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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/44712-0.txt b/44712-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0383447 --- /dev/null +++ b/44712-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2126 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44712 *** + +[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + * * * * * + +VOL. II.--NO. 65. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, January 25, 1881. Copyright, 1881, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: THE BREAKDOWN, AND ESCAPE OF THE MONKEYS.] + +[Begun in No. 58 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, December 7.] + +TOBY TYLER; + +OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS. + +BY JAMES OTIS. + +CHAPTER VII. + +AN ACCIDENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. + + +Toby's experience of the evening was very similar to that of the +afternoon, save that he was so fortunate as not to take any more bad +money in payment for his goods. Mr. Jacobs scolded and swore +alternately, and the boy really surprised him in the way of selling +goods, though he was very careful not to say anything about it, but made +Toby believe that he was doing only about half as much work as he ought +to do. Toby's private hoard of money was increased that evening by +presents, ninety cents, and he began to look upon himself as almost a +rich man. + +When the performance was nearly over, Mr. Jacobs called to him to help +in packing up; and by the time the last spectator had left the tent, the +worldly possessions of Messrs. Lord and Jacobs were ready for removal, +and Toby allowed to do as he had a mind to, so long as he was careful to +be on hand when old Ben was ready to start. + +Toby thought that he would have time to pay a visit to his friends the +skeleton and the fat woman, and to that end started toward the place +where their tent had been standing; but to his sorrow he found that it +was already being taken down, and he only had time to thank Mrs. Treat +and to press the fleshless hand of her shadowy husband as they entered +their wagon to drive away. + +He was disappointed, for he had hoped to be able to speak with his +new-made friends a few moments before the weary night's ride commenced; +but failing in that, he went hastily back to the monkeys' cage. Old Ben +was there getting things ready for a start; but the wooden sides of the +cage had not been put up, and Toby had no difficulty in calling the aged +monkey up to the bars. He held one of the fat woman's doughnuts in his +hand, and he said, as he passed it through to the animal: + +"I thought perhaps you might be hungry, Mr. Stubbs, and this is some of +what the skeleton's wife give me. I hain't got very much time to talk +with you now; but the first chance I can get away to-morrow, an' when +there hain't anybody 'round, I want to tell you something." + +The monkey had taken the doughnut in his hand-like paws, and was tearing +it to pieces, eating small portions of it very rapidly. + +"Don't hurry yourself," said Toby, warningly, "for Uncle Dan'l always +told me the worst thing a feller could do was to eat fast. If you want +any more, after we start, just put your hand through the little hole up +there near the seat, an' I'll give you all you want." + +From the look on his face, Toby confidently believed the monkey was +going to make some reply; but just then Ben shut up the sides, +separating Toby and Mr. Stubbs, and the order was given to start. + +Toby clambered up on to the high seat, Ben followed him, and in another +instant the team was moving along slowly down the dusty road, preceded +and followed by the many wagons with their tiny swinging lights. + +"Well," said Ben, when he had got his team well under way; and felt that +he could indulge in a little conversation, "how did you get along +to-day?" + +Toby related all of his movements, and gave the driver a faithful +account of all that had happened to him, concluding his story by saying, +"That was one of Mrs. Treat's doughnuts that I just gave to Mr. Stubbs." + +"To whom?" asked Ben, in surprise. + +"To Mr. Stubbs--the old fellow here in the cart, you know, that's been +so good to me." + +Toby heard a sort of gurgling sound, saw the driver's body sway back and +forth in a trembling way, and was just becoming thoroughly alarmed, when +he thought of the previous night, and understood that Ben was only +laughing in his own peculiar way. + +"How did you know his name was Stubbs?" asked Ben, after he had +recovered his breath. + +"Oh, I don't know that that is his real name," was the quick reply; "I +only call him that because he looks so much like a feller with that name +that I knew at home. He don't seem to mind because I call him Stubbs." + +Ben looked at Toby earnestly for a moment, acting all the time as if he +wanted to laugh again, but didn't dare to for fear he might burst a +blood-vessel, and then he said, as he patted him on the shoulder, "Well, +you are the queerest little fish that I ever saw in all my travels. You +seem to think that that monkey knows all you say to him." + +"I'm sure he does," said Toby, positively. "He don't say anything right +out to me, but he knows everything I tell him. Do you suppose he could +talk if he tried to?" + +"Look here, Mr. Toby Tyler," and Ben turned half around in his seat, and +looked Toby full in the face, as to give more emphasis to his words, +"are you heathen enough to think that that monkey could talk if he +wanted to?" + +"I know I hain't a heathen," said Toby, thoughtfully, "for if I had +been, some of the missionaries would have found me out a good while ago; +but I never saw anybody like this old Mr. Stubbs before, an' I thought +he could talk if he wanted to, just as the Living Skeleton does, or his +wife. Anyhow, Mr. Stubbs winks at me; an' how could he do that if he +didn't know what I've been sayin' to him?" + +"Look here, my son," said Ben, in a most fatherly fashion, "monkeys +hain't anything but beasts, an' they don't know how to talk any more +than they know what you say to 'em." + +"Didn't you ever hear any of them speak a word?" + +"Never. I've been in a circus, man an' boy, nigh on to forty years, an' +I never seen nothin' in a monkey more'n any other beast, except their +awful mischiefness." + +"Well," said Toby, still unconvinced, "I believe Mr. Stubbs knew what I +said to him, anyway." + +"Now don't be foolish, Toby," pleaded Ben. "You can't show me one thing +that a monkey ever did because you told him to." + +Just at that moment Toby felt some one pulling at the back of his coat, +and looking around, he saw it was a little brown hand, reaching through +the bars of the air-hole of the cage, that was tugging away at his coat. + +"There!" he said, triumphantly, to Ben. "Look there. I told Mr. Stubbs +if he wanted anything more to eat, to tell me, an' I would give it to +him. Now you can see for yourself that he's come for it," and Toby took +a doughnut from his pocket, and put it into the tiny hand, which was +immediately withdrawn. "Now what do you think of Mr. Stubbs knowing what +I say to him?" + +"They often stick their paws up through there," said Ben, in a +matter-of-fact tone. "I've had 'em pull my coat in the night till they +made me as nervous as ever any old woman was. You see, Toby, my boy, +monkeys is monkeys; an' you mustn't go to gettin' the idea that they're +anything else, for it's a mistake. You think this old monkey in here +knows what you say? Why, that's just the cuteness of the old fellow; he +watches you to see if he can't do just as you do, an' that's all there +is about it." + +Toby was more than half convinced that Ben was putting the matter in its +proper light, and he would have believed all that had been said if, just +at that moment, he had not seen that brown hand reaching through the +hole to clutch him again by the coat. + +The action seemed so natural, so like a hungry boy who gropes in the +dark pantry for something to eat, that it would have taken more +arguments than Ben had at his disposal to persuade Toby that his Mr. +Stubbs could not understand all that was said to him. Toby put another +doughnut in the outstretched hand, and then sat silently, as if in a +brown-study over some difficult problem. + +For some time the ride was made in silence. Ben was going through all +the motions of whistling without uttering a sound, a favorite amusement +of his, and Toby's thoughts were far away in the humble home he had +scorned, with Uncle Daniel, whose virtues had increased with every mile +of distance which had been put between them, and whose faults had +decreased in a corresponding ratio. + +Toby's thoughtfulness had made him sleepy, and his eyes were almost +closed in slumber, when he was startled by a crashing sound, was +conscious of a sense of being hurled from his seat by some great force, +and then he lay senseless by the side of the road, while the wagon +remained a perfect wreck, from out of which a small army of monkeys +were escaping. Ben's experienced ear had told him at the first crash +that his wagon was breaking down, and without having time to warn Toby +of his peril, he had leaped clear of the wreck, keeping his horses in +perfect control, thus averting any more trouble. It was the breaking of +one of the axles which Toby had heard just before he was thrown from his +seat, and when the body of the wagon had come down upon the hard road, +the entire structure had been wrecked. + +The monkeys, thus suddenly released from their confinement, had +scampered off in every direction, and, by a singular chance, Toby's aged +friend started for the woods in such a direction as to bring him +directly upon the boy's senseless body. As the monkey came up to Toby he +stopped, through the well-known curiosity of his kind, and began to +examine the body carefully, prying into each pocket he could reach, and +trying to open the half-closed eyelids in order to peep in under them. + +Fortunately for Toby, he had fallen upon a mud-bank, and was only +stunned for the moment, having received no serious bruises, even though +he had been thrown such a distance. The attentions bestowed upon him by +the monkey served the purpose of bringing him to his senses; and after +he had looked around him in the gray light of the coming morning, it +would have taken far more of a philosopher than ever old Ben was to have +persuaded the boy that monkeys did not possess reasoning faculties. + +The monkey was picking at his ears, nose, and mouth, as monkeys always +do when they get an opportunity, and the expression of his face was as +grave as possible. Toby firmly believed that the monkey's face showed +sorrow at his fall, and he believed that the attentions which were being +bestowed upon him were for the purpose of learning whether he had been +injured or not. + +"Don't worry, Mr. Stubbs," said Toby, anxious to reassure his friend, as +he sat upright and looked about him. "I didn't get hurt any, but I would +like to know how I got 'way over here." + +It really seemed as if the monkey was pleased to know that his little +friend was not hurt, for he seated himself on his haunches, and his face +expressed the liveliest pleasure that Toby was well again--or at least +that was the way the boy interpreted the look. + +By this time the news of the accident had been shouted ahead from one +team to the other, and all hands were hurrying to the scene for the +purpose of rendering some aid. As Toby saw them coming, he also saw a +number of small forms, looking something like men, hurrying past him, +and for the first time he understood how it was that the aged monkey was +at liberty, and knew that those little dusky forms were the other +occupants of the cage escaping to the woods. + +"See there, Mr. Stubbs! see there!" he exclaimed, quickly, pointing +toward the fugitives; "they're all going off into the woods. What shall +we do?" + +The sight of the runaways seemed to excite the old monkey quite as much +as it had the boy. He jumped to his feet, chattered in the most excited +way, screamed two or three times as if he was calling them back, and +then started off in vigorous pursuit. + +"Now he's gone too," said Toby, disconsolately, believing the old fellow +had run away from him; "I didn't think Mr. Stubbs would treat me this +way." + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +A LITTLE ARAB GIRL'S MISSION. + +BY F. E. FRYATT. + + +Many of the readers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE will be both surprised and +sorry to learn that there are parents who are not only willing to sell +their baby girls for a few pennies, but when this can not be done, to +cast them out upon the highways to perish either by the wild beasts that +prowl about at night, or by the fiercely glaring sun that heats the sand +so that even a dog will not venture out at noonday for fear of burning +his paws. + +"Where do these cruel people live, and who are they?" I hear a bright +little girl ask. + +They are the Arabs who inhabit the deserts of Kabylia and the Sahara, in +and south of Algiers, the most northern country in Africa. + +"Ah, but the Arabs live in Arabia, don't they?" objects my young friend. + +Yes, they do; but centuries ago the Arabians, or Saracens--desert +dwellers, as they were then called, Sara meaning desert--sent out large +armies to conquer other nations. These Saracens swept victoriously +through Northern Africa up to the heart of Spain. + +Algiers is now a French province, but the greater part of its people are +descendants of its ancient inhabitants, called Moors, and their +conquerors, the Arabs, together with negroes from Soudan, French +colonists, and a sprinkling of Turks, Maltese, and Spaniards. + +Neither the Moors nor the Arabs think much of little girls. The +latter--especially the poor ones--are sorry when one is born; but when a +boy baby comes, they make him presents, and a bowl of "mughly"--a +compound of rice flavored with sugar and spices, and sprinkled with +delicious nuts--is given to each relative. + +A Moorish girl of even rich parents is considered well enough educated +if she can make preserves, and dye her finger-nails with henna leaves. +She is not treated as unkindly, however, as the little Arab damsels, who +are compelled when quite young to work very hard. They have to draw +water from the wells in heavy leathern buckets; to churn; to feed and +water the young camels and horses: in fact, they live more like slaves +than daughters of the family. + +[Illustration: MARIA IMMANUEL.] + +The subject of my sketch, little Maria Immanuel, is a young Arabian girl +twelve years of age, who, accompanied by a French Missionary Sister, or +nun, has been all through Europe, and is now travelling through this +country, on a curious but praiseworthy mission: she is trying to raise +money to buy and support little Arabian children who are sold or cast +out on the desert. + +Maria Immanuel was herself one of these unfortunates. When a mere baby, +not yet two years old, she was picked up on the highway by some good +women, and taken to their mission-house, where she has lived ever since. + +I dare say my readers would like to know just how she looks, so I will +describe her to the best of my ability. + +Imagine a dark-complexioned, plump young girl, with rather heavy but +pleasant features; fluffy, dark, silken hair floating around her head +and overshadowing her eyes like a little cloud; red lips and milky-white +teeth; and eyes that light up her whole face, so soft are they, yet +brilliant and full of mischievous fire. + +Immanuel--for so her friends call her--is very like many American girls +in disposition, being intensely lively, merry as a cricket, and a great +tease when in the society of children of her own age. + +She has two accomplishments--she speaks French fluently, and sings +sweetly, having a fine contralto voice. + +Immanuel dresses just as she did at the mission-house in the desert of +Kabylia, wearing an Arab cloak of white wool, called a "burnoose," with +a hood for stormy weather, over a white cashmere gown, which hangs in +folds to her ankles, and is made with a yoke at the neck, and full +flowing sleeves. A double row of scarlet and white beads; a girdle, or +sash, of scarlet, blue, and yellow silk, knotted at the waist, and +falling in long fringed ends in front; and a scarlet "fez," or cap, +ornamented with a band of embroidery and a golden tassel, complete her +gay and picturesque costume. Dark or solemn colors offend an Arab's eye, +for he regards them as omens of misfortune. + +There are two sorts of Arabs among whom the missionaries work--the +farmer Arabs, who live in mud villages, and the Bedouins, who dwell in +tents, and roam the deserts a little farther south, and keep large +flocks of sheep and camels. + +These shepherd Arabs despise the milder farmers, but condescend to visit +them, after harvest-time, to barter camels and goats for their barley +and other grains, for _they_ never stoop to till the soil or do work of +any kind; their girls and women--at least such as they see fit to +rear--do all their necessary work, such as cooking, sewing tent and +saddle cloths, making mats, dyeing wool, and tending the animals, with +which they live almost in common, and which are often ranked above them. + +The shepherd Arabs live in tents, removing in winter to the farther +south, but the farmer Arabs live in mud houses, called "gourbis." The +"gourbis," like all native dwellings, are only one story high, on +account of earthquakes; they are made of branches of trees and stones, +cemented together by mud, a thick layer of which covers the roof. +Sometimes forty or more of these houses are united in a village, and +hedged in by tall cactus plants armed with sharp thorns. + +The animals live under the same roof with the family; so what with this +and the smoke, the smell of cookery, and the want of ventilation, you +may imagine the "gourbis" anything but a pleasant place to visit. + +The mission-houses, some of them in the neighborhood of these miserable +villages, and some farther south, are square wooden buildings, with a +court-yard in the middle, on which the windows and doors of all the +rooms open. There are small doors on the outside of the building, but +these are carefully guarded, on account of robbers and wild beasts, +either of which may make attacks at night. + +Now I must explain about the little Arab boys who are being educated and +taken care of by the Missionary Brothers. + +The Arabs, as I have said, love their boys very much indeed, but some +families are so wretchedly poor that they have to dispose of the boys as +well as the girls, when there are too many of them. + +The Brothers, when they pick them up or buy them, teach them to read and +write, and to till the ground, so that they may become farmers. + +The Missionary Sisters teach the girls to read and write, to do plain +sewing and house-work. + +The work of the missions does not stop when the children have grown to +be men and women; they are then allowed to visit each other socially +under proper supervision. If a young couple fall in love with each +other, and wish to marry, the consent of the Superior is asked, and +given; for she knows the youth has been well brought up, and is worthy +to have her young charge for a wife. + +In speaking of these weddings, which are quite festive occasions, little +Maria Immanuel recently said to a lady, in her lively French, which I +will translate: "I do love to have weddings going on, we have _such_ a +good time. Oh, the music! it is fine; and then there is _such +feasting_!" + +No wonder she laid such stress on feasting, for the mission people live +only on the very plainest fare, never seeing butter, meat, or any of the +delicacies American children have every day. + +At weddings--and they generally manage to have them double, triple, or +quadruple weddings--I suppose they have fruit and honey and other fine +dishes for the great occasion. + +To each newly married couple a house, an inclosed acre of land, a horse, +an ass, and a pair of goats are given; also some farming implements; six +each of dishes and bowls, knives and wooden spoons; a bed; and the few +other necessaries for simple housekeeping. + +They now commence life as farmers, and, what is still better, as +Christian young people. Already two Christian Arab villages have sprung +up on the desert, while a third is being built. + +Are the young fathers and mothers sorry when a dear little girl baby +comes into the world? No, they are glad, and love it tenderly, as you +may tell by this little nursery song here translated. I wish I could +give you the wild, sweet music too. Listen--a young Arab mother sings: + + "Come, Cameleer, as quick as you can, + And make us some soap from green Shenan, + To bathe our Lûlû dear; + We'll wash her and dress her, + And then we'll caress her: + She'll sleep in her little screer."[1] + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] Cradle. + + + + +LUCKY TOM'S SHADOW; OR, THE SEA-GULLS' WARNING. + +BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. + + +[Illustration: A LIFE-SAVING STATION.] + +"Be still, Meg, be still. Don't trouble me. Go and play. Young 'uns like +you are good for naught else;" and so saying, Meg's grandmother turned +fretfully toward the window of the cottage, and resumed her listless +watching of the sea-gulls across the inlet, as they fluttered, dipped, +and arose over the wavelets, picking their dinner from the shoals of +little fish the mackerel had chased inshore. + +"But I'm of some use, granny; you said so yesterday, when I fetched the +blueberries. An' I'll go fur some more if you like. I know where there's +lots of 'em--acres of 'em." + +"Do as you please, child, but don't tease your granny," replied the old +woman. + +There was little need to tell Maggie, or "Meg," as she was generally +called, to "do as she pleased," for in all of her short life of ten +years she had never done otherwise. She had roamed unmissed all the days +among the sand-hills of the beach, wading in the "mash" for lily pods, +or hunting in the scrub for birds' eggs. Such a place as school had +never been named to her. The alphabet was unknown to her, but she +understood the rough talk of the fishermen, and could mend a net or +'tend a line with the best man among them. + +Meg lived with her "granny" in a little unpainted hut made from ships' +planking, and set among a few low twisted pines, within a short distance +of a cove where Lucky Tom, her father, who was a pilot, kept his boats +and moored his sloop, when not sailing out on the blue sea watching for +ships to give him employment. + +Meg's mother had died while she was a baby; her "granny" was almost +always cross; so the child had grown up with but a single affection. It +was all for her father, and he returned it in a rough, good-natured way. +So these two were seldom apart when the pilot was ashore, and Meg came +to be known among the beach people as "Lucky Tom's Shadow." + +Now just why the pilot was called "Lucky Tom" does not appear: but it +was said among the folks on the coast that fish would nibble at his +hooks, and obligingly allow themselves to be caught by the dozen, when +nobody else could catch even a porgy. + +Near the cottage, Lucky Tom had raised the mast of a ship once wrecked +on the bar, and made a platform at the top, with steps leading to it; +and Meg was never so happy as when she sat high up in her "bird's nest," +as she called it, with her father, and listened to his surprising yarns +about foreign ports, while they scanned the horizon with a glass for +incoming ships. + +Meg tried hard to behave kindly toward her grandmother; but the old +woman never smiled, and seldom troubled herself about Meg's goings or +comings. + +"She's purty certain to git 'round at meal-times, an' that's often +enough," was about all she would say when Lucky Tom scolded about the +child's "bringin' up." + +Nearly twenty years before, Lucky Tom's father, Jack Bolden, had gone +off in his schooner, the _Petrel_, to catch cod, and from that day +neither the _Petrel_ nor her crew were ever seen. After months had gone +by, poor Mrs. Bolden fell into a fever, and when she was able to move +about, she sat all day by the window, looking out upon the waves, and +the neighbors gazed at her sorrowfully, for they said she had lost her +reason; but in Meg's eyes, to whom she had always been the same, she was +a very wise and mysterious person, and the tales she repeated to the +little girl, woven from her deranged fancy, were full of strange +sea-monsters, talking fish, and birds that whispered secrets to those +who watched for long-absent friends. All these were listened to and +believed with the full confidence of childish innocence. + +Meg tied on her old and faded bonnet, picked up her basket, and walked +away with a light step to the blueberry pasture. + +She soon became so busy picking the clusters of round little fruit, as +they peeped from beneath the dark and glossy leaves, that she did not +see how dark the eastern sky had become, until a cool gust of wind +caught her sun-bonnet, and sent it half across the field. Then she +noticed that the sun was already hidden by the advancing clouds, and +away out across the black fretted sea a long line of foam revealed the +white-caps leaping in great haste over each other, just like a flock of +sheep, in their race to reach the sands. + +The only near refuge for poor Meg was the Life-saving Station--one of +those lonely buildings that the government has placed along the coast, +with boats and crews, whose duty keeps them on the watch all winter for +shipwrecks. It was midsummer now, and the station was locked up tight; +but Meg knew how to get the better of locks and bars. She reached the +building just in time to escape a wetting from the thick rain that now +shut out the sea and land alike, beating fiercely against the stout +structure, and running in many little rivulets down the sand, to be +swallowed up, as all water is at last, by the great ocean. + +At one corner the winds had blown away the sand, so Meg found room to +crawl with her basket beneath the floor, and a loose board she had long +ago discovered admitted her to the interior. What a gloomy, close place +in contrast with the wildness of the scene outside! Have you ever +visited a station of the Life-saving Service? No? Well, then, I'll try, +with the aid of the picture, to explain what it is like. + +[Illustration: INTERIOR OF THE LIFE-SAVING STATION.] + +First, there is the life-boat, light but very strong, and shaped so it +will rise over the tops of the waves rather than go through them. This +one is handled by about six men; one, the captain, to steer, four men to +row, and one with a pike-staff and lines in the bow. You notice that the +wheels of the truck holding the boat are very wide; that allows them to +roll over the sand without sinking into it. Under the boat is a leathern +bucket, a coil of rope, and a grapnel or hook, and in front an ingenious +device, consisting of a board with a row of pegs about the edge, upon +which a line many hundreds of feet in length is placed, with the end +tied to a projectile in the queer-looking cannon above. This is intended +to be shot over the rigging of ships ashore, and used to haul out the +larger rope upon the cart to the left of the picture, and to which the +canvas bags hanging from the ceiling are fastened, to bring people from +the wreck. Back of the cart you see rockets and signal torches, with a +long tin trumpet, all neatly kept in a rack. There are lanterns too, and +against the partition a mortar and some balls, two axes, and many other +tools. With all of these and their uses Meg was well acquainted. +Sometimes she had seen the crew run with the boat down to the water, and +go through with their drill, when the Superintendent came there; and +once the men hauled it out in the night, everybody greatly excited, and +put out into the waves to pick up the crew of a sinking steamer; but a +schooner was there first, and they only brought back a woman and little +girl. How scared they did look, the poor things! and how thankful the +child was for the use of Meg's only spare frock! + +There seemed no prospect of the rain ceasing, and so Meg sat down in the +back room upon a bench; and as it was not in the nature of such an +active little girl to sit still long and keep awake, she very soon fell +asleep. + +When she started up from a dream full of strange sea-goblins, it was to +find that everything was dark. The rain had ceased, and Meg, after +rubbing her eyes, concluded to go home. When she lifted the board she +discovered, to her terror, that the rain had washed her burrow full of +sand, and she was a prisoner. The strong doors and windows resisted her +puny efforts, so she sat down upon a coil of rope to consider the +situation. + +Now most children would have cried; but Meg hadn't done such a thing +since she was teething. No, she only taxed her little head for some +means of escape. First, she must have a light. She well knew where the +matches were kept, and in a moment she had a lantern burning brightly. +Then it occurred to her to try the roof. It was a difficult matter to +lift the heavy trap leading to the little platform from which the men +usually watched during the winter days; but she soon stood out in the +bleak night, the salt spray driving against her face, and the gale +rushing by, as though it would tear her hold from the railing to which +she clung. + +White sea-gulls whirled about her head, attracted by the light, +screaming hoarse and discordant notes in her ears. They terrified her at +first, but she soon recalled what her "granny" had said, and felt sure +the birds were trying to tell her something, and that it must be about +her father, who was still out in the terrible storm, unable to find the +inlet. + +From far out on the sea the wind brought a moaning sound, as though some +unhappy creature called in vain for help. It came nearer and more +distinct from the northward, finally dying away in the distance upon the +other hand. + +Fierce lightning flashes broke from the retreating storm-clouds, and by +the weird electric glare Meg saw a wild figure, with arms upraised, +which seemed to come out of the surf, and speed along the sands. By the +same light she thought she saw the topmasts of a vessel on the sea. + +The gulls wheeled and screamed now more excitedly than ever. Meg was +nearly overcome with terror, but losing not a moment, she sprang down +the stairs, returning with an armful of torches. And now the lurid flare +of the life-saving signal burned up fiercely, the winds catching the +flame, and bearing thousands of dancing sparks away across the beach, +while the shape of the station and the heroic little girl upon the roof +stood out boldly, just in time for Lucky Tom to put his helm down, and +head his boat away from the fatal breakers he was nearing in the +darkness. + +And now suppose we let good-natured Lucky Tom tell the rest of the story +in his own style. + +"Well, sir, you see, the blow came up kind o' unexpected like, an' I +knowed we couldn't make port; but I didn't much care for that, as pilots +has to take all sorts o' weather, but we reckoned we could keep the +craft off an' on about the blowin' buoy; but, bless you! the buoy got +adrift, an' floated away down the beach. We heard it groanin' ahead of +us all the time, an' afore we knowed where we was, we got nigh into the +breakers. Just then I seen a twinkle on the beach, an' shortly a torch +showed us the station, with an angel o' mercy a-wavin' it from the roof; +an' it wa'n't a minnit too soon, nuther. + +"We kept away till daylight a-watchin' an' wonderin' at the torches +burnin' all the time from atop o' the station, and then we made the +inlet. Mebbe it'll seem queer to you, but none of us thought of Meg when +we saw the light; but the whole thing was plain enough when one of the +crew came runnin' to the house, after we'd been ashore a bit, an' +hollered: + +"'Why, Lucky Tom, the angel we saw was nobody but your own Shadow, +little Meg, an' she's there yit, wavin' a flag.' So we went over an' let +her out. The young'un told us all about hearin' the sound o' complainin' +on the sea, the black figure that ran along the beach, an' the warnin' +the birds give her. You see, that was a notion her granny put into her +head, the one about the birds. Speakin' of the old woman, there was +another queer thing that happened on the same night. We couldn't find +marm high nor low; but when Meg spoke of the wild spirit on the beach, +we knowed it must be her, and sure enough we found the poor old body +'way up by the point, 'most dead. She had an idee, you see, that when it +blowed hard the _Petrel_ would come ashore, though I reckon the _Petrel_ +has been at the bottom more'n twenty years now. We took her home an' +'tended her, but she didn't last long after that." + +The story of Meg's adventure came to the ears of a lady on the mainland, +and she soon afterward paid a visit to the little girl, who was now left +all alone when her father went away, and it was arranged that she should +live in the lady's house, and go to school. And now the school-master +says she promises to prove as bright as she is brave. + + + + +HOW IT HAPPENED TO SNOW. + +BY I. M. + + + What Jack Frost said to the trees, dear, + It never would do to tell; + He whispered the magic words, dear, + To oak and maple as well. + Some of them blushed bright red, dear, + And some of them turned to yellow, + While Jack he laughed in his sleeve, dear, + The good-for-nothing old fellow. + + What Jack Frost did to the leaves, dear, + I never would dare to say; + They wrung their little brown hands, dear, + In a pitiful, helpless way. + The kind sun felt so sad, dear, + To see the leaves in pain, + That he hid his face for a week, dear, + And wept great showers of rain. + + But Jack Frost's cruel breath, dear, + Grew colder day by day, + And chilled the leaves, until, dear, + They withered and dropped away. + Then the tall trees stood amazed, dear, + Lamenting, when they found + That their green and rustling robes, dear, + Lay faded on the ground. + + The angels too were grieved, dear, + When the trees looked cold and bare, + So they gathered the soft white clouds, dear, + That floated in upper air, + And tossed great armfuls down, dear, + In the stillness of the night, + And were glad to see how pure, dear, + The world looked clothed in white. + + What the children said next day, dear, + I think you must surely know; + But please don't say that I told, dear, + Just how it happened to snow; + For that wicked old Jack Frost, dear, + Would nip my nose in spite, + And pinch my poor ten toes, dear, + The next cold winter's night. + + + + +[Illustration: A MOTHER'S DEVOTION.--FROM AN ETCHING BY DE MARY.] + + + + +THE ADVENTURES OF A RUNAWAY KING. + +BY I. D. WILDER. + + +A king running away from his kingdom, with all his courtiers and people +in hot pursuit to catch him and bring him back! Did you ever hear of +anything more absurd? + +There was a reason for it too, or at least the King thought so. The +truth is, this unfortunate monarch was embarrassed by the possession of +two kingdoms at once, and it so happened that the kingdom where he was +was not the kingdom where he desired to be, so he made up his mind to +run away. + +Now I suppose, before I go any farther, I may as well let you into the +secret of his name and country, if you have not already guessed it. He +was Henry III. of France and Poland, son of Catherine de Medicis, one of +the wickedest Queens who ever ruled over any country, and brother of +Charles IX., King of France. + +Only a few months before his flight from Cracow he had been elected King +of Poland. He had been received with great magnificence by the Polish +nobles, and the festivities had lasted many days. After everything had +settled down into the usual quiet, Henry found life in Poland rather +dull; so when he received a letter from Queen Catherine announcing the +death of Charles IX., and saying that his presence in France was very +necessary to maintain his rights as his brother's heir, he was quite +ready to abandon his Polish kingdom, and start at once for Paris. + +But it was very far from being the intention of the Polish magnates to +let him off so easily. They naturally considered the well-being of their +kingdom as important--to them at least--as that of France could possibly +be. So they voted an address of condolence to the King on the death of +his brother, prayed him still to remain King of Poland, and entreated +him not to leave the kingdom without giving notice to the Senate, and +first appointing some one to act as Viceroy. + +Henry returned a courteous but rather vague reply, thanking the nobles +for their good wishes, but giving them little satisfaction as to his +intentions. + +In the mean time Henry's French attendants were urging upon him the +necessity of returning at once to France, lest he should lose the French +crown. His mother, Queen Catherine, sent messenger after messenger, +urging him to hasten, and his own inclinations were entirely in favor of +instant departure. So during the night a council of the French nobles +was held in Henry's apartments, and it was settled that they should +arrange matters for a secret departure. They must go secretly, if they +went at all, for the Polish Senate was determined to keep their King in +the country, and the people were equally determined not to let him go. + +Then the preparations began. In the first place, the French Ambassador, +as had been agreed upon, asked permission to return immediately to +France, as his mission had ended with the death of Charles IX. +Permission was granted, and he left Cracow at once. He took with him the +King's jewels and valuable papers, and made arrangements at all the +principal towns on his route for horses and provisions to be got ready +for illustrious members of his suite, who, as he said, were not able to +leave as soon as he did. Next the King sent off M. Chémerault (the +messenger who had brought him the news of Charles's death), on the +pretense of carrying letters to Queen Catherine, but really to wait at a +short distance from the capital until the King could join him. He was to +act as guide, and conduct Henry in safety across the border. + +The next step was rather unfortunate for the King. A train of ten mules +laden with coffers was observed to leave the city, and when it was found +that the baggage belonged to the Grand Master of the King's household, +the suspicions of the people were aroused, and they became wild with +excitement. It was in vain that Henry assured them that he had no +intention of leaving the kingdom. They did not believe him--and with +very good reason--and the tumult increased, until at last the Senate +ordered guards to be placed at all the entrances to the palace, and gave +instructions to arrest any one who should that night attempt to stir +out, not even excepting the King himself. + +After supper the King retired, and kept all his courtiers about him for +a long time, chatting merrily with them, and appearing so easy and +unconcerned that he fancied he must have entirely deceived the Poles, +and then he made a sign that he wanted to go to sleep. The Chamberlain, +Count Teuczin, drew the curtains of the King's bed, and a page put his +sword and a candle on a table close by--a ceremony which all understood +as a signal to leave the room, except the Chamberlain, whose duty it was +to stand at the foot of the bed until the King was asleep. It had been +agreed that the King and a few of his nobles should meet at a ruined +chapel, half a mile from the city gate, where one of Henry's equerries +was to be waiting with horses. + +The nobles supped together, and then quietly left the palace. They were +permitted to pass the sentinels on their assurance that they were bound +for a frolic in the town. + +Henry, in the mean time, was doing his best to make the Chamberlain +believe him asleep, and when he was at length convinced of the fact, he +left the room. In a moment the King's attendants had softly entered the +room and barred the door against all intruders, had hurriedly dressed +the King, and made all their preparations for departure. Fortunately, +Souvré, one of the King's gentlemen, happened to remember a small +postern-door at the end of a passage leading from the kitchen, which +opened at the back of the castle on a faubourg of Cracow outside the +walls. This door, which had been made for the use of the servants of the +palace, had often been found useful by the cavaliers of Henry's court +when they wished to go out and in unobserved. Souvré having found that +no sentinel had been posted there, sent Miron, the King's physician, to +reconnoitre, and see if they could get out by that way. He found the +door ajar, and was joyfully returning to report, when suddenly the +steward of the household, Alemanni, appeared from the kitchen, where he +was evidently on the watch, and carefully looking about him--though +without discovering Miron, who was sheltered by the staircase--gave +orders for the postern to be locked and the key to be brought to him. + +This was a terrible blow to all their hopes. The King was in despair and +was about to return to bed, but Souvré encouraged him to persist, and +rely upon him to get him out of the dilemma. + +So they cautiously left the apartments of the King, and crept softly +down the stairs until they came to the passage, where another flight of +steps led down to the kitchen. Here they got a great fright from hearing +the voice of the steward just at the foot of the stairs. He heard their +steps, and called out, "Who goes there?" + +"It is I, monsieur," said Souvré, boldly descending a few steps, while +he made a sign to the others to go on toward the door. + +"And what do you want?" asked the steward. + +"The key of the postern-door," replied Souvré. "I have a private errand, +now that the King my master can dispense with my services." + +"What errand?" persisted the steward. + +"The truth is," replied Souvré, haughtily, "I have an appointment in the +faubourg. I pray you therefore, monsieur, give me the key of the little +door without further parley." + +This haughty manner impressed the steward, who knew that Souvré was high +in his master's favor, and he somewhat reluctantly gave the key, and +offered to accompany Souvré to open the door for him. He, however, only +laughed at this, and bounding up the staircase long before the steward, +who was old and infirm, could reach the top, he found the King and his +companions concealing themselves as much as possible in the shadow of +the walls, opened the door, through which they hurriedly passed, and +locking it behind them, they made all possible speed toward the little +ruined chapel, the place of rendezvous. + +The night was pleasant, though very dark, and after losing their way +once or twice, they finally reached the chapel. There they found the +equerry with the horses, but Chémerault, who was to be their guide, and +several other gentlemen of the King's household, had not made their +appearance. They waited for them as long as they dared, but finally +Souvré persuaded the King to mount, and trust to God and fortune for +safety. + +They set out, therefore, but their difficulties had only just begun. In +the first place, not one of them knew the way, being all absolute +strangers in Poland; and they did not even understand the dialect of the +country, so that they could inquire. The night was dark, and the roads +were horrible, though that did not matter so much, as they could not +keep in them, but continually found themselves wandering away and +floundering in deep morasses, blundering about in pine forests, and +getting entangled in brambles. + +So they went on, stumbling over stones, sinking into bogs, and wading +through brooks, till I think they must have wished themselves safe back +in their beds in Cracow. + +At length Souvré saw a faint light glimmering in the distance, and on +approaching it he found it came from the hut of a charcoal burner deep +in the forest. + +The poor charcoal burner was so terrified by the approach of the +horsemen that he darted up into his loft by a ladder on the outside, +which he drew up after him. The cavaliers shouted and knocked, and +knocked and shouted, but all in vain. Not an inch would the charcoal +burner stir; so at last they began to batter down the door. + +Finally Souvré managed to scramble up to the loft, where he found the +poor man crouching in a corner in a perfect agony of terror. He tried to +calm his fears by speaking gently, but the strange language only made +him more terrified. + +So there was nothing for it but to drag him down, and carry him off to +the King, which they accordingly did. Henry had learned a few words of +the peasants' dialect, so he soon re-assured the poor man, and made him +comprehend that they only wanted him for a guide--an office which he +readily took upon himself. + +He was swung up on a horse in front of one of the cavaliers, and guided +them safely to the town of Liszki. Soon after this they came up with +Chémerault and the others, who had missed the King in the darkness, and +had arrived before him. + +In the mean time you can readily imagine that there was a great uproar +in the palace at Cracow when the King's flight was discovered. The +Senate and the nobles were absolutely beside themselves with rage at +having been so outwitted. The French who had been left behind in +ignorance of their master's intended flight were deeply indignant with +the King for his treacherous betrayal of them. The mob howled and yelled +in the streets, and everybody scolded poor Alemanni. + +Karnkowski, the Grand Referendary of Poland, was dispatched in a coach +and six to bring back the King, accompanied by a troop of Tartar cavalry +armed with bows and arrows, and a howling mob, with sticks, stones, and +javelins, followed after. + +They came in sight of the fugitives at the town of Osweicin, where some +of the gentlemen had dismounted to rest and refresh themselves for an +hour. But when they caught sight of the Tartar troops they did not tarry +long, you may be sure, but put spurs to their horses, and fled as fast +as they could. + +Then there followed a royal chase, in which the King was the hunted +instead of the hunter--the King and his cavaliers urging their tired +horses to their utmost speed in front; following fast behind, +Karnkowski, in his coach and six, the wild troop of Tartar bowmen, and +the disorderly mob bringing up the rear. + +Henry and his gentlemen rode fast and well. They crossed the Vistula on +a bridge of planks, which the cavaliers destroyed just as their pursuers +came up; and as they rode on they left their Tartar enemies howling with +rage and gnashing their teeth, as they saw the river rolling between +them and the fugitives, and knew they must go six miles around in order +to come up with them. + +The danger was over now. They did not overtake Henry until after he had +passed the frontier town of Plesse, and they dared not capture him on +Austrian territory. + +Count Teuczin therefore approached the King, accompanied only by five +Tartars, and delivered his message from the Senate to entreat him to +return, and offering his own fealty to the King. Henry refused to +return, but he sent back fair words to the Senate, and they parted +amicably, Henry to pursue his journey to Vienna, where he arrived +without further adventures, the Count to return sadly to Cracow to +announce the escape of their King to the magnates of Poland. + +But in my opinion if they had had Henry to rule over them four years +instead of four months, far from grieving over his loss, they would have +considered themselves well rid of him; for lazy, selfish, cowardly, +false, and cruel as he was, they might have sought the wide world over +without finding a worse King than Henry III. of Valois. + + + + +THE NEW SCHOLAR. + +BY EMILY H. LELAND. + + +Elbert Collins had never been marked absent or tardy since his first +going to school in September, and it was his ambition to finish the +whole year without a "mark," partly because he really liked to be +prompt, and partly because he thought it would be so nice to see his +name in the paper at the end of the school year. + +December had come, and the short mornings were very lively ones in his +mother's little kitchen, because of so many things to be done before the +nine-o'clock bell. There was the wood-box to fill, the canary to feed, +and generally the cradle to rock, while the mother attended to such work +as could be done best while there was some one to look after the baby. + +On this particular morning, however, the mother had gone to Mrs. +Brown's, around the corner, for a cup of yeast, and had become so +interested in a recipe for chocolate cake, a pattern for a boy's +blouse, the pound party at the Methodist minister's, and some new ways +for trimming Christmas trees, that she entirely forgot the time of day. + +Meanwhile little Elbert, with his overshoes and scarf on, and cap in +hand, rocked the cradle, and kept his eyes on the clock. Five, ten, +minutes passed away. The long hand was crawling alarmingly near +last-bell time. He tied his scarf, pulled his cap over his ears, and +rocked harder than ever. Still no mother. Then he went to the door, +looked anxiously toward the corner, and sent out a lusty +shout--"Mamma-a-a, come ho-o-ome!" but no one responded except the baby. +"Oh dear! dear!" he exclaimed, as he rushed back to the cradle; and just +then his expectant ears heard the first slow cling-clang of the last +bell. It would ring for five minutes; the school-house was only three +streets away, and there was time enough yet, if he could only start. One +thing was certain--he would never leave his little baby sister. He +remembered a story of a poor baby who was almost burned to death because +her brother, who had promised to take care of her, left her, and ran out +on the street to play. + +He went to the door and shouted again. It was something like the case of +Casabianca. But when two mothers are talking about patterns and +Christmas trees, who ever knew them to notice every little outside +noise? Elbert's shout ended in a big sob. A man going to lose his entire +fortune couldn't feel worse than this little fellow did, with that +dreadful "tardy" mark hanging over his head. + +Then a happy thought flashed into his mind. Running to the cradle, he +caught up the baby, scattering pillows and blankets right and left, +bundled an old shawl over her, and snatching her half-filled milk +bottle, dashed out of the house, and ran off in the direction of that +clanging bell as fast as his stout young legs could carry him. The baby +was a light little mite, only two and a half months old, and Elbert was +nearly six years, and large for his age. + +He met two women whom he knew, and who commenced making weak remarks, +like, "Why, Elbert!" and "What on earth!" but he bounded past them, with +no answer but his panting breath, and reached the school-house in such +good time that the bell gave its last two clangs just as he handed over +his funny burden to his astonished teacher. + +"I couldn't leave her, and I _couldn't_ be late," he said, as soon as he +could get breath enough to speak. "And she'll go to sleep, and be real +good," he continued, as the teacher began to unwind the shawl. + +And then the whole room saw a surprised, half-smothered-looking little +baby, still in her night-gown, one bare foot sticking out, and her +little fists tightly clinched, as if defying anybody to send her home. + +The teacher was a good-natured young lady, and she laughed so that she +almost dropped the baby on the floor, and then the whole room laughed, +and finally Elbert joined in; for he was glad he had escaped the tardy +mark, and the baby certainly did look funny in school. + +Of course there could be no order. Nearly all the scholars had babies at +home, or were well acquainted with those of their neighbors; but they +acted as if they had never seen one before, and every movement of the +little pink hands and every turn of the small bald head made them scream +with laughter, until the principal of the school came into the room to +see what the disturbance was, and after trying to look severe for five +seconds, he laughed too. + +And while all this fun was going on, Elbert's mother was running wildly +through the four rooms of her little house, calling her boy's name, and +feeling sure that the children were either killed and thrown into the +cistern, or else carried off like Charley Ross, and lost forever. The +scattered pillows and upset rocking-chair, indeed, made the kitchen +appear as if there had been a struggle, and the wide-open door and the +gate creaking to and fro had a dreadful look to Elbert's mother. Just +then the women whom Elbert had met stopped at the gate, and said to the +mother, who was coming hurriedly out, "Is anything the matter, Mrs. +Collins?" + +"Oh, I don't know where my children are! I left them while I ran into +Mrs. Brown's a minute, and the kitchen's all upset, and I'm afraid--" + +"Why, we just now met Elbert with the baby, kiting along like the wind, +over there by Webster & Green's. Leastways we supposed it was the baby, +from the way he carried it. And he never--" + +"Merciful man! he's taken her to school!" + +About ten minutes later, a flustered little woman rapped at the door of +the First Primary Room, and inquired for a baby. It was handed to her, +along with an empty milk bottle, and wrapping them both in a red cloak +which she carried, she thanked the smiling teacher, and walked quickly +home. + +At first she had felt very angry toward Elbert; but when she looked at +the clock, and remembered his horror of being late, she softened toward +him considerably, and by the time she had got the baby home, and found +her none the worse for her little run away, she had her laugh also; and +being a fair-minded woman, she told Elbert when he came home to dinner +that it was very thoughtless in her to have staid so long at Mrs. +Brown's. And Elbert gave her a hug, and said he was "glad he didn't +_leave_ the baby, 'cause she might have been burned up, you know!" + + + + +[Begun in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 58, December 7.] + +MILDRED'S BARGAIN. + +A Story for Girls. + +BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE. + +CHAPTER VII. + + +How long she was unconscious, Milly never knew. She awoke to find +herself in a beautiful white bed, in a room she had never seen. All +signs of the storm seemed shut out; there was a bright fire on the +hearth; the room seemed full of pleasant shadows and flickering beams of +light. Milly was only half conscious that some one spoke to her, and +gave her something pleasant to drink. Then she drifted off again, with a +pleasant confusion of fancies in her mind. When she next awoke, it +seemed again to be evening, but she was conscious of a certain change in +her surroundings. A little table was drawn near her; half-used medicine +bottles were upon it; Deborah was sitting over by the fire, and Miss +Jenner was standing in the window. + +"Debby," she said, surprised to find her voice so weak; and then she +lifted up her hand, and saw it was very thin. + +"My blessed lamb!" cried the old woman, hastening to her side, followed +quickly by Alice. "So you're better!" + +Mildred found she had to keep still a long time before she could say any +more. She nearly fell asleep again. + +"Debby," she said presently, "is it long since I fainted? What time is +it?" + +"Oh, my lovey," said the old nurse, "you've lain in that blessed bed two +weeks. You've been very ill, but, thank the Lord, you're better." + +This was all Mildred knew for days. She had had a fever; and finding out +the condition of things at the cottage, Miss Jenner had taken Mrs. Lee's +affairs into her own hands. She had kept Milly, as a matter of course, +had sent a good servant to care for Mrs. Lee, filled the store closet +with every delicacy, and allowed Debby to watch and care for her +"child," as she always called Mildred. Sometimes, as she lay still in +her comfortable bed, Milly tried to recall the dreadful scene at Mr. +Hardman's; and one evening, when she was sitting up for the first time +before the fire, and after she had finished a dainty little supper; she +ventured to ask Miss Jenner a few questions. + +[Illustration: MILDRED CONFESSES ALL TO MISS JENNER.] + +"Miss Jenner," she said, softly, "do you know all about it?" + +"Yes," said Miss Jenner, smiling. + +"And are they going to take me to court?" + +"_No_," answered the elder lady, emphatically. + +"But why not?" Milly persisted. "They said I stole that money." + +"And _I_ said you _didn't_," retorted Miss Jenner. "You let it all out +in your fever, my dear. I think I understand it all." + +"And you know--" faltered Mildred. + +Miss Jenner smiled. + +"Just see if I don't know," she said. "One evening a precious old humbug +calling herself Widow Robbins came here to find you, and try and get out +of you what you owed her--you _did_ owe it, Milly--and my boy Roger was +standing behind one of the trees, and heard the conversation; so he knew +you were very badly off for twenty-two dollars, and as soon as he could +scrape it together, what does he do but send it to you in a private +note, saying you can pay it back to _him_ when you like." + +"Yes," said Mildred, eagerly, "I found that note one afternoon on my +return home; but _in it_ he bound me over not to speak of where I got +the money until he came back. I felt dreadfully about it; but as soon as +mother got well I intended telling her the whole story, and devising +some way of paying Roger right back; and I will yet, Miss Jenner." + +There was a moment's pause before Mildred said, "But how about the +store--the robbery?" + +"My dear," said Miss Jenner, "I am of the opinion that that was all +arranged between Tom Hardman and Mrs. Robbins. I've seen her, and she +admits she told him the whole story. He was angry because you seemed to +snub him; and you made him feel his vulgarity, and so he devised this +trick out of revenge. If there _was_ any robbery, _he_ was the thief!" + +"And have you seen him?" inquired Milly, tears of gratitude and +thankfulness pouring down her cheeks. + +"Yes," said Miss Jenner, "and he and his father say the thing 'may blow +over'; but that won't do for me. The first day you're well enough, you +must drive down there in my carriage, and have them tell you they +withdraw the accusation, and apologize for having made it. Now you must +not talk any more." And Miss Jenner kissed her young friend, and moved +away, taking up a book in a distant part of the room. + +Mildred never forgot the two weeks that followed. With Miss Jenner she +had long talks, in which she realized not only the folly of her +extravagance, but the actual sin of her running into debt. A great many +things which she had never thought of as serious now appeared to her in +the light of _principles_, without which, as Miss Jenner told her, she +could not live a perfect or even an upright life. When the day came on +which she was declared well enough to drive with Miss Jenner to Mr. +Hardman's, Mildred felt too humbled to rejoice in being received with +any honor. + +The girls looked at her, as she followed Miss Jenner into Mr. Hardman's +office, nudging each other, and casting half-envious glances toward +their former companion. Mary Hardman was nowhere to be seen, but Mr. Tom +was with his father, and received Miss Jenner and Mildred with a stiff +sort of pompousness. Miss Jenner had very little to say, and it was only +later that Milly fully recalled the scene--Mr. Hardman's apologies, and +Mr. Tom's surly assent. When they came back to the store, Milly paused +to say a few words here and there, and as she walked away, it was some +relief to hear a voice saying, + +"Well, I'm glad it's all right; I never _could_ believe it of Milly +Lee." + + * * * * * + +When I knew Mildred Lee she was a woman of nearly thirty, and at the +head of her own house; but the lesson of her girlhood had done her a +lasting service. No one ever had it to say of her that she bought or +used any article for which she could not at the _moment_ pay, and her +advice to young people was