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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Baby Chatterbox, by Anonymous
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+Title: Baby Chatterbox
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+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 236px;">
+<img src="images/1880worthingtonbaby.jpg" width="236" height="301" alt="baby" title="baby" />
+</div>
+
+<h1>BABY CHATTERBOX</h1>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/frontispiece.jpg"
+alt="Frontispiece"
+title="Frontispiece" />
+<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/title.jpg"
+alt="Title"
+title="Title" />
+</div>
+
+<h1>BABY CHATTERBOX</h1>
+
+<p class="center"><br /><br />NEW YORK<br />
+R. WORTHINGTON<br />
+770 BROADWAY<br /><br /><br /></p>
+
+<p class="center">Copyright by R. Worthington, 1880.<br /><br />
+</p>
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Transcriber's Note">
+<tr><td align='left'><i>Transcriber's Note: the following corrections were made to the text:</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>couldn't for could'nt</i></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>foxglove for foxglore</i></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>curtsied for curtised</i></span></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><i>servants for sevants</i></span></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2>THE NEW BABY.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A new little baby came down from the sky&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Came down from the sky in the night.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A soft little baby, with violet eyes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Shining, and pure, and white.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But how did the little new baby get<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Down here from the depths of the sky?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She couldn't have come alone, you know,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">For she's much too young to fly.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Oh! the angels carried her down in their arms<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">From the far-away, beautiful blue;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Brought her down from the arms of God,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">A present to me and to you.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">So, you see, we must kiss the baby,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And give her a lot of love,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That she may not need the angels<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Till she meets them again above.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/004_newbaby.jpg"
+alt="The New Baby"
+title="The New Baby" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>DOLLY'S PROMENADE.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Dolly, my dearest, you really must walk,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You shall not be lazy, you never will talk;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And, as I've got all the talking to do,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I think you might please me by walking, don't you?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"So, dolly, come out to the paddock with me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'll show you the apples that grow on the tree,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'll show you the bees, and the butterflies, too,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The hills all so purple, the sky all so blue.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"You must walk, dolly, dear; see, your shoes are so gay;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You only have worn them twice since your birthday.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Red hat and red feather&mdash;now come, if you please,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Gently, my dolly, we learn by degrees."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ah! now you walk so very nicely, my dear,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You soon will be going as fast as a deer,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And then such racing, we will have all day long,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Playing "tag" in the very midst of the throng.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/006_promenade.jpg"
+alt="Dolly&#39;s Promenade"
+title="Dolly&#39;s Promenade" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>WHERE DID IT COME FROM?</h2>
+
+<p>Hop, hop, hop! In it came at the window, the dearest little yellow
+canary, not a bit afraid; chirping, turning its pretty head this way and
+that, and asking its little bird questions which nobody could
+understand.</p>
+
+<p>George, and Winifred, and little Bruce were all filled with delight and
+amazement at the small visitor. Wise George flew to shut the window,
+kind Winny ran for cake, and solemn Bruce took his finger out of his
+mouth and stared.</p>
+
+<p>Meanwhile Dicky sidled, and fluttered, and chattered, and at last showed
+he was used to society by setting down on George's finger, winking at
+Bruce, and making a good meal of Winny's cake.</p>
+
+<p>"Do you think he can have flown straight from the Canary Islands?" asked
+Winny.</p>
+
+<p>But George shook his head; it was too far.</p>
+
+<p>But still they had a feeling that the little visitor was a sort of
+emigrant, who must be led to settle at Fairleigh Cottage; and Winny ran
+to ask her mother for the half-crown out of her money-box to buy him a
+cage.</p>
+
+<p>"Mother's coming," she said. "She thinks Birdie belongs to some one
+else, because he is so tame."</p>
+
+<p>"But there are no canaries in the village, except the schoolmaster's
+pair," said wise George; "and this little beauty is not one of them. I
+really think this bird must have come to look for a home."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/008_where.jpg"
+alt="Where Did It Come From?"
+title="Where Did It Come From?" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Alphabet Poem A-D">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/a.png" alt="A" title="A" /></td><td align='left'>Stands over Apples,<br /> So rosy and round.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/b.png" alt="B" title="B" /></td><td align='left'>Begins the word Berries,<br />Which grow near the ground.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/c.png" alt="C" title="C" /></td><td align='left'>Commences Cherries,<br />They grow upon trees.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/d.png" alt="D" title="D" /></td><td align='left'>Date-Palms or Desert,<br /> Spell which word you please.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/010.jpg"
+alt="untitled" title="untitled" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>THE DUCKS.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i4">One little black duck,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">One little gray,<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Six little white ducks<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">Running out to play.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One white lady-duck, motherly and trim,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Eight little baby-ducks bound for a swim.<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">One little white duck<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Running from the water,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">One very fat duck&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Pretty little daughter;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One very grave duck, swimming off alone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One little white duck, standing on a stone.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">One little white duck<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">Holding up its wings,<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">One little bobbing duck<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">Making water-rings;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One little black duck, turning round its head,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One big black duck&mdash;see, he's gone to bed.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One little lady-duck, motherly and trim,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Eight little baby-ducks bound for a swim.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One lazy black duck, taking quite a nap,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One precious duck, here on mother's lap.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/012_ducks.jpg"
+alt="The Ducks" title="The Ducks" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>IN TROUBLE.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">In terrible trouble is baby:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Full loudly he screams and he cries;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His breakfast is lost, and replace it<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">He cannot,&mdash;however he tries.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The cup of warm milk all so tempting,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Stood safe but a moment ago;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In his haste he leant over to grasp it,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">But instead threw it all down below.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">At once he burst forth into weeping,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And heart-rending shrieks loud and shrill;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He saw not a kind hand was near him<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The empty cup soon to refill.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Dear baby! too often we elders,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Like you, break our hearts without need,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And see not the Hand that provides us<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Our food in sweet harvests and seed.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">If a check ever lessens our plenty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And wasted our crops ever lie,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then, forgetful of all our past blessings,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">How hastily rises our cry!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Ah! dry we our blinding tears, baby,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Look up to our Father above,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And patiently wait till he fills us<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Our cups in His mercy and love.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter">
+<img src="images/014_in_trouble.jpg"
+alt="In Trouble" title="In Trouble" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class='right'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Alphabet Poem E-F">
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/e.png" alt="E" title="E" /></td><td align='left'>Twined by Evergreens.<br />They never fade.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/f.png" alt="F" title="F" /></td><td align='left'>Found in Fern-leaves,<br />Which grow in the shade.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/g.png" alt="G" title="G" /></td><td align='left'>Is a Grape-vine,<br />Bearing some fruit.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/h.png" alt="H" title="H" /></td><td align='left'>Holds a Holly bush<br />Plucked by the root.</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;">
