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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 <a href = "https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1875</p> +<p>Author: Various</p> +<p>Release Date: November 26, 2004 [eBook #14170]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, VOLUME 17, NO. 100, APRIL, 1875***</p> +<p> </p> +<h4>E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Aldarondo,<br /> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team</h4> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<!-- Page 95 --><div><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95" /></div> + +<table width="650" summary="Publishing date and volume number"> + <tr> + <td> + No. 100. + </td> + <td align="center"> + APRIL, 1875. + </td> + <td align="right"> + Vol. XVII. + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<table style="background: url(images/01.gif);" width="650" +summary="Cover Page (Illustrated)"> + <tr> + <td> + <h3>THE</h3> + + <h1>NURSERY</h1> + + <h2><i>A Monthly Magazine</i></h2> + + <h3>FOR YOUNGEST READERS.</h3> + <br /> + <br /> + <h6>BOSTON:<br /> + JOHN L. 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Wadsworth</i></td><td align='center'><a href="#BABYS_PINK_THUMBS">105</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ABOUT FLAX, BARLEY, AND RYE</td><td></td><td align='center'><a href="#ABOUT_FLAX_BARLEY_AND_RYE">107</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THE HARE WHO COULDN'T WAIT</td><td></td><td align='center'><a href="#THE_HARE_WHO_COULDNT_WAIT">111</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THE DRAWING-LESSON</td><td></td><td align='center'><a href="#THE_DRAWING_LESSON">112</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A SMART HORSE</td><td></td><td align='center'><a href="#A_SMART_HORSE">114</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ABOUT SOME INDIANS</td><td align='left'>By <i>Vaughn's Papa</i></td><td align='center'><a href="#ABOUT_SOME_INDIANS">115</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THE FIRST-COMER</td><td align='left'>By <i>Marian Douglas</i></td><td align='center'><a href="#THE_FIRST_COMER">117</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>WIDE AWAKE</td><td align='left'>By <i>A.B.C</i></td><td align='center'><a href="#WIDE_AWAKE">118</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THE FIRST ATTEMPT</td><td></td><td align='center'><a href="#THE_FIRST_ATTEMPT">120</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THE CATARACT OF LODORE</td><td align='left'>By <i>Robert Southey</i></td><td align='center'><a href="#THE_CATARACT_OF_LODORE">121</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>BOILING MAPLE-SUGAR</td><td align='left'>By <i>Uncle Charles</i></td><td align='center'><a href="#BOILING_MAPLE_SUGAR">123</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THE STOLEN BIRD'S-NEST</td><td align='left'>By <i>Emily Carter</i></td><td align='center'><a href="#THE_STOLEN_BIRDS_NEST">125</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THE FIRST BLUE-BIRD</td><td align='left'>By <i>Clara Doty Bates</i></td><td align='center'><a href="#THE_FIRST_BLUE_BIRD">127</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THE LITTLE BIRD</td><td align='left'>(<i>Music by T. Grampian</i>)</td><td align='center'><a href="#THE_LITTLE_BIRD">128</a></td></tr></table> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="EDITORS_PORTFOLIO" id="EDITORS_PORTFOLIO" />EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.</h2> + + +<p>The beautiful picture of The Cataract of Lodore, in our present number, +is well illustrated by Southey's famous lines which were written for his +little boys and girls, or, as he phrased it, "for the nursery."</p> + +<p>We call special attention to the illustration of "The First Corner" on +page <a href="#Page_117">117</a>. It is a design by Perkins, exquisitely engraved by John Andrew +& Son.</p> + +<p>"The Boy who loved his mother" is another picture that is worthy of +special notice. The "Drawing-Lesson" by Weir, should attract the +attention of all children who want to learn to draw.</p> + +<p>Canvassers will find from our terms that we offer them rare inducements +for extending the circulation of "The Nursery." It is poor economy, even +in the hardest times, for parents to neglect what may largely contribute +to the education of their children.</p> + +<p>"The Easy Book" and "The Beautiful Book," are now recognized as Standard +works for the young, and continue to be in great demand. To these we +shall soon add "The Nursery Primer," which will surpass everything of +the kind yet got up.</p> + +<p>"Next to a baby," writes a subscriber in Charlotte, Mich., "there never +was such joy in a household as 'The Nursery.' My little girl will repeat +nearly every poem, though she does not know a letter. My boy is just +two, and such a yell of delight when he finds a '<i>bow-wow</i>,' as he calls +the dog, all to himself, would astonish a Piute Indian. I don't have to +keep any 'cramp drops,' 'baby jumpers' or 'patent food,'(?) for the +children. I find they never have an ail or grievance, but 'The Nursery' +acts as a specific. I wish every mother in the land would give it to her +children on trial. And really it makes old people feel quite sunny."</p> + +<p>It will be seen by a notice in our advertising pages, that the Publisher +of "The Nursery" is prepared to execute various commissions in the way +of purchasing and forwarding books, Maps, Games, Stationery, &c., for +parties desiring them.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><div> +<a name="THE_BOY_WHO_LOVED_HIS_MOTHER" id="THE_BOY_WHO_LOVED_HIS_MOTHER" /><!-- Page 97 --><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97" /></div> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/03.gif"> +<img src="images/03.gif" alt="THE BOY WHO LOVED HIS MOTHER." width="400" /></a></p> + +<h5>THE BOY WHO LOVED HIS MOTHER.</h5> + +<h2><!-- Page 98 --><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98" />THE BOY WHO LOVED HIS MOTHER</h2> + + +<p><img src="images/04.gif" width="100" alt="W" title="W" />hen Felix was a little fellow, hardly two years old, he used to pet his +mother, and tell her how much he loved her.</p> + +<p>As he grew up, he showed his love by his acts. He minded his mother; he +gave her his attention when she talked to him; and, if she told him not +to do a thing, he would not do it.</p> + +<p>If she said, "Felix, don't do that," he would not fret, and say, "Why +not, mother?" Oh, no! He would at once give up what he was doing; for he +knew she would not, without some good reason, forbid him to do a thing +that pleased him.</p> + +<p>Once, when Felix had grown to be six years old, his mother took him with +her on a journey in the railroad-cars to New York. It was a fine day in +June: the windows of the cars were open.</p> + +<p>"Felix," said his mother, as they took their seats, "you may sit by the +window; but you must not put your head or your arms out of it."</p> + +<p>Before she could explain to him her reasons for saying this, a friend +who had come in drew off her attention, by talking to her; so that she +forgot to explain to Felix why she did not wish to have him put his head +or arms out of the window.</p> + +<p>In the seat just before him, Felix saw a large boy, who kept putting his +head out, although the boy's mother kept telling him not to do it. By +and by the cars rushed by a post, which stood so near the track that it +almost grazed the boy's head. He started back in a great fright, losing +his hat as he did so. He had a very narrow escape.</p> + +<p>Felix now saw why his mother had given him the caution <!-- Page 99 --><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99" />she had. He took +her hand in his, and looked up in her face. She smiled on him; for she +knew what was passing in his mind.</p> + +<p>"Yes, Felix," said she: "if you had not loved your mother too much to +wound her by disobedience, you might have lost your life."</p> + +<p>UNCLE CHARLES.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="FROWING_AWAY_ONE" id="FROWING_AWAY_ONE" />FROWING AWAY ONE.</h2> + + +<p>I know three little girls who are sisters. Of course, they ought to love +each other dearly. When they stand up, they are like a flight of three +steps: baby is the lowest; Mattie is the middle step; and Susie is the +upper step, because she is tallest.</p> + +<p>The baby is four years old, I know: so I guess that Mattie is almost +six, and Susie a little more than seven.</p> + +<p>No two of you little people love each other more dearly than Mattie and +baby love each other. Where one is, the other always wants to be. They +sit and walk with their arms around each other. It is pleasant to see +them.</p> + +<p>They both dearly love Susie too; but she is bigger, and doesn't seem to +belong quite so much to them as they seem to belong to each other.</p> + +<p>One day their mamma was looking at them; and, thinking aloud, she said, +"Three little girls! What shall I do with so many? Don't you think I +have too many?"</p> + +<p>Then baby looked earnestly into her mother's face, and said, "O, mamma! +if you <i>must</i> frow one away, do frow away Susie."</p> + +<p>Never you fear, little people, that Susie will be "frowed" away. Her +mamma has not one too many, though she has three little girls.</p> + +<p>E.M.S.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="HUNTING_FOR_EASTER_EGGS" id="HUNTING_FOR_EASTER_EGGS" /><!-- Page 100 --><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100" />HUNTING FOR EASTER-EGGS.</h2> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/06.gif"><img src="images/06.gif" width="600" alt="" /></a></p> + + +<p>The Easter-egg is a painted or colored egg used for a present at Easter, +a day which occurs on Sunday, the second day after Good-Friday.</p> + +<p>The term "Easter" is said to be derived from a Saxon word meaning +<i>rising</i>; and Easter is a festival of the Christian Church to +commemorate the resurrection.</p> + +<p>In the picture, the children are hunting for Easter-eggs, which the good +mother has hidden in different parts of the room. The child who finds +the most eggs will have the pleasure of making presents of them to whom +he or she may choose.</p> + +<p>Baby has set his eyes on the egg that lies on the floor. If he takes it +up, I hope he will not let it fall, and break it. The other children +will not be slow to find the painted eggs. There must be a dozen, or +more, of them hidden away.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<table style="background: url(images/07.gif); height: 896px;" width="600" summary=""> +<tr><td valign="bottom" colspan="2"><h2 style="margin-top: 400px;"><a name="THE_BEAUTIFUL_SPRING" id="THE_BEAUTIFUL_SPRING" /><!-- Page 101 --><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101" />THE BEAUTIFUL SPRING.</h2></td></tr> +<tr><td> </td><td valign="bottom"><div class="center"> +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>"I was here first," said the snowdrop: "look!"