invaluable. When I knew her, her home was in +the Brick House. Mrs. Lee did not long survive the serious illness of +that winter, and Miss Jenner cared tenderly for the orphans her old +friend's widow left. + +Mildred speaks now with tears of gratitude of all the past, even of its +miseries; and the gray silk dress, worn but once, and still brown with +stains, is treasured as a memorial of the _bargain_ by which Mildred +purchased her high sense of honor. + +THE END. + + + + +FAITHLESS SALLY BROWN. + +AN OLD BALLAD. + + + Young Ben he was a nice young man, + A carpenter by trade; + And he fell in love with Sally Brown, + That was a lady's-maid. + +[Illustration] + + But as they fetched a walk one day, + They met a press-gang crew; + And Sally she did faint away, + Whilst Ben he was brought to. + + The boatswain swore with wicked words, + Enough to shock a saint, + That though she did seem in a fit, + 'Twas nothing but a feint. + + "Come, girl," said he, "hold up your head-- + He'll be as good as me; + For when your swain is in our boat + A boatswain he will be." + + So when they'd made their game of her, + And taken off her elf, + She roused, and found she only was + A-coming to herself. + + "And is he gone, and is he gone?" + She cried, and wept outright; + "Then I will to the water-side, + And see him out of sight." + +[Illustration] + + A waterman came up to her; + "Now, young woman," said he, + "If you weep on so, you will make + Eye water in the sea." + + "Alas! they've taken my beau, Ben, + To sail with old Benbow"; + And her woe began to run afresh, + As if she'd said, Gee woe! + + Says he, "They've only taken him + To the tender ship, you see." + "The tender ship," cried Sally Brown-- + "What a hardship that must be! + + "Oh! would I were a mermaid now, + For then I'd follow him; + But, oh! I'm not a fish woman, + And so I can not swim. + + "Alas! I was not born beneath + The Virgin and the Scales, + So I must curse my cruel stars, + And walk about in Wales." + + Now Ben had sailed to many a place + That's underneath the world; + But in two years the ship came home, + And all her sails were furled. + + But when he called on Sally Brown, + To see how she got on, + He found she'd got another Ben, + Whose Christian name was John. + +[Illustration] + + "O Sally Brown, O Sally Brown, + How could you serve me so? + I've met with many a breeze before. + But never such a blow!" + +[Illustration] + + Then reading on his 'bacco box, + He heaved a heavy sigh + And then began to eye his pipe, + And then to pipe his eye. + +[Illustration] + + And then he tried to sing "All's Well!" + But could not, though he tried; + His head was turned--and so he chewed + His pigtail till he died. + + His death, which happened in his berth, + At forty-odd befell; + They went and told the sexton, and + The sexton tolled the bell. + + THOMAS HOOD. + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX] + + + SIERRA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. + + I live 'way up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, five thousand feet + above the sea. The snow here is four feet deep. My brother and I + have lots of fun sliding down hill on snow-shoes. Our snow-shoes + are made out of strips of wood about six feet long and four inches + wide, with leather straps in the middle to put our toes in. The + shoes that grown people use are from eight to fourteen feet long. + + I am ten years old. My father takes HARPER'S WEEKLY, and we like + to look at the pictures. He subscribed for YOUNG PEOPLE for us at + the beginning of the second volume. + + MAY C. T. + + * * * * * + + DERBY, CONNECTICUT. + + I am twelve years old. I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much, and all the + scholars in my school like it. I get a copy every week because I am + a good girl, and I wish every little girl would do the same. + + E. L. M. + + * * * * * + + WEST PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + We have taken HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE ever since it was published, + and we think it grows better all the time. I enjoyed reading the + letter from one of the party who visited Harper's Building, and I + hope some time to see it all myself. I guess, if I am a girl, I + should not be afraid, and "run away" from any of the machinery; + anyhow, not from the folding-machines, for some of them are made + right here in our own shop. + + After we have read our YOUNG PEOPLE all through, we send the + numbers to the Children's Hospital, so that the poor little ones + there may have the pleasure of reading such a nice little paper. + + ISABEL C. + + * * * * * + + BOZEMAN, MONTANA TERRITORY. + + I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it very much. I was so sorry when + the story of "Paul Grayson" was finished. + + I am boarding in town and going to school this winter, but my home + is about five miles away, in the country. I go out there every + Friday night. + + Yesterday I went out hunting. I have a double-barrelled shot-gun, + which pa gave me for helping pick up potatoes. I have a horse and + a saddle and bridle of my own, and in the summer I have to ride + lots. Sometimes I ride thirty miles at a time. + + I get up the cows, and take them out every day. In the summer we + have school within half a mile of our house. + + BERTIE R. + + * * * * * + + NEWPORT, KENTUCKY. + + This is the first letter I ever wrote to the Post-office Box. Now I + thought I would tell about the freezing of the Ohio River. Just + below here it is frozen solid, and crowds of people skate on it + every day. It is not frozen in front of Newport, because a steam + ferry runs between here and Cincinnati, and the boats keep the ice + broken. They do not allow it to get thick enough to hold people, + because if it was, everybody would walk over without having to pay + the ferry. + + The Licking River, a very small tributary of the Ohio, is frozen + over too, and I went skating on it yesterday. + + HENRY R. + + * * * * * + + ATLANTA, GEORGIA. + + We want to know who "Jimmy Brown" is. When papa read "Our Baby," + mamma, my aunts, uncles, and cousins laughed until the tears ran + down their cheeks. + + I made me some arrows with pins stuck in them. + + The Christmas number of YOUNG PEOPLE was the best of all. + + STEWART H. + + * * * * * + + DETROIT, MICHIGAN. + + I am a little boy eight years old. I commenced to take YOUNG PEOPLE + last November, and I like it very much. I enjoy reading the little + letters in the Post-office Box, and I like all of the stories. I + think "Toby Tyler" is splendid. + + I hope all the little folks who read YOUNG PEOPLE had a Merry + Christmas and a Happy New Year. + + FRED R. + + * * * * * + + BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. + + I was nine years old on the 7th of January. Papa has taken YOUNG + PEOPLE for me ever since it began. He sent for a cover, and is + having the first volume bound. I like it very much indeed. + + I have had lots of sport coasting, and I will be very sorry when + the snow is gone. + + CRAIG C. + + * * * * * + + EAST RUPERT, VERMONT. + + My home is in Factory Point, but I am up to my grandpa's now. He + has got a big farm. He has fourteen cows and two calves. My papa is + a doctor, and I have lots of rides with him. I am nine years old. + + CHARLEY C. + + * * * * * + + LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. + + I thought I would write to the Post-office about the big spring in + Indiana. It is called Harrison Spring, because it was owned by + General Harrison when he was Governor of the Northwestern + Territory. It looks like a very large pond, and is fifty-five feet + deep in the centre. There are two streams flowing from it, which + form an island, as they unite and form one stream at a little + distance from the spring. About a mile farther on, this stream runs + a saw-mill and a flour-mill. This spring is near the great + Wyandotte Cave. + + GILBERT C. S. + + * * * * * + + I have increased my collection of stamps from seventy-five to + fifteen hundred by exchange. I think this is the grandest of all + the departments of YOUNG PEOPLE. I would now like to exchange + twenty-five foreign stamps for five birds' eggs. Correspondents + will please label the eggs. + + ROBERT H. DAVIDSON, + Care of the Postmaster, + Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tenn. + + * * * * * + + I would like to exchange Texas postmarks for minerals or postmarks. + Or I will exchange an ounce of the soil of Texas for that of any + other State. + + H. C. YANCEY, + P. O. Box 224, Houston, Texas. + + * * * * * + + I wish to inform those correspondents who desire to exchange + minerals, shells, and curiosities with me, that I have changed my + residence. My new address is, + + CHARLES LEADBETTER, + 305 Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + I am a girl fourteen years old, but I am lame, and can not go out. + I have a few crochet lace patterns which I would like to exchange + for others. I would also like to exchange patterns of patchwork. If + any little girl would like to know how to crochet a pair of doll's + drawers, a jacket, or a petticoat, and will send me her address and + a postage stamp, I will gladly answer her. + + ANNIE SLACK, + 170 Fourteenth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + I have a list of every Indian tribe in the United States which I + will give a copy of in exchange for Indian relics, foreign stamps, + or postal cards. + + JOHN E. WILLIAMS, + 4 Harrison Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + I have some genuine Indian bows and arrows, some fine silver and + copper specimens, and a great number of Lake Superior agates, which + I should like to exchange for shells and ocean curiosities. + + HORACE H. MITCHELL, Duluth, Minn. + + * * * * * + +The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents: + + A fifty-cent and a twenty-five cent stamp, for two Cape of Good + Hope stamps. + + WILLIAM R. CARMER, + Mount Vernon, Westchester County, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + Fine samples of gold ore, showing the stages of concentration or + separation of quartz from the precious metal, for rare postage + stamps. In answering, correspondents will please specify stamps. + + DWIGHT MARFIELD, + Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks. + + MARY B. REED, + Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + A piece of the first Atlantic cable for an American copper cent of + 1799, or the half-cent of 1836, 1843, or 1852; or one Spanish and + one English coin and two French coins for the American twenty-cent + piece of 1877 or 1878. + + WILLIE B. SHOBER, + Cumberland, Md. + + * * * * * + + Lead or iron ore, and specimens of different varieties of quartz, + for foreign postage stamps, skulls of small animals, ocean + curiosities, petrifactions, and minerals of all kinds; or a piece + of silver ore for a collection of the different varieties of stamps + now in use in Canada. + + GEORGE C. BAKER, + Comstocks, Washington County, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps for stones from the different States. + + ARTHUR D. PRINCE, + Lowell, Mass. + +We do not consider the above address sufficient. Correspondents who +reside in large cities should always give their street and number, or +the number of their post-office box. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks and stamps for stamps. + + WILLIE H. HASKIN, + Fort Preble, Portland, Maine. + + * * * * * + + Rare postmarks for any variety of South American postage stamps or + United States department stamps. + + FRANK SWETT, + 1419 Taylor Street, San Francisco, California. + + * * * * * + + Stamps and postmarks in use in 1852, also some of 1869, for foreign + postage stamps or curiosities of any kind. + + SADIE HAWLEY, + Fair Haven, Rutland County, Vt. + + * * * * * + + Texas flints, pretty stones, snail shells, postmarks, stamps, + specimens of different kinds of wood, petrified wood, cotton as it + comes from the field, cotton seeds, or seeds of the "Indian plume," + for foreign postage stamps, or good specimens of minerals and ores + of all kinds. + + SAMMIE RISIEN, + Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Soil and sand from Ohio for soil and sand from any other State or + Canada; or an Indian arrow-head two and a half inches long, + together with a specimen of Ohio soil, for twenty-five foreign + postage stamps. + + EMMER EDWARDS, + Washington C. H., Fayette County, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps for United States Navy or Justice stamps. + + WALLACE GREEN, + Hackensack, Bergen County, N. J. + + * * * * * + + Soil from Missouri or Texas for soil from any other State; or a + stone from Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, or Georgia for one from any + other State. + + HARVEY CLARK, + Lock Box 26, Butler, Bates County, Missouri. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps and postmarks for winter skins of wild animals, or + for stuffed birds. + + JOHN LAWRENCE, + 40 Washington Square, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Birds' eggs. + + GEORGE A. POST, + Florence House, corner of Fourth Avenue and + Eighteenth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Minerals, fish eyes from China, or West India beans, for minerals + or any kind of curiosities. + + CARL R. EABY, + 22 North Shippen Street, Lancaster, Penn. + + * * * * * + + A carved shell, some seeds from the Sandwich Islands, or stones + from Lake Michigan, for any foreign postage stamps except English + and German. Chinese stamps especially desired. + + WILLIAM C. MCCONNELL, + 262 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks and revenue stamps. + + WILLIS ROSE, + 939 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + Stones from New Jersey for stones from any other State or Territory + except Colorado and Wyoming. + + JOHN W. ROSENBAUM, + 194-1/2 Morgan Street, Jersey City, N. J. + + * * * * * + + Two different War Department stamps and thirty postmarks for + sea-weed, or the same, together with some moss and pretty shells, + for a piece of stalagmite. + + FLORIE DICKSON, Brenford, Kent County, Del. + + * * * * * + +J. W.--The earliest calendars, as the Jewish, the Egyptian, and the +Greek, did not begin the year where we do now; and the Jewish year, +which opened on the 25th of March, continued to have a legal position in +many Christian countries until a comparatively recent period. In +England, it was not until 1752 that the 1st of January became the initial +day of the legal, as it had long been of the popular, year. Several +other countries made this change earlier than England--France in 1564, +Scotland in 1600, Holland and Russia in 1700. + +The Roman calendar, which made January the first month of the year, is +credited to the second King of Rome, Numa Pompilius, more than six +hundred years B.C. He added two months to the ten into which the year +had been previously divided, and called the first one Januarius, in +honor of Janus, the deity supposed to preside over doors. + +Our Saxon ancestors originally called this the Wolf-month +(_Wolf-monat_), because wolves were more than usually ravenous and +daring in that season of the year. + + * * * * * + +A. T. G.--Snow crystals were first observed by the arctic explorer +Scoresby, and for a time they were supposed to be peculiar to the polar +regions. It was found, however, that these crystals were formed wherever +snow falls. An interesting account of these beautiful formations, with +engravings of many of them, was given in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 15. + + * * * * * + +F. T. B.--When metal pins were invented and brought into use, about the +beginning of the sixteenth century, they were a very acceptable +New-Year's gift to ladies, and money given for the purchase of them was +called "pin-money"--an expression which has come to mean the money set +apart for a wife's private expenses. + + * * * * * + +INQUISITIVE JIM.--The best account of Petra, the wonderful rock-hewn +city of Arabia, is to be found in Stephens's book of travels called +_Egypt, Petra, and the Holy Land_. The present name of the little valley +where it was situated is Wady Musa. The city, shut in by high cliffs, +occupied an area of about half a mile square. The valley is watered by a +stream, and the principal entrance is through a deep ravine, with +rugged cliffs 300 feet high on each side. In ancient times Petra was a +very strong city. It is mentioned in the Bible under the name of Selah, +and received its present name, which signifies rock, from the Greeks, +about 300 B.C. It was finally destroyed, by whom is not known, and was +not heard of after the sixth century A.D. until it was discovered in +1812 by the traveller Burckhardt. The ruins, consisting of tombs, a +theatre, temple, etc., are very interesting and picturesque. + + * * * * * + +W. H. J.--If your puzzles are good, and suitable for our columns, they +will be accepted. We can not judge of the merits of the enigma you have +already sent, as you neglected to inclose the answer. The _nom de plume_ +you have chosen is not good, but you can easily invent a better one. + + * * * * * + +LILLIE.--The introductory paragraph to the Post-office Box of No. 45 +explains why your request for exchange is not printed. + + * * * * * + +O. H. BRUCE.--1. The United States government began the coinage of +one-cent pieces in 1793. 2. In 1815, none were coined. 3. The last +coinage of large one-cent pieces was in 1857. 4. The coinage of two-cent +pieces began in 1864, and the last issue was in 1872. 5. The coinage of +the nickel five-cent pieces began in 1865. 6. In 1864, both copper and +nickel cents were coined. This double coinage did not happen in any +other year. + + * * * * * + +D. L. S.--On page 398 of your bound volume of YOUNG PEOPLE is a story +entitled "Camping Out," which will give you the information you require. + + * * * * * + +JOHNNIE.--White elephants are not a distinct species, but are simply +albinos, which are found among animals, birds, and insects, as well as +among members of the human family. In India the white elephant is +considered a sacred animal, and is treated with the greatest reverence. +When specimens are found in the woods and jungles, they are captured +with tender care, and their possession is eagerly sought for by the +sovereigns of the small kingdoms. White elephants have been the cause of +many wars, as their possession is supposed to bestow greater benefits on +their royal owners than either chests of gold or extended territory. One +of the proudest titles of the King of Ava is "Lord of the White +Elephant," and the King of Siam at Bangkok also counts his white +elephants among his most precious possessions, as, according to Burmese +superstition, they insure prosperity and good fortune to the nation. The +death of one of these creatures is regarded as a national calamity, its +funeral is conducted with great solemnity, and the entire people mourn +as for the loss of a dear relative. These elephants are kept under +richly embroidered canopies, are fed with the most delicious fruits, and +members of the nobility seek for the honor of being custodian to the +royal beast. When the elephant is taken to bathe in the river, it goes +escorted by a band of music, and is followed by adoring crowds. + +This singular reverence for an albino elephant has existed in Burmah for +centuries. An English traveller who visited that country three hundred +years ago describes the same treatment of this beast which may be seen +at the present time. + +Even the hairs of this creature are supposed to insure good fortune. In +1855, a foreign ambassador delivered some presents to the King of Siam, +who ordered many presents to be given in return. On the conclusion of +the ceremony, the King himself, with much solemnity, placed in the hands +of the ambassador a small golden box, locked with a golden key, which he +said was far more precious than all the other presents. The box, when +opened, was found to contain a few hairs of a white elephant! + +And, after all, this elephant is not white, but of a dull yellow color. +It has white or reddish eyes, and is a very ugly-looking beast. No +greater proof could be found of the moral darkness and ignorance of the +natives of certain portions of India than their superstitious veneration +for this animal. + + * * * * * + +F. O.--Read the paragraph appended to a letter from Ida Belle D. in the +Post-office Box of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 51. + + * * * * * + +HALLIE C. W.--The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by a Spanish +navigator about the middle of the sixteenth century, but they remained +comparatively unknown until visited by Captain Cook in 1778, who gave +them the name of Sandwich, in honor of Lord Sandwich, an English +statesman who conducted the naval affairs of England during our +Revolutionary war. On St. Valentine's Day, 1779, Captain Cook was killed +at Hawaii, the largest island of the group, in a quarrel with the +natives. Mauna Loa, the volcano on the island of Hawaii, which has +recently been in a state of eruption, is said to have the largest +burning crater in the world. + + * * * * * + +EDMUND H. B.--There is no especial time for the printing of "Wiggles." + + * * * * * + +MATTIE H.--The story "Who was Paul Grayson?" was concluded in HARPER'S +YOUNG PEOPLE No. 57. + + * * * * * + +TILLIE DAVIS.--Send your full address, and we will print your request +for exchange. + + * * * * * + +RIDLEY MCL.--Your puzzle is very good for the work of a "little +eight-year-old boy," but we can not print it, as the same solution has +already appeared in an earlier number of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + * * * * * + +Favors are acknowledged from Ruby W., C. H. B., M. Stiefel, Frank R., +Joseph W. Hawkins, Marshall R. Grimes, Gay Wood, John V. Gould, Gracie +K., R. M. Sites, Mamie K. Pope, Anna M. Roberts, Elsie E. T., Frank +Davis, Mae King, Mary Olive L. + + * * * * * + +Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Harvey Ridgway, "Geo. +Graphy," Grace A. McElroy, Percy Lincoln McDermott, A. G. O. M., +"Nightingale," Alfred A. True, Craig Coburn, C. F. Bishop, Cal I. Forny, +Carrie and George Hall, M. S. Brigham. + + * * * * * + +PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. + +No. 1. + +ENIGMA. + + First in box, not in chest. + Second in hole, not in nest. + Third in meat, not in bones. + Fourth in rubble, not in stones. + Fifth in measure, not in mile. + Sixth in fashion, not in style. + Seventh in river, not in sound. + Eighth in fly, not in bound. + Ninth in mallet, not in saw. + The whole an article used in war. + + D. L. S. + + * * * * * + +No. 2. + +NUMERICAL CHARADES. + + 1. I am a familiar adage composed of 18 letters. + My 5, 12, 1, 18 is to separate. + My 15, 7, 3, 16 is to propose. + My 5, 2, 9, 10, 13, 4 is to describe. + My 17, 8, 6, 4 is a character in music. + My 11, 14, 15 is a boy's name. + + MARK MARCY. + + 2. I am a shrub composed of 6 letters. + My 4, 5, 3, 1 is a healthy drink. + My 3, 5, 4, 6 is a South American city. + My 4, 2, 5, 3 is armor. + + LIONEL. + + 3. I am composed of 9 letters, and am very pleasant in winter. + My 6, 2, 5 is part of the face. + My 1, 9, 7, 3 is an emotion. + My 6, 7, 8, 4 is used for trimming. + + MARY. + + * * * * * + +No. 3. + +HIDDEN BIRDS. + + 1. Isaac ran every step of the way. + 2. How Lillie has grown! + 3. See that Kit eats his dinner. + 4. Do you call him a hero? Not by any means. + + MABEL. + + 5. O, Matthew, renounce the company of those bad boys. + 6. We were playing hide-and-seek, and I caught Rob in the swing near + the tree. + 7. Let us run and pick up the pears now, Birdie. + 8. I saw your lunch pail in Nettie's closet. + + BESSIE. + + * * * * * + +ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 62. + +No. 1. + + F I N A L + I B I S + N I P + A S + L + +No. 2. + +1. Mouse-ear. 2. Porcupine. 3. Portland. + +No. 3. + + C O L O R + X E B E C + G I B E S + T U R I N + T E N O N + +No. 4. + + C H A M P L A I N + C A R A C A S + N A T A L + T A Y + G + D O N + G E N O A + B O L I V I A + G U A Y A Q U I L + + * * * * * + +WIGGLES. + +The following are the names of those who sent in answers to Wiggle No. +16: + +Natalie Newell, Helen Edwards, I. La Rue, R. I. Brasher, Charlie +Conklin, Horace Dodge, Joseph Welsh, Edwin M. Cox, Mark Manley, F. +Place, M. P. Rich, Shelton A. Hibbs, Ellie Earle, Mansur Beard, G. +Darling, Jack Evert, Jim Evert, Tom Evert, Will Evert, Bobbie Hornfager, +C. H. L., N. Adda T., Toby, Crank, Dumper, G. H. A., Racy B. Sweet, +G. E. P., Newton I., M. Siegert. Annie A. Siegert, A. Utz, Worcester +Wiggle Club, Santa Claus, Robinson Crusoe, Robert E. Walsh, Frank +Zabriske, Millie Stephenson, Burton Harwood, Fanny Reed, Dayton Reed, +J. O. O., J. P. W., S. G. Hopkins, M. Goller, Alice Brown, H. M. Eaton, +Carrie Harding, E. A. H., Carrie Peddle, Charles L. Glessner, W. Doerr, +Thomas Buford, Frank J. Jones, A. R. B. H., N. P. Grensel, M. F. K., +Randolph Bolles, J. Flaherty, T. Flaherty, Willie A. Scott, Fred +Dierking, Louise Brown, Mary Dancy, Isobel L. Jacobs, Robbie H. +Bradbury, G. H. Ralston, Lawrence Jones, Carrie E. Weightman, F. S. G., +Willie Harris, J. M. Ingersoll, W. Harman, Louise Fowler, Scilla Fowler, +Helen S. Woodworth, Elsie E. Trautman, Lynn Trautman, Amelie Ferrand, +Harry B. Brazier, Stella Pratt, George H., Robert A. Magill, Nellie R. +Field, Paddy Miles, Clara S. A., Willie R. Perkins, Henry Welsh, Harry +Eichbaum, Albert Evans, Percy L. McDermott, C. C. Gardner, Rosa +Freyensee, L. G. Duffy, Meline Rosenthal, J. Frees, W. F. Reed, F. L. +Kittle, Walter Eichbaum, Tommy Booth, Charlie S. Bryant, Anna Jones, +Grace T. Lyman, Nellie Brees, Walter Mandell, Bronte Smith, Bertie +Seymour, Willie Seymour, Vannoy M. Wallace, Fanny M. Young, J. H. Young, +S. M. Young, Lou Bell, J. W. Long, J. W. Kittrell, Bob Ewing, Otto D., +Harry O. Boone, Harry Kenderdine, Grace Lansingh, Addie M. Taylor, Roy +Demster, Percy Matthews, Harry Lander, Annie Reinhardt, Frank Lander, +Ahan Hyde, Sinclair G. Wills, Bessie H. Moore, Emma F. Cassidy, Pollie +Burke, "Lone Star" (R. H. Davidson), Louis Burtnett, Frank Edinger, +Nellie Hyde, Hallie Hyde, Daisy Hyde, Katie B. Barr, Mollie Edwards, +Eddie D. Knowles, G. W. Bird, Wendell M. Frank, Bertram Frank, Willie +Dorrance, Alfred P., Frank Hoover, S. H. S., J. S., George Shriver, +Grace E. Stevens, Pearlie Hare, Little Pet Hare, Little Mary Hare, +Little Johnnie Campbell, Edwin C. Hutman, Robert G. Bidwell, Edith B., +J. F. H., B. M. Allison, H. M. P., Fred Dale, Leila King, Georgie +Clementson, Percy A. Robbins, Eddie Booth, Norrie M. E., Harry Harper, +Frank Ostrander, R. D. White, H. Sidway, F. Sidway, Gardner Howland, +John A. Tompkins, Emma R. Bullock, Theresa A. Morro, B. L. Worden, Lydia +M. Bennett, L. L. G., Cobweb, Du Puy, Waddy Thompson, D. W. G., John R. +Glen, Jessie Glen, Kirk Romaine, E. D. Kellogg, Frank Crabbs, Thomas M. +Armstrong, Henry C. Deknatels, Clarence Edsall, Fred R. Fisk, W. L. +Green, Melville Wilson, A. C. Chapin, W. F., C. J. Breek, Jun., A. C. +Pearsons, Albert J. Sullivan, Jacob Burr, Joe, Ed Smith, Joe +Fitzsimmons, J. F. S., Anna Gallett, E. J. B., M. J. Caldwell, H. F., +J. A. Fritz, Grace Hamilton, H. W. Smith, Donna A. Smith, Harry C. +Sloan, Willie Reynolds, Charles D. Jones, Dimple McCrea, R. H. K., John +Carnahan, James W. Grubb, H. Adams, Little Jennie Simpson, Chester +Marslich, Howard, N. B. B., Mary C. Green, B. L. Worden, Harry Tompkins, +Jameson L. Fumey, Mattie L. Day, Jennie Janes, Wilfred H. Warner, Ben +W. G., Mary E. Heartwell, Teddy Smith, Charles H. Tucker, T. Bert. John, +Vinnie John, Sue John, Edmund H. Blunt, Nelson C. Metcalf, H. T. +Gottsleben, L. G. Baker, Genevieve, Carl Mueller, M. D. M., "Go Bang" +(J. R. Blake), Charles P. Gifford, Edmund Stirling, Bertie Headley, +Bertha S., O. Führlein, M. M., Willie Green, Charles Barker, George St. +Clair, Daisy Crampton, George Taylor, John N. Howe, C. E. S. S., +"Daisy," S. J. G., Carry Owen, Bertie W. Gifford, Bessie H. Moore, +Marion P. Wiggin, F. R. S., Mollie C. Wrenshall, B. E. H., George B. +Rogers, D. H. Rogers, W. H. Cantrell, Eddie G. Cantrell, Wamie Forse, +Bevy Pettit, Woodvill Wrenshall, Howard Rathbone, G. W. D., Arty Taylor, +Joralemon, G. V. E., L. A. Osborne, L. B. Parsons, Grace and Jennie, +Millie Olmstead, Lucy and Fred. + + + + +A NEW SERIAL. + + +In No. 66 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, issued February 1, will be begun a +new Serial Story, entitled + + "PHIL'S FAIRIES," + +by MRS. W. J. HAYS, author of "The Princess Idleways," etc. + + + + +NOTICE. + + +HARPER & BROTHERS _beg leave to state, in answer to numerous inquiries, +that the Bound Volume of_ HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE _for 1880 is entirely +out of stock, and will not be reprinted at present_. + + + + +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. + + HARPER & BROTHERS, + Franklin Square, N. 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II.—<span class="smcap">No</span>. 65.</td><td align="center"><span class="smcap">Published by</span> HARPER & 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, January 25, 1881.</td><td align="center">Copyright, 1881, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>.</td><td align="right">$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 594px;"><a name="TOBY_TYLER" id="TOBY_TYLER"></a> +<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="594" height="600" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">THE BREAKDOWN, AND ESCAPE OF THE MONKEYS.</span> +</div> + +<h4>[Begun in No. 58 of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, December 7.]</h4> + +<h2>TOBY TYLER;</h2> + +<h3>OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.</h3> + +<h3>BY JAMES OTIS.</h3> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter VII</span>.</h3> + +<h3>AN ACCIDENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.</h3> + +<p>Toby's experience of the evening was very similar to that of the +afternoon, save that he was so fortunate as not to take any more bad +money in payment for his goods. Mr. Jacobs scolded and swore +alternately, and the boy really surprised him in the way of selling +goods, though he was very careful not to say anything about it, but made +Toby believe that he was doing only about half as much<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span> work as he ought +to do. Toby's private hoard of money was increased that evening by +presents, ninety cents, and he began to look upon himself as almost a +rich man.</p> + +<p>When the performance was nearly over, Mr. Jacobs called to him to help +in packing up; and by the time the last spectator had left the tent, the +worldly possessions of Messrs. Lord and Jacobs were ready for removal, +and Toby allowed to do as he had a mind to, so long as he was careful to +be on hand when old Ben was ready to start.</p> + +<p>Toby thought that he would have time to pay a visit to his friends the +skeleton and the fat woman, and to that end started toward the place +where their tent had been standing; but to his sorrow he found that it +was already being taken down, and he only had time to thank Mrs. Treat +and to press the fleshless hand of her shadowy husband as they entered +their wagon to drive away.</p> + +<p>He was disappointed, for he had hoped to be able to speak with his +new-made friends a few moments before the weary night's ride commenced; +but failing in that, he went hastily back to the monkeys' cage. Old Ben +was there getting things ready for a start; but the wooden sides of the +cage had not been put up, and Toby had no difficulty in calling the aged +monkey up to the bars. He held one of the fat woman's doughnuts in his +hand, and he said, as he passed it through to the animal:</p> + +<p>"I thought perhaps you might be hungry, Mr. Stubbs, and this is some of +what the skeleton's wife give me. I hain't got very much time to talk +with you now; but the first chance I can get away to-morrow, an' when +there hain't anybody 'round, I want to tell you something."</p> + +<p>The monkey had taken the doughnut in his hand-like paws, and was tearing +it to pieces, eating small portions of it very rapidly.</p> + +<p>"Don't hurry yourself," said Toby, warningly, "for Uncle Dan'l always +told me the worst thing a feller could do was to eat fast. If you want +any more, after we start, just put your hand through the little hole up +there near the seat, an' I'll give you all you want."</p> + +<p>From the look on his face, Toby confidently believed the monkey was +going to make some reply; but just then Ben shut up the sides, +separating Toby and Mr. Stubbs, and the order was given to start.</p> + +<p>Toby clambered up on to the high seat, Ben followed him, and in another +instant the team was moving along slowly down the dusty road, preceded +and followed by the many wagons with their tiny swinging lights.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Ben, when he had got his team well under way; and felt that +he could indulge in a little conversation, "how did you get along +to-day?"</p> + +<p>Toby related all of his movements, and gave the driver a faithful +account of all that had happened to him, concluding his story by saying, +"That was one of Mrs. Treat's doughnuts that I just gave to Mr. Stubbs."</p> + +<p>"To whom?" asked Ben, in surprise.</p> + +<p>"To Mr. Stubbs—the old fellow here in the cart, you know, that's been +so good to me."</p> + +<p>Toby heard a sort of gurgling sound, saw the driver's body sway back and +forth in a trembling way, and was just becoming thoroughly alarmed, when +he thought of the previous night, and understood that Ben was only +laughing in his own peculiar way.</p> + +<p>"How did you know his name was Stubbs?" asked Ben, after he had +recovered his breath.</p> + +<p>"Oh, I don't know that that is his real name," was the quick reply; "I +only call him that because he looks so much like a feller with that name +that I knew at home. He don't seem to mind because I call him Stubbs."</p> + +<p>Ben looked at Toby earnestly for a moment, acting all the time as if he +wanted to laugh again, but didn't dare to for fear he might burst a +blood-vessel, and then he said, as he patted him on the shoulder, "Well, +you are the queerest little fish that I ever saw in all my travels. You +seem to think that that monkey knows all you say to him."</p> + +<p>"I'm sure he does," said Toby, positively. "He don't say anything right +out to me, but he knows everything I tell him. Do you suppose he could +talk if he tried to?"</p> + +<p>"Look here, Mr. Toby Tyler," and Ben turned half around in his seat, and +looked Toby full in the face, as to give more emphasis to his words, +"are you heathen enough to think that that monkey could talk if he +wanted to?"</p> + +<p>"I know I hain't a heathen," said Toby, thoughtfully, "for if I had +been, some of the missionaries would have found me out a good while ago; +but I never saw anybody like this old Mr. Stubbs before, an' I thought +he could talk if he wanted to, just as the Living Skeleton does, or his +wife. Anyhow, Mr. Stubbs winks at me; an' how could he do that if he +didn't know what I've been sayin' to him?"</p> + +<p>"Look here, my son," said Ben, in a most fatherly fashion, "monkeys +hain't anything but beasts, an' they don't know how to talk any more +than they know what you say to 'em."</p> + +<p>"Didn't you ever hear any of them speak a word?"</p> + +<p>"Never. I've been in a circus, man an' boy, nigh on to forty years, an' +I never seen nothin' in a monkey more'n any other beast, except their +awful mischiefness."</p> + +<p>"Well," said Toby, still unconvinced, "I believe Mr. Stubbs knew what I +said to him, anyway."</p> + +<p>"Now don't be foolish, Toby," pleaded Ben. "You can't show me one thing +that a monkey ever did because you told him to."</p> + +<p>Just at that moment Toby felt some one pulling at the back of his coat, +and looking around, he saw it was a little brown hand, reaching through +the bars of the air-hole of the cage, that was tugging away at his coat.</p> + +<p>"There!" he said, triumphantly, to Ben. "Look there. I told Mr. Stubbs +if he wanted anything more to eat, to tell me, an' I would give it to +him. Now you can see for yourself that he's come for it," and Toby took +a doughnut from his pocket, and put it into the tiny hand, which was +immediately withdrawn. "Now what do you think of Mr. Stubbs knowing what +I say to him?"</p> + +<p>"They often stick their paws up through there," said Ben, in a +matter-of-fact tone. "I've had 'em pull my coat in the night till they +made me as nervous as ever any old woman was. You see, Toby, my boy, +monkeys is monkeys; an' you mustn't go to gettin' the idea that they're +anything else, for it's a mistake. You think this old monkey in here +knows what you say? Why, that's just the cuteness of the old fellow; he +watches you to see if he can't do just as you do, an' that's all there +is about it."</p> + +<p>Toby was more than half convinced that Ben was putting the matter in its +proper light, and he would have believed all that had been said if, just +at that moment, he had not seen that brown hand reaching through the +hole to clutch him again by the coat.</p> + +<p>The action seemed so natural, so like a hungry boy who gropes in the +dark pantry for something to eat, that it would have taken more +arguments than Ben had at his disposal to persuade Toby that his Mr. +Stubbs could not understand all that was said to him. Toby put another +doughnut in the outstretched hand, and then sat silently, as if in a +brown-study over some difficult problem.</p> + +<p>For some time the ride was made in silence. Ben was going through all +the motions of whistling without uttering a sound, a favorite amusement +of his, and Toby's thoughts were far away in the humble home he had +scorned, with Uncle Daniel, whose virtues had increased with every mile +of distance which had been put between them, and whose faults had +decreased in a corresponding ratio.</p> + +<p>Toby's thoughtfulness had made him sleepy, and his eyes were almost +closed in slumber, when he was startled by a crashing sound, was +conscious of a sense of being hurled from his seat by some great force, +and then he lay senseless by the side of the road, while the wagon +remained a perfect wreck, from out of which a small army of monkeys<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span> +were escaping. Ben's experienced ear had told him at the first crash +that his wagon was breaking down, and without having time to warn Toby +of his peril, he had leaped clear of the wreck, keeping his horses in +perfect control, thus averting any more trouble. It was the breaking of +one of the axles which Toby had heard just before he was thrown from his +seat, and when the body of the wagon had come down upon the hard road, +the entire structure had been wrecked.</p> + +<p>The monkeys, thus suddenly released from their confinement, had +scampered off in every direction, and, by a singular chance, Toby's aged +friend started for the woods in such a direction as to bring him +directly upon the boy's senseless body. As the monkey came up to Toby he +stopped, through the well-known curiosity of his kind, and began to +examine the body carefully, prying into each pocket he could reach, and +trying to open the half-closed eyelids in order to peep in under them.</p> + +<p>Fortunately for Toby, he had fallen upon a mud-bank, and was only +stunned for the moment, having received no serious bruises, even though +he had been thrown such a distance. The attentions bestowed upon him by +the monkey served the purpose of bringing him to his senses; and after +he had looked around him in the gray light of the coming morning, it +would have taken far more of a philosopher than ever old Ben was to have +persuaded the boy that monkeys did not possess reasoning faculties.</p> + +<p>The monkey was picking at his ears, nose, and mouth, as monkeys always +do when they get an opportunity, and the expression of his face was as +grave as possible. Toby firmly believed that the monkey's face showed +sorrow at his fall, and he believed that the attentions which were being +bestowed upon him were for the purpose of learning whether he had been +injured or not.</p> + +<p>"Don't worry, Mr. Stubbs," said Toby, anxious to reassure his friend, as +he sat upright and looked about him. "I didn't get hurt any, but I would +like to know how I got 'way over here."</p> + +<p>It really seemed as if the monkey was pleased to know that his little +friend was not hurt, for he seated himself on his haunches, and his face +expressed the liveliest pleasure that Toby was well again—or at least +that was the way the boy interpreted the look.</p> + +<p>By this time the news of the accident had been shouted ahead from one +team to the other, and all hands were hurrying to the scene for the +purpose of rendering some aid. As Toby saw them coming, he also saw a +number of small forms, looking something like men, hurrying past him, +and for the first time he understood how it was that the aged monkey was +at liberty, and knew that those little dusky forms were the other +occupants of the cage escaping to the woods.</p> + +<p>"See there, Mr. Stubbs! see there!" he exclaimed, quickly, pointing +toward the fugitives; "they're all going off into the woods. What shall +we do?"</p> + +<p>The sight of the runaways seemed to excite the old monkey quite as much +as it had the boy. He jumped to his feet, chattered in the most excited +way, screamed two or three times as if he was calling them back, and +then started off in vigorous pursuit.</p> + +<p>"Now he's gone too," said Toby, disconsolately, believing the old fellow +had run away from him; "I didn't think Mr. Stubbs would treat me this +way."</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="A_LITTLE_ARAB_GIRLS_MISSION" id="A_LITTLE_ARAB_GIRLS_MISSION">A LITTLE ARAB GIRL'S MISSION.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY F. E. FRYATT.</h3> + +<p>Many of the readers of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> will be both surprised and +sorry to learn that there are parents who are not only willing to sell +their baby girls for a few pennies, but when this can not be done, to +cast them out upon the highways to perish either by the wild beasts that +prowl about at night, or by the fiercely glaring sun that heats the sand +so that even a dog will not venture out at noonday for fear of burning +his paws.</p> + +<p>"Where do these cruel people live, and who are they?" I hear a bright +little girl ask.</p> + +<p>They are the Arabs who inhabit the deserts of Kabylia and the Sahara, in +and south of Algiers, the most northern country in Africa.</p> + +<p>"Ah, but the Arabs live in Arabia, don't they?" objects my young friend.</p> + +<p>Yes, they do; but centuries ago the Arabians, or Saracens—desert +dwellers, as they were then called, Sara meaning desert—sent out large +armies to conquer other nations. These Saracens swept victoriously +through Northern Africa up to the heart of Spain.</p> + +<p>Algiers is now a French province, but the greater part of its people are +descendants of its ancient inhabitants, called Moors, and their +conquerors, the Arabs, together with negroes from Soudan, French +colonists, and a sprinkling of Turks, Maltese, and Spaniards.</p> + +<p>Neither the Moors nor the Arabs think much of little girls. The +latter—especially the poor ones—are sorry when one is born; but when a +boy baby comes, they make him presents, and a bowl of "mughly"—a +compound of rice flavored with sugar and spices, and sprinkled with +delicious nuts—is given to each relative.</p> + +<p>A Moorish girl of even rich parents is considered well enough educated +if she can make preserves, and dye her finger-nails with henna leaves. +She is not treated as unkindly, however, as the little Arab damsels, who +are compelled when quite young to work very hard. They have to draw +water from the wells in heavy leathern buckets; to churn; to feed and +water the young camels and horses: in fact, they live more like slaves +than daughters of the family.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 346px;"> +<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="346" height="400" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">MARIA IMMANUEL.</span> +</div> + +<p>The subject of my sketch, little Maria Immanuel, is a young Arabian girl +twelve years of age, who, accompanied by a French Missionary Sister, or +nun, has been all through Europe, and is now travelling through this +country, on a curious but praiseworthy mission: she is trying to raise +money to buy and support little Arabian children who are sold or cast +out on the desert.</p> + +<p>Maria Immanuel was herself one of these unfortunates. When a mere baby, +not yet two years old, she was picked up on the highway by some good +women, and taken to their mission-house, where she has lived ever since.</p> + +<p>I dare say my readers would like to know just how she looks, so I will +describe her to the best of my ability.</p> + +<p>Imagine a dark-complexioned, plump young girl, with rather heavy but +pleasant features; fluffy, dark, silken hair floating around her head +and overshadowing her eyes like a little cloud; red lips and milky-white +teeth; and eyes that light up her whole face, so soft are they, yet +brilliant and full of mischievous fire.</p> + +<p>Immanuel—for so her friends call her—is very like many American girls +in disposition, being intensely lively, merry as a cricket, and a great +tease when in the society of children of her own age.</p> + +<p>She has two accomplishments—she speaks French fluently, and sings +sweetly, having a fine contralto voice.</p> + +<p>Immanuel dresses just as she did at the mission-house in the desert of +Kabylia, wearing an Arab cloak of white wool, called a "burnoose," with +a hood for stormy weather, over a white cashmere gown, which hangs in +folds to her ankles, and is made with a yoke at the neck, and full +flowing sleeves. A double row of scarlet and white beads; a girdle, or +sash, of scarlet, blue, and yellow silk, knotted at the waist, and +falling in long fringed ends in front; and a scarlet "fez," or cap, +ornamented with a band of embroidery and a golden tassel, complete her +gay and picturesque costume. Dark or solemn colors offend an Arab's eye, +for he regards them as omens of misfortune.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span></p> + +<p>There are two sorts of Arabs among whom the missionaries work—the +farmer Arabs, who live in mud villages, and the Bedouins, who dwell in +tents, and roam the deserts a little farther south, and keep large +flocks of sheep and camels.</p> + +<p>These shepherd Arabs despise the milder farmers, but condescend to visit +them, after harvest-time, to barter camels and goats for their barley +and other grains, for <i>they</i> never stoop to till the soil or do work of +any kind; their girls and women—at least such as they see fit to +rear—do all their necessary work, such as cooking, sewing tent and +saddle cloths, making mats, dyeing wool, and tending the animals, with +which they live almost in common, and which are often ranked above them.</p> + +<p>The shepherd Arabs live in tents, removing in winter to the farther +south, but the farmer Arabs live in mud houses, called "gourbis." The +"gourbis," like all native dwellings, are only one story high, on +account of earthquakes; they are made of branches of trees and stones, +cemented together by mud, a thick layer of which covers the roof. +Sometimes forty or more of these houses are united in a village, and +hedged in by tall cactus plants armed with sharp thorns.</p> + +<p>The animals live under the same roof with the family; so what with this +and the smoke, the smell of cookery, and the want of ventilation, you +may imagine the "gourbis" anything but a pleasant place to visit.</p> + +<p>The mission-houses, some of them in the neighborhood of these miserable +villages, and some farther south, are square wooden buildings, with a +court-yard in the middle, on which the windows and doors of all the +rooms open. There are small doors on the outside of the building, but +these are carefully guarded, on account of robbers and wild beasts, +either of which may make attacks at night.</p> + +<p>Now I must explain about the little Arab boys who are being educated and +taken care of by the Missionary Brothers.</p> + +<p>The Arabs, as I have said, love their boys very much indeed, but some +families are so wretchedly poor that they have to dispose of the boys as +well as the girls, when there are too many of them.</p> + +<p>The Brothers, when they pick them up or buy them, teach them to read and +write, and to till the ground, so that they may become farmers.</p> + +<p>The Missionary Sisters teach the girls to read and write, to do plain +sewing and house-work.</p> + +<p>The work of the missions does not stop when the children have grown to +be men and women; they are then allowed to visit each other socially +under proper supervision. If a young couple fall in love with each +other, and wish to marry, the consent of the Superior is asked, and +given; for she knows the youth has been well brought up, and is worthy +to have her young charge for a wife.</p> + +<p>In speaking of these weddings, which are quite festive occasions, little +Maria Immanuel recently said to a lady, in her lively French, which I +will translate: "I do love to have weddings going on, we have <i>such</i> a +good time. Oh, the music! it is fine; and then there is <i>such +feasting</i>!"</p> + +<p>No wonder she laid such stress on feasting, for the mission people live +only on the very plainest fare, never seeing butter, meat, or any of the +delicacies American children have every day.</p> + +<p>At weddings—and they generally manage to have them double, triple, or +quadruple weddings—I suppose they have fruit and honey and other fine +dishes for the great occasion.</p> + +<p>To each newly married couple a house, an inclosed acre of land, a horse, +an ass, and a pair of goats are given; also some farming implements; six +each of dishes and bowls, knives and wooden spoons; a bed; and the few +other necessaries for simple housekeeping.</p> + +<p>They now commence life as farmers, and, what is still better, as +Christian young people. Already two Christian Arab villages have sprung +up on the desert, while a third is being built.</p> + +<p>Are the young fathers and mothers sorry when a dear little girl baby +comes into the world? No, they are glad, and love it tenderly, as you +may tell by this little nursery song here translated. I wish I could +give you the wild, sweet music too. Listen—a young Arab mother sings:</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Come, Cameleer, as quick as you can,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And make us some soap from green Shenan,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To bathe our Lûlû dear;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">We'll wash her and dress her,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And then we'll caress her:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">She'll sleep in her little screer."<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="LUCKY_TOMS_SHADOW_OR_THE_SEA-GULLS_WARNING" id="LUCKY_TOMS_SHADOW_OR_THE_SEA-GULLS_WARNING">LUCKY TOM'S SHADOW; OR, THE SEA-GULLS' WARNING.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY FRANK H. TAYLOR.</h3> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="400" height="282" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">A LIFE-SAVING STATION.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Be still, Meg, be still. Don't trouble me. Go and play. Young 'uns like +you are good for naught else;" and so saying, Meg's grandmother turned +fretfully toward the window of the cottage, and resumed her listless<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span> +watching of the sea-gulls across the inlet, as they fluttered, dipped, +and arose over the wavelets, picking their dinner from the shoals of +little fish the mackerel had chased inshore.</p> + +<p>"But I'm of some use, granny; you said so yesterday, when I fetched the +blueberries. An' I'll go fur some more if you like. I know where there's +lots of 'em—acres of 'em."</p> + +<p>"Do as you please, child, but don't tease your granny," replied the old +woman.</p> + +<p>There was little need to tell Maggie, or "Meg," as she was generally +called, to "do as she pleased," for in all of her short life of ten +years she had never done otherwise. She had roamed unmissed all the days +among the sand-hills of the beach, wading in the "mash" for lily pods, +or hunting in the scrub for birds' eggs. Such a place as school had +never been named to her. The alphabet was unknown to her, but she +understood the rough talk of the fishermen, and could mend a net or +'tend a line with the best man among them.</p> + +<p>Meg lived with her "granny" in a little unpainted hut made from ships' +planking, and set among a few low twisted pines, within a short distance +of a cove where Lucky Tom, her father, who was a pilot, kept his boats +and moored his sloop, when not sailing out on the blue sea watching for +ships to give him employment.</p> + +<p>Meg's mother had died while she was a baby; her "granny" was almost +always cross; so the child had grown up with but a single affection. It +was all for her father, and he returned it in a rough, good-natured way. +So these two were seldom apart when the pilot was ashore, and Meg came +to be known among the beach people as "Lucky Tom's Shadow."</p> + +<p>Now just why the pilot was called "Lucky Tom" does not appear: but it +was said among the folks on the coast that fish would nibble at his +hooks, and obligingly allow themselves to be caught by the dozen, when +nobody else could catch even a porgy.</p> + +<p>Near the cottage, Lucky Tom had raised the mast of a ship once wrecked +on the bar, and made a platform at the top, with steps leading to it; +and Meg was never so happy as when she sat high up in her "bird's nest," +as she called it, with her father, and listened to his surprising yarns +about foreign ports, while they scanned the horizon with a glass for +incoming ships.</p> + +<p>Meg tried hard to behave kindly toward her grandmother; but the old +woman never smiled, and seldom troubled herself about Meg's goings or +comings.</p> + +<p>"She's purty certain to git 'round at meal-times, an' that's often +enough," was about all she would say when Lucky Tom scolded about the +child's "bringin' up."</p> + +<p>Nearly twenty years before, Lucky Tom's father, Jack Bolden, had gone +off in his schooner, the <i>Petrel</i>, to catch cod, and from that day +neither the <i>Petrel</i> nor her crew were ever seen. After months had gone +by, poor Mrs. Bolden fell into a fever, and when she was able to move +about, she sat all day by the window, looking out upon the waves, and +the neighbors gazed at her sorrowfully, for they said she had lost her +reason; but in Meg's eyes, to whom she had always been the same, she was +a very wise and mysterious person, and the tales she repeated to the +little girl, woven from her deranged fancy, were full of strange +sea-monsters, talking fish, and birds that whispered secrets to those +who watched for long-absent friends. All these were listened to and +believed with the full confidence of childish innocence.</p> + +<p>Meg tied on her old and faded bonnet, picked up her basket, and walked +away with a light step to the blueberry pasture.</p> + +<p>She soon became so busy picking the clusters of round<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span> little fruit, as +they peeped from beneath the dark and glossy leaves, that she did not +see how dark the eastern sky had become, until a cool gust of wind +caught her sun-bonnet, and sent it half across the field. Then she +noticed that the sun was already hidden by the advancing clouds, and +away out across the black fretted sea a long line of foam revealed the +white-caps leaping in great haste over each other, just like a flock of +sheep, in their race to reach the sands.</p> + +<p>The only near refuge for poor Meg was the Life-saving Station—one of +those lonely buildings that the government has placed along the coast, +with boats and crews, whose duty keeps them on the watch all winter for +shipwrecks. It was midsummer now, and the station was locked up tight; +but Meg knew how to get the better of locks and bars. She reached the +building just in time to escape a wetting from the thick rain that now +shut out the sea and land alike, beating fiercely against the stout +structure, and running in many little rivulets down the sand, to be +swallowed up, as all water is at last, by the great ocean.</p> + +<p>At one corner the winds had blown away the sand, so Meg found room to +crawl with her basket beneath the floor, and a loose board she had long +ago discovered admitted her to the interior. What a gloomy, close place +in contrast with the wildness of the scene outside! Have you ever +visited a station of the Life-saving Service? No? Well, then, I'll try, +with the aid of the picture, to explain what it is like.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="500" height="349" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">INTERIOR OF THE LIFE-SAVING STATION.</span> +</div> + +<p>First, there is the life-boat, light but very strong, and shaped so it +will rise over the tops of the waves rather than go through them. This +one is handled by about six men; one, the captain, to steer, four men to +row, and one with a pike-staff and lines in the bow. You notice that the +wheels of the truck holding the boat are very wide; that allows them to +roll over the sand without sinking into it. Under the boat is a leathern +bucket, a coil of rope, and a grapnel or hook, and in front an ingenious +device, consisting of a board with a row of pegs about the edge, upon +which a line many hundreds of feet in length is placed, with the end +tied to a projectile in the queer-looking cannon above. This is intended +to be shot over the rigging of ships ashore, and used to haul out the +larger rope upon the cart to the left of the picture, and to which the +canvas bags hanging from the ceiling are fastened, to bring people from +the wreck. Back of the cart you see rockets and signal torches, with a +long tin trumpet, all neatly kept in a rack. There are lanterns too, and +against the partition a mortar and some balls, two axes, and many other +tools. With all of these and their uses Meg was well acquainted. +Sometimes she had seen the crew run with the boat down to the water, and +go through with their drill, when the Superintendent came there; and +once the men hauled it out in the night, everybody greatly excited, and +put out into the waves to pick up the crew of a sinking steamer; but a +schooner was there first, and they only brought back a woman and little +girl. How scared they did look, the poor things! and how thankful the +child was for the use of Meg's only spare frock!</p> + +<p>There seemed no prospect of the rain ceasing, and so Meg sat down in the +back room upon a bench; and as it was not in the nature of such an +active little girl to sit still long and keep awake, she very soon fell +asleep.</p> + +<p>When she started up from a dream full of strange sea-goblins, it was to +find that everything was dark. The rain had ceased, and Meg, after +rubbing her eyes, concluded to go home. When she lifted the board she +discovered, to her terror, that the rain had washed her burrow full of +sand, and she was a prisoner. The strong doors and windows resisted her +puny efforts, so she sat down upon a coil of rope to consider the +situation.</p> + +<p>Now most children would have cried; but Meg hadn't done such a thing +since she was teething. No, she only taxed her little head for some +means of escape. First, she must have a light. She well knew where the +matches were kept, and in a moment she had a lantern burning brightly. +Then it occurred to her to try the roof. It was a difficult matter to +lift the heavy trap leading to the little platform from which the men +usually watched during the winter days; but she soon stood out in the +bleak night, the salt spray driving against her face, and the gale +rushing by, as though it would tear her hold from the railing to which +she clung.