2.—THE SPORT." title="" /> +<span class="caption">No. 2.—THE SPORT.</span> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_029.jpg" width="600" height="236" alt="No. 3.—THE FALL." title="" /> +<span class="caption">No. 3.—THE FALL.</span> +</div> + +<p><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> 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.</p></div> + +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE *** + +***** This file should be named 29238-h.htm or 29238-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/2/3/29238/ + +Produced by Annie McGuire + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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 26, 1880 + An Illustrated Weekly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 25, 2009 [EBook #29238] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[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.] + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE *** + +***** This file should be named 29238.txt or 29238.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/2/3/29238/ + +Produced by Annie McGuire + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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