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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, December 28, 1880, by Various
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+Title: Harper's Young People, December 28, 1880
+       An Illustrated Monthly
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: January 5, 2014 [EBook #44596]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, DEC 28, 1880 ***
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+Produced by Annie R. McGuire
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+[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
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+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. II.--NO. 61. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, December 28, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
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+
+
+[Illustration: THE FIRST NEW-YEAR'S CALL.--SEE NEXT PAGE.]
+
+A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
+
+
+On the first page of this New-Year's number of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE is
+a picture of the first New-Year's call of the season, which is one made
+at the door of every house in the land just as the clock strikes twelve
+on New-Year's Eve.
+
+The little fur-clad figure knocking for admittance is that of New Year
+himself, Master Eighteen Eighty-One, laden with promises and good wishes
+that will, we hope, insure him a warm welcome from the sleepy watchers
+within the cozy room to which he seeks to enter. Even Miss Dolly, whom
+the children have left on the cricket in the corner to watch the old
+year out and the new one in, and who does not look at all sleepy, will
+welcome the little stranger in her own way, and he will quickly be made
+to feel at home.
+
+Now watch for him, dear children; he will surely come to every door, and
+when he arrives, welcome him warmly, and make up your minds to do
+everything in your power to make him the very happiest New Year that
+ever was.
+
+
+
+
+"PRINCE CHARLIE."
+
+BY KATHERINE KAMERON.
+
+
+Christmas was over. The twins, Allan and Jessie, had romped and played
+away the whole delightful day, in doors and out.
+
+Wonderful to tell, they had wearied of all the pretty new toys, and
+found an end to play. After tea they sat quietly in the fire-glow,
+talking with mamma about the beautiful new picture that was her gift to
+them. It was a charming group of gayly dressed children--little Princes
+and a Princess, the children of the unhappy King Charles I. of England.
+The tallest was a handsome boy, in a suit of scarlet velvet, with a
+broad collar of rich old lace. He held by the hand a tiny tot, in a
+frilled cap and a dress of blue silk, who timidly clung to the
+protecting arm of his big brother. The third was a quaint little damsel
+in a robe of creamy satin, standing with her dainty hands demurely
+folded before her. Her long stately dress touched the floor with its
+border of Vandyck points, and her small head was curiously dressed in a
+by-gone courtly fashion. About her pretty throat was a necklace of
+costly pearls, and she looked the perfect model of a tiny old-time lady
+of high degree. A pair of graceful spaniels crouched at the feet of the
+children, and behind them was a curtain of some rich foreign stuff. The
+fire-light flashed on the sweet young faces and shining auburn hair,
+touching the waves and curls, while the shadows danced and nickered
+until it seemed to Allan that the bright eyes smiled back to him as he
+looked up. It was like a pleasant dream, and Allan's blue eyes grew
+slowly dim and dimmer. Jessie's eyelids had been drooping from the time
+mamma began to tell about the royal children, and directly the twins
+were fast asleep. Papa came in, and mamma laughed with him at the effect
+of her story, and then the little sleepers were playfully shaken until
+they were wide awake enough to walk up stairs.
+
+There was a sleepy good-night kiss all around, a double "Now I lay me,"
+and two heads nestled down on two soft pillows, and the long delightful
+Christmas-day was quite gone.
+
+In almost no time Allan felt a hand on his shoulder, and a voice said,
+softly, "Allan, Allan, wake up, my man, and come and show me about the
+things."
+
+Allan turned over, rubbed his dazed eyes, and then jumped straight up in
+bed, winking and blinking in wonder at what he saw. Standing beside his
+bed was a handsome lad, about his own size, in a scarlet velvet suit.
+The stranger was laughing merrily at his surprise, as he spoke again:
+"My good fellow, don't sit staring at me, but put on your doublet and
+the rest, and come on. We have not long to stay." At this, Allan glanced
+through the open door of Jessie's room, and there by her bed he saw in
+the moonlight the dainty little dame in the trailing satin. She was
+whispering to Jessie. In an instant the visitors vanished hand in hand
+through the doorway, and the children heard their soft footfalls on the
+stairway. "Prince Charlie! Princess Mary!" was all they said, but they
+fairly danced into their clothes, and then ran quickly down to the
+library; and when the door opened, what a strange sight met their
+astonished eyes! There was a famous fire in the grate, and by the bright
+blaze they saw Prince Charlie mounted, on the new velocipede, tugging at
+the bridle, and cracking his whip until it snapped again, but the queer
+steed moved not a pace. The little Princess sat holding
+Nannette--Jessie's French doll--speechless with delight. She turned the
+pretty head from side to side, she moved the arms and feet, she examined
+the tiny kid boots with their high heels. Then she admired the long
+gloves with no end of buttons, and the scrap of a bonnet, made of shreds
+of flower and feather in a wonderful way, and perched on a high tower of
+fluffy flossy hair.
+
+"Do you like it, Princess Mary?" asked Jessie, most respectfully.
+
+"Oh, it is bonny," was the answer; "so much prettier than any I ever
+saw. Is your father a great King, and does he have such wonderful dolls
+made for you?" she asked.
+
+"Oh, dear me, no, Princess," said Jessie, hastily, and wanting very much
+to laugh. "My father is a great doctor, though. We have no Kings in our
+country."
+
+"No Kings!" echoed the little lady, incredulously. "Who reigns, then?
+But do not say Princess every time; call me Mary. We must go back so
+soon, and I have a hundred questions to ask about so many strange
+things. We are very tired of looking at them from up there," glancing at
+the picture.
+
+"Indeed, we have longed to get down close by you ever since we came,"
+exclaimed the Prince. "I am sure you saw us smile at you last evening,"
+he added.
+
+"So I was right," cried Allan, joyfully. "I thought so;" and looking up
+to the picture, he saw the pretty spaniels quite alone against the rich
+drapery. They were huddled together in a lonely way, a silky heap of
+noses and paws. At Prince Charlie's voice one of them threw up his head
+for a dismal howl, but at a sign from his young master he patiently
+curled down to wait.
+
+The Princess missed Jamie, and turned to look for him. There, in a
+corner on the floor, sat the baby Duke, in his sky-blue silk, dancing
+Jessie's droll Japanese "Ning-Ping" until the limp arms and legs fairly
+flew. He stopped a moment to look into the narrow sleepy eyes, and to
+touch the long braid that hung down behind, and the stiff little fringe,
+like a brush, on top of the queer head, and then again the legs and arms
+rattled a tune, while Jamie's round, solemn eyes seemed not even to
+wink, so intent and wondering was his look. In the mean time his stately
+sister held Nannette close in her arms, as she moved about, looking,
+listening, and questioning.
+
+Just then Jamie called, softly, "Charlie! Charlie! Mary! come and see."
+
+The little fellow had found a box of jointed wooden animals and people.
+He was twisting the legs and arms and paws and wings into all manner of
+shapes, and then standing up the funny wry shapes, and laughing in high
+glee.
+
+Allan noticed how quietly they all spoke and moved. Even when they
+laughed heartily, or called out, they did not make any loud noise. He
+wondered if it was being pictures so long had made them so still.
+
+Presently Jessie took her lacquered box, full of small treasures, from
+the table to the sofa, where the two girls cozily seated themselves. All
+of the simple, pretty things seemed equally new and curious to the
+little stranger. Jessie tried to have the Princess Mary keep a few
+trifles which she seemed most to admire, but in vain; she only drew up
+her small quaint figure, and said, quietly, "A Princess may not accept
+gifts." Somehow, although she smiled graciously, this little speech
+troubled Jessie, who feared she had been rude, although she did not in
+the least know how.
+
+Duke Jamie had in the mean time wearied of his wooden people, and went
+wandering about in his baby fashion, but never for a moment dropping
+Ning-Ping. Just then he spied his brother careering around on the
+velocipede, having learned from Allan how to manage it. Of course Jamie
+cried for a ride, and fortunately got it. While the Prince was whirling
+round, Allan had wound up his engine with the long train of passenger
+coaches, and sent it spinning across the floor in front of the fire. In
+a twinkling Prince Charlie jumped down to see the new wonder. The
+Princess at once lifted Jamie astride of the strange steed, and with one
+arm about him, walked in a motherly way by his side, pushing the curious
+vehicle.
+
+"What is this long carriage?" asked young Royalty.
+
+"Only a steam-engine and train of cars," was the reply.
+
+"But where is the steam?" said the Prince.
+
+"Oh, there is none here; this goes by wheels, like a clock; but the real
+cars that we travel on run by steam."
+
+The long train began to creep slowly, and the wheels whirred and buzzed
+a little in running down. Allan handed the key to his guest, and Prince
+Charlie wound it up with a zest, and watched it awhile; then he turned
+to Allan with, "I say, how do they run by steam?"
+
+"Why, the steam is made by the fire under the engine boiler, like a big
+tea-kettle," explained Allan, carefully, and feeling like a professor;
+"this turns the engine wheels somehow, and the cars being all fast to
+it, they go like lightning almost."
+
+He soon bethought himself of his little engine, and in a few minutes it
+was steaming up, with the piston-rod pumping and the wheels whizzing,
+and the Prince quite lost in wonder. It was a very novel and pleasant
+sensation to know so much more than a royal Prince, and Allan enjoyed it
+hugely. Looking about him for new marvels, he chanced on his
+printing-press. The fire-light was dying out, and it was too dark for
+type-setting, so he quickly struck a match and lighted the gas jet. When
+he turned, his guests stood stupefied and open-mouthed with most unroyal
+amazement.
+
+The Prince gasped out, "Sister, did you see him set fire to a hole?
+Surely he did it, and with a dry splinter."
+
+The Princess turned quite pale. "Are the walls full of fire?" she asked,
+anxiously, hugging baby Jamie closely.
+
+This was, indeed, like magic to the royal pair, and, truth to tell, the
+young magician was nearly as much at a loss to explain the phenomenon.
+
+"It is gas, only gas," said Allan.
+
+"And what in the name of all the saints is this gas?" returned the
+Prince.
+
+"Oh, something that is made from coal, and runs in tubes in the wall,
+and burns in the air like oil," said Allan. "It is not loose; it can not
+get out of the tubes. It is quite safe," he assured the frightened
+Princess, "and the dry splinter has something on the tip--phosphorus, I
+think--that fires when it is scraped." Thus re-assured, the royal pair
+amused themselves for some time drawing matches, quite like common
+children. After this Allan introduced his treadle press, and soon the
+boys were deep in the mysteries of type-setting, inking, and taking
+impressions. The Prince wondered greatly at a printing-press for a boy's
+pastime, and still more to see it revolve so rapidly.
+
+"I once went," he said, "to see them print our London weekly. They had
+no treadle, for the press was worked by hand; but then they had famous
+printers there, and plenty of them, you see, and could send out a
+thousand papers in a day," and he looked to Allan for admiration.
+
+"That was doing very well," was the calm response; "but with a treadle I
+could work off about twice as many myself. In our country we use steam
+to drive every sort of machine, and to-day our Yankee presses just buzz
+round, and throw about eight thousand or ten thousand newspapers an
+hour, all cut and folded."
+
+"Don't! don't!" cried Prince Charlie; "that is a little faster than I
+can think. I am sure there can't be people enough to read so many. I
+should lose my breath in your fast country. What, pray, is the use of
+driving things like lightning? Let us try those cards; and now go slow,
+my man, and let me see how you do it."
+
+Very soon they had printed, in old English type, "Charles Stuart, 1640,"
+and in a neat script, "Allan Wallace, 1880." The Prince decided he would
+rather have the treadle press than anything he had yet seen.
+
+Meanwhile Jessie was doing her best to entertain the Princess Mary, who
+had watched all of these wonders in her quiet way, holding Jamie by the
+hand lest he should get into mischief. After the gas-lighting she was
+more careful of him than ever, fearing some harm might befall the baby
+brother in this new world of strange ways.
+
+But shortly after this a sharp cry made them all start; Jamie had caught
+his busy, plump little hand in a wheel; he could not release it, and was
+screaming with fright. Princess Mary ran to his relief.
+
+"What may this be?" she asked, when Jamie was soothed again. "Is it a
+spinning-wheel?"
+
+"Indeed no," said Jessie; "I should be very glad to see one; but this is
+a sewing-machine."
+
+"A what?" exclaimed her guest.
+
+But Jessie, for answer, had opened the cover, and taking two strips of
+cloth from a drawer, began to stitch a seam at a flying speed. She was
+very proud of this accomplishment, having but just learned. "I can play
+better on this than on the piano," she remarked. The swift wheel whirled
+while she talked, and the long seam flew from under the needle, and in
+an instant was done. The trio stood in amazement, little Jamie being
+spell-bound by the flying wheel.
+
+"Wonderful! wonderful!" cried Prince Charlie; "this is magic."
+
+The Princess asked, eagerly, "May I try it?"
+
+Jessie rose at once. The little lady daintily drew aside her satin robe,
+and put her small shoes on the treadle. With the help of Jessie the
+wheel was soon spinning briskly. The low hum and whir grew rapidly
+louder. "What!" cried the Prince, "a tune?" and, wondering, Allan heard
+the swift humming change to a lively measure. Louder and clearer it
+rose, till the leal old Scotch ballad, "Wha'll be King but Charlie?"
+rang out right gayly. The Prince seemed overjoyed, and directly began a
+merry whistle to the loud swift music of the wheel.
+
+"What a stunning whistle!" commented Allan, admiringly. Higher and
+clearer it rose, nearer and shriller it came, until it sounded close
+into his very ear, piercing its sharp way like a steel point. He
+started, and sprang aside to escape it; then it suddenly stopped.
+
+"Well, sir, is it possible you are awake at last?" said a cheery voice.
+"You go down to your work like one of the Seven Sleepers. Here I've been
+whistling 'Wha'll be King but Charlie?' right in your very ear, long
+enough to wake the Sleeping Beauty herself." It was his father who
+spoke. There he stood by Allan's bedside, laughing and tossing the
+covers off from the bewildered boy. "Listen, sleepy-head; your mother
+has been playing the same tune for ten minutes at least on the library
+piano. She says the new picture brought back the old tune. Come, sir,
+breakfast is waiting. Dress on the double-quick, you sluggard."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A DOLLS' RECEPTION.
+
+
+A few days before Christmas there was given in New York a dolls'
+reception in aid of the Sea-side Sanitarium--the charity that takes poor
+children of the great city to the sea-side for a few days each summer.
+
+This reception was given in a hall on Thirty-third Street, and consisted
+of a series of tableaux, in which all the characters were represented by
+the most lovely and exquisitely dressed French dolls. These tableaux
+were shown in dainty booths tastefully draped and decorated, so that the
+effect was extremely pretty, and the reception furnished a novel and
+delightful entertainment to the children who attended it in throngs
+during the three days that it lasted.
+
+At the "Birthday Party" the name of each doll-guest appeared on a dainty
+little dinner card laid beside each plate.
+
+Mother Goose and her children were dressed in the costumes with which
+innumerable picture-books have made every child familiar.
+
+The dolls had their Christmas tree as well as children; and, mounted on
+a ladder, Santa Claus (a doll's Santa Claus, you know) made believe
+distribute beautiful Christmas gifts.
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in No. 58 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, December 7.]
+
+TOBY TYLER;
+
+OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.
+
+BY JAMES OTIS.
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE NIGHT RIDE.
+
+
+The wagon on which Mr. Lord was to send his new-found employé was, by
+the most singular chance, the one containing the monkeys, and Toby
+accepted this as a good omen. He would be near his venerable friend all
+night, and there was some consolation in that. The driver instructed the
+boy to watch his movements, and when he saw him leading his horses
+around, "to look lively, and be on hand, for he never waited for any
+one."
+
+Toby not only promised to do as ordered, but he followed the driver
+around so closely that, had he desired, he could not have rid himself of
+his little companion.
+
+The scene which presented itself to Toby's view was strange and weird in
+the extreme. Shortly after he had attached himself to the man with whom
+he was to ride, the performance was over, and the work of putting the
+show and its belongings into such a shape as could be conveyed from one
+town to another was soon in active operation. Toby forgot his grief,
+forgot that he was running away from the only home he had ever known--in
+fact, forgot everything concerning himself--so interested was he in that
+which was going on about him.
+
+As soon as the audience had got out of the tent--and almost before--the
+work of taking down the canvas was begun.
+
+Torches were stuck in the earth at regular intervals, the lights that
+had shone so brilliantly in and around the ring had been extinguished,
+the canvas sides had been taken off, and the boards that had formed the
+seats were being packed into one of the carts with a rattling sound that
+seemed as if a regular fusillade of musketry was being indulged in. Men
+were shouting; horses were being driven hither and thither, harnessed to
+the wagons, or drawing the huge carts away as soon as they had been
+loaded; and everything seemed in the greatest state of confusion, while
+really the work was being done in the most systematic manner possible.
+
+Toby had not long to wait before the driver informed him that the time
+for starting had arrived, and assisted him to climb up to the narrow
+seat whereon he was to ride that night.
+
+The scene was so exciting, and his efforts to stick to the narrow seat
+so great, that he really had no time to attend to the homesick feeling
+that had crept over him during the first part of the evening.
+
+[Illustration: TOBY'S FIRST NIGHT RIDE.--DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.]
+
+The long procession of carts and wagons drove slowly out of the town,
+and when the last familiar house had been passed the driver spoke to
+Toby for the first time since they started.
+
+"Pretty hard work to keep on--eh, sonny?"
+
+"Yes," replied the boy, as the team ran over a rock, bounced him high in
+the air, and he, by strenuous efforts, barely succeeded in alighting on
+the seat again, "it is pretty hard work; an' my name's Toby Tyler."
+
+Toby heard a queer sound that seemed to come from the man's throat, and
+for a few moments he feared that his companion was choking. But he soon
+understood that this was simply an attempt to laugh, and he at once
+decided that it was a very poor style of laughing.
+
+"So you object to being called sonny, do you?"
+
+"Well, I'd rather be called Toby, for, you see, that's my name."
+
+"All right, my boy; we'll call you Toby. I suppose you thought it was a
+mighty fine thing to run away an' jine a circus, didn't you?"
+
+Toby started in affright, looked around cautiously, and then tried to
+peer down through the small square aperture, guarded by iron rods, that
+opened into the cage just back of the seat they were sitting on. Then he
+turned slowly around to the driver, and asked, in a voice sunk to a
+whisper: "How did you know that I was runnin' away? Did he tell you?"
+and Toby motioned with his thumb as if he were pointing out some one
+behind him.
+
+It was the driver's turn now to look around in search of the "he"
+referred to by Toby.
+
+"Who do you mean?" asked the man, impatiently.
+
+"Why, the old feller; the one in the cart there. I think he knew I was
+runnin' away, though he didn't say anything about it; but he looked just
+as if he did."
+
+The driver looked at Toby in perfect amazement for a moment, and then,
+as if suddenly understanding the boy, he relapsed into one of those
+convulsive efforts that caused the blood to rush up into his face, and
+gave him every appearance of having a fit.
+
+"You must mean one of the monkeys," said the driver, after he had
+recovered his breath, which had been almost shaken out of his body by
+the silent laughter. "So you thought a monkey had told me what any fool
+could have seen if he had watched you for five minutes?"
+
+"Well," said Toby, slowly, as if he feared he might provoke one of those
+terrible laughing spells again, "I saw him to-night, an' he looked as if
+he knew what I was doin'; so I up an' told him, an' I didn't know but
+he'd told you, though he didn't look to me like a feller that would be
+mean."
+
+There was another internal shaking on the part of the driver, which Toby
+did not fear as much, since he was getting accustomed to it, and then
+the man said, "Well, you are the queerest little cove I ever saw."
+
+"I s'pose I am," was the reply, accompanied by a long-drawn sigh. "I
+don't seem to amount to so much as the other fellers do, an' I guess
+it's because I'm always hungry: you see, I eat awful, Uncle Dan'l says."
+
+The only reply which the driver made to this plaintive confession was to
+put his hand down into the deepest recesses of one of his deep pockets,
+and to draw therefrom a huge doughnut, which he handed to his companion.
+
+Toby was so much at his ease by this time that the appetite which had
+failed him at supper had now returned in full force, and he devoured the
+doughnut in a most ravenous manner.
+
+"You're too small to eat so fast," said the man, in a warning tone, as
+the last morsel of the greasy sweetness disappeared, and he fished up
+another for the boy. "Some time you'll get hold of one of the India
+rubber doughnuts that they feed to circus people, an' choke yourself to
+death."
+
+Toby shook his head, and devoured this second cake as quickly as he had
+the first, craning his neck, and uttering a funny little squeak as the
+last bit went down, just as a chicken does when he gets too large a
+mouthful of dough.
+
+"I'll never choke," he said, confidently; "I'm used to it; and Uncle
+Dan'l says I could eat a pair of boots an' never wink at 'em; but I
+don't just believe that."
+
+As the driver made no reply to this remark, Toby curled himself up on
+one corner of the seat, and watched with no little interest all that was
+passing on around him. Each one of the wagons had a lantern fastened to
+the hind axle, and these lights could be seen far ahead on the road, as
+if a party of fire-flies had started in single file on an excursion. The
+trees by the side of the road stood out weird and ghostly-looking in the
+darkness, and the rumble of the carts ahead and behind formed a musical
+accompaniment to the picture that sounded strangely doleful.
+
+Mile after mile was passed over in perfect silence, save now and then
+when the driver would whistle a few bars of some very dismal tune that
+would fairly make Toby shiver with its mournfulness. Eighteen miles was
+the distance from Guilford to the town where the next performance of the
+circus was to be given, and as Toby thought of the ride before them, it
+seemed as if the time would be almost interminable. He curled himself up
+on one corner of the seat, and tried very hard to go to sleep; but just
+as his eyes began to grow heavy, the wagon would jolt over some rock or
+sink deep in some rut, till Toby, the breath very nearly shaken out of
+his body, and his neck almost dislocated, would sit bolt-upright,
+clinging to the seat with both hands, as if he expected each moment to
+be pitched out into the mud.
+
+The driver watched him closely, and each time that he saw him shaken up
+and awakened so thoroughly he would indulge in one of his silent
+laughing spells, until Toby would wonder whether he would ever recover
+from it. Several times had Toby been awakened, and each time he had seen
+the amusement his sufferings caused, until he finally resolved to put an
+end to the sport by keeping awake.
+
+"What is your name?" he asked of the driver, thinking a conversation
+would be the best way to rouse himself into wakefulness.
+
+"Wa'al," said the driver, as he gathered the reins carefully in one
+hand, and seemed to be debating in his mind how he should answer the
+question, "I don't know as I know myself, it's been so long since I've
+heard it."
+
+Toby was wide enough awake now, as this rather singular problem was
+forced upon his mind. He revolved the matter silently for some moments,
+and at last he asked, "What do folks call you when they want to speak to
+you?"
+
+"They always call me old Ben, an' I've got so used to the name that I
+don't need any other."
+
+Toby wanted very much to ask more questions, but he wisely concluded
+that it would not be agreeable to his companion.
+
+"I'll ask the old man about it," said Toby to himself, referring to the
+aged monkey, whom he seemed to feel acquainted with; "he most likely
+knows, if he'll say anything." After this the conversation ceased, until
+Toby again ventured to suggest, "It's a pretty long drive, hain't it?"
+
+"You want to wait till you've been in this business a year or two," said
+Ben, sagely, "an' then you won't think much of it. Why, I've known the
+show towns to be thirty miles apart, an' them was the times when we had
+lively work of it: riding all night and working all day kind of wears on
+a fellow."
+
+"Yes, I s'pose so," said Toby, with a sigh, as he wondered whether he
+had got to work as hard as that; "but I suppose you get all you want to
+eat, don't you?"
+
+"Now you've struck it," said Ben, with the air of one about to impart a
+world of wisdom, as he crossed one leg over the other, that his position
+might be as comfortable as possible while he was initiating his young
+companion into the mysteries of the life. "I've had all the boys ride
+with me since I've been with this show, an' I've tried to start them
+right; but they didn't seem to profit by it, an' always got sick of the
+show, an' run away, just because they didn't look out for themselves as
+they ought to. Now listen to me, Toby, an' remember what I say. You
+see, they put us all in a hotel together, an' some of these places where
+we go don't have any too much stuff on the table. Whenever we strike a
+new town, you find out at the hotel what time they have the grub ready,
+an' you be on hand so's to get in with the first. Eat all you can, an'
+fill your pockets."
+
+"If that's all a feller has to do to travel with a circus," said Toby,
+"I'm just the one, 'cause I always used to do just that when I hadn't
+any idea of bein' a circus man."
+
+"Then you'll get along all right," said Ben, as he checked the speed of
+his horses, and, looking carefully ahead, said, as he guided his team to
+one side of the road, "This is as far as we're going to-night."
+
+Toby learned that they were within a couple of miles of the town, and
+that the entire procession would remain by the road-side until time to
+make the grand entrée into the village, when every wagon, horse, and man
+would be decked out in the most gorgeous array, as they had been when
+they entered Guilford.
+
+Under Ben's direction he wrapped himself in an old horse-blanket, lay
+down on the top of the wagon, and he was so tired from the excitement of
+the day and night that he had hardly stretched out at full length before
+he was fast asleep.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+THE NEW-YEAR'S WELCOME.
+
+BY MARY D. BRINE.
+
+
+  Ring, bells, ring! for the King is here;
+  Ring, bells, ring! for the glad New Year.
+  He mounts his throne with a smiling face,
+  His sceptre lifts with majestic grace.
+  Ring for the joy his advent brings;
+  Ring for the happy songs he sings;
+  Ring for the promises sweet and true
+  With which we gladden our hearts anew.
+
+  The new-born Year is a happy fellow,
+  His voice is sweet, and low, and mellow;
+  With the Christmas holly his head is crowned,
+  With the Christmas blessings we'll wrap him round.
+  Then ring, bells, ring! for the joyous day--
+  The Past lies silent, the Present is gay;
+  Ring out your merriest, cheer after cheer,
+  To welcome the birth of the Happy New Year!
+
+
+
+
+BEE-HUNTING.
+
+BY JIMMY BROWN.
+
+
+The more I see of this world the hollower I find everybody. I don't mean
+that people haven't got their insides in them, but they are so
+dreadfully ungrateful. No matter how kind and thoughtful any one may be,
+they never give him any credit for it. They will pretend to love you and
+call you "dear Jimmy what a fine manly boy come here and kiss me" and
+then half an hour afterward they'll say "where's that little wretch let
+me just get hold of him O! I'll let him know." Deceit and ingratitude
+are the monster vices of the age and they are rolling over our beloved
+land like the flood. (I got part of that elegant language from the
+temperance lecturer last week, but I improved it a good deal.)
+
+There is Aunt Sarah. The uncle that belonged to her died two years ago
+and she's awfully rich. She comes to see us sometimes with Tommy--that's
+her boy, a little fellow ten years old--and you ought to see how mother
+and Sue wait on her and how pleasant father is when she's in the room.
+Now she always said that she loved me like her own son. She'd say to
+father "How I envy you that noble boy what a comfort he must be to you,"
+and father would say "Yes he has some charming qualities" and look as if
+he hadn't laid onto me with his cane that very morning and told me that
+my conduct was such. You'll hardly believe that just because I did the
+very best I could and saved her precious Tommy from an apple grave, Aunt
+Sarah says I'm a young Cain and knows I'll come to the gallows.
+
+She came to see us last Friday, and on Saturday I was going bee-hunting.
+I read all about it in a book. You take an axe and go out-doors and
+follow a bee, and after a while the bee takes you to a hollow tree full
+of honey and you cut the tree down and carry the honey home in thirty
+pails and sell it for ever so much. I and Sam McGinnis were going and
+Aunt Sarah says "O take Tommy with you the dear child would enjoy it so
+much." Of course no fellow that's twelve years old wants a little chap
+like that tagging after him but mother spoke up and said that I'd be
+delighted to take Tommy and so I couldn't help myself.
+
+We stopped in the wood-shed and borrowed father's axe and then we found
+a bee. The bee wouldn't fly on before us in a straight line but kept
+lighting on everything, and once he lit on Sam's hand and stung him
+good. However we chased the bee lively and by-and-by he started for his
+tree and we ran after him. We had just got to the old dead apple-tree in
+the pasture when we lost the bee and we all agreed that his nest must be
+in the tree. It's an awfully big old tree, and it's all rotted away on
+one side so that it stands as if it was ready to fall over any minute.
+
+Nothing would satisfy Tommy but to climb that tree. We told him he'd
+better let a bigger fellow do it but he wouldn't listen to reason. So we
+gave him a boost and he climbed up to where the tree forked and then he
+stood up and began to say something when he disappeared. We thought he
+had fallen out of the tree and we ran round to the other side to pick
+him up but he wasn't there. Sam said it was witches but I knew he must
+be somewhere so I climbed up the tree and looked.
+
+He had slipped down into the hollow of the tree and was wedged in tight.
+I could just reach his hair but it was so short that I couldn't get a
+good hold so as to pull him out. Wasn't he scared though! He howled and
+said "O take me out I shall die," and Sam wanted to run for the doctor.
+
+I told Tommy to be patient and I'd get him out. So I slid down the tree
+and told Sam that the only thing to do was to cut the tree down and then
+open it and take Tommy out. It was such a rotten tree I knew it would
+come down easy. So we took turns chopping, and the fellow who wasn't
+chopping kept encouraging Tommy by telling him that the tree was 'most
+ready to fall. After working an hour the tree began to stagger and
+presently down she came with an awful crash and burst into a million
+pieces.