</p> + +<p>White sea-gulls whirled about her head, attracted by the light, +screaming hoarse and discordant notes in her ears. They terrified her at +first, but she soon recalled what her "granny" had said, and felt sure +the birds were trying to tell her something, and that it must be about +her father, who was still out in the terrible storm, unable to find the +inlet.</p> + +<p>From far out on the sea the wind brought a moaning sound, as though some +unhappy creature called in vain for help. It came nearer and more +distinct from the northward, finally dying away in the distance upon the +other hand.</p> + +<p>Fierce lightning flashes broke from the retreating storm-clouds, and by +the weird electric glare Meg saw a wild figure, with arms upraised, +which seemed to come out of the surf, and speed along the sands. By the +same light she thought she saw the topmasts of a vessel on the sea.</p> + +<p>The gulls wheeled and screamed now more excitedly than ever. Meg was +nearly overcome with terror, but losing not a moment, she sprang down +the stairs, returning with an armful of torches. And now the lurid flare +of the life-saving signal burned up fiercely, the winds catching the +flame, and bearing thousands of dancing sparks away across the beach, +while the shape of the station and the heroic little girl upon the roof +stood out boldly, just in time for Lucky Tom to put his helm down, and +head his boat away from the fatal breakers he was nearing in the +darkness.</p> + +<p>And now suppose we let good-natured Lucky Tom tell the rest of the story +in his own style.</p> + +<p>"Well, sir, you see, the blow came up kind o' unexpected like, an' I +knowed we couldn't make port; but I didn't much care for that, as pilots +has to take all sorts o' weather, but we reckoned we could keep the +craft off an' on about the blowin' buoy; but, bless you! the buoy got +adrift, an' floated away down the beach. We heard it groanin' ahead of +us all the time, an' afore we knowed where we was, we got nigh into the +breakers. Just then I seen a twinkle on the beach, an' shortly a torch +showed us the station, with an angel o' mercy a-wavin' it from the roof; +an' it wa'n't a minnit too soon, nuther.</p> + +<p>"We kept away till daylight a-watchin' an' wonderin' at the torches +burnin' all the time from atop o' the station, and then we made the +inlet. Mebbe it'll seem queer to you, but none of us thought of Meg when +we saw the light; but the whole thing was plain enough when one of the +crew came runnin' to the house, after we'd been ashore a bit, an' +hollered:</p> + +<p>"'Why, Lucky Tom, the angel we saw was nobody but your own Shadow, +little Meg, an' she's there yit, wavin' a flag.' So we went over an' let +her out. The young'un told us all about hearin' the sound o' complainin' +on the sea, the black figure that ran along the beach, an' the warnin' +the birds give her. You see, that was a notion her granny put into her +head, the one about the birds. Speakin' of the old woman, there was +another queer thing that happened on the same night. We couldn't find +marm high nor low; but when Meg spoke of the wild spirit on the beach, +we knowed it must be her, and sure enough we found the poor old body +'way up by the point, 'most dead. She had an idee, you see, that when it +blowed hard the <i>Petrel</i> would come ashore, though I reckon the <i>Petrel</i> +has been at the bottom more'n twenty years<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span> now. We took her home an' +'tended her, but she didn't last long after that."</p> + +<p>The story of Meg's adventure came to the ears of a lady on the mainland, +and she soon afterward paid a visit to the little girl, who was now left +all alone when her father went away, and it was arranged that she should +live in the lady's house, and go to school. And now the school-master +says she promises to prove as bright as she is brave.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="HOW_IT_HAPPENED_TO_SNOW" id="HOW_IT_HAPPENED_TO_SNOW">HOW IT HAPPENED TO SNOW.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY I. M.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">What Jack Frost said to the trees, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">It never would do to tell;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">He whispered the magic words, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To oak and maple as well.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Some of them blushed bright red, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And some of them turned to yellow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">While Jack he laughed in his sleeve, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The good-for-nothing old fellow.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">What Jack Frost did to the leaves, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">I never would dare to say;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">They wrung their little brown hands, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">In a pitiful, helpless way.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The kind sun felt so sad, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To see the leaves in pain,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">That he hid his face for a week, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And wept great showers of rain.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But Jack Frost's cruel breath, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Grew colder day by day,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And chilled the leaves, until, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">They withered and dropped away.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Then the tall trees stood amazed, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Lamenting, when they found</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">That their green and rustling robes, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Lay faded on the ground.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The angels too were grieved, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">When the trees looked cold and bare,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">So they gathered the soft white clouds, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">That floated in upper air,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And tossed great armfuls down, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">In the stillness of the night,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And were glad to see how pure, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The world looked clothed in white.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">What the children said next day, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">I think you must surely know;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But please don't say that I told, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Just how it happened to snow;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">For that wicked old Jack Frost, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Would nip my nose in spite,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And pinch my poor ten toes, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The next cold winter's night.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 855px;"> +<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="855" height="500" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">A MOTHER'S DEVOTION.—<span class="smcap">From an Etching by de Mary</span>.</span> +</div> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="THE_ADVENTURES_OF_A_RUNAWAY_KING" id="THE_ADVENTURES_OF_A_RUNAWAY_KING">THE ADVENTURES OF A RUNAWAY KING.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY I. D. WILDER.</h3> + +<p>A king running away from his kingdom, with all his courtiers and people +in hot pursuit to catch him and bring him back! Did you ever hear of +anything more absurd?</p> + +<p>There was a reason for it too, or at least the King thought so. The +truth is, this unfortunate monarch was embarrassed by the possession of +two kingdoms at once, and it so happened that the kingdom where he was +was not the kingdom where he desired to be, so he made up his mind to +run away.</p> + +<p>Now I suppose, before I go any farther, I may as well let you into the +secret of his name and country, if you have not already guessed it. He +was Henry III. of France and Poland, son of Catherine de Medicis, one of +the wickedest Queens who ever ruled over any country, and brother of +Charles IX., King of France.</p> + +<p>Only a few months before his flight from Cracow he had been elected King +of Poland. He had been received with great magnificence by the Polish +nobles, and the festivities had lasted many days. After everything had +settled down into the usual quiet, Henry found life in Poland rather +dull; so when he received a letter from Queen Catherine announcing the +death of Charles IX., and saying that his presence in France was very +necessary to maintain his rights as his brother's heir, he was quite +ready to abandon his Polish kingdom, and start at once for Paris.</p> + +<p>But it was very far from being the intention of the Polish magnates to +let him off so easily. They naturally considered the well-being of their +kingdom as important—to them at least—as that of France could possibly +be. So they voted an address of condolence to the King on the death of +his brother, prayed him still to remain King of Poland, and entreated +him not to leave the kingdom without giving notice to the Senate, and +first appointing some one to act as Viceroy.</p> + +<p>Henry returned a courteous but rather vague reply, thanking the nobles +for their good wishes, but giving them little satisfaction as to his +intentions.</p> + +<p>In the mean time Henry's French attendants were urging upon him the +necessity of returning at once to France, lest he should lose the French +crown. His mother, Queen Catherine, sent messenger after messenger, +urging him to hasten, and his own inclinations were entirely in favor of +instant departure. So during the night a council of the French nobles +was held in Henry's apartments, and it was settled that they should +arrange matters for a secret departure. They must go secretly, if they +went at all, for the Polish Senate was determined to keep their King in +the country, and the people were equally determined not to let him go.</p> + +<p>Then the preparations began. In the first place, the French Ambassador, +as had been agreed upon, asked permission to return immediately to +France, as his mission had ended with the death of Charles IX. +Permission was granted, and he left Cracow at once. He took with him the +King's jewels and valuable papers, and made arrangements at all the +principal towns on his route for horses and provisions to be got ready +for illustrious members of his suite, who, as he said, were not able to +leave as soon as he did. Next the King sent off M. Chémerault (the +messenger who had brought him the news of Charles's death), on the +pretense of carrying letters to Queen Catherine, but really to wait at a +short distance from the capital until the King could join him. He was to +act as guide, and conduct Henry in safety across the border.</p> + +<p>The next step was rather unfortunate for the King. A train of ten mules +laden with coffers was observed to leave the city, and when it was found +that the baggage belonged to the Grand Master of the King's household, +the suspicions of the people were aroused, and they became wild with +excitement. It was in vain that Henry assured them that he had no +intention of leaving the kingdom. They did not believe him—and with +very good reason—and the tumult increased, until at last the Senate +ordered guards to be placed at all the entrances to the palace, and gave +instructions to arrest any one who should that night attempt to stir +out, not even excepting the King himself.</p> + +<p>After supper the King retired, and kept all his courtiers about him for +a long time, chatting merrily with them, and appearing so easy and +unconcerned that he fancied he must have entirely deceived the Poles, +and then he made a sign that he wanted to go to sleep. The Chamberlain, +Count Teuczin, drew the curtains of the King's bed, and a page put his +sword and a candle on a table close by—a ceremony which all understood +as a signal to leave the room, except the Chamberlain, whose duty it was +to stand at the foot of the bed until the King was asleep. It had been +agreed that the King and a few of his nobles should meet at a ruined +chapel, half a mile from the city gate, where one of Henry's equerries +was to be waiting with horses.</p> + +<p>The nobles supped together, and then quietly left the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span> palace. They were +permitted to pass the sentinels on their assurance that they were bound +for a frolic in the town.</p> + +<p>Henry, in the mean time, was doing his best to make the Chamberlain +believe him asleep, and when he was at length convinced of the fact, he +left the room. In a moment the King's attendants had softly entered the +room and barred the door against all intruders, had hurriedly dressed +the King, and made all their preparations for departure. Fortunately, +Souvré, one of the King's gentlemen, happened to remember a small +postern-door at the end of a passage leading from the kitchen, which +opened at the back of the castle on a faubourg of Cracow outside the +walls. This door, which had been made for the use of the servants of the +palace, had often been found useful by the cavaliers of Henry's court +when they wished to go out and in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span> unobserved. Souvré having found that +no sentinel had been posted there, sent Miron, the King's physician, to +reconnoitre, and see if they could get out by that way. He found the +door ajar, and was joyfully returning to report, when suddenly the +steward of the household, Alemanni, appeared from the kitchen, where he +was evidently on the watch, and carefully looking about him—though +without discovering Miron, who was sheltered by the staircase—gave +orders for the postern to be locked and the key to be brought to him.</p> + +<p>This was a terrible blow to all their hopes. The King was in despair and +was about to return to bed, but Souvré encouraged him to persist, and +rely upon him to get him out of the dilemma.</p> + +<p>So they cautiously left the apartments of the King, and crept<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span> softly +down the stairs until they came to the passage, where another flight of +steps led down to the kitchen. Here they got a great fright from hearing +the voice of the steward just at the foot of the stairs. He heard their +steps, and called out, "Who goes there?"</p> + +<p>"It is I, monsieur," said Souvré, boldly descending a few steps, while +he made a sign to the others to go on toward the door.</p> + +<p>"And what do you want?" asked the steward.</p> + +<p>"The key of the postern-door," replied Souvré. "I have a private errand, +now that the King my master can dispense with my services."</p> + +<p>"What errand?" persisted the steward.</p> + +<p>"The truth is," replied Souvré, haughtily, "I have an appointment in the +faubourg. I pray you therefore, monsieur, give me the key of the little +door without further parley."</p> + +<p>This haughty manner impressed the steward, who knew that Souvré was high +in his master's favor, and he somewhat reluctantly gave the key, and +offered to accompany Souvré to open the door for him. He, however, only +laughed at this, and bounding up the staircase long before the steward, +who was old and infirm, could reach the top, he found the King and his +companions concealing themselves as much as possible in the shadow of +the walls, opened the door, through which they hurriedly passed, and +locking it behind them, they made all possible speed toward the little +ruined chapel, the place of rendezvous.</p> + +<p>The night was pleasant, though very dark, and after losing their way +once or twice, they finally reached the chapel. There they found the +equerry with the horses, but Chémerault, who was to be their guide, and +several other gentlemen of the King's household, had not made their +appearance. They waited for them as long as they dared, but finally +Souvré persuaded the King to mount, and trust to God and fortune for +safety.</p> + +<p>They set out, therefore, but their difficulties had only just begun. In +the first place, not one of them knew the way, being all absolute +strangers in Poland; and they did not even understand the dialect of the +country, so that they could inquire. The night was dark, and the roads +were horrible, though that did not matter so much, as they could not +keep in them, but continually found themselves wandering away and +floundering in deep morasses, blundering about in pine forests, and +getting entangled in brambles.</p> + +<p>So they went on, stumbling over stones, sinking into bogs, and wading +through brooks, till I think they must have wished themselves safe back +in their beds in Cracow.</p> + +<p>At length Souvré saw a faint light glimmering in the distance, and on +approaching it he found it came from the hut of a charcoal burner deep +in the forest.</p> + +<p>The poor charcoal burner was so terrified by the approach of the +horsemen that he darted up into his loft by a ladder on the outside, +which he drew up after him. The cavaliers shouted and knocked, and +knocked and shouted, but all in vain. Not an inch would the charcoal +burner stir; so at last they began to batter down the door.</p> + +<p>Finally Souvré managed to scramble up to the loft, where he found the +poor man crouching in a corner in a perfect agony of terror. He tried to +calm his fears by speaking gently, but the strange language only made +him more terrified.</p> + +<p>So there was nothing for it but to drag him down, and carry him off to +the King, which they accordingly did. Henry had learned a few words of +the peasants' dialect, so he soon re-assured the poor man, and made him +comprehend that they only wanted him for a guide—an office which he +readily took upon himself.</p> + +<p>He was swung up on a horse in front of one of the cavaliers, and guided +them safely to the town of Liszki. Soon after this they came up with +Chémerault and the others, who had missed the King in the darkness, and +had arrived before him.</p> + +<p>In the mean time you can readily imagine that there was a great uproar +in the palace at Cracow when the King's flight was discovered. The +Senate and the nobles were absolutely beside themselves with rage at +having been so outwitted. The French who had been left behind in +ignorance of their master's intended flight were deeply indignant with +the King for his treacherous betrayal of them. The mob howled and yelled +in the streets, and everybody scolded poor Alemanni.</p> + +<p>Karnkowski, the Grand Referendary of Poland, was dispatched in a coach +and six to bring back the King, accompanied by a troop of Tartar cavalry +armed with bows and arrows, and a howling mob, with sticks, stones, and +javelins, followed after.</p> + +<p>They came in sight of the fugitives at the town of Osweicin, where some +of the gentlemen had dismounted to rest and refresh themselves for an +hour. But when they caught sight of the Tartar troops they did not tarry +long, you may be sure, but put spurs to their horses, and fled as fast +as they could.</p> + +<p>Then there followed a royal chase, in which the King was the hunted +instead of the hunter—the King and his cavaliers urging their tired +horses to their utmost speed in front; following fast behind, +Karnkowski, in his coach and six, the wild troop of Tartar bowmen, and +the disorderly mob bringing up the rear.</p> + +<p>Henry and his gentlemen rode fast and well. They crossed the Vistula on +a bridge of planks, which the cavaliers destroyed just as their pursuers +came up; and as they rode on they left their Tartar enemies howling with +rage and gnashing their teeth, as they saw the river rolling between +them and the fugitives, and knew they must go six miles around in order +to come up with them.</p> + +<p>The danger was over now. They did not overtake Henry until after he had +passed the frontier town of Plesse, and they dared not capture him on +Austrian territory.</p> + +<p>Count Teuczin therefore approached the King, accompanied only by five +Tartars, and delivered his message from the Senate to entreat him to +return, and offering his own fealty to the King. Henry refused to +return, but he sent back fair words to the Senate, and they parted +amicably, Henry to pursue his journey to Vienna, where he arrived +without further adventures, the Count to return sadly to Cracow to +announce the escape of their King to the magnates of Poland.</p> + +<p>But in my opinion if they had had Henry to rule over them four years +instead of four months, far from grieving over his loss, they would have +considered themselves well rid of him; for lazy, selfish, cowardly, +false, and cruel as he was, they might have sought the wide world over +without finding a worse King than Henry III. of Valois.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="THE_NEW_SCHOLAR" id="THE_NEW_SCHOLAR">THE NEW SCHOLAR.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY EMILY H. LELAND.</h3> + +<p>Elbert Collins had never been marked absent or tardy since his first +going to school in September, and it was his ambition to finish the +whole year without a "mark," partly because he really liked to be +prompt, and partly because he thought it would be so nice to see his +name in the paper at the end of the school year.</p> + +<p>December had come, and the short mornings were very lively ones in his +mother's little kitchen, because of so many things to be done before the +nine-o'clock bell. There was the wood-box to fill, the canary to feed, +and generally the cradle to rock, while the mother attended to such work +as could be done best while there was some one to look after the baby.</p> + +<p>On this particular morning, however, the mother had gone to Mrs. +Brown's, around the corner, for a cup of yeast, and had become so +interested in a recipe for chocolate<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span> cake, a pattern for a boy's +blouse, the pound party at the Methodist minister's, and some new ways +for trimming Christmas trees, that she entirely forgot the time of day.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile little Elbert, with his overshoes and scarf on, and cap in +hand, rocked the cradle, and kept his eyes on the clock. Five, ten, +minutes passed away. The long hand was crawling alarmingly near +last-bell time. He tied his scarf, pulled his cap over his ears, and +rocked harder than ever. Still no mother. Then he went to the door, +looked anxiously toward the corner, and sent out a lusty +shout—"Mamma-a-a, come ho-o-ome!" but no one responded except the baby. +"Oh dear! dear!" he exclaimed, as he rushed back to the cradle; and just +then his expectant ears heard the first slow cling-clang of the last +bell. It would ring for five minutes; the school-house was only three +streets away, and there was time enough yet, if he could only start. One +thing was certain—he would never leave his little baby sister. He +remembered a story of a poor baby who was almost burned to death because +her brother, who had promised to take care of her, left her, and ran out +on the street to play.</p> + +<p>He went to the door and shouted again. It was something like the case of +Casabianca. But when two mothers are talking about patterns and +Christmas trees, who ever knew them to notice every little outside +noise? Elbert's shout ended in a big sob. A man going to lose his entire +fortune couldn't feel worse than this little fellow did, with that +dreadful "tardy" mark hanging over his head.</p> + +<p>Then a happy thought flashed into his mind. Running to the cradle, he +caught up the baby, scattering pillows and blankets right and left, +bundled an old shawl over her, and snatching her half-filled milk +bottle, dashed out of the house, and ran off in the direction of that +clanging bell as fast as his stout young legs could carry him. The baby +was a light little mite, only two and a half months old, and Elbert was +nearly six years, and large for his age.</p> + +<p>He met two women whom he knew, and who commenced making weak remarks, +like, "Why, Elbert!" and "What on earth!" but he bounded past them, with +no answer but his panting breath, and reached the school-house in such +good time that the bell gave its last two clangs just as he handed over +his funny burden to his astonished teacher.</p> + +<p>"I couldn't leave her, and I <i>couldn't</i> be late," he said, as soon as he +could get breath enough to speak. "And she'll go to sleep, and be real +good," he continued, as the teacher began to unwind the shawl.</p> + +<p>And then the whole room saw a surprised, half-smothered-looking little +baby, still in her night-gown, one bare foot sticking out, and her +little fists tightly clinched, as if defying anybody to send her home.</p> + +<p>The teacher was a good-natured young lady, and she laughed so that she +almost dropped the baby on the floor, and then the whole room laughed, +and finally Elbert joined in; for he was glad he had escaped the tardy +mark, and the baby certainly did look funny in school.</p> + +<p>Of course there could be no order. Nearly all the scholars had babies at +home, or were well acquainted with those of their neighbors; but they +acted as if they had never seen one before, and every movement of the +little pink hands and every turn of the small bald head made them scream +with laughter, until the principal of the school came into the room to +see what the disturbance was, and after trying to look severe for five +seconds, he laughed too.</p> + +<p>And while all this fun was going on, Elbert's mother was running wildly +through the four rooms of her little house, calling her boy's name, and +feeling sure that the children were either killed and thrown into the +cistern, or else carried off like Charley Ross, and lost forever. The +scattered pillows and upset rocking-chair, indeed, made the kitchen +appear as if there had been a struggle, and the wide-open door and the +gate creaking to and fro had a dreadful look to Elbert's mother. Just +then the women whom Elbert had met stopped at the gate, and said to the +mother, who was coming hurriedly out, "Is anything the matter, Mrs. +Collins?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, I don't know where my children are! I left them while I ran into +Mrs. Brown's a minute, and the kitchen's all upset, and I'm afraid—"</p> + +<p>"Why, we just now met Elbert with the baby, kiting along like the wind, +over there by Webster & Green's. Leastways we supposed it was the baby, +from the way he carried it. And he never—"</p> + +<p>"Merciful man! he's taken her to school!"</p> + +<p>About ten minutes later, a flustered little woman rapped at the door of +the First Primary Room, and inquired for a baby. It was handed to her, +along with an empty milk bottle, and wrapping them both in a red cloak +which she carried, she thanked the smiling teacher, and walked quickly +home.</p> + +<p>At first she had felt very angry toward Elbert; but when she looked at +the clock, and remembered his horror of being late, she softened toward +him considerably, and by the time she had got the baby home, and found +her none the worse for her little run away, she had her laugh also; and +being a fair-minded woman, she told Elbert when he came home to dinner +that it was very thoughtless in her to have staid so long at Mrs. +Brown's. And Elbert gave her a hug, and said he was "glad he didn't +<i>leave</i> the baby, 'cause she might have been burned up, you know!"</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 VII</span>.</h3> + +<p>How long she was unconscious, Milly never knew. She awoke to find +herself in a beautiful white bed, in a room she had never seen. All +signs of the storm seemed shut out; there was a bright fire on the +hearth; the room seemed full of pleasant shadows and flickering beams of +light. Milly was only half conscious that some one spoke to her, and +gave her something pleasant to drink. Then she drifted off again, with a +pleasant confusion of fancies in her mind. When she next awoke, it +seemed again to be evening, but she was conscious of a certain change in +her surroundings. A little table was drawn near her; half-used medicine +bottles were upon it; Deborah was sitting over by the fire, and Miss +Jenner was standing in the window.</p> + +<p>"Debby," she said, surprised to find her voice so weak; and then she +lifted up her hand, and saw it was very thin.</p> + +<p>"My blessed lamb!" cried the old woman, hastening to her side, followed +quickly by Alice. "So you're better!"</p> + +<p>Mildred found she had to keep still a long time before she could say any +more. She nearly fell asleep again.</p> + +<p>"Debby," she said presently, "is it long since I fainted? What time is +it?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, my lovey," said the old nurse, "you've lain in that blessed bed two +weeks. You've been very ill, but, thank the Lord, you're better."</p> + +<p>This was all Mildred knew for days. She had had a fever; and finding out +the condition of things at the cottage, Miss Jenner had taken Mrs. Lee's +affairs into her own hands. She had kept Milly, as a matter of course, +had sent a good servant to care for Mrs. Lee, filled the store closet +with every delicacy, and allowed Debby to watch and care for her +"child," as she always called Mildred. Sometimes, as she lay still in +her comfortable bed, Milly tried to recall the dreadful scene at Mr. +Hardman's; and one evening, when she was sitting up for the first time +before the fire, and after she had finished a dainty<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span> little supper; she +ventured to ask Miss Jenner a few questions.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="400" height="370" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">MILDRED CONFESSES ALL TO MISS JENNER.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Miss Jenner," she said, softly, "do you know all about it?"</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Miss Jenner, smiling.</p> + +<p>"And are they going to take me to court?"</p> + +<p>"<i>No</i>," answered the elder lady, emphatically.</p> + +<p>"But why not?" Milly persisted. "They said I stole that money."</p> + +<p>"And <i>I</i> said you <i>didn't</i>," retorted Miss Jenner. "You let it all out +in your fever, my dear. I think I understand it all."</p> + +<p>"And you know—" faltered Mildred.</p> + +<p>Miss Jenner smiled.</p> + +<p>"Just see if I don't know," she said. "One evening a precious old humbug +calling herself Widow Robbins came here to find you, and try and get out +of you what you owed her—you <i>did</i> owe it, Milly—and my boy Roger was +standing behind one of the trees, and heard the conversation; so he knew +you were very badly off for twenty-two dollars, and as soon as he could +scrape it together, what does he do but send it to you in a private +note, saying you can pay it back to <i>him</i> when you like."</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Mildred, eagerly, "I found that note one afternoon on my +return home; but <i>in it</i> he bound me over not to speak of where I got +the money until he came back. I felt dreadfully about it; but as soon as +mother got well I intended telling her the whole story, and devising +some way of paying Roger right back; and I will yet, Miss Jenner."</p> + +<p>There was a moment's pause before Mildred said, "But how about the +store—the robbery?"</p> + +<p>"My dear," said Miss Jenner, "I am of the opinion that that was all +arranged between Tom Hardman and Mrs. Robbins. I've seen her, and she +admits she told him the whole story. He was angry because you seemed to +snub him; and you made him feel his vulgarity, and so he devised this +trick out of revenge. If there <i>was</i> any robbery, <i>he</i> was the thief!"</p> + +<p>"And have you seen him?" inquired Milly, tears of gratitude and +thankfulness pouring down her cheeks.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Miss Jenner, "and he and his father say the thing 'may blow +over'; but that won't do for me. The first day you're well enough, you +must drive down there in my carriage, and have them tell you they +withdraw the accusation, and apologize for having made it. Now you must +not talk any more." And Miss Jenner kissed her young friend, and moved +away, taking up a book in a distant part of the room.</p> + +<p>Mildred never forgot the two weeks that followed. With Miss Jenner she +had long talks, in which she realized not only the folly of her +extravagance, but the actual sin of her running into debt. A great many +things which she had never thought of as serious now appeared to her in +the light of <i>principles</i>, without which, as Miss Jenner told her, she +could not live a perfect or even an upright life. When the day came on +which she was declared well enough to drive with Miss Jenner to Mr. +Hardman's, Mildred felt too humbled to rejoice in being received with +any honor.</p> + +<p>The girls looked at her, as she followed Miss Jenner into Mr. Hardman's +office, nudging each other, and casting half-envious glances toward +their former companion. Mary Hardman was nowhere to be seen, but Mr. Tom +was with his father, and received Miss Jenner and Mildred with a stiff +sort of pompousness. Miss Jenner had very little to say, and it was only +later that Milly fully recalled the scene—Mr. Hardman's apologies, and +Mr. Tom's surly assent. When they came back to the store, Milly paused +to say a few words here and there, and as she walked away, it was some +relief to hear a voice saying,</p> + +<p>"Well, I'm glad it's all right; I never <i>could</i> believe it of Milly +Lee."</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>When I knew Mildred Lee she was a woman of nearly thirty, and at the +head of her own house; but the lesson of her girlhood had done her a +lasting service. No one ever had it to say of her that she bought or +used any article for which she could not at the <i>moment</i> pay, and her +advice to young people was invaluable. When I knew her, her home was in +the Brick House. Mrs. Lee did not long survive the serious illness of +that winter, and Miss Jenner cared tenderly for the orphans her old +friend's widow left.</p> + +<p>Mildred speaks now with tears of gratitude of all the past, even of its +miseries; and the gray silk dress, worn but once, and still brown with +stains, is treasured as a memorial of the <i>bargain</i> by which Mildred +purchased her high sense of honor.</p> + +<h4><span class="smcap">the end</span>.</h4> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span></p> + +<h2><a name="FAITHLESS_SALLY_BROWN" id="FAITHLESS_SALLY_BROWN">FAITHLESS SALLY BROWN.</a></h2> + +<h3>AN OLD BALLAD.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Young Ben he was a nice young man,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A carpenter by trade;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And he fell in love with Sally Brown,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">That was a lady's-maid.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="400" height="252" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But as they fetched a walk one day,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">They met a press-gang crew;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And Sally she did faint away,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Whilst Ben he was brought to.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The boatswain swore with wicked words,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Enough to shock a saint,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">That though she did seem in a fit,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">'Twas nothing but a feint.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Come, girl," said he, "hold up your head—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">He'll be as good as me;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">For when your swain is in our boat</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A boatswain he will be."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">So when they'd made their game of her,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And taken off her elf,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">She roused, and found she only was</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A-coming to herself.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"And is he gone, and is he gone?"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">She cried, and wept outright;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Then I will to the water-side,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And see him out of sight."</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="400" height="182" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">A waterman came up to her;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">"Now, young woman," said he,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"If you weep on so, you will make</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Eye water in the sea."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Alas! they've taken my beau, Ben,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To sail with old Benbow";</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And her woe began to run afresh,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">As if she'd said, Gee woe!</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Says he, "They've only taken him</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To the tender ship, you see."</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"The tender ship," cried Sally Brown—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">"What a hardship that must be!</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Oh! would I were a mermaid now,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">For then I'd follow him;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But, oh! I'm not a fish woman,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And so I can not swim.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Alas! I was not born beneath</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The Virgin and the Scales,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">So I must curse my cruel stars,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And walk about in Wales."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Now Ben had sailed to many a place</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">That's underneath the world;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But in two years the ship came home,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And all her sails were furled.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But when he called on Sally Brown,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To see how she got on,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">He found she'd got another Ben,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Whose Christian name was John.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="400" height="273" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"O Sally Brown, O Sally Brown,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">How could you serve me so?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I've met with many a breeze before.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">But never such a blow!"</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="300" height="294" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Then reading on his 'bacco box,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">He heaved a heavy sigh</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And then began to eye his pipe,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And then to pipe his eye.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="400" height="361" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And then he tried to sing "All's Well!"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">But could not, though he tried;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">His head was turned—and so he chewed</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">His pigtail till he died.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">His death, which happened in his berth,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">At forty-odd befell;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">They went and told the sexton, and</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The sexton tolled the bell.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Thomas Hood</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX" id="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX"></a> +<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="600" height="254" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sierra Valley, California</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I live 'way up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, five thousand feet +above the sea. The snow here is four feet deep. My brother and I +have lots of fun sliding down hill on snow-shoes. Our snow-shoes +are made out of strips of wood about six feet long and four inches +wide, with leather straps in the middle to put our toes in. The +shoes that grown people use are from eight to fourteen feet long.</p> + +<p>I am ten years old. My father takes <span class="smcap">Harper's Weekly</span>, and we like +to look at the pictures. He subscribed for <span class="smcap">Young People</span> for us at +the beginning of the second volume.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">May C. T</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Derby, Connecticut</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am twelve years old. I like <span class="smcap">Young People</span> very much, and all the +scholars in my school like it. I get a copy every week because I am +a good girl, and I wish every little girl would do the same.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">E. L. M</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>We have taken <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> ever since it was published, +and we think it grows better all the time. I enjoyed reading the +letter from one of the party who visited Harper's Building, and I +hope some time to see it all myself. I guess, if I am a girl, I +should not be afraid, and "run away" from any of the machinery; +anyhow, not from the folding-machines, for some of them are made +right here in our own shop.</p> + +<p>After we have read our <span class="smcap">Young People</span> all through, we send the +numbers to the Children's Hospital, so that the poor little ones +there may have the pleasure of reading such a nice little paper.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Isabel C</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bozeman, Montana Territory</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I take <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and I like it very much. I was so sorry when +the story of "Paul Grayson" was finished.</p> + +<p>I am boarding in town and going to school this winter, but my home +is about five miles away, in the country. I go out there every +Friday night.</p> + +<p>Yesterday I went out hunting. I have a double-barrelled shot-gun, +which pa gave me for helping pick up potatoes. I have a horse and +a saddle and bridle of my own, and in the summer I have to ride +lots. Sometimes I ride thirty miles at a time.</p> + +<p>I get up the cows, and take them out every day. In the summer we +have school within half a mile of our house.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bertie R</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Newport, Kentucky</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>This is the first letter I ever wrote to the Post-office Box. Now I +thought I would tell about the freezing of the Ohio River. Just +below here it is frozen solid, and crowds of people skate on it +every day. It is not frozen in front of Newport, because a steam +ferry runs between here and Cincinnati, and the boats keep the ice +broken. They do not allow it to get thick enough to hold people, +because if it was, everybody would walk over without having to pay +the ferry.</p> + +<p>The Licking River, a very small tributary of the Ohio, is frozen +over too, and I went skating on it yesterday.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Henry R</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Atlanta, Georgia</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>We want to know who "Jimmy Brown" is. When papa read "Our Baby," +mamma, my aunts, uncles, and cousins laughed until the tears ran +down their cheeks.</p> + +<p>I made me some arrows with pins stuck in them.</p> + +<p>The Christmas number of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> was the best of all.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Stewart H</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Detroit, Michigan</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am a little boy eight years old. I commenced to take <span class="smcap">Young People</span> +last November, and I like it very much. I enjoy reading the little +letters in the Post-office Box, and I like all of the stories. I +think "Toby Tyler" is splendid.</p> + +<p>I hope all the little folks who read <span class="smcap">Young People</span> had a Merry +Christmas and a Happy New Year.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Fred R</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Baltimore, Maryland</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I was nine years old on the 7th of January. Papa has taken <span class="smcap">Young +People</span> for me ever since it began. He sent for a cover, and is +having the first volume bound. I like it very much indeed.</p> + +<p>I have had lots of sport coasting, and I will be very sorry when +the snow is gone.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Craig C</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">East Rupert, Vermont</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>My home is in Factory Point, but I am up to my grandpa's now. He +has got a big farm. He has fourteen cows and two calves. My papa is +a doctor, and I have lots of rides with him. I am nine years old.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Charley C</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 thought I would write to the Post-office about the big spring in +Indiana. It is called Harrison Spring, because it was owned by +General Harrison when he was Governor of the Northwestern +Territory. It looks like a very large pond, and is fifty-five feet +deep in the centre. There are two streams flowing from it, which +form an island, as they unite and form one stream at a little +distance from the spring. About a mile farther on, this stream runs +a saw-mill and a flour-mill. This spring is near the great +Wyandotte Cave.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Gilbert C. S</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I have increased my collection of stamps from seventy-five to +fifteen hundred by exchange. I think this is the grandest of all +the departments of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I would now like to exchange +twenty-five foreign stamps for five birds' eggs. Correspondents +will please label the eggs.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Robert H. Davidson</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Care of the Postmaster,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tenn.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I would like to exchange Texas postmarks for minerals or postmarks. +Or I will exchange an ounce of the soil of Texas for that of any +other State.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">H. C. Yancey</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 224, Houston, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I wish to inform those correspondents who desire to exchange +minerals, shells, and curiosities with me, that I have changed my +residence. My new address is,</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Charles Leadbetter</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">305 Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am a girl fourteen years old, but I am lame, and can not go out. +I have a few crochet lace patterns which I would like to exchange +for others. I would also like to exchange patterns of patchwork. If +any little girl would like to know how to crochet a pair of doll's +drawers, a jacket, or a petticoat, and will send me her address and +a postage stamp, I will gladly answer her.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Annie Slack</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">170 Fourteenth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I have a list of every Indian tribe in the United States which I +will give a copy of in exchange for Indian relics, foreign stamps, +or postal cards.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">John E. Williams</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">4 Harrison Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I have some genuine Indian bows and arrows, some fine silver and +copper specimens, and a great number of Lake Superior agates, which +I should like to exchange for shells and ocean curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Horace H. Mitchell</span>, Duluth, Minn.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>A fifty-cent and a twenty-five cent stamp, for two Cape of Good +Hope stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">William R. Carmer</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Mount Vernon, Westchester County, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Fine samples of gold ore, showing the stages of concentration or +separation of quartz from the precious metal, for rare postage +stamps. In answering, correspondents will please specify stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Dwight Marfield</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mary B. Reed</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>A piece of the first Atlantic cable for an American copper cent of +1799, or the half-cent of 1836, 1843, or 1852; or one Spanish and +one English coin and two French coins for the American twenty-cent +piece of 1877 or 1878.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie B. Shober</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Cumberland, Md.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Lead or iron ore, and specimens of different varieties of quartz, +for foreign postage stamps, skulls of small animals, ocean +curiosities, petrifactions, and minerals of all kinds; or a piece +of silver ore for a collection of the different varieties of stamps +now in use in Canada.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">George C. Baker</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Comstocks, Washington County, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps for stones from the different States.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Arthur D. Prince</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Lowell, Mass.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>We do not consider the above address sufficient. Correspondents who +reside in large cities should always give their street and number, or +the number of their post-office box.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks and stamps for stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie H. Haskin</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Fort Preble, Portland, Maine.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Rare postmarks for any variety of South American postage stamps or +United States department stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Frank Swett</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1419 Taylor Street, San Francisco, California.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Stamps and postmarks in use in 1852, also some of 1869, for foreign +postage stamps or curiosities of any kind.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sadie Hawley</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Fair Haven, Rutland County, Vt.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Texas flints, pretty stones, snail shells, postmarks, stamps, +specimens of different kinds of wood, petrified wood, cotton as it +comes from the field, cotton seeds, or seeds of the "Indian plume," +for foreign postage stamps, or good specimens of minerals and ores +of all kinds.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sammie Risien</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Soil and sand from Ohio for soil and sand from any other State or +Canada; or an Indian arrow-head two and a half inches long, +together with a specimen of Ohio soil, for twenty-five foreign +postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Emmer Edwards</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Washington C. H., Fayette County, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps for United States Navy or Justice stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Wallace Green</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Hackensack, Bergen County, N. J.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Soil from Missouri or Texas for soil from any other State; or a +stone from Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, or Georgia for one from any +other State.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harvey Clark</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Lock Box 26, Butler, Bates County, Missouri.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps and postmarks for winter skins of wild animals, or +for stuffed birds.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">John Lawrence</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">40 Washington Square, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Birds' eggs.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">George A. Post</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Florence House, corner of Fourth Avenue and</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Eighteenth Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Minerals, fish eyes from China, or West India beans, for minerals +or any kind of curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Carl R. Eaby</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">22 North Shippen Street, Lancaster, Penn.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>A carved shell, some seeds from the Sandwich Islands, or stones +from Lake Michigan, for any foreign postage stamps except English +and German. Chinese stamps especially desired.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">William C. McConnell</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">262 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks and revenue stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willis Rose</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">939 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Stones from New Jersey for stones from any other State or Territory +except Colorado and Wyoming.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">John W. Rosenbaum</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">194½ Morgan Street, Jersey City, N. J.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Two different War Department stamps and thirty postmarks for +sea-weed, or the same, together with some moss and pretty shells, +for a piece of stalagmite.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Florie Dickson</span>, Brenford, Kent County, Del.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">J. W</span>.—The earliest calendars, as the Jewish, the Egyptian, and the +Greek, did not begin the year where we do now; and the Jewish year, +which opened on the 25th of March, continued to have a legal position in +many Christian countries until a comparatively recent period. In +England, it was not until 1752 that the 1st of January became the initial +day of the legal, as it had long been of the popular, year. Several +other countries made this change earlier than England—France in 1564, +Scotland in 1600, Holland and Russia in 1700.</p> + +<p>The Roman calendar, which made January the first month of the year, is +credited to the second King of Rome, Numa Pompilius, more than six +hundred years <span class="smcap">b.c</span>. He added two months to the ten into which the year +had been previously divided, and called the first one Januarius, in +honor of Janus, the deity supposed to preside over doors.</p> + +<p>Our Saxon ancestors originally called this the Wolf-month +(<i>Wolf-monat</i>), because wolves were more than usually ravenous and +daring in that season of the year.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">A. T. G</span>.—Snow crystals were first observed by the arctic explorer +Scoresby, and for a time they were supposed to be peculiar to the polar +regions. It was found, however, that these crystals were formed wherever +snow falls. An interesting account of these beautiful formations, with +engravings of many of them, was given in <span class="smcap">Young People</span> No. 15.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">F. T. B</span>.—When metal pins were invented and brought into use, about the +beginning of the sixteenth century, they were a very acceptable +New-Year's gift to ladies, and money given for the purchase of them was +called "pin-money"—an expression which has come to mean the money set +apart for a wife's private expenses.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Inquisitive Jim</span>.—The best account of Petra, the wonderful rock-hewn +city of Arabia, is to be found in Stephens's book of travels called +<i>Egypt, Petra, and the Holy Land</i>. The present name of the little valley +where it was situated is Wady Musa. The city, shut in by high cliffs, +occupied an area of about half a mile square. The valley is watered by a +stream, and the principal entrance is through a deep<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span> ravine, with +rugged cliffs 300 feet high on each side. In ancient times Petra was a +very strong city. It is mentioned in the Bible under the name of Selah, +and received its present name, which signifies rock, from the Greeks, +about 300 <span class="smcap">b.c</span>. It was finally destroyed, by whom is not known, and was +not heard of after the sixth century <span class="smcap">a.d</span>. until it was discovered in +1812 by the traveller Burckhardt. The ruins, consisting of tombs, a +theatre, temple, etc., are very interesting and picturesque.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">W. H. J</span>.—If your puzzles are good, and suitable for our columns, they +will be accepted. We can not judge of the merits of the enigma you have +already sent, as you neglected to inclose the answer. The <i>nom de plume</i> +you have chosen is not good, but you can easily invent a better one.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Lillie</span>.—The introductory paragraph to the Post-office Box of No. 45 +explains why your request for exchange is not printed.