+<img src="images/016.jpg" width="445" height="640" alt="untitled" title="untitled" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>DANCE, DOGGIE, DANCE.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">Now, Fido, I have dressed you up<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">In cap, and coat, and cape;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">No, no, indeed my little friend,<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">You cannot yet escape!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Papa has seen a foreign dog<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Dressed up like you in France,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And says that little poodle pup<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Was quickly taught to dance.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">Come, Fido, now you must be good,<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I will not hurt you there;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Now stand upon your hinder-legs<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">And lift them in the air.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Listen&mdash;I will hum the tune<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">And you must dance with me;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I want both paws, sir, if you please.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Come, Fido&mdash;one, two, three!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">"Good doggie! as I've taught you that&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Oh dear! he's run away.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The naughty dog! he sees a cat.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Come here, sir! Fido, stay!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">There now, he's off and won't come back;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">We'll dance no more to-day;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And Fido's got my dress and cape&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oh! what <i>will</i> mother say?"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 457px;">
+<img src="images/018_dance.jpg" width="457" height="640" alt="dance" title="dance" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>THE ORGAN-BOY.</h2>
+
+<p>The children are fond of a merry tune, so they have given the organ-boy
+a penny to play. The babies stare at the organ, as though they thought
+it a very funny box to make such a noise. One little child, with a doll
+in her arms, is giving a piece of bread to the monkey, but he looks as
+if he suspected it was a trick. The boy has a cloth over his organ, to
+protect it when it rains. I do not like to see monkeys led about in this
+way. I think it is cruel, and must cause them much suffering, especially
+if they have a cruel master. But I think this little boy will be kind to
+his little companion, and not twist and throw it about as some of the
+men do. Monkeys are very amusing, after they go through a short
+training, and will do all manner of tricks for their master.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/020_organ_boy.jpg" width="480" height="635" alt="organ boy" title="organ boy" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class='right'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Alphabet Poem I-L">
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/i.png" alt="I" title="I" /></td><td align='left'>Is an Ivy vine,<br />It clings where it grows.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/j.png" alt="J" title="J" /></td><td align='left'>Is a Jessamine,<br />Most fragrant it blows.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/k.png" alt="K" title="K" /></td><td align='left'>The rich Kidney bean,<br />Nutritious for food.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/l.png" alt="L" title="L" /></td><td align='left'>Is the Lily,<br />An emblem of good.</td></tr>
+
+</table></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/022.jpg" width="480" height="632" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>ONLY A BOY.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i2">Only a boy, with his noise and fun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The veriest mystery under the sun;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As brimful of mischief, and wit, and glee,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As ever human frame can be;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And as hard to manage, as&mdash;ah!&mdash;ah, me!<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">'Tis hard to tell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">Yet we love him well.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Only, a boy, with his fearful tread,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who cannot be driven, but must be led;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who troubles the neighbors' dogs and cats,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And who tears more clothes and spoils more hats,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Loses more tops, and kites, and bats,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">Than would stock a store,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">For a year or more.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Only a boy, who will be a man,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If nature goes on with her first great plan;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If water, or fire, or some fatal snare<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Conspire not to rob us of this, our heir.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Our blessing, our trouble, our rest, our care;<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">Our torment, our joy&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">"Only, a boy."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/024_boy.jpg" width="480" height="621" alt="boy" title="boy" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>JOHNNY AND THE TOAD.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8"><span class="smcap">Johnny.</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I want to go to school,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">And he won't let me pass.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I think that a toad<br /></span>
+<span class="i6"><span class="smcap">Ought</span> to keep to the grass.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I don't want to cry,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">But I'm afraid I'm going to;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Oh, dear me!<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">What am I to do?<br /></span>
+<span class="i8"><span class="smcap">Toad.</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i4">Here's a dreadful thing!<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">A boy in the way;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I don't know what to do,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">I don't know what to say.<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I can't see the reason<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">Such monsters should be loose;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I'm trembling all over,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">But that is of no use.<br /></span>
+<span class="i8"><span class="smcap">Johnny.</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I <span class="smcap">Must</span> go to school,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">The bell is going to stop;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">That terrible old toad,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">If only he would hop.<br /></span>
+<span class="i8"><span class="smcap">Toad.</span><br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I <span class="smcap">Must</span> cross the path,<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">I can hear my children croak;<br /></span>
+<span class="i4">I hope that dreadful boy<br /></span>
+<span class="i6">Will not give me a poke.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A hop, and a start, a flutter, and a rush,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Johnny is at school, and the toad in his bush.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/026_johnny_toad.jpg" width="480" height="638" alt="toad" title="toad" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class='right'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Alphabet Poem M-P">
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/m.png" alt="M" title="M" /></td><td align='left'>Holds a Moss rose,<br />Covered with down.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/n.png" alt="N" title="N" /></td><td align='left'>Stands for Walnuts,<br />In the woods they are found.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/o.png" alt="O" title="O" /></td><td align='left'>Is an Orange,<br />So juicy and sweet.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/p.png" alt="P" title="P" /></td><td align='left'>A Pine-apple,<br />Both are good to eat.</td></tr>
+
+</table></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/028.jpg" width="480" height="568" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>DOLLY'S CLOTHES.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I want to make your things look nice,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Dolly&mdash;because, you see,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To-morrow evening Cousin Jane<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Is coming here to tea.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Your muslin skirt is white and stiff&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I'm very glad of that;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But as my little iron's cold,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The tucks will not lie flat.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Jane's doll will come&mdash;she makes its clothes<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Herself, and very neatly;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And when she brings it visiting,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">She dresses it up sweetly.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When I put on your pretty frock,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Your sash, and sleeve-knots blue,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I really think that you will be<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Quite a smart dolly too.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/030_dolly.jpg" width="480" height="638" alt="dolly" title="dolly" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>THE KITTEN.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Wanton droll, whose harmless play<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Beguiles the rustic's closing day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When drawn the evening fire about,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sit aged crone and thoughtless lout;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Come, show thy tricks and sportive graces,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thus circled round with merry faces.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Backward coiled, and crouching low,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With glaring eyeballs watch thy foe.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The house wife's, spindle whirling round,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or thread, or straw, that on the ground<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Its shadow throws, by urchin sly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Held out to lure thy roving eye.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then, onward stealing, fiercely spring<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Upon the futile, faithless thing.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now, wheeling round with bootless skill,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thy bo-peep tail provokes thee still,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As oft beyond thy curving side<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Its jetty tip is seen to glide.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whence hast thou, then, thou witless puss,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The magic power to charm us thus?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Is it that in thy glaring eye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And rapid movements we descry&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While we at ease, secure from ill,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The chimney corner snugly fill.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/032_kitten.jpg" width="480" height="559" alt="kitten" title="kitten" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class='right'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Alphabet Poem Q-T">