+
+Sam and I said Hurray! and then we poked round in the dust till we found
+Tommy. He was all over red dust and was almost choked, but he was
+awfully mad. Just because some of his ribs were broke--so the doctor
+said--he forgot all Sam and I had done for him. I shouldn't have minded
+that much, because you don't expect much from little boys, but I did
+think his mother would have been grateful when we brought him home and
+told her what we had done. Then I found what all her professions were
+worth. She called father and told him that I and the other miscurrent
+had murdered her boy. Sam was so frightened at the awful name she called
+him that he ran home, and father told me I could come right up stairs
+with him.
+
+They couldn't have treated me worse if I'd let Tommy stay in the tree
+and starve to death. I almost wish I had done it. It does seem as if the
+more good a boy does the more the grown folks pitch into him. The moment
+Sue is married to Mr. Travers I mean to go and live with him. He never
+scolds, and always says that Susan's brother is as dear to him as his
+own, though he hasn't got any.
+
+
+
+
+SING A SONG O' SIXPENCE.
+
+DRAWN BY R. CALDECOTT.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Sing a Song o' Sixpence,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  A Pocketful of Rye;
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
+    Baked in a Pie.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  When the Pie was opened,
+    The Birds began to sing;
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Was not that a dainty Dish
+    To set before the King?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The King was in his Counting-house
+    Counting out his Money.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The Queen was in the Parlor,
+    Eating Bread and Honey.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The Maid was in the Garden,
+    Hanging out the Clothes;
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  There came a little Blackbird,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    And nipped off her Nose.
+  But there came a Jenny Wren
+    And popped it on again.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+HOW SANTA CLAUS CAME.
+
+BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
+
+
+"Now, Don," said Rad Burnell, dolefully, "do you believe any kind of a
+snow-storm could stop Santa Claus?"
+
+"From coming?"
+
+"Well, yes, that's it. I heard father tell mother 'he' couldn't get here
+in time, and I know he meant something about Christmas, by the way he
+looked at Petish and Molly."
+
+"Was Berry there?"
+
+"She was sound asleep in the cradle, and mother said, 'Berry won't care,
+but it'll be a dispoint for the rest of 'em.'"
+
+"It's an awful snow-storm, Rad, but I guess Santa Claus'll come, for all
+of that."
+
+Just a little later, Mr. Burnell said to his wife, "I'm sorry we didn't
+get our things in the village, Maria; but it's too late now. Don't say
+anything to the children. It'll be bad enough when it comes."
+
+Nobody else heard him, but Mrs. Burnell looked as if she wanted to cry.
+
+That was one of the whitest nights anybody in the world ever saw, for
+the snow had thrown the thickest kind of a white blanket over
+everything. Some of the roads were drifted level from fence to fence,
+and the railroads were having a tremendous time of it. Anything so black
+as a locomotive could hardly feel at home, pushing its way along through
+so white a country or into so white a village as Middleville was that
+Christmas-eve.
+
+It was a dreadfully long night, and Petish woke up three times, and
+tried to make herself believe it was morning. The last time she heard
+the great clock in the Academy steeple, on the village green, pounding
+away at its task of telling what time it was.
+
+"I'll count," said Petish.
+"Nine--twelve--seven--fourteen--fiveteen--six--I guess it's 'most time
+to get up. Must be it's Christmas now."
+
+Just then she heard a noise in the next room, and she listened with all
+her ears. First it was a rustle, and then the loudest kind of a
+whisper--loud enough to have been heard in daytime.
+
+"Rad! Rad! it's just struck five. Let's take a scoot down stairs and see
+about it. We can hurry right back again."
+
+"They're pulling on their stockings," said Petish. "I'll get up and pull
+on mine, but I won't let them see me."
+
+She tried very hard to get up without waking Molly; but it was of no
+use, for Molly's sleep had been begun at the right time, and was fairly
+over now, considering that it was Christmas morning.
+
+"Oh, Petish, what are you going to do?"
+
+"'Sh! 'sh! Molly. The boys are going down stairs to look, and I'm going
+too. Lie still."
+
+But Molly was two years older than Petish, and she wouldn't lie still.
+She was out on the floor in a twinkling, and she made Petish wrap
+herself all up in a blanket, and she pretty nearly buried her own chubby
+shape in a comfortable.
+
+That was about what Rad and Don had done already, and they were now
+carefully creeping down stairs in the dark.
+
+The door of the front parlor was nearest the foot of the stairs, and the
+boys left it open after them when they went in, but Molly and Petish
+closed it very softly and carefully the moment they were safe in the
+dim, gloomy parlor. The boys were just beyond the folding-doors at that
+moment, and did not see that they were followed.
+
+Berry was sound asleep in her crib, within reach of her mother, or she
+would have heard her say, just then, "Oh, John, it's a dreadful
+disappointment! What will those poor children do?"
+
+"Poor Petish!" said Mr. Burnell. "We can explain it to the boys, and
+they can wait, and to Molly, but it'll be bad enough for any of 'em."
+
+"But Petish'll break her little heart if she finds that Santa Claus
+hasn't come."
+
+"It'll be almost as much of a disappointment to Aunt Sally and Frank. I
+hope they'll bring Mid with them when they come."
+
+"Of course they will."
+
+Now that had been a very long, white, beautiful, dark night, and a great
+many queer things had happened in it. They are sure to, in any "night
+before Christmas"; but there had been a wonderfully deep snow-storm.
+
+Away on toward morning, just when the Academy clock was trying to make
+sound-asleep people hear that it was really four, a tired-out and
+frosty-looking railway train came smoking and coughing up to the
+platform at the village railway station.
+
+It did not stop long, but some people got out of one of the
+sleeping-cars, and some baggage was tumbled out of the baggage-car, and
+a sleepy man with a lantern said: "Yes, sir. Carriage yer in a minute,
+sir. All right."
+
+"We don't want any carriage, my man. Take our checks, and have our
+trunks brought over to Mr. Burnett's before seven o'clock. We'll walk
+right there now. Come, Sally. Come along, Mid."
+
+"Frank! husband! you'll drop some of those things!"
+
+"No, I won't, Sally."
+
+"Mid, my dear boy, look out for that box; it's only pasteboard."
+
+"I'll be careful, mother. I ain't awake yet. But it takes all three of
+us to Santa Claus this pile. Hope it isn't far."
+
+The cold, frosty air was fast getting Mid wide awake, and they did look,
+all three of them, as if they would have done better with a sleigh and a
+good team of reindeer.
+
+The distance was short, but Aunt Sally talked pretty nearly all the way.
+
+"We must do it, Frank," she said, as they drew near the gate. "I'm sure
+they've given us up. We can get in. There never was any bolt on the
+kitchen window, over the pump. Middleton can climb right in, and come
+and open the side door for us."
+
+"Oh, but won't that be fun!" exclaimed Mid, as he hurried silently
+forward.
+
+"'Sh! there, Sally," whispered Uncle Frank, as he and his portly,
+merry-faced wife lugged their bundles after Mid.
+
+It was less than half a minute before they were in the kitchen. They
+promptly shut the door between the dining-room--that was the
+sitting-room too--and the back parlor, and then how they did work!
+
+Plenty of wood and shavings and kindlings were lying in front of the
+great Franklin stove in the dining-room, and there was quickly a blazing
+fire there, and in the kitchen too, and Mid insisted on lighting every
+lamp and candle he could lay his hands on.
+
+Then the bundles came open, and their contents began to shine all around
+the chimney and over the mantel, and even on some of the chairs.
+
+"It's too bad we haven't any of their stockings," began Aunt Sally; but
+she exclaimed, the next instant: "Oh, Frank! here's Maria's work-basket,
+all full of stockings. I know them. Those are Don's. There's a pair of
+Rad's. Molly's. Petish. Berry's--the dear little kitten! We've got 'em."
+
+"Mother, let's set the table."
+
+"That's it. You help him do it, father. Won't we give 'em a surprise!"
+
+It was wonderful how those three did work, and not make any noise about
+it, and how they did change the looks of that dining-room and kitchen
+before five o'clock. Aunt Sally even put on the tea-kettle, and made
+some coffee, and it was evident that for once Santa Claus was disposed
+to be very much "at home."
+
+If they had not been drinking their coffee, perhaps they might have
+heard a voice, not many minutes after five o'clock, whispering anxiously
+to somebody in the back parlor, "I say, there's a light coming through
+the key-hole!"
+
+"There's a rattle, too, in there."
+
+"Burglars?"
+
+"Pooh! No; it's Christmas."
+
+"Oh, boys, is Santa Claus really in there? Has he got here?"
+
+"Is that you, Petish? And Molly too? Keep still. I'm just going to open
+the door a little mite of a crack, but you can all peek in."
+
+Aunt Sally's ears must have been good ones, for, carefully as Don opened
+that door, and faint as was the squeak it made, she sprang suddenly
+toward it.
+
+"Is that you, Maria? Hush! Don't make a sound. Not a loud noise for
+anything!"
+
+"We won't, Aunt Sally. Hush-sh-sh!"
+
+Even Petish did just as she was told for once, for she was a little
+scared when the great blaze of light came shining through the door as
+Aunt Sally pushed it wide open.
+
+It was shut again the moment they were all in the room, and then it was
+all Aunt Sally and Uncle Frank could do to keep up any kind of silence
+in that merry assembly. They could not have done it at all if Aunt Sally
+had not told them all: "It's a great secret. You must help us give papa
+and mamma a big surprise. Now let's get breakfast for them."
+
+"Biddy went away yesterday morning," said Molly, "but I know where the
+eggs are."
+
+Whatever she and Petish could not find, Don and Rad could, and Aunt
+Sally was the best kind of a cook.
+
+It was nearly six o'clock when Mrs. Burnell said to her husband: "I'm
+glad Berry waked up. She's all dressed now, and I can wrap her up warm."
+
+"So am I, my dear. I'll go right down with you."
+
+"Those poor children! I haven't the heart to look at them. Let's hurry
+down."
+
+So they did, and Berry went down in her mother's arms, but they little
+dreamed what was coming.
+
+A great shout welcomed them as they opened the door of the dining-room.
+
+"Wish you Merry Christmas."
+
+"Oh, Sally! Frank! I am so glad! But how did you get in?"
+
+"Breakfast's ready."
+
+"Christmas has come."
+
+Nobody could have described that next half-hour to have saved his life,
+and Aunt Sally said she had never been so happy in all hers.
+
+"Molly," said Petish, "won't you go up stairs and bring down all our
+clothes?"
+
+"Yes, children," said their mother, "you must get dressed."
+
+"Yes; and, mother," said Petish, "there was only two pairs of my
+stockings in the basket, and they're both full. If Molly'll bring the
+pair I had on, there's more'n enough to fill 'em."
+
+So there was, for Aunt Sally had not only bought and brought everything
+Mr. and Mrs. Burnell had written to her about, but she had heaped on a
+huge assortment of presents on her own account, and Petish had at least
+her share, while Uncle Frank had looked out for Molly, and nobody had
+forgotten Berry or any of the boys.
+
+It was quite the usual time when they got ready to eat at last, but
+there was nothing of what Rad and Petish called a "dispoint" in any face
+at that breakfast table.
+
+Santa Claus had come.
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 58, December 7.]
+
+MILDRED'S BARGAIN.
+
+A Story for Girls.
+
+BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE.
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+
+Milly's heart gave a bound, and then seemed to stand still.
+
+"Here I am," said the woman, smiling. "I've called to make you even a
+better offer. You pay me fifty cents a week for that dress, and any week
+you _can't pay_, why, you can return the silk, provided it's decently
+clean, and I'll allow you a couple o' dollars, when I take it back, for
+the making. Come, now, I don't mind throwing in the linings, and I won't
+bother you for the first fortnight."
+
+Now, as you have seen, Milly had gone through just the process of
+reasoning to make the peddler's words sound most alluring. The woman
+read in the young girl's face an instant's doubt followed by decision,
+and as quickly as possible she produced from her bag the roll of gray
+silk. Mildred never quite remembered how she made that purchase, or
+rather that _bargain_, for honorable purchase it certainly was not. The
+shining silk and the linings were put into her hands, and before she
+knew it she had signed a paper, a copy of which the peddler gave her.
+The transaction only occupied a few moments. Milly tucked the silk away
+in the room devoted to the bonnets and cloaks and luncheons of the
+sales-women, and was in her place before she fully realized that her
+longing of the day previous was granted. The morning passed heavily, and
+she was well pleased when it came her turn to take thirty minutes for
+lunch. But on entering the cloak-room her dismay was unbounded. Three or
+four of the shop-girls were clustered about Mildred's precious parcel,
+and a chorus of voices greeted her entrance.
+
+"Look here, Miss Lee. Whose do you suppose this is?"
+
+"Well, isn't this lovely?"
+
+"_Could_ any one have stolen it?"
+
+"No," said Mildred, quietly, yet not without a flush on her cheeks. "It
+is mine. The--person I bought it of brought it here to me to-day."
+
+[Illustration: THE GIRLS DISCOVER MILDRED'S PURCHASE.]
+
+"_Yours!_" exclaimed Jenny Martin, who had thrown one end of the silk
+over her shoulder. "Well, that _is_ pretty good on five dollars a week!"
+
+Mildred's face burned, but something in Jenny's rude words smote her
+conscience, and she tried to look good-humored, while Jenny admired
+herself a moment in the cracked glass, the other girls eying her as well
+as Mildred with some new respect.
+
+Jenny tossed the silk from her shoulders with a little sniff, and
+Mildred felt glad enough to put it away, and eat a hasty lunch. She was
+doubly glad, when her working hours were over, to hurry home, carrying
+her new treasure, which she had resolved not to show her mother until
+the night of the party. But a surprise awaited her on her return to the
+cottage. Mrs. Lee had received an invitation from a cousin in Boston to
+spend a fortnight with his family, and she had already arranged with her
+few pupils to avail herself of this unlooked-for holiday.
+
+All was excitement and preparation. Will, the second boy, was to go with
+his mother, and instead of tea on the cozy little table there were odds
+and ends of tapes, buttons, and threads, half-worn garments, and one or
+two new things, while Debby, the one servant, and Mrs. Lee were both
+stitching as if for a wager. They looked up with flushed faces to greet
+Milly.
+
+"Oh, my dear," said the mother, after explaining matters, "do sit down
+and help; we are to be off to-morrow morning."
+
+Milly saw she could not hope for a moment to sew on the new dress until
+after her mother and Will were gone, and so she entered with an earnest
+good-will into assisting them, and was genuinely pleased by their
+prospects of enjoyment. The next few days flew by. Once the children
+were safely in bed Mildred would draw forth her work, and so by dint of
+hard labor the dress was finished Monday evening. She made her toilet
+rather nervously when Tuesday night came. What between her hurry after
+getting home, and her anxiety to conceal her dress from Debby and her
+little sister Margaret, Mildred found it difficult to enjoy the "first
+wear" of the gray silk; but certainly, she thought, as she surveyed her
+work in her mirror, it _was_ a success. It fitted admirably, and she had
+had the good taste to make it simply as became a young girl only
+sixteen, though it in _no_ way became a girl working hard for twenty
+dollars a month. She took good care to envelop herself completely in a
+water-proof cloak before Debby and little Kate saw her, and thus
+equipped she started off under her brother Joe's escort for the big
+house in Lane Street.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+AN EMPTY STOCKING.
+
+BY MRS. MARGARET SANGSTER.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+I am very sure that most boys and girls will agree with me that there is
+nothing in the whole year quite so delightful as taking down the
+Christmas stocking. Of course it is charming to hang it up; but one
+never feels the least bit sleepy on Christmas-eve, and it seems so long
+to wait until morning shall come. The air is astir with excitement and
+mystery, and Santa Claus is known to be hovering about waiting for eyes
+to be closed, and children to go comfortably away to dream-land.
+By-and-by everybody does manage to fall asleep, and then by some strange
+magic the long, limp stockings are crammed with toys, books, bonbons,
+tools, dolls, and skates, or lovely ribbons, laces, watches, and gems.
+How beautifully they bulge out, every inch of room packed, while the
+overflow, which could not possibly be forced into any stocking, is piled
+temptingly on the tables and chairs.
+
+Now look at this poor little girl who hung up her stocking on
+Christmas-eve, hoping that the good Santa Claus would come down the
+chimney and put something nice in it. She was afraid he would forget
+her, and still she hoped that maybe he might bring just one dolly, and
+slip it away down into the toe, where she would find it, and be, oh! so
+glad. Little Jennie is used to being cold and hungry, and does not mind
+a great many privations which more fortunate children never have to
+endure. She can sweep crossings in old shoes, and wear a ragged shawl,
+without envying girls who are wrapped in soft furs. These merry holidays
+have not made her envious; and yet when Florence and Susie and Mabel
+have flitted by on the street, their arms full of parcels, and their
+fathers and mothers buying them every beautiful thing that the shop
+windows show, she has wished and wished that _she_ might have just one
+dolly--only one. So, thinking that maybe if she hung up her stocking her
+desire would be granted, she did so on Christmas-eve, and went to bed
+that night without minding the cold. The stocking hung where she placed
+it. Nobody came down the chimney, or up the stairs, or in at the door.
+Her mother was so tired and discouraged that she took no notice of
+Jennie's stocking, and if she had, it is doubtful whether she could have
+found a gift to gladden the child.
+
+Sometimes little girls like Jennie have parents who are not kind and
+good like yours, because they love liquor and spend their earnings to
+procure that. There are plenty of empty stockings on Christmas in homes
+where fathers and mothers are drunkards.
+
+Little Jennie looks very forlorn holding her empty stocking in her hand.
+The picture is a shadow on the gayety of this festive time, but it is
+inserted in the New-Year's number of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, that some of
+the readers may be prompted to think what they can do to send pleasures
+to little ones whose lives are seldom gay.
+
+A very large part of your Christmas happiness came from the gifts you
+bestowed as well as from those you received. It was not a selfish
+festival in homes where brothers and sisters exchanged love-tokens; and
+the weeks you spent in making pretty presents with your own hands, in
+saving your pocket-money, and in planning to surprise your dear ones,
+were very happy weeks indeed. Now I have something to propose, which you
+need not wait a whole year to carry out. You know there are Flower
+Missions and Fruit Missions, which send flowers and fruit to the homes
+of the sick poor. Why should there not be a Toy Mission too? Most of you
+have a dolly, or two, or three, perhaps, which you could spare, and some
+of you have books you have read, and playthings which you have outgrown,
+which would make poor children wild with joy. Some of the Sunday-schools
+have tried this way of keeping Christmas, and have brought their gifts
+to be distributed among the poor. And some of the benevolent enterprises
+of the city send out holiday bags, to be filled and returned with all
+sorts of necessary things. A Toy Mission would be a little different
+from these, and with a little help from and organization by older
+brothers and sisters, it could be easily put into operation. The city
+missionaries and Bible-readers can tell just where there are children
+like Jennie in the picture, and some of the express companies willingly
+carry packages and parcels of the kind I mean, free of charge.
+
+The House of the Good Shepherd, Tompkin's Cove, New York, has for
+several years sent cute-looking cloth bags to its friends, with the
+request that they be filled with gifts for its inmates. One Christmas
+season the children of the Wilson Industrial School of this city
+undertook to fill one of these, and their teacher told me it was very
+touching to see the eagerness and generosity with which they, so poor
+themselves, brought their carefully kept and mended treasures to send to
+the "poor children who had no friends to love them."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]
+
+
+Once more we wish a very Happy New Year to all our young friends. We
+have done our best to make the past year brighter to them, and they have
+made it very pleasant for us by their constant and hearty expressions of
+pleasure and approval.
+
+Christmas is past. How many of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE remembered to
+make some poor child happy on Christmas-day? If some of them were too
+much occupied with their own sparkling Christmas trees to think of the
+friendless and homeless little ones all around them, we beg them to stop
+now and remember that they can not begin the new year better than by
+bringing a smile to some sad, wan little face. There are poor children
+everywhere, in the streets, in hospitals, in wretched and desolate
+homes, over whose young life poverty and misfortune have thrown a heavy
+cloud. It must always be remembered that their suffering arises from no
+fault of their own, and those to whom fortune has been more generous
+should never forget to help from their abundance the little ones toward
+whom the world has turned a cold and unkind face. Now if every reader of
+YOUNG PEOPLE would give some little thing, if it be only a bunch of
+flowers or evergreen, how many poor little faces might be made brighter
+on New-Year's morning! A few oranges, or a picture-book, will make a
+sick, friendless child happy. Those of you who live near together, and
+have your "YOUNG PEOPLE Clubs," which you write so prettily about, can
+have a meeting, and fill baskets with playthings you do not need. Mamma
+will help you buy some oranges, and perhaps a warm scarf or pair of
+stockings, and she will advise you, too, of the best way to dispose of
+them. Every one of you can do something, and in that way you will bring
+to yourself, as well as to others, a real Happy New Year.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.
+
+     I read all of the letters in the Post-office Box, and I like them,
+     and I like all of the stories. Sometimes I miss my paper, and I
+     feel very sorry, and sometimes I bring it home and lay it on the
+     table, and my younger brother takes it and leaves it on the floor;
+     then the baby gets it and tears it. That does not please me. My
+     papa is an editor. I have three brothers and two sisters. I am ten
+     years old.
+
+      There are two rivers here, the Assiniboine and the Red. They are
+      very muddy rivers, and it is hard to learn to swim in them. Every
+      spring somebody has been drowned. The banks of the Assiniboine are
+      undermined. It is awfully cold up here in the winter.
+
+  HARRY L.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.
+
+     I am nine years old. I do love to read YOUNG PEOPLE, and can hardly
+     wait for papa to bring it home.
+
+      I went to Texas to see my relations, and we brought home a horned
+      frog. It never ate anything. We staked a pen for it in the back
+      yard, but it died.
+
+      My papa and my uncles went hunting on the big prairie, and camped
+      out. Uncle Tom killed a striped catamount, and gave me the skin to
+      make a soft rug. Uncle Will killed two deer, and papa shot one,
+      but it got away. It is very warm in Texas, and at Galveston there
+      are lots of oysters.
+
+      Mamma has promised to have my YOUNG PEOPLE bound for my birthday
+      gift.
+
+  MINNIE L. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS.
+
+     I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it very much. We have it in school
+     to read instead of a reader.
+
+      I live within one hundred yards of the rock where the Pilgrims
+      landed.
+
+  C. F. S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  Harlem, New York.
+
+     Dear "YOUNG PEOPLE,"--I have been one of your subscribers ever
+     since you were born, and I enjoy your company very much. I have a
+     large family to look after, but when I get all my children to
+     sleep, I take the time left me to read. My family consists of Dolly
+     Varden, Betsy, Daisy, and Pearl, who are all little girls, and
+     Sambo, who is the porter, and does all the work. I have my little
+     dog Tip to watch the house when I go out, and see that no strangers
+     disturb anything during my absence. Another important member of my
+     family is my pussy cat Sam. He is just as old as I am (eleven
+     years), and begins to be rather cross. He and Tip sometimes have
+     little spats, but I soon settle them, and make them be good friends
+     again.
+
+      After school closed this summer I went to the country, where I had
+      splendid times. I fed the chickens several times during the day,
+      and I got some of them so tame they would eat out of my hands.
+      Then I had a little bit of a pig, which I picked from a whole
+      litter, and made a pet of him.
+
+      We had a large dog that did the churning, but he did not like it
+      one bit. When the churn was being prepared for him to work, he
+      would whine and cry like a baby.
+
+      When my papa came he made us a kite, which we raised real high.
+      Some of the birds were frightened at it, and others would fly
+      right up and peck at it to see what it was. It made us laugh to
+      see how the birds acted.
+
+      For my birthday my papa sent me a set of archery, which we placed
+      on the lawn at the side of the house, and we enjoyed shooting at
+      the target ever so much. I can shoot real good now.
+
+      I have a great deal to do, so will close my letter by telling you
+      that I am home again, and going to school. I also attend
+      Sunday-school, and have my music lessons to practice, so I am very
+      busy.
+
+  IRENE M. N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     We are two dolls. Our mamma is a dear little black-eyed girl almost
+     ten years old, named Jennie. She is a good deal like Bessie
+     Maynard, and loves us as much as Bessie loves her doll Clytie. We
+     used to live in Nevada, but last summer we came to live in Central
+     City, Colorado. We all like YOUNG PEOPLE, and the Post-office Box
+     in particular.
+
+  MINNIE and JOE MCG.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     We have had this dear little paper ever since it was published.
+     Mamma is very glad to have it, for she is very particular about our
+     reading. I always spend the evening after it comes reading it to my
+     little brother Regie, who is eight years old. I am fourteen. My
+     father died when I was seven.
+
+      Santa Cruz is a pretty town, and has good schools, both public and
+      private. We have roses all the year, as our winter is only a
+      succession of pleasant rains with warm sunny days between, like
+      spring in the Eastern States.
+
+      The town is near the mouth of the broad, beautiful bay of
+      Monterey, so that we can see out into the Pacific Ocean. We have
+      grand times on the beach when the tide is low, searching for
+      shells and the beautiful sea-weeds. The lady principal of a school
+      here teaches us all about shells and algæ, or sea-plants, and we
+      learn to name and classify them. I wish all the young people who
+      write about aquaria could see mine. I have hundreds of them in the
+      rocks by the sea in holes worn by the waves, from the size of a
+      wooden bucket to that of a large deep barrel. They are round, and
+      the walls are covered with limpets of all sizes, star-fish of
+      different colors, bright purple sea-urchins, and lovely pale green
+      and pink sea-anemones, which wave their petals in search of food.
+      Bright-hued crabs, fish, and creatures of which I have not yet
+      learned the name, move in the water. Every part is covered with
+      some form of life capable of motion, and with all kinds of
+      sea-plants.
+
+      I would like to exchange shells and pressed sea-plants for other
+      shells, Lake Superior agates, or other small mineral specimens. I
+      would like to have everything clearly marked, and I will in return
+      name and classify the shells.
+
+  HARRY BOWMAN,
+  Santa Cruz, California.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We print the following note in reply to many inquiries in regard to
+postage-stamp catalogues, etc.:
+
+     If any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE will write to me on matters connected
+     with stamps which can not well be published, inclosing stamp for
+     reply, I shall be happy to answer him.
+
+  JOSEPH J. CASEY,
+  P. O. Box 1696, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Several of us have organized a club for the exchange of minerals.
+     We call it the American Mineralogical Club. We shall be glad to
+     have any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE join us if they are willing
+     to conform to the rules, which can be had upon application to the
+     secretary.
+
+  GEORGE DAVIES, P. O. Box 80,
+  Pottstown, Montgomery County, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following exchanges are offered by correspondents:
+
+     Iron ore from Spain, Ireland, England, and different sections of
+     the United States, for good specimens of copper or zinc.
+
+  WILLIE S. SHAFFER,
+  20 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks.
+
+  MISS AGNES MCMURDY,
+  Care of Mrs. R. M. Beckwith,
+  Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     United States Department stamps, or pieces of the Washington
+     Monument, for coins, minerals, or foreign stamps.
+
+  HARRY LOWELL,
+  830 Twentieth Street, Washington, D. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     The Bavarian doctor mentioned in "The Story of the Boy-General," in
+     YOUNG PEOPLE No. 57, who tried to rescue Lafayette from the Olmütz
+     prison, was Justus Erick Bollman, my uncle.
+
+      If any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE will send me a Greek or a Danish
+      postage stamp, or two kinds of stamps from South America, I will
+      send in return an Indian arrow-head, or I will exchange Indian
+      pottery for any foreign stamps except English.
+
+  C. H. BOLLMAN, Monongahela City,
+  Washington County, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange ocean curiosities for a genuine Indian bow
+     five feet long--not a bow like those Indians sell here in
+     Massachusetts, but a good one that will shoot. I should like two or
+     three arrows with it.
+
+      In answer to Carrie V. D.'s question I would say that it is not
+      necessary to change the water in the carrot hanging basket, but
+      only to refill it when the water dries away.
+
+  DANIEL D. LEE,
+  Myrtle Street, Jamaica Plains, Suffolk Co., Mass.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     A stone from New York State for one from any other State, or
+     Canada. Postmarks for stamps, minerals, birds' eggs, or Indian
+     relics. Five postmarks for every bird's egg.
+
+  WILLIAM PORTER CHAPMAN, JUN.,
+  Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps from Europe, Asia, and other countries, for others.
+
+  LOYAL DURAND,
+  591 Cass Street, Milwaukee, Wis.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks.
+
+  H. D. and R. B. HALL,
+  39 Highland Street, Roxbury, Mass.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Foreign postage stamps.
+
+  FREDDIE W. ALLREE,
+  26 Cedar Avenue, Allegheny, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Foreign postage stamps for Navy, Interior, and Agricultural
+     Department stamps, and stamps from Newfoundland.
+
+  WILLIS BISHOP,
+  20 Gold Street, Chicago, Ill.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     A white metal copy of the ancient Jewish shekel for an old coin or
+     a handsome shell.
+
+  LIBBIE and MATTIE PENICK, St. Joseph, Mo.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps for minerals or Indian relics.
+
+  WILLIAM H. RHEES,
+  1317 Eleventh Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Birds' eggs and Indian relics.