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">O. H. Bruce</span>.—1. The United States government began the coinage of +one-cent pieces in 1793. 2. In 1815, none were coined. 3. The last +coinage of large one-cent pieces was in 1857. 4. The coinage of two-cent +pieces began in 1864, and the last issue was in 1872. 5. The coinage of +the nickel five-cent pieces began in 1865. 6. In 1864, both copper and +nickel cents were coined. This double coinage did not happen in any +other year.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">D. L. S</span>.—On page 398 of your bound volume of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> is a story +entitled "Camping Out," which will give you the information you require.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Johnnie</span>.—White elephants are not a distinct species, but are simply +albinos, which are found among animals, birds, and insects, as well as +among members of the human family. In India the white elephant is +considered a sacred animal, and is treated with the greatest reverence. +When specimens are found in the woods and jungles, they are captured +with tender care, and their possession is eagerly sought for by the +sovereigns of the small kingdoms. White elephants have been the cause of +many wars, as their possession is supposed to bestow greater benefits on +their royal owners than either chests of gold or extended territory. One +of the proudest titles of the King of Ava is "Lord of the White +Elephant," and the King of Siam at Bangkok also counts his white +elephants among his most precious possessions, as, according to Burmese +superstition, they insure prosperity and good fortune to the nation. The +death of one of these creatures is regarded as a national calamity, its +funeral is conducted with great solemnity, and the entire people mourn +as for the loss of a dear relative. These elephants are kept under +richly embroidered canopies, are fed with the most delicious fruits, and +members of the nobility seek for the honor of being custodian to the +royal beast. When the elephant is taken to bathe in the river, it goes +escorted by a band of music, and is followed by adoring crowds.</p> + +<p>This singular reverence for an albino elephant has existed in Burmah for +centuries. An English traveller who visited that country three hundred +years ago describes the same treatment of this beast which may be seen +at the present time.</p> + +<p>Even the hairs of this creature are supposed to insure good fortune. In +1855, a foreign ambassador delivered some presents to the King of Siam, +who ordered many presents to be given in return. On the conclusion of +the ceremony, the King himself, with much solemnity, placed in the hands +of the ambassador a small golden box, locked with a golden key, which he +said was far more precious than all the other presents. The box, when +opened, was found to contain a few hairs of a white elephant!</p> + +<p>And, after all, this elephant is not white, but of a dull yellow color. +It has white or reddish eyes, and is a very ugly-looking beast. No +greater proof could be found of the moral darkness and ignorance of the +natives of certain portions of India than their superstitious veneration +for this animal.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">F. O</span>.—Read the paragraph appended to a letter from Ida Belle D. in the +Post-office Box of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> No. 51.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Hallie C. W</span>.—The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by a Spanish +navigator about the middle of the sixteenth century, but they remained +comparatively unknown until visited by Captain Cook in 1778, who gave +them the name of Sandwich, in honor of Lord Sandwich, an English +statesman who conducted the naval affairs of England during our +Revolutionary war. On St. Valentine's Day, 1779, Captain Cook was killed +at Hawaii, the largest island of the group, in a quarrel with the +natives. Mauna Loa, the volcano on the island of Hawaii, which has +recently been in a state of eruption, is said to have the largest +burning crater in the world.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Edmund H. B</span>.—There is no especial time for the printing of "Wiggles."</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Mattie H</span>.—The story "Who was Paul Grayson?" was concluded in <span class="smcap">Harper's +Young People</span> No. 57.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Tillie Davis</span>.—Send your full address, and we will print your request +for exchange.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Ridley McL</span>.—Your puzzle is very good for the work of a "little +eight-year-old boy," but we can not print it, as the same solution has +already appeared in an earlier number of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Favors are acknowledged from Ruby W., C. H. B., M. Stiefel, Frank R., +Joseph W. Hawkins, Marshall R. Grimes, Gay Wood, John V. Gould, Gracie +K., R. M. Sites, Mamie K. Pope, Anna M. Roberts, Elsie E. T., Frank +Davis, Mae King, Mary Olive L.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Harvey Ridgway, "Geo. +Graphy," Grace A. McElroy, Percy Lincoln McDermott, A. G. O. M., +"Nightingale," Alfred A. True, Craig Coburn, C. F. Bishop, Cal I. Forny, +Carrie and George Hall, M. S. Brigham.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<h3>ENIGMA.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">First in box, not in chest.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Second in hole, not in nest.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Third in meat, not in bones.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Fourth in rubble, not in stones.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Fifth in measure, not in mile.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Sixth in fashion, not in style.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Seventh in river, not in sound.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Eighth in fly, not in bound.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Ninth in mallet, not in saw.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The whole an article used in war.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">D. L. S</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<h3>NUMERICAL CHARADES.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">1. I am a familiar adage composed of 18 letters.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 5, 12, 1, 18 is to separate.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 15, 7, 3, 16 is to propose.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 5, 2, 9, 10, 13, 4 is to describe.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 17, 8, 6, 4 is a character in music.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 11, 14, 15 is a boy's name.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mark Marcy</span>.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">2. I am a shrub composed of 6 letters.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 4, 5, 3, 1 is a healthy drink.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 3, 5, 4, 6 is a South American city.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 4, 2, 5, 3 is armor.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Lionel</span>.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">3. I am composed of 9 letters, and am very pleasant in winter.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 6, 2, 5 is part of the face.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 1, 9, 7, 3 is an emotion.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 6, 7, 8, 4 is used for trimming.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mary</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<h3>HIDDEN BIRDS.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">1. Isaac ran every step of the way.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">2. How Lillie has grown!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">3. See that Kit eats his dinner.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">4. Do you call him a hero? Not by any means.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mabel</span>.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">5. O, Matthew, renounce the company of those bad boys.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">6. We were playing hide-and-seek, and I caught Rob in the swing near the tree.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">7. Let us run and pick up the pears now, Birdie.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">8. I saw your lunch pail in Nettie's closet.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bessie</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 62.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left">F</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">L</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">B</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">P</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">L</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<p class="center">1. Mouse-ear. 2. Porcupine. 3. Portland.</p> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">R</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">X</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">B</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">C</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">G</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">B</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">U</td><td align="left">R</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">N</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">N</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 4.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">H</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">M</td><td align="left">P</td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">N</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">R</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">L</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">Y</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">G</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">D</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">N</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">G</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">A</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">B</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">V</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">A</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">G</td><td align="left">U</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">Y</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">Q</td><td align="left">U</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">L</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>WIGGLES.</h3> + +<p>The following are the names of those who sent in answers to Wiggle No. +16:</p> + +<p>Natalie Newell, Helen Edwards, I. La Rue, R. I. Brasher, Charlie +Conklin, Horace Dodge, Joseph Welsh, Edwin M. Cox, Mark Manley, F. +Place, M. P. Rich, Shelton A. Hibbs, Ellie Earle, Mansur Beard, G. +Darling, Jack Evert, Jim Evert, Tom Evert, Will Evert, Bobbie Hornfager, +C. H. L., N. Adda T., Toby, Crank, Dumper, G. H. A., Racy B. Sweet, G. E. P., +Newton I., M. Siegert. Annie A. Siegert, A. Utz, Worcester Wiggle +Club, Santa Claus, Robinson Crusoe, Robert E. Walsh, Frank Zabriske, +Millie Stephenson, Burton Harwood, Fanny Reed, Dayton Reed, J. O. O., J. P. W., +S. G. Hopkins, M. Goller, Alice Brown, H. M. Eaton, Carrie +Harding, E. A. H., Carrie Peddle, Charles L. Glessner, W. Doerr, Thomas +Buford, Frank J. Jones, A. R. B. H., N. P. Grensel, M. F. K., Randolph +Bolles, J. Flaherty, T. Flaherty, Willie A. Scott, Fred Dierking, Louise +Brown, Mary Dancy, Isobel L. Jacobs, Robbie H. Bradbury, G. H. Ralston, +Lawrence Jones, Carrie E. Weightman, F. S. G., Willie Harris, J. M. +Ingersoll, W. Harman, Louise Fowler, Scilla Fowler, Helen S. Woodworth, +Elsie E. Trautman, Lynn Trautman, Amelie Ferrand, Harry B. Brazier, +Stella Pratt, George H., Robert A. Magill, Nellie R. Field, Paddy Miles, +Clara S. A., Willie R. Perkins, Henry Welsh, Harry Eichbaum, Albert +Evans, Percy L. McDermott, C. C. Gardner, Rosa Freyensee, L. G. Duffy, +Meline Rosenthal, J. Frees, W. F. Reed, F. L. Kittle, Walter Eichbaum, +Tommy Booth, Charlie S. Bryant, Anna Jones, Grace T. Lyman, Nellie +Brees, Walter Mandell, Bronte Smith, Bertie Seymour, Willie Seymour, +Vannoy M. Wallace, Fanny M. Young, J. H. Young, S. M. Young, Lou Bell, +J. W. Long, J. W. Kittrell, Bob Ewing, Otto D., Harry O. Boone, Harry +Kenderdine, Grace Lansingh, Addie M. Taylor, Roy Demster, Percy +Matthews, Harry Lander, Annie Reinhardt, Frank Lander, Ahan Hyde, +Sinclair G. Wills, Bessie H. Moore, Emma F. Cassidy, Pollie Burke, "Lone +Star" (R. H. Davidson), Louis Burtnett, Frank Edinger, Nellie Hyde, +Hallie Hyde, Daisy Hyde, Katie B. Barr, Mollie Edwards, Eddie D. +Knowles, G. W. Bird, Wendell M. Frank, Bertram Frank, Willie Dorrance, +Alfred P., Frank Hoover, S. H. S., J. S., George Shriver, Grace E. +Stevens, Pearlie Hare, Little Pet Hare, Little Mary Hare, Little Johnnie +Campbell, Edwin C. Hutman, Robert G. Bidwell, Edith B., J. F. H., B. M. +Allison, H. M. P., Fred Dale, Leila King, Georgie Clementson, Percy A. +Robbins, Eddie Booth, Norrie M. E., Harry Harper, Frank Ostrander, R. D. +White, H. Sidway, F. Sidway, Gardner Howland, John A. Tompkins, Emma R. +Bullock, Theresa A. Morro, B. L. Worden, Lydia M. Bennett, L. L. G., +Cobweb, Du Puy, Waddy Thompson, D. W. G., John R. Glen, Jessie Glen, +Kirk Romaine, E. D. Kellogg, Frank Crabbs, Thomas M. Armstrong, Henry C. +Deknatels, Clarence Edsall, Fred R. Fisk, W. L. Green, Melville Wilson, +A. C. Chapin, W. F., C. J. Breek, Jun., A. C. 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S., Mollie C. +Wrenshall, B. E. H., George B. Rogers, D. H. Rogers, W. H. Cantrell, +Eddie G. Cantrell, Wamie Forse, Bevy Pettit, Woodvill Wrenshall, Howard +Rathbone, G. W. D., Arty Taylor, Joralemon, G. V. E., L. A. Osborne, L. B. +Parsons, Grace and Jennie, Millie Olmstead, Lucy and Fred.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2>A NEW SERIAL.</h2> + +<p>In No. 66 of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, issued February 1, will be begun a +new Serial Story, entitled</p> + +<p class="center">"PHIL'S FAIRIES,"</p> + +<p>by <span class="smcap">Mrs. W. J. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Young People, January 25, 1881 + An Illustrated Monthly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: January 19, 2014 [EBook #44712] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JAN 25, 1881 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie R. McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + * * * * * + +VOL. II.--NO. 65. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, January 25, 1881. Copyright, 1881, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: THE BREAKDOWN, AND ESCAPE OF THE MONKEYS.] + +[Begun in No. 58 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, December 7.] + +TOBY TYLER; + +OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS. + +BY JAMES OTIS. + +CHAPTER VII. + +AN ACCIDENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. + + +Toby's experience of the evening was very similar to that of the +afternoon, save that he was so fortunate as not to take any more bad +money in payment for his goods. Mr. Jacobs scolded and swore +alternately, and the boy really surprised him in the way of selling +goods, though he was very careful not to say anything about it, but made +Toby believe that he was doing only about half as much work as he ought +to do. Toby's private hoard of money was increased that evening by +presents, ninety cents, and he began to look upon himself as almost a +rich man. + +When the performance was nearly over, Mr. Jacobs called to him to help +in packing up; and by the time the last spectator had left the tent, the +worldly possessions of Messrs. Lord and Jacobs were ready for removal, +and Toby allowed to do as he had a mind to, so long as he was careful to +be on hand when old Ben was ready to start. + +Toby thought that he would have time to pay a visit to his friends the +skeleton and the fat woman, and to that end started toward the place +where their tent had been standing; but to his sorrow he found that it +was already being taken down, and he only had time to thank Mrs. Treat +and to press the fleshless hand of her shadowy husband as they entered +their wagon to drive away. + +He was disappointed, for he had hoped to be able to speak with his +new-made friends a few moments before the weary night's ride commenced; +but failing in that, he went hastily back to the monkeys' cage. Old Ben +was there getting things ready for a start; but the wooden sides of the +cage had not been put up, and Toby had no difficulty in calling the aged +monkey up to the bars. He held one of the fat woman's doughnuts in his +hand, and he said, as he passed it through to the animal: + +"I thought perhaps you might be hungry, Mr. Stubbs, and this is some of +what the skeleton's wife give me. I hain't got very much time to talk +with you now; but the first chance I can get away to-morrow, an' when +there hain't anybody 'round, I want to tell you something." + +The monkey had taken the doughnut in his hand-like paws, and was tearing +it to pieces, eating small portions of it very rapidly. + +"Don't hurry yourself," said Toby, warningly, "for Uncle Dan'l always +told me the worst thing a feller could do was to eat fast. If you want +any more, after we start, just put your hand through the little hole up +there near the seat, an' I'll give you all you want." + +From the look on his face, Toby confidently believed the monkey was +going to make some reply; but just then Ben shut up the sides, +separating Toby and Mr. Stubbs, and the order was given to start. + +Toby clambered up on to the high seat, Ben followed him, and in another +instant the team was moving along slowly down the dusty road, preceded +and followed by the many wagons with their tiny swinging lights. + +"Well," said Ben, when he had got his team well under way; and felt that +he could indulge in a little conversation, "how did you get along +to-day?" + +Toby related all of his movements, and gave the driver a faithful +account of all that had happened to him, concluding his story by saying, +"That was one of Mrs. Treat's doughnuts that I just gave to Mr. Stubbs." + +"To whom?" asked Ben, in surprise. + +"To Mr. Stubbs--the old fellow here in the cart, you know, that's been +so good to me." + +Toby heard a sort of gurgling sound, saw the driver's body sway back and +forth in a trembling way, and was just becoming thoroughly alarmed, when +he thought of the previous night, and understood that Ben was only +laughing in his own peculiar way. + +"How did you know his name was Stubbs?" asked Ben, after he had +recovered his breath. + +"Oh, I don't know that that is his real name," was the quick reply; "I +only call him that because he looks so much like a feller with that name +that I knew at home. He don't seem to mind because I call him Stubbs." + +Ben looked at Toby earnestly for a moment, acting all the time as if he +wanted to laugh again, but didn't dare to for fear he might burst a +blood-vessel, and then he said, as he patted him on the shoulder, "Well, +you are the queerest little fish that I ever saw in all my travels. You +seem to think that that monkey knows all you say to him." + +"I'm sure he does," said Toby, positively. "He don't say anything right +out to me, but he knows everything I tell him. Do you suppose he could +talk if he tried to?" + +"Look here, Mr. Toby Tyler," and Ben turned half around in his seat, and +looked Toby full in the face, as to give more emphasis to his words, +"are you heathen enough to think that that monkey could talk if he +wanted to?" + +"I know I hain't a heathen," said Toby, thoughtfully, "for if I had +been, some of the missionaries would have found me out a good while ago; +but I never saw anybody like this old Mr. Stubbs before, an' I thought +he could talk if he wanted to, just as the Living Skeleton does, or his +wife. Anyhow, Mr. Stubbs winks at me; an' how could he do that if he +didn't know what I've been sayin' to him?" + +"Look here, my son," said Ben, in a most fatherly fashion, "monkeys +hain't anything but beasts, an' they don't know how to talk any more +than they know what you say to 'em." + +"Didn't you ever hear any of them speak a word?" + +"Never. I've been in a circus, man an' boy, nigh on to forty years, an' +I never seen nothin' in a monkey more'n any other beast, except their +awful mischiefness." + +"Well," said Toby, still unconvinced, "I believe Mr. Stubbs knew what I +said to him, anyway." + +"Now don't be foolish, Toby," pleaded Ben. "You can't show me one thing +that a monkey ever did because you told him to." + +Just at that moment Toby felt some one pulling at the back of his coat, +and looking around, he saw it was a little brown hand, reaching through +the bars of the air-hole of the cage, that was tugging away at his coat. + +"There!" he said, triumphantly, to Ben. "Look there. I told Mr. Stubbs +if he wanted anything more to eat, to tell me, an' I would give it to +him. Now you can see for yourself that he's come for it," and Toby took +a doughnut from his pocket, and put it into the tiny hand, which was +immediately withdrawn. "Now what do you think of Mr. Stubbs knowing what +I say to him?" + +"They often stick their paws up through there," said Ben, in a +matter-of-fact tone. "I've had 'em pull my coat in the night till they +made me as nervous as ever any old woman was. You see, Toby, my boy, +monkeys is monkeys; an' you mustn't go to gettin' the idea that they're +anything else, for it's a mistake. You think this old monkey in here +knows what you say? Why, that's just the cuteness of the old fellow; he +watches you to see if he can't do just as you do, an' that's all there +is about it." + +Toby was more than half convinced that Ben was putting the matter in its +proper light, and he would have believed all that had been said if, just +at that moment, he had not seen that brown hand reaching through the +hole to clutch him again by the coat. + +The action seemed so natural, so like a hungry boy who gropes in the +dark pantry for something to eat, that it would have taken more +arguments than Ben had at his disposal to persuade Toby that his Mr. +Stubbs could not understand all that was said to him. Toby put another +doughnut in the outstretched hand, and then sat silently, as if in a +brown-study over some difficult problem. + +For some time the ride was made in silence. Ben was going through all +the motions of whistling without uttering a sound, a favorite amusement +of his, and Toby's thoughts were far away in the humble home he had +scorned, with Uncle Daniel, whose virtues had increased with every mile +of distance which had been put between them, and whose faults had +decreased in a corresponding ratio. + +Toby's thoughtfulness had made him sleepy, and his eyes were almost +closed in slumber, when he was startled by a crashing sound, was +conscious of a sense of being hurled from his seat by some great force, +and then he lay senseless by the side of the road, while the wagon +remained a perfect wreck, from out of which a small army of monkeys +were escaping. Ben's experienced ear had told him at the first crash +that his wagon was breaking down, and without having time to warn Toby +of his peril, he had leaped clear of the wreck, keeping his horses in +perfect control, thus averting any more trouble. It was the breaking of +one of the axles which Toby had heard just before he was thrown from his +seat, and when the body of the wagon had come down upon the hard road, +the entire structure had been wrecked. + +The monkeys, thus suddenly released from their confinement, had +scampered off in every direction, and, by a singular chance, Toby's aged +friend started for the woods in such a direction as to bring him +directly upon the boy's senseless body. As the monkey came up to Toby he +stopped, through the well-known curiosity of his kind, and began to +examine the body carefully, prying into each pocket he could reach, and +trying to open the half-closed eyelids in order to peep in under them. + +Fortunately for Toby, he had fallen upon a mud-bank, and was only +stunned for the moment, having received no serious bruises, even though +he had been thrown such a distance. The attentions bestowed upon him by +the monkey served the purpose of bringing him to his senses; and after +he had looked around him in the gray light of the coming morning, it +would have taken far more of a philosopher than ever old Ben was to have +persuaded the boy that monkeys did not possess reasoning faculties. + +The monkey was picking at his ears, nose, and mouth, as monkeys always +do when they get an opportunity, and the expression of his face was as +grave as possible. Toby firmly believed that the monkey's face showed +sorrow at his fall, and he believed that the attentions which were being +bestowed upon him were for the purpose of learning whether he had been +injured or not. + +"Don't worry, Mr. Stubbs," said Toby, anxious to reassure his friend, as +he sat upright and looked about him. "I didn't get hurt any, but I would +like to know how I got 'way over here." + +It really seemed as if the monkey was pleased to know that his little +friend was not hurt, for he seated himself on his haunches, and his face +expressed the liveliest pleasure that Toby was well again--or at least +that was the way the boy interpreted the look. + +By this time the news of the accident had been shouted ahead from one +team to the other, and all hands were hurrying to the scene for the +purpose of rendering some aid. As Toby saw them coming, he also saw a +number of small forms, looking something like men, hurrying past him, +and for the first time he understood how it was that the aged monkey was +at liberty, and knew that those little dusky forms were the other +occupants of the cage escaping to the woods. + +"See there, Mr. Stubbs! see there!" he exclaimed, quickly, pointing +toward the fugitives; "they're all going off into the woods. What shall +we do?" + +The sight of the runaways seemed to excite the old monkey quite as much +as it had the boy. He jumped to his feet, chattered in the most excited +way, screamed two or three times as if he was calling them back, and +then started off in vigorous pursuit. + +"Now he's gone too," said Toby, disconsolately, believing the old fellow +had run away from him; "I didn't think Mr. Stubbs would treat me this +way." + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +A LITTLE ARAB GIRL'S MISSION. + +BY F. E. FRYATT. + + +Many of the readers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE will be both surprised and +sorry to learn that there are parents who are not only willing to sell +their baby girls for a few pennies, but when this can not be done, to +cast them out upon the highways to perish either by the wild beasts that +prowl about at night, or by the fiercely glaring sun that heats the sand +so that even a dog will not venture out at noonday for fear of burning +his paws. + +"Where do these cruel people live, and who are they?" I hear a bright +little girl ask. + +They are the Arabs who inhabit the deserts of Kabylia and the Sahara, in +and south of Algiers, the most northern country in Africa. + +"Ah, but the Arabs live in Arabia, don't they?" objects my young friend. + +Yes, they do; but centuries ago the Arabians, or Saracens--desert +dwellers, as they were then called, Sara meaning desert--sent out large +armies to conquer other nations. These Saracens swept victoriously +through Northern Africa up to the heart of Spain. + +Algiers is now a French province, but the greater part of its people are +descendants of its ancient inhabitants, called Moors, and their +conquerors, the Arabs, together with negroes from Soudan, French +colonists, and a sprinkling of Turks, Maltese, and Spaniards. + +Neither the Moors nor the Arabs think much of little girls. The +latter--especially the poor ones--are sorry when one is born; but when a +boy baby comes, they make him presents, and a bowl of "mughly"--a +compound of rice flavored with sugar and spices, and sprinkled with +delicious nuts--is given to each relative. + +A Moorish girl of even rich parents is considered well enough educated +if she can make preserves, and dye her finger-nails with henna leaves. +She is not treated as unkindly, however, as the little Arab damsels, who +are compelled when quite young to work very hard. They have to draw +water from the wells in heavy leathern buckets; to churn; to feed and +water the young camels and horses: in fact, they live more like slaves +than daughters of the family. + +[Illustration: MARIA IMMANUEL.] + +The subject of my sketch, little Maria Immanuel, is a young Arabian girl +twelve years of age, who, accompanied by a French Missionary Sister, or +nun, has been all through Europe, and is now travelling through this +country, on a curious but praiseworthy mission: she is trying to raise +money to buy and support little Arabian children who are sold or cast +out on the desert. + +Maria Immanuel was herself one of these unfortunates. When a mere baby, +not yet two years old, she was picked up on the highway by some good +women, and taken to their mission-house, where she has lived ever since. + +I dare say my readers would like to know just how she looks, so I will +describe her to the best of my ability. + +Imagine a dark-complexioned, plump young girl, with rather heavy but +pleasant features; fluffy, dark, silken hair floating around her head +and overshadowing her eyes like a little cloud; red lips and milky-white +teeth; and eyes that light up her whole face, so soft are they, yet +brilliant and full of mischievous fire. + +Immanuel--for so her friends call her--is very like many American girls +in disposition, being intensely lively, merry as a cricket, and a great +tease when in the society of children of her own age. + +She has two accomplishments--she speaks French fluently, and sings +sweetly, having a fine contralto voice. + +Immanuel dresses just as she did at the mission-house in the desert of +Kabylia, wearing an Arab cloak of white wool, called a "burnoose," with +a hood for stormy weather, over a white cashmere gown, which hangs in +folds to her ankles, and is made with a yoke at the neck, and full +flowing sleeves. A double row of scarlet and white beads; a girdle, or +sash, of scarlet, blue, and yellow silk, knotted at the waist, and +falling in long fringed ends in front; and a scarlet "fez," or cap, +ornamented with a band of embroidery and a golden tassel, complete her +gay and picturesque costume. Dark or solemn colors offend an Arab's eye, +for he regards them as omens of misfortune. + +There are two sorts of Arabs among whom the missionaries work--the +farmer Arabs, who live in mud villages, and the Bedouins, who dwell in +tents, and roam the deserts a little farther south, and keep large +flocks of sheep and camels. + +These shepherd Arabs despise the milder farmers, but condescend to visit +them, after harvest-time, to barter camels and goats for their barley +and other grains, for _they_ never stoop to till the soil or do work of +any kind; their girls and women--at least such as they see fit to +rear--do all their necessary work, such as cooking, sewing tent and +saddle cloths, making mats, dyeing wool, and tending the animals, with +which they live almost in common, and which are often ranked above them. + +The shepherd Arabs live in tents, removing in winter to the farther +south, but the farmer Arabs live in mud houses, called "gourbis." The +"gourbis," like all native dwellings, are only one story high, on +account of earthquakes; they are made of branches of trees and stones, +cemented together by mud, a thick layer of which covers the roof. +Sometimes forty or more of these houses are united in a village, and +hedged in by tall cactus plants armed with sharp thorns. + +The animals live under the same roof with the family; so what with this +and the smoke, the smell of cookery, and the want of ventilation, you +may imagine the "gourbis" anything but a pleasant place to visit. + +The mission-houses, some of them in the neighborhood of these miserable +villages, and some farther south, are square wooden buildings, with a +court-yard in the middle, on which the windows and doors of all the +rooms open. There are small doors on the outside of the building, but +these are carefully guarded, on account of robbers and wild beasts, +either of which may make attacks at night. + +Now I must explain about the little Arab boys who are being educated and +taken care of by the Missionary Brothers. + +The Arabs, as I have said, love their boys very much indeed, but some +families are so wretchedly poor that they have to dispose of the boys as +well as the girls, when there are too many of them. + +The Brothers, when they pick them up or buy them, teach them to read and +write, and to till the ground, so that they may become farmers. + +The Missionary Sisters teach the girls to read and write, to do plain +sewing and house-work. + +The work of the missions does not stop when the children have grown to +be men and women; they are then allowed to visit each other socially +under proper supervision. If a young couple fall in love with each +other, and wish to marry, the consent of the Superior is asked, and +given; for she knows the youth has been well brought up, and is worthy +to have her young charge for a wife. + +In speaking of these weddings, which are quite festive occasions, little +Maria Immanuel recently said to a lady, in her lively French, which I +will translate: "I do love to have weddings going on, we have _such_ a +good time. Oh, the music! it is fine; and then there is _such +feasting_!" + +No wonder she laid such stress on feasting, for the mission people live +only on the very plainest fare, never seeing butter, meat, or any of the +delicacies American children have every day. + +At weddings--and they generally manage to have them double, triple, or +quadruple weddings--I suppose they have fruit and honey and other fine +dishes for the great occasion. + +To each newly married couple a house, an inclosed acre of land, a horse, +an ass, and a pair of goats are given; also some farming implements; six +each of dishes and bowls, knives and wooden spoons; a bed; and the few +other necessaries for simple housekeeping. + +They now commence life as farmers, and, what is still better, as +Christian young people. Already two Christian Arab villages have sprung +up on the desert, while a third is being built. + +Are the young fathers and mothers sorry when a dear little girl baby +comes into the world? No, they are glad, and love it tenderly, as you +may tell by this little nursery song here translated. I wish I could +give you the wild, sweet music too. Listen--a young Arab mother sings: + + "Come, Cameleer, as quick as you can, + And make us some soap from green Shenan, + To bathe our Lûlû dear; + We'll wash her and dress her, + And then we'll caress her: + She'll sleep in her little screer."[1] + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] Cradle. + + + + +LUCKY TOM'S SHADOW; OR, THE SEA-GULLS' WARNING. + +BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. + + +[Illustration: A LIFE-SAVING STATION.] + +"Be still, Meg, be still. Don't trouble me. Go and play. Young 'uns like +you are good for naught else;" and so saying, Meg's grandmother turned +fretfully toward the window of the cottage, and resumed her listless +watching of the sea-gulls across the inlet, as they fluttered, dipped, +and arose over the wavelets, picking their dinner from the shoals of +little fish the mackerel had chased inshore. + +"But I'm of some use, granny; you said so yesterday, when I fetched the +blueberries. An' I'll go fur some more if you like. I know where there's +lots of 'em--acres of 'em." + +"Do as you please, child, but don't tease your granny," replied the old +woman. + +There was little need to tell Maggie, or "Meg," as she was generally +called, to "do as she pleased," for in all of her short life of ten +years she had never done otherwise. She had roamed unmissed all the days +among the sand-hills of the beach, wading in the "mash" for lily pods, +or hunting in the scrub for birds' eggs. Such a place as school had +never been named to her. The alphabet was unknown to her, but she +understood the rough talk of the fishermen, and could mend a net or +'tend a line with the best man among them. + +Meg lived with her "granny" in a little unpainted hut made from ships' +planking, and set among a few low twisted pines, within a short distance +of a cove where Lucky Tom, her father, who was a pilot, kept his boats +and moored his sloop, when not sailing out on the blue sea watching for +ships to give him employment. + +Meg's mother had died while she was a baby; her "granny" was almost +always cross; so the child had grown up with but a single affection. It +was all for her father, and he returned it in a rough, good-natured way. +So these two were seldom apart when the pilot was ashore, and Meg came +to be known among the beach people as "Lucky Tom's Shadow." + +Now just why the pilot was called "Lucky Tom" does not appear: but it +was said among the folks on the coast that fish would nibble at his +hooks, and obligingly allow themselves to be caught by the dozen, when +nobody else could catch even a porgy. + +Near the cottage, Lucky Tom had raised the mast of a ship once wrecked +on the bar, and made a platform at the top, with steps leading to it; +and Meg was never so happy as when she sat high up in her "bird's nest," +as she called it, with her father, and listened to his surprising yarns +about foreign ports, while they scanned the horizon with a glass for +incoming ships. + +Meg tried hard to behave kindly toward her grandmother; but the old +woman never smiled, and seldom troubled herself about Meg's goings or +comings. + +"She's purty certain to git 'round at meal-times, an' that's often +enough," was about all she would say when Lucky Tom scolded about the +child's "bringin' up." + +Nearly twenty years before, Lucky Tom's father, Jack Bolden, had gone +off in his schooner, the _Petrel_, to catch cod, and from that day +neither the _Petrel_ nor her crew were ever seen. After months had gone +by, poor Mrs. Bolden fell into a fever, and when she was able to move +about, she sat all day by the window, looking out upon the waves, and +the neighbors gazed at her sorrowfully, for they said she had lost her +reason; but in Meg's eyes, to whom she had always been the same, she was +a very wise and mysterious person, and the tales she repeated to the +little girl, woven from her deranged fancy, were full of strange +sea-monsters, talking fish, and birds that whispered secrets to those +who watched for long-absent friends. All these were listened to and +believed with the full confidence of childish innocence. + +Meg tied on her old and faded bonnet, picked up her basket, and walked +away with a light step to the blueberry pasture. + +She soon became so busy picking the clusters of round little fruit, as +they peeped from beneath the dark and glossy leaves, that she did not +see how dark the eastern sky had become, until a cool gust of wind +caught her sun-bonnet, and sent it half across the field. Then she +noticed that the sun was already hidden by the advancing clouds, and +away out across the black fretted sea a long line of foam revealed the +white-caps leaping in great haste over each other, just like a flock of +sheep, in their race to reach the sands. + +The only near refuge for poor Meg was the Life-saving Station--one of +those lonely buildings that the government has placed along the coast, +with boats and crews, whose duty keeps them on the watch all winter for +shipwrecks. It was midsummer now, and the station was locked up tight; +but Meg knew how to get the better of locks and bars. She reached the +building just in time to escape a wetting from the thick rain that now +shut out the sea and land alike, beating fiercely against the stout +structure, and running in many little rivulets down the sand, to be +swallowed up, as all water is at last, by the great ocean. + +At one corner the winds had blown away the sand, so Meg found room to +crawl with her basket beneath the floor, and a loose board she had long +ago discovered admitted her to the interior. What a gloomy, close place +in contrast with the wildness of the scene outside! Have you ever +visited a station of the Life-saving Service? No? Well, then, I'll try, +with the aid of the picture, to explain what it is like. + +[Illustration: INTERIOR OF THE LIFE-SAVING STATION.] + +First, there is the life-boat, light but very strong, and shaped so it +will rise over the tops of the waves rather than go through them. This +one is handled by about six men; one, the captain, to steer, four men to +row, and one with a pike-staff and lines in the bow. You notice that the +wheels of the truck holding the boat are very wide; that allows them to +roll over the sand without sinking into it. Under the boat is a leathern +bucket, a coil of rope, and a grapnel or hook, and in front an ingenious +device, consisting of a board with a row of pegs about the edge, upon +which a line many hundreds of feet in length is placed, with the end +tied to a projectile in the queer-looking cannon above. This is intended +to be shot over the rigging of ships ashore, and used to haul out the +larger rope upon the cart to the left of the picture, and to which the +canvas bags hanging from the ceiling are fastened, to bring people from +the wreck. Back of the cart you see rockets and signal torches, with a +long tin trumpet, all neatly kept in a rack. There are lanterns too, and +against the partition a mortar and some balls, two axes, and many other +tools. With all of these and their uses Meg was well acquainted. +Sometimes she had seen the crew run with the boat down to the water, and +go through with their drill, when the Superintendent came there; and +once the men hauled it out in the night, everybody greatly excited, and +put out into the waves to pick up the crew of a sinking steamer; but a +schooner was there first, and they only brought back a woman and little +girl. How scared they did look, the poor things! and how thankful the +child was for the use of Meg's only spare frock! + +There seemed no prospect of the rain ceasing, and so Meg sat down in the +back room upon a bench; and as it was not in the nature of such an +active little girl to sit still long and keep awake, she very soon fell +asleep. + +When she started up from a dream full of strange sea-goblins, it was to +find that everything was dark. The rain had ceased, and Meg, after +rubbing her eyes, concluded to go home. When she lifted the board she +discovered, to her terror, that the rain had washed her burrow full of +sand, and she was a prisoner. The strong doors and windows resisted her +puny efforts, so she sat down upon a coil of rope to consider the +situation. + +Now most children would have cried; but Meg hadn't done such a thing +since she was teething. No, she only taxed her little head for some +means of escape. First, she must have a light. She well knew where the +matches were kept, and in a moment she had a lantern burning brightly. +Then it occurred to her to try the roof. It was a difficult matter to +lift the heavy trap leading to the little platform from which the men +usually watched during the winter days; but she soon stood out in the +bleak night, the salt spray driving against her face, and the gale +rushing by, as though it would tear her hold from the railing to which +she clung. + +White sea-gulls whirled about her head, attracted by the light, +screaming hoarse and discordant notes in her ears. They terrified her at +first, but she soon recalled what her "granny" had said, and felt sure +the birds were trying to tell her something, and that it must be about +her father, who was still out in the terrible storm, unable to find the +inlet. + +From far out on the sea the wind brought a moaning sound, as though some +unhappy creature called in vain for help. It came nearer and more +distinct from the northward, finally dying away in the distance upon the +other hand. + +Fierce lightning flashes broke from the retreating storm-clouds, and by +the weird electric glare Meg saw a wild figure, with arms upraised, +which seemed to come out of the surf, and speed along the sands. By the +same light she thought she saw the topmasts of a vessel on the sea. + +The gulls wheeled and screamed now more excitedly than ever. Meg was +nearly overcome with terror, but losing not a moment, she sprang down +the stairs, returning with an armful of torches. And now the lurid flare +of the life-saving signal burned up fiercely, the winds catching the +flame, and bearing thousands of dancing sparks away across the beach, +while the shape of the station and the heroic little girl upon the roof +stood out boldly, just in time for Lucky Tom to put his helm down, and +head his boat away from the fatal breakers he was nearing in the +darkness. + +And now suppose we let good-natured Lucky Tom tell the rest of the story +in his own style. + +"Well, sir, you see, the blow came up kind o' unexpected like, an' I +knowed we couldn't make port; but I didn't much care for that, as pilots +has to take all sorts o' weather, but we reckoned we could keep the +craft off an' on about the blowin' buoy; but, bless you! the buoy got +adrift, an' floated away down the beach. We heard it groanin' ahead of +us all the time, an' afore we knowed where we was, we got nigh into the +breakers. Just then I seen a twinkle on the beach, an' shortly a torch +showed us the station, with an angel o' mercy a-wavin' it from the roof; +an' it wa'n't a minnit too soon, nuther. + +"We kept away till daylight a-watchin' an' wonderin' at the torches +burnin' all the time from atop o' the station, and then we made the +inlet. Mebbe it'll seem queer to you, but none of us thought of Meg when +we saw the light; but the whole thing was plain enough when one of the +crew came runnin' to the house, after we'd been ashore a bit, an' +hollered: + +"'Why, Lucky Tom, the angel we saw was nobody but your own Shadow, +little Meg, an' she's there yit, wavin' a flag.' So we went over an' let +her out. The young'un told us all about hearin' the sound o' complainin' +on the sea, the black figure that ran along the beach, an' the warnin' +the birds give her. You see, that was a notion her granny put into her +head, the one about the birds. Speakin' of the old woman, there was +another queer thing that happened on the same night. We couldn't find +marm high nor low; but when Meg spoke of the wild spirit on the beach, +we knowed it must be her, and sure enough we found the poor old body +'way up by the point, 'most dead. She had an idee, you see, that when it +blowed hard the _Petrel_ would come ashore, though I reckon the _Petrel_ +has been at the bottom more'n twenty years now. We took her home an' +'tended her, but she didn't last long after that." + +The story of Meg's adventure came to the ears of a lady on the mainland, +and she soon afterward paid a visit to the little girl, who was now left +all alone when her father went away, and it was arranged that she should +live in the lady's house, and go to school. And now the school-master +says she promises to prove as bright as she is brave. + + + + +HOW IT HAPPENED TO SNOW. + +BY I. M. + + + What Jack Frost said to the trees, dear, + It never would do to tell; + He whispered the magic words, dear, + To oak and maple as well. + Some of them blushed bright red, dear, + And some of them turned to yellow, + While Jack he laughed in his sleeve, dear, + The good-for-nothing old fellow. + + What Jack Frost did to the leaves, dear, + I never would dare to say; + They wrung their little brown hands, dear, + In a pitiful, helpless way. + The kind sun felt so sad, dear, + To see the leaves in pain, + That he hid his face for a week, dear, + And wept great showers of rain. + + But Jack Frost's cruel breath, dear, + Grew colder day by day, + And chilled the leaves, until, dear, + They withered and dropped away. + Then the tall trees stood amazed, dear, + Lamenting, when they found + That their green and rustling robes, dear, + Lay faded on the ground. + + The angels too were grieved, dear, + When the trees looked cold and bare, + So they gathered the soft white clouds, dear, + That floated in upper air, + And tossed great armfuls down, dear, + In the stillness of the night, + And were glad to see how pure, dear, + The world looked clothed in white. + + What the children said next day, dear, + I think you must surely know; + But please don't say that I told, dear, + Just how it happened to snow; + For that wicked old Jack Frost, dear, + Would nip my nose in spite, + And pinch my poor ten toes, dear, + The next cold winter's night. + + + + +[Illustration: A MOTHER'S DEVOTION.--FROM AN ETCHING BY DE MARY.] + + + + +THE ADVENTURES OF A RUNAWAY KING. + +BY I. D. WILDER. + + +A king running away from his kingdom, with all his courtiers and people +in hot pursuit to catch him and bring him back! Did you ever hear of +anything more absurd? + +There was a reason for it too, or at least the King thought so. The +truth is, this unfortunate monarch was embarrassed by the possession of +two kingdoms at once, and it so happened that the kingdom where he was +was not the kingdom where he desired to be, so he made up his mind to +run away. + +Now I suppose, before I go any farther, I may as well let you into the +secret of his name and country, if you have not already guessed it. He +was Henry III. of France and Poland, son of Catherine de Medicis, one of +the wickedest Queens who ever ruled over any country, and brother of +Charles IX., King of France. + +Only a few months before his flight from Cracow he had been elected King +of Poland. He had been received with great magnificence by the Polish +nobles, and the festivities had lasted many days. After everything had +settled down into the usual quiet, Henry found life in Poland rather +dull; so when he received a letter from Queen Catherine announcing the +death of Charles IX., and saying that his presence in France was very +necessary to maintain his rights as his brother's heir, he was quite +ready to abandon his Polish kingdom, and start at once for Paris. + +But it was very far from being the intention of the Polish magnates to +let him off so easily. They naturally considered the well-being of their +kingdom as important--to them at least--as that of France could possibly +be. So they voted an address of condolence to the King on the death of +his brother, prayed him still to remain King of Poland, and entreated +him not to leave the kingdom without giving notice to the Senate, and +first appointing some one to act as Viceroy. + +Henry returned a courteous but rather vague reply, thanking the nobles +for their good wishes, but giving them little satisfaction as to his +intentions. + +In the mean time Henry's French attendants were urging upon him the +necessity of returning at once to France, lest he should lose the French +crown. His mother, Queen Catherine, sent messenger after messenger, +urging him to hasten, and his own inclinations were entirely in favor of +instant departure. So during the night a council of the French nobles +was held in Henry's apartments, and it was settled that they should +arrange matters for a secret departure. They must go secretly, if they +went at all, for the Polish Senate was determined to keep their King in +the country, and the people were equally determined not to let him go. + +Then the preparations began. In the first place, the French Ambassador, +as had been agreed upon, asked permission to return immediately to +France, as his mission had ended with the death of Charles IX. +Permission was granted, and he left Cracow at once. He took with him the +King's jewels and valuable papers, and made arrangements at all the +principal towns on his route for horses and provisions to be got ready +for illustrious members of his suite, who, as he said, were not able to +leave as soon as he did. Next the King sent off M. Chémerault (the +messenger who had brought him the news of Charles's death), on the +pretense of carrying letters to Queen Catherine, but really to wait at a +short distance from the capital until the King could join him. He was to +act as guide, and conduct Henry in safety across the border. + +The next step was rather unfortunate for the King. A train of ten mules +laden with coffers was observed to leave the city, and when it was found +that the baggage belonged to the Grand Master of the King's household, +the suspicions of the people were aroused, and they became wild with +excitement. It was in vain that Henry assured them that he had no +intention of leaving the kingdom. They did not believe him--and with +very good reason--and the tumult increased, until at last the Senate +ordered guards to be placed at all the entrances to the palace, and gave +instructions to arrest any one who should that night attempt to stir +out, not even excepting the King himself. + +After supper the King retired, and kept all his courtiers about him for +a long time, chatting merrily with them, and appearing so easy and +unconcerned that he fancied he must have entirely deceived the Poles, +and then he made a sign that he wanted to go to sleep. The Chamberlain, +Count Teuczin, drew the curtains of the King's bed, and a page put his +sword and a candle on a table close by--a ceremony which all understood +as a signal to leave the room, except the Chamberlain, whose duty it was +to stand at the foot of the bed until the King was asleep. It had been +agreed that the King and a few of his nobles should meet at a ruined +chapel, half a mile from the city gate, where one of Henry's equerries +was to be waiting with horses. + +The nobles supped together, and then quietly left the palace. They were +permitted to pass the sentinels on their assurance that they were bound +for a frolic in the town. + +Henry, in the mean time, was doing his best to make the Chamberlain +believe him asleep, and when he was at length convinced of the fact, he +left the room. In a moment the King's attendants had softly entered the +room and barred the door against all intruders, had hurriedly dressed +the King, and made all their preparations for departure. Fortunately, +Souvré, one of the King's gentlemen, happened to remember a small +postern-door at the end of a passage leading from the kitchen, which +opened at the back of the castle on a faubourg of Cracow outside the +walls. This door, which had been made for the use of the servants of the +palace, had often been found useful by the cavaliers of Henry's court +when they wished to go out and in unobserved. Souvré having found that +no sentinel had been posted there, sent Miron, the King's physician, to +reconnoitre, and see if they could get out by that way. He found the +door ajar, and was joyfully returning to report, when suddenly the +steward of the household, Alemanni, appeared from the kitchen, where he +was evidently on the watch, and carefully looking about him--though +without discovering Miron, who was sheltered by the staircase--gave +orders for the postern to be locked and the key to be brought to him. + +This was a terrible blow to all their hopes. The King was in despair and +was about to return to bed, but Souvré encouraged him to persist, and +rely upon him to get him out of the dilemma. + +So they cautiously left the apartments of the King, and crept softly +down the stairs until they came to the passage, where another flight of +steps led down to the kitchen. Here they got a great fright from hearing +the voice of the steward just at the foot of the stairs. He heard their +steps, and called out, "Who goes there?" + +"It is I, monsieur," said Souvré, boldly descending a few steps, while +he made a sign to the others to go on toward the door. + +"And what do you want?" asked the steward. + +"The key of the postern-door," replied Souvré. "I have a private errand, +now that the King my master can dispense with my services." + +"What errand?" persisted the steward. + +"The truth is," replied Souvré, haughtily, "I have an appointment in the +faubourg. I pray you therefore, monsieur, give me the key of the little +door without further parley." + +This haughty manner impressed the steward, who knew that Souvré was high +in his master's favor, and he somewhat reluctantly gave the key, and +offered to accompany Souvré to open the door for him. He, however, only +laughed at this, and bounding up the staircase long before the steward, +who was old and infirm, could reach the top, he found the King and his +companions concealing themselves as much as possible in the shadow of +the walls, opened the door, through which they hurriedly passed, and +locking it behind them, they made all possible speed toward the little +ruined chapel, the place of rendezvous. + +The night was pleasant, though very dark, and after losing their way +once or twice, they finally reached the chapel. There they found the +equerry with the horses, but Chémerault, who was to be their guide, and +several other gentlemen of the King's household, had not made their +appearance. They waited for them as long as they dared, but finally +Souvré persuaded the King to mount, and trust to God and fortune for +safety. + +They set out, therefore, but their difficulties had only just begun. In +the first place, not one of them knew the way, being all absolute +strangers in Poland; and they did not even understand the dialect of the +country, so that they could inquire. The night was dark, and the roads +were horrible, though that did not matter so much, as they could not +keep in them, but continually found themselves wandering away and +floundering in deep morasses, blundering about in pine forests, and +getting entangled in brambles. + +So they went on, stumbling over stones, sinking into bogs, and wading +through brooks, till I think they must have wished themselves safe back +in their beds in Cracow. + +At length Souvré saw a faint light glimmering in the distance, and on +approaching it he found it came from the hut of a charcoal burner deep +in the forest. + +The poor charcoal burner was so terrified by the approach of the +horsemen that he darted up into his loft by a ladder on the outside, +which he drew up after him. The cavaliers shouted and knocked, and +knocked and shouted, but all in vain. Not an inch would the charcoal +burner stir; so at last they began to batter down the door. + +Finally Souvré managed to scramble up to the loft, where he found the +poor man crouching in a corner in a perfect agony of terror. He tried to +calm his fears by speaking gently, but the strange language only made +him more terrified. + +So there was nothing for it but to drag him down, and carry him off to +the King, which they accordingly did. Henry had learned a few words of +the peasants' dialect, so he soon re-assured the poor man, and made him +comprehend that they only wanted him for a guide--an office which he +readily took upon himself. + +He was swung up on a horse in front of one of the cavaliers, and guided +them safely to the town of Liszki. Soon after this they came up with +Chémerault and the others, who had missed the King in the darkness, and +had arrived before him. + +In the mean time you can readily imagine that there was a great uproar +in the palace at Cracow when the King's flight was discovered. The +Senate and the nobles were absolutely beside themselves with rage at +having been so outwitted. The French who had been left behind in +ignorance of their master's intended flight were deeply indignant with +the King for his treacherous betrayal of them. The mob howled and yelled +in the streets, and everybody scolded poor