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/q.png" alt="Q" title="Q" /></td><td align='left'>Quinces when ripe,<br />Have an excellent flavor.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/r.png" alt="R" title="R" /></td><td align='left'>The Rose when presented,<br />Is a sign of favor.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/s.png" alt="S" title="S" /></td><td align='left'>Strawberries in dish,<br />With sugar and cream.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/t.png" alt="T" title="T" /></td><td align='left'>Tomatoes as fine<br />As ever were seen.</td></tr>
+
+</table></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/034.jpg" width="480" height="640" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>JACK.</h2>
+
+<p>The name of the bear is <i>Jack</i>. I fetched him from the West India Import
+Dock on the 5th of November, 1870. He was running about with another
+bear on board ship, but the job was to catch him. After many attempts we
+at last put a strong collar round his neck, to which was attached a long
+chain, and then we got him into a large barrel and fastened the head on
+with hoop-iron, lowered him over the side of the vessel into a boat, and
+then pulled to the quay, and hauled him up into a cart. For a time the
+little fellow was quiet enough, but he got very inquisitive when being
+driven towards the city, and wanted to have a look round. I managed to
+quiet him by giving him pieces of lump-sugar. He arrived safely at the
+Crystal Palace, and has lived in an aviary till the beginning of last
+month, when he was put into his new bear-pit. The little fellow has
+grown twice the size he was when he first came. He is very playful, but
+sometimes he shows his teeth when he is teased.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/036_jack.jpg" width="480" height="561" alt="jack" title="jack" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>THE PLAY-GROUND.</h2>
+
+<p>The lessons are learned, and now we all join hands, and march to the
+play-ground. And a nice play-ground we have, and every day when it is
+fine we enjoy ourselves very much. Some like to swing round the great
+pole, others join hands and form a large ring, and then we try to see
+which side of the ring can pull the hardest. Others like to run a race,
+and try who will run three times round the play-ground first. When it is
+wet we march round our large school-room, keeping time with our feet.
+And then we have such splendid fun playing "Tag," first one, and then
+the other, racing round over benches, and under and around the desks,
+until we are fairly tired out. Then we hear the bell ring, and we march
+in, two by two, to commence our lessons again.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/038_playground.jpg" width="480" height="618" alt="playground" title="playground" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class='right'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Alphabet Poem U-X">
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/u.png" alt="U" title="U" /></td><td align='left'>Unicorn root,<br />Good at times for the health.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/v.png" alt="V" title="V" /></td><td align='left'>A beautiful Vine,<br />All alone by itself.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/w.png" alt="W" title="W" /></td><td align='left'>Wheat in the field,<br />Gently waved by the wind.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/x.png" alt="X" title="X" /></td><td align='left'>Xanthic flowers, which<br />Are a bright yellow kind.</td></tr>
+
+</table></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 481px;">
+<img src="images/040.jpg" width="481" height="480" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>THE STORY OF TOPSY.</h2>
+
+<p>Topsy had four kittens, but as it was settled that we could not keep
+more than one, and little Milly Knight wanting one, the other two had to
+be drowned. So Milly came one day and selected a nice little black and
+white one. We were very sorry when Tom took the little creatures and put
+them in the pond at the bottom of the garden. As they were very young
+and could not feel much, we thought Topsy would soon forget them. Well,
+on the evening that they were drowned, while the cook was in her pantry,
+with the window open, she saw something come rushing along, and, in
+another minute, Topsy leaped through the window, carrying in her mouth
+one of the kittens, dripping wet, which she laid on the mat and began to
+lick with all her might. And how she licked it! Over and over, and over
+again, till, as the cook said, she "licked it into life." The little
+kitten got well, and became, owing to its narrow escape, and the love
+displayed, a great pet ever afterward.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/042_topsy.jpg" width="480" height="611" alt="topsy" title="topsy" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>PLAYING AT HORSES.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The copies and the lessons<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Are finished for to-day,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And out the happy children<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">At "horses" come to play.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Conny, and Frank, and Archie,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With doggie "Trim," are there;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Conny and Frank are harnessed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And Archie drives the pair.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Away, away they scamper,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Across the breezy park;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And doggie runs beside them<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With merry, happy bark.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">For breath they pause a minute,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Then off they start again,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For they pretend they're going<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To meet papa's down train.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/044_horses.jpg" width="480" height="640" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Alphabet Poem Y-Z">
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/y.png" alt="Y" title="Y" /></td><td align='left'>To find these bright flags,<br />In the marsh you must hunt.</td></tr>
+
+<tr><td align='left'><img src="images/z.png" alt="Z" title="Z" /></td><td align='left'>A Zigadenus flower,<br />Changing color each month.</td></tr>
+
+</table></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 262px;">
+<img src="images/045.jpg" width="262" height="174" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 625px;">
+<img src="images/046_card_horses.jpg" width="625" height="480" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>TROTTY'S CARD HORSES.</h2>
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" summary="Trotty's Card Horses">
+
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="i0">This stands<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Firm, and strong<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Another one<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We'll build hereon.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br /></span>
+
+<span class="i0">Keep away,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Now we'll see,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If 'twill hold<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A number three.<br /></span></td>
+
+<td align='left'><span class="i0">Try another,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One more,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Raise it to<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A fourth floor.<br /><br /></span>
+
+<span class="i0">Yet another;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Oh, what fun!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That's too many&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Down they come.<br /></span></td></tr>
+
+</table></div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>THE FIRST VALENTINE.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Rat-tat at the door! Rat-tat at the door!<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Here are valentines one, two, three;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There is one for Harry, and one for Will,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And a big one for girlie, see!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wildly she flies o'er the nursery floor,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Never was girlie so happy before,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As she shouts in her baby glee&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Oh! I've got a valentine, all come, look!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As big as the sheet of a picture book!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now, don't you wish you all, like me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Had a great big heart painted red, you see?"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">All day long&mdash;now in, now out&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Now up, now down&mdash;she wanders about<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Showing her treasure; 'tis fast getting torn,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But paper, we all know, is very soon worn.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Who do you think can love me the most<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To buy this, and send it alone by the post?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Do look again, you must like to see,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">'Tis a great big heart, and it 'longs to me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And please to read me the written line<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That says, 'God bless your sweet valentine!'"<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 449px;">
+<img src="images/048_valentine.jpg" width="449" height="640" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>SAGACITY OF A DOG.</h2>
+
+<p>A very interesting story is told by Mr. Youatt: "I wanted, one day, to
+go through a tall iron gate, from one part of my premises to another,
+but just within it lay a poor lame puppy, and I could not get in without
+perhaps seriously injuring him. I stood for a while hesitating, and at
+length determined to go round through another gate, when a fine
+Newfoundland dog, who had been waiting patiently for his wonted
+caresses, and wondering why I did not come in, looked accidently down at
+the invalid. He comprehended the whole business in a moment. He put down
+his great paw, and, as quickly and as gently as possible, rolled the
+invalid out of the way, and then drew himself back in order to leave
+room for the opening of the gate."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/050_dog.jpg" width="480" height="625" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/051_gleaner.jpg" width="480" height="588" alt="The Little Gleaner" title="The Little Cleaner" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<div class='right'>
+<br /><br />
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign='top'><img src="images/051_l.jpg" alt="L" title="L" /></td>
+<td align='left'>
+Little Ruth, like the woman of old of that name,<br />
+Returns from the field, where she gathered the grain.