+
+  ROSCOE S. NICKERSON,
+  Klamath Agency, Oregon.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Southern moss, specimens of sulphur, and some United States stamps
+     for foreign stamps.
+
+  CLARENCE MARSH,
+  2217 Calumet Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Curiosities and specimens of all kinds.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  L. E. WALKER, care of H. W. Walker,
+  Lock Box 316, Lansing, Mich.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Sea-weed, or pieces of the stone of which the new Capitol at Albany
+     is built, for curiosities of any kind.
+
+  WILLIE L. WIDDEMER,
+  99 Madison Avenue, Albany, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     United States Department stamps, or pieces of stone from the new
+     War and Navy Department buildings, or from the Washington Monument
+     now being finished, for shells, foreign stamps, or any curiosity.
+
+  HORACE D. GOODALL,
+  826 Twentieth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps.
+
+  CHARLES SWABEY,
+  Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Autographs of renowned men and women.
+
+  C. J. OTTERBOURG,
+  128 East Seventieth Street, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Minerals from the mines of Colorado for ocean curiosities or
+     postage stamps.
+
+  LOUIS M. GROSS,
+  Care of Abel Brothers, Denver, Colorado.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     A Canadian postmark and a Centennial three-cent stamp for a German
+     postage stamp.
+
+  ARTHUR FROST,
+  Care of D. H. Frost, Belle Plaine, Iowa.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Twenty-five postmarks for five stamps. No duplicates.
+
+  NELLIE V.,
+  343 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Birds' eggs for other eggs; or a rock from every State in the Union
+     and from several foreign countries for twenty different kinds of
+     eggs.
+
+  W. BOSTWICK, Care of John C. Remington,
+  Columbus, Muscogee County, Ga.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Birds' eggs.
+
+  FRANK M. RICHARDS,
+  Farmington, Maine.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Minerals and fossils for shells and minerals. A good specimen of
+     copper ore especially desired.
+
+  BARTAS W. JAY, Emporia, Kansas.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps for birds' eggs, coins, or minerals.
+
+  WENNIE HOLMES, Bay City, Mich.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+J. T. M.--See answer to Ida B. D., in Post-office Box of YOUNG PEOPLE
+No. 51.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HENRY A. BLAKESLEY, HARRY F. HAINES, E. A. DE LIMA, AND MANY OTHERS.--We
+are sorry not to print your requests for exchange, but that department
+of our Post-office Box is so very crowded that we can not give space to
+addresses which have been already published, unless the exchange
+offered is of some new article. Neither can we attend to irregularities
+between exchanges, which arise in almost every instance from
+carelessness, or failure to give a proper address. We know of no remedy
+for those who fail to receive answers to their letters except to
+continue sending reminders to the delinquent correspondent. A great many
+boys and girls write to us that they receive so many letters, they can
+not answer them all promptly, as they are going to school, and very busy
+with studies, but that they will surely answer them in time. We hope
+they will not forget this promise, as a letter should always be
+acknowledged.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+P. I. G.--The rudder of the ice-boat is not fastened. The rudder-post
+runs up through the keelson, which rests on an iron pin driven through
+the post just above the rudder. The runner irons are sharp.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ALFRED C. T.--The directions you require are in preparation, and will
+appear in an early number of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CECIL X.--There is no limit to the age of our contributors, but we would
+advise you to wait until you are a little older before you try to write
+a story.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HARRY OLMSTEAD, W. F., AND E. N. HIGH.--There are so many kinds of
+printing-presses for boys that the best thing for you to do is to notice
+the advertisements which are in all newspapers, and send to different
+manufacturers for catalogues, from which you can make your selection.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GEORGE C. D.--Dr. Kane penetrated to 81° 22' north latitude; but in 1827
+the English navigator Sir Edward Parry reached 82° 45' N., and in 1861
+Dr. Hayes reached the same latitude. Captain Hall has also penetrated
+nearly as far north. In February, 1854, in about 78° N., Dr. Kane
+experienced the unexampled temperature of -68°, or 100° below
+freezing-point, and a still lower degree has been recorded by more
+recent navigators.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+B. G. G.--Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego are the most southern permanent
+abodes of man.--Read Dana's _Geology_, and you will learn all about the
+formation of the earth. If you find it difficult to understand, ask your
+teacher to explain it to you.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ELMER. A.--The Seven Wonders of the World are generally given as
+follows: the Colossus of Rhodes, Diana's Temple at Ephesus, the
+Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Pyramids, the Pharos at Alexandria, the
+Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and the Olympian Zeus.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+G. H. ELDER, THEODORE HENNEMAN, J. B. WHITLOCK, AND OTHERS.--We would
+gladly assist you to begin a collection of postage stamps, but it is
+against our rules to give up space to the exchanges you propose.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LEWIS D.--Prescott's _History of Ferdinand and Isabella_ and Abbott's
+_Romance of Spanish History_ are good books for you to read.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Favors are acknowledged from Alice M. H., Edna E. Harris, Paul Gray,
+E. H. Shuster, Joseph A. Unruh, Lorena C. Emrich, R. Poe Smith, Harry
+and Richard Bellam, W. K. M., L. C., Edmund H. B., Fred Dierking,
+Florence McClure, Margaretta Mott, Wina James, Edgar E. Hyde, Nellie A.
+Robson, Grace A. Hood, Etta B. Easton, Arthur McCain, Vina E. B., Fred
+B., Bertram and Leroy S., Alice Ward, Melvin Rosenthal, A. V. H.,
+Johnnie E., Sarah A. W., Eva L. M., Clayton B., W. Hoey, Jun., Martha
+M. I., Pet Wilcox, Gertrude and Albert F., C. Arnold, Frank Durston,
+Grace T. Lyman, H. L. Van Norman, Marion P. Wiggin.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles are received from J. F. W., John N. Howe,
+T. M. Armstrong, M. P. Randolph, Charles Gaylor, Nellie V. Brainard, Cal
+I. Forny, Bessie C. Morris, Walter P. Hiles, Blanche Anderson, Marie
+Doyle, Isobel Jacob, S. Birdie Dorman, William and Mary Tiddy, Emma
+Radford, W. H. Wolford, The Dawley Boys, "Lone Star," Willie F. Woolard,
+A. C. Chapin, George Hayward, John Ogburn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  In cream, not in milk.
+  In chintz, not in silk.
+  In time, not in late.
+  In pencil, not in slate.
+  In atlas, not in book.
+  In sight, not in look.
+  In love, not in pity.
+  My whole an American city.
+
+  WALTER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+GEOGRAPHICAL HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.
+
+     A city in Great Britain. A country in Europe. A group of peaks in
+     the Pyrenees. A river in Asia. A range of mountains in Asia. A
+     river in Ireland. A letter. A river in England. A peak in the
+     Northwestern United States. A city in England founded by Ine, the
+     West Saxon King. A river in British America. A river in Asia. A
+     town and county in California. Centrals read downward spell the
+     name of a large sea.
+
+  MARIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  First in mouse, not in rat.
+  Second in dog, not in cat.
+  Third in house, not in lot.
+  Fourth in can, not in pot.
+  Fifth in owl, not in hawk.
+  Sixth in flower, not in stalk.
+  A famous city am I;
+  You'll guess me if you try.
+
+  HERMIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 4.
+
+WORD SQUARES.
+
+     1. First, a package. Second, certain animals. Third, to jump.
+     Fourth, to perceive.
+
+      2. First, something that once laid in a famous house. Second, a
+      space. Third, a Shakspearean character. Fourth, sour.
+
+  C. I. F.
+
+     3. First, the resting-place of an army. Second, an Asiatic sea.
+     Third, a companion. Fourth, an argument.
+
+  CHARLES.
+
+     4. First, a picture. Second, something which often causes pain, and
+     yet no one likes to part with. Third, a river in Transylvania.
+     Fourth, passageways. Fifth, to efface.
+
+  ANNIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 57.
+
+No. 1.
+
+United, untied. Cavern, craven. German, manger. Grandee, derange.
+Neuter, tureen. Garnets, strange. Cruel, lucre. Derange, angered.
+Master, stream.
+
+No. 2.
+
+1. Partridge. 2. Woodchuck.
+
+No. 3.
+
+  E C H O   S T A R
+  C R E W   T A L E
+  H E E L   A L O E
+  O W L S   R E E L
+
+  C R O W   O U S E
+  R O P E   U S E D
+  O P A L   S E E D
+  W E L L   E D D A
+
+No. 4.
+
+Nightingale.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 58.
+
+No. 1.
+
+  T E N T
+    M E A T
+      W R A P
+        E P I C
+
+No. 2.
+
+Possunt quia posse videntur.
+
+No. 3.
+
+Atlantic Ocean.
+
+
+
+
+NEW BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS.
+
+
+_Drifting Round the World_[1] is a handsomely bound and illustrated
+volume containing the adventures of a boy by sea and land. The countries
+he traverses are those not often described in books of boyish travel.
+Starting in a Cape Ann fishing schooner for Greenland, he is shipwrecked
+on the coast of Labrador, contrives to reach Iceland, passes through
+marvellous adventures in Russia and Siberia, sails for Alaska, and at
+length reaches home by the overland route from San Francisco. The
+strange countries through which Robert, the hero of this book, travels
+are graphically described, and a great deal of information is conveyed
+in a form especially delightful to boy readers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A large number Of the new holiday books for little folks combine
+amusement with instruction of one kind or another. A very interesting
+volume, prettily bound and profusely illustrated with portraits and
+other engravings, is _The Story of the United States Navy_,[2] by Mr.
+Lossing, who has devoted many years to the study of American history,
+and whose works on that subject are popular with readers of all ages.
+The present volume, the substance of which has appeared in the columns
+of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, is written especially for boys, and contains
+many stirring accounts of famous naval engagements, of historical war
+vessels, and of celebrated men whose heroic deeds add glory to the
+history of our country. No better reading than is contained in this book
+can be found for boys, as, while it is of absorbing interest, it tells
+the story of many noble men whose example can not fail to awaken
+patriotism and a desire to attain true manhood in the minds of American
+boys in whose hands lies the future history of the United States.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Children will always ask questions, and their natural inquisitiveness
+often goes beyond the knowledge of their elders. For this reason
+parents, as well as the youthful questioners, will extend a hearty
+welcome to _The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Persons and Places_,[3] which
+contains full information of all celebrated localities, and many
+biographical notices of important personages of every period. This
+volume, together with _The Cyclopædia of Common Things_, by the same
+author, published a year ago, forms a library in which inquisitive
+little folks will find answers to their most ingenious questions.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Boys and girls who are forming social clubs, which they wish to make
+instructive as well as amusing, and yet are not sure of the best course
+to follow, should provide themselves with _Stories of the Sea_,[4] which
+they will find an excellent model. The book itself is very interesting.
+A party of bright young people, with an older head to guide them, meet
+together for Saturday afternoon talks on subjects connected with the
+history of the seas. Libraries are explored for accounts of famous
+navigators and naval heroes, and interesting readings are given from the
+works of Navarrete (who wrote of the voyages of Columbus), Sir Walter
+Raleigh, Southey, and other authors. These extracts are so fascinating
+that young readers are pretty sure to hunt up the books from which they
+are taken, in order to learn the whole of the story. Books like this do
+more toward cultivating a taste for good reading than volumes of advice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A delightful little book of American natural history is _Friends Worth
+Knowing_,[5] which takes its young readers in search of snails of all
+kinds, into the fields and woods to find wild mice and birds, over the
+plains after buffalo, and tells them many curious things about the
+habits of different animals. Interesting illustrations and an attractive
+cover add to the value of this book for a pretty and cheap holiday
+present.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Another charming book of travel, if a summer excursion may be so called,
+is _Aboard the Mavis_,[6] in which a merry party of boys and girls
+cruise around the eastern end of Long Island Sound in a yacht, making
+occasional landings, and learning much about the early history of that
+portion of the country. This book is profusely illustrated and
+beautifully bound, and is an elegant holiday present for any girl or
+boy.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+For very little children nothing is prettier or more attractive than the
+Christmas number of _Our Little Ones_, a monthly magazine edited by
+"Oliver Optic," and published by the Russell Publishing Company, of
+Boston.
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[1] _Drifting Round the World_. By Captain C. W. HALL. Illustrated. 8vo,
+pp. 372. Boston: Lee & Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham.
+
+[2] _The Story of the United States Navy_. By BENSON J. LOSSING, LL.D.
+Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 418. New York: Harper & Brothers.
+
+[3] _The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Persons and Places_. By JOHN D.
+CHAMPLIN, Jun. Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 936. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
+
+[4] _Stories of the Sea_. By E. E. HALE. 8vo, pp. 302. Boston: Roberts
+Brothers.
+
+[5] _Friends Worth Knowing_. By ERNEST INGERSOLL. Illustrated. Sq. 16mo,
+pp. 258. New York: Harper & Brothers.
+
+[6] _Aboard the Mavis_. By RICHARD MARKHAM. Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 240.
+New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co.
+
+
+
+
+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+
+SINGLE COPIES, 4 cents; ONE SUBSCRIPTION, one year, $1.50; FIVE
+SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00--_payable in advance, postage free_.
+
+The Volumes of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE commence with the first Number in
+November of each year.
+
+Subscriptions may begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it
+will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the
+Number issued after the receipt of the order.
+
+Remittances should be made by POST-OFFICE MONEY-ORDER OR DRAFT, to avoid
+risk of loss.
+
+Volume I., containing the first 52 Numbers, handsomely bound in
+illuminated cloth, $3.00, postage prepaid: Cover, title-page, and index
+for Volume I., 35 cents; postage, 13 cents additional.
+
+  HARPER & BROTHERS,
+  Franklin Square, N. Y.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: NEW-YEAR'S MORNING (PUSSY IN A MASK).
+
+Charley (_under bed, to Tommy ditto_). "D-d-don't b-be fr-frightened,
+T-T-Tommy, I-I-I-I'm h-h-here."]
+
+
+
+
+NEW-YEAR'S.
+
+
+New-Year's presents and visits originated with the Romans, and their
+gifts were symbolic. They were dried figs, dates, and honey, emblematic
+of the sweetness of the auspices under which the year should begin its
+course, and a small piece of money called stips, which foreboded riches.
+
+
+
+
+SPOONS.
+
+A NEW GAME FROM THE GERMAN.
+
+BY G. B. BARTLETT.
+
+
+A very funny new game has come to us from our German cousins, with the
+odd title of Spoons, which is played as follows: One person takes his
+stand in the centre of the room, with a handkerchief tied over his eyes,
+and his hands extended before him, in each of which he holds a large
+table-spoon. The other players march around him in single file, clapping
+their hands in time to a tune which may be sung or played upon a piano
+in any slow measure suitable for marching. When the blinded player calls
+out "Spoons," all the others stop at once, and turn their faces toward
+him. He then finds his way to any player that he can, and must ascertain
+who he is by touching him with the spoons only, which he may use as he
+pleases. If he guesses right, the person he has caught is obliged to
+take his place in the centre. If he is wrong, he must try until he
+succeeds, which it is easy to do with a little practice, especially if
+the one who is caught joins in the universal laughter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+An old gentleman in Vienna, who was afraid of leaving his money in a
+bank, two years ago concealed his savings, in the shape of twenty 1000
+florin notes, in a cupboard in his cellar. Last week it occurred to him
+to go and see how his treasure was going on; but on doing this he
+discovered, to his horror, that the mice had been making free with it,
+and that only a small heap of fluffy dust remained of all his wealth.
+The grief caused by this discovery was so great that the poor old man
+threw himself out of his bedroom window, and broke his neck. Another
+story is told of a lady who hid her property, consisting of a number of
+United States greenbacks, in a satchel in her cupboard. She also, after
+a time, found that a mouse had devoured part of the notes, and had used
+the rest to line its nest; but in this case the meal had evidently
+disagreed with the enterprising mouse, for it was lying dead in its
+nest, the fact being that the arsenic which had been used to give the
+green color to the notes had caused its death. In these days, when money
+can easily and safely be deposited in savings-banks, it is very foolish
+to hide it in holes and corners where it is liable to be lost.
+
+
+
+
+CHARADE.
+
+BY H.
+
+
+  Mighty and cruel and strong is my first,
+        Beautiful too to behold;
+  But oh! it is false. Of traitors the worst,
+        Luring the hardy and bold.
+  Tranquil and lovely it smiles in your face,
+  Then drags you to death in its wild embrace.
+
+  Feeble and weak is my second--a cry
+        Uttered by young, tender things;
+  Lovely to look at, they too may prove sly,
+        Darting with sudden, fierce springs;
+  Though never a smile plays over their face,
+  They _too_ drag to death in a wild embrace.
+
+  Found is my whole where the wild waters roar--
+        Old Ocean nurtures its race--
+  Where beat the waves on the rocky shore,
+        Looking the wind in the face.
+  Happy, contented, my whole will play
+  In the gale and the storm the live-long day.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: RECEIVING CALLS IN THE NURSERY.]
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_HAPPY_NEW_YEAR">A HAPPY NEW YEAR.</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#PRINCE_CHARLIE">"PRINCE CHARLIE."</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_DOLLS_RECEPTION">A DOLLS' RECEPTION.</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#TOBY_TYLER">TOBY TYLER;</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_NEW-YEARS_WELCOME">THE NEW-YEAR'S WELCOME.</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BEE-HUNTING">BEE-HUNTING.</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#SING_A_SONG_O_SIXPENCE">SING A SONG O' SIXPENCE.</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#HOW_SANTA_CLAUS_CAME">HOW SANTA CLAUS CAME.</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#MILDREDS_BARGAIN">MILDRED'S BARGAIN.</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#AN_EMPTY_STOCKING">AN EMPTY STOCKING.</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#NEW-YEARS">NEW-YEAR'S.</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#SPOONS">SPOONS.</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#CHARADE">CHARADE.</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;">
+<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="386" alt="Banner: Harper's Young People" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">
+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vol</span>. II.&mdash;<span class="smcap">No</span>. 61.</td><td align="center"><span class="smcap">Published by</span> HARPER &amp; BROTHERS, <span class="smcap">New York</span>.</td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">Price Four Cents</span>.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="left">Tuesday, December 28, 1880.</td><td align="center">Copyright, 1880, by <span class="smcap">Harper &amp; Brothers</span>.</td><td align="right">$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="600" height="578" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE FIRST NEW-YEAR'S CALL.&mdash;<span class="smcap">See Next Page</span>.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a name="A_HAPPY_NEW_YEAR" id="A_HAPPY_NEW_YEAR">A HAPPY NEW YEAR.</a></h2>
+
+<p>On the first page of this New-Year's number of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> is
+a picture of the first New-Year's call of the season, which is one made
+at the door of every house in the land just as the clock strikes twelve
+on New-Year's Eve.</p>
+
+<p>The little fur-clad figure knocking for admittance is that of New Year
+himself, Master Eighteen Eighty-One, laden with promises and good wishes
+that will, we hope, insure him a warm welcome from the sleepy watchers
+within the cozy room to which he seeks to enter. Even Miss Dolly, whom
+the children have left on the cricket in the corner to watch the old
+year out and the new one in, and who does not look at all sleepy, will
+welcome the little stranger in her own way, and he will quickly be made
+to feel at home.</p>
+
+<p>Now watch for him, dear children; he will surely come to every door, and
+when he arrives, welcome him warmly, and make up your minds to do
+everything in your power to make him the very happiest New Year that
+ever was.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a name="PRINCE_CHARLIE" id="PRINCE_CHARLIE">"PRINCE CHARLIE."</a></h2>
+
+<h3>BY KATHERINE KAMERON.</h3>
+
+<p>Christmas was over. The twins, Allan and Jessie, had romped and played
+away the whole delightful day, in doors and out.</p>
+
+<p>Wonderful to tell, they had wearied of all the pretty new toys, and
+found an end to play. After tea they sat quietly in the fire-glow,
+talking with mamma about the beautiful new picture that was her gift to
+them. It was a charming group of gayly dressed children&mdash;little Princes
+and a Princess, the children of the unhappy King Charles I. of England.
+The tallest was a handsome boy, in a suit of scarlet velvet, with a
+broad collar of rich old lace. He held by the hand a tiny tot, in a
+frilled cap and a dress of blue silk, who timidly clung to the
+protecting arm of his big brother. The third was a quaint little damsel
+in a robe of creamy satin, standing with her dainty hands demurely
+folded before her. Her long stately dress touched the floor with its
+border of Vandyck points, and her small head was curiously dressed in a
+by-gone courtly fashion. About her pretty throat was a necklace of
+costly pearls, and she looked the perfect model of a tiny old-time lady
+of high degree. A pair of graceful spaniels crouched at the feet of the
+children, and behind them was a curtain of some rich foreign stuff. The
+fire-light flashed on the sweet young faces and shining auburn hair,
+touching the waves and curls, while the shadows danced and nickered
+until it seemed to Allan that the bright eyes smiled back to him as he
+looked up. It was like a pleasant dream, and Allan's blue eyes grew
+slowly dim and dimmer. Jessie's eyelids had been drooping from the time
+mamma began to tell about the royal children, and directly the twins
+were fast asleep. Papa came in, and mamma laughed with him at the effect
+of her story, and then the little sleepers were playfully shaken until
+they were wide awake enough to walk up stairs.</p>
+
+<p>There was a sleepy good-night kiss all around, a double "Now I lay me,"
+and two heads nestled down on two soft pillows, and the long delightful
+Christmas-day was quite gone.</p>
+
+<p>In almost no time Allan felt a hand on his shoulder, and a voice said,
+softly, "Allan, Allan, wake up, my man, and come and show me about the
+things."</p>
+
+<p>Allan turned over, rubbed his dazed eyes, and then jumped straight up in
+bed, winking and blinking in wonder at what he saw. Standing beside his
+bed was a handsome lad, about his own size, in a scarlet velvet suit.
+The stranger was laughing merrily at his surprise, as he spoke again:
+"My good fellow, don't sit staring at me, but put on your doublet and
+the rest, and come on. We have not long to stay." At this, Allan glanced
+through the open door of Jessie's room, and there by her bed he saw in
+the moonlight the dainty little dame in the trailing satin. She was
+whispering to Jessie. In an instant the visitors vanished hand in hand
+through the doorway, and the children heard their soft footfalls on the
+stairway. "Prince Charlie! Princess Mary!" was all they said, but they
+fairly danced into their clothes, and then ran quickly down to the
+library; and when the door opened, what a strange sight met their
+astonished eyes! There was a famous fire in the grate, and by the bright
+blaze they saw Prince Charlie mounted, on the new velocipede, tugging at
+the bridle, and cracking his whip until it snapped again, but the queer
+steed moved not a pace. The little Princess sat holding
+Nannette&mdash;Jessie's French doll&mdash;speechless with delight. She turned the
+pretty head from side to side, she moved the arms and feet, she examined
+the tiny kid boots with their high heels. Then she admired the long
+gloves with no end of buttons, and the scrap of a bonnet, made of shreds
+of flower and feather in a wonderful way, and perched on a high tower of
+fluffy flossy hair.</p>
+
+<p>"Do you like it, Princess Mary?" asked Jessie, most respectfully.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, it is bonny," was the answer; "so much prettier than any I ever
+saw. Is your father a great King, and does he have such wonderful dolls
+made for you?" she asked.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, dear me, no, Princess," said Jessie, hastily, and wanting very much
+to laugh. "My father is a great doctor, though. We have no Kings in our
+country."</p>
+
+<p>"No Kings!" echoed the little lady, incredulously. "Who reigns, then?
+But do not say Princess every time; call me Mary. We must go back so
+soon, and I have a hundred questions to ask about so many strange
+things. We are very tired of looking at them from up there," glancing at
+the picture.</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed, we have longed to get down close by you ever since we came,"
+exclaimed the Prince. "I am sure you saw us smile at you last evening,"
+he added.</p>
+
+<p>"So I was right," cried Allan, joyfully. "I thought so;" and looking up
+to the picture, he saw the pretty spaniels quite alone against the rich
+drapery. They were huddled together in a lonely way, a silky heap of
+noses and paws. At Prince Charlie's voice one of them threw up his head
+for a dismal howl, but at a sign from his young master he patiently
+curled down to wait.</p>
+
+<p>The Princess missed Jamie, and turned to look for him. There, in a
+corner on the floor, sat the baby Duke, in his sky-blue silk, dancing
+Jessie's droll Japanese "Ning-Ping" until the limp arms and legs fairly
+flew. He stopped a moment to look into the narrow sleepy eyes, and to
+touch the long braid that hung down behind, and the stiff little fringe,
+like a brush, on top of the queer head, and then again the legs and arms
+rattled a tune, while Jamie's round, solemn eyes seemed not even to
+wink, so intent and wondering was his look. In the mean time his stately
+sister held Nannette close in her arms, as she moved about, looking,
+listening, and questioning.</p>
+
+<p>Just then Jamie called, softly, "Charlie! Charlie! Mary! come and see."</p>
+
+<p>The little fellow had found a box of jointed wooden animals and people.
+He was twisting the legs and arms and paws and wings into all manner of
+shapes, and then standing up the funny wry shapes, and laughing in high
+glee.</p>
+
+<p>Allan noticed how quietly they all spoke and moved. Even when they
+laughed heartily, or called out, they did not make any loud noise. He
+wondered if it was being pictures so long had made them so still.</p>
+
+<p>Presently Jessie took her lacquered box, full of small treasures, from
+the table to the sofa, where the two girls cozily seated themselves. All
+of the simple, pretty things<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span> seemed equally new and curious to the
+little stranger. Jessie tried to have the Princess Mary keep a few
+trifles which she seemed most to admire, but in vain; she only drew up
+her small quaint figure, and said, quietly, "A Princess may not accept
+gifts." Somehow, although she smiled graciously, this little speech
+troubled Jessie, who feared she had been rude, although she did not in
+the least know how.</p>
+
+<p>Duke Jamie had in the mean time wearied of his wooden people, and went
+wandering about in his baby fashion, but never for a moment dropping
+Ning-Ping. Just then he spied his brother careering around on the
+velocipede, having learned from Allan how to manage it. Of course Jamie
+cried for a ride, and fortunately got it. While the Prince was whirling
+round, Allan had wound up his engine with the long train of passenger
+coaches, and sent it spinning across the floor in front of the fire. In
+a twinkling Prince Charlie jumped down to see the new wonder. The
+Princess at once lifted Jamie astride of the strange steed, and with one
+arm about him, walked in a motherly way by his side, pushing the curious
+vehicle.</p>
+
+<p>"What is this long carriage?" asked young Royalty.</p>
+
+<p>"Only a steam-engine and train of cars," was the reply.</p>
+
+<p>"But where is the steam?" said the Prince.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, there is none here; this goes by wheels, like a clock; but the real
+cars that we travel on run by steam."</p>
+
+<p>The long train began to creep slowly, and the wheels whirred and buzzed
+a little in running down. Allan handed the key to his guest, and Prince
+Charlie wound it up with a zest, and watched it awhile; then he turned
+to Allan with, "I say, how do they run by steam?"</p>
+
+<p>"Why, the steam is made by the fire under the engine boiler, like a big
+tea-kettle," explained Allan, carefully, and feeling like a professor;
+"this turns the engine wheels somehow, and the cars being all fast to
+it, they go like lightning almost."</p>
+
+<p>He soon bethought himself of his little engine, and in a few minutes it
+was steaming up, with the piston-rod pumping and the wheels whizzing,
+and the Prince quite lost in wonder. It was a very novel and pleasant
+sensation to know so much more than a royal Prince, and Allan enjoyed it
+hugely. Looking about him for new marvels, he chanced on his
+printing-press. The fire-light was dying out, and it was too dark for
+type-setting, so he quickly struck a match and lighted the gas jet. When
+he turned, his guests stood stupefied and open-mouthed with most unroyal
+amazement.</p>
+
+<p>The Prince gasped out, "Sister, did you see him set fire to a hole?