<br /></span> +<span>"Not before me!" sang the silver brook.<br /></span> +<span>"Why," cried the grass, "I've been here a week!"<br /></span> +<span>"So have I, dear," sighed a violet meek.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"Well," piped a bluebird, "don't leave me out!<br /></span> +<span>I saw the snow that lay round about."<br /></span> +<span>"Yes," chirped a snowbird, "that may be true;<br /></span> +<span>But I've seen it all the bleak winter through."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"I came betimes," sang the southwind, "I!"<br /></span> +<span>"After me, love!" spake the deep blue sky.<br /></span> +<span>"Who is it cares?" chimed the crickets gay:<br /></span> +<span>"Now you are here, let us hope you'll stay."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>Whispered the sun, "Lo! the winter's past:<br /></span> +<span>What does it matter who's first or last?<br /></span> +<span>Sky, brooks, and flowers, and birdies that sing,<br /></span> +<span>All help to make up the beautiful spring."<br /></span> +</div></div> +</div> +<p class="center">GEORGE COOPER.</p> +</td></tr></table> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="OUR_CHRISTMAS_PLAY" id="OUR_CHRISTMAS_PLAY" /><!-- Page 102 --><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102" />OUR CHRISTMAS PLAY.</h2> + + +<p>Our Emily wrote a play for our Christmas entertainment. Emily, Ruth, +Mary, and Uncle Peter, all took part in it. The curtain fell amid very +great applause from grandma, grandpa, father, and Uncle Charles, +Brothers Robert and John, Jane, the housemaid, Aunt Alice, and some six +of our cousins. So you see we had a good audience. As it is the only +play we have ever seen acted, we may be too partial critics; but readers +must judge for themselves.</p> + + +<p>(EMILY <i>enters with a basket of shoestrings</i>)</p> + +<p>EMILY.—Shoestrings to sell! Does anybody want shoestrings? Dear me, how +cold it is! To-morrow is Christmas, and I must earn money enough to buy +a basket of coal. Who wants a nice pair of shoestrings?</p> + +<p>RUTH (<i>entering</i>).—This is a cold day, little girl, and you are thinly +clad. Now, if my Uncle Peter, were here I know what he would do: he +would buy you a shawl.</p> + +<p>EMILY.—As soon as I get rich, I mean to buy one myself. Can I sell you +a pair of shoestrings?</p> + +<p>RUTH.—What is the price?</p> + +<p>EMILY.—Only two cents a pair.</p> + +<p>RUTH.—Then you may give me three pairs. Here are six cents. (<i>Takes out +her purse, and pays</i> EMILY, <i>but, in putting it back, lets it fall on +the ground.</i>)</p> + +<p>EMILY.—Thank you; and a merry Christmas to you!</p> + +<p>RUTH.—I wish I could make your Christmas a merry one, poor child; but I +have done what I could. Good-by. (<i>Goes out.</i>)</p> + +<p>EMILY.—Oh, if more such customers would come along, how glad I should +be! Will any one buy a nice pair of shoestrings? (<i>Sees the purse, and +picks it up.</i>) What is this on the ground? A purse! And it has money in +it. One dollar, three dollars—Dear me! That young lady must have +dropped it. I must run and give it to her. Where is she? (<i>Puts down her +basket, and goes out.</i>)</p> + +<p>(MARY <i>enters, and looks at the basket.</i>)</p> + +<p>MARY.—A basket on the sidewalk! What does it mean? (<i>Takes it up.</i>) It +is full of shoestrings. I will take it to my mother, and ask her <!-- Page 103 --><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103" />to +find the owner. (MARY <i>takes up the basket, and is going out, when</i> RUTH +<i>enters.</i>)</p> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/09.gif"><img src="images/09.gif" width="400" alt="" /></a></p> + +<p>RUTH.—Are you the girl I bought shoestrings of?</p> + +<p>MARY.—No: I have not sold any. These are not mine.</p> + +<p>RUTH.—Have you seen any thing of a purse about here?</p> + +<p>MARY.—No: I have seen no purse. (<i>Goes off-with the basket.</i>)</p> + +<p>RUTH.—- Oh! here comes the little girl I was looking for; and she has +my purse in her hand. (<i>Enter</i> EMILY.) That is my purse, little girl.</p> + +<p>EMILY (<i>giving</i> RUTH <i>the purse</i>).—Take it. I was looking for you. But +where is my basket of shoestrings?</p> + +<p>RUTH.—Why, that little girl yonder has it. See her there, crossing the +street.</p> + +<p>EMILY.—It is my basket. She has taken what does not belong to her.</p> + +<p><!-- Page 104 --><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104" /> +RUTH.—Run, and bring her to me. (EMILY <i>starts to go out.</i>) Stop! What +is your name?</p> + +<p>EMILY.—Emily Swift.</p> + +<p>RUTH.—Well, Emily Swift, I think you are mistaken in supposing that the +little girl meant to steal your basket. Bring her to me. (EMILY <i>goes +out.</i>) What a pleasant thing it would be to have a purse so full, that +one could keep on giving from it, and never find it empty! But here come +the children.</p> + +<p>(EMILY <i>leads in</i> MARY).</p> + +<p>EMILY.—Here she is. She says she was taking the basket to her mother, +so that her mother might find the owner.</p> + +<p>RUTH.—And do you doubt her word?</p> + +<p>EMILY.—Doubt her word? Not I! She is too good a little girl to tell a +falsehood. Just look in her face, and you will see that she speaks the +truth.</p> + +<p>RUTH.—Yes, Emily Swift, you are right.</p> + +<p>EMILY.—Goodness me! What is that thing coming this way?</p> + +<p>MARY.—I am afraid of it. Is it a man?</p> + +<p>RUTH.—As I live, it is Uncle Peter!</p> + +<p>EMILY.—Who is Uncle Peter?</p> + +<p>RUTH.—He is the man, who, every Christmas, buys as many toys as he can +carry, and gives them to good children. Here he comes.</p> + +<p>(<i>Enter</i> UNCLE PETER, <i>comically dressed, and covered from head to foot +with all sorts of toys, he is followed by boys and girls. He dances and +sings to music.</i>)</p> + + +<h3>UNCLE PETER'S SONG.</h3> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Christmas comes but once a year, once a year, once a year! So + follow me, my children dear, children dear, children dear: So + follow me, my children dear, on Christmas Eve so joyful!"</p></div> + +<p>(<i>After dancing, he takes</i> EMILY <i>and</i> MARY <i>by the hand, and runs off +with them, followed by the rest.</i>)</p> + + +<p>As this is Emily's first play, and she is only nine years old, I hope +the critics will not be too severe upon it. If well performed, it will +be found, I think, far more amusing in the acting than in the reading.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="BABYS_PINK_THUMBS" id="BABYS_PINK_THUMBS" /><!-- Page 105 --><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105" />BABY'S PINK THUMBS.</h2> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/11.gif"><img src="images/11.gif" width="400" alt="" /></a></p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>The snow had quite covered the ground,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The wind whistled fiercely and chill,<br /></span> +<span>When a poor little storm-beaten bird<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Flew down on the broad window-sill.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>Within, there was comfort and wealth;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Gay pictures half covered the wall;<br /></span> +<span>The children were happy at play;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And the fire shone bright over all.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span><!-- Page 106 --><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106" />Without, there was famine and frost;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Not a morsel of fruit or of grain;<br /></span> +<span>And the bird gave a piteous chirp,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And tapped with his beak at the pane.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>Then baby climbed up on a chair,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Forgetting his trumpets and drums:<br /></span> +<span>He doubled his two little fists,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And pointed with both his pink thumbs.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"See, see!" and he laughed with delight,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">"Pretty bird, pretty bird: here he comes!"<br /></span> +<span>When the bird, with a bob of his head,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Made a peck at the baby's pink thumbs.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>Then the children called out with great glee,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">"He thinks they are cherries, or plums,<br /></span> +<span>Or pieces of apple; and so<br /></span> +<span class="i2">He tries to eat baby's pink thumbs."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"Poor birdie!" said mamma: "we know<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That God for his creatures will care;<br /></span> +<span>But he gives to his thoughtfuller ones<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The pleasure of doing their share.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"We softly will open the sash,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And scatter a handful of crumbs;<br /></span> +<span>And, when birdie wants breakfast again,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">He needn't peck baby's pink thumbs.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"He may come day by day, if he will,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To a feast on the broad window-ledge,<br /></span> +<span>And fly, when he's eaten his fill,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To his home in the evergreen hedge."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>OLIVE A. WADSWORTH.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><a href="images/13.gif"><img src="images/13.gif" width="400" alt="" /></a></p> +<h2><a name="ABOUT_FLAX_BARLEY_AND_RYE" id="ABOUT_FLAX_BARLEY_AND_RYE" /><!-- Page 107 --><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107" />ABOUT FLAX, BARLEY, AND RYE.</h2> + + +<p>Arthur had been looking at some pictures in a book; but he did not quite +understand what they were: so he called on Uncle Oscar to explain.</p> + +<p>Uncle Oscar took him on his knee, and said, "This, Arthur, is a picture +of the flax-plant, a very useful plant indeed; for from it we make +linen. Your apron is linen: so are the collar and wristbands on my +shirt.</p> + +<p>"<!-- Page 108 --><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108" />The flax-plant bears delicate blue flowers, which look very pretty +when in bloom. Flax is raised very largely in Kentucky, and other States +in the Union. Do you know what part of the plant is the stalk? I will +point it out to you in the picture.</p> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/14.gif"><img src="images/14.gif" width="300" alt="FLAX." title="FLAX." /></a></p> +<h5>FLAX.