Alemanni. + +Karnkowski, the Grand Referendary of Poland, was dispatched in a coach +and six to bring back the King, accompanied by a troop of Tartar cavalry +armed with bows and arrows, and a howling mob, with sticks, stones, and +javelins, followed after. + +They came in sight of the fugitives at the town of Osweicin, where some +of the gentlemen had dismounted to rest and refresh themselves for an +hour. But when they caught sight of the Tartar troops they did not tarry +long, you may be sure, but put spurs to their horses, and fled as fast +as they could. + +Then there followed a royal chase, in which the King was the hunted +instead of the hunter--the King and his cavaliers urging their tired +horses to their utmost speed in front; following fast behind, +Karnkowski, in his coach and six, the wild troop of Tartar bowmen, and +the disorderly mob bringing up the rear. + +Henry and his gentlemen rode fast and well. They crossed the Vistula on +a bridge of planks, which the cavaliers destroyed just as their pursuers +came up; and as they rode on they left their Tartar enemies howling with +rage and gnashing their teeth, as they saw the river rolling between +them and the fugitives, and knew they must go six miles around in order +to come up with them. + +The danger was over now. They did not overtake Henry until after he had +passed the frontier town of Plesse, and they dared not capture him on +Austrian territory. + +Count Teuczin therefore approached the King, accompanied only by five +Tartars, and delivered his message from the Senate to entreat him to +return, and offering his own fealty to the King. Henry refused to +return, but he sent back fair words to the Senate, and they parted +amicably, Henry to pursue his journey to Vienna, where he arrived +without further adventures, the Count to return sadly to Cracow to +announce the escape of their King to the magnates of Poland. + +But in my opinion if they had had Henry to rule over them four years +instead of four months, far from grieving over his loss, they would have +considered themselves well rid of him; for lazy, selfish, cowardly, +false, and cruel as he was, they might have sought the wide world over +without finding a worse King than Henry III. of Valois. + + + + +THE NEW SCHOLAR. + +BY EMILY H. LELAND. + + +Elbert Collins had never been marked absent or tardy since his first +going to school in September, and it was his ambition to finish the +whole year without a "mark," partly because he really liked to be +prompt, and partly because he thought it would be so nice to see his +name in the paper at the end of the school year. + +December had come, and the short mornings were very lively ones in his +mother's little kitchen, because of so many things to be done before the +nine-o'clock bell. There was the wood-box to fill, the canary to feed, +and generally the cradle to rock, while the mother attended to such work +as could be done best while there was some one to look after the baby. + +On this particular morning, however, the mother had gone to Mrs. +Brown's, around the corner, for a cup of yeast, and had become so +interested in a recipe for chocolate cake, a pattern for a boy's +blouse, the pound party at the Methodist minister's, and some new ways +for trimming Christmas trees, that she entirely forgot the time of day. + +Meanwhile little Elbert, with his overshoes and scarf on, and cap in +hand, rocked the cradle, and kept his eyes on the clock. Five, ten, +minutes passed away. The long hand was crawling alarmingly near +last-bell time. He tied his scarf, pulled his cap over his ears, and +rocked harder than ever. Still no mother. Then he went to the door, +looked anxiously toward the corner, and sent out a lusty +shout--"Mamma-a-a, come ho-o-ome!" but no one responded except the baby. +"Oh dear! dear!" he exclaimed, as he rushed back to the cradle; and just +then his expectant ears heard the first slow cling-clang of the last +bell. It would ring for five minutes; the school-house was only three +streets away, and there was time enough yet, if he could only start. One +thing was certain--he would never leave his little baby sister. He +remembered a story of a poor baby who was almost burned to death because +her brother, who had promised to take care of her, left her, and ran out +on the street to play. + +He went to the door and shouted again. It was something like the case of +Casabianca. But when two mothers are talking about patterns and +Christmas trees, who ever knew them to notice every little outside +noise? Elbert's shout ended in a big sob. A man going to lose his entire +fortune couldn't feel worse than this little fellow did, with that +dreadful "tardy" mark hanging over his head. + +Then a happy thought flashed into his mind. Running to the cradle, he +caught up the baby, scattering pillows and blankets right and left, +bundled an old shawl over her, and snatching her half-filled milk +bottle, dashed out of the house, and ran off in the direction of that +clanging bell as fast as his stout young legs could carry him. The baby +was a light little mite, only two and a half months old, and Elbert was +nearly six years, and large for his age. + +He met two women whom he knew, and who commenced making weak remarks, +like, "Why, Elbert!" and "What on earth!" but he bounded past them, with +no answer but his panting breath, and reached the school-house in such +good time that the bell gave its last two clangs just as he handed over +his funny burden to his astonished teacher. + +"I couldn't leave her, and I _couldn't_ be late," he said, as soon as he +could get breath enough to speak. "And she'll go to sleep, and be real +good," he continued, as the teacher began to unwind the shawl. + +And then the whole room saw a surprised, half-smothered-looking little +baby, still in her night-gown, one bare foot sticking out, and her +little fists tightly clinched, as if defying anybody to send her home. + +The teacher was a good-natured young lady, and she laughed so that she +almost dropped the baby on the floor, and then the whole room laughed, +and finally Elbert joined in; for he was glad he had escaped the tardy +mark, and the baby certainly did look funny in school. + +Of course there could be no order. Nearly all the scholars had babies at +home, or were well acquainted with those of their neighbors; but they +acted as if they had never seen one before, and every movement of the +little pink hands and every turn of the small bald head made them scream +with laughter, until the principal of the school came into the room to +see what the disturbance was, and after trying to look severe for five +seconds, he laughed too. + +And while all this fun was going on, Elbert's mother was running wildly +through the four rooms of her little house, calling her boy's name, and +feeling sure that the children were either killed and thrown into the +cistern, or else carried off like Charley Ross, and lost forever. The +scattered pillows and upset rocking-chair, indeed, made the kitchen +appear as if there had been a struggle, and the wide-open door and the +gate creaking to and fro had a dreadful look to Elbert's mother. Just +then the women whom Elbert had met stopped at the gate, and said to the +mother, who was coming hurriedly out, "Is anything the matter, Mrs. +Collins?" + +"Oh, I don't know where my children are! I left them while I ran into +Mrs. Brown's a minute, and the kitchen's all upset, and I'm afraid--" + +"Why, we just now met Elbert with the baby, kiting along like the wind, +over there by Webster & Green's. Leastways we supposed it was the baby, +from the way he carried it. And he never--" + +"Merciful man! he's taken her to school!" + +About ten minutes later, a flustered little woman rapped at the door of +the First Primary Room, and inquired for a baby. It was handed to her, +along with an empty milk bottle, and wrapping them both in a red cloak +which she carried, she thanked the smiling teacher, and walked quickly +home. + +At first she had felt very angry toward Elbert; but when she looked at +the clock, and remembered his horror of being late, she softened toward +him considerably, and by the time she had got the baby home, and found +her none the worse for her little run away, she had her laugh also; and +being a fair-minded woman, she told Elbert when he came home to dinner +that it was very thoughtless in her to have staid so long at Mrs. +Brown's. And Elbert gave her a hug, and said he was "glad he didn't +_leave_ the baby, 'cause she might have been burned up, you know!" + + + + +[Begun in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 58, December 7.] + +MILDRED'S BARGAIN. + +A Story for Girls. + +BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE. + +CHAPTER VII. + + +How long she was unconscious, Milly never knew. She awoke to find +herself in a beautiful white bed, in a room she had never seen. All +signs of the storm seemed shut out; there was a bright fire on the +hearth; the room seemed full of pleasant shadows and flickering beams of +light. Milly was only half conscious that some one spoke to her, and +gave her something pleasant to drink. Then she drifted off again, with a +pleasant confusion of fancies in her mind. When she next awoke, it +seemed again to be evening, but she was conscious of a certain change in +her surroundings. A little table was drawn near her; half-used medicine +bottles were upon it; Deborah was sitting over by the fire, and Miss +Jenner was standing in the window. + +"Debby," she said, surprised to find her voice so weak; and then she +lifted up her hand, and saw it was very thin. + +"My blessed lamb!" cried the old woman, hastening to her side, followed +quickly by Alice. "So you're better!" + +Mildred found she had to keep still a long time before she could say any +more. She nearly fell asleep again. + +"Debby," she said presently, "is it long since I fainted? What time is +it?" + +"Oh, my lovey," said the old nurse, "you've lain in that blessed bed two +weeks. You've been very ill, but, thank the Lord, you're better." + +This was all Mildred knew for days. She had had a fever; and finding out +the condition of things at the cottage, Miss Jenner had taken Mrs. Lee's +affairs into her own hands. She had kept Milly, as a matter of course, +had sent a good servant to care for Mrs. Lee, filled the store closet +with every delicacy, and allowed Debby to watch and care for her +"child," as she always called Mildred. Sometimes, as she lay still in +her comfortable bed, Milly tried to recall the dreadful scene at Mr. +Hardman's; and one evening, when she was sitting up for the first time +before the fire, and after she had finished a dainty little supper; she +ventured to ask Miss Jenner a few questions. + +[Illustration: MILDRED CONFESSES ALL TO MISS JENNER.] + +"Miss Jenner," she said, softly, "do you know all about it?" + +"Yes," said Miss Jenner, smiling. + +"And are they going to take me to court?" + +"_No_," answered the elder lady, emphatically. + +"But why not?" Milly persisted. "They said I stole that money." + +"And _I_ said you _didn't_," retorted Miss Jenner. "You let it all out +in your fever, my dear. I think I understand it all." + +"And you know--" faltered Mildred. + +Miss Jenner smiled. + +"Just see if I don't know," she said. "One evening a precious old humbug +calling herself Widow Robbins came here to find you, and try and get out +of you what you owed her--you _did_ owe it, Milly--and my boy Roger was +standing behind one of the trees, and heard the conversation; so he knew +you were very badly off for twenty-two dollars, and as soon as he could +scrape it together, what does he do but send it to you in a private +note, saying you can pay it back to _him_ when you like." + +"Yes," said Mildred, eagerly, "I found that note one afternoon on my +return home; but _in it_ he bound me over not to speak of where I got +the money until he came back. I felt dreadfully about it; but as soon as +mother got well I intended telling her the whole story, and devising +some way of paying Roger right back; and I will yet, Miss Jenner." + +There was a moment's pause before Mildred said, "But how about the +store--the robbery?" + +"My dear," said Miss Jenner, "I am of the opinion that that was all +arranged between Tom Hardman and Mrs. Robbins. I've seen her, and she +admits she told him the whole story. He was angry because you seemed to +snub him; and you made him feel his vulgarity, and so he devised this +trick out of revenge. If there _was_ any robbery, _he_ was the thief!" + +"And have you seen him?" inquired Milly, tears of gratitude and +thankfulness pouring down her cheeks. + +"Yes," said Miss Jenner, "and he and his father say the thing 'may blow +over'; but that won't do for me. The first day you're well enough, you +must drive down there in my carriage, and have them tell you they +withdraw the accusation, and apologize for having made it. Now you must +not talk any more." And Miss Jenner kissed her young friend, and moved +away, taking up a book in a distant part of the room. + +Mildred never forgot the two weeks that followed. With Miss Jenner she +had long talks, in which she realized not only the folly of her +extravagance, but the actual sin of her running into debt. A great many +things which she had never thought of as serious now appeared to her in +the light of _principles_, without which, as Miss Jenner told her, she +could not live a perfect or even an upright life. When the day came on +which she was declared well enough to drive with Miss Jenner to Mr. +Hardman's, Mildred felt too humbled to rejoice in being received with +any honor. + +The girls looked at her, as she followed Miss Jenner into Mr. Hardman's +office, nudging each other, and casting half-envious glances toward +their former companion. Mary Hardman was nowhere to be seen, but Mr. Tom +was with his father, and received Miss Jenner and Mildred with a stiff +sort of pompousness. Miss Jenner had very little to say, and it was only +later that Milly fully recalled the scene--Mr. Hardman's apologies, and +Mr. Tom's surly assent. When they came back to the store, Milly paused +to say a few words here and there, and as she walked away, it was some +relief to hear a voice saying, + +"Well, I'm glad it's all right; I never _could_ believe it of Milly +Lee." + + * * * * * + +When I knew Mildred Lee she was a woman of nearly thirty, and at the +head of her own house; but the lesson of her girlhood had done her a +lasting service. No one ever had it to say of her that she bought or +used any article for which she could not at the _moment_ pay, and her +advice to young people was invaluable. When I knew her, her home was in +the Brick House. Mrs. Lee did not long survive the serious illness of +that winter, and Miss Jenner cared tenderly for the orphans her old +friend's widow left. + +Mildred speaks now with tears of gratitude of all the past, even of its +miseries; and the gray silk dress, worn but once, and still brown with +stains, is treasured as a memorial of the _bargain_ by which Mildred +purchased her high sense of honor. + +THE END. + + + + +FAITHLESS SALLY BROWN. + +AN OLD BALLAD. + + + Young Ben he was a nice young man, + A carpenter by trade; + And he fell in love with Sally Brown, + That was a lady's-maid. + +[Illustration] + + But as they fetched a walk one day, + They met a press-gang crew; + And Sally she did faint away, + Whilst Ben he was brought to. + + The boatswain swore with wicked words, + Enough to shock a saint, + That though she did seem in a fit, + 'Twas nothing but a feint. + + "Come, girl," said he, "hold up your head-- + He'll be as good as me; + For when your swain is in our boat + A boatswain he will be." + + So when they'd made their game of her, + And taken off her elf, + She roused, and found she only was + A-coming to herself. + + "And is he gone, and is he gone?" + She cried, and wept outright; + "Then I will to the water-side, + And see him out of sight." + +[Illustration] + + A waterman came up to her; + "Now, young woman," said he, + "If you weep on so, you will make + Eye water in the sea." + + "Alas! they've taken my beau, Ben, + To sail with old Benbow"; + And her woe began to run afresh, + As if she'd said, Gee woe! + + Says he, "They've only taken him + To the tender ship, you see." + "The tender ship," cried Sally Brown-- + "What a hardship that must be! + + "Oh! would I were a mermaid now, + For then I'd follow him; + But, oh! I'm not a fish woman, + And so I can not swim. + + "Alas! I was not born beneath + The Virgin and the Scales, + So I must curse my cruel stars, + And walk about in Wales." + + Now Ben had sailed to many a place + That's underneath the world; + But in two years the ship came home, + And all her sails were furled. + + But when he called on Sally Brown, + To see how she got on, + He found she'd got another Ben, + Whose Christian name was John. + +[Illustration] + + "O Sally Brown, O Sally Brown, + How could you serve me so? + I've met with many a breeze before. + But never such a blow!" + +[Illustration] + + Then reading on his 'bacco box, + He heaved a heavy sigh + And then began to eye his pipe, + And then to pipe his eye. + +[Illustration] + + And then he tried to sing "All's Well!" + But could not, though he tried; + His head was turned--and so he chewed + His pigtail till he died. + + His death, which happened in his berth, + At forty-odd befell; + They went and told the sexton, and + The sexton tolled the bell. + + THOMAS HOOD. + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX] + + + SIERRA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. + + I live 'way up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, five thousand feet + above the sea. The snow here is four feet deep. My brother and I + have lots of fun sliding down hill on snow-shoes. Our snow-shoes + are made out of strips of wood about six feet long and four inches + wide, with leather straps in the middle to put our toes in. The + shoes that grown people use are from eight to fourteen feet long. + + I am ten years old. My father takes HARPER'S WEEKLY, and we like + to look at the pictures. He subscribed for YOUNG PEOPLE for us at + the beginning of the second volume. + + MAY C. T. + + * * * * * + + DERBY, CONNECTICUT. + + I am twelve years old. I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much, and all the + scholars in my school like it. I get a copy every week because I am + a good girl, and I wish every little girl would do the same. + + E. L. M. + + * * * * * + + WEST PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. + + We have taken HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE ever since it was published, + and we think it grows better all the time. I enjoyed reading the + letter from one of the party who visited Harper's Building, and I + hope some time to see it all myself. I guess, if I am a girl, I + should not be afraid, and "run away" from any of the machinery; + anyhow, not from the folding-machines, for some of them are made + right here in our own shop. + + After we have read our YOUNG PEOPLE all through, we send the + numbers to the Children's Hospital, so that the poor little ones + there may have the pleasure of reading such a nice little paper. + + ISABEL C. + + * * * * * + + BOZEMAN, MONTANA TERRITORY. + + I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it very much. I was so sorry when + the story of "Paul Grayson" was finished. + + I am boarding in town and going to school this winter, but my home + is about five miles away, in the country. I go out there every + Friday night. + + Yesterday I went out hunting. I have a double-barrelled shot-gun, + which pa gave me for helping pick up potatoes. I have a horse and + a saddle and bridle of my own, and in the summer I have to ride + lots. Sometimes I ride thirty miles at a time. + + I get up the cows, and take them out every day. In the summer we + have school within half a mile of our house. + + BERTIE R. + + * * * * * + + NEWPORT, KENTUCKY. + + This is the first letter I ever wrote to the Post-office Box. Now I + thought I would tell about the freezing of the Ohio River. Just + below here it is frozen solid, and crowds of people skate on it + every day. It is not frozen in front of Newport, because a steam + ferry runs between here and Cincinnati, and the boats keep the ice + broken. They do not allow it to get thick enough to hold people, + because if it was, everybody would walk over without having to pay + the ferry. + + The Licking River, a very small tributary of the Ohio, is frozen + over too, and I went skating on it yesterday. + + HENRY R. + + * * * * * + + ATLANTA, GEORGIA. + + We want to know who "Jimmy Brown" is. When papa read "Our Baby," + mamma, my aunts, uncles, and cousins laughed until the tears ran + down their cheeks. + + I made me some arrows with pins stuck in them. + + The Christmas number of YOUNG PEOPLE was the best of all. + + STEWART H. + + * * * * * + + DETROIT, MICHIGAN. + + I am a little boy eight years old. I commenced to take YOUNG PEOPLE + last November, and I like it very much. I enjoy reading the little + letters in the Post-office Box, and I like all of the stories. I + think "Toby Tyler" is splendid. + + I hope all the little folks who read YOUNG PEOPLE had a Merry + Christmas and a Happy New Year. + + FRED R. + + * * * * * + + BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. + + I was nine years old on the 7th of January. Papa has taken YOUNG + PEOPLE for me ever since it began. He sent for a cover, and is + having the first volume bound. I like it very much indeed. + + I have had lots of sport coasting, and I will be very sorry when + the snow is gone. + + CRAIG C. + + * * * * * + + EAST RUPERT, VERMONT. + + My home is in Factory Point, but I am up to my grandpa's now. He + has got a big farm. He has fourteen cows and two calves. My papa is + a doctor, and I have lots of rides with him. I am nine years old. + + CHARLEY C. + + * * * * * + + LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. + + I thought I would write to the Post-office about the big spring in + Indiana. It is called Harrison Spring, because it was owned by + General Harrison when he was Governor of the Northwestern + Territory. It looks like a very large pond, and is fifty-five feet + deep in the centre. There are two streams flowing from it, which + form an island, as they unite and form one stream at a little + distance from the spring. About a mile farther on, this stream runs + a saw-mill and a flour-mill. This spring is near the great + Wyandotte Cave. + + GILBERT C. S. + + * * * * * + + I have increased my collection of stamps from seventy-five to + fifteen hundred by exchange. I think this is the grandest of all + the departments of YOUNG PEOPLE. I would now like to exchange + twenty-five foreign stamps for five birds' eggs. Correspondents + will please label the eggs. + + ROBERT H. DAVIDSON, + Care of the Postmaster, + Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tenn. + + * * * * * + + I would like to exchange Texas postmarks for minerals or postmarks. + Or I will exchange an ounce of the soil of Texas for that of any + other State. + + H. C. YANCEY, + P. O. Box 224, Houston, Texas. + + * * * * * + + I wish to inform those correspondents who desire to exchange + minerals, shells, and curiosities with me, that I have changed my + residence. My new address is, + + CHARLES LEADBETTER, + 305 Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + I am a girl fourteen years old, but I am lame, and can not go out. + I have a few crochet lace patterns which I would like to exchange + for others. I would also like to exchange patterns of patchwork. If + any little girl would like to know how to crochet a pair of doll's + drawers, a jacket, or a petticoat, and will send me her address and + a postage stamp, I will gladly answer her. + + ANNIE SLACK, + 170 Fourteenth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + I have a list of every Indian tribe in the United States which I + will give a copy of in exchange for Indian relics, foreign stamps, + or postal cards. + + JOHN E. WILLIAMS, + 4 Harrison Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + I have some genuine Indian bows and arrows, some fine silver and + copper specimens, and a great number of Lake Superior agates, which + I should like to exchange for shells and ocean curiosities. + + HORACE H. MITCHELL, Duluth, Minn. + + * * * * * + +The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents: + + A fifty-cent and a twenty-five cent stamp, for two Cape of Good + Hope stamps. + + WILLIAM R. CARMER, + Mount Vernon, Westchester County, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + Fine samples of gold ore, showing the stages of concentration or + separation of quartz from the precious metal, for rare postage + stamps. In answering, correspondents will please specify stamps. + + DWIGHT MARFIELD, + Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks. + + MARY B. REED, + Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + A piece of the first Atlantic cable for an American copper cent of + 1799, or the half-cent of 1836, 1843, or 1852; or one Spanish and + one English coin and two French coins for the American twenty-cent + piece of 1877 or 1878. + + WILLIE B. SHOBER, + Cumberland, Md. + + * * * * * + + Lead or iron ore, and specimens of different varieties of quartz, + for foreign postage stamps, skulls of small animals, ocean + curiosities, petrifactions, and minerals of all kinds; or a piece + of silver ore for a collection of the different varieties of stamps + now in use in Canada. + + GEORGE C. BAKER, + Comstocks, Washington County, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps for stones from the different States. + + ARTHUR D. PRINCE, + Lowell, Mass. + +We do not consider the above address sufficient. Correspondents who +reside in large cities should always give their street and number, or +the number of their post-office box. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks and stamps for stamps. + + WILLIE H. HASKIN, + Fort Preble, Portland, Maine. + + * * * * * + + Rare postmarks for any variety of South American postage stamps or + United States department stamps. + + FRANK SWETT, + 1419 Taylor Street, San Francisco, California. + + * * * * * + + Stamps and postmarks in use in 1852, also some of 1869, for foreign + postage stamps or curiosities of any kind. + + SADIE HAWLEY, + Fair Haven, Rutland County, Vt. + + * * * * * + + Texas flints, pretty stones, snail shells, postmarks, stamps, + specimens of different kinds of wood, petrified wood, cotton as it + comes from the field, cotton seeds, or seeds of the "Indian plume," + for foreign postage stamps, or good specimens of minerals and ores + of all kinds. + + SAMMIE RISIEN, + Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Soil and sand from Ohio for soil and sand from any other State or + Canada; or an Indian arrow-head two and a half inches long, + together with a specimen of Ohio soil, for twenty-five foreign + postage stamps. + + EMMER EDWARDS, + Washington C. H., Fayette County, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps for United States Navy or Justice stamps. + + WALLACE GREEN, + Hackensack, Bergen County, N. J. + + * * * * * + + Soil from Missouri or Texas for soil from any other State; or a + stone from Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, or Georgia for one from any + other State. + + HARVEY CLARK, + Lock Box 26, Butler, Bates County, Missouri. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps and postmarks for winter skins of wild animals, or + for stuffed birds. + + JOHN LAWRENCE, + 40 Washington Square, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Birds' eggs. + + GEORGE A. POST, + Florence House, corner of Fourth Avenue and + Eighteenth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Minerals, fish eyes from China, or West India beans, for minerals + or any kind of curiosities. + + CARL R. EABY, + 22 North Shippen Street, Lancaster, Penn. + + * * * * * + + A carved shell, some seeds from the Sandwich Islands, or stones + from Lake Michigan, for any foreign postage stamps except English + and German. Chinese stamps especially desired. + + WILLIAM C. MCCONNELL, + 262 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks and revenue stamps. + + WILLIS ROSE, + 939 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + Stones from New Jersey for stones from any other State or Territory + except Colorado and Wyoming. + + JOHN W. ROSENBAUM, + 194-1/2 Morgan Street, Jersey City, N. J. + + * * * * * + + Two different War Department stamps and thirty postmarks for + sea-weed, or the same, together with some moss and pretty shells, + for a piece of stalagmite. + + FLORIE DICKSON, Brenford, Kent County, Del. + + * * * * * + +J. W.--The earliest calendars, as the Jewish, the Egyptian, and the +Greek, did not begin the year where we do now; and the Jewish year, +which opened on the 25th of March, continued to have a legal position in +many Christian countries until a comparatively recent period. In +England, it was not until 1752 that the 1st of January became the initial +day of the legal, as it had long been of the popular, year. Several +other countries made this change earlier than England--France in 1564, +Scotland in 1600, Holland and Russia in 1700. + +The Roman calendar, which made January the first month of the year, is +credited to the second King of Rome, Numa Pompilius, more than six +hundred years B.C. He added two months to the ten into which the year +had been previously divided, and called the first one Januarius, in +honor of Janus, the deity supposed to preside over doors. + +Our Saxon ancestors originally called this the Wolf-month +(_Wolf-monat_), because wolves were more than usually ravenous and +daring in that season of the year. + + * * * * * + +A. T. G.--Snow crystals were first observed by the arctic explorer +Scoresby, and for a time they were supposed to be peculiar to the polar +regions. It was found, however, that these crystals were formed wherever +snow falls. An interesting account of these beautiful formations, with +engravings of many of them, was given in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 15. + + * * * * * + +F. T. B.--When metal pins were invented and brought into use, about the +beginning of the sixteenth century, they were a very acceptable +New-Year's gift to ladies, and money given for the purchase of them was +called "pin-money"--an expression which has come to mean the money set +apart for a wife's private expenses. + + * * * * * + +INQUISITIVE JIM.--The best account of Petra, the wonderful rock-hewn +city of Arabia, is to be found in Stephens's book of travels called +_Egypt, Petra, and the Holy Land_. The present name of the little valley +where it was situated is Wady Musa. The city, shut in by high cliffs, +occupied an area of about half a mile square. The valley is watered by a +stream, and the principal entrance is through a deep ravine, with +rugged cliffs 300 feet high on each side. In ancient times Petra was a +very strong city. It is mentioned in the Bible under the name of Selah, +and received its present name, which signifies rock, from the Greeks, +about 300 B.C. It was finally destroyed, by whom is not known, and was +not heard of after the sixth century A.D. until it was discovered in +1812 by the traveller Burckhardt. The ruins, consisting of tombs, a +theatre, temple, etc., are very interesting and picturesque. + + * * * * * + +W. H. J.--If your puzzles are good, and suitable for our columns, they +will be accepted. We can not judge of the merits of the enigma you have +already sent, as you neglected to inclose the answer. The _nom de plume_ +you have chosen is not good, but you can easily invent a better one. + + * * * * * + +LILLIE.--The introductory paragraph to the Post-office Box of No. 45 +explains why your request for exchange is not printed. + + * * * * * + +O. H. BRUCE.--1. The United States government began the coinage of +one-cent pieces in 1793. 2. In 1815, none were coined. 3. The last +coinage of large one-cent pieces was in 1857. 4. The coinage of two-cent +pieces began in 1864, and the last issue was in 1872. 5. The coinage of +the nickel five-cent pieces began in 1865. 6. In 1864, both copper and +nickel cents were coined. This double coinage did not happen in any +other year. + + * * * * * + +D. L. S.--On page 398 of your bound volume of YOUNG PEOPLE is a story +entitled "Camping Out," which will give you the information you require. + + * * * * * + +JOHNNIE.--White elephants are not a distinct species, but are simply +albinos, which are found among animals, birds, and insects, as well as +among members of the human family. In India the white elephant is +considered a sacred animal, and is treated with the greatest reverence. +When specimens are found in the woods and jungles, they are captured +with tender care, and their possession is eagerly sought for by the +sovereigns of the small kingdoms. White elephants have been the cause of +many wars, as their possession is supposed to bestow greater benefits on +their royal owners than either chests of gold or extended territory. One +of the proudest titles of the King of Ava is "Lord of the White +Elephant," and the King of Siam at Bangkok also counts his white +elephants among his most precious possessions, as, according to Burmese +superstition, they insure prosperity and good fortune to the nation. The +death of one of these creatures is regarded as a national calamity, its +funeral is conducted with great solemnity, and the entire people mourn +as for the loss of a dear relative. These elephants are kept under +richly embroidered canopies, are fed with the most delicious fruits, and +members of the nobility seek for the honor of being custodian to the +royal beast. When the elephant is taken to bathe in the river, it goes +escorted by a band of music, and is followed by adoring crowds. + +This singular reverence for an albino elephant has existed in Burmah for +centuries. An English traveller who visited that country three hundred +years ago describes the same treatment of this beast which may be seen +at the present time. + +Even the hairs of this creature are supposed to insure good fortune. In +1855, a foreign ambassador delivered some presents to the King of Siam, +who ordered many presents to be given in return. On the conclusion of +the ceremony, the King himself, with much solemnity, placed in the hands +of the ambassador a small golden box, locked with a golden key, which he +said was far more precious than all the other presents. The box, when +opened, was found to contain a few hairs of a white elephant! + +And, after all, this elephant is not white, but of a dull yellow color. +It has white or reddish eyes, and is a very ugly-looking beast. No +greater proof could be found of the moral darkness and ignorance of the +natives of certain portions of India than their superstitious veneration +for this animal. + + * * * * * + +F. O.--Read the paragraph appended to a letter from Ida Belle D. in the +Post-office Box of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 51. + + * * * * * + +HALLIE C. W.--The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by a Spanish +navigator about the middle of the sixteenth century, but they remained +comparatively unknown until visited by Captain Cook in 1778, who gave +them the name of Sandwich, in honor of Lord Sandwich, an English +statesman who conducted the naval affairs of England during our +Revolutionary war. On St. Valentine's Day, 1779, Captain Cook was killed +at Hawaii, the largest island of the group, in a quarrel with the +natives. Mauna Loa, the volcano on the island of Hawaii, which has +recently been in a state of eruption, is said to have the largest +burning crater in the world. + + * * * * * + +EDMUND H. B.--There is no especial time for the printing of "Wiggles." + + * * * * * + +MATTIE H.--The story "Who was Paul Grayson?" was concluded in HARPER'S +YOUNG PEOPLE No. 57. + + * * * * * + +TILLIE DAVIS.--Send your full address, and we will print your request +for exchange. + + * * * * * + +RIDLEY MCL.--Your puzzle is very good for the work of a "little +eight-year-old boy," but we can not print it, as the same solution has +already appeared in an earlier number of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + * * * * * + +Favors are acknowledged from Ruby W., C. H. B., M. Stiefel, Frank R., +Joseph W. Hawkins, Marshall R. Grimes, Gay Wood, John V. Gould, Gracie +K., R. M. Sites, Mamie K. Pope, Anna M. Roberts, Elsie E. T., Frank +Davis, Mae King, Mary Olive L. + + * * * * * + +Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Harvey Ridgway, "Geo. +Graphy," Grace A. McElroy, Percy Lincoln McDermott, A. G. O. M., +"Nightingale," Alfred A. True, Craig Coburn, C. F. Bishop, Cal I. Forny, +Carrie and George Hall, M. S. Brigham. + + * * * * * + +PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. + +No. 1. + +ENIGMA. + + First in box, not in chest. + Second in hole, not in nest. + Third in meat, not in bones. + Fourth in rubble, not in stones. + Fifth in measure, not in mile. + Sixth in fashion, not in style. + Seventh in river, not in sound. + Eighth in fly, not in bound. + Ninth in mallet, not in saw. + The whole an article used in war. + + D. L. S. + + * * * * * + +No. 2. + +NUMERICAL CHARADES. + + 1. I am a familiar adage composed of 18 letters. + My 5, 12, 1, 18 is to separate. + My 15, 7, 3, 16 is to propose. + My 5, 2, 9, 10, 13, 4 is to describe. + My 17, 8, 6, 4 is a character in music. + My 11, 14, 15 is a boy's name. + + MARK MARCY. + + 2. I am a shrub composed of 6 letters. + My 4, 5, 3, 1 is a healthy drink. + My 3, 5, 4, 6 is a South American city. + My 4, 2, 5, 3 is armor. + + LIONEL. + + 3. I am composed of 9 letters, and am very pleasant in winter. + My 6, 2, 5 is part of the face. + My 1, 9, 7, 3 is an emotion. + My 6, 7, 8, 4 is used for trimming. + + MARY. + + * * * * * + +No. 3. + +HIDDEN BIRDS. + + 1. Isaac ran every step of the way. + 2. How Lillie has grown! + 3. See that Kit eats his dinner. + 4. Do you call him a hero? Not by any means. + + MABEL. + + 5. O, Matthew, renounce the company of those bad boys. + 6. We were playing hide-and-seek, and I caught Rob in the swing near + the tree. + 7. Let us run and pick up the pears now, Birdie. + 8. I saw your lunch pail in Nettie's closet. + + BESSIE. + + * * * * * + +ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 62. + +No. 1. + + F I N A L + I B I S + N I P + A S + L + +No. 2. + +1. Mouse-ear. 2. Porcupine. 3. Portland. + +No. 3. + + C O L O R + X E B E C + G I B E S + T U R I N + T E N O N + +No. 4. + + C H A M P L A I N + C A R A C A S + N A T A L + T A Y + G + D O N + G E N O A + B O L I V I A + G U A Y A Q U I L + + * * * * * + +WIGGLES. + +The following are the names of those who sent in answers to Wiggle No. +16: + +Natalie Newell, Helen Edwards, I. La Rue, R. I. Brasher, Charlie +Conklin, Horace Dodge, Joseph Welsh, Edwin M. Cox, Mark Manley, F. +Place, M. P. Rich, Shelton A. Hibbs, Ellie Earle, Mansur Beard, G. +Darling, Jack Evert, Jim Evert, Tom Evert, Will Evert, Bobbie Hornfager, +C. H. L., N. Adda T., Toby, Crank, Dumper, G. H. A., Racy B. Sweet, +G. E. P., Newton I., M. Siegert. Annie A. Siegert, A. Utz, Worcester +Wiggle Club, Santa Claus, Robinson Crusoe, Robert E. Walsh, Frank +Zabriske, Millie Stephenson, Burton Harwood, Fanny Reed, Dayton Reed, +J. O. O., J. P. W., S. G. Hopkins, M. Goller, Alice Brown, H. M. Eaton, +Carrie Harding, E. A. H., Carrie Peddle, Charles L. Glessner, W. Doerr, +Thomas Buford, Frank J. Jones, A. R. B. H., N. P. Grensel, M. F. K., +Randolph Bolles, J. Flaherty, T. Flaherty, Willie A. Scott, Fred +Dierking, Louise Brown, Mary Dancy, Isobel L. Jacobs, Robbie H. +Bradbury, G. H. Ralston, Lawrence Jones, Carrie E. Weightman, F. S. G., +Willie Harris, J. M. Ingersoll, W. Harman, Louise Fowler, Scilla Fowler, +Helen S. Woodworth, Elsie E. Trautman, Lynn Trautman, Amelie Ferrand, +Harry B. Brazier, Stella Pratt, George H., Robert A. Magill, Nellie R. +Field, Paddy Miles, Clara S. A., Willie R. Perkins, Henry Welsh, Harry +Eichbaum, Albert Evans, Percy L. McDermott, C. C. Gardner, Rosa +Freyensee, L. G. Duffy, Meline Rosenthal, J. Frees, W. F. Reed, F. L. +Kittle, Walter Eichbaum, Tommy Booth, Charlie S. Bryant, Anna Jones, +Grace T. Lyman, Nellie Brees, Walter Mandell, Bronte Smith, Bertie +Seymour, Willie Seymour, Vannoy M. Wallace, Fanny M. Young, J. H. Young, +S. M. Young, Lou Bell, J. W. Long, J. W. Kittrell, Bob Ewing, Otto D., +Harry O. Boone, Harry Kenderdine, Grace Lansingh, Addie M. Taylor, Roy +Demster, Percy Matthews, Harry Lander, Annie Reinhardt, Frank Lander, +Ahan Hyde, Sinclair G. Wills, Bessie H. Moore, Emma F. Cassidy, Pollie +Burke, "Lone Star" (R. H. Davidson), Louis Burtnett, Frank Edinger, +Nellie Hyde, Hallie Hyde, Daisy Hyde, Katie B. Barr, Mollie Edwards, +Eddie D. Knowles, G. W. Bird, Wendell M. Frank, Bertram Frank, Willie +Dorrance, Alfred P., Frank Hoover, S. H. S., J. S., George Shriver, +Grace E. Stevens, Pearlie Hare, Little Pet Hare, Little Mary Hare, +Little Johnnie Campbell, Edwin C. Hutman, Robert G. Bidwell, Edith B., +J. F. H., B. M. Allison, H. M. P., Fred Dale, Leila King, Georgie +Clementson, Percy A. Robbins, Eddie Booth, Norrie M. E., Harry Harper, +Frank Ostrander, R. D. White, H. Sidway, F. Sidway, Gardner Howland, +John A. Tompkins, Emma R. Bullock, Theresa A. Morro, B. L. Worden, Lydia +M. Bennett, L. L. G., Cobweb, Du Puy, Waddy Thompson, D. W. G., John R. +Glen, Jessie Glen, Kirk Romaine, E. D. Kellogg, Frank Crabbs, Thomas M. +Armstrong, Henry C. Deknatels, Clarence Edsall, Fred R. Fisk, W. L. +Green, Melville Wilson, A. C. Chapin, W. F., C. J. Breek, Jun., A. C. +Pearsons, Albert J. Sullivan, Jacob Burr, Joe, Ed Smith, Joe +Fitzsimmons, J. F. S., Anna Gallett, E. J. B., M. J. Caldwell, H. F., +J. A. Fritz, Grace Hamilton, H. W. Smith, Donna A. Smith, Harry C. +Sloan, Willie Reynolds, Charles D. Jones, Dimple McCrea, R. H. K., John +Carnahan, James W. Grubb, H. Adams, Little Jennie Simpson, Chester +Marslich, Howard, N. B. B., Mary C. Green, B. L. Worden, Harry Tompkins, +Jameson L. Fumey, Mattie L. Day, Jennie Janes, Wilfred H. Warner, Ben +W. G., Mary E. Heartwell, Teddy Smith, Charles H. Tucker, T. Bert. John, +Vinnie John, Sue John, Edmund H. Blunt, Nelson C. Metcalf, H. T. +Gottsleben, L. G. Baker, Genevieve, Carl Mueller, M. D. M., "Go Bang" +(J. R. Blake), Charles P. Gifford, Edmund Stirling, Bertie Headley, +Bertha S., O. Führlein, M. M., Willie Green, Charles Barker, George St. +Clair, Daisy Crampton, George Taylor, John N. Howe, C. E. S. S., +"Daisy," S. J. G., Carry Owen, Bertie W. Gifford, Bessie H. Moore, +Marion P. Wiggin, F. R. S., Mollie C. Wrenshall, B. E. H., George B. +Rogers, D. H. Rogers, W. H. Cantrell, Eddie G. Cantrell, Wamie Forse, +Bevy Pettit, Woodvill Wrenshall, Howard Rathbone, G. W. D., Arty Taylor, +Joralemon, G. V. E., L. A. Osborne, L. B. Parsons, Grace and Jennie, +Millie Olmstead, Lucy and Fred. + + + + +A NEW SERIAL. + + +In No. 66 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, issued February 1, will be begun a +new Serial Story, entitled + + "PHIL'S FAIRIES," + +by MRS. W. J. HAYS, author of "The Princess Idleways," etc. + + + + +NOTICE. + + +HARPER & BROTHERS _beg leave to state, in answer to numerous inquiries, +that the Bound Volume of_ HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE _for 1880 is entirely +out of stock, and will not be reprinted at present_. + + + + +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. + + HARPER & BROTHERS, + Franklin Square, N. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Young People, January 25, 1881 + An Illustrated Monthly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: January 19, 2014 [EBook #44712] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JAN 25, 1881 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie R. McGuire + + + + + +</pre> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span></p> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#TOBY_TYLER">TOBY TYLER;</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_LITTLE_ARAB_GIRLS_MISSION">A LITTLE ARAB GIRL'S MISSION.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#LUCKY_TOMS_SHADOW_OR_THE_SEA-GULLS_WARNING">LUCKY TOM'S SHADOW; OR, THE SEA-GULLS' WARNING.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#HOW_IT_HAPPENED_TO_SNOW">HOW IT HAPPENED TO SNOW.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_ADVENTURES_OF_A_RUNAWAY_KING">THE ADVENTURES OF A RUNAWAY KING.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_NEW_SCHOLAR">THE NEW SCHOLAR.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#MILDREDS_BARGAIN">MILDRED'S BARGAIN.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#FAITHLESS_SALLY_BROWN">FAITHLESS SALLY BROWN.</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"><a href="#OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX">OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;"> +<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="383" 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.—<span class="smcap">No</span>. 65.</td><td align="center"><span class="smcap">Published by</span> HARPER & 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, January 25, 1881.</td><td align="center">Copyright, 1881, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>.</td><td align="right">$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 594px;"><a name="TOBY_TYLER" id="TOBY_TYLER"></a> +<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="594" height="600" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">THE BREAKDOWN, AND ESCAPE OF THE MONKEYS.</span> +</div> + +<h4>[Begun in No. 58 of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, December 7.]</h4> + +<h2>TOBY TYLER;</h2> + +<h3>OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.</h3> + +<h3>BY JAMES OTIS.</h3> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter VII</span>.</h3> + +<h3>AN ACCIDENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.</h3> + +<p>Toby's experience of the evening was very similar to that of the +afternoon, save that he was so fortunate as not to take any more bad +money in payment for his goods. Mr. Jacobs scolded and swore +alternately, and the boy really surprised him in the way of selling +goods, though he was very careful not to say anything about it, but made +Toby believe that he was doing only about half as much<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span> work as he ought +to do. Toby's private hoard of money was increased that evening by +presents, ninety cents, and he began to look upon himself as almost a +rich man.</p> + +<p>When the performance was nearly over, Mr. Jacobs called to him to help +in packing up; and by the time the last spectator had left the tent, the +worldly possessions of Messrs. Lord and Jacobs were ready for removal, +and Toby allowed to do as he had a mind to, so long as he was careful to +be on hand when old Ben was ready to start.</p> + +<p>Toby thought that he would have time to pay a visit to his friends the +skeleton and the fat woman, and to that end started toward the place +where their tent had been standing; but to his sorrow he found that it +was already being taken down, and he only had time to thank Mrs. Treat +and to press the fleshless hand of her shadowy husband as they entered +their wagon to drive away.</p> + +<p>He was disappointed, for he had hoped to be able to speak with his +new-made friends a few moments before the weary night's ride commenced; +but failing in that, he went hastily back to the monkeys' cage. Old Ben +was there getting things ready for a start; but the wooden sides of the +cage had not been put up, and Toby had no difficulty in calling the aged +monkey up to the bars. He held one of the fat woman's doughnuts in his +hand, and he said, as he passed it through to the animal:</p> + +<p>"I thought perhaps you might be hungry, Mr. Stubbs, and this is some of +what the skeleton's wife give me. I hain't got very much time to talk +with you now; but the first chance I can get away to-morrow, an' when +there hain't anybody 'round, I want to tell you something."</p> + +<p>The monkey had taken the doughnut in his hand-like paws, and was tearing +it to pieces, eating small portions of it very rapidly.</p> + +<p>"Don't hurry yourself," said Toby, warningly, "for Uncle Dan'l always +told me the worst thing a feller could do was to eat fast. If you want +any more, after we start, just put your hand through the little hole up +there near the seat, an' I'll give you all you want."</p> + +<p>From the look on his face, Toby confidently believed the monkey was +going to make some reply; but just then Ben shut up the sides, +separating Toby and Mr. Stubbs, and the order was given to start.</p> + +<p>Toby clambered up on to the high seat, Ben followed him, and in another +instant the team was moving along slowly down the dusty road, preceded +and followed by the many wagons with their tiny swinging lights.</p> + +<p>"Well," said Ben, when he had got his team well under way; and felt that +he could indulge in a little conversation, "how did you get along +to-day?"</p> + +<p>Toby related all of his movements, and gave the driver a faithful +account of all that had happened to him, concluding his story by saying, +"That was one of Mrs. Treat's doughnuts that I just gave to Mr. Stubbs."</p> + +<p>"To whom?" asked Ben, in surprise.</p> + +<p>"To Mr. Stubbs—the old fellow here in the cart, you know, that's been +so good to me."</p> + +<p>Toby heard a sort of gurgling sound, saw the driver's body sway back and +forth in a trembling way, and was just becoming thoroughly alarmed, when +he thought of the previous night, and understood that Ben was only +laughing in his own peculiar way.</p> + +<p>"How did you know his name was Stubbs?" asked Ben, after he had +recovered his breath.</p> + +<p>"Oh, I don't know that that is his real name," was the quick reply; "I +only call him that because he looks so much like a feller with that name +that I knew at home. He don't seem to mind because I call him Stubbs."</p> + +<p>Ben looked at Toby earnestly for a moment, acting all the time as if he +wanted to laugh again, but didn't dare to for fear he might burst a +blood-vessel, and then he said, as he patted him on the shoulder, "Well, +you are the queerest little fish that I ever saw in all my travels. You +seem to think that that monkey knows all you say to him."</p> + +<p>"I'm sure he does," said Toby, positively. "He don't say anything right +out to me, but he knows everything I tell him. Do you suppose he could +talk if he tried to?"</p> + +<p>"Look here, Mr. Toby Tyler," and Ben turned half around in his seat, and +looked Toby full in the face, as to give more emphasis to his words, +"are you heathen enough to think that that monkey could talk if he +wanted to?"</p> + +<p>"I know I hain't a heathen," said Toby, thoughtfully, "for if I had +been, some of the missionaries would have found me out a good while ago; +but I never saw anybody like this old Mr. Stubbs before, an' I thought +he could talk if he wanted to, just as the Living Skeleton does, or his +wife. Anyhow, Mr. Stubbs winks at me; an' how could he do that if he +didn't know what I've been sayin' to him?"</p> + +<p>"Look here, my son," said Ben, in a most fatherly fashion, "monkeys +hain't anything but beasts, an' they don't know how to talk any more +than they know what you say to 'em."</p> + +<p>"Didn't you ever hear any of them speak a word?"</p> + +<p>"Never. I've been in a circus, man an' boy, nigh on to forty years, an' +I never seen nothin' in a monkey more'n any other beast, except their +awful mischiefness."</p> + +<p>"Well," said Toby, still unconvinced, "I believe Mr. Stubbs knew what I +said to him, anyway."</p> + +<p>"Now don't be foolish, Toby," pleaded Ben. "You can't show me one thing +that a monkey ever did because you told him to."</p> + +<p>Just at that moment Toby felt some one pulling at the back of his coat, +and looking around, he saw it was a little brown hand, reaching through +the bars of the air-hole of the cage, that was tugging away at his coat.</p> + +<p>"There!" he said, triumphantly, to Ben. "Look there. I told Mr. Stubbs +if he wanted anything more to eat, to tell me, an' I would give it to +him. Now you can see for yourself that he's come for it," and Toby took +a doughnut from his pocket, and put it into the tiny hand, which was +immediately withdrawn. "Now what do you think of Mr. Stubbs knowing what +I say to him?"</p> + +<p>"They often stick their paws up through there," said Ben, in a +matter-of-fact tone. "I've had 'em pull my coat in the night till they +made me as nervous as ever any old woman was. You see, Toby, my boy, +monkeys is monkeys; an' you mustn't go to gettin' the idea that they're +anything else, for it's a mistake. You think this old monkey in here +knows what you say? Why, that's just the cuteness of the old fellow; he +watches you to see if he can't do just as you do, an' that's all there +is about it."</p> + +<p>Toby was more than half convinced that Ben was putting the matter in its +proper light, and he would have believed all that had been said if, just +at that moment, he had not seen that brown hand reaching through the +hole to clutch him again by the coat.</p> + +<p>The action seemed so natural, so like a hungry boy who gropes in the +dark pantry for something to eat, that it would have taken more +arguments than Ben had at his disposal to persuade Toby that his Mr. +Stubbs could not understand all that was said to him. Toby put another +doughnut in the outstretched hand, and then sat silently, as if in a +brown-study over some difficult problem.</p> + +<p>For some time the ride was made in silence. Ben was going through all +the motions of whistling without uttering a sound, a favorite amusement +of his, and Toby's thoughts were far away in the humble home he had +scorned, with Uncle Daniel, whose virtues had increased with every mile +of distance which had been put between them, and whose faults had +decreased in a corresponding ratio.</p> + +<p>Toby's thoughtfulness had made him sleepy, and his eyes were almost +closed in slumber, when he was startled by a crashing sound, was +conscious of a sense of being hurled from his seat by some great force, +and then he lay senseless by the side of the road, while the wagon +remained a perfect wreck, from out of which a small army of monkeys<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span> +were escaping. Ben's experienced ear had told him at the first crash +that his wagon was breaking down, and without having time to warn Toby +of his peril, he had leaped clear of the wreck, keeping his horses in +perfect control, thus averting any more trouble. It was the breaking of +one of the axles which Toby had heard just before he was thrown from his +seat, and when the body of the wagon had come down upon the hard road, +the entire structure had been wrecked.</p> + +<p>The monkeys, thus suddenly released from their confinement, had +scampered off in every direction, and, by a singular chance, Toby's aged +friend started for the woods in such a direction as to bring him +directly upon the boy's senseless body. As the monkey came up to Toby he +stopped, through the well-known curiosity of his kind, and began to +examine the body carefully, prying into each pocket he could reach, and +trying to open the half-closed eyelids in order to peep in under them.</p> + +<p>Fortunately for Toby, he had fallen upon a mud-bank, and was only +stunned for the moment, having received no serious bruises, even though +he had been thrown such a distance. The attentions bestowed upon him by +the monkey served the purpose of bringing him to his senses; and after +he had looked around him in the gray light of the coming morning, it +would have taken far more of a philosopher than ever old Ben was to have +persuaded the boy that monkeys did not possess reasoning faculties.</p> + +<p>The monkey was picking at his ears, nose, and mouth, as monkeys always +do when they get an opportunity, and the expression of his face was as +grave as possible. Toby firmly believed that the monkey's face showed +sorrow at his fall, and he believed that the attentions which were being +bestowed upon him were for the purpose of learning whether he had been +injured or not.</p> + +<p>"Don't worry, Mr. Stubbs," said Toby, anxious to reassure his friend, as +he sat upright and looked about him. "I didn't get hurt any, but I would +like to know how I got 'way over here."</p> + +<p>It really seemed as if the monkey was pleased to know that his little +friend was not hurt, for he seated himself on his haunches, and his face +expressed the liveliest pleasure that Toby was well again—or at least +that was the way the boy interpreted the look.</p> + +<p>By this time the news of the accident had been shouted ahead from one +team to the other, and all hands were hurrying to the scene for the +purpose of rendering some aid. As Toby saw them coming, he also saw a +number of small forms, looking something like men, hurrying past him, +and for the first time he understood how it was that the aged monkey was +at liberty, and knew that those little dusky forms were the other +occupants of the cage escaping to the woods.</p> + +<p>"See there, Mr. Stubbs! see there!" he exclaimed, quickly, pointing +toward the fugitives; "they're all going off into the woods. What shall +we do?"</p> + +<p>The sight of the runaways seemed to excite the old monkey quite as much +as it had the boy. He jumped to his feet, chattered in the most excited +way, screamed two or three times as if he was calling them back, and +then started off in vigorous pursuit.</p> + +<p>"Now he's gone too," said Toby, disconsolately, believing the old fellow +had run away from him; "I didn't think Mr. Stubbs would treat me this +way."</p> + +<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="A_LITTLE_ARAB_GIRLS_MISSION" id="A_LITTLE_ARAB_GIRLS_MISSION">A LITTLE ARAB GIRL'S MISSION.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY F. E. FRYATT.</h3> + +<p>Many of the readers of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> will be both surprised and +sorry to learn that there are parents who are not only willing to sell +their baby girls for a few pennies, but when this can not be done, to +cast them out upon the highways to perish either by the wild beasts that +prowl about at night, or by the fiercely glaring sun that heats the sand +so that even a dog will not venture out at noonday for fear of burning +his paws.</p> + +<p>"Where do these cruel people live, and who are they?" I hear a bright +little girl ask.</p> + +<p>They are the Arabs who inhabit the deserts of Kabylia and the Sahara, in +and south of Algiers, the most northern country in Africa.</p> + +<p>"Ah, but the Arabs live in Arabia, don't they?" objects my young friend.</p> + +<p>Yes, they do; but centuries ago the Arabians, or Saracens—desert +dwellers, as they were then called, Sara meaning desert—sent out large +armies to conquer other nations. These Saracens swept victoriously +through Northern Africa up to the heart of Spain.</p> + +<p>Algiers is now a French province, but the greater part of its people are +descendants of its ancient inhabitants, called Moors, and their +conquerors, the Arabs, together with negroes from Soudan, French +colonists, and a sprinkling of Turks, Maltese, and Spaniards.</p> + +<p>Neither the Moors nor the Arabs think much of little girls. The +latter—especially the poor ones—are sorry when one is born; but when a +boy baby comes, they make him presents, and a bowl of "mughly"—a +compound of rice flavored with sugar and spices, and sprinkled with +delicious nuts—is given to each relative.</p> + +<p>A Moorish girl of even rich parents is considered well enough educated +if she can make preserves, and dye her finger-nails with henna leaves. +She is not treated as unkindly, however, as the little Arab damsels, who +are compelled when quite young to work very hard. They have to draw +water from the wells in heavy leathern buckets; to churn; to feed and +water the young camels and horses: in fact, they live more like slaves +than daughters of the family.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 346px;"> +<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="346" height="400" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">MARIA IMMANUEL.