+Surely he did it, and with a dry splinter."</p>
+
+<p>The Princess turned quite pale. "Are the walls full of fire?" she asked,
+anxiously, hugging baby Jamie closely.</p>
+
+<p>This was, indeed, like magic to the royal pair, and, truth to tell, the
+young magician was nearly as much at a loss to explain the phenomenon.</p>
+
+<p>"It is gas, only gas," said Allan.</p>
+
+<p>"And what in the name of all the saints is this gas?" returned the
+Prince.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, something that is made from coal, and runs in tubes in the wall,
+and burns in the air like oil," said Allan. "It is not loose; it can not
+get out of the tubes. It is quite safe," he assured the frightened
+Princess, "and the dry splinter has something on the tip&mdash;phosphorus, I
+think&mdash;that fires when it is scraped." Thus re-assured, the royal pair
+amused themselves for some time drawing matches, quite like common
+children. After this Allan introduced his treadle press, and soon the
+boys were deep in the mysteries of type-setting, inking, and taking
+impressions. The Prince wondered greatly at a printing-press for a boy's
+pastime, and still more to see it revolve so rapidly.</p>
+
+<p>"I once went," he said, "to see them print our London weekly. They had
+no treadle, for the press was worked by hand; but then they had famous
+printers there, and plenty of them, you see, and could send out a
+thousand papers in a day," and he looked to Allan for admiration.</p>
+
+<p>"That was doing very well," was the calm response; "but with a treadle I
+could work off about twice as many myself. In our country we use steam
+to drive every sort of machine, and to-day our Yankee presses just buzz
+round, and throw about eight thousand or ten thousand newspapers an
+hour, all cut and folded."</p>
+
+<p>"Don't! don't!" cried Prince Charlie; "that is a little faster than I
+can think. I am sure there can't be people enough to read so many. I
+should lose my breath in your fast country. What, pray, is the use of
+driving things like lightning? Let us try those cards; and now go slow,
+my man, and let me see how you do it."</p>
+
+<p>Very soon they had printed, in old English type, "Charles Stuart, 1640,"
+and in a neat script, "Allan Wallace, 1880." The Prince decided he would
+rather have the treadle press than anything he had yet seen.</p>
+
+<p>Meanwhile Jessie was doing her best to entertain the Princess Mary, who
+had watched all of these wonders in her quiet way, holding Jamie by the
+hand lest he should get into mischief. After the gas-lighting she was
+more careful of him than ever, fearing some harm might befall the baby
+brother in this new world of strange ways.</p>
+
+<p>But shortly after this a sharp cry made them all start; Jamie had caught
+his busy, plump little hand in a wheel; he could not release it, and was
+screaming with fright. Princess Mary ran to his relief.</p>
+
+<p>"What may this be?" she asked, when Jamie was soothed again. "Is it a
+spinning-wheel?"</p>
+
+<p>"Indeed no," said Jessie; "I should be very glad to see one; but this is
+a sewing-machine."</p>
+
+<p>"A what?" exclaimed her guest.</p>
+
+<p>But Jessie, for answer, had opened the cover, and taking two strips of
+cloth from a drawer, began to stitch a seam at a flying speed. She was
+very proud of this accomplishment, having but just learned. "I can play
+better on this than on the piano," she remarked. The swift wheel whirled
+while she talked, and the long seam flew from under the needle, and in
+an instant was done. The trio stood in amazement, little Jamie being
+spell-bound by the flying wheel.</p>
+
+<p>"Wonderful! wonderful!" cried Prince Charlie; "this is magic."</p>
+
+<p>The Princess asked, eagerly, "May I try it?"</p>
+
+<p>Jessie rose at once. The little lady daintily drew aside her satin robe,
+and put her small shoes on the treadle. With the help of Jessie the
+wheel was soon spinning briskly. The low hum and whir grew rapidly
+louder. "What!" cried the Prince, "a tune?" and, wondering, Allan heard
+the swift humming change to a lively measure. Louder and clearer it
+rose, till the leal old Scotch ballad, "Wha'll be King but Charlie?"
+rang out right gayly. The Prince seemed overjoyed, and directly began a
+merry whistle to the loud swift music of the wheel.</p>
+
+<p>"What a stunning whistle!" commented Allan, admiringly. Higher and
+clearer it rose, nearer and shriller it came, until it sounded close
+into his very ear, piercing its sharp way like a steel point. He
+started, and sprang aside to escape it; then it suddenly stopped.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, sir, is it possible you are awake at last?" said a cheery voice.
+"You go down to your work like one of the Seven Sleepers. Here I've been
+whistling 'Wha'll be King but Charlie?' right in your very ear, long
+enough to wake the Sleeping Beauty herself." It was his father who
+spoke. There he stood by Allan's bedside, laughing and tossing the
+covers off from the bewildered boy. "Listen, sleepy-head; your mother
+has been playing the same tune for ten minutes at least on the library
+piano. She says the new picture brought back the old tune. Come, sir,
+breakfast is waiting. Dress on the double-quick, you sluggard."</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 749px;"><a name="A_DOLLS_RECEPTION" id="A_DOLLS_RECEPTION"></a>
+<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="749" height="1000" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>A DOLLS' RECEPTION.</h2>
+
+<p>A few days before Christmas there was given in New York a dolls'
+reception in aid of the Sea-side Sanitarium&mdash;the charity that takes poor
+children of the great city to the sea-side for a few days each summer.</p>
+
+<p>This reception was given in a hall on Thirty-third Street, and consisted
+of a series of tableaux, in which all the characters were represented by
+the most lovely and exquisitely dressed French dolls. These tableaux
+were shown in dainty booths tastefully draped and decorated, so that the
+effect was extremely pretty, and the reception furnished a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> novel and
+delightful entertainment to the children who attended it in throngs
+during the three days that it lasted.</p>
+
+<p>At the "Birthday Party" the name of each doll-guest appeared on a dainty
+little dinner card laid beside each plate.</p>
+
+<p>Mother Goose and her children were dressed in the costumes with which
+innumerable picture-books have made every child familiar.</p>
+
+<p>The dolls had their Christmas tree as well as children; and, mounted on
+a ladder, Santa Claus (a doll's Santa Claus, you know) made believe
+distribute beautiful Christmas gifts.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h4><a name="TOBY_TYLER" id="TOBY_TYLER">[Begun in No. 58 of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, December 7.]</a></h4>
+
+<h2>TOBY TYLER;</h2>
+
+<h2>OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.</h2>
+
+<h3>BY JAMES OTIS.</h3>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter III</span>.</h3>
+
+<h3>THE NIGHT RIDE.</h3>
+
+<p>The wagon on which Mr. Lord was to send his new-found employé was, by
+the most singular chance, the one containing the monkeys, and Toby
+accepted this as a good omen. He would be near his venerable friend all
+night, and there was some consolation in that. The driver instructed the
+boy to watch his movements, and when he saw him leading his horses
+around, "to look lively, and be on hand, for he never waited for any
+one."</p>
+
+<p>Toby not only promised to do as ordered, but he followed the driver
+around so closely that, had he desired, he could not have rid himself of
+his little companion.</p>
+
+<p>The scene which presented itself to Toby's view was strange and weird in
+the extreme. Shortly after he had attached himself to the man with whom
+he was to ride, the performance was over, and the work of putting the
+show and its belongings into such a shape as could be conveyed from one
+town to another was soon in active operation. Toby forgot his grief,
+forgot that he was running away from the only home he had ever known&mdash;in
+fact, forgot everything concerning himself&mdash;so interested was he in that
+which was going on about him.</p>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 321px;">
+<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="321" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">TOBY'S FIRST NIGHT RIDE.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Drawn by W.&nbsp;A. Rogers</span>.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>As soon as the audience had got out of the tent&mdash;and almost before&mdash;the
+work of taking down the canvas was begun.</p>
+
+<p>Torches were stuck in the earth at regular intervals, the lights that
+had shone so brilliantly in and around the ring had been extinguished,
+the canvas sides had been taken off, and the boards that had formed the
+seats were being packed into one of the carts with a rattling sound that
+seemed as if a regular fusillade of musketry was being indulged in. Men
+were shouting; horses were being driven hither and thither, harnessed to
+the wagons, or drawing the huge carts away as soon as they had been
+loaded; and everything seemed in the greatest state of confusion, while
+really the work was being done in the most systematic manner possible.</p>
+
+<p>Toby had not long to wait before the driver informed him that the time
+for starting had arrived, and assisted him to climb up to the narrow
+seat whereon he was to ride that night.</p>
+
+<p>The scene was so exciting, and his efforts to stick to the narrow seat
+so great, that he really had no time to attend to the homesick feeling
+that had crept over him during the first part of the evening.</p>
+
+<p>The long procession of carts and wagons drove slowly out of the town,
+and when the last familiar house had been passed the driver spoke to
+Toby for the first time since they started.</p>
+
+<p>"Pretty hard work to keep on&mdash;eh, sonny?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes," replied the boy, as the team ran over a rock, bounced him high in
+the air, and he, by strenuous efforts, barely succeeded in alighting on
+the seat again, "it is pretty hard work; an' my name's Toby Tyler."</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Toby heard a queer sound that seemed to come from the man's throat, and
+for a few moments he feared that his companion was choking. But he soon
+understood that this was simply an attempt to laugh, and he at once
+decided that it was a very poor style of laughing.</p>
+
+<p>"So you object to being called sonny, do you?"</p>
+
+<p>"Well, I'd rather be called Toby, for, you see, that's my name."</p>
+
+<p>"All right, my boy; we'll call you Toby. I suppose you thought it was a
+mighty fine thing to run away an' jine a circus, didn't you?"</p>
+
+<p>Toby started in affright, looked around cautiously, and then tried to
+peer down through the small square aperture, guarded by iron rods, that
+opened into the cage just back of the seat they were sitting on. Then he
+turned slowly around to the driver, and asked, in a voice sunk to a
+whisper: "How did you know that I was runnin' away? Did he tell you?"
+and Toby motioned with his thumb as if he were pointing out some one
+behind him.</p>
+
+<p>It was the driver's turn now to look around in search of the "he"
+referred to by Toby.</p>
+
+<p>"Who do you mean?" asked the man, impatiently.</p>
+
+<p>"Why, the old feller; the one in the cart there. I think he knew I was
+runnin' away, though he didn't say anything about it; but he looked just
+as if he did."</p>
+
+<p>The driver looked at Toby in perfect amazement for a moment, and then,
+as if suddenly understanding the boy, he relapsed into one of those
+convulsive efforts that caused the blood to rush up into his face, and
+gave him every appearance of having a fit.</p>
+
+<p>"You must mean one of the monkeys," said the driver, after he had
+recovered his breath, which had been almost shaken out of his body by
+the silent laughter. "So you thought a monkey had told me what any fool
+could have seen if he had watched you for five minutes?"</p>
+
+<p>"Well," said Toby, slowly, as if he feared he might provoke one of those
+terrible laughing spells again, "I saw him to-night, an' he looked as if
+he knew what I was doin'; so I up an' told him, an' I didn't know but
+he'd told you, though he didn't look to me like a feller that would be
+mean."</p>
+
+<p>There was another internal shaking on the part of the driver, which Toby
+did not fear as much, since he was getting accustomed to it, and then
+the man said, "Well, you are the queerest little cove I ever saw."</p>
+
+<p>"I s'pose I am," was the reply, accompanied by a long-drawn sigh. "I
+don't seem to amount to so much as the other fellers do, an' I guess
+it's because I'm always hungry: you see, I eat awful, Uncle Dan'l says."</p>
+
+<p>The only reply which the driver made to this plaintive confession was to
+put his hand down into the deepest recesses of one of his deep pockets,
+and to draw therefrom a huge doughnut, which he handed to his companion.</p>
+
+<p>Toby was so much at his ease by this time that the appetite which had
+failed him at supper had now returned in full force, and he devoured the
+doughnut in a most ravenous manner.</p>
+
+<p>"You're too small to eat so fast," said the man, in a warning tone, as
+the last morsel of the greasy sweetness disappeared, and he fished up
+another for the boy. "Some time you'll get hold of one of the India
+rubber doughnuts that they feed to circus people, an' choke yourself to
+death."</p>
+
+<p>Toby shook his head, and devoured this second cake as quickly as he had
+the first, craning his neck, and uttering a funny little squeak as the
+last bit went down, just as a chicken does when he gets too large a
+mouthful of dough.</p>
+
+<p>"I'll never choke," he said, confidently; "I'm used to it; and Uncle
+Dan'l says I could eat a pair of boots an' never wink at 'em; but I
+don't just believe that."</p>
+
+<p>As the driver made no reply to this remark, Toby curled himself up on
+one corner of the seat, and watched with no little interest all that was
+passing on around him. Each one of the wagons had a lantern fastened to
+the hind axle, and these lights could be seen far ahead on the road, as
+if a party of fire-flies had started in single file on an excursion. The
+trees by the side of the road stood out weird and ghostly-looking in the
+darkness, and the rumble of the carts ahead and behind formed a musical
+accompaniment to the picture that sounded strangely doleful.</p>
+
+<p>Mile after mile was passed over in perfect silence, save now and then
+when the driver would whistle a few bars of some very dismal tune that
+would fairly make Toby shiver with its mournfulness. Eighteen miles was
+the distance from Guilford to the town where the next performance of the
+circus was to be given, and as Toby thought of the ride before them, it
+seemed as if the time would be almost interminable. He curled himself up
+on one corner of the seat, and tried very hard to go to sleep; but just
+as his eyes began to grow heavy, the wagon would jolt over some rock or
+sink deep in some rut, till Toby, the breath very nearly shaken out of
+his body, and his neck almost dislocated, would sit bolt-upright,
+clinging to the seat with both hands, as if he expected each moment to
+be pitched out into the mud.</p>
+
+<p>The driver watched him closely, and each time that he saw him shaken up
+and awakened so thoroughly he would indulge in one of his silent
+laughing spells, until Toby would wonder whether he would ever recover
+from it. Several times had Toby been awakened, and each time he had seen
+the amusement his sufferings caused, until he finally resolved to put an
+end to the sport by keeping awake.</p>
+
+<p>"What is your name?" he asked of the driver, thinking a conversation
+would be the best way to rouse himself into wakefulness.</p>
+
+<p>"Wa'al," said the driver, as he gathered the reins carefully in one
+hand, and seemed to be debating in his mind how he should answer the
+question, "I don't know as I know myself, it's been so long since I've
+heard it."</p>
+
+<p>Toby was wide enough awake now, as this rather singular problem was
+forced upon his mind. He revolved the matter silently for some moments,
+and at last he asked, "What do folks call you when they want to speak to
+you?"</p>
+
+<p>"They always call me old Ben, an' I've got so used to the name that I
+don't need any other."</p>
+
+<p>Toby wanted very much to ask more questions, but he wisely concluded
+that it would not be agreeable to his companion.</p>
+
+<p>"I'll ask the old man about it," said Toby to himself, referring to the
+aged monkey, whom he seemed to feel acquainted with; "he most likely
+knows, if he'll say anything." After this the conversation ceased, until
+Toby again ventured to suggest, "It's a pretty long drive, hain't it?"</p>
+
+<p>"You want to wait till you've been in this business a year or two," said
+Ben, sagely, "an' then you won't think much of it. Why, I've known the
+show towns to be thirty miles apart, an' them was the times when we had
+lively work of it: riding all night and working all day kind of wears on
+a fellow."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, I s'pose so," said Toby, with a sigh, as he wondered whether he
+had got to work as hard as that; "but I suppose you get all you want to
+eat, don't you?"</p>
+
+<p>"Now you've struck it," said Ben, with the air of one about to impart a
+world of wisdom, as he crossed one leg over the other, that his position
+might be as comfortable as possible while he was initiating his young
+companion into the mysteries of the life. "I've had all the boys ride
+with me since I've been with this show, an' I've tried to start them
+right; but they didn't seem to profit by it, an' always got sick of the
+show, an' run away, just because they didn't look out for themselves as
+they ought<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span> to. Now listen to me, Toby, an' remember what I say. You
+see, they put us all in a hotel together, an' some of these places where
+we go don't have any too much stuff on the table. Whenever we strike a
+new town, you find out at the hotel what time they have the grub ready,
+an' you be on hand so's to get in with the first. Eat all you can, an'
+fill your pockets."</p>
+
+<p>"If that's all a feller has to do to travel with a circus," said Toby,
+"I'm just the one, 'cause I always used to do just that when I hadn't
+any idea of bein' a circus man."</p>
+
+<p>"Then you'll get along all right," said Ben, as he checked the speed of
+his horses, and, looking carefully ahead, said, as he guided his team to
+one side of the road, "This is as far as we're going to-night."</p>
+
+<p>Toby learned that they were within a couple of miles of the town, and
+that the entire procession would remain by the road-side until time to
+make the grand entrée into the village, when every wagon, horse, and man
+would be decked out in the most gorgeous array, as they had been when
+they entered Guilford.</p>
+
+<p>Under Ben's direction he wrapped himself in an old horse-blanket, lay
+down on the top of the wagon, and he was so tired from the excitement of
+the day and night that he had hardly stretched out at full length before
+he was fast asleep.</p>
+
+<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a name="THE_NEW-YEARS_WELCOME" id="THE_NEW-YEARS_WELCOME">THE NEW-YEAR'S WELCOME.</a></h2>
+
+<h3>BY MARY D. BRINE.</h3>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Ring, bells, ring! for the King is here;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Ring, bells, ring! for the glad New Year.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">He mounts his throne with a smiling face,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">His sceptre lifts with majestic grace.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Ring for the joy his advent brings;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Ring for the happy songs he sings;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Ring for the promises sweet and true</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">With which we gladden our hearts anew.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The new-born Year is a happy fellow,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">His voice is sweet, and low, and mellow;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">With the Christmas holly his head is crowned,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">With the Christmas blessings we'll wrap him round.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Then ring, bells, ring! for the joyous day&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The Past lies silent, the Present is gay;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Ring out your merriest, cheer after cheer,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">To welcome the birth of the Happy New Year!</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a name="BEE-HUNTING" id="BEE-HUNTING">BEE-HUNTING.</a></h2>
+
+<h3>BY JIMMY BROWN.</h3>
+
+<p>The more I see of this world the hollower I find everybody. I don't mean
+that people haven't got their insides in them, but they are so
+dreadfully ungrateful. No matter how kind and thoughtful any one may be,
+they never give him any credit for it. They will pretend to love you and
+call you "dear Jimmy what a fine manly boy come here and kiss me" and
+then half an hour afterward they'll say "where's that little wretch let
+me just get hold of him O! I'll let him know." Deceit and ingratitude
+are the monster vices of the age and they are rolling over our beloved
+land like the flood. (I got part of that elegant language from the
+temperance lecturer last week, but I improved it a good deal.)</p>
+
+<p>There is Aunt Sarah. The uncle that belonged to her died two years ago
+and she's awfully rich. She comes to see us sometimes with Tommy&mdash;that's
+her boy, a little fellow ten years old&mdash;and you ought to see how mother
+and Sue wait on her and how pleasant father is when she's in the room.
+Now she always said that she loved me like her own son. She'd say to
+father "How I envy you that noble boy what a comfort he must be to you,"
+and father would say "Yes he has some charming qualities" and look as if
+he hadn't laid onto me with his cane that very morning and told me that
+my conduct was such. You'll hardly believe that just because I did the
+very best I could and saved her precious Tommy from an apple grave, Aunt
+Sarah says I'm a young Cain and knows I'll come to the gallows.</p>
+
+<p>She came to see us last Friday, and on Saturday I was going bee-hunting.
+I read all about it in a book. You take an axe and go out-doors and
+follow a bee, and after a while the bee takes you to a hollow tree full
+of honey and you cut the tree down and carry the honey home in thirty
+pails and sell it for ever so much. I and Sam McGinnis were going and
+Aunt Sarah says "O take Tommy with you the dear child would enjoy it so
+much." Of course no fellow that's twelve years old wants a little chap
+like that tagging after him but mother spoke up and said that I'd be
+delighted to take Tommy and so I couldn't help myself.</p>
+
+<p>We stopped in the wood-shed and borrowed father's axe and then we found
+a bee. The bee wouldn't fly on before us in a straight line but kept
+lighting on everything, and once he lit on Sam's hand and stung him
+good. However we chased the bee lively and by-and-by he started for his
+tree and we ran after him. We had just got to the old dead apple-tree in
+the pasture when we lost the bee and we all agreed that his nest must be
+in the tree. It's an awfully big old tree, and it's all rotted away on
+one side so that it stands as if it was ready to fall over any minute.</p>
+
+<p>Nothing would satisfy Tommy but to climb that tree. We told him he'd
+better let a bigger fellow do it but he wouldn't listen to reason. So we
+gave him a boost and he climbed up to where the tree forked and then he
+stood up and began to say something when he disappeared. We thought he
+had fallen out of the tree and we ran round to the other side to pick
+him up but he wasn't there. Sam said it was witches but I knew he must
+be somewhere so I climbed up the tree and looked.</p>
+
+<p>He had slipped down into the hollow of the tree and was wedged in tight.
+I could just reach his hair but it was so short that I couldn't get a
+good hold so as to pull him out. Wasn't he scared though! He howled and
+said "O take me out I shall die," and Sam wanted to run for the doctor.</p>
+
+<p>I told Tommy to be patient and I'd get him out. So I slid down the tree
+and told Sam that the only thing to do was to cut the tree down and then
+open it and take Tommy out. It was such a rotten tree I knew it would
+come down easy. So we took turns chopping, and the fellow who wasn't
+chopping kept encouraging Tommy by telling him that the tree was 'most
+ready to fall. After working an hour the tree began to stagger and
+presently down she came with an awful crash and burst into a million
+pieces.</p>
+
+<p>Sam and I said Hurray! and then we poked round in the dust till we found
+Tommy. He was all over red dust and was almost choked, but he was
+awfully mad. Just because some of his ribs were broke&mdash;so the doctor
+said&mdash;he forgot all Sam and I had done for him. I shouldn't have minded
+that much, because you don't expect much from little boys, but I did
+think his mother would have been grateful when we brought him home and
+told her what we had done. Then I found what all her professions were
+worth. She called father and told him that I and the other miscurrent
+had murdered her boy. Sam was so frightened at the awful name she called
+him that he ran home, and father told me I could come right up stairs
+with him.</p>
+
+<p>They couldn't have treated me worse if I'd let Tommy stay in the tree
+and starve to death. I almost wish I had done it. It does seem as if the
+more good a boy does the more the grown folks pitch into him. The moment
+Sue is married to Mr. Travers I mean to go and live with him. He never
+scolds, and always says that Susan's brother is as dear to him as his
+own, though he hasn't got any.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span></p>
+
+<h2><a name="SING_A_SONG_O_SIXPENCE" id="SING_A_SONG_O_SIXPENCE">SING A SONG O' SIXPENCE.</a></h2>
+
+<h3>DRAWN BY R. CALDECOTT.</h3>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 349px;">
+<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="349" height="400" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Sing a Song o' Sixpence,</span><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="400" height="212" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">A Pocketful of Rye;</span><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="400" height="199" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Baked in a Pie.</span><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="400" height="458" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">When the Pie was opened,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">The Birds began to sing;</span><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="400" height="456" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Was not that a dainty Dish</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">To set before the King?</span><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="400" height="453" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">The King was in his Counting-house</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Counting out his Money.</span><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="400" height="453" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">The Queen was in the Parlor,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Eating Bread and Honey.</span><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="400" height="451" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">The Maid was in the Garden,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Hanging out the Clothes;</span><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;">
+<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="350" height="297" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">There came a little Blackbird,</span><br /><br /><br />
+</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="400" height="177" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And nipped off her Nose.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">But there came a Jenny Wren</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And popped it on again.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="400" height="224" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a name="HOW_SANTA_CLAUS_CAME" id="HOW_SANTA_CLAUS_CAME">HOW SANTA CLAUS CAME.</a></h2>
+
+<h3>BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.</h3>
+
+<p>"Now, Don," said Rad Burnell, dolefully, "do you believe any kind of a
+snow-storm could stop Santa Claus?"</p>
+
+<p>"From coming?"</p>
+
+<p>"Well, yes, that's it. I heard father tell mother 'he' couldn't get here
+in time, and I know he meant something about Christmas, by the way he
+looked at Petish and Molly."</p>
+
+<p>"Was Berry there?"</p>
+
+<p>"She was sound asleep in the cradle, and mother said, 'Berry won't care,
+but it'll be a dispoint for the rest of 'em.'"</p>
+
+<p>"It's an awful snow-storm, Rad, but I guess Santa Claus'll come, for all
+of that."</p>
+
+<p>Just a little later, Mr. Burnell said to his wife, "I'm sorry we didn't
+get our things in the village, Maria; but it's too late now. Don't say
+anything to the children. It'll be bad enough when it comes."</p>
+
+<p>Nobody else heard him, but Mrs. Burnell looked as if she wanted to cry.</p>
+
+<p>That was one of the whitest nights anybody in the world ever saw, for
+the snow had thrown the thickest kind of a white blanket over
+everything. Some of the roads were drifted level from fence to fence,
+and the railroads were having a tremendous time of it. Anything so black
+as a locomotive could hardly feel at home, pushing its way along through
+so white a country or into so white a village as Middleville was that
+Christmas-eve.</p>
+
+<p>It was a dreadfully long night, and Petish woke up three times, and
+tried to make herself believe it was morning. The last time she heard
+the great clock in the Academy steeple, on the village green, pounding
+away at its task of telling what time it was.</p>
+
+<p>"I'll count," said Petish.
+"Nine&mdash;twelve&mdash;seven&mdash;fourteen&mdash;fiveteen&mdash;six&mdash;I guess it's 'most time
+to get up. Must be it's Christmas now."</p>
+
+<p>Just then she heard a noise in the next room, and she listened with all
+her ears. First it was a rustle, and then the loudest kind of a
+whisper&mdash;loud enough to have been heard in daytime.</p>
+
+<p>"Rad! Rad! it's just struck five. Let's take a scoot down stairs and see
+about it. We can hurry right back again."</p>
+
+<p>"They're pulling on their stockings," said Petish. "I'll get up and pull
+on mine, but I won't let them see me."</p>
+
+<p>She tried very hard to get up without waking Molly; but it was of no
+use, for Molly's sleep had been begun at the right time, and was fairly
+over now, considering that it was Christmas morning.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, Petish, what are you going to do?"</p>
+
+<p>"'Sh! 'sh! Molly. The boys are going down stairs to look, and I'm going
+too. Lie still."</p>
+
+<p>But Molly was two years older than Petish, and she wouldn't lie still.