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 455px;">
+<img src="images/052.jpg" width="455" height="640" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>IN THE SWING.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Up little Gracie! Swing up high,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As if you're going to touch the sky;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Only, take care, my darling pet&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hold the two ropes, and don't forget.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Up again, Gracie! There&mdash;that's right,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Laughing away, but holding tight;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While little Dottie waits below,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Harry sends you to and fro.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Stop, Harry, now! 'tis time for Grace<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To yield to little Dot her place.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Be gentle, dear, for Dot's so small&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If you're not careful, she may fall."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The children change; for all the three<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Are fair in play, and well agree;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And now the youngest laughing pet<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Begs for "a little higher!" yet.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/054_swing.jpg" width="480" height="633" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>THE DONKEY RIDE.</h2>
+
+<p>"Oh, papa! will you please buy me a donkey?" said little Ella Clark to
+her father, as she ran to meet him. "Well," said her father, "if you
+will promise to be a very good girl, and give your sister May a share of
+the rides, I will get one in the city and send it home." So, in a few
+days the donkey came, with a new bridle and saddle. The next thing to do
+was to give him a name; so, after trying a great many they agreed to
+call him "Jack." The next day Ella and May were up early and went to the
+barn, where they found Henry, and asked him to saddle "Jack." Henry
+brushed down "Jack's" thick coat of hair, and made him look quite trim,
+and he then placed Ella on "Jack's" back, and walked him up and down,
+holding on to Ella, and in a short time she could ride alone, and felt
+as proud as a queen when her father saw her sitting up on "Jack's" back.
+She then gave May a ride, and at last got so bold as to take "Jack" down
+the lane alone, and had a splendid time riding up and down.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/056_donkey.jpg" width="480" height="615" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>THE SPELLING LESSON.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now, Pussy, you must be real good,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And learn to spell like me;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When I say, "Pussy, what is this?"<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">You must say, That is C.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Don't scratch, and twist, and turn about,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And try to get away;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But, Pussy, please to try and learn:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">This is the letter A.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">There now, that's nice, you're doing well;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Oh, dear! where can she be;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Just as I'd taught her how to spell<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Clear to the letter T.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">She jumped and ran away so fast,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">She must have seen a rat;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And now how will she ever know<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">That C-A-T spells <span class="smcap">Cat</span>.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/058_spelling.jpg" width="480" height="616" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>"GEE UP, PONY."</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">When mother threw open the nursery door,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There she found uncle down on the floor;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">While up on his back sat Harry and Fred,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Nellie stood by and was stroking his head.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"This is my pony," cried Harry: "gee way;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Get on, old Dobbin&mdash;don't wait here all day."<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And "Gee way," says Freddy, who thinks he must do<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whatever his brother may do or say too.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And uncle good-humoredly keeps on his round,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Creeping and crawling about on the ground;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And mother still hears, as she goes on her way,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Come, gee up, my pony&mdash;don't wait here all day."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/060_pony.jpg" width="480" height="632" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>GOOD-NIGHT AND GOOD-MORNING.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A fair little girl sat careless and free,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sewing as long as her eyes could see;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then smoothed her work, and folded it right,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And said "Dear Work! good-night! good-night!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Such a number of rooks came over her head,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Crying "Caw! Caw!" on their way to bed.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She said, as she watched their curious flight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Little black things! good-night! good-night!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The horses neighed, and the oxen lowed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The sheeps "Bleat! bleat!" came over the road&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All seeming to say with a quiet delight,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Good little girl! good-night! good-night!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The tall pink foxglove bowed his head&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The violets curtsied and went to bed;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And good little Lucy tied up her hair,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And said on her knees her favorite prayer.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And while on her pillow she softly lay,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She knew nothing more till again it was day;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And all things said to the beautiful sun,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Good-morning! good-morning! our work is begun."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 451px;">
+<img src="images/062_morning.jpg" width="451" height="640" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>A DEAR LITTLE GRANNY.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I want to be your granny&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Granny, granny dear;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Do you think in glasses<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I'm anything like near?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Would you take me for her<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">If I wore her cap;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Told you pretty stories,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Took you in my lap?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Gave you lots of sweeties,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Cakes and apples too?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That's the way that grannies,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Dear old grannies do!<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 452px;">
+<img src="images/064_granny.jpg" width="452" height="640" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>PLAYING IN THE HAY.</h2>
+
+<p>Little Elsie and Gertie live in the country. They do not see the gay
+shops full of pretty things that amuse children in New York, and they
+have never been to a bazaar, or to the Zoological Gardens, but they have
+sweet flowers to smell and look at, and live creatures about them at
+home. They find amusements at all seasons of the year, and are very
+merry. You see them now in the field where the grass has been cut and is
+drying into hay that the horses and cows will eat. The children have had
+fine fun in the hay; they have spread and tossed it, and Gertie has
+pretended to feed her toy goat with it, and now she wants Elsie to hide
+her in it that she may jump out and surprise James their brother, who is
+coming in at the gate.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 470px;">
+<img src="images/066_hay.jpg" width="470" height="640" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<table style="background-image: url(images/067_lamb.jpg); height: 1012px; width: 700px;" summary="Lamb of God">
+<tr><td>
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="z">"Lamb of God! I look to Thee,<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Thou shalt my example be;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Thou art gentle, meek and mild;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Thou wast once a little child.<br /><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="z">Fain I would be as Thou art.<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Give me thy obedient heart:<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Thou art pitiful, and kind;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Let me have thy loving mind.<br /><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="z">Let me above all fulfil<br /></span>
+<span class="z">God my heavenly Father's will;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Never his good Spirit grieve,<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Only to his glory live.<br /><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="z">Loving Jesus, gentle Lamb!<br /></span>