</span> +</div> + +<p>The subject of my sketch, little Maria Immanuel, is a young Arabian girl +twelve years of age, who, accompanied by a French Missionary Sister, or +nun, has been all through Europe, and is now travelling through this +country, on a curious but praiseworthy mission: she is trying to raise +money to buy and support little Arabian children who are sold or cast +out on the desert.</p> + +<p>Maria Immanuel was herself one of these unfortunates. When a mere baby, +not yet two years old, she was picked up on the highway by some good +women, and taken to their mission-house, where she has lived ever since.</p> + +<p>I dare say my readers would like to know just how she looks, so I will +describe her to the best of my ability.</p> + +<p>Imagine a dark-complexioned, plump young girl, with rather heavy but +pleasant features; fluffy, dark, silken hair floating around her head +and overshadowing her eyes like a little cloud; red lips and milky-white +teeth; and eyes that light up her whole face, so soft are they, yet +brilliant and full of mischievous fire.</p> + +<p>Immanuel—for so her friends call her—is very like many American girls +in disposition, being intensely lively, merry as a cricket, and a great +tease when in the society of children of her own age.</p> + +<p>She has two accomplishments—she speaks French fluently, and sings +sweetly, having a fine contralto voice.</p> + +<p>Immanuel dresses just as she did at the mission-house in the desert of +Kabylia, wearing an Arab cloak of white wool, called a "burnoose," with +a hood for stormy weather, over a white cashmere gown, which hangs in +folds to her ankles, and is made with a yoke at the neck, and full +flowing sleeves. A double row of scarlet and white beads; a girdle, or +sash, of scarlet, blue, and yellow silk, knotted at the waist, and +falling in long fringed ends in front; and a scarlet "fez," or cap, +ornamented with a band of embroidery and a golden tassel, complete her +gay and picturesque costume. Dark or solemn colors offend an Arab's eye, +for he regards them as omens of misfortune.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span></p> + +<p>There are two sorts of Arabs among whom the missionaries work—the +farmer Arabs, who live in mud villages, and the Bedouins, who dwell in +tents, and roam the deserts a little farther south, and keep large +flocks of sheep and camels.</p> + +<p>These shepherd Arabs despise the milder farmers, but condescend to visit +them, after harvest-time, to barter camels and goats for their barley +and other grains, for <i>they</i> never stoop to till the soil or do work of +any kind; their girls and women—at least such as they see fit to +rear—do all their necessary work, such as cooking, sewing tent and +saddle cloths, making mats, dyeing wool, and tending the animals, with +which they live almost in common, and which are often ranked above them.</p> + +<p>The shepherd Arabs live in tents, removing in winter to the farther +south, but the farmer Arabs live in mud houses, called "gourbis." The +"gourbis," like all native dwellings, are only one story high, on +account of earthquakes; they are made of branches of trees and stones, +cemented together by mud, a thick layer of which covers the roof. +Sometimes forty or more of these houses are united in a village, and +hedged in by tall cactus plants armed with sharp thorns.</p> + +<p>The animals live under the same roof with the family; so what with this +and the smoke, the smell of cookery, and the want of ventilation, you +may imagine the "gourbis" anything but a pleasant place to visit.</p> + +<p>The mission-houses, some of them in the neighborhood of these miserable +villages, and some farther south, are square wooden buildings, with a +court-yard in the middle, on which the windows and doors of all the +rooms open. There are small doors on the outside of the building, but +these are carefully guarded, on account of robbers and wild beasts, +either of which may make attacks at night.</p> + +<p>Now I must explain about the little Arab boys who are being educated and +taken care of by the Missionary Brothers.</p> + +<p>The Arabs, as I have said, love their boys very much indeed, but some +families are so wretchedly poor that they have to dispose of the boys as +well as the girls, when there are too many of them.</p> + +<p>The Brothers, when they pick them up or buy them, teach them to read and +write, and to till the ground, so that they may become farmers.</p> + +<p>The Missionary Sisters teach the girls to read and write, to do plain +sewing and house-work.</p> + +<p>The work of the missions does not stop when the children have grown to +be men and women; they are then allowed to visit each other socially +under proper supervision. If a young couple fall in love with each +other, and wish to marry, the consent of the Superior is asked, and +given; for she knows the youth has been well brought up, and is worthy +to have her young charge for a wife.</p> + +<p>In speaking of these weddings, which are quite festive occasions, little +Maria Immanuel recently said to a lady, in her lively French, which I +will translate: "I do love to have weddings going on, we have <i>such</i> a +good time. Oh, the music! it is fine; and then there is <i>such +feasting</i>!"</p> + +<p>No wonder she laid such stress on feasting, for the mission people live +only on the very plainest fare, never seeing butter, meat, or any of the +delicacies American children have every day.</p> + +<p>At weddings—and they generally manage to have them double, triple, or +quadruple weddings—I suppose they have fruit and honey and other fine +dishes for the great occasion.</p> + +<p>To each newly married couple a house, an inclosed acre of land, a horse, +an ass, and a pair of goats are given; also some farming implements; six +each of dishes and bowls, knives and wooden spoons; a bed; and the few +other necessaries for simple housekeeping.</p> + +<p>They now commence life as farmers, and, what is still better, as +Christian young people. Already two Christian Arab villages have sprung +up on the desert, while a third is being built.</p> + +<p>Are the young fathers and mothers sorry when a dear little girl baby +comes into the world? No, they are glad, and love it tenderly, as you +may tell by this little nursery song here translated. I wish I could +give you the wild, sweet music too. Listen—a young Arab mother sings:</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Come, Cameleer, as quick as you can,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And make us some soap from green Shenan,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To bathe our Lûlû dear;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">We'll wash her and dress her,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And then we'll caress her:</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">She'll sleep in her little screer."<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="LUCKY_TOMS_SHADOW_OR_THE_SEA-GULLS_WARNING" id="LUCKY_TOMS_SHADOW_OR_THE_SEA-GULLS_WARNING">LUCKY TOM'S SHADOW; OR, THE SEA-GULLS' WARNING.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY FRANK H. TAYLOR.</h3> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="400" height="282" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">A LIFE-SAVING STATION.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Be still, Meg, be still. Don't trouble me. Go and play. Young 'uns like +you are good for naught else;" and so saying, Meg's grandmother turned +fretfully toward the window of the cottage, and resumed her listless<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span> +watching of the sea-gulls across the inlet, as they fluttered, dipped, +and arose over the wavelets, picking their dinner from the shoals of +little fish the mackerel had chased inshore.</p> + +<p>"But I'm of some use, granny; you said so yesterday, when I fetched the +blueberries. An' I'll go fur some more if you like. I know where there's +lots of 'em—acres of 'em."</p> + +<p>"Do as you please, child, but don't tease your granny," replied the old +woman.</p> + +<p>There was little need to tell Maggie, or "Meg," as she was generally +called, to "do as she pleased," for in all of her short life of ten +years she had never done otherwise. She had roamed unmissed all the days +among the sand-hills of the beach, wading in the "mash" for lily pods, +or hunting in the scrub for birds' eggs. Such a place as school had +never been named to her. The alphabet was unknown to her, but she +understood the rough talk of the fishermen, and could mend a net or +'tend a line with the best man among them.</p> + +<p>Meg lived with her "granny" in a little unpainted hut made from ships' +planking, and set among a few low twisted pines, within a short distance +of a cove where Lucky Tom, her father, who was a pilot, kept his boats +and moored his sloop, when not sailing out on the blue sea watching for +ships to give him employment.</p> + +<p>Meg's mother had died while she was a baby; her "granny" was almost +always cross; so the child had grown up with but a single affection. It +was all for her father, and he returned it in a rough, good-natured way. +So these two were seldom apart when the pilot was ashore, and Meg came +to be known among the beach people as "Lucky Tom's Shadow."</p> + +<p>Now just why the pilot was called "Lucky Tom" does not appear: but it +was said among the folks on the coast that fish would nibble at his +hooks, and obligingly allow themselves to be caught by the dozen, when +nobody else could catch even a porgy.</p> + +<p>Near the cottage, Lucky Tom had raised the mast of a ship once wrecked +on the bar, and made a platform at the top, with steps leading to it; +and Meg was never so happy as when she sat high up in her "bird's nest," +as she called it, with her father, and listened to his surprising yarns +about foreign ports, while they scanned the horizon with a glass for +incoming ships.</p> + +<p>Meg tried hard to behave kindly toward her grandmother; but the old +woman never smiled, and seldom troubled herself about Meg's goings or +comings.</p> + +<p>"She's purty certain to git 'round at meal-times, an' that's often +enough," was about all she would say when Lucky Tom scolded about the +child's "bringin' up."</p> + +<p>Nearly twenty years before, Lucky Tom's father, Jack Bolden, had gone +off in his schooner, the <i>Petrel</i>, to catch cod, and from that day +neither the <i>Petrel</i> nor her crew were ever seen. After months had gone +by, poor Mrs. Bolden fell into a fever, and when she was able to move +about, she sat all day by the window, looking out upon the waves, and +the neighbors gazed at her sorrowfully, for they said she had lost her +reason; but in Meg's eyes, to whom she had always been the same, she was +a very wise and mysterious person, and the tales she repeated to the +little girl, woven from her deranged fancy, were full of strange +sea-monsters, talking fish, and birds that whispered secrets to those +who watched for long-absent friends. All these were listened to and +believed with the full confidence of childish innocence.</p> + +<p>Meg tied on her old and faded bonnet, picked up her basket, and walked +away with a light step to the blueberry pasture.</p> + +<p>She soon became so busy picking the clusters of round<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span> little fruit, as +they peeped from beneath the dark and glossy leaves, that she did not +see how dark the eastern sky had become, until a cool gust of wind +caught her sun-bonnet, and sent it half across the field. Then she +noticed that the sun was already hidden by the advancing clouds, and +away out across the black fretted sea a long line of foam revealed the +white-caps leaping in great haste over each other, just like a flock of +sheep, in their race to reach the sands.</p> + +<p>The only near refuge for poor Meg was the Life-saving Station—one of +those lonely buildings that the government has placed along the coast, +with boats and crews, whose duty keeps them on the watch all winter for +shipwrecks. It was midsummer now, and the station was locked up tight; +but Meg knew how to get the better of locks and bars. She reached the +building just in time to escape a wetting from the thick rain that now +shut out the sea and land alike, beating fiercely against the stout +structure, and running in many little rivulets down the sand, to be +swallowed up, as all water is at last, by the great ocean.</p> + +<p>At one corner the winds had blown away the sand, so Meg found room to +crawl with her basket beneath the floor, and a loose board she had long +ago discovered admitted her to the interior. What a gloomy, close place +in contrast with the wildness of the scene outside! Have you ever +visited a station of the Life-saving Service? No? Well, then, I'll try, +with the aid of the picture, to explain what it is like.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="500" height="349" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">INTERIOR OF THE LIFE-SAVING STATION.</span> +</div> + +<p>First, there is the life-boat, light but very strong, and shaped so it +will rise over the tops of the waves rather than go through them. This +one is handled by about six men; one, the captain, to steer, four men to +row, and one with a pike-staff and lines in the bow. You notice that the +wheels of the truck holding the boat are very wide; that allows them to +roll over the sand without sinking into it. Under the boat is a leathern +bucket, a coil of rope, and a grapnel or hook, and in front an ingenious +device, consisting of a board with a row of pegs about the edge, upon +which a line many hundreds of feet in length is placed, with the end +tied to a projectile in the queer-looking cannon above. This is intended +to be shot over the rigging of ships ashore, and used to haul out the +larger rope upon the cart to the left of the picture, and to which the +canvas bags hanging from the ceiling are fastened, to bring people from +the wreck. Back of the cart you see rockets and signal torches, with a +long tin trumpet, all neatly kept in a rack. There are lanterns too, and +against the partition a mortar and some balls, two axes, and many other +tools. With all of these and their uses Meg was well acquainted. +Sometimes she had seen the crew run with the boat down to the water, and +go through with their drill, when the Superintendent came there; and +once the men hauled it out in the night, everybody greatly excited, and +put out into the waves to pick up the crew of a sinking steamer; but a +schooner was there first, and they only brought back a woman and little +girl. How scared they did look, the poor things! and how thankful the +child was for the use of Meg's only spare frock!</p> + +<p>There seemed no prospect of the rain ceasing, and so Meg sat down in the +back room upon a bench; and as it was not in the nature of such an +active little girl to sit still long and keep awake, she very soon fell +asleep.</p> + +<p>When she started up from a dream full of strange sea-goblins, it was to +find that everything was dark. The rain had ceased, and Meg, after +rubbing her eyes, concluded to go home. When she lifted the board she +discovered, to her terror, that the rain had washed her burrow full of +sand, and she was a prisoner. The strong doors and windows resisted her +puny efforts, so she sat down upon a coil of rope to consider the +situation.</p> + +<p>Now most children would have cried; but Meg hadn't done such a thing +since she was teething. No, she only taxed her little head for some +means of escape. First, she must have a light. She well knew where the +matches were kept, and in a moment she had a lantern burning brightly. +Then it occurred to her to try the roof. It was a difficult matter to +lift the heavy trap leading to the little platform from which the men +usually watched during the winter days; but she soon stood out in the +bleak night, the salt spray driving against her face, and the gale +rushing by, as though it would tear her hold from the railing to which +she clung.</p> + +<p>White sea-gulls whirled about her head, attracted by the light, +screaming hoarse and discordant notes in her ears. They terrified her at +first, but she soon recalled what her "granny" had said, and felt sure +the birds were trying to tell her something, and that it must be about +her father, who was still out in the terrible storm, unable to find the +inlet.</p> + +<p>From far out on the sea the wind brought a moaning sound, as though some +unhappy creature called in vain for help. It came nearer and more +distinct from the northward, finally dying away in the distance upon the +other hand.</p> + +<p>Fierce lightning flashes broke from the retreating storm-clouds, and by +the weird electric glare Meg saw a wild figure, with arms upraised, +which seemed to come out of the surf, and speed along the sands. By the +same light she thought she saw the topmasts of a vessel on the sea.</p> + +<p>The gulls wheeled and screamed now more excitedly than ever. Meg was +nearly overcome with terror, but losing not a moment, she sprang down +the stairs, returning with an armful of torches. And now the lurid flare +of the life-saving signal burned up fiercely, the winds catching the +flame, and bearing thousands of dancing sparks away across the beach, +while the shape of the station and the heroic little girl upon the roof +stood out boldly, just in time for Lucky Tom to put his helm down, and +head his boat away from the fatal breakers he was nearing in the +darkness.</p> + +<p>And now suppose we let good-natured Lucky Tom tell the rest of the story +in his own style.</p> + +<p>"Well, sir, you see, the blow came up kind o' unexpected like, an' I +knowed we couldn't make port; but I didn't much care for that, as pilots +has to take all sorts o' weather, but we reckoned we could keep the +craft off an' on about the blowin' buoy; but, bless you! the buoy got +adrift, an' floated away down the beach. We heard it groanin' ahead of +us all the time, an' afore we knowed where we was, we got nigh into the +breakers. Just then I seen a twinkle on the beach, an' shortly a torch +showed us the station, with an angel o' mercy a-wavin' it from the roof; +an' it wa'n't a minnit too soon, nuther.</p> + +<p>"We kept away till daylight a-watchin' an' wonderin' at the torches +burnin' all the time from atop o' the station, and then we made the +inlet. Mebbe it'll seem queer to you, but none of us thought of Meg when +we saw the light; but the whole thing was plain enough when one of the +crew came runnin' to the house, after we'd been ashore a bit, an' +hollered:</p> + +<p>"'Why, Lucky Tom, the angel we saw was nobody but your own Shadow, +little Meg, an' she's there yit, wavin' a flag.' So we went over an' let +her out. The young'un told us all about hearin' the sound o' complainin' +on the sea, the black figure that ran along the beach, an' the warnin' +the birds give her. You see, that was a notion her granny put into her +head, the one about the birds. Speakin' of the old woman, there was +another queer thing that happened on the same night. We couldn't find +marm high nor low; but when Meg spoke of the wild spirit on the beach, +we knowed it must be her, and sure enough we found the poor old body +'way up by the point, 'most dead. She had an idee, you see, that when it +blowed hard the <i>Petrel</i> would come ashore, though I reckon the <i>Petrel</i> +has been at the bottom more'n twenty years<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span> now. We took her home an' +'tended her, but she didn't last long after that."</p> + +<p>The story of Meg's adventure came to the ears of a lady on the mainland, +and she soon afterward paid a visit to the little girl, who was now left +all alone when her father went away, and it was arranged that she should +live in the lady's house, and go to school. And now the school-master +says she promises to prove as bright as she is brave.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="HOW_IT_HAPPENED_TO_SNOW" id="HOW_IT_HAPPENED_TO_SNOW">HOW IT HAPPENED TO SNOW.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY I. M.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">What Jack Frost said to the trees, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">It never would do to tell;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">He whispered the magic words, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To oak and maple as well.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Some of them blushed bright red, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And some of them turned to yellow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">While Jack he laughed in his sleeve, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The good-for-nothing old fellow.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">What Jack Frost did to the leaves, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">I never would dare to say;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">They wrung their little brown hands, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">In a pitiful, helpless way.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The kind sun felt so sad, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To see the leaves in pain,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">That he hid his face for a week, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And wept great showers of rain.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But Jack Frost's cruel breath, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Grew colder day by day,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And chilled the leaves, until, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">They withered and dropped away.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Then the tall trees stood amazed, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Lamenting, when they found</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">That their green and rustling robes, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Lay faded on the ground.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The angels too were grieved, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">When the trees looked cold and bare,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">So they gathered the soft white clouds, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">That floated in upper air,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And tossed great armfuls down, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">In the stillness of the night,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And were glad to see how pure, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The world looked clothed in white.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">What the children said next day, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">I think you must surely know;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But please don't say that I told, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Just how it happened to snow;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">For that wicked old Jack Frost, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Would nip my nose in spite,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And pinch my poor ten toes, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The next cold winter's night.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 855px;"> +<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="855" height="500" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">A MOTHER'S DEVOTION.—<span class="smcap">From an Etching by de Mary</span>.</span> +</div> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="THE_ADVENTURES_OF_A_RUNAWAY_KING" id="THE_ADVENTURES_OF_A_RUNAWAY_KING">THE ADVENTURES OF A RUNAWAY KING.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY I. D. WILDER.</h3> + +<p>A king running away from his kingdom, with all his courtiers and people +in hot pursuit to catch him and bring him back! Did you ever hear of +anything more absurd?</p> + +<p>There was a reason for it too, or at least the King thought so. The +truth is, this unfortunate monarch was embarrassed by the possession of +two kingdoms at once, and it so happened that the kingdom where he was +was not the kingdom where he desired to be, so he made up his mind to +run away.</p> + +<p>Now I suppose, before I go any farther, I may as well let you into the +secret of his name and country, if you have not already guessed it. He +was Henry III. of France and Poland, son of Catherine de Medicis, one of +the wickedest Queens who ever ruled over any country, and brother of +Charles IX., King of France.</p> + +<p>Only a few months before his flight from Cracow he had been elected King +of Poland. He had been received with great magnificence by the Polish +nobles, and the festivities had lasted many days. After everything had +settled down into the usual quiet, Henry found life in Poland rather +dull; so when he received a letter from Queen Catherine announcing the +death of Charles IX., and saying that his presence in France was very +necessary to maintain his rights as his brother's heir, he was quite +ready to abandon his Polish kingdom, and start at once for Paris.</p> + +<p>But it was very far from being the intention of the Polish magnates to +let him off so easily. They naturally considered the well-being of their +kingdom as important—to them at least—as that of France could possibly +be. So they voted an address of condolence to the King on the death of +his brother, prayed him still to remain King of Poland, and entreated +him not to leave the kingdom without giving notice to the Senate, and +first appointing some one to act as Viceroy.</p> + +<p>Henry returned a courteous but rather vague reply, thanking the nobles +for their good wishes, but giving them little satisfaction as to his +intentions.</p> + +<p>In the mean time Henry's French attendants were urging upon him the +necessity of returning at once to France, lest he should lose the French +crown. His mother, Queen Catherine, sent messenger after messenger, +urging him to hasten, and his own inclinations were entirely in favor of +instant departure. So during the night a council of the French nobles +was held in Henry's apartments, and it was settled that they should +arrange matters for a secret departure. They must go secretly, if they +went at all, for the Polish Senate was determined to keep their King in +the country, and the people were equally determined not to let him go.</p> + +<p>Then the preparations began. In the first place, the French Ambassador, +as had been agreed upon, asked permission to return immediately to +France, as his mission had ended with the death of Charles IX. +Permission was granted, and he left Cracow at once. He took with him the +King's jewels and valuable papers, and made arrangements at all the +principal towns on his route for horses and provisions to be got ready +for illustrious members of his suite, who, as he said, were not able to +leave as soon as he did. Next the King sent off M. Chémerault (the +messenger who had brought him the news of Charles's death), on the +pretense of carrying letters to Queen Catherine, but really to wait at a +short distance from the capital until the King could join him. He was to +act as guide, and conduct Henry in safety across the border.</p> + +<p>The next step was rather unfortunate for the King. A train of ten mules +laden with coffers was observed to leave the city, and when it was found +that the baggage belonged to the Grand Master of the King's household, +the suspicions of the people were aroused, and they became wild with +excitement. It was in vain that Henry assured them that he had no +intention of leaving the kingdom. They did not believe him—and with +very good reason—and the tumult increased, until at last the Senate +ordered guards to be placed at all the entrances to the palace, and gave +instructions to arrest any one who should that night attempt to stir +out, not even excepting the King himself.</p> + +<p>After supper the King retired, and kept all his courtiers about him for +a long time, chatting merrily with them, and appearing so easy and +unconcerned that he fancied he must have entirely deceived the Poles, +and then he made a sign that he wanted to go to sleep. The Chamberlain, +Count Teuczin, drew the curtains of the King's bed, and a page put his +sword and a candle on a table close by—a ceremony which all understood +as a signal to leave the room, except the Chamberlain, whose duty it was +to stand at the foot of the bed until the King was asleep. It had been +agreed that the King and a few of his nobles should meet at a ruined +chapel, half a mile from the city gate, where one of Henry's equerries +was to be waiting with horses.</p> + +<p>The nobles supped together, and then quietly left the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span> palace. They were +permitted to pass the sentinels on their assurance that they were bound +for a frolic in the town.</p> + +<p>Henry, in the mean time, was doing his best to make the Chamberlain +believe him asleep, and when he was at length convinced of the fact, he +left the room. In a moment the King's attendants had softly entered the +room and barred the door against all intruders, had hurriedly dressed +the King, and made all their preparations for departure. Fortunately, +Souvré, one of the King's gentlemen, happened to remember a small +postern-door at the end of a passage leading from the kitchen, which +opened at the back of the castle on a faubourg of Cracow outside the +walls. This door, which had been made for the use of the servants of the +palace, had often been found useful by the cavaliers of Henry's court +when they wished to go out and in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span> unobserved. Souvré having found that +no sentinel had been posted there, sent Miron, the King's physician, to +reconnoitre, and see if they could get out by that way. He found the +door ajar, and was joyfully returning to report, when suddenly the +steward of the household, Alemanni, appeared from the kitchen, where he +was evidently on the watch, and carefully looking about him—though +without discovering Miron, who was sheltered by the staircase—gave +orders for the postern to be locked and the key to be brought to him.</p> + +<p>This was a terrible blow to all their hopes. The King was in despair and +was about to return to bed, but Souvré encouraged him to persist, and +rely upon him to get him out of the dilemma.</p> + +<p>So they cautiously left the apartments of the King, and crept<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span> softly +down the stairs until they came to the passage, where another flight of +steps led down to the kitchen. Here they got a great fright from hearing +the voice of the steward just at the foot of the stairs. He heard their +steps, and called out, "Who goes there?"</p> + +<p>"It is I, monsieur," said Souvré, boldly descending a few steps, while +he made a sign to the others to go on toward the door.</p> + +<p>"And what do you want?" asked the steward.</p> + +<p>"The key of the postern-door," replied Souvré. "I have a private errand, +now that the King my master can dispense with my services."</p> + +<p>"What errand?" persisted the steward.</p> + +<p>"The truth is," replied Souvré, haughtily, "I have an appointment in the +faubourg. I pray you therefore, monsieur, give me the key of the little +door without further parley."</p> + +<p>This haughty manner impressed the steward, who knew that Souvré was high +in his master's favor, and he somewhat reluctantly gave the key, and +offered to accompany Souvré to open the door for him. He, however, only +laughed at this, and bounding up the staircase long before the steward, +who was old and infirm, could reach the top, he found the King and his +companions concealing themselves as much as possible in the shadow of +the walls, opened the door, through which they hurriedly passed, and +locking it behind them, they made all possible speed toward the little +ruined chapel, the place of rendezvous.</p> + +<p>The night was pleasant, though very dark, and after losing their way +once or twice, they finally reached the chapel. There they found the +equerry with the horses, but Chémerault, who was to be their guide, and +several other gentlemen of the King's household, had not made their +appearance. They waited for them as long as they dared, but finally +Souvré persuaded the King to mount, and trust to God and fortune for +safety.</p> + +<p>They set out, therefore, but their difficulties had only just begun. In +the first place, not one of them knew the way, being all absolute +strangers in Poland; and they did not even understand the dialect of the +country, so that they could inquire. The night was dark, and the roads +were horrible, though that did not matter so much, as they could not +keep in them, but continually found themselves wandering away and +floundering in deep morasses, blundering about in pine forests, and +getting entangled in brambles.</p> + +<p>So they went on, stumbling over stones, sinking into bogs, and wading +through brooks, till I think they must have wished themselves safe back +in their beds in Cracow.</p> + +<p>At length Souvré saw a faint light glimmering in the distance, and on +approaching it he found it came from the hut of a charcoal burner deep +in the forest.</p> + +<p>The poor charcoal burner was so terrified by the approach of the +horsemen that he darted up into his loft by a ladder on the outside, +which he drew up after him. The cavaliers shouted and knocked, and +knocked and shouted, but all in vain. Not an inch would the charcoal +burner stir; so at last they began to batter down the door.</p> + +<p>Finally Souvré managed to scramble up to the loft, where he found the +poor man crouching in a corner in a perfect agony of terror. He tried to +calm his fears by speaking gently, but the strange language only made +him more terrified.</p> + +<p>So there was nothing for it but to drag him down, and carry him off to +the King, which they accordingly did. Henry had learned a few words of +the peasants' dialect, so he soon re-assured the poor man, and made him +comprehend that they only wanted him for a guide—an office which he +readily took upon himself.</p> + +<p>He was swung up on a horse in front of one of the cavaliers, and guided +them safely to the town of Liszki. Soon after this they came up with +Chémerault and the others, who had missed the King in the darkness, and +had arrived before him.</p> + +<p>In the mean time you can readily imagine that there was a great uproar +in the palace at Cracow when the King's flight was discovered. The +Senate and the nobles were absolutely beside themselves with rage at +having been so outwitted. The French who had been left behind in +ignorance of their master's intended flight were deeply indignant with +the King for his treacherous betrayal of them. The mob howled and yelled +in the streets, and everybody scolded poor Alemanni.</p> + +<p>Karnkowski, the Grand Referendary of Poland, was dispatched in a coach +and six to bring back the King, accompanied by a troop of Tartar cavalry +armed with bows and arrows, and a howling mob, with sticks, stones, and +javelins, followed after.</p> + +<p>They came in sight of the fugitives at the town of Osweicin, where some +of the gentlemen had dismounted to rest and refresh themselves for an +hour. But when they caught sight of the Tartar troops they did not tarry +long, you may be sure, but put spurs to their horses, and fled as fast +as they could.</p> + +<p>Then there followed a royal chase, in which the King was the hunted +instead of the hunter—the King and his cavaliers urging their tired +horses to their utmost speed in front; following fast behind, +Karnkowski, in his coach and six, the wild troop of Tartar bowmen, and +the disorderly mob bringing up the rear.</p> + +<p>Henry and his gentlemen rode fast and well. They crossed the Vistula on +a bridge of planks, which the cavaliers destroyed just as their pursuers +came up; and as they rode on they left their Tartar enemies howling with +rage and gnashing their teeth, as they saw the river rolling between +them and the fugitives, and knew they must go six miles around in order +to come up with them.</p> + +<p>The danger was over now. They did not overtake Henry until after he had +passed the frontier town of Plesse, and they dared not capture him on +Austrian territory.</p> + +<p>Count Teuczin therefore approached the King, accompanied only by five +Tartars, and delivered his message from the Senate to entreat him to +return, and offering his own fealty to the King. Henry refused to +return, but he sent back fair words to the Senate, and they parted +amicably, Henry to pursue his journey to Vienna, where he arrived +without further adventures, the Count to return sadly to Cracow to +announce the escape of their King to the magnates of Poland.</p> + +<p>But in my opinion if they had had Henry to rule over them four years +instead of four months, far from grieving over his loss, they would have +considered themselves well rid of him; for lazy, selfish, cowardly, +false, and cruel as he was, they might have sought the wide world over +without finding a worse King than Henry III. of Valois.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2><a name="THE_NEW_SCHOLAR" id="THE_NEW_SCHOLAR">THE NEW SCHOLAR.</a></h2> + +<h3>BY EMILY H. LELAND.</h3> + +<p>Elbert Collins had never been marked absent or tardy since his first +going to school in September, and it was his ambition to finish the +whole year without a "mark," partly because he really liked to be +prompt, and partly because he thought it would be so nice to see his +name in the paper at the end of the school year.</p> + +<p>December had come, and the short mornings were very lively ones in his +mother's little kitchen, because of so many things to be done before the +nine-o'clock bell. There was the wood-box to fill, the canary to feed, +and generally the cradle to rock, while the mother attended to such work +as could be done best while there was some one to look after the baby.</p> + +<p>On this particular morning, however, the mother had gone to Mrs. +Brown's, around the corner, for a cup of yeast, and had become so +interested in a recipe for chocolate<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span> cake, a pattern for a boy's +blouse, the pound party at the Methodist minister's, and some new ways +for trimming Christmas trees, that she entirely forgot the time of day.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile little Elbert, with his overshoes and scarf on, and cap in +hand, rocked the cradle, and kept his eyes on the clock. Five, ten, +minutes passed away. The long hand was crawling alarmingly near +last-bell time. He tied his scarf, pulled his cap over his ears, and +rocked harder than ever. Still no mother. Then he went to the door, +looked anxiously toward the corner, and sent out a lusty +shout—"Mamma-a-a, come ho-o-ome!" but no one responded except the baby. +"Oh dear! dear!" he exclaimed, as he rushed back to the cradle; and just +then his expectant ears heard the first slow cling-clang of the last +bell. It would ring for five minutes; the school-house was only three +streets away, and there was time enough yet, if he could only start. One +thing was certain—he would never leave his little baby sister. He +remembered a story of a poor baby who was almost burned to death because +her brother, who had promised to take care of her, left her, and ran out +on the street to play.</p> + +<p>He went to the door and shouted again. It was something like the case of +Casabianca. But when two mothers are talking about patterns and +Christmas trees, who ever knew them to notice every little outside +noise? Elbert's shout ended in a big sob. A man going to lose his entire +fortune couldn't feel worse than this little fellow did, with that +dreadful "tardy" mark hanging over his head.</p> + +<p>Then a happy thought flashed into his mind. Running to the cradle, he +caught up the baby, scattering pillows and blankets right and left, +bundled an old shawl over her, and snatching her half-filled milk +bottle, dashed out of the house, and ran off in the direction of that +clanging bell as fast as his stout young legs could carry him. The baby +was a light little mite, only two and a half months old, and Elbert was +nearly six years, and large for his age.</p> + +<p>He met two women whom he knew, and who commenced making weak remarks, +like, "Why, Elbert!" and "What on earth!" but he bounded past them, with +no answer but his panting breath, and reached the school-house in such +good time that the bell gave its last two clangs just as he handed over +his funny burden to his astonished teacher.</p> + +<p>"I couldn't leave her, and I <i>couldn't</i> be late," he said, as soon as he +could get breath enough to speak. "And she'll go to sleep, and be real +good," he continued, as the teacher began to unwind the shawl.</p> + +<p>And then the whole room saw a surprised, half-smothered-looking little +baby, still in her night-gown, one bare foot sticking out, and her +little fists tightly clinched, as if defying anybody to send her home.</p> + +<p>The teacher was a good-natured young lady, and she laughed so that she +almost dropped the baby on the floor, and then the whole room laughed, +and finally Elbert joined in; for he was glad he had escaped the tardy +mark, and the baby certainly did look funny in school.</p> + +<p>Of course there could be no order. Nearly all the scholars had babies at +home, or were well acquainted with those of their neighbors; but they +acted as if they had never seen one before, and every movement of the +little pink hands and every turn of the small bald head made them scream +with laughter, until the principal of the school came into the room to +see what the disturbance was, and after trying to look severe for five +seconds, he laughed too.</p> + +<p>And while all this fun was going on, Elbert's mother was running wildly +through the four rooms of her little house, calling her boy's name, and +feeling sure that the children were either killed and thrown into the +cistern, or else carried off like Charley Ross, and lost forever. The +scattered pillows and upset rocking-chair, indeed, made the kitchen +appear as if there had been a struggle, and the wide-open door and the +gate creaking to and fro had a dreadful look to Elbert's mother. Just +then the women whom Elbert had met stopped at the gate, and said to the +mother, who was coming hurriedly out, "Is anything the matter, Mrs. +Collins?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, I don't know where my children are! I left them while I ran into +Mrs. Brown's a minute, and the kitchen's all upset, and I'm afraid—"</p> + +<p>"Why, we just now met Elbert with the baby, kiting along like the wind, +over there by Webster & Green's. Leastways we supposed it was the baby, +from the way he carried it. And he never—"</p> + +<p>"Merciful man! he's taken her to school!"</p> + +<p>About ten minutes later, a flustered little woman rapped at the door of +the First Primary Room, and inquired for a baby. It was handed to her, +along with an empty milk bottle, and wrapping them both in a red cloak +which she carried, she thanked the smiling teacher, and walked quickly +home.</p> + +<p>At first she had felt very angry toward Elbert; but when she looked at +the clock, and remembered his horror of being late, she softened toward +him considerably, and by the time she had got the baby home, and found +her none the worse for her little run away, she had her laugh also; and +being a fair-minded woman, she told Elbert when he came home to dinner +that it was very thoughtless in her to have staid so long at Mrs. +Brown's. And Elbert gave her a hug, and said he was "glad he didn't +<i>leave</i> the baby, 'cause she might have been burned up, you know!"</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 VII</span>.</h3> + +<p>How long she was unconscious, Milly never knew. She awoke to find +herself in a beautiful white bed, in a room she had never seen. All +signs of the storm seemed shut out; there was a bright fire on the +hearth; the room seemed full of pleasant shadows and flickering beams of +light. Milly was only half conscious that some one spoke to her, and +gave her something pleasant to drink. Then she drifted off again, with a +pleasant confusion of fancies in her mind. When she next awoke, it +seemed again to be evening, but she was conscious of a certain change in +her surroundings. A little table was drawn near her; half-used medicine +bottles were upon it; Deborah was sitting over by the fire, and Miss +Jenner was standing in the window.</p> + +<p>"Debby," she said, surprised to find her voice so weak; and then she +lifted up her hand, and saw it was very thin.</p> + +<p>"My blessed lamb!" cried the old woman, hastening to her side, followed +quickly by Alice. "So you're better!"</p> + +<p>Mildred found she had to keep still a long time before she could say any +more. She nearly fell asleep again.</p> + +<p>"Debby," she said presently, "is it long since I fainted? What time is +it?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, my lovey," said the old nurse, "you've lain in that blessed bed two +weeks. You've been very ill, but, thank the Lord, you're better."</p> + +<p>This was all Mildred knew for days. She had had a fever; and finding out +the condition of things at the cottage, Miss Jenner had taken Mrs. Lee's +affairs into her own hands. She had kept Milly, as a matter of course, +had sent a good servant to care for Mrs. Lee, filled the store closet +with every delicacy, and allowed Debby to watch and care for her +"child," as she always called Mildred. Sometimes, as she lay still in +her comfortable bed, Milly tried to recall the dreadful scene at Mr. +Hardman's; and one evening, when she was sitting up for the first time +before the fire, and after she had finished a dainty<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span> little supper; she +ventured to ask Miss Jenner a few questions.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="400" height="370" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">MILDRED CONFESSES ALL TO MISS JENNER.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Miss Jenner," she said, softly, "do you know all about it?"</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Miss Jenner, smiling.</p> + +<p>"And are they going to take me to court?"</p> + +<p>"<i>No</i>," answered the elder lady, emphatically.</p> + +<p>"But why not?" Milly persisted. "They said I stole that money."</p> + +<p>"And <i>I</i> said you <i>didn't</i>," retorted Miss Jenner. "You let it all out +in your fever, my dear. I think I understand it all."</p> + +<p>"And you know—" faltered Mildred.</p> + +<p>Miss Jenner smiled.</p> + +<p>"Just see if I don't know," she said. "One evening a precious old humbug +calling herself Widow Robbins came here to find you, and try and get out +of you what you owed her—you <i>did</i> owe it, Milly—and my boy Roger was +standing behind one of the trees, and heard the conversation; so he knew +you were very badly off for twenty-two dollars, and as soon as he could +scrape it together, what does he do but send it to you in a private +note, saying you can pay it back to <i>him</i> when you like."</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Mildred, eagerly, "I found that note one afternoon on my +return home; but <i>in it</i> he bound me over not to speak of where I got +the money until he came back. I felt dreadfully about it; but as soon as +mother got well I intended telling her the whole story, and devising +some way of paying Roger right back; and I will yet, Miss Jenner."</p> + +<p>There was a moment's pause before Mildred said, "But how about the +store—the robbery?"</p> + +<p>"My dear," said Miss Jenner, "I am of the opinion that that was all +arranged between Tom Hardman and Mrs. Robbins. I've seen her, and she +admits she told him the whole story. He was angry because you seemed to +snub him; and you made him feel his vulgarity, and so he devised this +trick out of revenge. If there <i>was</i> any robbery, <i>he</i> was the thief!"</p> + +<p>"And have you seen him?" inquired Milly, tears of gratitude and +thankfulness pouring down her cheeks.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Miss Jenner, "and he and his father say the thing 'may blow +over'; but that won't do for me. The first day you're well enough, you +must drive down there in my carriage, and have them tell you they +withdraw the accusation, and apologize for having made it. Now you must +not talk any more." And Miss Jenner kissed her young friend, and moved +away, taking up a book in a distant part of the room.</p> + +<p>Mildred never forgot the two weeks that followed. With Miss Jenner she +had long talks, in which she realized not only the folly of her +extravagance, but the actual sin of her running into debt. A great many +things which she had never thought of as serious now appeared to her in +the light of <i>principles</i>, without which, as Miss Jenner told her, she +could not live a perfect or even an upright life. When the day came on +which she was declared well enough to drive with Miss Jenner to Mr. +Hardman's, Mildred felt too humbled to rejoice in being received with +any honor.</p> + +<p>The girls looked at her, as she followed Miss Jenner into Mr. Hardman's +office, nudging each other, and casting half-envious glances toward +their former companion. Mary Hardman was nowhere to be seen, but Mr. Tom +was with his father, and received Miss Jenner and Mildred with a stiff +sort of pompousness. Miss Jenner had very little to say, and it was only +later that Milly fully recalled the scene—Mr. Hardman's apologies, and +Mr. Tom's surly assent. When they came back to the store, Milly paused +to say a few words here and there, and as she walked away, it was some +relief to hear a voice saying,</p> + +<p>"Well, I'm glad it's all right; I never <i>could</i> believe it of Milly +Lee."</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>When I knew Mildred Lee she was a woman of nearly thirty, and at the +head of her own house; but the lesson of her girlhood had done her a +lasting service. No one ever had it to say of her that she bought or +used any article for which she could not at the <i>moment</i> pay, and her +advice to young people was invaluable. When I knew her, her home was in +the Brick House. Mrs. Lee did not long survive the serious illness of +that winter, and Miss Jenner cared tenderly for the orphans her old +friend's widow left.</p> + +<p>Mildred speaks now with tears of gratitude of all the past, even of its +miseries; and the gray silk dress, worn but once, and still brown with +stains, is treasured as a memorial of the <i>bargain</i> by which Mildred +purchased her high sense of honor.</p> + +<h4><span class="smcap">the end</span>.</h4> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span></p> + +<h2><a name="FAITHLESS_SALLY_BROWN" id="FAITHLESS_SALLY_BROWN">FAITHLESS SALLY BROWN.</a></h2> + +<h3>AN OLD BALLAD.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Young Ben he was a nice young man,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A carpenter by trade;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And he fell in love with Sally Brown,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">That was a lady's-maid.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="400" height="252" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But as they fetched a walk one day,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">They met a press-gang crew;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And Sally she did faint away,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Whilst Ben he was brought to.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The boatswain swore with wicked words,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Enough to shock a saint,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">That though she did seem in a fit,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">'Twas nothing but a feint.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Come, girl," said he, "hold up your head—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">He'll be as good as me;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">For when your swain is in our boat</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A boatswain he will be."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">So when they'd made their game of her,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And taken off her elf,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">She roused, and found she only was</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">A-coming to herself.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"And is he gone, and is he gone?"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">She cried, and wept outright;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Then I will to the water-side,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And see him out of sight."</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="400" height="182" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">A waterman came up to her;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">"Now, young woman," said he,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"If you weep on so, you will make</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Eye water in the sea."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Alas! they've taken my beau, Ben,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To sail with old Benbow";</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And her woe began to run afresh,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">As if she'd said, Gee woe!</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Says he, "They've only taken him</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To the tender ship, you see."</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"The tender ship," cried Sally Brown—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">"What a hardship that must be!</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Oh! would I were a mermaid now,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">For then I'd follow him;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But, oh! I'm not a fish woman,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And so I can not swim.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Alas! I was not born beneath</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The Virgin and the Scales,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">So I must curse my cruel stars,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And walk about in Wales."</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Now Ben had sailed to many a place</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">That's underneath the world;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But in two years the ship came home,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And all her sails were furled.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But when he called on Sally Brown,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">To see how she got on,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">He found she'd got another Ben,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Whose Christian name was John.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="400" height="273" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"O Sally Brown, O Sally Brown,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">How could you serve me so?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I've met with many a breeze before.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">But never such a blow!"</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="300" height="294" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Then reading on his 'bacco box,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">He heaved a heavy sigh</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And then began to eye his pipe,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And then to pipe his eye.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="400" height="361" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And then he tried to sing "All's Well!"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">But could not, though he tried;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">His head was turned—and so he chewed</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">His pigtail till he died.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">His death, which happened in his berth,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">At forty-odd befell;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">They went and told the sexton, and</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">The sexton tolled the bell.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Thomas Hood</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX" id="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX"></a> +<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="600" height="254" alt="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sierra Valley, California</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I live 'way up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, five thousand feet +above the sea. The snow here is four feet deep. My brother and I +have lots of fun sliding down hill on snow-shoes. Our snow-shoes +are made out of strips of wood about six feet long and four inches +wide, with leather straps in the middle to put our toes in. The +shoes that grown people use are from eight to fourteen feet long.</p> + +<p>I am ten years old. My father takes <span class="smcap">Harper's Weekly</span>, and we like +to look at the pictures. He subscribed for <span class="smcap">Young People</span> for us at +the beginning of the second volume.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">May C. T</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Derby, Connecticut</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am twelve years old. I like <span class="smcap">Young People</span> very much, and all the +scholars in my school like it. I get a copy every week because I am +a good girl, and I wish every little girl would do the same.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">E. L. M</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>We have taken <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> ever since it was published, +and we think it grows better all the time. I enjoyed reading the +letter from one of the party who visited Harper's Building, and I +hope some time to see it all myself. I guess, if I am a girl, I +should not be afraid, and "run away" from any of the machinery; +anyhow, not from the folding-machines, for some of them are made +right here in our own shop.</p> + +<p>After we have read our <span class="smcap">Young People</span> all through, we send the +numbers to the Children's Hospital, so that the poor little ones +there may have the pleasure of reading such a nice little paper.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Isabel C</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bozeman, Montana Territory</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I take <span class="smcap">Young People</span>, and I like it very much. I was so sorry when +the story of "Paul Grayson" was finished.</p> + +<p>I am boarding in town and going to school this winter, but my home +is about five miles away, in the country. I go out there every +Friday night.</p> + +<p>Yesterday I went out hunting. I have a double-barrelled shot-gun, +which pa gave me for helping pick up potatoes. I have a horse and +a saddle and bridle of my own, and in the summer I have to ride +lots. Sometimes I ride thirty miles at a time.