+She was out on the floor in a twinkling, and she made Petish wrap
+herself all up in a blanket, and she pretty nearly buried her own chubby
+shape in a comfortable.</p>
+
+<p>That was about what Rad and Don had done already, and they were now
+carefully creeping down stairs in the dark.</p>
+
+<p>The door of the front parlor was nearest the foot of the stairs, and the
+boys left it open after them when they went in, but Molly and Petish
+closed it very softly and carefully the moment they were safe in the
+dim, gloomy parlor. The boys were just beyond the folding-doors at that
+moment, and did not see that they were followed.</p>
+
+<p>Berry was sound asleep in her crib, within reach of her mother, or she
+would have heard her say, just then, "Oh, John, it's a dreadful
+disappointment! What will those poor children do?"</p>
+
+<p>"Poor Petish!" said Mr. Burnell. "We can explain it to the boys, and
+they can wait, and to Molly, but it'll be bad enough for any of 'em."</p>
+
+<p>"But Petish'll break her little heart if she finds that Santa Claus
+hasn't come."</p>
+
+<p>"It'll be almost as much of a disappointment to Aunt Sally and Frank. I
+hope they'll bring Mid with them when they come."</p>
+
+<p>"Of course they will."</p>
+
+<p>Now that had been a very long, white, beautiful, dark night, and a great
+many queer things had happened in it. They are sure to, in any "night
+before Christmas"; but there had been a wonderfully deep snow-storm.</p>
+
+<p>Away on toward morning, just when the Academy clock was trying to make
+sound-asleep people hear that it was really four, a tired-out and
+frosty-looking railway train came smoking and coughing up to the
+platform at the village railway station.</p>
+
+<p>It did not stop long, but some people got out of one of the
+sleeping-cars, and some baggage was tumbled out of the baggage-car, and
+a sleepy man with a lantern said: "Yes, sir. Carriage yer in a minute,
+sir. All right."</p>
+
+<p>"We don't want any carriage, my man. Take our checks, and have our
+trunks brought over to Mr. Burnett's before seven o'clock. We'll walk
+right there now. Come, Sally. Come along, Mid."</p>
+
+<p>"Frank! husband! you'll drop some of those things!"</p>
+
+<p>"No, I won't, Sally."</p>
+
+<p>"Mid, my dear boy, look out for that box; it's only pasteboard."</p>
+
+<p>"I'll be careful, mother. I ain't awake yet. But it takes all three of
+us to Santa Claus this pile. Hope it isn't far."</p>
+
+<p>The cold, frosty air was fast getting Mid wide awake, and they did look,
+all three of them, as if they would have done better with a sleigh and a
+good team of reindeer.</p>
+
+<p>The distance was short, but Aunt Sally talked pretty nearly all the way.</p>
+
+<p>"We must do it, Frank," she said, as they drew near the gate. "I'm sure
+they've given us up. We can get in. There never was any bolt on the
+kitchen window, over the pump. Middleton can climb right in, and come
+and open the side door for us."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, but won't that be fun!" exclaimed Mid, as he hurried silently
+forward.</p>
+
+<p>"'Sh! there, Sally," whispered Uncle Frank, as he and his portly,
+merry-faced wife lugged their bundles after Mid.</p>
+
+<p>It was less than half a minute before they were in the kitchen. They
+promptly shut the door between the dining-room&mdash;that was the
+sitting-room too&mdash;and the back parlor, and then how they did work!</p>
+
+<p>Plenty of wood and shavings and kindlings were lying in front of the
+great Franklin stove in the dining-room, and there was quickly a blazing
+fire there, and in the kitchen too, and Mid insisted on lighting every
+lamp and candle he could lay his hands on.</p>
+
+<p>Then the bundles came open, and their contents began to shine all around
+the chimney and over the mantel, and even on some of the chairs.</p>
+
+<p>"It's too bad we haven't any of their stockings," began Aunt Sally; but
+she exclaimed, the next instant: "Oh, Frank! here's Maria's work-basket,
+all full of stockings. I know them. Those are Don's. There's a pair of
+Rad's. Molly's. Petish. Berry's&mdash;the dear little kitten! We've got 'em."</p>
+
+<p>"Mother, let's set the table."</p>
+
+<p>"That's it. You help him do it, father. Won't we give 'em a surprise!"</p>
+
+<p>It was wonderful how those three did work, and not make any noise about
+it, and how they did change the looks of that dining-room and kitchen
+before five o'clock.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span> Aunt Sally even put on the tea-kettle, and made
+some coffee, and it was evident that for once Santa Claus was disposed
+to be very much "at home."</p>
+
+<p>If they had not been drinking their coffee, perhaps they might have
+heard a voice, not many minutes after five o'clock, whispering anxiously
+to somebody in the back parlor, "I say, there's a light coming through
+the key-hole!"</p>
+
+<p>"There's a rattle, too, in there."</p>
+
+<p>"Burglars?"</p>
+
+<p>"Pooh! No; it's Christmas."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, boys, is Santa Claus really in there? Has he got here?"</p>
+
+<p>"Is that you, Petish? And Molly too? Keep still. I'm just going to open
+the door a little mite of a crack, but you can all peek in."</p>
+
+<p>Aunt Sally's ears must have been good ones, for, carefully as Don opened
+that door, and faint as was the squeak it made, she sprang suddenly
+toward it.</p>
+
+<p>"Is that you, Maria? Hush! Don't make a sound. Not a loud noise for
+anything!"</p>
+
+<p>"We won't, Aunt Sally. Hush-sh-sh!"</p>
+
+<p>Even Petish did just as she was told for once, for she was a little
+scared when the great blaze of light came shining through the door as
+Aunt Sally pushed it wide open.</p>
+
+<p>It was shut again the moment they were all in the room, and then it was
+all Aunt Sally and Uncle Frank could do to keep up any kind of silence
+in that merry assembly. They could not have done it at all if Aunt Sally
+had not told them all: "It's a great secret. You must help us give papa
+and mamma a big surprise. Now let's get breakfast for them."</p>
+
+<p>"Biddy went away yesterday morning," said Molly, "but I know where the
+eggs are."</p>
+
+<p>Whatever she and Petish could not find, Don and Rad could, and Aunt
+Sally was the best kind of a cook.</p>
+
+<p>It was nearly six o'clock when Mrs. Burnell said to her husband: "I'm
+glad Berry waked up. She's all dressed now, and I can wrap her up warm."</p>
+
+<p>"So am I, my dear. I'll go right down with you."</p>
+
+<p>"Those poor children! I haven't the heart to look at them. Let's hurry
+down."</p>
+
+<p>So they did, and Berry went down in her mother's arms, but they little
+dreamed what was coming.</p>
+
+<p>A great shout welcomed them as they opened the door of the dining-room.</p>
+
+<p>"Wish you Merry Christmas."</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, Sally! Frank! I am so glad! But how did you get in?"</p>
+
+<p>"Breakfast's ready."</p>
+
+<p>"Christmas has come."</p>
+
+<p>Nobody could have described that next half-hour to have saved his life,
+and Aunt Sally said she had never been so happy in all hers.</p>
+
+<p>"Molly," said Petish, "won't you go up stairs and bring down all our
+clothes?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, children," said their mother, "you must get dressed."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes; and, mother," said Petish, "there was only two pairs of my
+stockings in the basket, and they're both full. If Molly'll bring the
+pair I had on, there's more'n enough to fill 'em."</p>
+
+<p>So there was, for Aunt Sally had not only bought and brought everything
+Mr. and Mrs. Burnell had written to her about, but she had heaped on a
+huge assortment of presents on her own account, and Petish had at least
+her share, while Uncle Frank had looked out for Molly, and nobody had
+forgotten Berry or any of the boys.</p>
+
+<p>It was quite the usual time when they got ready to eat at last, but
+there was nothing of what Rad and Petish called a "dispoint" in any face
+at that breakfast table.</p>
+
+<p>Santa Claus had come.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h4><a name="MILDREDS_BARGAIN" id="MILDREDS_BARGAIN">[Begun in <span class="smcap">Young People</span> No. 58, December 7.]</a></h4>
+
+<h2>MILDRED'S BARGAIN.</h2>
+
+<h3>A Story for Girls.</h3>
+
+<h3>BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE.</h3>
+
+<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter III</span>.</h3>
+
+<p>Milly's heart gave a bound, and then seemed to stand still.</p>
+
+<p>"Here I am," said the woman, smiling. "I've called to make you even a
+better offer. You pay me fifty cents a week for that dress, and any week
+you <i>can't pay</i>, why, you can return the silk, provided it's decently
+clean, and I'll allow you a couple o' dollars, when I take it back, for
+the making. Come, now, I don't mind throwing in the linings, and I won't
+bother you for the first fortnight."</p>
+
+<p>Now, as you have seen, Milly had gone through just the process of
+reasoning to make the peddler's words sound most alluring. The woman
+read in the young girl's face an instant's doubt followed by decision,
+and as quickly as possible she produced from her bag the roll of gray
+silk. Mildred never quite remembered how she made that purchase, or
+rather that <i>bargain</i>, for honorable purchase it certainly was not. The
+shining silk and the linings were put into her hands, and before she
+knew it she had signed a paper, a copy of which the peddler gave her.
+The transaction only occupied a few moments. Milly tucked the silk away
+in the room devoted to the bonnets and cloaks and luncheons of the
+sales-women, and was in her place before she fully realized that her
+longing of the day previous was granted. The morning passed heavily, and
+she was well pleased when it came her turn to take thirty minutes for
+lunch. But on entering the cloak-room her dismay was unbounded. Three or
+four of the shop-girls were clustered about Mildred's precious parcel,
+and a chorus of voices greeted her entrance.</p>
+
+<p>"Look here, Miss Lee. Whose do you suppose this is?"</p>
+
+<p>"Well, isn't this lovely?"</p>
+
+<p>"<i>Could</i> any one have stolen it?"</p>
+
+<p>"No," said Mildred, quietly, yet not without a flush on her cheeks. "It
+is mine. The&mdash;person I bought it of brought it here to me to-day."</p>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 260px;">
+<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="260" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">THE GIRLS DISCOVER MILDRED'S PURCHASE.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>"<i>Yours!</i>" exclaimed Jenny Martin, who had thrown one end of the silk
+over her shoulder. "Well, that <i>is</i> pretty good on five dollars a week!"</p>
+
+<p>Mildred's face burned, but something in Jenny's rude words smote her
+conscience, and she tried to look good-humored, while Jenny admired
+herself a moment in the cracked glass, the other girls eying her as well
+as Mildred with some new respect.</p>
+
+<p>Jenny tossed the silk from her shoulders with a little sniff, and
+Mildred felt glad enough to put it away, and eat a hasty lunch. She was
+doubly glad, when her working hours were over, to hurry home, carrying
+her new treasure, which she had resolved not to show her mother until
+the night of the party. But a surprise awaited her on her return to the
+cottage. Mrs. Lee had received an invitation from a cousin in Boston to
+spend a fortnight with his family, and she had already arranged with her
+few pupils to avail herself of this unlooked-for holiday.</p>
+
+<p>All was excitement and preparation. Will, the second boy, was to go with
+his mother, and instead of tea on the cozy little table there were odds
+and ends of tapes, buttons, and threads, half-worn garments, and one or
+two new things, while Debby, the one servant, and Mrs. Lee were both
+stitching as if for a wager. They looked up with flushed faces to greet
+Milly.</p>
+
+<p>"Oh, my dear," said the mother, after explaining matters, "do sit down
+and help; we are to be off to-morrow morning."</p>
+
+<p>Milly saw she could not hope for a moment to sew on<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span> the new dress until
+after her mother and Will were gone, and so she entered with an earnest
+good-will into assisting them, and was genuinely pleased by their
+prospects of enjoyment. The next few days flew by. Once the children
+were safely in bed Mildred would draw forth her work, and so by dint of
+hard labor the dress was finished Monday evening. She made her toilet
+rather nervously when Tuesday night came. What between her hurry after
+getting home, and her anxiety to conceal her dress from Debby and her
+little sister Margaret, Mildred found it difficult to enjoy the "first
+wear" of the gray silk; but certainly, she thought, as she surveyed her
+work in her mirror, it <i>was</i> a success. It fitted admirably, and she had
+had the good taste to make it simply as became a young girl only
+sixteen, though it in <i>no</i> way became a girl working hard for twenty
+dollars a month. She took good care to envelop herself completely in a
+water-proof cloak before Debby and little Kate saw her, and thus
+equipped she started off under her brother Joe's escort for the big
+house in Lane Street.</p>
+
+<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a name="AN_EMPTY_STOCKING" id="AN_EMPTY_STOCKING">AN EMPTY STOCKING.</a></h2>
+
+<h3>BY MRS. MARGARET SANGSTER.</h3>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 388px;">
+<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="388" height="500" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>I am very sure that most boys and girls will agree with me that there is
+nothing in the whole year quite so delightful as taking down the
+Christmas stocking. Of course it is charming to hang it up; but one
+never feels the least bit sleepy on Christmas-eve, and it seems so long
+to wait until morning shall come. The air is astir with excitement and
+mystery, and Santa Claus is known to be hovering about waiting for eyes
+to be closed, and children to go comfortably away to dream-land.
+By-and-by everybody does manage to fall asleep, and then by some strange
+magic the long, limp stockings are crammed with toys, books, bonbons,
+tools, dolls, and skates, or lovely ribbons, laces, watches, and gems.
+How beautifully they bulge out, every inch of room packed, while the
+overflow, which could not possibly be forced into any stocking, is piled
+temptingly on the tables and chairs.</p>
+
+<p>Now look at this poor little girl who hung up her stocking on
+Christmas-eve, hoping that the good Santa Claus would come down the
+chimney and put something nice in it. She was afraid he would forget
+her, and still she hoped that maybe he might bring just one dolly, and
+slip it away down into the toe, where she would find it, and be, oh! so
+glad. Little Jennie is used to being cold and hungry, and does not mind
+a great many privations which more fortunate children never have to
+endure. She can sweep crossings in old shoes, and wear a ragged shawl,
+without envying girls who are wrapped in soft furs. These merry holidays
+have not made her envious; and yet when Florence and Susie and Mabel
+have flitted by on the street, their arms full of parcels, and their
+fathers and mothers buying them every beautiful thing that the shop
+windows show, she has wished and wished that <i>she</i> might have just one
+dolly&mdash;only one. So, thinking that maybe if she hung up her stocking her
+desire would be granted, she did so on Christmas-eve, and went to bed
+that night without minding the cold. The stocking hung where she placed
+it. Nobody came down the chimney, or up the stairs, or in at the door.
+Her mother was so tired and discouraged that she took no notice of
+Jennie's stocking, and if she had, it is doubtful whether she could have
+found a gift to gladden the child.</p>
+
+<p>Sometimes little girls like Jennie have parents who are not kind and
+good like yours, because they love liquor and spend their earnings to
+procure that. There are plenty of empty stockings on Christmas in homes
+where fathers and mothers are drunkards.</p>
+
+<p>Little Jennie looks very forlorn holding her empty stocking in her hand.
+The picture is a shadow on the gayety of this festive time, but it is
+inserted in the New-Year's number of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, that some of
+the readers may be prompted to think what they can do to send pleasures
+to little ones whose lives are seldom gay.</p>
+
+<p>A very large part of your Christmas happiness came from the gifts you
+bestowed as well as from those you received. It was not a selfish
+festival in homes where brothers and sisters exchanged love-tokens; and
+the weeks you spent in making pretty presents with your own hands,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span> in
+saving your pocket-money, and in planning to surprise your dear ones,
+were very happy weeks indeed. Now I have something to propose, which you
+need not wait a whole year to carry out. You know there are Flower
+Missions and Fruit Missions, which send flowers and fruit to the homes
+of the sick poor. Why should there not be a Toy Mission too? Most of you
+have a dolly, or two, or three, perhaps, which you could spare, and some
+of you have books you have read, and playthings which you have outgrown,
+which would make poor children wild with joy. Some of the Sunday-schools
+have tried this way of keeping Christmas, and have brought their gifts
+to be distributed among the poor. And some of the benevolent enterprises
+of the city send out holiday bags, to be filled and returned with all
+sorts of necessary things. A Toy Mission would be a little different
+from these, and with a little help from and organization by older
+brothers and sisters, it could be easily put into operation. The city
+missionaries and Bible-readers can tell just where there are children
+like Jennie in the picture, and some of the express companies willingly
+carry packages and parcels of the kind I mean, free of charge.</p>
+
+<p>The House of the Good Shepherd, Tompkin's Cove, New York, has for
+several years sent cute-looking cloth bags to its friends, with the
+request that they be filled with gifts for its inmates. One Christmas
+season the children of the Wilson Industrial School of this city
+undertook to fill one of these, and their teacher told me it was very
+touching to see the eagerness and generosity with which they, so poor
+themselves, brought their carefully kept and mended treasures to send to
+the "poor children who had no friends to love them."</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;">
+<img src="images/ill_018.jpg" width="600" height="257" alt="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Once more we wish a very Happy New Year to all our young friends. We
+have done our best to make the past year brighter to them, and they have
+made it very pleasant for us by their constant and hearty expressions of
+pleasure and approval.</p>
+
+<p>Christmas is past. How many of the readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> remembered to
+make some poor child happy on Christmas-day? If some of them were too
+much occupied with their own sparkling Christmas trees to think of the
+friendless and homeless little ones all around them, we beg them to stop
+now and remember that they can not begin the new year better than by
+bringing a smile to some sad, wan little face. There are poor children
+everywhere, in the streets, in hospitals, in wretched and desolate
+homes, over whose young life poverty and misfortune have thrown a heavy
+cloud. It must always be remembered that their suffering arises from no
+fault of their own, and those to whom fortune has been more generous
+should never forget to help from their abundance the little ones toward
+whom the world has turned a cold and unkind face. Now if every reader of
+<span class="smcap">Young People</span> would give some little thing, if it be only a bunch of
+flowers or evergreen, how many poor little faces might be made brighter
+on New-Year's morning! A few oranges, or a picture-book, will make a
+sick, friendless child happy. Those of you who live near together, and
+have your "<span class="smcap">Young People</span> Clubs," which you write so prettily about, can
+have a meeting, and fill baskets with playthings you do not need. Mamma
+will help you buy some oranges, and perhaps a warm scarf or pair of
+stockings, and she will advise you, too, of the best way to dispose of
+them. Every one of you can do something, and in that way you will bring
+to yourself, as well as to others, a real Happy New Year.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>I read all of the letters in the Post-office Box, and I like them,
+and I like all of the stories. Sometimes I miss my paper, and I
+feel very sorry, and sometimes I bring it home and lay it on the
+table, and my younger brother takes it and leaves it on the floor;
+then the baby gets it and tears it. That does not please me. My
+papa is an editor. I have three brothers and two sisters. I am ten
+years old.</p>
+
+<p>There are two rivers here, the Assiniboine and the Red. They are
+very muddy rivers, and it is hard to learn to swim in them. Every
+spring somebody has been drowned. The banks of the Assiniboine are
+undermined. It is awfully cold up here in the winter.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harry L</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Louisville, Kentucky</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>I am nine years old. I do love to read <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and can hardly
+wait for papa to bring it home.</p>
+
+<p>I went to Texas to see my relations, and we brought home a horned
+frog. It never ate anything. We staked a pen for it in the back
+yard, but it died.</p>
+
+<p>My papa and my uncles went hunting on the big prairie, and camped
+out. Uncle Tom killed a striped catamount, and gave me the skin to
+make a soft rug. Uncle Will killed two deer, and papa shot one,
+but it got away. It is very warm in Texas, and at Galveston there
+are lots of oysters.</p>
+
+<p>Mamma has promised to have my <span class="smcap">Young People</span> bound for my birthday
+gift.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Minnie L.&nbsp;C</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Plymouth, Massachusetts</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>I take <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and I like it very much. We have it in school
+to read instead of a reader.</p>
+
+<p>I live within one hundred yards of the rock where the Pilgrims
+landed.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;S</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Harlem, New York.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Dear "<span class="smcap">Young People</span>,"&mdash;I have been one of your subscribers ever
+since you were born, and I enjoy your company very much. I have a
+large family to look after, but when I get all my children to
+sleep, I take the time left me to read. My family consists of Dolly
+Varden, Betsy, Daisy, and Pearl, who are all little girls, and
+Sambo, who is the porter, and does all the work. I have my little
+dog Tip to watch the house when I go out, and see that no strangers
+disturb anything during my absence. Another important member of my
+family is my pussy cat Sam. He is just as old as I am (eleven
+years), and begins to be rather cross. He and Tip sometimes have
+little spats, but I soon settle them, and make them be good friends
+again.</p>
+
+<p>After school closed this summer I went to the country, where I had
+splendid times. I fed the chickens several times during the day,
+and I got some of them so tame they would eat out of my hands.
+Then I had a little bit of a pig, which I picked from a whole
+litter, and made a pet of him.</p>
+
+<p>We had a large dog that did the churning, but he did not like it
+one bit. When the churn was being prepared for him to work, he
+would whine and cry like a baby.</p>
+
+<p>When my papa came he made us a kite, which we raised real high.
+Some of the birds were frightened at it, and others would fly
+right up and peck at it to see what it was. It made us laugh to
+see how the birds acted.</p>
+
+<p>For my birthday my papa sent me a set of archery, which we placed
+on the lawn at the side of the house, and we enjoyed shooting at
+the target ever so much. I can shoot real good now.</p>
+
+<p>I have a great deal to do, so will close my letter by telling you
+that I am home again, and going to school. I also attend
+Sunday-school, and have my music lessons to practice, so I am very
+busy.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Irene M.&nbsp;N</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>We are two dolls. Our mamma is a dear little black-eyed girl almost
+ten years old, named Jennie. She is a good deal like Bessie
+Maynard, and loves us as much as Bessie loves her doll Clytie. We
+used to live in Nevada, but last summer we came to live in Central
+City, Colorado. We all like <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and the Post-office Box
+in particular.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Minnie</span> and <span class="smcap">Joe McG</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>We have had this dear little paper ever since it was published.
+Mamma is very glad to have it, for she is very particular about our
+reading. I always spend the evening after it comes reading it to my
+little brother Regie, who is eight years old. I am fourteen. My
+father died when I was seven.</p>
+
+<p>Santa Cruz is a pretty town, and has good schools, both public and
+private. We have roses all the year, as our winter is only a
+succession of pleasant rains with warm sunny days between, like
+spring in the Eastern States.</p>
+
+<p>The town is near the mouth of the broad, beautiful bay of
+Monterey, so that we can see out into the Pacific Ocean. We have
+grand times on the beach when the tide is low, searching for
+shells and the beautiful sea-weeds. The lady principal of a school
+here teaches us all about shells and algæ, or sea-plants, and we
+learn to name and classify them. I wish all the young people who
+write about aquaria could see mine. I have hundreds of them in the
+rocks by the sea in holes worn by the waves, from the size of a
+wooden bucket to that of a large deep barrel. They are round, and
+the walls are covered with limpets of all sizes, star-fish of
+different colors, bright purple sea-urchins, and lovely pale green
+and pink sea-anemones, which wave their petals in search of food.
+Bright-hued crabs, fish, and creatures of which I have not yet
+learned the name, move in the water. Every part is covered with
+some form of life capable of motion, and with all kinds of
+sea-plants.</p>
+
+<p>I would like to exchange shells and pressed sea-plants for other
+shells, Lake Superior agates, or other small mineral specimens. I
+would like to have everything clearly marked, and I will in return
+name and classify the shells.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harry Bowman</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Santa Cruz, California.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>We print the following note in reply to many inquiries in regard to
+postage-stamp catalogues, etc.:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>If any reader of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> will write to me on matters connected
+with stamps which can not well be published, inclosing stamp for
+reply, I shall be happy to answer him.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Joseph J. Casey</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P.&nbsp;O. Box 1696, New York City.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Several of us have organized a club for the exchange of minerals.
+We call it the American Mineralogical Club. We shall be glad to
+have any of the readers of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> join us if they are willing
+to conform to the rules, which can be had upon application to the
+secretary.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">George Davies</span>, P.&nbsp;O. Box 80,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Pottstown, Montgomery County, Penn.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>The following exchanges are offered by correspondents:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Iron ore from Spain, Ireland, England, and different sections of
+the United States, for good specimens of copper or zinc.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie S. Shaffer</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">20 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Penn.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Postmarks.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Miss Agnes McMurdy</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Care of Mrs. R.&nbsp;M. Beckwith,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Palmyra, Wayne Co., N.&nbsp;Y.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>United States Department stamps, or pieces of the Washington
+Monument, for coins, minerals, or foreign stamps.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harry Lowell</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">830 Twentieth Street, Washington, D.&nbsp;C.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>The Bavarian doctor mentioned in "The Story of the Boy-General," in
+<span class="smcap">Young People</span> No. 57, who tried to rescue Lafayette from the Olmütz
+prison, was Justus Erick Bollman, my uncle.</p>
+
+<p>If any reader of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> will send me a Greek or a Danish
+postage stamp, or two kinds of stamps from South America, I will
+send in return an Indian arrow-head, or I will exchange Indian
+pottery for any foreign stamps except English.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;H. Bollman</span>, Monongahela City,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Washington County, Penn.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>I would like to exchange ocean curiosities for a genuine Indian bow
+five feet long&mdash;not a bow like those Indians sell here in
+Massachusetts, but a good one that will shoot. I should like two or
+three arrows with it.</p>
+
+<p>In answer to Carrie V.&nbsp;D.'s question I would say that it is not
+necessary to change the water in the carrot hanging basket, but
+only to refill it when the water dries away.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Daniel D. Lee</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Myrtle Street, Jamaica Plains, Suffolk Co., Mass.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>A stone from New York State for one from any other State, or
+Canada. Postmarks for stamps, minerals, birds' eggs, or Indian
+relics. Five postmarks for every bird's egg.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">William Porter Chapman, Jun</span>.,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Norwich, Chenango County, N.&nbsp;Y.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Postage stamps from Europe, Asia, and other countries, for others.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Loyal Durand</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">591 Cass Street, Milwaukee, Wis.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Postmarks.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">H.&nbsp;D</span>. and <span class="smcap">R.&nbsp;B. Hall</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">39 Highland Street, Roxbury, Mass.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Foreign postage stamps.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Freddie W. Allree</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">26 Cedar Avenue, Allegheny, Penn.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Foreign postage stamps for Navy, Interior, and Agricultural
+Department stamps, and stamps from Newfoundland.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willis Bishop</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">20 Gold Street, Chicago, Ill.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>A white metal copy of the ancient Jewish shekel for an old coin or
+a handsome shell.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Libbie</span> and <span class="smcap">Mattie Penick</span>, St. Joseph, Mo.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Postage stamps for minerals or Indian relics.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">William H. Rhees</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1317 Eleventh Street, N.W., Washington, D.&nbsp;C.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Birds' eggs and Indian relics.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Roscoe S. Nickerson</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Klamath Agency, Oregon.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Southern moss, specimens of sulphur, and some United States stamps
+for foreign stamps.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Clarence Marsh</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">2217 Calumet Avenue, Chicago, Ill.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Curiosities and specimens of all kinds.</p></blockquote>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">L.&nbsp;E. Walker</span>, care of H.&nbsp;W. Walker,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Lock Box 316, Lansing, Mich.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Sea-weed, or pieces of the stone of which the new Capitol at Albany
+is built, for curiosities of any kind.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie L. Widdemer</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">99 Madison Avenue, Albany, N.&nbsp;Y.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>United States Department stamps, or pieces of stone from the new
+War and Navy Department buildings, or from the Washington Monument
+now being finished, for shells, foreign stamps, or any curiosity.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Horace D. Goodall</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">826 Twentieth Street, N.W., Washington, D.&nbsp;C.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Postage stamps.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Charles Swabey</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Autographs of renowned men and women.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;J. Otterbourg</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">128 East Seventieth Street, New York City.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Minerals from the mines of Colorado for ocean curiosities or
+postage stamps.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Louis M. Gross</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Care of Abel Brothers, Denver, Colorado.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>A Canadian postmark and a Centennial three-cent stamp for a German
+postage stamp.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Arthur Frost</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Care of D.&nbsp;H. Frost, Belle Plaine, Iowa.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Twenty-five postmarks for five stamps. No duplicates.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Nellie V</span>.,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">343 Fifth Avenue, New York City.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Birds' eggs for other eggs; or a rock from every State in the Union
+and from several foreign countries for twenty different kinds of
+eggs.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">W. Bostwick</span>, Care of John C. Remington,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Columbus, Muscogee County, Ga.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Birds' eggs.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Frank M. Richards</span>,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Farmington, Maine.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Minerals and fossils for shells and minerals. A good specimen of
+copper ore especially desired.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bartas W. Jay</span>, Emporia, Kansas.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>Postage stamps for birds' eggs, coins, or minerals.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Wennie Holmes</span>, Bay City, Mich.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">J.&nbsp;T.&nbsp;M</span>.&mdash;See answer to Ida B.&nbsp;D., in Post-office Box of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>
+No. 51.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Henry A. Blakesley, Harry F. Haines, E.&nbsp;A. De Lima, and many Others</span>.&mdash;We
+are sorry not to print your requests for exchange, but that department
+of our Post-office Box is so very crowded that we can not give space to
+addresses which have been already<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span> published, unless the exchange
+offered is of some new article. Neither can we attend to irregularities
+between exchanges, which arise in almost every instance from
+carelessness, or failure to give a proper address. We know of no remedy
+for those who fail to receive answers to their letters except to
+continue sending reminders to the delinquent correspondent. A great many
+boys and girls write to us that they receive so many letters, they can
+not answer them all promptly, as they are going to school, and very busy
+with studies, but that they will surely answer them in time. We hope
+they will not forget this promise, as a letter should always be
+acknowledged.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">P.&nbsp;I.&nbsp;G</span>.&mdash;The rudder of the ice-boat is not fastened. The rudder-post
+runs up through the keelson, which rests on an iron pin driven through
+the post just above the rudder. The runner irons are sharp.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Alfred C.&nbsp;T</span>.&mdash;The directions you require are in preparation, and will
+appear in an early number of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Cecil X</span>.&mdash;There is no limit to the age of our contributors, but we would
+advise you to wait until you are a little older before you try to write
+a story.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Harry Olmstead, W.&nbsp;F., and E.&nbsp;N. High</span>.&mdash;There are so many kinds of
+printing-presses for boys that the best thing for you to do is to notice
+the advertisements which are in all newspapers, and send to different
+manufacturers for catalogues, from which you can make your selection.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">George C.&nbsp;D</span>.&mdash;Dr. Kane penetrated to 81° 22' north latitude; but in 1827
+the English navigator Sir Edward Parry reached 82° 45' N., and in 1861
+Dr. Hayes reached the same latitude. Captain Hall has also penetrated
+nearly as far north. In February, 1854, in about 78° N., Dr. Kane
+experienced the unexampled temperature of -68°, or 100° below
+freezing-point, and a still lower degree has been recorded by more
+recent navigators.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">B.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;G</span>.&mdash;Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego are the most southern permanent
+abodes of man.&mdash;Read Dana's <i>Geology</i>, and you will learn all about the
+formation of the earth. If you find it difficult to understand, ask your
+teacher to explain it to you.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Elmer. A</span>.&mdash;The Seven Wonders of the World are generally given as
+follows: the Colossus of Rhodes, Diana's Temple at Ephesus, the
+Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Pyramids, the Pharos at Alexandria, the
+Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and the Olympian Zeus.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">G.&nbsp;H. Elder, Theodore Henneman, J.&nbsp;B. Whitlock, and Others</span>.&mdash;We would
+gladly assist you to begin a collection of postage stamps, but it is
+against our rules to give up space to the exchanges you propose.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Lewis D</span>.&mdash;Prescott's <i>History of Ferdinand and Isabella</i> and Abbott's
+<i>Romance of Spanish History</i> are good books for you to read.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>Favors are acknowledged from Alice M.&nbsp;H., Edna E. Harris, Paul Gray, E.&nbsp;H.
+Shuster, Joseph A. Unruh, Lorena C. Emrich, R. Poe Smith, Harry and
+Richard Bellam, W.&nbsp;K.&nbsp;M., L.&nbsp;C., Edmund H.&nbsp;B., Fred Dierking, Florence
+McClure, Margaretta Mott, Wina James, Edgar E. Hyde, Nellie A. Robson,
+Grace A. Hood, Etta B. Easton, Arthur McCain, Vina E.&nbsp;B., Fred B.,
+Bertram and Leroy S., Alice Ward, Melvin Rosenthal, A.&nbsp;V.&nbsp;H., Johnnie&nbsp;E.,
+Sarah A.&nbsp;W., Eva L.&nbsp;M., Clayton B., W. Hoey, Jun., Martha M.&nbsp;I., Pet
+Wilcox, Gertrude and Albert F., C. Arnold, Frank Durston, Grace T.
+Lyman, H.&nbsp;L. Van Norman, Marion P. Wiggin.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>Correct answers to puzzles are received from J.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;W., John N. Howe, T.&nbsp;M.
+Armstrong, M.&nbsp;P. Randolph, Charles Gaylor, Nellie V. Brainard, Cal I.
+Forny, Bessie C. Morris, Walter P. Hiles, Blanche Anderson, Marie Doyle,
+Isobel Jacob, S. Birdie Dorman, William and Mary Tiddy, Emma Radford, W.&nbsp;H.
+Wolford, The Dawley Boys, "Lone Star," Willie F. Woolard, A.&nbsp;C.