</h5> + +<p>"Well, from this stalk the thread, or fibres, are got, out of which +linen cloth is made. The flax is pulled a little before the seeds are +ripe: it is stripped, and the stalks are soaked in water. The flax is +then dried, and broken and beaten till the threads, or fibres, of the +bark are fit for spinning. From the seeds, linseed-oil is made.</p> + +<p>"Is it not strange, Arthur, that out of the stalk of this little plant +should be made the nice white linen of your apron and my handkerchief?"</p> + +<p><!-- Page 109 --><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109" />Arthur thought it very strange. Then, pointing to another picture, he +said, "What's this, Uncle Oscar?"</p> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/15.gif"><img src="images/15.gif" width="300" alt="BARLEY." title="BARLEY." /></a></p> +<h5>BARLEY.</h5> + +<p>"That, Arthur, is a picture of barley as it grows in the field. It +yields a very useful kind of grain. You have eaten it in soup, and also +boiled. Stripped of the husk, and rounded and polished in a mill, the +grains are pearly white; and then they are known as pearl-barley."</p> + +<p>"Here's another picture, Uncle Oscar."</p> + +<p>"Did you ever eat rye-bread, Arthur?"</p> + +<p>"Why, yes, Uncle Oscar! we had it for breakfast."</p> + +<p>Well, here is a picture of rye as it grows in the field. It is one of +the best of grain-bearing grasses. It will grow <!-- Page 110 --><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110" />where the weather is +very cold. The straw is often worth almost as much as the grain.</p> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/16.gif"><img src="images/16.gif" width="300" alt="RYE." title="RYE." /></a></p> +<h5>RYE.</h5> + +<p>"Rye grows on poor, light soils, which are altogether unfit for the +wheat out of which we make our white bread. Sometimes we mix rye-flour +with wheaten-flour, or with corn-meal, and so get a very good kind of +bread."</p> + +<p>"Can I plant some flax-seed, and barley, and rye?" asked Arthur.</p> + +<p>"Yes, my boy," said Uncle Oscar. "You shall have some to plant in your +garden next May. I think you will be pleased with the flax-plant, +because of its pretty blue-flower."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div><a name="THE_HARE_WHO_COULDNT_WAIT" id="THE_HARE_WHO_COULDNT_WAIT" /><!-- Page 111 --><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111" /></div> +<p class="center"><a href="images/17.gif"><img src="images/17.gif" width="450" alt="" /></a></p> +<h2>THE HARE WHO COULDN'T WAIT.</h2> + + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>"There goes a hare," said Johnny to Max,<br /></span> +<span>"Come, let us catch him: here are his tracks!"<br /></span> +<span>But, while they were talking so wisely about it,<br /></span> +<span>And Johnny was saying "We'll have him; don't doubt it,"<br /></span> +<span>Behind them the hare, with a jump and a spring,<br /></span> +<span>Ran swift as a swallow could dart on the wing;<br /></span> +<span>And Max and Johnny looked round too late,<br /></span> +<span>While his speed said, "Excuse me, but I can't wait."<br /></span> +</div></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_DRAWING_LESSON" id="THE_DRAWING_LESSON" /><!-- Page 112 --><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112" />THE DRAWING-LESSON.</h2> + + +<p>We give here another outline from Landseer for our little readers to +copy. Perhaps they would like to know something about Sir Edwin +Landseer. He was born in London, in 1803, and died less than two years +ago.</p> + +<p>He belonged to a family of artists. His father and elder brother were +skilful engravers. His brother Charles earned high rank as a painter. +But Edwin was the most famous of them all.</p> + +<p>While yet a child, no bigger than some of the young-readers of "The +Nursery," he showed a great taste for drawing. He had an especial +fondness for drawing animals. His father encouraged him by giving him +pictures to copy; and soon his skill in copying became so great that his +father took him into the fields, and taught him to draw animals from +life.</p> + +<p>In this way he soon acquired correct notions of color; and, at the age +of fourteen, he began to attract attention by his spirited paintings of +dogs, horses, and other animals. He continued to improve until he became +one of the most celebrated artists of his day. In 1850, he was knighted +by Queen Victoria, that is to say, he received the honorary title of +<i>Sir</i> Edwin Landseer.</p> + +<p>Mr. Harrison Weir, whose name is well known to our readers, is another +English artist, who makes a specialty of the same department of art in +which Landseer became so famous. His sketches are remarkable for their +truth to nature, and many of them would do no discredit to Landseer +himself.</p> + +<p>Lay a piece of thin paper over the drawing-lesson, and trace the lines +of the picture. After a little practice, try to copy it without-tracing.</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div><a name="A_SMART_HORSE" id="A_SMART_HORSE" /><!-- Page 114 --><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114" /></div> + +<!-- Page 113 --><div><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113" /></div><p class="center"><a href="images/19.gif"> +<img src="images/19.gif" width="400" alt="From Sir Edwin Landseer's painting. In outline by Mr. Harrison Weir, as a drawing lesson." +title="From Sir Edwin Landseer's painting. In outline by Mr. Harrison Weir, as a drawing lesson." /></a></p> +<h5>From Sir Edwin Landseer's painting. In outline by Mr. +Harrison Weir, as a drawing lesson.</h5> + + + +<h2>A SMART HORSE.</h2> + + +<p>One morning, when the men went to the stable, our horse, Jenny, was +missing from her stall. On looking around, they found her in another +room, eating meal out of a chest.</p> + +<p>Now, in order to do this thing, she must not only have untied her +halter, but have unfastened and opened a door, and raised the lid of the +chest; all of which were supposed to have been left safely closed.</p> + +<p>We thought that she could not have done it all, but that some careless +person had left the chest open, and the door unfastened. So Jenny was +led back to her stall and tied up; the lid of the chest was shut down, +and the door closed and fastened with a hook.</p> + +<p>About an hour afterwards, on entering the stable again, Madam Jenny was +found as before, with her nose deep in the meal-chest, munching away +with great relish. Then we <i>knew</i> she must have unhooked and opened the +door, and raised the cover, as well as unhooked her halter.</p> + +<p>Do you not think she was pretty smart for a horse? Papa says it was more +smart than honest to steal meal in that way. But I suppose horses do not +know much about honesty.</p> + +<p>I liked Jenny all the better for her smartness, and I have made a great +pet of her since. As she is so fond of meal, I take care to give her so +much that she will not have to steal it.</p> + +<p>She comes to me when I call her; for she knows that I am her friend, and +she often gets an apple from my hand. She looks at me so kindly through +her great eyes, that I am sure she would thank me if she could speak.</p> + +<p>This is a real true story. MARY.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="ABOUT_SOME_INDIANS" id="ABOUT_SOME_INDIANS" /><!-- Page 115 --><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115" />ABOUT SOME INDIANS.</h2> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/21.gif"><img src="images/21.gif" width="600" alt="" /></a></p> + + +<p>Some boys and girls think Indians are dreadful beings; but my boy, +Vaughn, who is now more than three years old, thinks them a very good +sort of people. He was born in the Indian country, and is quite used to +them and their odd ways.</p> + +<p>He often used to stand in the doorway, and say, "How, how?" to them as +they passed by; and they would smile, and say, "How, how?" back again. +This is the Indian way of saying, "How do you do?"</p> + +<p>One day I was at work in the cellar, when I heard strange voices at the +front-door: so I went out to sec what was the matter. In front of the +house I found quite a number of Indian braves, with their squaws and +pappooses, all riding on sorry-looking ponies.</p> + +<p>They had drawn up before the house, and were trying to <!-- Page 116 --><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116" />make Vaughn and +his mamma understand that they were thirsty. One of the braves had a dog +under his blanket; and the little fellow looked very queer as he poked +his head out, and watched us. I pointed the band to the town-well, a +short distance down the street; and they said, "Ugh!" and rode away in +Indian-file.</p> + +<p>Another day, an old Indian, with a nose like a young elephant's, rode up +to the drug-store, and asked, in Indian lingo, for some tobacco. The +druggist cut off a large slice of "black navy," and, stepping out on the +sidewalk, handed it to the happy old fellow, who, returning his thanks +by sundry nods and grunts, opened the folds of his blanket, and drew out +the most laughable tobacco-pouch you ever saw. As sure as you live, it +was a whole skunk-skin, with jaws, teeth, ears, and all!</p> + +<p>Just as he was about to drive away, the lady-teacher and a drove of boys +and girls came pouring out of the school-room. The Indian looked a +little blank, and, glancing first at the lady and then at the children, +remarked admiringly, "Heap squaw! heap pappoose!" (The innocent old wild +gentleman had taken them all for one family).</p> + +<p>A chief with his two squaws and two pappooses were coaxed into a +picture-car, one day, to be photographed. They seemed afraid of the +three-legged animal with the round glass eye; but, at last, one of the +squaws was induced to take her seat, baby in arms. The baby bawled +lustily, till I quieted him by jingling a bunch of keys, while the +artist got the focus.</p> + +<p>Then I glanced through the camera, and the sight was so pretty and +queer, that I induced the chief to take a peep; and when he saw the very +minute copy of his spouse and child, standing on their heads, he nearly +shook himself to pieces with silent laughter.</p> + +<p>VAUGHN'S PAPA.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div><a name="THE_FIRST_COMER" id="THE_FIRST_COMER" /><!-- Page 117 --><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117" /></div> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/23.gif"><img src="images/23.gif" width="600" alt="" /></a></p> +<h2>THE FIRST-COMER.</h2> + + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>The drift by the gateway is dingy and low;<br /></span> +<span>And half of yon hillside is free from the snow:<br /></span> +<span>Among the dead rushes the brook's flowing now.<br /></span> +<span>And here's Pussy Willow again on the bough!