+<span class="z">In thy gracious hands I am;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Make me, Saviour, what Thou art;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Live thyself within my heart.<br /><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="z">I shall then show forth thy praise;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Serve thee all my happy days;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Then the world shall always see<br /></span>
+<span class="z">Christ, the Holy Child in me."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="z">&nbsp;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">&nbsp;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">&nbsp;<br /></span>
+<span class="z">&nbsp;<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+</td></tr></table>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 601px;">
+<img src="images/068.jpg" width="601" height="480" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>PUPPIES AND TORTOISE.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A sight most strange and wonderful<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Three little puppies saw&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A creature out of shell of horn<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Popped out a head and claw.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">They jumped and barked, and barked again,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And stared with open eyes;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The sight of such a strange shaped thing<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">So filled them with surprise.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">They wondered at its smooth, brown shell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Its skin both brown and green;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And thought it was the strangest sight<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">They ever yet had seen.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">They would have tried to bite and scratch<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">This funny looking thing;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But now they thought it might have hid<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">A sharp and biting sting.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/070_puppies.jpg" width="480" height="637" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>"I'M GRANDMOTHER."</h2>
+
+<p>Mary is a good little girl, but is meddlesome. She has a good
+Grandmother, called Mrs. Mason, and she sometimes goes to her house. One
+day Mary got into mischief. Seeing her Grandmother's spectacles on the
+table, she put them on her nose, and said, "I'm Grandmother." Mary began
+to march about the room in a very grand way. Presently the spectacles
+fell off, and the glasses were broken. Poor Mary cried bitterly, and at
+first did not know what to do; but when Mrs. Mason came in, she told her
+all, and promised never to play "Grandmother" again. Mrs. Mason told her
+not to cry, and she might play "Grandmother" as much as she liked, but
+she was to be very careful not to take her spectacles, and she would get
+her papa to get a pair of tin ones, with holes in them, so that she
+could see as well, and look all the funnier.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/072_grandmother.jpg" width="480" height="625" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;">
+<img src="images/073_our_band.jpg" width="448" height="133" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<div class='right'>
+<br /><br />
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">
+<tr><td valign='top'><img src="images/073-r.jpg" alt="R" title="R" /></td>
+
+<td align='left'>
+Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dee,<br />
+<span class="indent">Oh, such jolly fun!<br /></span>
+I'm Signor Blowmore,<br />
+<span class="indent">And he's Herr Bertrun.<br /><br /></span>
+
+Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dee!<br />
+<span class="indent">Do we make a noise?<br /></span>
+That's the very thing you know<br />
+<span class="indent">Pleases little boys.<br /><br /></span>
+
+Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dee!<br />
+<span class="indent">Full of young life's joys,<br /></span>
+Playing with the horn and drum,<br />
+<span class="indent">Best of all the toys.<br /><br /></span>
+
+Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dee!<br />
+<span class="indent">Music now hath charms;<br /></span>
+You can blow and beat away,<br />
+<span class="indent">And it no one alarms.<br /><br /></span>
+</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/074_our_band.jpg" width="480" height="599" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>THE SWAN AND THE DRAKE</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Slowly, in majestic silence,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Sailed a Swan upon a lake;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Round about him, never quiet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Swam a noisy quacking Drake.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"Swan," exclaimed the latter, halting,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">"I can scarcely comprehend<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Why I never hear you talking:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Are you really dumb, my friend?"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Said the Swan, by way of answer:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">"I have wondered, when you make<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Such a shocking, senseless clatter,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Whether you are deaf, Sir Drake!"<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Better, like the Swan, remain in<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Silence grave and dignified,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than keep, drake-like, ever prating,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">While your listeners deride.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="right">W.R.E.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/076_swan.jpg" width="480" height="556" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>UPSETTING BABY'S MILK.</h2>
+
+<p>"Ponto," the dog, who was longing for a run with nurse and baby, came up
+into the nursery to see if they were nearly ready for their walk. Nurse
+had gone out of the room, leaving baby fastened into her chair with a
+saucer of milk on the ledge in front of her. Ponto would not have taken
+the milk without leave&mdash;he knew better how to behave than that; but he
+wanted baby to give him some, and did not know how easily the saucer
+would be upset: one great paw put on the little shelf sent it over,
+broke it, and spilt the milk. You see the baby is not at all afraid of
+the dog, and she is too good-tempered to cry about the milk being spilt;
+but she holds her spoon out of Ponto's way and says, "Naughty, naughty!"</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/078-_upsetting.jpg" width="480" height="632" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>CLEVER TRAY.</h2>
+
+<p>I want to tell you a true story about the terrier dog you see having a
+game at hide-and-seek with our two children.</p>
+
+<p>One evening, nurse had put baby to bed, and tucked her in quite snug and
+warm. Having to do some shopping, nurse went out, and, in going along
+the street she felt something pulling her skirt, and on looking down
+discovered Tray with her skirt in his mouth. Nurse thought he was only
+playing, and tried to shake him off, but he began to bark and whine, and
+seemed to say, in his doggish way: "Please <i>do</i> attend to me; <i>do</i> come
+back with me!" that at last, just to see if he would leave off, she
+began to walk home. And oh, how delighted Tray was! When they reached
+the house Tray ran up-stairs, and nurse discovered baby sitting up in
+bed, and screaming sadly. The little thing had awoke, and finding
+herself alone, began to cry; and the faithful dog had heard her, and set
+off directly to find nurse.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/080_clever_tray.jpg" width="480" height="615" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>MY FRIEND WASHINGTON.</h2>
+
+<p>When I was a very little girl, one of my best friends was Washington
+Henry. He was one of our servants, who made himself useful inside of the
+house, and was as black as night, as you may see by the picture. He
+liked nothing better than to meet me outside the house and have a romp,
+and he would take me all round the barn and show me the ducks, and hens,
+and the nice little chickens, and wheel me round in the baby-carriage,
+while he capered and danced about like a high-mettled steed. I can tell
+you we had plenty of fun, and father often used to wonder how it was I
+liked Washington so much, but it was only because he was more kind and
+considerate than any of the other servants. His old mother lived in a
+little cottage with his younger brother and sister, and he used to take