+Chapin, George Hayward, John Ogburn.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h2>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h2>
+
+<h3>No. 1.</h3>
+
+<h3>ENIGMA.</h3>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In cream, not in milk.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In chintz, not in silk.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In time, not in late.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In pencil, not in slate.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In atlas, not in book.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In sight, not in look.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In love, not in pity.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My whole an American city.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Walter</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h3>No. 2.</h3>
+
+<h3>GEOGRAPHICAL HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.</h3>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>A city in Great Britain. A country in Europe. A group of peaks in
+the Pyrenees. A river in Asia. A range of mountains in Asia. A
+river in Ireland. A letter. A river in England. A peak in the
+Northwestern United States. A city in England founded by Ine, the
+West Saxon King. A river in British America. A river in Asia. A
+town and county in California. Centrals read downward spell the
+name of a large sea.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Marie</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h3>No. 3.</h3>
+
+<h3>ENIGMA.</h3>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">First in mouse, not in rat.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Second in dog, not in cat.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Third in house, not in lot.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Fourth in can, not in pot.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Fifth in owl, not in hawk.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Sixth in flower, not in stalk.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">A famous city am I;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">You'll guess me if you try.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Hermie</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h3>No. 4.</h3>
+
+<h3>WORD SQUARES.</h3>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>1. First, a package. Second, certain animals. Third, to jump.
+Fourth, to perceive.</p>
+
+<p>2. First, something that once laid in a famous house. Second, a
+space. Third, a Shakspearean character. Fourth, sour.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;I.&nbsp;F</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>3. First, the resting-place of an army. Second, an Asiatic sea.
+Third, a companion. Fourth, an argument.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Charles</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+
+<p>4. First, a picture. Second, something which often causes pain, and
+yet no one likes to part with. Third, a river in Transylvania.
+Fourth, passageways. Fifth, to efface.</p></blockquote>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Annie</span>.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h2>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 57.</h2>
+
+<h3>No. 1.</h3>
+
+<p>United, untied. Cavern, craven. German, manger. Grandee, derange.
+Neuter, tureen. Garnets, strange. Cruel, lucre. Derange, angered.
+Master, stream.</p>
+
+<h3>No. 2.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">1. Partridge. 2. Woodchuck.</p>
+
+<h3>No. 3.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">C</td><td align="center">H</td><td align="center">O</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">T</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">R</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">C</td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">W</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">T</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center">E</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">H</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">E</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">W</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">L</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">C</td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">W</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">U</td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">E</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">P</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">U</td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">D</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">P</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">D</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center">W</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">D</td><td align="center">D</td><td align="center">A</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<h3>No. 4.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">Nightingale.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h2>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 58.</h2>
+
+<h3>No. 1.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td align="center">T</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">N</td><td align="center">T</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">M</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">T</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">W</td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">P</td></tr>
+<tr><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center"></td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">P</td><td align="center">I</td><td align="center">C</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<h3>No. 2.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">Possunt quia posse videntur.</p>
+
+<h3>No. 3.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">Atlantic Ocean.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2>NEW BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS.</h2>
+
+<p><i>Drifting Round the World</i><a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> is a handsomely bound and illustrated
+volume containing the adventures of a boy by sea and land. The countries
+he traverses are those not often described in books of boyish travel.
+Starting in a Cape Ann fishing schooner for Greenland, he is shipwrecked
+on the coast of Labrador, contrives to reach Iceland, passes through
+marvellous adventures in Russia and Siberia, sails for Alaska, and at
+length reaches home by the overland route from San Francisco. The
+strange countries through which Robert, the hero of this book, travels
+are graphically described, and a great deal of information is conveyed
+in a form especially delightful to boy readers.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>A large number Of the new holiday books for little folks combine
+amusement with instruction of one kind or another. A very interesting
+volume, prettily bound and profusely illustrated with portraits and
+other engravings, is <i>The Story of the United States Navy</i>,<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> by Mr.
+Lossing, who has devoted many years to the study of American history,
+and whose works on that subject are popular with readers of all ages.
+The present volume, the substance of which has appeared in the columns
+of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, is written especially for boys, and contains
+many stirring accounts of famous naval engagements, of historical war
+vessels, and of celebrated men whose heroic deeds add glory to the
+history of our country. No better reading than is contained in this book
+can be found for boys, as, while it is of absorbing interest, it tells
+the story of many noble men whose example can not fail to awaken
+patriotism and a desire to attain true manhood in the minds of American
+boys in whose hands lies the future history of the United States.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>Children will always ask questions, and their natural inquisitiveness
+often goes beyond the knowledge of their elders. For this reason
+parents, as well as the youthful questioners, will extend a hearty
+welcome to <i>The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Persons and Places</i>,<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> which
+contains full information of all celebrated localities, and many
+biographical notices of important personages of every period. This
+volume, together with <i>The Cyclopædia of Common Things</i>, by the same
+author, published a year ago, forms a library in which inquisitive
+little folks will find answers to their most ingenious questions.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>Boys and girls who are forming social clubs, which they wish to make
+instructive as well as amusing, and yet are not sure of the best course
+to follow, should provide themselves with <i>Stories of the Sea</i>,<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> which
+they will find an excellent model. The book itself is very interesting.
+A party of bright young people, with an older head to guide them, meet
+together for Saturday afternoon talks on subjects connected with the
+history of the seas. Libraries are explored for accounts of famous
+navigators and naval heroes, and interesting readings are given from the
+works of Navarrete (who wrote of the voyages of Columbus), Sir Walter
+Raleigh, Southey, and other authors. These extracts are so fascinating
+that young readers are pretty sure to hunt up the books from which they
+are taken, in order to learn the whole of the story. Books like this do
+more toward cultivating a taste for good reading than volumes of advice.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>A delightful little book of American natural history is <i>Friends Worth
+Knowing</i>,<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> which takes its young readers in search of snails of all
+kinds, into the fields and woods to find wild mice and birds, over the
+plains after buffalo, and tells them many curious things about the
+habits of different animals. Interesting illustrations and an attractive
+cover add to the value of this book for a pretty and cheap holiday
+present.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>Another charming book of travel, if a summer excursion may be so called,
+is <i>Aboard the Mavis</i>,<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> in which a merry party of boys and girls
+cruise around the eastern end of Long Island Sound in a yacht, making
+occasional landings, and learning much about the early history of that
+portion of the country. This book is profusely illustrated and
+beautifully bound, and is an elegant holiday present for any girl or
+boy.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>For very little children nothing is prettier or more attractive than the
+Christmas number of <i>Our Little Ones</i>, a monthly magazine edited by
+"Oliver Optic," and published by the Russell Publishing Company, of
+Boston.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2>HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.</h2>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Single Copies</span>, 4 cents; <span class="smcap">One Subscription</span>, one year, $1.50; <span class="smcap">Five
+Subscriptions</span>, one year, $7.00&mdash;<i>payable in advance, postage free</i>.</p>
+
+<p>The Volumes of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> commence with the first Number in
+November of each year.</p>
+
+<p>Subscriptions may begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it
+will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the
+Number issued after the receipt of the order.</p>
+
+<p>Remittances should be made by <span class="smcap">Post-Office Money-Order or Draft</span>, to avoid
+risk of loss.</p>
+
+<p>Volume I., containing the first 52 Numbers, handsomely bound in
+illuminated cloth, $3.00, postage prepaid: Cover, title-page, and index
+for Volume I., 35 cents; postage, 13 cents additional.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">HARPER &amp; BROTHERS,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 36em;">Franklin Square, N.&nbsp;Y.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 398px;">
+<img src="images/ill_019.jpg" width="398" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">NEW-YEAR'S MORNING (PUSSY IN A MASK).<br /><br />
+<span class="smcap">Charley</span> (<i>under bed, to Tommy ditto</i>). "D-d-don't b-be fr-frightened,
+T-T-Tommy, I-I-I-I'm h-h-here."</span>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a name="NEW-YEARS" id="NEW-YEARS">NEW-YEAR'S.</a></h2>
+
+<p>New-Year's presents and visits originated with the Romans, and their
+gifts were symbolic. They were dried figs, dates, and honey, emblematic
+of the sweetness of the auspices under which the year should begin its
+course, and a small piece of money called stips, which foreboded riches.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a name="SPOONS" id="SPOONS">SPOONS.</a></h2>
+
+<h3>A NEW GAME FROM THE GERMAN.</h3>
+
+<h3>BY G.&nbsp;B. BARTLETT.</h3>
+
+<p>A very funny new game has come to us from our German cousins, with the
+odd title of Spoons, which is played as follows: One person takes his
+stand in the centre of the room, with a handkerchief tied over his eyes,
+and his hands extended before him, in each of which he holds a large
+table-spoon. The other players march around him in single file, clapping
+their hands in time to a tune which may be sung or played upon a piano
+in any slow measure suitable for marching. When the blinded player calls
+out "Spoons," all the others stop at once, and turn their faces toward
+him. He then finds his way to any player that he can, and must ascertain
+who he is by touching him with the spoons only, which he may use as he
+pleases. If he guesses right, the person he has caught is obliged to
+take his place in the centre. If he is wrong, he must try until he
+succeeds, which it is easy to do with a little practice, especially if
+the one who is caught joins in the universal laughter.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>An old gentleman in Vienna, who was afraid of leaving his money in a
+bank, two years ago concealed his savings, in the shape of twenty 1000
+florin notes, in a cupboard in his cellar. Last week it occurred to him
+to go and see how his treasure was going on; but on doing this he
+discovered, to his horror, that the mice had been making free with it,
+and that only a small heap of fluffy dust remained of all his wealth.
+The grief caused by this discovery was so great that the poor old man
+threw himself out of his bedroom window, and broke his neck. Another
+story is told of a lady who hid her property, consisting of a number of
+United States greenbacks, in a satchel in her cupboard. She also, after
+a time, found that a mouse had devoured part of the notes, and had used
+the rest to line its nest; but in this case the meal had evidently
+disagreed with the enterprising mouse, for it was lying dead in its
+nest, the fact being that the arsenic which had been used to give the
+green color to the notes had caused its death. In these days, when money
+can easily and safely be deposited in savings-banks, it is very foolish
+to hide it in holes and corners where it is liable to be lost.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<h2><a name="CHARADE" id="CHARADE">CHARADE.</a></h2>
+
+<h3>BY H.</h3>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Mighty and cruel and strong is my first,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Beautiful too to behold;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But oh! it is false. Of traitors the worst,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Luring the hardy and bold.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Tranquil and lovely it smiles in your face,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Then drags you to death in its wild embrace.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Feeble and weak is my second&mdash;a cry</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Uttered by young, tender things;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Lovely to look at, they too may prove sly,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Darting with sudden, fierce springs;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Though never a smile plays over their face,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">They <i>too</i> drag to death in a wild embrace.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Found is my whole where the wild waters roar&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Old Ocean nurtures its race&mdash;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Where beat the waves on the rocky shore,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Looking the wind in the face.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Happy, contented, my whole will play</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In the gale and the storm the live-long day.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 281px;">
+<img src="images/ill_020.jpg" width="281" height="400" alt="" />
+<span class="caption">RECEIVING CALLS IN THE NURSERY.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> <i>Drifting Round the World</i>. By Captain <span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;W. Hall</span>.
+Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 372. Boston: Lee &amp; Shepard. New York: Charles T.
+Dillingham.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> <i>The Story of the United States Navy</i>. By <span class="smcap">Benson J.
+Lossing</span>, LL.D. Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 418. New York: Harper &amp; Brothers.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> <i>The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Persons and Places</i>. By
+<span class="smcap">John D. Champlin</span>, Jun. Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 936. New York: Henry Holt &amp;
+Co.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> <i>Stories of the Sea</i>. By <span class="smcap">E.&nbsp;E. Hale</span>. 8vo, pp. 302. Boston:
+Roberts Brothers.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> <i>Friends Worth Knowing</i>. By <span class="smcap">Ernest Ingersoll</span>. Illustrated.
+Sq. 16mo, pp. 258. New York: Harper &amp; Brothers.</p></div>
+
+<div class="footnote">
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> <i>Aboard the Mavis</i>. By <span class="smcap">Richard Markham</span>. Illustrated. 8vo,
+pp. 240. New York: Dodd, Mead, &amp; Co.</p></div></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, December 28, 1880, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Harper's Young People, December 28, 1880
+       An Illustrated Monthly
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: January 5, 2014 [EBook #44596]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, DEC 28, 1880 ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Annie R. McGuire
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. II.--NO. 61. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, December 28, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE FIRST NEW-YEAR'S CALL.--SEE NEXT PAGE.]
+
+A HAPPY NEW YEAR.
+
+
+On the first page of this New-Year's number of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE is
+a picture of the first New-Year's call of the season, which is one made
+at the door of every house in the land just as the clock strikes twelve
+on New-Year's Eve.
+
+The little fur-clad figure knocking for admittance is that of New Year
+himself, Master Eighteen Eighty-One, laden with promises and good wishes
+that will, we hope, insure him a warm welcome from the sleepy watchers
+within the cozy room to which he seeks to enter. Even Miss Dolly, whom
+the children have left on the cricket in the corner to watch the old
+year out and the new one in, and who does not look at all sleepy, will
+welcome the little stranger in her own way, and he will quickly be made
+to feel at home.
+
+Now watch for him, dear children; he will surely come to every door, and
+when he arrives, welcome him warmly, and make up your minds to do
+everything in your power to make him the very happiest New Year that
+ever was.
+
+
+
+
+"PRINCE CHARLIE."
+
+BY KATHERINE KAMERON.
+
+
+Christmas was over. The twins, Allan and Jessie, had romped and played
+away the whole delightful day, in doors and out.
+
+Wonderful to tell, they had wearied of all the pretty new toys, and
+found an end to play. After tea they sat quietly in the fire-glow,
+talking with mamma about the beautiful new picture that was her gift to
+them. It was a charming group of gayly dressed children--little Princes
+and a Princess, the children of the unhappy King Charles I. of England.
+The tallest was a handsome boy, in a suit of scarlet velvet, with a
+broad collar of rich old lace. He held by the hand a tiny tot, in a
+frilled cap and a dress of blue silk, who timidly clung to the
+protecting arm of his big brother. The third was a quaint little damsel
+in a robe of creamy satin, standing with her dainty hands demurely
+folded before her. Her long stately dress touched the floor with its
+border of Vandyck points, and her small head was curiously dressed in a
+by-gone courtly fashion. About her pretty throat was a necklace of
+costly pearls, and she looked the perfect model of a tiny old-time lady
+of high degree. A pair of graceful spaniels crouched at the feet of the
+children, and behind them was a curtain of some rich foreign stuff. The
+fire-light flashed on the sweet young faces and shining auburn hair,
+touching the waves and curls, while the shadows danced and nickered
+until it seemed to Allan that the bright eyes smiled back to him as he
+looked up. It was like a pleasant dream, and Allan's blue eyes grew
+slowly dim and dimmer. Jessie's eyelids had been drooping from the time
+mamma began to tell about the royal children, and directly the twins
+were fast asleep. Papa came in, and mamma laughed with him at the effect
+of her story, and then the little sleepers were playfully shaken until
+they were wide awake enough to walk up stairs.
+
+There was a sleepy good-night kiss all around, a double "Now I lay me,"
+and two heads nestled down on two soft pillows, and the long delightful
+Christmas-day was quite gone.
+
+In almost no time Allan felt a hand on his shoulder, and a voice said,
+softly, "Allan, Allan, wake up, my man, and come and show me about the
+things."
+
+Allan turned over, rubbed his dazed eyes, and then jumped straight up in
+bed, winking and blinking in wonder at what he saw. Standing beside his
+bed was a handsome lad, about his own size, in a scarlet velvet suit.
+The stranger was laughing merrily at his surprise, as he spoke again:
+"My good fellow, don't sit staring at me, but put on your doublet and
+the rest, and come on. We have not long to stay." At this, Allan glanced
+through the open door of Jessie's room, and there by her bed he saw in
+the moonlight the dainty little dame in the trailing satin. She was
+whispering to Jessie. In an instant the visitors vanished hand in hand
+through the doorway, and the children heard their soft footfalls on the
+stairway. "Prince Charlie! Princess Mary!" was all they said, but they
+fairly danced into their clothes, and then ran quickly down to the
+library; and when the door opened, what a strange sight met their
+astonished eyes! There was a famous fire in the grate, and by the bright
+blaze they saw Prince Charlie mounted, on the new velocipede, tugging at
+the bridle, and cracking his whip until it snapped again, but the queer
+steed moved not a pace. The little Princess sat holding
+Nannette--Jessie's French doll--speechless with delight. She turned the
+pretty head from side to side, she moved the arms and feet, she examined
+the tiny kid boots with their high heels. Then she admired the long
+gloves with no end of buttons, and the scrap of a bonnet, made of shreds
+of flower and feather in a wonderful way, and perched on a high tower of
+fluffy flossy hair.
+
+"Do you like it, Princess Mary?" asked Jessie, most respectfully.
+
+"Oh, it is bonny," was the answer; "so much prettier than any I ever
+saw. Is your father a great King, and does he have such wonderful dolls
+made for you?" she asked.
+
+"Oh, dear me, no, Princess," said Jessie, hastily, and wanting very much
+to laugh. "My father is a great doctor, though. We have no Kings in our
+country."
+
+"No Kings!" echoed the little lady, incredulously. "Who reigns, then?
+But do not say Princess every time; call me Mary. We must go back so
+soon, and I have a hundred questions to ask about so many strange
+things. We are very tired of looking at them from up there," glancing at
+the picture.
+
+"Indeed, we have longed to get down close by you ever since we came,"
+exclaimed the Prince. "I am sure you saw us smile at you last evening,"
+he added.
+
+"So I was right," cried Allan, joyfully. "I thought so;" and looking up
+to the picture, he saw the pretty spaniels quite alone against the rich
+drapery. They were huddled together in a lonely way, a silky heap of
+noses and paws. At Prince Charlie's voice one of them threw up his head
+for a dismal howl, but at a sign from his young master he patiently
+curled down to wait.
+
+The Princess missed Jamie, and turned to look for him. There, in a
+corner on the floor, sat the baby Duke, in his sky-blue silk, dancing
+Jessie's droll Japanese "Ning-Ping" until the limp arms and legs fairly
+flew. He stopped a moment to look into the narrow sleepy eyes, and to
+touch the long braid that hung down behind, and the stiff little fringe,
+like a brush, on top of the queer head, and then again the legs and arms
+rattled a tune, while Jamie's round, solemn eyes seemed not even to
+wink, so intent and wondering was his look. In the mean time his stately
+sister held Nannette close in her arms, as she moved about, looking,
+listening, and questioning.
+
+Just then Jamie called, softly, "Charlie! Charlie! Mary! come and see."
+
+The little fellow had found a box of jointed wooden animals and people.
+He was twisting the legs and arms and paws and wings into all manner of
+shapes, and then standing up the funny wry shapes, and laughing in high
+glee.
+
+Allan noticed how quietly they all spoke and moved. Even when they
+laughed heartily, or called out, they did not make any loud noise. He
+wondered if it was being pictures so long had made them so still.
+
+Presently Jessie took her lacquered box, full of small treasures, from
+the table to the sofa, where the two girls cozily seated themselves. All
+of the simple, pretty things seemed equally new and curious to the
+little stranger. Jessie tried to have the Princess Mary keep a few
+trifles which she seemed most to admire, but in vain; she only drew up
+her small quaint figure, and said, quietly, "A Princess may not accept
+gifts." Somehow, although she smiled graciously, this little speech
+troubled Jessie, who feared she had been rude, although she did not in
+the least know how.
+
+Duke Jamie had in the mean time wearied of his wooden people, and went
+wandering about in his baby fashion, but never for a moment dropping
+Ning-Ping. Just then he spied his brother careering around on the
+velocipede, having learned from Allan how to manage it. Of course Jamie
+cried for a ride, and fortunately got it. While the Prince was whirling
+round, Allan had wound up his engine with the long train of passenger
+coaches, and sent it spinning across the floor in front of the fire. In
+a twinkling Prince Charlie jumped down to see the new wonder. The
+Princess at once lifted Jamie astride of the strange steed, and with one
+arm about him, walked in a motherly way by his side, pushing the curious
+vehicle.
+
+"What is this long carriage?" asked young Royalty.
+
+"Only a steam-engine and train of cars," was the reply.
+
+"But where is the steam?" said the Prince.
+
+"Oh, there is none here; this goes by wheels, like a clock; but the real
+cars that we travel on run by steam."
+
+The long train began to creep slowly, and the wheels whirred and buzzed
+a little in running down. Allan handed the key to his guest, and Prince
+Charlie wound it up with a zest, and watched it awhile; then he turned
+to Allan with, "I say, how do they run by steam?"
+
+"Why, the steam is made by the fire under the engine boiler, like a big
+tea-kettle," explained Allan, carefully, and feeling like a professor;
+"this turns the engine wheels somehow, and the cars being all fast to
+it, they go like lightning almost."
+
+He soon bethought himself of his little engine, and in a few minutes it
+was steaming up, with the piston-rod pumping and the wheels whizzing,
+and the Prince quite lost in wonder. It was a very novel and pleasant
+sensation to know so much more than a royal Prince, and Allan enjoyed it
+hugely. Looking about him for new marvels, he chanced on his
+printing-press. The fire-light was dying out, and it was too dark for
+type-setting, so he quickly struck a match and lighted the gas jet. When
+he turned, his guests stood stupefied and open-mouthed with most unroyal
+amazement.
+
+The Prince gasped out, "Sister, did you see him set fire to a hole?
+Surely he did it, and with a dry splinter."
+
+The Princess turned quite pale. "Are the walls full of fire?" she asked,
+anxiously, hugging baby Jamie closely.
+
+This was, indeed, like magic to the royal pair, and, truth to tell, the
+young magician was nearly as much at a loss to explain the phenomenon.
+
+"It is gas, only gas," said Allan.
+
+"And what in the name of all the saints is this gas?" returned the
+Prince.
+
+"Oh, something that is made from coal, and runs in tubes in the wall,
+and burns in the air like oil," said Allan. "It is not loose; it can not
+get out of the tubes. It is quite safe," he assured the frightened
+Princess, "and the dry splinter has something on the tip--phosphorus, I
+think--that fires when it is scraped." Thus re-assured, the royal pair
+amused themselves for some time drawing matches, quite like common
+children. After this Allan introduced his treadle press, and soon the
+boys were deep in the mysteries of type-setting, inking, and taking
+impressions. The Prince wondered greatly at a printing-press for a boy's
+pastime, and still more to see it revolve so rapidly.
+
+"I once went," he said, "to see them print our London weekly. They had
+no treadle, for the press was worked by hand; but then they had famous
+printers there, and plenty of them, you see, and could send out a
+thousand papers in a day," and he looked to Allan for admiration.
+
+"That was doing very well," was the calm response; "but with a treadle I
+could work off about twice as many myself. In our country we use steam
+to drive every sort of machine, and to-day our Yankee presses just buzz
+round, and throw about eight thousand or ten thousand newspapers an
+hour, all cut and folded."
+
+"Don't! don't!" cried Prince Charlie; "that is a little faster than I
+can think. I am sure there can't be people enough to read so many. I
+should lose my breath in your fast country. What, pray, is the use of
+driving things like lightning? Let us try those cards; and now go slow,
+my man, and let me see how you do it."
+
+Very soon they had printed, in old English type, "Charles Stuart, 1640,"
+and in a neat script, "Allan Wallace, 1880." The Prince decided he would
+rather have the treadle press than anything he had yet seen.
+
+Meanwhile Jessie was doing her best to entertain the Princess Mary, who
+had watched all of these wonders in her quiet way, holding Jamie by the
+hand lest he should get into mischief. After the gas-lighting she was
+more careful of him than ever, fearing some harm might befall the baby
+brother in this new world of strange ways.
+
+But shortly after this a sharp cry made them all start; Jamie had caught
+his busy, plump little hand in a wheel; he could not release it, and was
+screaming with fright. Princess Mary ran to his relief.
+
+"What may this be?" she asked, when Jamie was soothed again. "Is it a
+spinning-wheel?"
+
+"Indeed no," said Jessie; "I should be very glad to see one; but this is
+a sewing-machine."
+
+"A what?" exclaimed her guest.
+
+But Jessie, for answer, had opened the cover, and taking two strips of
+cloth from a drawer, began to stitch a seam at a flying speed. She was
+very proud of this accomplishment, having but just learned. "I can play
+better on this than on the piano," she remarked. The swift wheel whirled
+while she talked, and the long seam flew from under the needle, and in
+an instant was done. The trio stood in amazement, little Jamie being
+spell-bound by the flying wheel.
+
+"Wonderful! wonderful!" cried Prince Charlie; "this is magic."
+
+The Princess asked, eagerly, "May I try it?"
+
+Jessie rose at once. The little lady daintily drew aside her satin robe,
+and put her small shoes on the treadle. With the help of Jessie the
+wheel was soon spinning briskly. The low hum and whir grew rapidly
+louder. "What!" cried the Prince, "a tune?" and, wondering, Allan heard
+the swift humming change to a lively measure. Louder and clearer it
+rose, till the leal old Scotch ballad, "Wha'll be King but Charlie?"
+rang out right gayly. The Prince seemed overjoyed, and directly began a
+merry whistle to the loud swift music of the wheel.
+
+"What a stunning whistle!" commented Allan, admiringly. Higher and
+clearer it rose, nearer and shriller it came, until it sounded close
+into his very ear, piercing its sharp way like a steel point. He
+started, and sprang aside to escape it; then it suddenly stopped.
+
+"Well, sir, is it possible you are awake at last?" said a cheery voice.
+"You go down to your work like one of the Seven Sleepers. Here I've been
+whistling 'Wha'll be King but Charlie?' right in your very ear, long
+enough to wake the Sleeping Beauty herself." It was his father who
+spoke. There he stood by Allan's bedside, laughing and tossing the
+covers off from the bewildered boy. "Listen, sleepy-head; your mother
+has been playing the same tune for ten minutes at least on the library
+piano. She says the new picture brought back the old tune. Come, sir,
+breakfast is waiting. Dress on the double-quick, you sluggard."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A DOLLS' RECEPTION.
+
+
+A few days before Christmas there was given in New York a dolls'
+reception in aid of the Sea-side Sanitarium--the charity that takes poor
+children of the great city to the sea-side for a few days each summer.
+
+This reception was given in a hall on Thirty-third Street, and consisted
+of a series of tableaux, in which all the characters were represented by
+the most lovely and exquisitely dressed French dolls. These tableaux
+were shown in dainty booths tastefully draped and decorated, so that the
+effect was extremely pretty, and the reception furnished a novel and
+delightful entertainment to the children who attended it in throngs
+during the three days that it lasted.
+
+At the "Birthday Party" the name of each doll-guest appeared on a dainty
+little dinner card laid beside each plate.
+
+Mother Goose and her children were dressed in the costumes with which
+innumerable picture-books have made every child familiar.
+
+The dolls had their Christmas tree as well as children; and, mounted on
+a ladder, Santa Claus (a doll's Santa Claus, you know) made believe
+distribute beautiful Christmas gifts.
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in No. 58 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, December 7.]
+
+TOBY TYLER;
+
+OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.
+
+BY JAMES OTIS.
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+THE NIGHT RIDE.
+
+
+The wagon on which Mr. Lord was to send his new-found employe was, by
+the most singular chance, the one containing the monkeys, and Toby
+accepted this as a good omen. He would be near his venerable friend all
+night, and there was some consolation in that. The driver instructed the
+boy to watch his movements, and when he saw him leading his horses
+around, "to look lively, and be on hand, for he never waited for any
+one."
+
+Toby not only promised to do as ordered, but he followed the driver
+around so closely that, had he desired, he could not have rid himself of
+his little companion.
+
+The scene which presented itself to Toby's view was strange and weird in
+the extreme. Shortly after he had attached himself to the man with whom
+he was to ride, the performance was over, and the work of putting the
+show and its belongings into such a shape as could be conveyed from one
+town to another was soon in active operation. Toby forgot his grief,
+forgot that he was running away from the only home he had ever known--in
+fact, forgot everything concerning himself--so interested was he in that
+which was going on about him.
+
+As soon as the audience had got out of the tent--and almost before--the
+work of taking down the canvas was begun.
+
+Torches were stuck in the earth at regular intervals, the lights that
+had shone so brilliantly in and around the ring had been extinguished,
+the canvas sides had been taken off, and the boards that had formed the
+seats were being packed into one of the carts with a rattling sound that
+seemed as if a regular fusillade of musketry was being indulged in. Men
+were shouting; horses were being driven hither and thither, harnessed to
+the wagons, or drawing the huge carts away as soon as they had been
+loaded; and everything seemed in the greatest state of confusion, while
+really the work was being done in the most systematic manner possible.
+
+Toby had not long to wait before the driver informed him that the time
+for starting had arrived, and assisted him to climb up to the narrow
+seat whereon he was to ride that night.
+
+The scene was so exciting, and his efforts to stick to the narrow seat
+so great, that he really had no time to attend to the homesick feeling
+that had crept over him during the first part of the evening.
+
+[Illustration: TOBY'S FIRST NIGHT RIDE.--DRAWN BY W. A. ROGERS.]