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"Hi, ho, Pussy Willow! Say, why are you here?"<br /></span> +<span>"I've brought you a message: 'The Summer is near!<br /></span> +<span>All through the long winter, uneasy I've slept:<br /></span> +<span>To hear the wild March wind, half listening, I kept.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"Loud blew his shrill whistle, and up and awake,<br /></span> +<span>My brown cloak from off me I've ventured to shake;<br /></span> +<span>Thrice happy in being the first one to say,<br /></span> +<span>'Rejoice, for the Summer is now on her way!'<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"The moss-hidden Mayflowers will blossom ere long,<br /></span> +<span>And gay robin redbreast be trilling a song:<br /></span> +<span>But, always before them, I'm sure to be here:<br /></span> +<span>'Tis first Pussy Willow says, 'Summer is near!'"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>MARIAN DOUGLAS</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="WIDE_AWAKE" id="WIDE_AWAKE" /><!-- Page 118 --><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118" />WIDE AWAKE.</h2> + +<table summary=""> +<tr><td><a href="images/24a.gif"><img src="images/24a.gif" width="150" alt="" style="float: left;" /></a></td> + +<td><p>"Jump up Johnny," said his mother. "It is seven o'clock, and breakfast +will be ready soon. The sun was up half-an-hour ago. The birds are +singing, and the sky is bright." John sprang out of bed at once, and was +soon washed. Then he put on his clothes, and brushed his hair.</p></td> + +<td><a href="images/24b.gif"><img src="images/24b.gif" width="150" alt="" style="float: right;" /></a></td></tr> +</table> + +<p><!-- Page 119 --><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119" />He went down stairs looking as neat as a new pin.</p> + +<div><a href="images/25.gif"><img src="images/25.gif" width="150" alt="" style="float: left;" /></a></div> + +<p>As he was going to school that day, he saw a poor woman with a baby in +her arms. She sat on a door-step, and was pale and hungry. John put his +hand into his pocket, took some money out, and gave it to her. She +thanked him.</p> + +<p>John then went to school, where he said his lesson; when school was +done, he played at ball till dinner-time.</p> + +<p>A.B.C.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_FIRST_ATTEMPT" id="THE_FIRST_ATTEMPT" /><!-- Page 120 --><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120" />THE FIRST ATTEMPT.</h2> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/26.gif"><img src="images/26.gif" width="600" alt="" /></a></p> + + +<p>Alfred has drawn a great many straight lines and houses and dogs and +cats; but this is the first time he has tried to draw a man. The profile +suits him very well. There are nose and mouth and eyes, that cannot be +mistaken. The hair, too, and the hat, are brought out with a strong +hand. All that is wanting now is the color; and this Alfred is putting +on. His paints are mixed on a broken plate, and he will soon give his +man a bright red cheek.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_CATARACT_OF_LODORE" id="THE_CATARACT_OF_LODORE" /><!-- Page 121 --><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121" />THE CATARACT OF LODORE.</h2> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/27.gif"><img src="images/27.gif" width="400" alt="" /></a></p> + +<h3>DESCRIBED IN RHYMES FOR THE NURSERY BY ROBERT SOUTHEY.<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1" /><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a></h3> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2">"How does the Water<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Come down at Lodore?"<br /></span> +<span>My little boy asked me<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Thus, once on a time;<br /></span> +<span>And moreover he tasked me<br /></span> +<span class="i2">To tell him in rhyme.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4">Anon at the word,<br /></span> +<span>There first came one daughter,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And then came another,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">To second and third<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The request of their brother,<br /></span> +<span>And to hear how the Water<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"><!-- Page 122 --><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122" /> +<span class="i2">Comes down at Lodore,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">With its rush and its roar,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">As many a time<br /></span> +<span class="i2">They had seen it before:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">So I told them in rhyme,<br /></span> +<span>For of rhymes I had store.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2">From its sources which well<br /></span> +<span class="i2">In the tarn on the fell,<br /></span> +<span class="i6">From its fountains<br /></span> +<span class="i6">In the mountains,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Its rills and its gills,<br /></span> +<span>Through moss, and through brake,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">It runs and it creeps<br /></span> +<span class="i4">For a while, till it sleeps<br /></span> +<span class="i2">In its own little lake;<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And thence at departing,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Awakening and starting,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">It runs through the reeds,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And away it proceeds<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Through meadow and glade,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">In sun and in shade,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And through the wood-shelter,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Among crags in its flurry,<br /></span> +<span class="i6">Helter-skelter,<br /></span> +<span class="i6">Hurry-scurry.<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Here it comes sparkling,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And there it lies darkling;<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Now smoking and frothing<br /></span> +<span class="i6">Its tumult and wrath in,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Till in this rapid race<br /></span> +<span class="i6">On which it is bent,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">It reaches the place<br /></span> +<span class="i6">Of its steep descent.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4">The cataract strong<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Then plunges along,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Striking and raging,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">As if a war waging<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Its caverns and rocks among;<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Rising and leaping,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Sinking and creeping,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Swelling and sweeping,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Showering and springing,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Flying and flinging,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Writhing and ringing,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Eddying and whisking,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Spouting and frisking,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Turning and twisting,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Around and around,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">With endless rebound:<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Smiting and fighting,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">A sight to delight in,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Confounding, astounding,<br /></span> +<span>Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4">Collecting, projecting,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">Receding and speeding,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And shocking and rocking,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And darting and parting,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And threading and spreading,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And whizzing and hissing,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And dripping and skipping,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And hitting and splitting,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And shining and twining,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And rattling and battling,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And shaking and quaking,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And pouring and roaring,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And waving and raving,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And tossing and crossing,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And flowing and going,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And running and stunning,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And foaming and roaming,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And dinning and spinning,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And dropping and hopping,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And working and jerking,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And guggling and struggling,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And heaving and cleaving,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And moaning and groaning,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And glittering and frittering,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And gathering and feathering,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And whitening and brightening,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And quivering and shivering,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And hurrying and skurrying,<br /></span> +<span class="i4">And thundering and floundering;<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>Dividing and gliding and sliding,<br /></span> +<span>And falling and brawling and sprawling,<br /></span> +<span>And driving and riving and striving,<br /></span> +<span>And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling,<br /></span> +<span>And sounding and bounding and rounding,<br /></span> +<span>And bubbling and troubling and doubling,<br /></span> +<span>And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling,<br /></span> +<span>And clattering and battering and shattering,<br /></span> +<span><!