+me round there sometimes, and they had always something new to show me.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/082_my_friend.jpg" width="480" height="613" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>THE YOUNG MONKEY.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A little Monkey chanced to find<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A walnut in its outward rind;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He snatched the prize with eager haste,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And bit it, but its bitter taste<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Soon made him throw the fruit away.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"I've heard," he cried, "my mother say<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">(But she was wrong), the fruit was good;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Preserve me from such bitter food!"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A monkey by experience taught,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The falling prize with pleasure caught;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Took off the husk and broke the shell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The kernel peeled, and liked it well.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Walnuts," said he, "are good and sweet,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But must be opened ere you eat."<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And thus in life you'll always find<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Labor comes first,&mdash;reward behind.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/084_monkey.jpg" width="480" height="557" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>DON'T YOU LIKE MY CAT?</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I like my cat, I like him well,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As all the house may see<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I like him for himself, and not<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Because the cat likes me.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He counts his only work in life,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To flourish and be fat;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And this he does with all his might;&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of course, I like my cat.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">His eyes shine out beneath his brows,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">As eyes have rarely shone;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His beauty is the grandest thing<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">That ever cat put on.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">He wears a paw of wondrous bulk,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">With secret claws to match,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And puts a charm in all its play,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">The pat, the box, the scratch.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I have not heard how cats are made<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Within their furry veil,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But rather fancy Tippo's thoughts<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Lie chiefly in his tail.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">For while in every other part<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">His portly person sleeps,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That bushy tail, with steady wave,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">A ceaseless vigil keeps.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/086_my_cat.jpg" width="480" height="619" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>A LARK IN A CRICKET-GROUND.</h2>
+
+<p>A few days ago I was passing through Sonning, an old English village on
+the Thames, when I was attracted to a field near the road by hearing the
+merry sounds of the village school at a game of cricket. I could not
+resist the pleasure of pausing to watch the boys at play. Before long my
+curiosity was aroused by shouts of "Look out!" "Take care!" "Mind where
+you're going!" whenever any boy approached a certain spot, which seemed
+to be within a few yards of one of the wickets. I asked one of the party
+what such outcries meant. He replied&mdash;"Oh, that's our lark, sir!" On
+inquiry I found that some weeks before, the boys discovered a titlark's
+nest in the ground close to their cricket-piece. One of the boys seems
+to have made the suggestion that the school should take the lark under
+their special patronage. The proposal was adopted, and it became a daily
+business to see, before settling to their play, that all was right with
+the lark.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/088_lark.jpg" width="480" height="555" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>HELPING MOTHER.</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I shall help mother when I am grown big;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">When I am old enough, oh! wont I dig,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Plough with the horses, and call out "Gee-ho!"<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Plant the potatoes, fell timber, and mow?<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Then I shall fetch the cows home to the byre,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Carry such fagots to make mother's fire,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Reap and make hay&mdash;Hush! who calls? I shant go!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Its only to play with the baby, I know.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">A boy who is seven is too big to do that,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Can't mother nurse her, or give her the cat?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oh, what a bother! She's calling me still&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">"Come and take the baby off my hands, Bill."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">"I <i>must</i> get your father's socks finished to-night,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And I can't while the little girl pulls the thread tight;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There&mdash;lift him up, play at ball or Peep-bo&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You will help mother then very greatly you know."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Bill waited a moment. Then into his mind<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Came a thought,&mdash;"Little boy, if you don't feel inclined<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To help mother now, when you easily can,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I'm afraid you won't do it when you are a man."<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">So he brightened his face till the baby smiled too;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hid himself in the cupboard and called out "Cuckoo."<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And on his knee fed her with delicious cream,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And helping mother was not so bad it would seem.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/090_helping.jpg" width="480" height="622" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>A FOUR-FOOTED THIEF.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Paris <i>Figaro</i> says:&mdash;"On Friday a new kind of robber was arrested
+not far from a hatter's, and holding a hat between his teeth. When
+efforts were made to take the hat away he stood on the defensive, and
+there was a fight, which ended very badly for the hat. The thief was a
+dog. His master, who has not yet been found, had taught him to bring
+home goods to him for sale, and the hatter accuses him of having carried
+off no less than six hats within a week."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/092_thief.jpg" width="480" height="545" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2>THE PERFORMING MONKEYS.</h2>
+
+<p>Amusing creatures! I can look at the picture with pleasure, because they
+are evidently well treated, and have not the miserably cowed expression
+we see upon many of the monkeys that go about our streets. Sometimes
+when I have given a monkey a piece of cake or fruit, I have made a
+bargain with the master to let him sit still and eat it, and much amused
+I have been watching the little animal's extreme enjoyment of the treat
+and the holiday. The monkeys at the Zoological Gardens have tolerably
+large cages. I wish the parrots were as well off: they sadly need more
+space, and would be glad of bits of stick to play with.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/094_monkeys.jpg" width="480" height="601" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<h2>"BEG, DOGGIE, BEG!"</h2>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Beg, doggie, beg: Come, come, sit up,&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">No, not that way, you silly pup;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Upon your hind legs sit,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And I will tell you how to ask<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For bread&mdash;it is an easy task;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And then you'll get a bit.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Now there&mdash;that's right&mdash;keep up your paw!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A better dog I never saw.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Oh dear! you're down once more:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I cannot let you off: Now try,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Oh, Jack, I really fear that I<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Have got a "treat" in store;<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Look at this cake. Now, sit upright<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And stare at me with all you're might,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And then I'll place the food:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That's well: Now, doggie,&mdash;quite still&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">You must not stir an inch until<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">I tell you,&mdash;come, that's good!<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">One trial more, and you shall eat<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">This great round cake, just for a treat:<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Now sit up, Jacky&mdash;so,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Ask for it, sir&mdash;just say "bow-wow"&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And louder still! There make your bow&mdash;<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Good dog! now you may go.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 476px;">
+<img src="images/096_beg_doggie.jpg" width="476" height="640" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 55%;" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 480px;">
+<img src="images/097.jpg" width="480" height="625" alt="image" title="image" />
+</div>
+
+<hr style="width: 95%;" />
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Baby Chatterbox, by Anonymous
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Baby Chatterbox
+
+Author: Anonymous
+
+Release Date: September 11, 2005 [EBook #16681]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BABY CHATTERBOX ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the
+Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+BABY CHATTERBOX
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+BABY CHATTERBOX
+
+NEW YORK
+R. WORTHINGTON
+770 BROADWAY
+
+Copyright by R. Worthington, 1880.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note: the following corrections were made to the text:
+ couldn't for could'nt
+ foxglove for foxglore
+ curtsied for curtised
+ servants for sevants
+
+
+
+THE NEW BABY.