</p> + +<p>I get up the cows, and take them out every day. In the summer we +have school within half a mile of our house.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bertie R</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Newport, Kentucky</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>This is the first letter I ever wrote to the Post-office Box. Now I +thought I would tell about the freezing of the Ohio River. Just +below here it is frozen solid, and crowds of people skate on it +every day. It is not frozen in front of Newport, because a steam +ferry runs between here and Cincinnati, and the boats keep the ice +broken. They do not allow it to get thick enough to hold people, +because if it was, everybody would walk over without having to pay +the ferry.</p> + +<p>The Licking River, a very small tributary of the Ohio, is frozen +over too, and I went skating on it yesterday.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Henry R</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Atlanta, Georgia</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>We want to know who "Jimmy Brown" is. When papa read "Our Baby," +mamma, my aunts, uncles, and cousins laughed until the tears ran +down their cheeks.</p> + +<p>I made me some arrows with pins stuck in them.</p> + +<p>The Christmas number of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> was the best of all.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Stewart H</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Detroit, Michigan</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am a little boy eight years old. I commenced to take <span class="smcap">Young People</span> +last November, and I like it very much. I enjoy reading the little +letters in the Post-office Box, and I like all of the stories. I +think "Toby Tyler" is splendid.</p> + +<p>I hope all the little folks who read <span class="smcap">Young People</span> had a Merry +Christmas and a Happy New Year.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Fred R</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Baltimore, Maryland</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I was nine years old on the 7th of January. Papa has taken <span class="smcap">Young +People</span> for me ever since it began. He sent for a cover, and is +having the first volume bound. I like it very much indeed.</p> + +<p>I have had lots of sport coasting, and I will be very sorry when +the snow is gone.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Craig C</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">East Rupert, Vermont</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>My home is in Factory Point, but I am up to my grandpa's now. He +has got a big farm. He has fourteen cows and two calves. My papa is +a doctor, and I have lots of rides with him. I am nine years old.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Charley C</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 thought I would write to the Post-office about the big spring in +Indiana. It is called Harrison Spring, because it was owned by +General Harrison when he was Governor of the Northwestern +Territory. It looks like a very large pond, and is fifty-five feet +deep in the centre. There are two streams flowing from it, which +form an island, as they unite and form one stream at a little +distance from the spring. About a mile farther on, this stream runs +a saw-mill and a flour-mill. This spring is near the great +Wyandotte Cave.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Gilbert C. S</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I have increased my collection of stamps from seventy-five to +fifteen hundred by exchange. I think this is the grandest of all +the departments of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I would now like to exchange +twenty-five foreign stamps for five birds' eggs. Correspondents +will please label the eggs.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Robert H. Davidson</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Care of the Postmaster,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tenn.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I would like to exchange Texas postmarks for minerals or postmarks. +Or I will exchange an ounce of the soil of Texas for that of any +other State.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">H. C. Yancey</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 224, Houston, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I wish to inform those correspondents who desire to exchange +minerals, shells, and curiosities with me, that I have changed my +residence. My new address is,</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Charles Leadbetter</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">305 Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I am a girl fourteen years old, but I am lame, and can not go out. +I have a few crochet lace patterns which I would like to exchange +for others. I would also like to exchange patterns of patchwork. If +any little girl would like to know how to crochet a pair of doll's +drawers, a jacket, or a petticoat, and will send me her address and +a postage stamp, I will gladly answer her.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Annie Slack</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">170 Fourteenth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I have a list of every Indian tribe in the United States which I +will give a copy of in exchange for Indian relics, foreign stamps, +or postal cards.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">John E. Williams</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">4 Harrison Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>I have some genuine Indian bows and arrows, some fine silver and +copper specimens, and a great number of Lake Superior agates, which +I should like to exchange for shells and ocean curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Horace H. Mitchell</span>, Duluth, Minn.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:</p> + +<blockquote> + +<p>A fifty-cent and a twenty-five cent stamp, for two Cape of Good +Hope stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">William R. Carmer</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Mount Vernon, Westchester County, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Fine samples of gold ore, showing the stages of concentration or +separation of quartz from the precious metal, for rare postage +stamps. In answering, correspondents will please specify stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Dwight Marfield</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mary B. Reed</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>A piece of the first Atlantic cable for an American copper cent of +1799, or the half-cent of 1836, 1843, or 1852; or one Spanish and +one English coin and two French coins for the American twenty-cent +piece of 1877 or 1878.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie B. Shober</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Cumberland, Md.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Lead or iron ore, and specimens of different varieties of quartz, +for foreign postage stamps, skulls of small animals, ocean +curiosities, petrifactions, and minerals of all kinds; or a piece +of silver ore for a collection of the different varieties of stamps +now in use in Canada.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">George C. Baker</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Comstocks, Washington County, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps for stones from the different States.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Arthur D. Prince</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Lowell, Mass.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>We do not consider the above address sufficient. Correspondents who +reside in large cities should always give their street and number, or +the number of their post-office box.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks and stamps for stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie H. Haskin</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Fort Preble, Portland, Maine.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Rare postmarks for any variety of South American postage stamps or +United States department stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Frank Swett</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">1419 Taylor Street, San Francisco, California.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Stamps and postmarks in use in 1852, also some of 1869, for foreign +postage stamps or curiosities of any kind.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sadie Hawley</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Fair Haven, Rutland County, Vt.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Texas flints, pretty stones, snail shells, postmarks, stamps, +specimens of different kinds of wood, petrified wood, cotton as it +comes from the field, cotton seeds, or seeds of the "Indian plume," +for foreign postage stamps, or good specimens of minerals and ores +of all kinds.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sammie Risien</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Soil and sand from Ohio for soil and sand from any other State or +Canada; or an Indian arrow-head two and a half inches long, +together with a specimen of Ohio soil, for twenty-five foreign +postage stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Emmer Edwards</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Washington C. H., Fayette County, Ohio.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Foreign postage stamps for United States Navy or Justice stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Wallace Green</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Hackensack, Bergen County, N. J.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Soil from Missouri or Texas for soil from any other State; or a +stone from Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, or Georgia for one from any +other State.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harvey Clark</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Lock Box 26, Butler, Bates County, Missouri.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postage stamps and postmarks for winter skins of wild animals, or +for stuffed birds.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">John Lawrence</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">40 Washington Square, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Birds' eggs.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">George A. Post</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Florence House, corner of Fourth Avenue and</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Eighteenth Street, New York City.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Minerals, fish eyes from China, or West India beans, for minerals +or any kind of curiosities.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Carl R. Eaby</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">22 North Shippen Street, Lancaster, Penn.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>A carved shell, some seeds from the Sandwich Islands, or stones +from Lake Michigan, for any foreign postage stamps except English +and German. Chinese stamps especially desired.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">William C. McConnell</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">262 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Postmarks and revenue stamps.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willis Rose</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">939 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Stones from New Jersey for stones from any other State or Territory +except Colorado and Wyoming.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">John W. Rosenbaum</span>,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">194½ Morgan Street, Jersey City, N. J.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<blockquote> + +<p>Two different War Department stamps and thirty postmarks for +sea-weed, or the same, together with some moss and pretty shells, +for a piece of stalagmite.</p></blockquote> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Florie Dickson</span>, Brenford, Kent County, Del.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">J. W</span>.—The earliest calendars, as the Jewish, the Egyptian, and the +Greek, did not begin the year where we do now; and the Jewish year, +which opened on the 25th of March, continued to have a legal position in +many Christian countries until a comparatively recent period. In +England, it was not until 1752 that the 1st of January became the initial +day of the legal, as it had long been of the popular, year. Several +other countries made this change earlier than England—France in 1564, +Scotland in 1600, Holland and Russia in 1700.</p> + +<p>The Roman calendar, which made January the first month of the year, is +credited to the second King of Rome, Numa Pompilius, more than six +hundred years <span class="smcap">b.c</span>. He added two months to the ten into which the year +had been previously divided, and called the first one Januarius, in +honor of Janus, the deity supposed to preside over doors.</p> + +<p>Our Saxon ancestors originally called this the Wolf-month +(<i>Wolf-monat</i>), because wolves were more than usually ravenous and +daring in that season of the year.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">A. T. G</span>.—Snow crystals were first observed by the arctic explorer +Scoresby, and for a time they were supposed to be peculiar to the polar +regions. It was found, however, that these crystals were formed wherever +snow falls. An interesting account of these beautiful formations, with +engravings of many of them, was given in <span class="smcap">Young People</span> No. 15.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">F. T. B</span>.—When metal pins were invented and brought into use, about the +beginning of the sixteenth century, they were a very acceptable +New-Year's gift to ladies, and money given for the purchase of them was +called "pin-money"—an expression which has come to mean the money set +apart for a wife's private expenses.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Inquisitive Jim</span>.—The best account of Petra, the wonderful rock-hewn +city of Arabia, is to be found in Stephens's book of travels called +<i>Egypt, Petra, and the Holy Land</i>. The present name of the little valley +where it was situated is Wady Musa. The city, shut in by high cliffs, +occupied an area of about half a mile square. The valley is watered by a +stream, and the principal entrance is through a deep<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span> ravine, with +rugged cliffs 300 feet high on each side. In ancient times Petra was a +very strong city. It is mentioned in the Bible under the name of Selah, +and received its present name, which signifies rock, from the Greeks, +about 300 <span class="smcap">b.c</span>. It was finally destroyed, by whom is not known, and was +not heard of after the sixth century <span class="smcap">a.d</span>. until it was discovered in +1812 by the traveller Burckhardt. The ruins, consisting of tombs, a +theatre, temple, etc., are very interesting and picturesque.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">W. H. J</span>.—If your puzzles are good, and suitable for our columns, they +will be accepted. We can not judge of the merits of the enigma you have +already sent, as you neglected to inclose the answer. The <i>nom de plume</i> +you have chosen is not good, but you can easily invent a better one.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Lillie</span>.—The introductory paragraph to the Post-office Box of No. 45 +explains why your request for exchange is not printed.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">O. H. Bruce</span>.—1. The United States government began the coinage of +one-cent pieces in 1793. 2. In 1815, none were coined. 3. The last +coinage of large one-cent pieces was in 1857. 4. The coinage of two-cent +pieces began in 1864, and the last issue was in 1872. 5. The coinage of +the nickel five-cent pieces began in 1865. 6. In 1864, both copper and +nickel cents were coined. This double coinage did not happen in any +other year.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">D. L. S</span>.—On page 398 of your bound volume of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> is a story +entitled "Camping Out," which will give you the information you require.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Johnnie</span>.—White elephants are not a distinct species, but are simply +albinos, which are found among animals, birds, and insects, as well as +among members of the human family. In India the white elephant is +considered a sacred animal, and is treated with the greatest reverence. +When specimens are found in the woods and jungles, they are captured +with tender care, and their possession is eagerly sought for by the +sovereigns of the small kingdoms. White elephants have been the cause of +many wars, as their possession is supposed to bestow greater benefits on +their royal owners than either chests of gold or extended territory. One +of the proudest titles of the King of Ava is "Lord of the White +Elephant," and the King of Siam at Bangkok also counts his white +elephants among his most precious possessions, as, according to Burmese +superstition, they insure prosperity and good fortune to the nation. The +death of one of these creatures is regarded as a national calamity, its +funeral is conducted with great solemnity, and the entire people mourn +as for the loss of a dear relative. These elephants are kept under +richly embroidered canopies, are fed with the most delicious fruits, and +members of the nobility seek for the honor of being custodian to the +royal beast. When the elephant is taken to bathe in the river, it goes +escorted by a band of music, and is followed by adoring crowds.</p> + +<p>This singular reverence for an albino elephant has existed in Burmah for +centuries. An English traveller who visited that country three hundred +years ago describes the same treatment of this beast which may be seen +at the present time.</p> + +<p>Even the hairs of this creature are supposed to insure good fortune. In +1855, a foreign ambassador delivered some presents to the King of Siam, +who ordered many presents to be given in return. On the conclusion of +the ceremony, the King himself, with much solemnity, placed in the hands +of the ambassador a small golden box, locked with a golden key, which he +said was far more precious than all the other presents. The box, when +opened, was found to contain a few hairs of a white elephant!</p> + +<p>And, after all, this elephant is not white, but of a dull yellow color. +It has white or reddish eyes, and is a very ugly-looking beast. No +greater proof could be found of the moral darkness and ignorance of the +natives of certain portions of India than their superstitious veneration +for this animal.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">F. O</span>.—Read the paragraph appended to a letter from Ida Belle D. in the +Post-office Box of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> No. 51.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Hallie C. W</span>.—The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by a Spanish +navigator about the middle of the sixteenth century, but they remained +comparatively unknown until visited by Captain Cook in 1778, who gave +them the name of Sandwich, in honor of Lord Sandwich, an English +statesman who conducted the naval affairs of England during our +Revolutionary war. On St. Valentine's Day, 1779, Captain Cook was killed +at Hawaii, the largest island of the group, in a quarrel with the +natives. Mauna Loa, the volcano on the island of Hawaii, which has +recently been in a state of eruption, is said to have the largest +burning crater in the world.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Edmund H. B</span>.—There is no especial time for the printing of "Wiggles."</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Mattie H</span>.—The story "Who was Paul Grayson?" was concluded in <span class="smcap">Harper's +Young People</span> No. 57.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Tillie Davis</span>.—Send your full address, and we will print your request +for exchange.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Ridley McL</span>.—Your puzzle is very good for the work of a "little +eight-year-old boy," but we can not print it, as the same solution has +already appeared in an earlier number of <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Favors are acknowledged from Ruby W., C. H. B., M. Stiefel, Frank R., +Joseph W. Hawkins, Marshall R. Grimes, Gay Wood, John V. Gould, Gracie +K., R. M. Sites, Mamie K. Pope, Anna M. Roberts, Elsie E. T., Frank +Davis, Mae King, Mary Olive L.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<p>Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Harvey Ridgway, "Geo. +Graphy," Grace A. McElroy, Percy Lincoln McDermott, A. G. O. M., +"Nightingale," Alfred A. True, Craig Coburn, C. F. Bishop, Cal I. Forny, +Carrie and George Hall, M. S. Brigham.</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<h3>ENIGMA.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">First in box, not in chest.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Second in hole, not in nest.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Third in meat, not in bones.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Fourth in rubble, not in stones.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Fifth in measure, not in mile.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Sixth in fashion, not in style.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Seventh in river, not in sound.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Eighth in fly, not in bound.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Ninth in mallet, not in saw.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The whole an article used in war.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">D. L. S</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<h3>NUMERICAL CHARADES.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">1. I am a familiar adage composed of 18 letters.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 5, 12, 1, 18 is to separate.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 15, 7, 3, 16 is to propose.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 5, 2, 9, 10, 13, 4 is to describe.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 17, 8, 6, 4 is a character in music.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 11, 14, 15 is a boy's name.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mark Marcy</span>.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">2. I am a shrub composed of 6 letters.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 4, 5, 3, 1 is a healthy drink.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 3, 5, 4, 6 is a South American city.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 4, 2, 5, 3 is armor.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Lionel</span>.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">3. I am composed of 9 letters, and am very pleasant in winter.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 6, 2, 5 is part of the face.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 1, 9, 7, 3 is an emotion.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My 6, 7, 8, 4 is used for trimming.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mary</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<h3>HIDDEN BIRDS.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">1. Isaac ran every step of the way.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">2. How Lillie has grown!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">3. See that Kit eats his dinner.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">4. Do you call him a hero? Not by any means.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mabel</span>.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">5. O, Matthew, renounce the company of those bad boys.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">6. We were playing hide-and-seek, and I caught Rob in the swing near the tree.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">7. Let us run and pick up the pears now, Birdie.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">8. I saw your lunch pail in Nettie's closet.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bessie</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 62.</h3> + +<h3>No. 1.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left">F</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">L</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">B</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">P</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">L</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 2.</h3> + +<p class="center">1. Mouse-ear. 2. Porcupine. 3. Portland.</p> + +<h3>No. 3.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">R</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">X</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">B</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">C</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">G</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">B</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">U</td><td align="left">R</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">N</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">N</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<h3>No. 4.</h3> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">H</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">M</td><td align="left">P</td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">N</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">R</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">S</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">L</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">Y</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">G</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">D</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">N</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">G</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">A</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">B</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">L</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">V</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">A</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">G</td><td align="left">U</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">Y</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">Q</td><td align="left">U</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">L</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr class="tb" /> + +<h3>WIGGLES.</h3> + +<p>The following are the names of those who sent in answers to Wiggle No. +16:</p> + +<p>Natalie Newell, Helen Edwards, I. La Rue, R. I. Brasher, Charlie +Conklin, Horace Dodge, Joseph Welsh, Edwin M. Cox, Mark Manley, F. +Place, M. P. Rich, Shelton A. Hibbs, Ellie Earle, Mansur Beard, G. +Darling, Jack Evert, Jim Evert, Tom Evert, Will Evert, Bobbie Hornfager, +C. H. L., N. Adda T., Toby, Crank, Dumper, G. H. A., Racy B. Sweet, G. E. P., +Newton I., M. Siegert. Annie A. Siegert, A. Utz, Worcester Wiggle +Club, Santa Claus, Robinson Crusoe, Robert E. Walsh, Frank Zabriske, +Millie Stephenson, Burton Harwood, Fanny Reed, Dayton Reed, J. O. O., J. P. W., +S. G. Hopkins, M. Goller, Alice Brown, H. M. Eaton, Carrie +Harding, E. A. H., Carrie Peddle, Charles L. Glessner, W. Doerr, Thomas +Buford, Frank J. Jones, A. R. B. H., N. P. Grensel, M. F. K., Randolph +Bolles, J. Flaherty, T. Flaherty, Willie A. Scott, Fred Dierking, Louise +Brown, Mary Dancy, Isobel L. Jacobs, Robbie H. Bradbury, G. H. Ralston, +Lawrence Jones, Carrie E. Weightman, F. S. G., Willie Harris, J. M. +Ingersoll, W. Harman, Louise Fowler, Scilla Fowler, Helen S. Woodworth, +Elsie E. Trautman, Lynn Trautman, Amelie Ferrand, Harry B. Brazier, +Stella Pratt, George H., Robert A. Magill, Nellie R. Field, Paddy Miles, +Clara S. A., Willie R. Perkins, Henry Welsh, Harry Eichbaum, Albert +Evans, Percy L. McDermott, C. C. Gardner, Rosa Freyensee, L. G. Duffy, +Meline Rosenthal, J. Frees, W. F. Reed, F. L. Kittle, Walter Eichbaum, +Tommy Booth, Charlie S. Bryant, Anna Jones, Grace T. Lyman, Nellie +Brees, Walter Mandell, Bronte Smith, Bertie Seymour, Willie Seymour, +Vannoy M. Wallace, Fanny M. Young, J. H. Young, S. M. Young, Lou Bell, +J. W. Long, J. W. Kittrell, Bob Ewing, Otto D., Harry O. Boone, Harry +Kenderdine, Grace Lansingh, Addie M. Taylor, Roy Demster, Percy +Matthews, Harry Lander, Annie Reinhardt, Frank Lander, Ahan Hyde, +Sinclair G. Wills, Bessie H. Moore, Emma F. Cassidy, Pollie Burke, "Lone +Star" (R. H. Davidson), Louis Burtnett, Frank Edinger, Nellie Hyde, +Hallie Hyde, Daisy Hyde, Katie B. Barr, Mollie Edwards, Eddie D. +Knowles, G. W. Bird, Wendell M. Frank, Bertram Frank, Willie Dorrance, +Alfred P., Frank Hoover, S. H. S., J. S., George Shriver, Grace E. +Stevens, Pearlie Hare, Little Pet Hare, Little Mary Hare, Little Johnnie +Campbell, Edwin C. Hutman, Robert G. Bidwell, Edith B., J. F. H., B. M. +Allison, H. M. P., Fred Dale, Leila King, Georgie Clementson, Percy A. +Robbins, Eddie Booth, Norrie M. E., Harry Harper, Frank Ostrander, R. D. +White, H. Sidway, F. Sidway, Gardner Howland, John A. Tompkins, Emma R. +Bullock, Theresa A. Morro, B. L. Worden, Lydia M. Bennett, L. L. G., +Cobweb, Du Puy, Waddy Thompson, D. W. G., John R. Glen, Jessie Glen, +Kirk Romaine, E. D. Kellogg, Frank Crabbs, Thomas M. Armstrong, Henry C. +Deknatels, Clarence Edsall, Fred R. Fisk, W. L. Green, Melville Wilson, +A. C. Chapin, W. F., C. J. Breek, Jun., A. C. Pearsons, Albert J. +Sullivan, Jacob Burr, Joe, Ed Smith, Joe Fitzsimmons, J. F. S., Anna +Gallett, E. J. B., M. J. Caldwell, H. F., J. A. Fritz, Grace Hamilton, +H. W. Smith, Donna A. Smith, Harry C. Sloan, Willie Reynolds, Charles D. +Jones, Dimple McCrea, R. H. K., John Carnahan, James W. Grubb, H. Adams, +Little Jennie Simpson, Chester Marslich, Howard, N. B. B., Mary C. +Green, B. L. Worden, Harry Tompkins, Jameson L. Fumey, Mattie L. Day, +Jennie Janes, Wilfred H. Warner, Ben W. G., Mary E. Heartwell, Teddy +Smith, Charles H. Tucker, T. Bert. John, Vinnie John, Sue John, Edmund +H. Blunt, Nelson C. Metcalf, H. T. Gottsleben, L. G. Baker, Genevieve, +Carl Mueller, M. D. M., "Go Bang" (J. R. Blake), Charles P. Gifford, +Edmund Stirling, Bertie Headley, Bertha S., O. Führlein, M. M., Willie +Green, Charles Barker, George St. Clair, Daisy Crampton, George Taylor, +John N. Howe, C. E. S. S., "Daisy," S. J. G., Carry Owen, Bertie W. +Gifford, Bessie H. Moore, Marion P. Wiggin, F. R. S., Mollie C. +Wrenshall, B. E. H., George B. Rogers, D. H. Rogers, W. H. Cantrell, +Eddie G. Cantrell, Wamie Forse, Bevy Pettit, Woodvill Wrenshall, Howard +Rathbone, G. W. D., Arty Taylor, Joralemon, G. V. E., L. A. Osborne, L. B. +Parsons, Grace and Jennie, Millie Olmstead, Lucy and Fred.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2>A NEW SERIAL.</h2> + +<p>In No. 66 of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, issued February 1, will be begun a +new Serial Story, entitled</p> + +<p class="center">"PHIL'S FAIRIES,"</p> + +<p>by <span class="smcap">Mrs. W. J. Hays</span>, author of "The Princess Idleways," etc.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> +<h2>NOTICE.</h2> + +<p><span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span> <i>beg leave to state, in answer to numerous inquiries, +that the Bound Volume of</i> <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> <i>for 1880 is entirely +out of stock, and will not be reprinted at present</i>.</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—<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> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;">HARPER & BROTHERS,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 36em;">Franklin Square, N. Y.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> +<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="800" height="1150" alt="" /> +<span class="caption">SOME DRAWINGS OF WIGGLE No. 16, OUR ARTIST'S IDEA, AND NEW WIGGLE No. 17.—<span class="smcap">See Page</span> 207.</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> Cradle.</p></div></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, January 25, 1881, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JAN 25, 1881 *** + +***** This file should be named 44712-h.htm or 44712-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/7/1/44712/ + +Produced by Annie R. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Harper's Young People, January 25, 1881 + An Illustrated Monthly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: January 19, 2014 [EBook #44712] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JAN 25, 1881 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie R. McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + * * * * * + +VOL. II.--NO. 65. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, January 25, 1881. Copyright, 1881, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: THE BREAKDOWN, AND ESCAPE OF THE MONKEYS.] + +[Begun in No. 58 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, December 7.] + +TOBY TYLER; + +OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS. + +BY JAMES OTIS. + +CHAPTER VII. + +AN ACCIDENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES. + + +Toby's experience of the evening was very similar to that of the +afternoon, save that he was so fortunate as not to take any more bad +money in payment for his goods. Mr. Jacobs scolded and swore +alternately, and the boy really surprised him in the way of selling +goods, though he was very careful not to say anything about it, but made +Toby believe that he was doing only about half as much work as he ought +to do. Toby's private hoard of money was increased that evening by +presents, ninety cents, and he began to look upon himself as almost a +rich man. + +When the performance was nearly over, Mr. Jacobs called to him to help +in packing up; and by the time the last spectator had left the tent, the +worldly possessions of Messrs. Lord and Jacobs were ready for removal, +and Toby allowed to do as he had a mind to, so long as he was careful to +be on hand when old Ben was ready to start. + +Toby thought that he would have time to pay a visit to his friends the +skeleton and the fat woman, and to that end started toward the place +where their tent had been standing; but to his sorrow he found that it +was already being taken down, and he only had time to thank Mrs. Treat +and to press the fleshless hand of her shadowy husband as they entered +their wagon to drive away. + +He was disappointed, for he had hoped to be able to speak with his +new-made friends a few moments before the weary night's ride commenced; +but failing in that, he went hastily back to the monkeys' cage. Old Ben +was there getting things ready for a start; but the wooden sides of the +cage had not been put up, and Toby had no difficulty in calling the aged +monkey up to the bars. He held one of the fat woman's doughnuts in his +hand, and he said, as he passed it through to the animal: + +"I thought perhaps you might be hungry, Mr. Stubbs, and this is some of +what the skeleton's wife give me. I hain't got very much time to talk +with you now; but the first chance I can get away to-morrow, an' when +there hain't anybody 'round, I want to tell you something." + +The monkey had taken the doughnut in his hand-like paws, and was tearing +it to pieces, eating small portions of it very rapidly. + +"Don't hurry yourself," said Toby, warningly, "for Uncle Dan'l always +told me the worst thing a feller could do was to eat fast. If you want +any more, after we start, just put your hand through the little hole up +there near the seat, an' I'll give you all you want." + +From the look on his face, Toby confidently believed the monkey was +going to make some reply; but just then Ben shut up the sides, +separating Toby and Mr. Stubbs, and the order was given to start. + +Toby clambered up on to the high seat, Ben followed him, and in another +instant the team was moving along slowly down the dusty road, preceded +and followed by the many wagons with their tiny swinging lights. + +"Well," said Ben, when he had got his team well under way; and felt that +he could indulge in a little conversation, "how did you get along +to-day?" + +Toby related all of his movements, and gave the driver a faithful +account of all that had happened to him, concluding his story by saying, +"That was one of Mrs. Treat's doughnuts that I just gave to Mr. Stubbs." + +"To whom?" asked Ben, in surprise. + +"To Mr. Stubbs--the old fellow here in the cart, you know, that's been +so good to me." + +Toby heard a sort of gurgling sound, saw the driver's body sway back and +forth in a trembling way, and was just becoming thoroughly alarmed, when +he thought of the previous night, and understood that Ben was only +laughing in his own peculiar way. + +"How did you know his name was Stubbs?" asked Ben, after he had +recovered his breath. + +"Oh, I don't know that that is his real name," was the quick reply; "I +only call him that because he looks so much like a feller with that name +that I knew at home. He don't seem to mind because I call him Stubbs." + +Ben looked at Toby earnestly for a moment, acting all the time as if he +wanted to laugh again, but didn't dare to for fear he might burst a +blood-vessel, and then he said, as he patted him on the shoulder, "Well, +you are the queerest little fish that I ever saw in all my travels. You +seem to think that that monkey knows all you say to him." + +"I'm sure he does," said Toby, positively. "He don't say anything right +out to me, but he knows everything I tell him. Do you suppose he could +talk if he tried to?" + +"Look here, Mr. Toby Tyler," and Ben turned half around in his seat, and +looked Toby full in the face, as to give more emphasis to his words, +"are you heathen enough to think that that monkey could talk if he +wanted to?" + +"I know I hain't a heathen," said Toby, thoughtfully, "for if I had +been, some of the missionaries would have found me out a good while ago; +but I never saw anybody like this old Mr. Stubbs before, an' I thought +he could talk if he wanted to, just as the Living Skeleton does, or his +wife. Anyhow, Mr. Stubbs winks at me; an' how could he do that if he +didn't know what I've been sayin' to him?" + +"Look here, my son," said Ben, in a most fatherly fashion, "monkeys +hain't anything but beasts, an' they don't know how to talk any more +than they know what you say to 'em." + +"Didn't you ever hear any of them speak a word?" + +"Never. I've been in a circus, man an' boy, nigh on to forty years, an' +I never seen nothin' in a monkey more'n any other beast, except their +awful mischiefness." + +"Well," said Toby, still unconvinced, "I believe Mr. Stubbs knew what I +said to him, anyway." + +"Now don't be foolish, Toby," pleaded Ben. "You can't show me one thing +that a monkey ever did because you told him to." + +Just at that moment Toby felt some one pulling at the back of his coat, +and looking around, he saw it was a little brown hand, reaching through +the bars of the air-hole of the cage, that was tugging away at his coat. + +"There!" he said, triumphantly, to Ben. "Look there. I told Mr. Stubbs +if he wanted anything more to eat, to tell me, an' I would give it to +him. Now you can see for yourself that he's come for it," and Toby took +a doughnut from his pocket, and put it into the tiny hand, which was +immediately withdrawn. "Now what do you think of Mr. Stubbs knowing what +I say to him?" + +"They often stick their paws up through there," said Ben, in a +matter-of-fact tone. "I've had 'em pull my coat in the night till they +made me as nervous as ever any old woman was. You see, Toby, my boy, +monkeys is monkeys; an' you mustn't go to gettin' the idea that they're +anything else, for it's a mistake. You think this old monkey in here +knows what you say? Why, that's just the cuteness of the old fellow; he +watches you to see if he can't do just as you do, an' that's all there +is about it." + +Toby was more than half convinced that Ben was putting the matter in its +proper light, and he would have believed all that had been said if, just +at that moment, he had not seen that brown hand reaching through the +hole to clutch him again by the coat. + +The action seemed so natural, so like a hungry boy who gropes in the +dark pantry for something to eat, that it would have taken more +arguments than Ben had at his disposal to persuade Toby that his Mr. +Stubbs could not understand all that was said to him. Toby put another +doughnut in the outstretched hand, and then sat silently, as if in a +brown-study over some difficult problem. + +For some time the ride was made in silence. Ben was going through all +the motions of whistling without uttering a sound, a favorite amusement +of his, and Toby's thoughts were far away in the humble home he had +scorned, with Uncle Daniel, whose virtues had increased with every mile +of distance which had been put between them, and whose faults had +decreased in a corresponding ratio. + +Toby's thoughtfulness had made him sleepy, and his eyes were almost +closed in slumber, when he was startled by a crashing sound, was +conscious of a sense of being hurled from his seat by some great force, +and then he lay senseless by the side of the road, while the wagon +remained a perfect wreck, from out of which a small army of monkeys +were escaping. Ben's experienced ear had told him at the first crash +that his wagon was breaking down, and without having time to warn Toby +of his peril, he had leaped clear of the wreck, keeping his horses in +perfect control, thus averting any more trouble. It was the breaking of +one of the axles which Toby had heard just before he was thrown from his +seat, and when the body of the wagon had come down upon the hard road, +the entire structure had been wrecked. + +The monkeys, thus suddenly released from their confinement, had +scampered off in every direction, and, by a singular chance, Toby's aged +friend started for the woods in such a direction as to bring him +directly upon the boy's senseless body. As the monkey came up to Toby he +stopped, through the well-known curiosity of his kind, and began to +examine the body carefully, prying into each pocket he could reach, and +trying to open the half-closed eyelids in order to peep in under them. + +Fortunately for Toby, he had fallen upon a mud-bank, and was only +stunned for the moment, having received no serious bruises, even though +he had been thrown such a distance. The attentions bestowed upon him by +the monkey served the purpose of bringing him to his senses; and after +he had looked around him in the gray light of the coming morning, it +would have taken far more of a philosopher than ever old Ben was to have +persuaded the boy that monkeys did not possess reasoning faculties. + +The monkey was picking at his ears, nose, and mouth, as monkeys always +do when they get an opportunity, and the expression of his face was as +grave as possible. Toby firmly believed that the monkey's face showed +sorrow at his fall, and he believed that the attentions which were being +bestowed upon him were for the purpose of learning whether he had been +injured or not. + +"Don't worry, Mr. Stubbs," said Toby, anxious to reassure his friend, as +he sat upright and looked about him. "I didn't get hurt any, but I would +like to know how I got 'way over here." + +It really seemed as if the monkey was pleased to know that his little +friend was not hurt, for he seated himself on his haunches, and his face +expressed the liveliest pleasure that Toby was well again--or at least +that was the way the boy interpreted the look. + +By this time the news of the accident had been shouted ahead from one +team to the other, and all hands were hurrying to the scene for the +purpose of rendering some aid. As Toby saw them coming, he also saw a +number of small forms, looking something like men, hurrying past him, +and for the first time he understood how it was that the aged monkey was +at liberty, and knew that those little dusky forms were the other +occupants of the cage escaping to the woods. + +"See there, Mr. Stubbs! see there!" he exclaimed, quickly, pointing +toward the fugitives; "they're all going off into the woods. What shall +we do?" + +The sight of the runaways seemed to excite the old monkey quite as much +as it had the boy. He jumped to his feet, chattered in the most excited +way, screamed two or three times as if he was calling them back, and +then started off in vigorous pursuit. + +"Now he's gone too," said Toby, disconsolately, believing the old fellow +had run away from him; "I didn't think Mr. Stubbs would treat me this +way." + +[TO BE CONTINUED.] + + + + +A LITTLE ARAB GIRL'S MISSION. + +BY F. E. FRYATT. + + +Many of the readers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE will be both surprised and +sorry to learn that there are parents who are not only willing to sell +their baby girls for a few pennies, but when this can not be done, to +cast them out upon the highways to perish either by the wild beasts that +prowl about at night, or by the fiercely glaring sun that heats the sand +so that even a dog will not venture out at noonday for fear of burning +his paws. + +"Where do these cruel people live, and who are they?" I hear a bright +little girl ask. + +They are the Arabs who inhabit the deserts of Kabylia and the Sahara, in +and south of Algiers, the most northern country in Africa. + +"Ah, but the Arabs live in Arabia, don't they?" objects my young friend. + +Yes, they do; but centuries ago the Arabians, or Saracens--desert +dwellers, as they were then called, Sara meaning desert--sent out large +armies to conquer other nations. These Saracens swept victoriously +through Northern Africa up to the heart of Spain. + +Algiers is now a French province, but the greater part of its people are +descendants of its ancient inhabitants, called Moors, and their +conquerors, the Arabs, together with negroes from Soudan, French +colonists, and a sprinkling of Turks, Maltese, and Spaniards. + +Neither the Moors nor the Arabs think much of little girls. The +latter--especially the poor ones--are sorry when one is born; but when a +boy baby comes, they make him presents, and a bowl of "mughly"--a +compound of rice flavored with sugar and spices, and sprinkled with +delicious nuts--is given to each relative. + +A Moorish girl of even rich parents is considered well enough educated +if she can make preserves, and dye her finger-nails with henna leaves. +She is not treated as unkindly, however, as the little Arab damsels, who +are compelled when quite young to work very hard. They have to draw +water from the wells in heavy leathern buckets; to churn; to feed and +water the young camels and horses: in fact, they live more like slaves +than daughters of the family. + +[Illustration: MARIA IMMANUEL.] + +The subject of my sketch, little Maria Immanuel, is a young Arabian girl +twelve years of age, who, accompanied by a French Missionary Sister, or +nun, has been all through Europe, and is now travelling through this +country, on a curious but praiseworthy mission: she is trying to raise +money to buy and support little Arabian children who are sold or cast +out on the desert. + +Maria Immanuel was herself one of these unfortunates. When a mere baby, +not yet two years old, she was picked up on the highway by some good +women, and taken to their mission-house, where she has lived ever since. + +I dare say my readers would like to know just how she looks, so I will +describe her to the best of my ability. + +Imagine a dark-complexioned, plump young girl, with rather heavy but +pleasant features; fluffy, dark, silken hair floating around her head +and overshadowing her eyes like a little cloud; red lips and milky-white +teeth; and eyes that light up her whole face, so soft are they, yet +brilliant and full of mischievous fire. + +Immanuel--for so her friends call her--is very like many American girls +in disposition, being intensely lively, merry as a cricket, and a great +tease when in the society of children of her own age. + +She has two accomplishments--she speaks French fluently, and sings +sweetly, having a fine contralto voice. + +Immanuel dresses just as she did at the mission-house in the desert of +Kabylia, wearing an Arab cloak of white wool, called a "burnoose," with +a hood for stormy weather, over a white cashmere gown, which hangs in +folds to her ankles, and is made with a yoke at the neck, and full +flowing sleeves. A double row of scarlet and white beads; a girdle, or +sash, of scarlet, blue, and yellow silk, knotted at the waist, and +falling in long fringed ends in front; and a scarlet "fez," or cap, +ornamented with a band of embroidery and a golden tassel, complete her +gay and picturesque costume. Dark or solemn colors offend an Arab's eye, +for he regards them as omens of misfortune. + +There are two sorts of Arabs among whom the missionaries work--the +farmer Arabs, who live in mud villages, and the Bedouins, who dwell in +tents, and roam the deserts a little farther south, and keep large +flocks of sheep and camels. + +These shepherd Arabs despise the milder farmers, but condescend to visit +them, after harvest-time, to barter camels and goats for their barley +and other grains, for _they_ never stoop to till the soil or do work of +any kind; their girls and women--at least such as they see fit to +rear--do all their necessary work, such as cooking, sewing tent and +saddle cloths, making mats, dyeing wool, and tending the animals, with +which they live almost in common, and which are often ranked above them. + +The shepherd Arabs live in tents, removing in winter to the farther +south, but the farmer Arabs live in mud houses, called "gourbis." The +"gourbis," like all native dwellings, are only one story high, on +account of earthquakes; they are made of branches of trees and stones, +cemented together by mud, a thick layer of which covers the roof. +Sometimes forty or more of these houses are united in a village, and +hedged in by tall cactus plants armed with sharp thorns. + +The animals live under the same roof with the family; so what with this +and the smoke, the smell of cookery, and the want of ventilation, you +may imagine the "gourbis" anything but a pleasant place to visit. + +The mission-houses, some of them in the neighborhood of these miserable +villages, and some farther south, are square wooden buildings, with a +court-yard in the middle, on which the windows and doors of all the +rooms open. There are small doors on the outside of the building, but +these are carefully guarded, on account of robbers and wild beasts, +either of which may make attacks at night. + +Now I must explain about the little Arab boys who are being educated and +taken care of by the Missionary Brothers. + +The Arabs, as I have said, love their boys very much indeed, but some +families are so wretchedly poor that they have to dispose of the boys as +well as the girls, when there are too many of them. + +The Brothers, when they pick them up or buy them, teach them to read and +write, and to till the ground, so that they may become farmers. + +The Missionary Sisters teach the girls to read and write, to do plain +sewing and house-work. + +The work of the missions does not stop when the children have grown to +be men and women; they are then allowed to visit each other socially +under proper supervision. If a young couple fall in love with each +other, and wish to marry, the consent of the Superior is asked, and +given; for she knows the youth has been well brought up, and is worthy +to have her young charge for a wife. + +In speaking of these weddings, which are quite festive occasions, little +Maria Immanuel recently said to a lady, in her lively French, which I +will translate: "I do love to have weddings going on, we have _such_ a +good time. Oh, the music! it is fine; and then there is _such +feasting_!" + +No wonder she laid such stress on feasting, for the mission people live +only on the very plainest fare, never seeing butter, meat, or any of the +delicacies American children have every day. + +At weddings--and they generally manage to have them double, triple, or +quadruple weddings--I suppose they have fruit and honey and other fine +dishes for the great occasion. + +To each newly married couple a house, an inclosed acre of land, a horse, +an ass, and a pair of goats are given; also some farming implements; six +each of dishes and bowls, knives and wooden spoons; a bed; and the few +other necessaries for simple housekeeping. + +They now commence life as farmers, and, what is still better, as +Christian young people. Already two Christian Arab villages have sprung +up on the desert, while a third is being built. + +Are the young fathers and mothers sorry when a dear little girl baby +comes into the world? No, they are glad, and love it tenderly, as you +may tell by this little nursery song here translated. I wish I could +give you the wild, sweet music too. Listen--a young Arab mother sings: + + "Come, Cameleer, as quick as you can, + And make us some soap from green Shenan, + To bathe our Lulu dear; + We'll wash her and dress her, + And then we'll caress her: + She'll sleep in her little screer."