+
+The long procession of carts and wagons drove slowly out of the town,
+and when the last familiar house had been passed the driver spoke to
+Toby for the first time since they started.
+
+"Pretty hard work to keep on--eh, sonny?"
+
+"Yes," replied the boy, as the team ran over a rock, bounced him high in
+the air, and he, by strenuous efforts, barely succeeded in alighting on
+the seat again, "it is pretty hard work; an' my name's Toby Tyler."
+
+Toby heard a queer sound that seemed to come from the man's throat, and
+for a few moments he feared that his companion was choking. But he soon
+understood that this was simply an attempt to laugh, and he at once
+decided that it was a very poor style of laughing.
+
+"So you object to being called sonny, do you?"
+
+"Well, I'd rather be called Toby, for, you see, that's my name."
+
+"All right, my boy; we'll call you Toby. I suppose you thought it was a
+mighty fine thing to run away an' jine a circus, didn't you?"
+
+Toby started in affright, looked around cautiously, and then tried to
+peer down through the small square aperture, guarded by iron rods, that
+opened into the cage just back of the seat they were sitting on. Then he
+turned slowly around to the driver, and asked, in a voice sunk to a
+whisper: "How did you know that I was runnin' away? Did he tell you?"
+and Toby motioned with his thumb as if he were pointing out some one
+behind him.
+
+It was the driver's turn now to look around in search of the "he"
+referred to by Toby.
+
+"Who do you mean?" asked the man, impatiently.
+
+"Why, the old feller; the one in the cart there. I think he knew I was
+runnin' away, though he didn't say anything about it; but he looked just
+as if he did."
+
+The driver looked at Toby in perfect amazement for a moment, and then,
+as if suddenly understanding the boy, he relapsed into one of those
+convulsive efforts that caused the blood to rush up into his face, and
+gave him every appearance of having a fit.
+
+"You must mean one of the monkeys," said the driver, after he had
+recovered his breath, which had been almost shaken out of his body by
+the silent laughter. "So you thought a monkey had told me what any fool
+could have seen if he had watched you for five minutes?"
+
+"Well," said Toby, slowly, as if he feared he might provoke one of those
+terrible laughing spells again, "I saw him to-night, an' he looked as if
+he knew what I was doin'; so I up an' told him, an' I didn't know but
+he'd told you, though he didn't look to me like a feller that would be
+mean."
+
+There was another internal shaking on the part of the driver, which Toby
+did not fear as much, since he was getting accustomed to it, and then
+the man said, "Well, you are the queerest little cove I ever saw."
+
+"I s'pose I am," was the reply, accompanied by a long-drawn sigh. "I
+don't seem to amount to so much as the other fellers do, an' I guess
+it's because I'm always hungry: you see, I eat awful, Uncle Dan'l says."
+
+The only reply which the driver made to this plaintive confession was to
+put his hand down into the deepest recesses of one of his deep pockets,
+and to draw therefrom a huge doughnut, which he handed to his companion.
+
+Toby was so much at his ease by this time that the appetite which had
+failed him at supper had now returned in full force, and he devoured the
+doughnut in a most ravenous manner.
+
+"You're too small to eat so fast," said the man, in a warning tone, as
+the last morsel of the greasy sweetness disappeared, and he fished up
+another for the boy. "Some time you'll get hold of one of the India
+rubber doughnuts that they feed to circus people, an' choke yourself to
+death."
+
+Toby shook his head, and devoured this second cake as quickly as he had
+the first, craning his neck, and uttering a funny little squeak as the
+last bit went down, just as a chicken does when he gets too large a
+mouthful of dough.
+
+"I'll never choke," he said, confidently; "I'm used to it; and Uncle
+Dan'l says I could eat a pair of boots an' never wink at 'em; but I
+don't just believe that."
+
+As the driver made no reply to this remark, Toby curled himself up on
+one corner of the seat, and watched with no little interest all that was
+passing on around him. Each one of the wagons had a lantern fastened to
+the hind axle, and these lights could be seen far ahead on the road, as
+if a party of fire-flies had started in single file on an excursion. The
+trees by the side of the road stood out weird and ghostly-looking in the
+darkness, and the rumble of the carts ahead and behind formed a musical
+accompaniment to the picture that sounded strangely doleful.
+
+Mile after mile was passed over in perfect silence, save now and then
+when the driver would whistle a few bars of some very dismal tune that
+would fairly make Toby shiver with its mournfulness. Eighteen miles was
+the distance from Guilford to the town where the next performance of the
+circus was to be given, and as Toby thought of the ride before them, it
+seemed as if the time would be almost interminable. He curled himself up
+on one corner of the seat, and tried very hard to go to sleep; but just
+as his eyes began to grow heavy, the wagon would jolt over some rock or
+sink deep in some rut, till Toby, the breath very nearly shaken out of
+his body, and his neck almost dislocated, would sit bolt-upright,
+clinging to the seat with both hands, as if he expected each moment to
+be pitched out into the mud.
+
+The driver watched him closely, and each time that he saw him shaken up
+and awakened so thoroughly he would indulge in one of his silent
+laughing spells, until Toby would wonder whether he would ever recover
+from it. Several times had Toby been awakened, and each time he had seen
+the amusement his sufferings caused, until he finally resolved to put an
+end to the sport by keeping awake.
+
+"What is your name?" he asked of the driver, thinking a conversation
+would be the best way to rouse himself into wakefulness.
+
+"Wa'al," said the driver, as he gathered the reins carefully in one
+hand, and seemed to be debating in his mind how he should answer the
+question, "I don't know as I know myself, it's been so long since I've
+heard it."
+
+Toby was wide enough awake now, as this rather singular problem was
+forced upon his mind. He revolved the matter silently for some moments,
+and at last he asked, "What do folks call you when they want to speak to
+you?"
+
+"They always call me old Ben, an' I've got so used to the name that I
+don't need any other."
+
+Toby wanted very much to ask more questions, but he wisely concluded
+that it would not be agreeable to his companion.
+
+"I'll ask the old man about it," said Toby to himself, referring to the
+aged monkey, whom he seemed to feel acquainted with; "he most likely
+knows, if he'll say anything." After this the conversation ceased, until
+Toby again ventured to suggest, "It's a pretty long drive, hain't it?"
+
+"You want to wait till you've been in this business a year or two," said
+Ben, sagely, "an' then you won't think much of it. Why, I've known the
+show towns to be thirty miles apart, an' them was the times when we had
+lively work of it: riding all night and working all day kind of wears on
+a fellow."
+
+"Yes, I s'pose so," said Toby, with a sigh, as he wondered whether he
+had got to work as hard as that; "but I suppose you get all you want to
+eat, don't you?"
+
+"Now you've struck it," said Ben, with the air of one about to impart a
+world of wisdom, as he crossed one leg over the other, that his position
+might be as comfortable as possible while he was initiating his young
+companion into the mysteries of the life. "I've had all the boys ride
+with me since I've been with this show, an' I've tried to start them
+right; but they didn't seem to profit by it, an' always got sick of the
+show, an' run away, just because they didn't look out for themselves as
+they ought to. Now listen to me, Toby, an' remember what I say. You
+see, they put us all in a hotel together, an' some of these places where
+we go don't have any too much stuff on the table. Whenever we strike a
+new town, you find out at the hotel what time they have the grub ready,
+an' you be on hand so's to get in with the first. Eat all you can, an'
+fill your pockets."
+
+"If that's all a feller has to do to travel with a circus," said Toby,
+"I'm just the one, 'cause I always used to do just that when I hadn't
+any idea of bein' a circus man."
+
+"Then you'll get along all right," said Ben, as he checked the speed of
+his horses, and, looking carefully ahead, said, as he guided his team to
+one side of the road, "This is as far as we're going to-night."
+
+Toby learned that they were within a couple of miles of the town, and
+that the entire procession would remain by the road-side until time to
+make the grand entree into the village, when every wagon, horse, and man
+would be decked out in the most gorgeous array, as they had been when
+they entered Guilford.
+
+Under Ben's direction he wrapped himself in an old horse-blanket, lay
+down on the top of the wagon, and he was so tired from the excitement of
+the day and night that he had hardly stretched out at full length before
+he was fast asleep.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+THE NEW-YEAR'S WELCOME.
+
+BY MARY D. BRINE.
+
+
+  Ring, bells, ring! for the King is here;
+  Ring, bells, ring! for the glad New Year.
+  He mounts his throne with a smiling face,
+  His sceptre lifts with majestic grace.
+  Ring for the joy his advent brings;
+  Ring for the happy songs he sings;
+  Ring for the promises sweet and true
+  With which we gladden our hearts anew.
+
+  The new-born Year is a happy fellow,
+  His voice is sweet, and low, and mellow;
+  With the Christmas holly his head is crowned,
+  With the Christmas blessings we'll wrap him round.
+  Then ring, bells, ring! for the joyous day--
+  The Past lies silent, the Present is gay;
+  Ring out your merriest, cheer after cheer,
+  To welcome the birth of the Happy New Year!
+
+
+
+
+BEE-HUNTING.
+
+BY JIMMY BROWN.
+
+
+The more I see of this world the hollower I find everybody. I don't mean
+that people haven't got their insides in them, but they are so
+dreadfully ungrateful. No matter how kind and thoughtful any one may be,
+they never give him any credit for it. They will pretend to love you and
+call you "dear Jimmy what a fine manly boy come here and kiss me" and
+then half an hour afterward they'll say "where's that little wretch let
+me just get hold of him O! I'll let him know." Deceit and ingratitude
+are the monster vices of the age and they are rolling over our beloved
+land like the flood. (I got part of that elegant language from the
+temperance lecturer last week, but I improved it a good deal.)
+
+There is Aunt Sarah. The uncle that belonged to her died two years ago
+and she's awfully rich. She comes to see us sometimes with Tommy--that's
+her boy, a little fellow ten years old--and you ought to see how mother
+and Sue wait on her and how pleasant father is when she's in the room.
+Now she always said that she loved me like her own son. She'd say to
+father "How I envy you that noble boy what a comfort he must be to you,"
+and father would say "Yes he has some charming qualities" and look as if
+he hadn't laid onto me with his cane that very morning and told me that
+my conduct was such. You'll hardly believe that just because I did the
+very best I could and saved her precious Tommy from an apple grave, Aunt
+Sarah says I'm a young Cain and knows I'll come to the gallows.
+
+She came to see us last Friday, and on Saturday I was going bee-hunting.
+I read all about it in a book. You take an axe and go out-doors and
+follow a bee, and after a while the bee takes you to a hollow tree full
+of honey and you cut the tree down and carry the honey home in thirty
+pails and sell it for ever so much. I and Sam McGinnis were going and
+Aunt Sarah says "O take Tommy with you the dear child would enjoy it so
+much." Of course no fellow that's twelve years old wants a little chap
+like that tagging after him but mother spoke up and said that I'd be
+delighted to take Tommy and so I couldn't help myself.
+
+We stopped in the wood-shed and borrowed father's axe and then we found
+a bee. The bee wouldn't fly on before us in a straight line but kept
+lighting on everything, and once he lit on Sam's hand and stung him
+good. However we chased the bee lively and by-and-by he started for his
+tree and we ran after him. We had just got to the old dead apple-tree in
+the pasture when we lost the bee and we all agreed that his nest must be
+in the tree. It's an awfully big old tree, and it's all rotted away on
+one side so that it stands as if it was ready to fall over any minute.
+
+Nothing would satisfy Tommy but to climb that tree. We told him he'd
+better let a bigger fellow do it but he wouldn't listen to reason. So we
+gave him a boost and he climbed up to where the tree forked and then he
+stood up and began to say something when he disappeared. We thought he
+had fallen out of the tree and we ran round to the other side to pick
+him up but he wasn't there. Sam said it was witches but I knew he must
+be somewhere so I climbed up the tree and looked.
+
+He had slipped down into the hollow of the tree and was wedged in tight.
+I could just reach his hair but it was so short that I couldn't get a
+good hold so as to pull him out. Wasn't he scared though! He howled and
+said "O take me out I shall die," and Sam wanted to run for the doctor.
+
+I told Tommy to be patient and I'd get him out. So I slid down the tree
+and told Sam that the only thing to do was to cut the tree down and then
+open it and take Tommy out. It was such a rotten tree I knew it would
+come down easy. So we took turns chopping, and the fellow who wasn't
+chopping kept encouraging Tommy by telling him that the tree was 'most
+ready to fall. After working an hour the tree began to stagger and
+presently down she came with an awful crash and burst into a million
+pieces.
+
+Sam and I said Hurray! and then we poked round in the dust till we found
+Tommy. He was all over red dust and was almost choked, but he was
+awfully mad. Just because some of his ribs were broke--so the doctor
+said--he forgot all Sam and I had done for him. I shouldn't have minded
+that much, because you don't expect much from little boys, but I did
+think his mother would have been grateful when we brought him home and
+told her what we had done. Then I found what all her professions were
+worth. She called father and told him that I and the other miscurrent
+had murdered her boy. Sam was so frightened at the awful name she called
+him that he ran home, and father told me I could come right up stairs
+with him.
+
+They couldn't have treated me worse if I'd let Tommy stay in the tree
+and starve to death. I almost wish I had done it. It does seem as if the
+more good a boy does the more the grown folks pitch into him. The moment
+Sue is married to Mr. Travers I mean to go and live with him. He never
+scolds, and always says that Susan's brother is as dear to him as his
+own, though he hasn't got any.
+
+
+
+
+SING A SONG O' SIXPENCE.
+
+DRAWN BY R. CALDECOTT.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Sing a Song o' Sixpence,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  A Pocketful of Rye;
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds
+    Baked in a Pie.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  When the Pie was opened,
+    The Birds began to sing;
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Was not that a dainty Dish
+    To set before the King?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The King was in his Counting-house
+    Counting out his Money.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The Queen was in the Parlor,
+    Eating Bread and Honey.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  The Maid was in the Garden,
+    Hanging out the Clothes;
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  There came a little Blackbird,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    And nipped off her Nose.
+  But there came a Jenny Wren
+    And popped it on again.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+HOW SANTA CLAUS CAME.
+
+BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
+
+
+"Now, Don," said Rad Burnell, dolefully, "do you believe any kind of a
+snow-storm could stop Santa Claus?"
+
+"From coming?"
+
+"Well, yes, that's it. I heard father tell mother 'he' couldn't get here
+in time, and I know he meant something about Christmas, by the way he
+looked at Petish and Molly."
+
+"Was Berry there?"
+
+"She was sound asleep in the cradle, and mother said, 'Berry won't care,
+but it'll be a dispoint for the rest of 'em.'"
+
+"It's an awful snow-storm, Rad, but I guess Santa Claus'll come, for all
+of that."
+
+Just a little later, Mr. Burnell said to his wife, "I'm sorry we didn't
+get our things in the village, Maria; but it's too late now. Don't say
+anything to the children. It'll be bad enough when it comes."
+
+Nobody else heard him, but Mrs. Burnell looked as if she wanted to cry.
+
+That was one of the whitest nights anybody in the world ever saw, for
+the snow had thrown the thickest kind of a white blanket over
+everything. Some of the roads were drifted level from fence to fence,
+and the railroads were having a tremendous time of it. Anything so black
+as a locomotive could hardly feel at home, pushing its way along through
+so white a country or into so white a village as Middleville was that
+Christmas-eve.
+
+It was a dreadfully long night, and Petish woke up three times, and
+tried to make herself believe it was morning. The last time she heard
+the great clock in the Academy steeple, on the village green, pounding
+away at its task of telling what time it was.
+
+"I'll count," said Petish.
+"Nine--twelve--seven--fourteen--fiveteen--six--I guess it's 'most time
+to get up. Must be it's Christmas now."
+
+Just then she heard a noise in the next room, and she listened with all
+her ears. First it was a rustle, and then the loudest kind of a
+whisper--loud enough to have been heard in daytime.
+
+"Rad! Rad! it's just struck five. Let's take a scoot down stairs and see
+about it. We can hurry right back again."
+
+"They're pulling on their stockings," said Petish. "I'll get up and pull
+on mine, but I won't let them see me."
+
+She tried very hard to get up without waking Molly; but it was of no
+use, for Molly's sleep had been begun at the right time, and was fairly
+over now, considering that it was Christmas morning.
+
+"Oh, Petish, what are you going to do?"
+
+"'Sh! 'sh! Molly. The boys are going down stairs to look, and I'm going
+too. Lie still."
+
+But Molly was two years older than Petish, and she wouldn't lie still.
+She was out on the floor in a twinkling, and she made Petish wrap
+herself all up in a blanket, and she pretty nearly buried her own chubby
+shape in a comfortable.
+
+That was about what Rad and Don had done already, and they were now
+carefully creeping down stairs in the dark.
+
+The door of the front parlor was nearest the foot of the stairs, and the
+boys left it open after them when they went in, but Molly and Petish
+closed it very softly and carefully the moment they were safe in the
+dim, gloomy parlor. The boys were just beyond the folding-doors at that
+moment, and did not see that they were followed.
+
+Berry was sound asleep in her crib, within reach of her mother, or she
+would have heard her say, just then, "Oh, John, it's a dreadful
+disappointment! What will those poor children do?"
+
+"Poor Petish!" said Mr. Burnell. "We can explain it to the boys, and
+they can wait, and to Molly, but it'll be bad enough for any of 'em."
+
+"But Petish'll break her little heart if she finds that Santa Claus
+hasn't come."
+
+"It'll be almost as much of a disappointment to Aunt Sally and Frank. I
+hope they'll bring Mid with them when they come."
+
+"Of course they will."
+
+Now that had been a very long, white, beautiful, dark night, and a great
+many queer things had happened in it. They are sure to, in any "night
+before Christmas"; but there had been a wonderfully deep snow-storm.
+
+Away on toward morning, just when the Academy clock was trying to make
+sound-asleep people hear that it was really four, a tired-out and
+frosty-looking railway train came smoking and coughing up to the
+platform at the village railway station.
+
+It did not stop long, but some people got out of one of the
+sleeping-cars, and some baggage was tumbled out of the baggage-car, and
+a sleepy man with a lantern said: "Yes, sir. Carriage yer in a minute,
+sir. All right."
+
+"We don't want any carriage, my man. Take our checks, and have our
+trunks brought over to Mr. Burnett's before seven o'clock. We'll walk
+right there now. Come, Sally. Come along, Mid."
+
+"Frank! husband! you'll drop some of those things!"
+
+"No, I won't, Sally."
+
+"Mid, my dear boy, look out for that box; it's only pasteboard."
+
+"I'll be careful, mother. I ain't awake yet. But it takes all three of
+us to Santa Claus this pile. Hope it isn't far."
+
+The cold, frosty air was fast getting Mid wide awake, and they did look,
+all three of them, as if they would have done better with a sleigh and a
+good team of reindeer.
+
+The distance was short, but Aunt Sally talked pretty nearly all the way.
+
+"We must do it, Frank," she said, as they drew near the gate. "I'm sure
+they've given us up. We can get in. There never was any bolt on the
+kitchen window, over the pump. Middleton can climb right in, and come
+and open the side door for us."
+
+"Oh, but won't that be fun!" exclaimed Mid, as he hurried silently
+forward.
+
+"'Sh! there, Sally," whispered Uncle Frank, as he and his portly,
+merry-faced wife lugged their bundles after Mid.
+
+It was less than half a minute before they were in the kitchen. They
+promptly shut the door between the dining-room--that was the
+sitting-room too--and the back parlor, and then how they did work!
+
+Plenty of wood and shavings and kindlings were lying in front of the
+great Franklin stove in the dining-room, and there was quickly a blazing
+fire there, and in the kitchen too, and Mid insisted on lighting every
+lamp and candle he could lay his hands on.
+
+Then the bundles came open, and their contents began to shine all around
+the chimney and over the mantel, and even on some of the chairs.
+
+"It's too bad we haven't any of their stockings," began Aunt Sally; but
+she exclaimed, the next instant: "Oh, Frank! here's Maria's work-basket,
+all full of stockings. I know them. Those are Don's. There's a pair of
+Rad's. Molly's. Petish. Berry's--the dear little kitten! We've got 'em."
+
+"Mother, let's set the table."
+
+"That's it. You help him do it, father. Won't we give 'em a surprise!"
+
+It was wonderful how those three did work, and not make any noise about
+it, and how they did change the looks of that dining-room and kitchen
+before five o'clock. Aunt Sally even put on the tea-kettle, and made
+some coffee, and it was evident that for once Santa Claus was disposed
+to be very much "at home."
+
+If they had not been drinking their coffee, perhaps they might have
+heard a voice, not many minutes after five o'clock, whispering anxiously
+to somebody in the back parlor, "I say, there's a light coming through
+the key-hole!"
+
+"There's a rattle, too, in there."
+
+"Burglars?"
+
+"Pooh! No; it's Christmas."
+
+"Oh, boys, is Santa Claus really in there? Has he got here?"
+
+"Is that you, Petish? And Molly too? Keep still. I'm just going to open
+the door a little mite of a crack, but you can all peek in."
+
+Aunt Sally's ears must have been good ones, for, carefully as Don opened
+that door, and faint as was the squeak it made, she sprang suddenly
+toward it.
+
+"Is that you, Maria? Hush! Don't make a sound. Not a loud noise for
+anything!"
+
+"We won't, Aunt Sally. Hush-sh-sh!"
+
+Even Petish did just as she was told for once, for she was a little
+scared when the great blaze of light came shining through the door as
+Aunt Sally pushed it wide open.
+
+It was shut again the moment they were all in the room, and then it was
+all Aunt Sally and Uncle Frank could do to keep up any kind of silence
+in that merry assembly. They could not have done it at all if Aunt Sally
+had not told them all: "It's a great secret. You must help us give papa
+and mamma a big surprise. Now let's get breakfast for them."
+
+"Biddy went away yesterday morning," said Molly, "but I know where the
+eggs are."
+
+Whatever she and Petish could not find, Don and Rad could, and Aunt
+Sally was the best kind of a cook.
+
+It was nearly six o'clock when Mrs. Burnell said to her husband: "I'm
+glad Berry waked up. She's all dressed now, and I can wrap her up warm."
+
+"So am I, my dear. I'll go right down with you."
+
+"Those poor children! I haven't the heart to look at them. Let's hurry
+down."
+
+So they did, and Berry went down in her mother's arms, but they little
+dreamed what was coming.
+
+A great shout welcomed them as they opened the door of the dining-room.
+
+"Wish you Merry Christmas."
+
+"Oh, Sally! Frank! I am so glad! But how did you get in?"
+
+"Breakfast's ready."
+
+"Christmas has come."
+
+Nobody could have described that next half-hour to have saved his life,
+and Aunt Sally said she had never been so happy in all hers.
+
+"Molly," said Petish, "won't you go up stairs and bring down all our
+clothes?"
+
+"Yes, children," said their mother, "you must get dressed."
+
+"Yes; and, mother," said Petish, "there was only two pairs of my
+stockings in the basket, and they're both full. If Molly'll bring the
+pair I had on, there's more'n enough to fill 'em."
+
+So there was, for Aunt Sally had not only bought and brought everything
+Mr. and Mrs. Burnell had written to her about, but she had heaped on a
+huge assortment of presents on her own account, and Petish had at least
+her share, while Uncle Frank had looked out for Molly, and nobody had
+forgotten Berry or any of the boys.
+
+It was quite the usual time when they got ready to eat at last, but
+there was nothing of what Rad and Petish called a "dispoint" in any face
+at that breakfast table.
+
+Santa Claus had come.
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 58, December 7.]
+
+MILDRED'S BARGAIN.
+
+A Story for Girls.
+
+BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE.
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+
+Milly's heart gave a bound, and then seemed to stand still.
+
+"Here I am," said the woman, smiling. "I've called to make you even a
+better offer. You pay me fifty cents a week for that dress, and any week
+you _can't pay_, why, you can return the silk, provided it's decently
+clean, and I'll allow you a couple o' dollars, when I take it back, for
+the making. Come, now, I don't mind throwing in the linings, and I won't
+bother you for the first fortnight."
+
+Now, as you have seen, Milly had gone through just the process of
+reasoning to make the peddler's words sound most alluring. The woman
+read in the young girl's face an instant's doubt followed by decision,
+and as quickly as possible she produced from her bag the roll of gray
+silk. Mildred never quite remembered how she made that purchase, or
+rather that _bargain_, for honorable purchase it certainly was not. The
+shining silk and the linings were put into her hands, and before she
+knew it she had signed a paper, a copy of which the peddler gave her.
+The transaction only occupied a few moments. Milly tucked the silk away
+in the room devoted to the bonnets and cloaks and luncheons of the
+sales-women, and was in her place before she fully realized that her
+longing of the day previous was granted. The morning passed heavily, and
+she was well pleased when it came her turn to take thirty minutes for
+lunch. But on entering the cloak-room her dismay was unbounded. Three or
+four of the shop-girls were clustered about Mildred's precious parcel,
+and a chorus of voices greeted her entrance.
+
+"Look here, Miss Lee. Whose do you suppose this is?"
+
+"Well, isn't this lovely?"
+
+"_Could_ any one have stolen it?"
+
+"No," said Mildred, quietly, yet not without a flush on her cheeks. "It
+is mine. The--person I bought it of brought it here to me to-day."
+
+[Illustration: THE GIRLS DISCOVER MILDRED'S PURCHASE.]
+
+"_Yours!_" exclaimed Jenny Martin, who had thrown one end of the silk
+over her shoulder. "Well, that _is_ pretty good on five dollars a week!"
+
+Mildred's face burned, but something in Jenny's rude words smote her
+conscience, and she tried to look good-humored, while Jenny admired
+herself a moment in the cracked glass, the other girls eying her as well
+as Mildred with some new respect.
+
+Jenny tossed the silk from her shoulders with a little sniff, and
+Mildred felt glad enough to put it away, and eat a hasty lunch. She was
+doubly glad, when her working hours were over, to hurry home, carrying
+her new treasure, which she had resolved not to show her mother until
+the night of the party. But a surprise awaited her on her return to the
+cottage. Mrs. Lee had received an invitation from a cousin in Boston to
+spend a fortnight with his family, and she had already arranged with her
+few pupils to avail herself of this unlooked-for holiday.
+
+All was excitement and preparation. Will, the second boy, was to go with
+his mother, and instead of tea on the cozy little table there were odds
+and ends of tapes, buttons, and threads, half-worn garments, and one or
+two new things, while Debby, the one servant, and Mrs. Lee were both
+stitching as if for a wager. They looked up with flushed faces to greet
+Milly.
+
+"Oh, my dear," said the mother, after explaining matters, "do sit down
+and help; we are to be off to-morrow morning."
+
+Milly saw she could not hope for a moment to sew on the new dress until
+after her mother and Will were gone, and so she entered with an earnest
+good-will into assisting them, and was genuinely pleased by their
+prospects of enjoyment. The next few days flew by. Once the children
+were safely in bed Mildred would draw forth her work, and so by dint of
+hard labor the dress was finished Monday evening. She made her toilet
+rather nervously when Tuesday night came. What between her hurry after
+getting home, and her anxiety to conceal her dress from Debby and her
+little sister Margaret, Mildred found it difficult to enjoy the "first
+wear" of the gray silk; but certainly, she thought, as she surveyed her
+work in her mirror, it _was_ a success. It fitted admirably, and she had
+had the good taste to make it simply as became a young girl only
+sixteen, though it in _no_ way became a girl working hard for twenty
+dollars a month. She took good care to envelop herself completely in a
+water-proof cloak before Debby and little Kate saw her, and thus
+equipped she started off under her brother Joe's escort for the big
+house in Lane Street.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+AN EMPTY STOCKING.
+
+BY MRS. MARGARET SANGSTER.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+I am very sure that most boys and girls will agree with me that there is
+nothing in the whole year quite so delightful as taking down the
+Christmas stocking. Of course it is charming to hang it up; but one
+never feels the least bit sleepy on Christmas-eve, and it seems so long
+to wait until morning shall come. The air is astir with excitement and
+mystery, and Santa Claus is known to be hovering about waiting for eyes
+to be closed, and children to go comfortably away to dream-land.
+By-and-by everybody does manage to fall asleep, and then by some strange
+magic the long, limp stockings are crammed with toys, books, bonbons,
+tools, dolls, and skates, or lovely ribbons, laces, watches, and gems.
+How beautifully they bulge out, every inch of room packed, while the
+overflow, which could not possibly be forced into any stocking, is piled
+temptingly on the tables and chairs.
+
+Now look at this poor little girl who hung up her stocking on
+Christmas-eve, hoping that the good Santa Claus would come down the
+chimney and put something nice in it. She was afraid he would forget
+her, and still she hoped that maybe he might bring just one dolly, and
+slip it away down into the toe, where she would find it, and be, oh! so
+glad. Little Jennie is used to being cold and hungry, and does not mind
+a great many privations which more fortunate children never have to
+endure. She can sweep crossings in old shoes, and wear a ragged shawl,
+without envying girls who are wrapped in soft furs. These merry holidays
+have not made her envious; and yet when Florence and Susie and Mabel
+have flitted by on the street, their arms full of parcels, and their
+fathers and mothers buying them every beautiful thing that the shop
+windows show, she has wished and wished that _she_ might have just one
+dolly--only one. So, thinking that maybe if she hung up her stocking her
+desire would be granted, she did so on Christmas-eve, and went to bed
+that night without minding the cold. The stocking hung where she placed
+it. Nobody came down the chimney, or up the stairs, or in at the door.