-- Page 123 --><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123" />Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting,<br /></span> +<span>Delaying and straying and playing and spraying,<br /></span> +<span>Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing,<br /></span> +<span>Recoiling, turmoiling and toiling and boiling,<br /></span> +<span>And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming,<br /></span> +<span>And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing,<br /></span> +<span>And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping,<br /></span> +<span>And curling and whirling and purling and twirling,<br /></span> +<span>And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping,<br /></span> +<span>And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing;<br /></span> +<span>And so never ending, but always descending,<br /></span> +<span>Sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending<br /></span> +<span>All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar,<br /></span> +<span>And this way the water comes down at Lodore.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1" /><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> Robert Southey, an English poet, wrote these lines, not +for <i>our</i> "Nursery," but for all nurseries where children are gathered +and taught. The Cataract of Lodore is near Keswick, Cumberland County, +England. Robert Southey died in the year 1813.</p></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="BOILING_MAPLE_SUGAR" id="BOILING_MAPLE_SUGAR" />BOILING MAPLE-SUGAR.</h2> + + +<p>Most of the sugar we use is made from the sugar-cane, which grows in +warm countries. But in France they make a good deal of sugar from beets; +and in North America, where the sugar-maple-tree grows, some very nice +sugar is made from its sap.</p> + +<p>Early in spring, while the weather is yet cold, and before the trees +have begun to show many signs of life, it is the time for tapping the +maples.</p> + +<p>The sun, which has already begun to make his power felt by melting the +snow, and leaving great green patches here and there on the cleared +lands, has kissed the rugged trunks of the trees, and has set the sweet +sap mounting through every vein and tissue.</p> + +<p>Now is the time to set the troughs in order, and to bore the holes for +the little spouts through which the juice must run. These must be made a +foot from the ground, on the sunny side of the tree; and very soon the +drip, drip, of the oozing <!-- Page 124 --><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124" />sap will be heard, as it trickles over the +spout into the rough bowls placed to catch it at the foot of every +maple.</p> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/30.gif"><img src="images/30.gif" width="600" alt="" /></a></p> + +<p>As each trough fills, the juice is poured, first into a large barrel, +and from thence, when all is ready, into the great iron pot, or caldron, +slung over the wood-fire on three poles.</p> + +<p>In the picture, you may see three brothers, with their two sisters, +engaged in collecting the sap, and boiling it till it can be cooled as +sugar. If you will look sharp, you can see little bowls placed at the +root of some of the trees, and the sap flowing into them.</p> + +<p>A syrup is made from the sap, which is very delicate, and is much used +for buckwheat-cakes. A large quantity of maple-sugar is made every year +in the northern part of the United States, and in Canada. But it cannot +be made so as to compete with the sugar of the sugar-cane in cheapness.</p> + +<p>UNCLE CHARLES.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_STOLEN_BIRDS_NEST" id="THE_STOLEN_BIRDS_NEST" /><!-- Page 125 --><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125" />THE STOLEN BIRD'S-NEST.</h2> + +<p class="center"><a href="images/31.gif"><img src="images/31.gif" width="450" alt="" /></a></p> + + +<p>Once there were two little sparrows who built for themselves a nest on a +small tree by the wayside. The mother-bird laid four little eggs in it; +and there she sat, while her mate chirped merrily on a tree near by, +till, one fine day in May, four little sparrows were hatched.</p> + +<p>How glad the parent-birds were! and how they flew round to get food for +their little ones! They were willing <!-- Page 126 --><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126" />almost to starve themselves, so +that their children might not suffer from want.</p> + +<p>Oh, what hungry children they were! How they would stretch out their +necks, and open their bills for food, as father and mother drew near to +feed them! And what queer little noises they would make, as if they were +saying, "Feed <i>me</i> first! Oh, give <i>me</i> that nice little worm! No, <i>I</i> +am the hungriest, give it to <i>me</i>! Me first! Me first!"</p> + +<p>But the parent-birds seemed to know which of the children had not had a +full share; for they would always give it to those who needed it most.</p> + +<p>But one day, one sad day, a man came by with his cart, and, seeing the +nest, took it with all the little birdies, and placed it on some straw +in his cart.</p> + +<p>The parent-birds, wild with grief, flew round and round, but it was of +no use. Then they followed the cart, and continued to feed their young +as well as they could, though the cart was in motion.</p> + +<p>But a little girl, whose name was Laura, and who was taking a walk with +her mother, saw the man remove the nest, and at once made up her mind to +try and get it away from him.</p> + +<p>So she went up, and asked him if he would let her have the nest, if she +paid him for it. The man seemed a little ashamed when he saw Laura and +her mother; and he replied, "Well, little girl, it didn't cost me any +thing, and so you may have it for nothing."</p> + +<p>"Oh, I thank you ever so much!" cried Laura. So she took the nest, with +the birdies in it; and then she and her mother found a safe place in the +notch of a tree, hidden from the road, and there they placed it.</p> + +<p>Then they walked away, and stood at a distance, and watched till they +saw the parent-birds fly down from a high <!-- Page 127 --><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127" />branch to their own nest, and +again begin to feed their little ones. How they twittered and chirped +with joy! The feeling that she had made the birds happy made Laura happy +too.</p> + +<p>Every day, for a week, she came to see how the little family were +getting on. On the eighth day the nest was empty. They had all flown +away.</p> + +<p>EMILY CARTER</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_FIRST_BLUE_BIRD" id="THE_FIRST_BLUE_BIRD" />THE FIRST BLUE-BIRD.</h2> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>Gold-Locks thought just now,<br /></span> +<span>Out on the apple-bough<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Had fallen a bit of the sky.<br /></span> +<span>"Blue it is; oh, blue!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And large as my hand," she cried.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Ah, what a wonder-eyed<br /></span> +<span>Dear happy heart are you,<br /></span> +<span>With all the world so new,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">So bright, because untried!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>Out I hurried to see<br /></span> +<span>What the bit of sky might be,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">When a tender piping note,<br /></span> +<span>Soft as a flute, I heard;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And there upon a bough,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Wintry and bare till now,<br /></span> +<span>In a sky-colored coat,<br /></span> +<span>Trying his little throat,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Was perched the first blue-bird.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>CLARA DOTY BATES.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p class="center"><a name="THE_LITTLE_BIRD" id="THE_LITTLE_BIRD" /><a href="images/34a.gif"><img src="images/34a.gif" width="600" alt="" /></a></p> + +<h2><!-- Page 128 --><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128" />THE LITTLE BIRD.</h2> + +<h4>Words by LORD LYTTON.</h4> + +<h4>Music by T. CRAMPTON.</h4> + +<div><a href="images/34b.gif"><img src="images/34b.gif" width="600" alt="" /></a></div> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>1.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>The lit-tle bird fares well in Spring,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">For all she wants she finds enough,<br /></span> +<span>And ev'ry casual common thing<br /></span> +<span class="i2">She makes her own without rebuff.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>2.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>First wool and hair from sheep and cow;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Then twig and straw to bind them fast,<br /></span> +<span>From thicket and from thatch, and now,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">A little nest is built at last.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>3.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>From out that little nest shall rise,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">When woods are warm, a living song,<br /></span> +<span>A music mix't with light that flies<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Thro' flutt'ring shades the leaves among.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>4.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>O little bird, take everything<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And build thy nest without rebuff,<br /></span> +<span>And when thy nest is builded, sing!<br /></span> +<span class="i2">For who can praise thy song enough?<br /></span> +</div></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div><!-- Page 129 --><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129" /></div> + +<h2>COLGATE & CO. 