+
+
+A new little baby came down from the sky--
+ Came down from the sky in the night.
+A soft little baby, with violet eyes,
+ Shining, and pure, and white.
+
+But how did the little new baby get
+ Down here from the depths of the sky?
+She couldn't have come alone, you know,
+ For she's much too young to fly.
+
+Oh! the angels carried her down in their arms
+ From the far-away, beautiful blue;
+Brought her down from the arms of God,
+ A present to me and to you.
+
+So, you see, we must kiss the baby,
+ And give her a lot of love,
+That she may not need the angels
+ Till she meets them again above.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+DOLLY'S PROMENADE.
+
+
+"Dolly, my dearest, you really must walk,
+You shall not be lazy, you never will talk;
+And, as I've got all the talking to do,
+I think you might please me by walking, don't you?
+
+"So, dolly, come out to the paddock with me,
+I'll show you the apples that grow on the tree,
+I'll show you the bees, and the butterflies, too,
+The hills all so purple, the sky all so blue.
+
+"You must walk, dolly, dear; see, your shoes are so gay;
+You only have worn them twice since your birthday.
+Red hat and red feather--now come, if you please,
+Gently, my dolly, we learn by degrees."
+
+Ah! now you walk so very nicely, my dear,
+You soon will be going as fast as a deer,
+And then such racing, we will have all day long,
+Playing "tag" in the very midst of the throng.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+WHERE DID IT COME FROM?
+
+Hop, hop, hop! In it came at the window, the dearest
+little yellow canary, not a bit afraid; chirping,
+turning its pretty head this way and that, and asking its
+little bird questions which nobody could understand.
+
+George, and Winifred, and little Bruce were all filled
+with delight and amazement at the small visitor. Wise
+George flew to shut the window, kind Winny ran for
+cake, and solemn Bruce took his finger out of his mouth
+and stared.
+
+Meanwhile Dicky sidled, and fluttered, and chattered,
+and at last showed he was used to society by setting
+down on George's finger, winking at Bruce, and making
+a good meal of Winny's cake.
+
+"Do you think he can have flown straight from the
+Canary Islands?" asked Winny.
+
+But George shook his head; it was too far.
+
+But still they had a feeling that the little visitor was
+a sort of emigrant, who must be led to settle at Fairleigh
+Cottage; and Winny ran to ask her mother for the half-crown
+out of her money-box to buy him a cage.
+
+"Mother's coming," she said. "She thinks Birdie
+belongs to some one else, because he is so tame."
+
+"But there are no canaries in the village, except the
+schoolmaster's pair," said wise George; "and this little
+beauty is not one of them. I really think this bird must
+have come to look for a home."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration: A]
+
+Stands over Apples,
+So rosy and round.
+
+[Illustration: B]
+
+Begins the word Berries,
+Which grow near the ground.
+
+[Illustration: C]
+
+Commences Cherries,
+They grow upon trees.
+
+[Illustration: D]
+
+Date-Palms or Desert,
+Spell which word you please.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE DUCKS.
+
+
+ One little black duck,
+ One little gray,
+ Six little white ducks
+ Running out to play.
+One white lady-duck, motherly and trim,
+Eight little baby-ducks bound for a swim.
+ One little white duck
+ Running from the water,
+ One very fat duck--
+ Pretty little daughter;
+One very grave duck, swimming off alone,
+One little white duck, standing on a stone.
+ One little white duck
+ Holding up its wings,
+ One little bobbing duck
+ Making water-rings;
+One little black duck, turning round its head,
+One big black duck--see, he's gone to bed.
+One little lady-duck, motherly and trim,
+Eight little baby-ducks bound for a swim.
+One lazy black duck, taking quite a nap,
+One precious duck, here on mother's lap.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+IN TROUBLE.
+
+
+In terrible trouble is baby:
+ Full loudly he screams and he cries;
+His breakfast is lost, and replace it
+ He cannot,--however he tries.
+
+The cup of warm milk all so tempting,
+ Stood safe but a moment ago;
+In his haste he leant over to grasp it,
+ But instead threw it all down below.
+
+At once he burst forth into weeping,
+ And heart-rending shrieks loud and shrill;
+He saw not a kind hand was near him
+ The empty cup soon to refill.
+
+Dear baby! too often we elders,
+ Like you, break our hearts without need,
+And see not the Hand that provides us
+ Our food in sweet harvests and seed.
+
+If a check ever lessens our plenty,
+ And wasted our crops ever lie,
+Then, forgetful of all our past blessings,
+ How hastily rises our cry!
+
+Ah! dry we our blinding tears, baby,
+ Look up to our Father above,
+And patiently wait till he fills us
+ Our cups in His mercy and love.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration: E]
+
+Twined by Evergreens.
+They never fade.
+
+[Illustration: F]
+
+Found in Fern-leaves,
+Which grow in the shade.
+
+[Illustration: G]
+
+Is a Grape-vine,
+Bearing some fruit.
+
+[Illustration: H]
+
+Holds a Holly bush
+Plucked by the root.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+DANCE, DOGGIE, DANCE.
+
+
+ Now, Fido, I have dressed you up
+ In cap, and coat, and cape;
+ No, no, indeed my little friend,
+ You cannot yet escape!
+ Papa has seen a foreign dog
+ Dressed up like you in France,
+ And says that little poodle pup
+ Was quickly taught to dance.
+
+ Come, Fido, now you must be good,
+ I will not hurt you there;
+ Now stand upon your hinder-legs
+ And lift them in the air.
+ Listen--I will hum the tune
+ And you must dance with me;
+ I want both paws, sir, if you please.
+ Come, Fido--one, two, three!
+
+ "Good doggie! as I've taught you that--
+ Oh dear! he's run away.
+ The naughty dog! he sees a cat.
+ Come here, sir! Fido, stay!
+ There now, he's off and won't come back;
+ We'll dance no more to-day;
+ And Fido's got my dress and cape--
+Oh! what _will_ mother say?"