+Her mother was so tired and discouraged that she took no notice of
+Jennie's stocking, and if she had, it is doubtful whether she could have
+found a gift to gladden the child.
+
+Sometimes little girls like Jennie have parents who are not kind and
+good like yours, because they love liquor and spend their earnings to
+procure that. There are plenty of empty stockings on Christmas in homes
+where fathers and mothers are drunkards.
+
+Little Jennie looks very forlorn holding her empty stocking in her hand.
+The picture is a shadow on the gayety of this festive time, but it is
+inserted in the New-Year's number of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, that some of
+the readers may be prompted to think what they can do to send pleasures
+to little ones whose lives are seldom gay.
+
+A very large part of your Christmas happiness came from the gifts you
+bestowed as well as from those you received. It was not a selfish
+festival in homes where brothers and sisters exchanged love-tokens; and
+the weeks you spent in making pretty presents with your own hands, in
+saving your pocket-money, and in planning to surprise your dear ones,
+were very happy weeks indeed. Now I have something to propose, which you
+need not wait a whole year to carry out. You know there are Flower
+Missions and Fruit Missions, which send flowers and fruit to the homes
+of the sick poor. Why should there not be a Toy Mission too? Most of you
+have a dolly, or two, or three, perhaps, which you could spare, and some
+of you have books you have read, and playthings which you have outgrown,
+which would make poor children wild with joy. Some of the Sunday-schools
+have tried this way of keeping Christmas, and have brought their gifts
+to be distributed among the poor. And some of the benevolent enterprises
+of the city send out holiday bags, to be filled and returned with all
+sorts of necessary things. A Toy Mission would be a little different
+from these, and with a little help from and organization by older
+brothers and sisters, it could be easily put into operation. The city
+missionaries and Bible-readers can tell just where there are children
+like Jennie in the picture, and some of the express companies willingly
+carry packages and parcels of the kind I mean, free of charge.
+
+The House of the Good Shepherd, Tompkin's Cove, New York, has for
+several years sent cute-looking cloth bags to its friends, with the
+request that they be filled with gifts for its inmates. One Christmas
+season the children of the Wilson Industrial School of this city
+undertook to fill one of these, and their teacher told me it was very
+touching to see the eagerness and generosity with which they, so poor
+themselves, brought their carefully kept and mended treasures to send to
+the "poor children who had no friends to love them."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]
+
+
+Once more we wish a very Happy New Year to all our young friends. We
+have done our best to make the past year brighter to them, and they have
+made it very pleasant for us by their constant and hearty expressions of
+pleasure and approval.
+
+Christmas is past. How many of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE remembered to
+make some poor child happy on Christmas-day? If some of them were too
+much occupied with their own sparkling Christmas trees to think of the
+friendless and homeless little ones all around them, we beg them to stop
+now and remember that they can not begin the new year better than by
+bringing a smile to some sad, wan little face. There are poor children
+everywhere, in the streets, in hospitals, in wretched and desolate
+homes, over whose young life poverty and misfortune have thrown a heavy
+cloud. It must always be remembered that their suffering arises from no
+fault of their own, and those to whom fortune has been more generous
+should never forget to help from their abundance the little ones toward
+whom the world has turned a cold and unkind face. Now if every reader of
+YOUNG PEOPLE would give some little thing, if it be only a bunch of
+flowers or evergreen, how many poor little faces might be made brighter
+on New-Year's morning! A few oranges, or a picture-book, will make a
+sick, friendless child happy. Those of you who live near together, and
+have your "YOUNG PEOPLE Clubs," which you write so prettily about, can
+have a meeting, and fill baskets with playthings you do not need. Mamma
+will help you buy some oranges, and perhaps a warm scarf or pair of
+stockings, and she will advise you, too, of the best way to dispose of
+them. Every one of you can do something, and in that way you will bring
+to yourself, as well as to others, a real Happy New Year.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA.
+
+     I read all of the letters in the Post-office Box, and I like them,
+     and I like all of the stories. Sometimes I miss my paper, and I
+     feel very sorry, and sometimes I bring it home and lay it on the
+     table, and my younger brother takes it and leaves it on the floor;
+     then the baby gets it and tears it. That does not please me. My
+     papa is an editor. I have three brothers and two sisters. I am ten
+     years old.
+
+      There are two rivers here, the Assiniboine and the Red. They are
+      very muddy rivers, and it is hard to learn to swim in them. Every
+      spring somebody has been drowned. The banks of the Assiniboine are
+      undermined. It is awfully cold up here in the winter.
+
+  HARRY L.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.
+
+     I am nine years old. I do love to read YOUNG PEOPLE, and can hardly
+     wait for papa to bring it home.
+
+      I went to Texas to see my relations, and we brought home a horned
+      frog. It never ate anything. We staked a pen for it in the back
+      yard, but it died.
+
+      My papa and my uncles went hunting on the big prairie, and camped
+      out. Uncle Tom killed a striped catamount, and gave me the skin to
+      make a soft rug. Uncle Will killed two deer, and papa shot one,
+      but it got away. It is very warm in Texas, and at Galveston there
+      are lots of oysters.
+
+      Mamma has promised to have my YOUNG PEOPLE bound for my birthday
+      gift.
+
+  MINNIE L. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS.
+
+     I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it very much. We have it in school
+     to read instead of a reader.
+
+      I live within one hundred yards of the rock where the Pilgrims
+      landed.
+
+  C. F. S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  Harlem, New York.
+
+     Dear "YOUNG PEOPLE,"--I have been one of your subscribers ever
+     since you were born, and I enjoy your company very much. I have a
+     large family to look after, but when I get all my children to
+     sleep, I take the time left me to read. My family consists of Dolly
+     Varden, Betsy, Daisy, and Pearl, who are all little girls, and
+     Sambo, who is the porter, and does all the work. I have my little
+     dog Tip to watch the house when I go out, and see that no strangers
+     disturb anything during my absence. Another important member of my
+     family is my pussy cat Sam. He is just as old as I am (eleven
+     years), and begins to be rather cross. He and Tip sometimes have
+     little spats, but I soon settle them, and make them be good friends
+     again.
+
+      After school closed this summer I went to the country, where I had
+      splendid times. I fed the chickens several times during the day,
+      and I got some of them so tame they would eat out of my hands.
+      Then I had a little bit of a pig, which I picked from a whole
+      litter, and made a pet of him.
+
+      We had a large dog that did the churning, but he did not like it
+      one bit. When the churn was being prepared for him to work, he
+      would whine and cry like a baby.
+
+      When my papa came he made us a kite, which we raised real high.
+      Some of the birds were frightened at it, and others would fly
+      right up and peck at it to see what it was. It made us laugh to
+      see how the birds acted.
+
+      For my birthday my papa sent me a set of archery, which we placed
+      on the lawn at the side of the house, and we enjoyed shooting at
+      the target ever so much. I can shoot real good now.
+
+      I have a great deal to do, so will close my letter by telling you
+      that I am home again, and going to school. I also attend
+      Sunday-school, and have my music lessons to practice, so I am very
+      busy.
+
+  IRENE M. N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     We are two dolls. Our mamma is a dear little black-eyed girl almost
+     ten years old, named Jennie. She is a good deal like Bessie
+     Maynard, and loves us as much as Bessie loves her doll Clytie. We
+     used to live in Nevada, but last summer we came to live in Central
+     City, Colorado. We all like YOUNG PEOPLE, and the Post-office Box
+     in particular.
+
+  MINNIE and JOE MCG.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     We have had this dear little paper ever since it was published.
+     Mamma is very glad to have it, for she is very particular about our
+     reading. I always spend the evening after it comes reading it to my
+     little brother Regie, who is eight years old. I am fourteen. My
+     father died when I was seven.
+
+      Santa Cruz is a pretty town, and has good schools, both public and
+      private. We have roses all the year, as our winter is only a
+      succession of pleasant rains with warm sunny days between, like
+      spring in the Eastern States.
+
+      The town is near the mouth of the broad, beautiful bay of
+      Monterey, so that we can see out into the Pacific Ocean. We have
+      grand times on the beach when the tide is low, searching for
+      shells and the beautiful sea-weeds. The lady principal of a school
+      here teaches us all about shells and algae, or sea-plants, and we
+      learn to name and classify them. I wish all the young people who
+      write about aquaria could see mine. I have hundreds of them in the
+      rocks by the sea in holes worn by the waves, from the size of a
+      wooden bucket to that of a large deep barrel. They are round, and
+      the walls are covered with limpets of all sizes, star-fish of
+      different colors, bright purple sea-urchins, and lovely pale green
+      and pink sea-anemones, which wave their petals in search of food.
+      Bright-hued crabs, fish, and creatures of which I have not yet
+      learned the name, move in the water. Every part is covered with
+      some form of life capable of motion, and with all kinds of
+      sea-plants.
+
+      I would like to exchange shells and pressed sea-plants for other
+      shells, Lake Superior agates, or other small mineral specimens. I
+      would like to have everything clearly marked, and I will in return
+      name and classify the shells.
+
+  HARRY BOWMAN,
+  Santa Cruz, California.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We print the following note in reply to many inquiries in regard to
+postage-stamp catalogues, etc.:
+
+     If any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE will write to me on matters connected
+     with stamps which can not well be published, inclosing stamp for
+     reply, I shall be happy to answer him.
+
+  JOSEPH J. CASEY,
+  P. O. Box 1696, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Several of us have organized a club for the exchange of minerals.
+     We call it the American Mineralogical Club. We shall be glad to
+     have any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE join us if they are willing
+     to conform to the rules, which can be had upon application to the
+     secretary.
+
+  GEORGE DAVIES, P. O. Box 80,
+  Pottstown, Montgomery County, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following exchanges are offered by correspondents:
+
+     Iron ore from Spain, Ireland, England, and different sections of
+     the United States, for good specimens of copper or zinc.
+
+  WILLIE S. SHAFFER,
+  20 North Second Street, Harrisburg, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks.
+
+  MISS AGNES MCMURDY,
+  Care of Mrs. R. M. Beckwith,
+  Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     United States Department stamps, or pieces of the Washington
+     Monument, for coins, minerals, or foreign stamps.
+
+  HARRY LOWELL,
+  830 Twentieth Street, Washington, D. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     The Bavarian doctor mentioned in "The Story of the Boy-General," in
+     YOUNG PEOPLE No. 57, who tried to rescue Lafayette from the Olmuetz
+     prison, was Justus Erick Bollman, my uncle.
+
+      If any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE will send me a Greek or a Danish
+      postage stamp, or two kinds of stamps from South America, I will
+      send in return an Indian arrow-head, or I will exchange Indian
+      pottery for any foreign stamps except English.
+
+  C. H. BOLLMAN, Monongahela City,
+  Washington County, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange ocean curiosities for a genuine Indian bow
+     five feet long--not a bow like those Indians sell here in
+     Massachusetts, but a good one that will shoot. I should like two or
+     three arrows with it.
+
+      In answer to Carrie V. D.'s question I would say that it is not
+      necessary to change the water in the carrot hanging basket, but
+      only to refill it when the water dries away.
+
+  DANIEL D. LEE,
+  Myrtle Street, Jamaica Plains, Suffolk Co., Mass.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     A stone from New York State for one from any other State, or
+     Canada. Postmarks for stamps, minerals, birds' eggs, or Indian
+     relics. Five postmarks for every bird's egg.
+
+  WILLIAM PORTER CHAPMAN, JUN.,
+  Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps from Europe, Asia, and other countries, for others.
+
+  LOYAL DURAND,
+  591 Cass Street, Milwaukee, Wis.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks.
+
+  H. D. and R. B. HALL,
+  39 Highland Street, Roxbury, Mass.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Foreign postage stamps.
+
+  FREDDIE W. ALLREE,
+  26 Cedar Avenue, Allegheny, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Foreign postage stamps for Navy, Interior, and Agricultural
+     Department stamps, and stamps from Newfoundland.
+
+  WILLIS BISHOP,
+  20 Gold Street, Chicago, Ill.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     A white metal copy of the ancient Jewish shekel for an old coin or
+     a handsome shell.
+
+  LIBBIE and MATTIE PENICK, St. Joseph, Mo.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps for minerals or Indian relics.
+
+  WILLIAM H. RHEES,
+  1317 Eleventh Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Birds' eggs and Indian relics.
+
+  ROSCOE S. NICKERSON,
+  Klamath Agency, Oregon.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Southern moss, specimens of sulphur, and some United States stamps
+     for foreign stamps.
+
+  CLARENCE MARSH,
+  2217 Calumet Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Curiosities and specimens of all kinds.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  L. E. WALKER, care of H. W. Walker,
+  Lock Box 316, Lansing, Mich.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Sea-weed, or pieces of the stone of which the new Capitol at Albany
+     is built, for curiosities of any kind.
+
+  WILLIE L. WIDDEMER,
+  99 Madison Avenue, Albany, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     United States Department stamps, or pieces of stone from the new
+     War and Navy Department buildings, or from the Washington Monument
+     now being finished, for shells, foreign stamps, or any curiosity.
+
+  HORACE D. GOODALL,
+  826 Twentieth Street, N.W., Washington, D. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps.
+
+  CHARLES SWABEY,
+  Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Autographs of renowned men and women.
+
+  C. J. OTTERBOURG,
+  128 East Seventieth Street, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Minerals from the mines of Colorado for ocean curiosities or
+     postage stamps.
+
+  LOUIS M. GROSS,
+  Care of Abel Brothers, Denver, Colorado.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     A Canadian postmark and a Centennial three-cent stamp for a German
+     postage stamp.
+
+  ARTHUR FROST,
+  Care of D. H. Frost, Belle Plaine, Iowa.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Twenty-five postmarks for five stamps. No duplicates.
+
+  NELLIE V.,
+  343 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Birds' eggs for other eggs; or a rock from every State in the Union
+     and from several foreign countries for twenty different kinds of
+     eggs.
+
+  W. BOSTWICK, Care of John C. Remington,
+  Columbus, Muscogee County, Ga.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Birds' eggs.
+
+  FRANK M. RICHARDS,
+  Farmington, Maine.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Minerals and fossils for shells and minerals. A good specimen of
+     copper ore especially desired.
+
+  BARTAS W. JAY, Emporia, Kansas.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps for birds' eggs, coins, or minerals.
+
+  WENNIE HOLMES, Bay City, Mich.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+J. T. M.--See answer to Ida B. D., in Post-office Box of YOUNG PEOPLE
+No. 51.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HENRY A. BLAKESLEY, HARRY F. HAINES, E. A. DE LIMA, AND MANY OTHERS.--We
+are sorry not to print your requests for exchange, but that department
+of our Post-office Box is so very crowded that we can not give space to
+addresses which have been already published, unless the exchange
+offered is of some new article. Neither can we attend to irregularities
+between exchanges, which arise in almost every instance from
+carelessness, or failure to give a proper address. We know of no remedy
+for those who fail to receive answers to their letters except to
+continue sending reminders to the delinquent correspondent. A great many
+boys and girls write to us that they receive so many letters, they can
+not answer them all promptly, as they are going to school, and very busy
+with studies, but that they will surely answer them in time. We hope
+they will not forget this promise, as a letter should always be
+acknowledged.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+P. I. G.--The rudder of the ice-boat is not fastened. The rudder-post
+runs up through the keelson, which rests on an iron pin driven through
+the post just above the rudder. The runner irons are sharp.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ALFRED C. T.--The directions you require are in preparation, and will
+appear in an early number of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CECIL X.--There is no limit to the age of our contributors, but we would
+advise you to wait until you are a little older before you try to write
+a story.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HARRY OLMSTEAD, W. F., AND E. N. HIGH.--There are so many kinds of
+printing-presses for boys that the best thing for you to do is to notice
+the advertisements which are in all newspapers, and send to different
+manufacturers for catalogues, from which you can make your selection.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GEORGE C. D.--Dr. Kane penetrated to 81 deg. 22' north latitude; but in 1827
+the English navigator Sir Edward Parry reached 82 deg. 45' N., and in 1861
+Dr. Hayes reached the same latitude. Captain Hall has also penetrated
+nearly as far north. In February, 1854, in about 78 deg. N., Dr. Kane
+experienced the unexampled temperature of -68 deg., or 100 deg. below
+freezing-point, and a still lower degree has been recorded by more
+recent navigators.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+B. G. G.--Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego are the most southern permanent
+abodes of man.--Read Dana's _Geology_, and you will learn all about the
+formation of the earth. If you find it difficult to understand, ask your
+teacher to explain it to you.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ELMER. A.--The Seven Wonders of the World are generally given as
+follows: the Colossus of Rhodes, Diana's Temple at Ephesus, the
+Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Pyramids, the Pharos at Alexandria, the
+Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and the Olympian Zeus.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+G. H. ELDER, THEODORE HENNEMAN, J. B. WHITLOCK, AND OTHERS.--We would
+gladly assist you to begin a collection of postage stamps, but it is
+against our rules to give up space to the exchanges you propose.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LEWIS D.--Prescott's _History of Ferdinand and Isabella_ and Abbott's
+_Romance of Spanish History_ are good books for you to read.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Favors are acknowledged from Alice M. H., Edna E. Harris, Paul Gray,
+E. H. Shuster, Joseph A. Unruh, Lorena C. Emrich, R. Poe Smith, Harry
+and Richard Bellam, W. K. M., L. C., Edmund H. B., Fred Dierking,
+Florence McClure, Margaretta Mott, Wina James, Edgar E. Hyde, Nellie A.
+Robson, Grace A. Hood, Etta B. Easton, Arthur McCain, Vina E. B., Fred
+B., Bertram and Leroy S., Alice Ward, Melvin Rosenthal, A. V. H.,
+Johnnie E., Sarah A. W., Eva L. M., Clayton B., W. Hoey, Jun., Martha
+M. I., Pet Wilcox, Gertrude and Albert F., C. Arnold, Frank Durston,
+Grace T. Lyman, H. L. Van Norman, Marion P. Wiggin.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles are received from J. F. W., John N. Howe,
+T. M. Armstrong, M. P. Randolph, Charles Gaylor, Nellie V. Brainard, Cal
+I. Forny, Bessie C. Morris, Walter P. Hiles, Blanche Anderson, Marie
+Doyle, Isobel Jacob, S. Birdie Dorman, William and Mary Tiddy, Emma
+Radford, W. H. Wolford, The Dawley Boys, "Lone Star," Willie F. Woolard,
+A. C. Chapin, George Hayward, John Ogburn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  In cream, not in milk.
+  In chintz, not in silk.
+  In time, not in late.
+  In pencil, not in slate.
+  In atlas, not in book.
+  In sight, not in look.
+  In love, not in pity.
+  My whole an American city.
+
+  WALTER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+GEOGRAPHICAL HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.
+
+     A city in Great Britain. A country in Europe. A group of peaks in
+     the Pyrenees. A river in Asia. A range of mountains in Asia. A
+     river in Ireland. A letter. A river in England. A peak in the
+     Northwestern United States. A city in England founded by Ine, the
+     West Saxon King. A river in British America. A river in Asia. A
+     town and county in California. Centrals read downward spell the
+     name of a large sea.
+
+  MARIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  First in mouse, not in rat.
+  Second in dog, not in cat.
+  Third in house, not in lot.
+  Fourth in can, not in pot.
+  Fifth in owl, not in hawk.
+  Sixth in flower, not in stalk.
+  A famous city am I;
+  You'll guess me if you try.
+
+  HERMIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 4.
+
+WORD SQUARES.
+
+     1. First, a package. Second, certain animals. Third, to jump.
+     Fourth, to perceive.
+
+      2. First, something that once laid in a famous house. Second, a
+      space. Third, a Shakspearean character. Fourth, sour.
+
+  C. I. F.
+
+     3. First, the resting-place of an army. Second, an Asiatic sea.
+     Third, a companion. Fourth, an argument.
+
+  CHARLES.
+
+     4. First, a picture. Second, something which often causes pain, and
+     yet no one likes to part with. Third, a river in Transylvania.
+     Fourth, passageways. Fifth, to efface.
+
+  ANNIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 57.
+
+No. 1.
+
+United, untied. Cavern, craven. German, manger. Grandee, derange.
+Neuter, tureen. Garnets, strange. Cruel, lucre. Derange, angered.
+Master, stream.
+
+No. 2.
+
+1. Partridge. 2. Woodchuck.
+
+No. 3.
+
+  E C H O   S T A R
+  C R E W   T A L E
+  H E E L   A L O E
+  O W L S   R E E L
+
+  C R O W   O U S E
+  R O P E   U S E D
+  O P A L   S E E D
+  W E L L   E D D A
+
+No. 4.
+
+Nightingale.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 58.
+
+No. 1.
+
+  T E N T
+    M E A T
+      W R A P
+        E P I C
+
+No. 2.
+
+Possunt quia posse videntur.
+
+No. 3.
+
+Atlantic Ocean.
+
+
+
+
+NEW BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS.
+
+
+_Drifting Round the World_[1] is a handsomely bound and illustrated
+volume containing the adventures of a boy by sea and land. The countries
+he traverses are those not often described in books of boyish travel.
+Starting in a Cape Ann fishing schooner for Greenland, he is shipwrecked
+on the coast of Labrador, contrives to reach Iceland, passes through
+marvellous adventures in Russia and Siberia, sails for Alaska, and at
+length reaches home by the overland route from San Francisco. The
+strange countries through which Robert, the hero of this book, travels
+are graphically described, and a great deal of information is conveyed
+in a form especially delightful to boy readers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A large number Of the new holiday books for little folks combine
+amusement with instruction of one kind or another. A very interesting
+volume, prettily bound and profusely illustrated with portraits and
+other engravings, is _The Story of the United States Navy_,[2] by Mr.
+Lossing, who has devoted many years to the study of American history,
+and whose works on that subject are popular with readers of all ages.
+The present volume, the substance of which has appeared in the columns
+of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, is written especially for boys, and contains
+many stirring accounts of famous naval engagements, of historical war
+vessels, and of celebrated men whose heroic deeds add glory to the
+history of our country. No better reading than is contained in this book
+can be found for boys, as, while it is of absorbing interest, it tells
+the story of many noble men whose example can not fail to awaken
+patriotism and a desire to attain true manhood in the minds of American
+boys in whose hands lies the future history of the United States.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Children will always ask questions, and their natural inquisitiveness
+often goes beyond the knowledge of their elders. For this reason
+parents, as well as the youthful questioners, will extend a hearty
+welcome to _The Young Folks' Cyclopaedia of Persons and Places_,[3] which
+contains full information of all celebrated localities, and many
+biographical notices of important personages of every period. This
+volume, together with _The Cyclopaedia of Common Things_, by the same
+author, published a year ago, forms a library in which inquisitive
+little folks will find answers to their most ingenious questions.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Boys and girls who are forming social clubs, which they wish to make
+instructive as well as amusing, and yet are not sure of the best course
+to follow, should provide themselves with _Stories of the Sea_,[4] which
+they will find an excellent model. The book itself is very interesting.
+A party of bright young people, with an older head to guide them, meet
+together for Saturday afternoon talks on subjects connected with the
+history of the seas. Libraries are explored for accounts of famous
+navigators and naval heroes, and interesting readings are given from the
+works of Navarrete (who wrote of the voyages of Columbus), Sir Walter
+Raleigh, Southey, and other authors. These extracts are so fascinating
+that young readers are pretty sure to hunt up the books from which they
+are taken, in order to learn the whole of the story. Books like this do
+more toward cultivating a taste for good reading than volumes of advice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A delightful little book of American natural history is _Friends Worth
+Knowing_,[5] which takes its young readers in search of snails of all
+kinds, into the fields and woods to find wild mice and birds, over the
+plains after buffalo, and tells them many curious things about the
+habits of different animals. Interesting illustrations and an attractive
+cover add to the value of this book for a pretty and cheap holiday
+present.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Another charming book of travel, if a summer excursion may be so called,
+is _Aboard the Mavis_,[6] in which a merry party of boys and girls
+cruise around the eastern end of Long Island Sound in a yacht, making
+occasional landings, and learning much about the early history of that
+portion of the country. This book is profusely illustrated and
+beautifully bound, and is an elegant holiday present for any girl or
+boy.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+For very little children nothing is prettier or more attractive than the
+Christmas number of _Our Little Ones_, a monthly magazine edited by
+"Oliver Optic," and published by the Russell Publishing Company, of
+Boston.
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[1] _Drifting Round the World_. By Captain C. W. HALL. Illustrated. 8vo,
+pp. 372. Boston: Lee & Shepard. New York: Charles T. Dillingham.
+
+[2] _The Story of the United States Navy_. By BENSON J. LOSSING, LL.D.
+Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 418. New York: Harper & Brothers.
+
+[3] _The Young Folks' Cyclopaedia of Persons and Places_. By JOHN D.
+CHAMPLIN, Jun. Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 936. New York: Henry Holt & Co.
+
+[4] _Stories of the Sea_. By E. E. HALE. 8vo, pp. 302. Boston: Roberts
+Brothers.
+
+[5] _Friends Worth Knowing_. By ERNEST INGERSOLL. Illustrated. Sq. 16mo,
+pp. 258. New York: Harper & Brothers.
+
+[6] _Aboard the Mavis_. By RICHARD MARKHAM. Illustrated. 8vo, pp. 240.
+New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co.
+
+
+
+
+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+
+SINGLE COPIES, 4 cents; ONE SUBSCRIPTION, one year, $1.50; FIVE
+SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00--_payable in advance, postage free_.
+
+The Volumes of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE commence with the first Number in
+November of each year.
+
+Subscriptions may begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it
+will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the
+Number issued after the receipt of the order.
+
+Remittances should be made by POST-OFFICE MONEY-ORDER OR DRAFT, to avoid
+risk of loss.
+
+Volume I., containing the first 52 Numbers, handsomely bound in
+illuminated cloth, $3.00, postage prepaid: Cover, title-page, and index
+for Volume I., 35 cents; postage, 13 cents additional.
+
+  HARPER & BROTHERS,
+  Franklin Square, N. Y.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: NEW-YEAR'S MORNING (PUSSY IN A MASK).
+
+Charley (_under bed, to Tommy ditto_). "D-d-don't b-be fr-frightened,
+T-T-Tommy, I-I-I-I'm h-h-here."]
+
+
+
+
+NEW-YEAR'S.
+
+
+New-Year's presents and visits originated with the Romans, and their
+gifts were symbolic. They were dried figs, dates, and honey, emblematic
+of the sweetness of the auspices under which the year should begin its
+course, and a small piece of money called stips, which foreboded riches.
+
+
+
+
+SPOONS.
+
+A NEW GAME FROM THE GERMAN.
+
+BY G. B. BARTLETT.
+
+
+A very funny new game has come to us from our German cousins, with the
+odd title of Spoons, which is played as follows: One person takes his
+stand in the centre of the room, with a handkerchief tied over his eyes,
+and his hands extended before him, in each of which he holds a large
+table-spoon. The other players march around him in single file, clapping
+their hands in time to a tune which may be sung or played upon a piano
+in any slow measure suitable for marching. When the blinded player calls
+out "Spoons," all the others stop at once, and turn their faces toward
+him. He then finds his way to any player that he can, and must ascertain
+who he is by touching him with the spoons only, which he may use as he
+pleases. If he guesses right, the person he has caught is obliged to
+take his place in the centre. If he is wrong, he must try until he
+succeeds, which it is easy to do with a little practice, especially if
+the one who is caught joins in the universal laughter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+An old gentleman in Vienna, who was afraid of leaving his money in a
+bank, two years ago concealed his savings, in the shape of twenty 1000
+florin notes, in a cupboard in his cellar. Last week it occurred to him
+to go and see how his treasure was going on; but on doing this he
+discovered, to his horror, that the mice had been making free with it,
+and that only a small heap of fluffy dust remained of all his wealth.
+The grief caused by this discovery was so great that the poor old man
+threw himself out of his bedroom window, and broke his neck. Another
+story is told of a lady who hid her property, consisting of a number of
+United States greenbacks, in a satchel in her cupboard. She also, after
+a time, found that a mouse had devoured part of the notes, and had used
+the rest to line its nest; but in this case the meal had evidently
+disagreed with the enterprising mouse, for it was lying dead in its
+nest, the fact being that the arsenic which had been used to give the
+green color to the notes had caused its death. In these days, when money
+can easily and safely be deposited in savings-banks, it is very foolish
+to hide it in holes and corners where it is liable to be lost.
+
+
+
+
+CHARADE.
+
+BY H.
+
+
+  Mighty and cruel and strong is my first,
+        Beautiful too to behold;
+  But oh! it is false. Of traitors the worst,
+        Luring the hardy and bold.
+  Tranquil and lovely it smiles in your face,
+  Then drags you to death in its wild embrace.
+
+  Feeble and weak is my second--a cry
+        Uttered by young, tender things;
+  Lovely to look at, they too may prove sly,
+        Darting with sudden, fierce springs;
+  Though never a smile plays over their face,
+  They _too_ drag to death in a wild embrace.
+
+  Found is my whole where the wild waters roar--
+        Old Ocean nurtures its race--
+  Where beat the waves on the rocky shore,
+        Looking the wind in the face.
+  Happy, contented, my whole will play
+  In the gale and the storm the live-long day.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: RECEIVING CALLS IN THE NURSERY.]
+
+
+
+
+
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