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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: The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1875 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 26, 2004 [eBook #14170] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, VOLUME 17, NO. 100, +APRIL, 1875*** + + +E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Charles Aldarondo, and the Project +Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 14170-h.htm or 14170-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/7/14170/14170-h/14170-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/1/7/14170/14170-h.zip) + + + + + +THE NURSERY + +No. 100. APRIL, 1875. Vol. XVII + +A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers + +Boston: +John L. Shorey, 36 Bromfield Street. + +American News Co., 119 Nassau St., New York. +New-England News Co., 41 Court St., Boston. +Central News Co., Philadelphia. +Western News Co., Chicago. + +$1.60 a Year, in advance, Postage Included. +A single copy, 15 cts. + + + + + + + +CONTENTS OF NUMBER ONE HUNDRED. + + + +THE BOY WHO LOVED HIS MOTHER By Uncle Charles +FROWING AWAY ONE. By E.M.S +HUNTING FOR EASTER-EGGS +THE BEAUTIFUL SPRING By George Cooper +OUR CHRISTMAS PLAY +BABY'S PINK THUMBS By Olive A. Wadsworth +ABOUT FLAX, BARLEY, AND RYE +THE HARE WHO COULDN'T WAIT +THE DRAWING-LESSON +A SMART HORSE +ABOUT SOME INDIANS By Vaughn's Papa +THE FIRST-COMER By Marian Douglas +WIDE AWAKE By A.B.C. +THE FIRST ATTEMPT +THE CATARACT OF LODORE By Robert Southey +BOILING MAPLE-SUGAR By Uncle Charles +THE STOLEN BIRD'S-NEST By Emily Carter +THE FIRST BLUE-BIRD By Clara Doty Bates +THE LITTLE BIRD (Music by T. Grampian) + + + + + + +EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO. + + +The beautiful picture of The Cataract of Lodore, in our present number, +is well illustrated by Southey's famous lines which were written for his +little boys and girls, or, as he phrased it, "for the nursery." + +We call special attention to the illustration of "The First Corner" on +page 117. It is a design by Perkins, exquisitely engraved by John Andrew +& Son. + +"The Boy who loved his mother" is another picture that is worthy of +special notice. The "Drawing-Lesson" by Weir, should attract the +attention of all children who want to learn to draw. + +Canvassers will find from our terms that we offer them rare inducements +for extending the circulation of "The Nursery." It is poor economy, even +in the hardest times, for parents to neglect what may largely contribute +to the education of their children. + +"The Easy Book" and "The Beautiful Book," are now recognized as Standard +works for the young, and continue to be in great demand. To these we +shall soon add "The Nursery Primer," which will surpass everything of +the kind yet got up. + +"Next to a baby," writes a subscriber in Charlotte, Mich., "there never +was such joy in a household as 'The Nursery.' My little girl will repeat +nearly every poem, though she does not know a letter. My boy is just +two, and such a yell of delight when he finds a '_bow-wow_,' as he calls +the dog, all to himself, would astonish a Piute Indian. I don't have to +keep any 'cramp drops,' 'baby jumpers' or 'patent food,'(?) for the +children. I find they never have an ail or grievance, but 'The Nursery' +acts as a specific. I wish every mother in the land would give it to her +children on trial. And really it makes old people feel quite sunny." + +It will be seen by a notice in our advertising pages, that the Publisher +of "The Nursery" is prepared to execute various commissions in the way +of purchasing and forwarding books, Maps, Games, Stationery, &c., for +parties desiring them. + + + + +[Illustration: THE BOY WHO LOVED HIS MOTHER.] + +THE BOY WHO LOVED HIS MOTHER + + +When Felix was a little fellow, hardly two years old, he used to pet his +mother, and tell her how much he loved her. + +As he grew up, he showed his love by his acts. He minded his mother; he +gave her his attention when she talked to him; and, if she told him not +to do a thing, he would not do it. + +If she said, "Felix, don't do that," he would not fret, and say, "Why +not, mother?" Oh, no! He would at once give up what he was doing; for he +knew she would not, without some good reason, forbid him to do a thing +that pleased him. + +Once, when Felix had grown to be six years old, his mother took him with +her on a journey in the railroad-cars to New York. It was a fine day in +June: the windows of the cars were open. + +"Felix," said his mother, as they took their seats, "you may sit by the +window; but you must not put your head or your arms out of it." + +Before she could explain to him her reasons for saying this, a friend +who had come in drew off her attention, by talking to her; so that she +forgot to explain to Felix why she did not wish to have him put his head +or arms out of the window. + +In the seat just before him, Felix saw a large boy, who kept putting his +head out, although the boy's mother kept telling him not to do it. By +and by the cars rushed by a post, which stood so near the track that it +almost grazed the boy's head. He started back in a great fright, losing +his hat as he did so. He had a very narrow escape. + +Felix now saw why his mother had given him the caution she had. He took +her hand in his, and looked up in her face. She smiled on him; for she +knew what was passing in his mind. + +"Yes, Felix," said she: "if you had not loved your mother too much to +wound her by disobedience, you might have lost your life." + +UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +FROWING AWAY ONE. + + +I know three little girls who are sisters. Of course, they ought to love +each other dearly. When they stand up, they are like a flight of three +steps: baby is the lowest; Mattie is the middle step; and Susie is the +upper step, because she is tallest. + +The baby is four years old, I know: so I guess that Mattie is almost +six, and Susie a little more than seven. + +No two of you little people love each other more dearly than Mattie and +baby love each other. Where one is, the other always wants to be. They +sit and walk with their arms around each other. It is pleasant to see +them. + +They both dearly love Susie too; but she is bigger, and doesn't seem to +belong quite so much to them as they seem to belong to each other. + +One day their mamma was looking at them; and, thinking aloud, she said, +"Three little girls! What shall I do with so many? Don't you think I +have too many?" + +Then baby looked earnestly into her mother's face, and said, "O, mamma! +if you _must_ frow one away, do frow away Susie." + +Never you fear, little people, that Susie will be "frowed" away. Her +mamma has not one too many, though she has three little girls. + +E.M.S. + + + + +HUNTING FOR EASTER-EGGS. + + +The Easter-egg is a painted or colored egg used for a present at Easter, +a day which occurs on Sunday, the second day after Good-Friday. + +The term "Easter" is said to be derived from a Saxon word meaning +_rising_; and Easter is a festival of the Christian Church to +commemorate the resurrection. + +In the picture, the children are hunting for Easter-eggs, which the good +mother has hidden in different parts of the room. The child who finds +the most eggs will have the pleasure of making presents of them to whom +he or she may choose. + +Baby has set his eyes on the egg that lies on the floor. If he takes it +up, I hope he will not let it fall, and break it. The other children +will not be slow to find the painted eggs. There must be a dozen, or +more, of them hidden away. + + + + +THE BEAUTIFUL SPRING. + + + "I was here first," said the snowdrop: "look!" + "Not before me!" sang the silver brook. + "Why," cried the grass, "I've been here a week!" + "So have I, dear," sighed a violet meek. + + "Well," piped a bluebird, "don't leave me out! + I saw the snow that lay round about." + "Yes," chirped a snowbird, "that may be true; + But I've seen it all the bleak winter through." + + "I came betimes," sang the southwind, "I!" + "After me, love!" spake the deep blue sky. + "Who is it cares?" chimed the crickets gay: + "Now you are here, let us hope you'll stay." + + Whispered the sun, "Lo! the winter's past: + What does it matter who's first or last? + Sky, brooks, and flowers, and birdies that sing, + All help to make up the beautiful spring." + +GEORGE COOPER. + + + + +OUR CHRISTMAS PLAY. + + +Our Emily wrote a play for our Christmas entertainment. Emily, Ruth, +Mary, and Uncle Peter, all took part in it. The curtain fell amid very +great applause from grandma, grandpa, father, and Uncle Charles, +Brothers Robert and John, Jane, the housemaid, Aunt Alice, and some six +of our cousins. So you see we had a good audience. As it is the only +play we have ever seen acted, we may be too partial critics; but readers +must judge for themselves. + + +(EMILY _enters with a basket of shoestrings_) + +EMILY.--Shoestrings to sell! Does anybody want shoestrings? Dear me, how +cold it is! To-morrow is Christmas, and I must earn money enough to buy +a basket of coal. Who wants a nice pair of shoestrings? + +RUTH (_entering_).--This is a cold day, little girl, and you are thinly +clad. Now, if my Uncle Peter, were here I know what he would do: he +would buy you a shawl. + +EMILY.--As soon as I get rich, I mean to buy one myself. Can I sell you +a pair of shoestrings? + +RUTH.--What is the price? + +EMILY.--Only two cents a pair. + +RUTH.--Then you may give me three pairs. Here are six cents. (_Takes out +her purse, and pays_ EMILY, _but, in putting it back, lets it fall on +the ground._) + +EMILY.--Thank you; and a merry Christmas to you! + +RUTH.--I wish I could make your Christmas a merry one, poor child; but I +have done what I could. Good-by. (_Goes out._) + +EMILY.--Oh, if more such customers would come along, how glad I should +be! Will any one buy a nice pair of shoestrings? (_Sees the purse, and +picks it up._) What is this on the ground? A purse! And it has money in +it. One dollar, three dollars--Dear me! That young lady must have +dropped it. I must run and give it to her. Where is she? (_Puts down her +basket, and goes out._) + +(MARY _enters, and looks at the basket._) + +MARY.--A basket on the sidewalk! What does it mean? (_Takes it up._) It +is full of shoestrings. I will take it to my mother, and ask her to +find the owner. (MARY _takes up the basket, and is going out, when_ RUTH +_enters._) + +RUTH.--Are you the girl I bought shoestrings of? + +MARY.--No: I have not sold any. These are not mine. + +RUTH.--Have you seen any thing of a purse about here? + +MARY.--No: I have seen no purse. (_Goes off-with the basket._) + +RUTH.--- Oh! here comes the little girl I was looking for; and she has +my purse in her hand. (_Enter_ EMILY.) That is my purse, little girl. + +EMILY (_giving_ RUTH _the purse_).--Take it. I was looking for you. But +where is my basket of shoestrings? + +RUTH.--Why, that little girl yonder has it. See her there, crossing the +street. + +EMILY.--It is my basket. She has taken what does not belong to her. + +RUTH.--Run, and bring her to me. (EMILY _starts to go out._) Stop! What +is your name? + +EMILY.--Emily Swift. + +RUTH.--Well, Emily Swift, I think you are mistaken in supposing that the +little girl meant to steal your basket. Bring her to me. (EMILY _goes +out._) What a pleasant thing it would be to have a purse so full, that +one could keep on giving from it, and never find it empty! But here come +the children. + +(EMILY _leads in_ MARY). + +EMILY.--Here she is. She says she was taking the basket to her mother, +so that her mother might find the owner. + +RUTH.--And do you doubt her word? + +EMILY.--Doubt her word? Not I! She is too good a little girl to tell a +falsehood. Just look in her face, and you will see that she speaks the +truth. + +RUTH.--Yes, Emily Swift, you are right. + +EMILY.--Goodness me! What is that thing coming this way? + +MARY.--I am afraid of it. Is it a man? + +RUTH.