[1] + +FOOTNOTES: + +[1] Cradle. + + + + +LUCKY TOM'S SHADOW; OR, THE SEA-GULLS' WARNING. + +BY FRANK H. TAYLOR. + + +[Illustration: A LIFE-SAVING STATION.] + +"Be still, Meg, be still. Don't trouble me. Go and play. Young 'uns like +you are good for naught else;" and so saying, Meg's grandmother turned +fretfully toward the window of the cottage, and resumed her listless +watching of the sea-gulls across the inlet, as they fluttered, dipped, +and arose over the wavelets, picking their dinner from the shoals of +little fish the mackerel had chased inshore. + +"But I'm of some use, granny; you said so yesterday, when I fetched the +blueberries. An' I'll go fur some more if you like. I know where there's +lots of 'em--acres of 'em." + +"Do as you please, child, but don't tease your granny," replied the old +woman. + +There was little need to tell Maggie, or "Meg," as she was generally +called, to "do as she pleased," for in all of her short life of ten +years she had never done otherwise. She had roamed unmissed all the days +among the sand-hills of the beach, wading in the "mash" for lily pods, +or hunting in the scrub for birds' eggs. Such a place as school had +never been named to her. The alphabet was unknown to her, but she +understood the rough talk of the fishermen, and could mend a net or +'tend a line with the best man among them. + +Meg lived with her "granny" in a little unpainted hut made from ships' +planking, and set among a few low twisted pines, within a short distance +of a cove where Lucky Tom, her father, who was a pilot, kept his boats +and moored his sloop, when not sailing out on the blue sea watching for +ships to give him employment. + +Meg's mother had died while she was a baby; her "granny" was almost +always cross; so the child had grown up with but a single affection. It +was all for her father, and he returned it in a rough, good-natured way. +So these two were seldom apart when the pilot was ashore, and Meg came +to be known among the beach people as "Lucky Tom's Shadow." + +Now just why the pilot was called "Lucky Tom" does not appear: but it +was said among the folks on the coast that fish would nibble at his +hooks, and obligingly allow themselves to be caught by the dozen, when +nobody else could catch even a porgy. + +Near the cottage, Lucky Tom had raised the mast of a ship once wrecked +on the bar, and made a platform at the top, with steps leading to it; +and Meg was never so happy as when she sat high up in her "bird's nest," +as she called it, with her father, and listened to his surprising yarns +about foreign ports, while they scanned the horizon with a glass for +incoming ships. + +Meg tried hard to behave kindly toward her grandmother; but the old +woman never smiled, and seldom troubled herself about Meg's goings or +comings. + +"She's purty certain to git 'round at meal-times, an' that's often +enough," was about all she would say when Lucky Tom scolded about the +child's "bringin' up." + +Nearly twenty years before, Lucky Tom's father, Jack Bolden, had gone +off in his schooner, the _Petrel_, to catch cod, and from that day +neither the _Petrel_ nor her crew were ever seen. After months had gone +by, poor Mrs. Bolden fell into a fever, and when she was able to move +about, she sat all day by the window, looking out upon the waves, and +the neighbors gazed at her sorrowfully, for they said she had lost her +reason; but in Meg's eyes, to whom she had always been the same, she was +a very wise and mysterious person, and the tales she repeated to the +little girl, woven from her deranged fancy, were full of strange +sea-monsters, talking fish, and birds that whispered secrets to those +who watched for long-absent friends. All these were listened to and +believed with the full confidence of childish innocence. + +Meg tied on her old and faded bonnet, picked up her basket, and walked +away with a light step to the blueberry pasture. + +She soon became so busy picking the clusters of round little fruit, as +they peeped from beneath the dark and glossy leaves, that she did not +see how dark the eastern sky had become, until a cool gust of wind +caught her sun-bonnet, and sent it half across the field. Then she +noticed that the sun was already hidden by the advancing clouds, and +away out across the black fretted sea a long line of foam revealed the +white-caps leaping in great haste over each other, just like a flock of +sheep, in their race to reach the sands. + +The only near refuge for poor Meg was the Life-saving Station--one of +those lonely buildings that the government has placed along the coast, +with boats and crews, whose duty keeps them on the watch all winter for +shipwrecks. It was midsummer now, and the station was locked up tight; +but Meg knew how to get the better of locks and bars. She reached the +building just in time to escape a wetting from the thick rain that now +shut out the sea and land alike, beating fiercely against the stout +structure, and running in many little rivulets down the sand, to be +swallowed up, as all water is at last, by the great ocean. + +At one corner the winds had blown away the sand, so Meg found room to +crawl with her basket beneath the floor, and a loose board she had long +ago discovered admitted her to the interior. What a gloomy, close place +in contrast with the wildness of the scene outside! Have you ever +visited a station of the Life-saving Service? No? Well, then, I'll try, +with the aid of the picture, to explain what it is like. + +[Illustration: INTERIOR OF THE LIFE-SAVING STATION.] + +First, there is the life-boat, light but very strong, and shaped so it +will rise over the tops of the waves rather than go through them. This +one is handled by about six men; one, the captain, to steer, four men to +row, and one with a pike-staff and lines in the bow. You notice that the +wheels of the truck holding the boat are very wide; that allows them to +roll over the sand without sinking into it. Under the boat is a leathern +bucket, a coil of rope, and a grapnel or hook, and in front an ingenious +device, consisting of a board with a row of pegs about the edge, upon +which a line many hundreds of feet in length is placed, with the end +tied to a projectile in the queer-looking cannon above. This is intended +to be shot over the rigging of ships ashore, and used to haul out the +larger rope upon the cart to the left of the picture, and to which the +canvas bags hanging from the ceiling are fastened, to bring people from +the wreck. Back of the cart you see rockets and signal torches, with a +long tin trumpet, all neatly kept in a rack. There are lanterns too, and +against the partition a mortar and some balls, two axes, and many other +tools. With all of these and their uses Meg was well acquainted. +Sometimes she had seen the crew run with the boat down to the water, and +go through with their drill, when the Superintendent came there; and +once the men hauled it out in the night, everybody greatly excited, and +put out into the waves to pick up the crew of a sinking steamer; but a +schooner was there first, and they only brought back a woman and little +girl. How scared they did look, the poor things! and how thankful the +child was for the use of Meg's only spare frock! + +There seemed no prospect of the rain ceasing, and so Meg sat down in the +back room upon a bench; and as it was not in the nature of such an +active little girl to sit still long and keep awake, she very soon fell +asleep. + +When she started up from a dream full of strange sea-goblins, it was to +find that everything was dark. The rain had ceased, and Meg, after +rubbing her eyes, concluded to go home. When she lifted the board she +discovered, to her terror, that the rain had washed her burrow full of +sand, and she was a prisoner. The strong doors and windows resisted her +puny efforts, so she sat down upon a coil of rope to consider the +situation. + +Now most children would have cried; but Meg hadn't done such a thing +since she was teething. No, she only taxed her little head for some +means of escape. First, she must have a light. She well knew where the +matches were kept, and in a moment she had a lantern burning brightly. +Then it occurred to her to try the roof. It was a difficult matter to +lift the heavy trap leading to the little platform from which the men +usually watched during the winter days; but she soon stood out in the +bleak night, the salt spray driving against her face, and the gale +rushing by, as though it would tear her hold from the railing to which +she clung. + +White sea-gulls whirled about her head, attracted by the light, +screaming hoarse and discordant notes in her ears. They terrified her at +first, but she soon recalled what her "granny" had said, and felt sure +the birds were trying to tell her something, and that it must be about +her father, who was still out in the terrible storm, unable to find the +inlet. + +From far out on the sea the wind brought a moaning sound, as though some +unhappy creature called in vain for help. It came nearer and more +distinct from the northward, finally dying away in the distance upon the +other hand. + +Fierce lightning flashes broke from the retreating storm-clouds, and by +the weird electric glare Meg saw a wild figure, with arms upraised, +which seemed to come out of the surf, and speed along the sands. By the +same light she thought she saw the topmasts of a vessel on the sea. + +The gulls wheeled and screamed now more excitedly than ever. Meg was +nearly overcome with terror, but losing not a moment, she sprang down +the stairs, returning with an armful of torches. And now the lurid flare +of the life-saving signal burned up fiercely, the winds catching the +flame, and bearing thousands of dancing sparks away across the beach, +while the shape of the station and the heroic little girl upon the roof +stood out boldly, just in time for Lucky Tom to put his helm down, and +head his boat away from the fatal breakers he was nearing in the +darkness. + +And now suppose we let good-natured Lucky Tom tell the rest of the story +in his own style. + +"Well, sir, you see, the blow came up kind o' unexpected like, an' I +knowed we couldn't make port; but I didn't much care for that, as pilots +has to take all sorts o' weather, but we reckoned we could keep the +craft off an' on about the blowin' buoy; but, bless you! the buoy got +adrift, an' floated away down the beach. We heard it groanin' ahead of +us all the time, an' afore we knowed where we was, we got nigh into the +breakers. Just then I seen a twinkle on the beach, an' shortly a torch +showed us the station, with an angel o' mercy a-wavin' it from the roof; +an' it wa'n't a minnit too soon, nuther. + +"We kept away till daylight a-watchin' an' wonderin' at the torches +burnin' all the time from atop o' the station, and then we made the +inlet. Mebbe it'll seem queer to you, but none of us thought of Meg when +we saw the light; but the whole thing was plain enough when one of the +crew came runnin' to the house, after we'd been ashore a bit, an' +hollered: + +"'Why, Lucky Tom, the angel we saw was nobody but your own Shadow, +little Meg, an' she's there yit, wavin' a flag.' So we went over an' let +her out. The young'un told us all about hearin' the sound o' complainin' +on the sea, the black figure that ran along the beach, an' the warnin' +the birds give her. You see, that was a notion her granny put into her +head, the one about the birds. Speakin' of the old woman, there was +another queer thing that happened on the same night. We couldn't find +marm high nor low; but when Meg spoke of the wild spirit on the beach, +we knowed it must be her, and sure enough we found the poor old body +'way up by the point, 'most dead. She had an idee, you see, that when it +blowed hard the _Petrel_ would come ashore, though I reckon the _Petrel_ +has been at the bottom more'n twenty years now. We took her home an' +'tended her, but she didn't last long after that." + +The story of Meg's adventure came to the ears of a lady on the mainland, +and she soon afterward paid a visit to the little girl, who was now left +all alone when her father went away, and it was arranged that she should +live in the lady's house, and go to school. And now the school-master +says she promises to prove as bright as she is brave. + + + + +HOW IT HAPPENED TO SNOW. + +BY I. M. + + + What Jack Frost said to the trees, dear, + It never would do to tell; + He whispered the magic words, dear, + To oak and maple as well. + Some of them blushed bright red, dear, + And some of them turned to yellow, + While Jack he laughed in his sleeve, dear, + The good-for-nothing old fellow. + + What Jack Frost did to the leaves, dear, + I never would dare to say; + They wrung their little brown hands, dear, + In a pitiful, helpless way. + The kind sun felt so sad, dear, + To see the leaves in pain, + That he hid his face for a week, dear, + And wept great showers of rain. + + But Jack Frost's cruel breath, dear, + Grew colder day by day, + And chilled the leaves, until, dear, + They withered and dropped away. + Then the tall trees stood amazed, dear, + Lamenting, when they found + That their green and rustling robes, dear, + Lay faded on the ground. + + The angels too were grieved, dear, + When the trees looked cold and bare, + So they gathered the soft white clouds, dear, + That floated in upper air, + And tossed great armfuls down, dear, + In the stillness of the night, + And were glad to see how pure, dear, + The world looked clothed in white. + + What the children said next day, dear, + I think you must surely know; + But please don't say that I told, dear, + Just how it happened to snow; + For that wicked old Jack Frost, dear, + Would nip my nose in spite, + And pinch my poor ten toes, dear, + The next cold winter's night. + + + + +[Illustration: A MOTHER'S DEVOTION.--FROM AN ETCHING BY DE MARY.] + + + + +THE ADVENTURES OF A RUNAWAY KING. + +BY I. D. WILDER. + + +A king running away from his kingdom, with all his courtiers and people +in hot pursuit to catch him and bring him back! Did you ever hear of +anything more absurd? + +There was a reason for it too, or at least the King thought so. The +truth is, this unfortunate monarch was embarrassed by the possession of +two kingdoms at once, and it so happened that the kingdom where he was +was not the kingdom where he desired to be, so he made up his mind to +run away. + +Now I suppose, before I go any farther, I may as well let you into the +secret of his name and country, if you have not already guessed it. He +was Henry III. of France and Poland, son of Catherine de Medicis, one of +the wickedest Queens who ever ruled over any country, and brother of +Charles IX., King of France. + +Only a few months before his flight from Cracow he had been elected King +of Poland. He had been received with great magnificence by the Polish +nobles, and the festivities had lasted many days. After everything had +settled down into the usual quiet, Henry found life in Poland rather +dull; so when he received a letter from Queen Catherine announcing the +death of Charles IX., and saying that his presence in France was very +necessary to maintain his rights as his brother's heir, he was quite +ready to abandon his Polish kingdom, and start at once for Paris. + +But it was very far from being the intention of the Polish magnates to +let him off so easily. They naturally considered the well-being of their +kingdom as important--to them at least--as that of France could possibly +be. So they voted an address of condolence to the King on the death of +his brother, prayed him still to remain King of Poland, and entreated +him not to leave the kingdom without giving notice to the Senate, and +first appointing some one to act as Viceroy. + +Henry returned a courteous but rather vague reply, thanking the nobles +for their good wishes, but giving them little satisfaction as to his +intentions. + +In the mean time Henry's French attendants were urging upon him the +necessity of returning at once to France, lest he should lose the French +crown. His mother, Queen Catherine, sent messenger after messenger, +urging him to hasten, and his own inclinations were entirely in favor of +instant departure. So during the night a council of the French nobles +was held in Henry's apartments, and it was settled that they should +arrange matters for a secret departure. They must go secretly, if they +went at all, for the Polish Senate was determined to keep their King in +the country, and the people were equally determined not to let him go. + +Then the preparations began. In the first place, the French Ambassador, +as had been agreed upon, asked permission to return immediately to +France, as his mission had ended with the death of Charles IX. +Permission was granted, and he left Cracow at once. He took with him the +King's jewels and valuable papers, and made arrangements at all the +principal towns on his route for horses and provisions to be got ready +for illustrious members of his suite, who, as he said, were not able to +leave as soon as he did. Next the King sent off M. Chemerault (the +messenger who had brought him the news of Charles's death), on the +pretense of carrying letters to Queen Catherine, but really to wait at a +short distance from the capital until the King could join him. He was to +act as guide, and conduct Henry in safety across the border. + +The next step was rather unfortunate for the King. A train of ten mules +laden with coffers was observed to leave the city, and when it was found +that the baggage belonged to the Grand Master of the King's household, +the suspicions of the people were aroused, and they became wild with +excitement. It was in vain that Henry assured them that he had no +intention of leaving the kingdom. They did not believe him--and with +very good reason--and the tumult increased, until at last the Senate +ordered guards to be placed at all the entrances to the palace, and gave +instructions to arrest any one who should that night attempt to stir +out, not even excepting the King himself. + +After supper the King retired, and kept all his courtiers about him for +a long time, chatting merrily with them, and appearing so easy and +unconcerned that he fancied he must have entirely deceived the Poles, +and then he made a sign that he wanted to go to sleep. The Chamberlain, +Count Teuczin, drew the curtains of the King's bed, and a page put his +sword and a candle on a table close by--a ceremony which all understood +as a signal to leave the room, except the Chamberlain, whose duty it was +to stand at the foot of the bed until the King was asleep. It had been +agreed that the King and a few of his nobles should meet at a ruined +chapel, half a mile from the city gate, where one of Henry's equerries +was to be waiting with horses. + +The nobles supped together, and then quietly left the palace. They were +permitted to pass the sentinels on their assurance that they were bound +for a frolic in the town. + +Henry, in the mean time, was doing his best to make the Chamberlain +believe him asleep, and when he was at length convinced of the fact, he +left the room. In a moment the King's attendants had softly entered the +room and barred the door against all intruders, had hurriedly dressed +the King, and made all their preparations for departure. Fortunately, +Souvre, one of the King's gentlemen, happened to remember a small +postern-door at the end of a passage leading from the kitchen, which +opened at the back of the castle on a faubourg of Cracow outside the +walls. This door, which had been made for the use of the servants of the +palace, had often been found useful by the cavaliers of Henry's court +when they wished to go out and in unobserved. Souvre having found that +no sentinel had been posted there, sent Miron, the King's physician, to +reconnoitre, and see if they could get out by that way. He found the +door ajar, and was joyfully returning to report, when suddenly the +steward of the household, Alemanni, appeared from the kitchen, where he +was evidently on the watch, and carefully looking about him--though +without discovering Miron, who was sheltered by the staircase--gave +orders for the postern to be locked and the key to be brought to him. + +This was a terrible blow to all their hopes. The King was in despair and +was about to return to bed, but Souvre encouraged him to persist, and +rely upon him to get him out of the dilemma. + +So they cautiously left the apartments of the King, and crept softly +down the stairs until they came to the passage, where another flight of +steps led down to the kitchen. Here they got a great fright from hearing +the voice of the steward just at the foot of the stairs. He heard their +steps, and called out, "Who goes there?" + +"It is I, monsieur," said Souvre, boldly descending a few steps, while +he made a sign to the others to go on toward the door. + +"And what do you want?" asked the steward. + +"The key of the postern-door," replied Souvre. "I have a private errand, +now that the King my master can dispense with my services." + +"What errand?" persisted the steward. + +"The truth is," replied Souvre, haughtily, "I have an appointment in the +faubourg. I pray you therefore, monsieur, give me the key of the little +door without further parley." + +This haughty manner impressed the steward, who knew that Souvre was high +in his master's favor, and he somewhat reluctantly gave the key, and +offered to accompany Souvre to open the door for him. He, however, only +laughed at this, and bounding up the staircase long before the steward, +who was old and infirm, could reach the top, he found the King and his +companions concealing themselves as much as possible in the shadow of +the walls, opened the door, through which they hurriedly passed, and +locking it behind them, they made all possible speed toward the little +ruined chapel, the place of rendezvous. + +The night was pleasant, though very dark, and after losing their way +once or twice, they finally reached the chapel. There they found the +equerry with the horses, but Chemerault, who was to be their guide, and +several other gentlemen of the King's household, had not made their +appearance. They waited for them as long as they dared, but finally +Souvre persuaded the King to mount, and trust to God and fortune for +safety. + +They set out, therefore, but their difficulties had only just begun. In +the first place, not one of them knew the way, being all absolute +strangers in Poland; and they did not even understand the dialect of the +country, so that they could inquire. The night was dark, and the roads +were horrible, though that did not matter so much, as they could not +keep in them, but continually found themselves wandering away and +floundering in deep morasses, blundering about in pine forests, and +getting entangled in brambles. + +So they went on, stumbling over stones, sinking into bogs, and wading +through brooks, till I think they must have wished themselves safe back +in their beds in Cracow. + +At length Souvre saw a faint light glimmering in the distance, and on +approaching it he found it came from the hut of a charcoal burner deep +in the forest. + +The poor charcoal burner was so terrified by the approach of the +horsemen that he darted up into his loft by a ladder on the outside, +which he drew up after him. The cavaliers shouted and knocked, and +knocked and shouted, but all in vain. Not an inch would the charcoal +burner stir; so at last they began to batter down the door. + +Finally Souvre managed to scramble up to the loft, where he found the +poor man crouching in a corner in a perfect agony of terror. He tried to +calm his fears by speaking gently, but the strange language only made +him more terrified. + +So there was nothing for it but to drag him down, and carry him off to +the King, which they accordingly did. Henry had learned a few words of +the peasants' dialect, so he soon re-assured the poor man, and made him +comprehend that they only wanted him for a guide--an office which he +readily took upon himself. + +He was swung up on a horse in front of one of the cavaliers, and guided +them safely to the town of Liszki. Soon after this they came up with +Chemerault and the others, who had missed the King in the darkness, and +had arrived before him. + +In the mean time you can readily imagine that there was a great uproar +in the palace at Cracow when the King's flight was discovered. The +Senate and the nobles were absolutely beside themselves with rage at +having been so outwitted. The French who had been left behind in +ignorance of their master's intended flight were deeply indignant with +the King for his treacherous betrayal of them. The mob howled and yelled +in the streets, and everybody scolded poor Alemanni. + +Karnkowski, the Grand Referendary of Poland, was dispatched in a coach +and six to bring back the King, accompanied by a troop of Tartar cavalry +armed with bows and arrows, and a howling mob, with sticks, stones, and +javelins, followed after. + +They came in sight of the fugitives at the town of Osweicin, where some +of the gentlemen had dismounted to rest and refresh themselves for an +hour. But when they caught sight of the Tartar troops they did not tarry +long, you may be sure, but put spurs to their horses, and fled as fast +as they could. + +Then there followed a royal chase, in which the King was the hunted +instead of the hunter--the King and his cavaliers urging their tired +horses to their utmost speed in front; following fast behind, +Karnkowski, in his coach and six, the wild troop of Tartar bowmen, and +the disorderly mob bringing up the rear. + +Henry and his gentlemen rode fast and well. They crossed the Vistula on +a bridge of planks, which the cavaliers destroyed just as their pursuers +came up; and as they rode on they left their Tartar enemies howling with +rage and gnashing their teeth, as they saw the river rolling between +them and the fugitives, and knew they must go six miles around in order +to come up with them. + +The danger was over now. They did not overtake Henry until after he had +passed the frontier town of Plesse, and they dared not capture him on +Austrian territory. + +Count Teuczin therefore approached the King, accompanied only by five +Tartars, and delivered his message from the Senate to entreat him to +return, and offering his own fealty to the King. Henry refused to +return, but he sent back fair words to the Senate, and they parted +amicably, Henry to pursue his journey to Vienna, where he arrived +without further adventures, the Count to return sadly to Cracow to +announce the escape of their King to the magnates of Poland. + +But in my opinion if they had had Henry to rule over them four years +instead of four months, far from grieving over his loss, they would have +considered themselves well rid of him; for lazy, selfish, cowardly, +false, and cruel as he was, they might have sought the wide world over +without finding a worse King than Henry III. of Valois. + + + + +THE NEW SCHOLAR. + +BY EMILY H. LELAND. + + +Elbert Collins had never been marked absent or tardy since his first +going to school in September, and it was his ambition to finish the +whole year without a "mark," partly because he really liked to be +prompt, and partly because he thought it would be so nice to see his +name in the paper at the end of the school year. + +December had come, and the short mornings were very lively ones in his +mother's little kitchen, because of so many things to be done before the +nine-o'clock bell. There was the wood-box to fill, the canary to feed, +and generally the cradle to rock, while the mother attended to such work +as could be done best while there was some one to look after the baby. + +On this particular morning, however, the mother had gone to Mrs. +Brown's, around the corner, for a cup of yeast, and had become so +interested in a recipe for chocolate cake, a pattern for a boy's +blouse, the pound party at the Methodist minister's, and some new ways +for trimming Christmas trees, that she entirely forgot the time of day. + +Meanwhile little Elbert, with his overshoes and scarf on, and cap in +hand, rocked the cradle, and kept his eyes on the clock. Five, ten, +minutes passed away. The long hand was crawling alarmingly near +last-bell time. He tied his scarf, pulled his cap over his ears, and +rocked harder than ever. Still no mother. Then he went to the door, +looked anxiously toward the corner, and sent out a lusty +shout--"Mamma-a-a, come ho-o-ome!" but no one responded except the baby. +"Oh dear! dear!" he exclaimed, as he rushed back to the cradle; and just +then his expectant ears heard the first slow cling-clang of the last +bell. It would ring for five minutes; the school-house was only three +streets away, and there was time enough yet, if he could only start. One +thing was certain--he would never leave his little baby sister. He +remembered a story of a poor baby who was almost burned to death because +her brother, who had promised to take care of her, left her, and ran out +on the street to play. + +He went to the door and shouted again. It was something like the case of +Casabianca. But when two mothers are talking about patterns and +Christmas trees, who ever knew them to notice every little outside +noise? Elbert's shout ended in a big sob. A man going to lose his entire +fortune couldn't feel worse than this little fellow did, with that +dreadful "tardy" mark hanging over his head. + +Then a happy thought flashed into his mind. Running to the cradle, he +caught up the baby, scattering pillows and blankets right and left, +bundled an old shawl over her, and snatching her half-filled milk +bottle, dashed out of the house, and ran off in the direction of that +clanging bell as fast as his stout young legs could carry him. The baby +was a light little mite, only two and a half months old, and Elbert was +nearly six years, and large for his age. + +He met two women whom he knew, and who commenced making weak remarks, +like, "Why, Elbert!" and "What on earth!" but he bounded past them, with +no answer but his panting breath, and reached the school-house in such +good time that the bell gave its last two clangs just as he handed over +his funny burden to his astonished teacher. + +"I couldn't leave her, and I _couldn't_ be late," he said, as soon as he +could get breath enough to speak. "And she'll go to sleep, and be real +good," he continued, as the teacher began to unwind the shawl. + +And then the whole room saw a surprised, half-smothered-looking little +baby, still in her night-gown, one bare foot sticking out, and her +little fists tightly clinched, as if defying anybody to send her home. + +The teacher was a good-natured young lady, and she laughed so that she +almost dropped the baby on the floor, and then the whole room laughed, +and finally Elbert joined in; for he was glad he had escaped the tardy +mark, and the baby certainly did look funny in school. + +Of course there could be no order. Nearly all the scholars had babies at +home, or were well acquainted with those of their neighbors; but they +acted as if they had never seen one before, and every movement of the +little pink hands and every turn of the small bald head made them scream +with laughter, until the principal of the school came into the room to +see what the disturbance was, and after trying to look severe for five +seconds, he laughed too. + +And while all this fun was going on, Elbert's mother was running wildly +through the four rooms of her little house, calling her boy's name, and +feeling sure that the children were either killed and thrown into the +cistern, or else carried off like Charley Ross, and lost forever. The +scattered pillows and upset rocking-chair, indeed, made the kitchen +appear as if there had been a struggle, and the wide-open door and the +gate creaking to and fro had a dreadful look to Elbert's mother. Just +then the women whom Elbert had met stopped at the gate, and said to the +mother, who was coming hurriedly out, "Is anything the matter, Mrs. +Collins?" + +"Oh, I don't know where my children are! I left them while I ran into +Mrs. Brown's a minute, and the kitchen's all upset, and I'm afraid--" + +"Why, we just now met Elbert with the baby, kiting along like the wind, +over there by Webster & Green's. Leastways we supposed it was the baby, +from the way he carried it. And he never--" + +"Merciful man! he's taken her to school!" + +About ten minutes later, a flustered little woman rapped at the door of +the First Primary Room, and inquired for a baby. It was handed to her, +along with an empty milk bottle, and wrapping them both in a red cloak +which she carried, she thanked the smiling teacher, and walked quickly +home. + +At first she had felt very angry toward Elbert; but when she looked at +the clock, and remembered his horror of being late, she softened toward +him considerably, and by the time she had got the baby home, and found +her none the worse for her little run away, she had her laugh also; and +being a fair-minded woman, she told Elbert when he came home to dinner +that it was very thoughtless in her to have staid so long at Mrs. +Brown's. And Elbert gave her a hug, and said he was "glad he didn't +_leave_ the baby, 'cause she might have been burned up, you know!" + + + + +[Begun in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 58, December 7.] + +MILDRED'S BARGAIN. + +A Story for Girls. + +BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE. + +CHAPTER VII. + + +How long she was unconscious, Milly never knew. She awoke to find +herself in a beautiful white bed, in a room she had never seen. All +signs of the storm seemed shut out; there was a bright fire on the +hearth; the room seemed full of pleasant shadows and flickering beams of +light. Milly was only half conscious that some one spoke to her, and +gave her something pleasant to drink. Then she drifted off again, with a +pleasant confusion of fancies in her mind. When she next awoke, it +seemed again to be evening, but she was conscious of a certain change in +her surroundings. A little table was drawn near her; half-used medicine +bottles were upon it; Deborah was sitting over by the fire, and Miss +Jenner was standing in the window. + +"Debby," she said, surprised to find her voice so weak; and then she +lifted up her hand, and saw it was very thin. + +"My blessed lamb!" cried the old woman, hastening to her side, followed +quickly by Alice. "So you're better!" + +Mildred found she had to keep still a long time before she could say any +more. She nearly fell asleep again. + +"Debby," she said presently, "is it long since I fainted? What time is +it?" + +"Oh, my lovey," said the old nurse, "you've lain in that blessed bed two +weeks. You've been very ill, but, thank the Lord, you're better." + +This was all Mildred knew for days. She had had a fever; and finding out +the condition of things at the cottage, Miss Jenner had taken Mrs. Lee's +affairs into her own hands. She had kept Milly, as a matter of course, +had sent a good servant to care for Mrs. Lee, filled the store closet +with every delicacy, and allowed Debby to watch and care for her +"child," as she always called Mildred. Sometimes, as she lay still in +her comfortable bed, Milly tried to recall the dreadful scene at Mr. +Hardman's; and one evening, when she was sitting up for the first time +before the fire, and after she had finished a dainty little supper; she +ventured to ask Miss Jenner a few questions. + +[Illustration: MILDRED CONFESSES ALL TO MISS JENNER.] + +"Miss Jenner," she said, softly, "do you know all about it?" + +"Yes," said Miss Jenner, smiling. + +"And are they going to take me to court?" + +"_No_," answered the elder lady, emphatically. + +"But why not?" Milly persisted. "They said I stole that money." + +"And _I_ said you _didn't_," retorted Miss Jenner. "You let it all out +in your fever, my dear. I think I understand it all." + +"And you know--" faltered Mildred. + +Miss Jenner smiled. + +"Just see if I don't know," she said. "One evening a precious old humbug +calling herself Widow Robbins came here to find you, and try and get out +of you what you owed her--you _did_ owe it, Milly--and my boy Roger was +standing behind one of the trees, and heard the conversation; so he knew +you were very badly off for twenty-two dollars, and as soon as he could +scrape it together, what does he do but send it to you in a private +note, saying you can pay it back to _him_ when you like." + +"Yes," said Mildred, eagerly, "I found that note one afternoon on my +return home; but _in it_ he bound me over not to speak of where I got +the money until he came back. I felt dreadfully about it; but as soon as +mother got well I intended telling her the whole story, and devising +some way of paying Roger right back; and I will yet, Miss Jenner." + +There was a moment's pause before Mildred said, "But how about the +store--the robbery?" + +"My dear," said Miss Jenner, "I am of the opinion that that was all +arranged between Tom Hardman and Mrs. Robbins. I've seen her, and she +admits she told him the whole story. He was angry because you seemed to +snub him; and you made him feel his vulgarity, and so he devised this +trick out of revenge. If there _was_ any robbery, _he_ was the thief!" + +"And have you seen him?" inquired Milly, tears of gratitude and +thankfulness pouring down her cheeks. + +"Yes," said Miss Jenner, "and he and his father say the thing 'may blow +over'; but that won't do for me. The first day you're well enough, you +must drive down there in my carriage, and have them tell you they +withdraw the accusation, and apologize for having made it. Now you must +not talk any more." And Miss Jenner kissed her young friend, and moved +away, taking up a book in a distant part of the room. + +Mildred never forgot the two weeks that followed. With Miss Jenner she +had long talks, in which she realized not only the folly of her +extravagance, but the actual sin of her running into debt. A great many +things which she had never thought of as serious now appeared to her in +the light of _principles_, without which, as Miss Jenner told her, she +could not live a perfect or even an upright life. When the day came on +which she was declared well enough to drive with Miss Jenner to Mr. +Hardman's, Mildred felt too humbled to rejoice in being received with +any honor. + +The girls looked at her, as she followed Miss Jenner into Mr. Hardman's +office, nudging each other, and casting half-envious glances toward +their former companion. Mary Hardman was nowhere to be seen, but Mr. Tom +was with his father, and received Miss Jenner and Mildred with a stiff +sort of pompousness. Miss Jenner had very little to say, and it was only +later that Milly fully recalled the scene--Mr. Hardman's apologies, and +Mr. Tom's surly assent. When they came back to the store, Milly paused +to say a few words here and there, and as she walked away, it was some +relief to hear a voice saying, + +"Well, I'm glad it's all right; I never _could_ believe it of Milly +Lee." + + * * * * * + +When I knew Mildred Lee she was a woman of nearly thirty, and at the +head of her own house; but the lesson of her girlhood had done her a +lasting service. No one ever had it to say of her that she bought or +used any article for which she could not at the _moment_ pay, and her +advice to young people was invaluable. When I knew her, her home was in +the Brick House. Mrs. Lee did not long survive the serious illness of +that winter, and Miss Jenner cared tenderly for the orphans her old +friend's widow left. + +Mildred speaks now with tears of gratitude of all the past, even of its +miseries; and the gray silk dress, worn but once, and still brown with +stains, is treasured as a memorial of the _bargain_ by which Mildred +purchased her high sense of honor. + +THE END. + + + + +FAITHLESS SALLY BROWN. + +AN OLD BALLAD. + + + Young Ben he was a nice young man, + A carpenter by trade; + And he fell in love with Sally Brown, + That was a lady's-maid. + +[Illustration] + + But as they fetched a walk one day, + They met a press-gang crew; + And Sally she did faint away, + Whilst Ben he was brought to. + + The boatswain swore with wicked words, + Enough to shock a saint, + That though she did seem in a fit, + 'Twas nothing but a feint. + + "Come, girl," said he, "hold up your head-- + He'll be as good as me; + For when your swain is in our boat + A boatswain he will be." + + So when they'd made their game of her, + And taken off her elf, + She roused, and found she only was + A-coming to herself. + + "And is he gone, and is he gone?" + She cried, and wept outright; + "Then I will to the water-side, + And see him out of sight." + +[Illustration] + + A waterman came up to her; + "Now, young woman," said he, + "If you weep on so, you will make + Eye water in the sea." + + "Alas! they've taken my beau, Ben, + To sail with old Benbow"; + And her woe began to run afresh, + As if she'd said, Gee woe! + + Says he, "They've only taken him + To the tender ship, you see." + "The tender ship," cried Sally Brown-- + "What a hardship that must be! + + "Oh! would I were a mermaid now, + For then I'd follow him; + But, oh! I'm not a fish woman, + And so I can not swim. + + "Alas! I was not born beneath + The Virgin and the Scales, + So I must curse my cruel stars, + And walk about in Wales." + + Now Ben had sailed to many a place + That's underneath the world; + But in two years the ship came home, + And all her sails were furled. + + But when he called on Sally Brown, + To see how she got on, + He found she'd got another Ben, + Whose Christian name was John. + +[Illustration] + + "O Sally Brown, O Sally Brown, + How could you serve me so? + I've met with many a breeze before. + But never such a blow!" + +[Illustration] + + Then reading on his 'bacco box, + He heaved a heavy sigh + And then began to eye his pipe, + And then to pipe his eye. + +[Illustration] + + And then he tried to sing "All's Well!" + But could not, though he tried; + His head was turned--and so he chewed + His pigtail till he died. + + His death, which happened in his berth, + At forty-odd befell; + They went and told the sexton, and + The sexton tolled the bell. + + THOMAS HOOD. + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX] + + + SIERRA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. + + I live 'way up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, five thousand feet + above the sea. 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I have a horse and + a saddle and bridle of my own, and in the summer I have to ride + lots. Sometimes I ride thirty miles at a time. + + I get up the cows, and take them out every day. In the summer we + have school within half a mile of our house. + + BERTIE R. + + * * * * * + + NEWPORT, KENTUCKY. + + This is the first letter I ever wrote to the Post-office Box. Now I + thought I would tell about the freezing of the Ohio River. Just + below here it is frozen solid, and crowds of people skate on it + every day. It is not frozen in front of Newport, because a steam + ferry runs between here and Cincinnati, and the boats keep the ice + broken. They do not allow it to get thick enough to hold people, + because if it was, everybody would walk over without having to pay + the ferry. + + The Licking River, a very small tributary of the Ohio, is frozen + over too, and I went skating on it yesterday. + + HENRY R. + + * * * * * + + ATLANTA, GEORGIA. + + We want to know who "Jimmy Brown" is. When papa read "Our Baby," + mamma, my aunts, uncles, and cousins laughed until the tears ran + down their cheeks. + + I made me some arrows with pins stuck in them. + + The Christmas number of YOUNG PEOPLE was the best of all. + + STEWART H. + + * * * * * + + DETROIT, MICHIGAN. + + I am a little boy eight years old. I commenced to take YOUNG PEOPLE + last November, and I like it very much. I enjoy reading the little + letters in the Post-office Box, and I like all of the stories. I + think "Toby Tyler" is splendid. + + I hope all the little folks who read YOUNG PEOPLE had a Merry + Christmas and a Happy New Year. + + FRED R. + + * * * * * + + BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. + + I was nine years old on the 7th of January. Papa has taken YOUNG + PEOPLE for me ever since it began. He sent for a cover, and is + having the first volume bound. I like it very much indeed. + + I have had lots of sport coasting, and I will be very sorry when + the snow is gone. + + CRAIG C. + + * * * * * + + EAST RUPERT, VERMONT. + + My home is in Factory Point, but I am up to my grandpa's now. He + has got a big farm. He has fourteen cows and two calves. My papa is + a doctor, and I have lots of rides with him. I am nine years old. + + CHARLEY C. + + * * * * * + + LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. + + I thought I would write to the Post-office about the big spring in + Indiana. It is called Harrison Spring, because it was owned by + General Harrison when he was Governor of the Northwestern + Territory. It looks like a very large pond, and is fifty-five feet + deep in the centre. There are two streams flowing from it, which + form an island, as they unite and form one stream at a little + distance from the spring. About a mile farther on, this stream runs + a saw-mill and a flour-mill. This spring is near the great + Wyandotte Cave. + + GILBERT C. S. + + * * * * * + + I have increased my collection of stamps from seventy-five to + fifteen hundred by exchange. I think this is the grandest of all + the departments of YOUNG PEOPLE. I would now like to exchange + twenty-five foreign stamps for five birds' eggs. Correspondents + will please label the eggs. + + ROBERT H. DAVIDSON, + Care of the Postmaster, + Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tenn. + + * * * * * + + I would like to exchange Texas postmarks for minerals or postmarks. + Or I will exchange an ounce of the soil of Texas for that of any + other State. + + H. C. YANCEY, + P. O. Box 224, Houston, Texas. + + * * * * * + + I wish to inform those correspondents who desire to exchange + minerals, shells, and curiosities with me, that I have changed my + residence. My new address is, + + CHARLES LEADBETTER, + 305 Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + I am a girl fourteen years old, but I am lame, and can not go out. + I have a few crochet lace patterns which I would like to exchange + for others. I would also like to exchange patterns of patchwork. If + any little girl would like to know how to crochet a pair of doll's + drawers, a jacket, or a petticoat, and will send me her address and + a postage stamp, I will gladly answer her. + + ANNIE SLACK, + 170 Fourteenth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + I have a list of every Indian tribe in the United States which I + will give a copy of in exchange for Indian relics, foreign stamps, + or postal cards. + + JOHN E. WILLIAMS, + 4 Harrison Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + I have some genuine Indian bows and arrows, some fine silver and + copper specimens, and a great number of Lake Superior agates, which + I should like to exchange for shells and ocean curiosities. + + HORACE H. MITCHELL, Duluth, Minn. + + * * * * * + +The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents: + + A fifty-cent and a twenty-five cent stamp, for two Cape of Good + Hope stamps. + + WILLIAM R. CARMER, + Mount Vernon, Westchester County, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + Fine samples of gold ore, showing the stages of concentration or + separation of quartz from the precious metal, for rare postage + stamps. In answering, correspondents will please specify stamps. + + DWIGHT MARFIELD, + Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks. + + MARY B. REED, + Norwich, Chenango County, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + A piece of the first Atlantic cable for an American copper cent of + 1799, or the half-cent of 1836, 1843, or 1852; or one Spanish and + one English coin and two French coins for the American twenty-cent + piece of 1877 or 1878. + + WILLIE B. SHOBER, + Cumberland, Md. + + * * * * * + + Lead or iron ore, and specimens of different varieties of quartz, + for foreign postage stamps, skulls of small animals, ocean + curiosities, petrifactions, and minerals of all kinds; or a piece + of silver ore for a collection of the different varieties of stamps + now in use in Canada. + + GEORGE C. BAKER, + Comstocks, Washington County, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps for stones from the different States. + + ARTHUR D. PRINCE, + Lowell, Mass. + +We do not consider the above address sufficient. Correspondents who +reside in large cities should always give their street and number, or +the number of their post-office box. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks and stamps for stamps. + + WILLIE H. HASKIN, + Fort Preble, Portland, Maine. + + * * * * * + + Rare postmarks for any variety of South American postage stamps or + United States department stamps. + + FRANK SWETT, + 1419 Taylor Street, San Francisco, California. + + * * * * * + + Stamps and postmarks in use in 1852, also some of 1869, for foreign + postage stamps or curiosities of any kind. + + SADIE HAWLEY, + Fair Haven, Rutland County, Vt. + + * * * * * + + Texas flints, pretty stones, snail shells, postmarks, stamps, + specimens of different kinds of wood, petrified wood, cotton as it + comes from the field, cotton seeds, or seeds of the "Indian plume," + for foreign postage stamps, or good specimens of minerals and ores + of all kinds. + + SAMMIE RISIEN, + Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas. + + * * * * * + + Soil and sand from Ohio for soil and sand from any other State or + Canada; or an Indian arrow-head two and a half inches long, + together with a specimen of Ohio soil, for twenty-five foreign + postage stamps. + + EMMER EDWARDS, + Washington C. H., Fayette County, Ohio. + + * * * * * + + Foreign postage stamps for United States Navy or Justice stamps. + + WALLACE GREEN, + Hackensack, Bergen County, N. J. + + * * * * * + + Soil from Missouri or Texas for soil from any other State; or a + stone from Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, or Georgia for one from any + other State. + + HARVEY CLARK, + Lock Box 26, Butler, Bates County, Missouri. + + * * * * * + + Postage stamps and postmarks for winter skins of wild animals, or + for stuffed birds. + + JOHN LAWRENCE, + 40 Washington Square, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Birds' eggs. + + GEORGE A. POST, + Florence House, corner of Fourth Avenue and + Eighteenth Street, New York City. + + * * * * * + + Minerals, fish eyes from China, or West India beans, for minerals + or any kind of curiosities. + + CARL R. EABY, + 22 North Shippen Street, Lancaster, Penn. + + * * * * * + + A carved shell, some seeds from the Sandwich Islands, or stones + from Lake Michigan, for any foreign postage stamps except English + and German. Chinese stamps especially desired. + + WILLIAM C. MCCONNELL, + 262 Calhoun Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. + + * * * * * + + Postmarks and revenue stamps. + + WILLIS ROSE, + 939 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. + + * * * * * + + Stones from New Jersey for stones from any other State or Territory + except Colorado and Wyoming. + + JOHN W. ROSENBAUM, + 194-1/2 Morgan Street, Jersey City, N. J. + + * * * * * + + Two different War Department stamps and thirty postmarks for + sea-weed, or the same, together with some moss and pretty shells, + for a piece of stalagmite. + + FLORIE DICKSON, Brenford, Kent County, Del. + + * * * * * + +J. W.--The earliest calendars, as the Jewish, the Egyptian, and the +Greek, did not begin the year where we do now; and the Jewish year, +which opened on the 25th of March, continued to have a legal position in +many Christian countries until a comparatively recent period. In +England, it was not until 1752 that the 1st of January became the initial +day of the legal, as it had long been of the popular, year. Several +other countries made this change earlier than England--France in 1564, +Scotland in 1600, Holland and Russia in 1700. + +The Roman calendar, which made January the first month of the year, is +credited to the second King of Rome, Numa Pompilius, more than six +hundred years B.C. He added two months to the ten into which the year +had been previously divided, and called the first one Januarius, in +honor of Janus, the deity supposed to preside over doors. + +Our Saxon ancestors originally called this the Wolf-month +(_Wolf-monat_), because wolves were more than usually ravenous and +daring in that season of the year. + + * * * * * + +A. T. G.--Snow crystals were first observed by the arctic explorer +Scoresby, and for a time they were supposed to be peculiar to the polar +regions. It was found, however, that these crystals were formed wherever +snow falls. An interesting account of these beautiful formations, with +engravings of many of them, was given in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 15. + + * * * * * + +F. T. B.--When metal pins were invented and brought into use, about the +beginning of the sixteenth century, they were a very acceptable +New-Year's gift to ladies, and money given for the purchase of them was +called "pin-money"--an expression which has come to mean the money set +apart for a wife's private expenses. + + * * * * * + +INQUISITIVE JIM.--The best account of Petra, the wonderful rock-hewn +city of Arabia, is to be found in Stephens's book of travels called +_Egypt, Petra, and the Holy Land_. The present name of the little valley +where it was situated is Wady Musa. The city, shut in by high cliffs, +occupied an area of about half a mile square. The valley is watered by a +stream, and the principal entrance is through a deep ravine, with +rugged cliffs 300 feet high on each side. In ancient times Petra was a +very strong city. It is mentioned in the Bible under the name of Selah, +and received its present name, which signifies rock, from the Greeks, +about 300 B.C. It was finally destroyed, by whom is not known, and was +not heard of after the sixth century A.D. until it was discovered in +1812 by the traveller Burckhardt. The ruins, consisting of tombs, a +theatre, temple, etc., are very interesting and picturesque. + + * * * * * + +W. H. J.--If your puzzles are good, and suitable for our columns, they +will be accepted. We can not judge of the merits of the enigma you have +already sent, as you neglected to inclose the answer. The _nom de plume_ +you have chosen is not good, but you can easily invent a better one. + + * * * * * + +LILLIE.--The introductory paragraph to the Post-office Box of No. 45 +explains why your request for exchange is not printed. + + * * * * * + +O. H. BRUCE.--1. The United States government began the coinage of +one-cent pieces in 1793. 2. In 1815, none were coined. 3. The last +coinage of large one-cent pieces was in 1857. 4. The coinage of two-cent +pieces began in 1864, and the last issue was in 1872. 5. The coinage of +the nickel five-cent pieces began in 1865. 6. In 1864, both copper and +nickel cents were coined. This double coinage did not happen in any +other year. + + * * * * * + +D. L. S.--On page 398 of your bound volume of YOUNG PEOPLE is a story +entitled "Camping Out," which will give you the information you require. + + * * * * * + +JOHNNIE.--White elephants are not a distinct species, but are simply +albinos, which are found among animals, birds, and insects, as well as +among members of the human family. In India the white elephant is +considered a sacred animal, and is treated with the greatest reverence. +When specimens are found in the woods and jungles, they are captured +with tender care, and their possession is eagerly sought for by the +sovereigns of the small kingdoms. White elephants have been the cause of +many wars, as their possession is supposed to bestow greater benefits on +their royal owners than either chests of gold or extended territory. One +of the proudest titles of the King of Ava is "Lord of the White +Elephant," and the King of Siam at Bangkok also counts his white +elephants among his most precious possessions, as, according to Burmese +superstition, they insure prosperity and good fortune to the nation. The +death of one of these creatures is regarded as a national calamity, its +funeral is conducted with great solemnity, and the entire people mourn +as for the loss of a dear relative. These elephants are kept under +richly embroidered canopies, are fed with the most delicious fruits, and +members of the nobility seek for the honor of being custodian to the +royal beast. When the elephant is taken to bathe in the river, it goes +escorted by a band of music, and is followed by adoring crowds. + +This singular reverence for an albino elephant has existed in Burmah for +centuries. An English traveller who visited that country three hundred +years ago describes the same treatment of this beast which may be seen +at the present time. + +Even the hairs of this creature are supposed to insure good fortune. In +1855, a foreign ambassador delivered some presents to the King of Siam, +who ordered many presents to be given in return. On the conclusion of +the ceremony, the King himself, with much solemnity, placed in the hands +of the ambassador a small golden box, locked with a golden key, which he +said was far more precious than all the other presents. The box, when +opened, was found to contain a few hairs of a white elephant! + +And, after all, this elephant is not white, but of a dull yellow color. +It has white or reddish eyes, and is a very ugly-looking beast. No +greater proof could be found of the moral darkness and ignorance of the +natives of certain portions of India than their superstitious veneration +for this animal. + + * * * * * + +F. O.--Read the paragraph appended to a letter from Ida Belle D. in the +Post-office Box of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 51. + + * * * * * + +HALLIE C. W.--The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by a Spanish +navigator about the middle of the sixteenth century, but they remained +comparatively unknown until visited by Captain Cook in 1778, who gave +them the name of Sandwich, in honor of Lord Sandwich, an English +statesman who conducted the naval affairs of England during our +Revolutionary war. On St. Valentine's Day, 1779, Captain Cook was killed +at Hawaii, the largest island of the group, in a quarrel with the +natives. Mauna Loa, the volcano on the island of Hawaii, which has +recently been in a state of eruption, is said to have the largest +burning crater in the world. + + * * * * * + +EDMUND H. B.--There is no especial time for the printing of "Wiggles." + + * * * * * + +MATTIE H.--The story "Who was Paul Grayson?" was concluded in HARPER'S +YOUNG PEOPLE No. 57. + + * * * * * + +TILLIE DAVIS.--Send your full address, and we will print your request +for exchange. + + * * * * * + +RIDLEY MCL.--Your puzzle is very good for the work of a "little +eight-year-old boy," but we can not print it, as the same solution has +already appeared in an earlier number of YOUNG PEOPLE. + + * * * * * + +Favors are acknowledged from Ruby W., C. H. B., M. Stiefel, Frank R., +Joseph W. Hawkins, Marshall R. Grimes, Gay Wood, John V. Gould, Gracie +K., R. M. Sites, Mamie K. Pope, Anna M. Roberts, Elsie E. T., Frank +Davis, Mae King, Mary Olive L. + + * * * * * + +Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Harvey Ridgway, "Geo. +Graphy," Grace A. McElroy, Percy Lincoln McDermott, A. G. O. M., +"Nightingale," Alfred A. True, Craig Coburn, C. F. Bishop, Cal I. Forny, +Carrie and George Hall, M. S. Brigham. + + * * * * * + +PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. + +No. 1. + +ENIGMA. + + First in box, not in chest. + Second in hole, not in nest. + Third in meat, not in bones. + Fourth in rubble, not in stones. + Fifth in measure, not in mile. + Sixth in fashion, not in style. + Seventh in river, not in sound. + Eighth in fly, not in bound. + Ninth in mallet, not in saw. + The whole an article used in war. + + D. L. S. + + * * * * * + +No. 2. + +NUMERICAL CHARADES. + + 1. I am a familiar adage composed of 18 letters. + My 5, 12, 1, 18 is to separate. + My 15, 7, 3, 16 is to propose. + My 5, 2, 9, 10, 13, 4 is to describe. + My 17, 8, 6, 4 is a character in music. + My 11, 14, 15 is a boy's name. + + MARK MARCY. + + 2. I am a shrub composed of 6 letters. + My 4, 5, 3, 1 is a healthy drink. + My 3, 5, 4, 6 is a South American city. + My 4, 2, 5, 3 is armor. + + LIONEL. + + 3. I am composed of 9 letters, and am very pleasant in winter. + My 6, 2, 5 is part of the face. + My 1, 9, 7, 3 is an emotion. + My 6, 7, 8, 4 is used for trimming. + + MARY. + + * * * * * + +No. 3. + +HIDDEN BIRDS. + + 1. Isaac ran every step of the way. + 2. How Lillie has grown! + 3. See that Kit eats his dinner. + 4. Do you call him a hero? Not by any means. + + MABEL. + + 5. O, Matthew, renounce the company of those bad boys. + 6. We were playing hide-and-seek, and I caught Rob in the swing near + the tree. + 7. Let us run and pick up the pears now, Birdie. + 8. I saw your lunch pail in Nettie's closet. + + BESSIE. + + * * * * * + +ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 62. + +No. 1. + + F I N A L + I B I S + N I P + A S + L + +No. 2. + +1. Mouse-ear. 2. Porcupine. 3. Portland. + +No. 3. + + C O L O R + X E B E C + G I B E S + T U R I N + T E N O N + +No. 4. + + C H A M P L A I N + C A R A C A S + N A T A L + T A Y + G + D O N + G E N O A + B O L I V I A + G U A Y A Q U I L + + * * * * * + +WIGGLES. + +The following are the names of those who sent in answers to Wiggle No. +16: + +Natalie Newell, Helen Edwards, I. La Rue, R. I. Brasher, Charlie +Conklin, Horace Dodge, Joseph Welsh, Edwin M. Cox, Mark Manley, F. +Place, M. P. Rich, Shelton A. Hibbs, Ellie Earle, Mansur Beard, G. +Darling, Jack Evert, Jim Evert, Tom Evert, Will Evert, Bobbie Hornfager, +C. H. L., N. Adda T., Toby, Crank, Dumper, G. H. A., Racy B. Sweet, +G. E. P., Newton I., M. Siegert. Annie A. Siegert, A. Utz, Worcester +Wiggle Club, Santa Claus, Robinson Crusoe, Robert E. Walsh, Frank +Zabriske, Millie Stephenson, Burton Harwood, Fanny Reed, Dayton Reed, +J. O. O., J. P. W., S. G. Hopkins, M. Goller, Alice Brown, H. M. Eaton, +Carrie Harding, E. A. H., Carrie Peddle, Charles L. Glessner, W. Doerr, +Thomas Buford, Frank J. Jones, A. R. B. H., N. P. Grensel, M. F. K., +Randolph Bolles, J. Flaherty, T. Flaherty, Willie A. Scott, Fred +Dierking, Louise Brown, Mary Dancy, Isobel L. Jacobs, Robbie H. +Bradbury, G. H. Ralston, Lawrence Jones, Carrie E. Weightman, F. S. G., +Willie Harris, J. M. Ingersoll, W. Harman, Louise Fowler, Scilla Fowler, +Helen S. Woodworth, Elsie E. Trautman, Lynn Trautman, Amelie Ferrand, +Harry B. Brazier, Stella Pratt, George H., Robert A. Magill, Nellie R. +Field, Paddy Miles, Clara S. A., Willie R. Perkins, Henry Welsh, Harry +Eichbaum, Albert Evans, Percy L. McDermott, C. C. Gardner, Rosa +Freyensee, L. G. Duffy, Meline Rosenthal, J. Frees, W. F. Reed, F. L. +Kittle, Walter Eichbaum, Tommy Booth, Charlie S. Bryant, Anna Jones, +Grace T. Lyman, Nellie Brees, Walter Mandell, Bronte Smith, Bertie +Seymour, Willie Seymour, Vannoy M. Wallace, Fanny M. Young, J. H. Young, +S. M. Young, Lou Bell, J. W. Long, J. W. Kittrell, Bob Ewing, Otto D., +Harry O. Boone, Harry Kenderdine, Grace Lansingh, Addie M. Taylor, Roy +Demster, Percy Matthews, Harry Lander, Annie Reinhardt, Frank Lander, +Ahan Hyde, Sinclair G. Wills, Bessie H. Moore, Emma F. Cassidy, Pollie +Burke, "Lone Star" (R. H. Davidson), Louis Burtnett, Frank Edinger, +Nellie Hyde, Hallie Hyde, Daisy Hyde, Katie B. Barr, Mollie Edwards, +Eddie D. Knowles, G. W. Bird, Wendell M. Frank, Bertram Frank, Willie +Dorrance, Alfred P., Frank Hoover, S. H. S., J. S., George Shriver, +Grace E. Stevens, Pearlie Hare, Little Pet Hare, Little Mary Hare, +Little Johnnie Campbell, Edwin C. Hutman, Robert G. Bidwell, Edith B., +J. F. H., B. M. Allison, H. M. P., Fred Dale, Leila King, Georgie +Clementson, Percy A. Robbins, Eddie Booth, Norrie M. E., Harry Harper, +Frank Ostrander, R. D. White, H. Sidway, F. Sidway, Gardner Howland, +John A. Tompkins, Emma R. Bullock, Theresa A. Morro, B. L. Worden, Lydia +M. Bennett, L. L. G., Cobweb, Du Puy, Waddy Thompson, D. W. G., John R. +Glen, Jessie Glen, Kirk Romaine, E. D. Kellogg, Frank Crabbs, Thomas M. +Armstrong, Henry C. Deknatels, Clarence Edsall, Fred R. Fisk, W. L. +Green, Melville Wilson, A. C. Chapin, W. F., C. J. Breek, Jun., A. C. +Pearsons, Albert J. Sullivan, Jacob Burr, Joe, Ed Smith, Joe +Fitzsimmons, J. F. S., Anna Gallett, E. J. B., M. J. Caldwell, H. F., +J. A. Fritz, Grace Hamilton, H. W. Smith, Donna A. Smith, Harry C. +Sloan, Willie Reynolds, Charles D. Jones, Dimple McCrea, R. H. K., John +Carnahan, James W. Grubb, H. Adams, Little Jennie Simpson, Chester +Marslich, Howard, N. B. B., Mary C. Green, B. L. Worden, Harry Tompkins, +Jameson L. Fumey, Mattie L. Day, Jennie Janes, Wilfred H. Warner, Ben +W. G., Mary E. Heartwell, Teddy Smith, Charles H. Tucker, T. Bert. John, +Vinnie John, Sue John, Edmund H. Blunt, Nelson C. Metcalf, H. T. +Gottsleben, L. G. Baker, Genevieve, Carl Mueller, M. D. M., "Go Bang" +(J. R. Blake), Charles P. Gifford, Edmund Stirling, Bertie Headley, +Bertha S., O. Fuehrlein, M. M., Willie Green, Charles Barker, George St. +Clair, Daisy Crampton, George Taylor, John N. Howe, C. E. S. S., +"Daisy," S. J. G., Carry Owen, Bertie W. Gifford, Bessie H. Moore, +Marion P. Wiggin, F. R. S., Mollie C. Wrenshall, B. E. H., George B. +Rogers, D. H. Rogers, W. H. Cantrell, Eddie G. Cantrell, Wamie Forse, +Bevy Pettit, Woodvill Wrenshall, Howard Rathbone, G. W. D., Arty Taylor, +Joralemon, G. V. E., L. A. Osborne, L. B. Parsons, Grace and Jennie, +Millie Olmstead, Lucy and Fred. + + + + +A NEW SERIAL. + + +In No. 66 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, issued February 1, will be begun a +new Serial Story, entitled + + "PHIL'S FAIRIES," + +by MRS. W. J. HAYS, author of "The Princess Idleways," etc. + + + + +NOTICE. + + +HARPER & BROTHERS _beg leave to state, in answer to numerous inquiries, +that the Bound Volume of_ HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE _for 1880 is entirely +out of stock, and will not be reprinted at present_. + + + + +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. + + HARPER & BROTHERS, + Franklin Square, N. 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