--As I live, it is Uncle Peter! + +EMILY.--Who is Uncle Peter? + +RUTH.--He is the man, who, every Christmas, buys as many toys as he can +carry, and gives them to good children. Here he comes. + +(_Enter_ UNCLE PETER, _comically dressed, and covered from head to foot +with all sorts of toys, he is followed by boys and girls. He dances and +sings to music._) + + +UNCLE PETER'S SONG. + + "Christmas comes but once a year, once a year, once a year! So + follow me, my children dear, children dear, children dear: So + follow me, my children dear, on Christmas Eve so joyful!" + +(_After dancing, he takes_ EMILY _and_ MARY _by the hand, and runs off +with them, followed by the rest._) + + +As this is Emily's first play, and she is only nine years old, I hope +the critics will not be too severe upon it. If well performed, it will +be found, I think, far more amusing in the acting than in the reading. + + + + +BABY'S PINK THUMBS. + + + The snow had quite covered the ground, + The wind whistled fiercely and chill, + When a poor little storm-beaten bird + Flew down on the broad window-sill. + + Within, there was comfort and wealth; + Gay pictures half covered the wall; + The children were happy at play; + And the fire shone bright over all. + + Without, there was famine and frost; + Not a morsel of fruit or of grain; + And the bird gave a piteous chirp, + And tapped with his beak at the pane. + + Then baby climbed up on a chair, + Forgetting his trumpets and drums: + He doubled his two little fists, + And pointed with both his pink thumbs. + + "See, see!" and he laughed with delight, + "Pretty bird, pretty bird: here he comes!" + When the bird, with a bob of his head, + Made a peck at the baby's pink thumbs. + + Then the children called out with great glee, + "He thinks they are cherries, or plums, + Or pieces of apple; and so + He tries to eat baby's pink thumbs." + + "Poor birdie!" said mamma: "we know + That God for his creatures will care; + But he gives to his thoughtfuller ones + The pleasure of doing their share. + + "We softly will open the sash, + And scatter a handful of crumbs; + And, when birdie wants breakfast again, + He needn't peck baby's pink thumbs. + + "He may come day by day, if he will, + To a feast on the broad window-ledge, + And fly, when he's eaten his fill, + To his home in the evergreen hedge." + +OLIVE A. WADSWORTH. + + + + +ABOUT FLAX, BARLEY, AND RYE. + + +Arthur had been looking at some pictures in a book; but he did not quite +understand what they were: so he called on Uncle Oscar to explain. + +Uncle Oscar took him on his knee, and said, "This, Arthur, is a picture +of the flax-plant, a very useful plant indeed; for from it we make +linen. Your apron is linen: so are the collar and wristbands on my +shirt. + +"The flax-plant bears delicate blue flowers, which look very pretty +when in bloom. Flax is raised very largely in Kentucky, and other States +in the Union. Do you know what part of the plant is the stalk? I will +point it out to you in the picture. + +[Illustration: FLAX.] + +"Well, from this stalk the thread, or fibres, are got, out of which +linen cloth is made. The flax is pulled a little before the seeds are +ripe: it is stripped, and the stalks are soaked in water. The flax is +then dried, and broken and beaten till the threads, or fibres, of the +bark are fit for spinning. From the seeds, linseed-oil is made. + +"Is it not strange, Arthur, that out of the stalk of this little plant +should be made the nice white linen of your apron and my handkerchief?" + +Arthur thought it very strange. Then, pointing to another picture, he +said, "What's this, Uncle Oscar?" + +[Illustration: BARLEY.] + +"That, Arthur, is a picture of barley as it grows in the field. It +yields a very useful kind of grain. You have eaten it in soup, and also +boiled. Stripped of the husk, and rounded and polished in a mill, the +grains are pearly white; and then they are known as pearl-barley." + +"Here's another picture, Uncle Oscar." + +"Did you ever eat rye-bread, Arthur?" + +"Why, yes, Uncle Oscar! we had it for breakfast." + +Well, here is a picture of rye as it grows in the field. It is one of +the best of grain-bearing grasses. It will grow where the weather is +very cold. The straw is often worth almost as much as the grain. + +[Illustration: RYE.] + +"Rye grows on poor, light soils, which are altogether unfit for the +wheat out of which we make our white bread. Sometimes we mix rye-flour +with wheaten-flour, or with corn-meal, and so get a very good kind of +bread." + +"Can I plant some flax-seed, and barley, and rye?" asked Arthur. + +"Yes, my boy," said Uncle Oscar. "You shall have some to plant in your +garden next May. I think you will be pleased with the flax-plant, +because of its pretty blue-flower." + + + + +THE HARE WHO COULDN'T WAIT. + + + "There goes a hare," said Johnny to Max, + "Come, let us catch him: here are his tracks!" + But, while they were talking so wisely about it, + And Johnny was saying "We'll have him; don't doubt it," + Behind them the hare, with a jump and a spring, + Ran swift as a swallow could dart on the wing; + And Max and Johnny looked round too late, + While his speed said, "Excuse me, but I can't wait." + + + + +THE DRAWING-LESSON. + + +We give here another outline from Landseer for our little readers to +copy. Perhaps they would like to know something about Sir Edwin +Landseer. He was born in London, in 1803, and died less than two years +ago. + +He belonged to a family of artists. His father and elder brother were +skilful engravers. His brother Charles earned high rank as a painter. +But Edwin was the most famous of them all. + +While yet a child, no bigger than some of the young-readers of "The +Nursery," he showed a great taste for drawing. He had an especial +fondness for drawing animals. His father encouraged him by giving him +pictures to copy; and soon his skill in copying became so great that his +father took him into the fields, and taught him to draw animals from +life. + +In this way he soon acquired correct notions of color; and, at the age +of fourteen, he began to attract attention by his spirited paintings of +dogs, horses, and other animals. He continued to improve until he became +one of the most celebrated artists of his day. In 1850, he was knighted +by Queen Victoria, that is to say, he received the honorary title of +_Sir_ Edwin Landseer. + +Mr. Harrison Weir, whose name is well known to our readers, is another +English artist, who makes a specialty of the same department of art in +which Landseer became so famous. His sketches are remarkable for their +truth to nature, and many of them would do no discredit to Landseer +himself. + +Lay a piece of thin paper over the drawing-lesson, and trace the lines +of the picture. After a little practice, try to copy it without-tracing. + +[Illustration: From Sir Edwin Landseer's painting. In outline by Mr. +Harrison Weir, as a drawing lesson.] + + + + +A SMART HORSE. + + +One morning, when the men went to the stable, our horse, Jenny, was +missing from her stall. On looking around, they found her in another +room, eating meal out of a chest. + +Now, in order to do this thing, she must not only have untied her +halter, but have unfastened and opened a door, and raised the lid of the +chest; all of which were supposed to have been left safely closed. + +We thought that she could not have done it all, but that some careless +person had left the chest open, and the door unfastened. So Jenny was +led back to her stall and tied up; the lid of the chest was shut down, +and the door closed and fastened with a hook. + +About an hour afterwards, on entering the stable again, Madam Jenny was +found as before, with her nose deep in the meal-chest, munching away +with great relish. Then we _knew_ she must have unhooked and opened the +door, and raised the cover, as well as unhooked her halter. + +Do you not think she was pretty smart for a horse? Papa says it was more +smart than honest to steal meal in that way. But I suppose horses do not +know much about honesty. + +I liked Jenny all the better for her smartness, and I have made a great +pet of her since. As she is so fond of meal, I take care to give her so +much that she will not have to steal it. + +She comes to me when I call her; for she knows that I am her friend, and +she often gets an apple from my hand. She looks at me so kindly through +her great eyes, that I am sure she would thank me if she could speak. + +This is a real true story. MARY. + + + + +ABOUT SOME INDIANS. + + +Some boys and girls think Indians are dreadful beings; but my boy, +Vaughn, who is now more than three years old, thinks them a very good +sort of people. He was born in the Indian country, and is quite used to +them and their odd ways. + +He often used to stand in the doorway, and say, "How, how?" to them as +they passed by; and they would smile, and say, "How, how?" back again. +This is the Indian way of saying, "How do you do?" + +One day I was at work in the cellar, when I heard strange voices at the +front-door: so I went out to sec what was the matter. In front of the +house I found quite a number of Indian braves, with their squaws and +pappooses, all riding on sorry-looking ponies. + +They had drawn up before the house, and were trying to make Vaughn and +his mamma understand that they were thirsty. One of the braves had a dog +under his blanket; and the little fellow looked very queer as he poked +his head out, and watched us. I pointed the band to the town-well, a +short distance down the street; and they said, "Ugh!" and rode away in +Indian-file. + +Another day, an old Indian, with a nose like a young elephant's, rode up +to the drug-store, and asked, in Indian lingo, for some tobacco. The +druggist cut off a large slice of "black navy," and, stepping out on the +sidewalk, handed it to the happy old fellow, who, returning his thanks +by sundry nods and grunts, opened the folds of his blanket, and drew out +the most laughable tobacco-pouch you ever saw. As sure as you live, it +was a whole skunk-skin, with jaws, teeth, ears, and all! + +Just as he was about to drive away, the lady-teacher and a drove of boys +and girls came pouring out of the school-room. The Indian looked a +little blank, and, glancing first at the lady and then at the children, +remarked admiringly, "Heap squaw! heap pappoose!" (The innocent old wild +gentleman had taken them all for one family). + +A chief with his two squaws and two pappooses were coaxed into a +picture-car, one day, to be photographed. They seemed afraid of the +three-legged animal with the round glass eye; but, at last, one of the +squaws was induced to take her seat, baby in arms. The baby bawled +lustily, till I quieted him by jingling a bunch of keys, while the +artist got the focus. + +Then I glanced through the camera, and the sight was so pretty and +queer, that I induced the chief to take a peep; and when he saw the very +minute copy of his spouse and child, standing on their heads, he nearly +shook himself to pieces with silent laughter. + +VAUGHN'S PAPA. + + + + +THE FIRST-COMER. + + + The drift by the gateway is dingy and low; + And half of yon hillside is free from the snow: + Among the dead rushes the brook's flowing now. + And here's Pussy Willow again on the bough! + + "Hi, ho, Pussy Willow! Say, why are you here?" + "I've brought you a message: 'The Summer is near! + All through the long winter, uneasy I've slept: + To hear the wild March wind, half listening, I kept. + + "Loud blew his shrill whistle, and up and awake, + My brown cloak from off me I've ventured to shake; + Thrice happy in being the first one to say, + 'Rejoice, for the Summer is now on her way!' + + "The moss-hidden Mayflowers will blossom ere long, + And gay robin redbreast be trilling a song: + But, always before them, I'm sure to be here: + 'Tis first Pussy Willow says, 'Summer is near!'" + +MARIAN DOUGLAS + + + + +WIDE AWAKE. + + +"Jump up Johnny," said his mother. "It is seven o'clock, and breakfast +will be ready soon. The sun was up half-an-hour ago. The birds are +singing, and the sky is bright." John sprang out of bed at once, and was +soon washed. Then he put on his clothes, and brushed his hair. + +He went down stairs looking as neat as a new pin. + +As he was going to school that day, he saw a poor woman with a baby in +her arms. She sat on a door-step, and was pale and hungry. John put his +hand into his pocket, took some money out, and gave it to her. She +thanked him. + +John then went to school, where he said his lesson; when school was +done, he played at ball till dinner-time. + +A.B.C. + + + + +THE FIRST ATTEMPT. + + +Alfred has drawn a great many straight lines and houses and dogs and +cats; but this is the first time he has tried to draw a man. The profile +suits him very well. There are nose and mouth and eyes, that cannot be +mistaken. The hair, too, and the hat, are brought out with a strong +hand. All that is wanting now is the color; and this Alfred is putting +on. His paints are mixed on a broken plate, and he will soon give his +man a bright red cheek. + + + + +THE CATARACT OF LODORE. + +DESCRIBED IN RHYMES FOR THE NURSERY BY ROBERT SOUTHEY.[A] + + + "How does the Water + Come down at Lodore?" + My little boy asked me + Thus, once on a time; + And moreover he tasked me + To tell him in rhyme. + + Anon at the word, + There first came one daughter, + And then came another, + To second and third + The request of their brother, + And to hear how the Water + + Comes down at Lodore, + With its rush and its roar, + As many a time + They had seen it before: + So I told them in rhyme, + For of rhymes I had store. + + From its sources which well + In the tarn on the fell, + From its fountains + In the mountains, + Its rills and its gills, + Through moss, and through brake, + It runs and it creeps + For a while, till it sleeps + In its own little lake; + And thence at departing, + Awakening and starting, + It runs through the reeds, + And away it proceeds + Through meadow and glade, + In sun and in shade, + And through the wood-shelter, + Among crags in its flurry, + Helter-skelter, + Hurry-scurry. + Here it comes sparkling, + And there it lies darkling; + Now smoking and frothing + Its tumult and wrath in, + Till in this rapid race + On which it is bent, + It reaches the place + Of its steep descent. + + The cataract strong + Then plunges along, + Striking and raging, + As if a war waging + Its caverns and rocks among; + Rising and leaping, + Sinking and creeping, + Swelling and sweeping, + Showering and springing, + Flying and flinging, + Writhing and ringing, + Eddying and whisking, + Spouting and frisking, + Turning and twisting, + Around and around, + With endless rebound: + Smiting and fighting, + A sight to delight in, + Confounding, astounding, + Dizzying and deafening the ear with its sound. + + Collecting, projecting, + Receding and speeding, + And shocking and rocking, + And darting and parting, + And threading and spreading, + And whizzing and hissing, + And dripping and skipping, + And hitting and splitting, + And shining and twining, + And rattling and battling, + And shaking and quaking, + And pouring and roaring, + And waving and raving, + And tossing and crossing, + And flowing and going, + And running and stunning, + And foaming and roaming, + And dinning and spinning, + And dropping and hopping, + And working and jerking, + And guggling and struggling, + And heaving and cleaving, + And moaning and groaning, + And glittering and frittering, + And gathering and feathering, + And whitening and brightening, + And quivering and shivering, + And hurrying and skurrying, + And thundering and floundering; + + Dividing and gliding and sliding, + And falling and brawling and sprawling, + And driving and riving and striving, + And sprinkling and twinkling and wrinkling, + And sounding and bounding and rounding, + And bubbling and troubling and doubling, + And grumbling and rumbling and tumbling, + And clattering and battering and shattering, + Retreating and beating and meeting and sheeting, + Delaying and straying and playing and spraying, + Advancing and prancing and glancing and dancing, + Recoiling, turmoiling and toiling and boiling, + And gleaming and streaming and steaming and beaming, + And rushing and flushing and brushing and gushing, + And flapping and rapping and clapping and slapping, + And curling and whirling and purling and twirling, + And thumping and plumping and bumping and jumping, + And dashing and flashing and splashing and clashing; + And so never ending, but always descending, + Sounds and motions for ever and ever are blending + All at once and all o'er, with a mighty uproar, + And this way the water comes down at Lodore. +FOOTNOTES: + +[Footnote A: Robert Southey, an English poet, wrote these lines, not +for _our_ "Nursery," but for all nurseries where children are gathered +and taught. The Cataract of Lodore is near Keswick, Cumberland County, +England. Robert Southey died in the year 1813.] + + + + +BOILING MAPLE-SUGAR. + + +Most of the sugar we use is made from the sugar-cane, which grows in +warm countries. But in France they make a good deal of sugar from beets; +and in North America, where the sugar-maple-tree grows, some very nice +sugar is made from its sap. + +Early in spring, while the weather is yet cold, and before the trees +have begun to show many signs of life, it is the time for tapping the +maples. + +The sun, which has already begun to make his power felt by melting the +snow, and leaving great green patches here and there on the cleared +lands, has kissed the rugged trunks of the trees, and has set the sweet +sap mounting through every vein and tissue. + +Now is the time to set the troughs in order, and to bore the holes for +the little spouts through which the juice must run. These must be made a +foot from the ground, on the sunny side of the tree; and very soon the +drip, drip, of the oozing sap will be heard, as it trickles over the +spout into the rough bowls placed to catch it at the foot of every +maple. + +As each trough fills, the juice is poured, first into a large barrel, +and from thence, when all is ready, into the great iron pot, or caldron, +slung over the wood-fire on three poles. + +In the picture, you may see three brothers, with their two sisters, +engaged in collecting the sap, and boiling it till it can be cooled as +sugar. If you will look sharp, you can see little bowls placed at the +root of some of the trees, and the sap flowing into them. + +A syrup is made from the sap, which is very delicate, and is much used +for buckwheat-cakes. A large quantity of maple-sugar is made every year +in the northern part of the United States, and in Canada. But it cannot +be made so as to compete with the sugar of the sugar-cane in cheapness. + +UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +THE STOLEN BIRD'S-NEST. + + +Once there were two little sparrows who built for themselves a nest on a +small tree by the wayside. The mother-bird laid four little eggs in it; +and there she sat, while her mate chirped merrily on a tree near by, +till, one fine day in May, four little sparrows were hatched. + +How glad the parent-birds were! and how they flew round to get food for +their little ones! They were willing almost to starve themselves, so +that their children might not suffer from want. + +Oh, what hungry children they were! How they would stretch out their +necks, and open their bills for food, as father and mother drew near to +feed them! And what queer little noises they would make, as if they were +saying, "Feed _me_ first! Oh, give _me_ that nice little worm! No, _I_ +am the hungriest, give it to _me_! Me first! Me first!" + +But the parent-birds seemed to know which of the children had not had a +full share; for they would always give it to those who needed it most. + +But one day, one sad day, a man came by with his cart, and, seeing the +nest, took it with all the little birdies, and placed it on some straw +in his cart. + +The parent-birds, wild with grief, flew round and round, but it was of +no use. Then they followed the cart, and continued to feed their young +as well as they could, though the cart was in motion. + +But a little girl, whose name was Laura, and who was taking a walk with +her mother, saw the man remove the nest, and at once made up her mind to +try and get it away from him. + +So she went up, and asked him if he would let her have the nest, if she +paid him for it. The man seemed a little ashamed when he saw Laura and +her mother; and he replied, "Well, little girl, it didn't cost me any +thing, and so you may have it for nothing." + +"Oh, I thank you ever so much!" cried Laura. So she took the nest, with +the birdies in it; and then she and her mother found a safe place in the +notch of a tree, hidden from the road, and there they placed it. + +Then they walked away, and stood at a distance, and watched till they +saw the parent-birds fly down from a high branch to their own nest, and +again begin to feed their little ones. How they twittered and chirped +with joy! The feeling that she had made the birds happy made Laura happy +too. + +Every day, for a week, she came to see how the little family were +getting on. On the eighth day the nest was empty. They had all flown +away. + +EMILY CARTER + + + + +THE FIRST BLUE-BIRD. + + + Gold-Locks thought just now, + Out on the apple-bough + Had fallen a bit of the sky. + "Blue it is; oh, blue! + And large as my hand," she cried. + Ah, what a wonder-eyed + Dear happy heart are you, + With all the world so new, + So bright, because untried! + + Out I hurried to see + What the bit of sky might be, + When a tender piping note, + Soft as a flute, I heard; + And there upon a bough, + Wintry and bare till now, + In a sky-colored coat, + Trying his little throat, + Was perched the first blue-bird. + +CLARA DOTY BATES. + + + + +THE LITTLE BIRD. + +Words by LORD LYTTON. + +Music by T. 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