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE ORGAN-BOY.
+
+The children are fond of a merry tune,
+so they have given the organ-boy a
+penny to play. The babies stare at the
+organ, as though they thought it a very
+funny box to make such a noise. One little
+child, with a doll in her arms, is giving a
+piece of bread to the monkey, but he looks
+as if he suspected it was a trick. The boy
+has a cloth over his organ, to protect it
+when it rains. I do not like to see monkeys
+led about in this way. I think it is cruel,
+and must cause them much suffering,
+especially if they have a cruel master. But
+I think this little boy will be kind to his
+little companion, and not twist and throw it
+about as some of the men do. Monkeys
+are very amusing, after they go through a
+short training, and will do all manner of
+tricks for their master.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration: I]
+
+Is an Ivy vine,
+It clings where it grows.
+
+[Illustration: J]
+
+Is a Jessamine,
+Most fragrant it blows.
+
+[Illustration: K]
+
+The rich Kidney bean,
+Nutritious for food.
+
+[Illustration: L]
+
+Is the Lily,
+An emblem of good.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ONLY A BOY.
+
+
+ Only a boy, with his noise and fun,
+ The veriest mystery under the sun;
+ As brimful of mischief, and wit, and glee,
+ As ever human frame can be;
+ And as hard to manage, as--ah!--ah, me!
+ 'Tis hard to tell,
+ Yet we love him well.
+
+Only, a boy, with his fearful tread,
+Who cannot be driven, but must be led;
+Who troubles the neighbors' dogs and cats,
+And who tears more clothes and spoils more hats,
+Loses more tops, and kites, and bats,
+ Than would stock a store,
+ For a year or more.
+
+Only a boy, who will be a man,
+If nature goes on with her first great plan;
+If water, or fire, or some fatal snare
+Conspire not to rob us of this, our heir.
+Our blessing, our trouble, our rest, our care;
+ Our torment, our joy--
+ "Only, a boy."
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+JOHNNY AND THE TOAD.
+
+
+ Johnny.
+ I want to go to school,
+ And he won't let me pass.
+ I think that a toad
+ Ought to keep to the grass.
+ I don't want to cry,
+ But I'm afraid I'm going to;
+ Oh, dear me!
+ What am I to do?
+ Toad.
+ Here's a dreadful thing!
+ A boy in the way;
+ I don't know what to do,
+ I don't know what to say.
+ I can't see the reason
+ Such monsters should be loose;
+ I'm trembling all over,
+ But that is of no use.
+ Johnny.
+ I Must go to school,
+ The bell is going to stop;
+ That terrible old toad,
+ If only he would hop.
+ Toad.
+ I Must cross the path,
+ I can hear my children croak;
+ I hope that dreadful boy
+ Will not give me a poke.
+A hop, and a start, a flutter, and a rush,
+Johnny is at school, and the toad in his bush.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration: M]
+
+Holds a Moss rose,
+Covered with down.
+
+[Illustration: N]
+
+Stands for Walnuts,
+In the woods they are found.
+
+[Illustration: O]
+
+Is an Orange,
+So juicy and sweet.
+
+[Illustration: P]
+
+A Pine-apple,
+Both are good to eat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+DOLLY'S CLOTHES.
+
+
+I want to make your things look nice,
+ Dolly--because, you see,
+To-morrow evening Cousin Jane
+ Is coming here to tea.
+
+Your muslin skirt is white and stiff--
+ I'm very glad of that;
+But as my little iron's cold,
+ The tucks will not lie flat.
+
+Jane's doll will come--she makes its clothes
+ Herself, and very neatly;
+And when she brings it visiting,
+ She dresses it up sweetly.
+
+When I put on your pretty frock,
+ Your sash, and sleeve-knots blue,
+I really think that you will be
+ Quite a smart dolly too.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE KITTEN.
+
+
+Wanton droll, whose harmless play
+Beguiles the rustic's closing day,
+When drawn the evening fire about,
+Sit aged crone and thoughtless lout;
+Come, show thy tricks and sportive graces,
+Thus circled round with merry faces.
+Backward coiled, and crouching low,
+With glaring eyeballs watch thy foe.
+The house wife's, spindle whirling round,
+Or thread, or straw, that on the ground
+Its shadow throws, by urchin sly,
+Held out to lure thy roving eye.
+Then, onward stealing, fiercely spring
+Upon the futile, faithless thing.
+Now, wheeling round with bootless skill,
+Thy bo-peep tail provokes thee still,
+As oft beyond thy curving side
+Its jetty tip is seen to glide.
+Whence hast thou, then, thou witless puss,
+The magic power to charm us thus?
+Is it that in thy glaring eye,
+And rapid movements we descry--
+While we at ease, secure from ill,
+The chimney corner snugly fill.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration: Q]
+
+Quinces when ripe,
+Have an excellent flavor.
+
+[Illustration: R]
+
+The Rose when presented,
+Is a sign of favor.
+
+[Illustration: S]
+
+Strawberries in dish,
+With sugar and cream.
+
+[Illustration: T]
+
+Tomatoes as fine
+As ever were seen.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+JACK.
+
+The name of the bear is _Jack_. I fetched
+him from the West India Import Dock
+on the 5th of November, 1870. He was running
+about with another bear on board ship,
+but the job was to catch him. After many
+attempts we at last put a strong collar round
+his neck, to which was attached a long chain,
+and then we got him into a large barrel and
+fastened the head on with hoop-iron, lowered
+him over the side of the vessel into a
+boat, and then pulled to the quay, and hauled
+him up into a cart. For a time the little fellow
+was quiet enough, but he got very inquisitive
+when being driven towards the
+city, and wanted to have a look round. I
+managed to quiet him by giving him pieces
+of lump-sugar. He arrived safely at the Crystal
+Palace, and has lived in an aviary till the
+beginning of last month, when he was put
+into his new bear-pit. The little fellow has
+grown twice the size he was when he first
+came. He is very playful, but sometimes
+he shows his teeth when he is teased.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE PLAY-GROUND.
+
+The lessons are learned, and now we
+all join hands, and march to the play-ground.
+And a nice play-ground we have,
+and every day when it is fine we enjoy
+ourselves very much. Some like to swing
+round the great pole, others join hands and
+form a large ring, and then we try to see
+which side of the ring can pull the hardest.
+Others like to run a race, and try who will
+run three times round the play-ground first.
+When it is wet we march round our large
+school-room, keeping time with our feet.
+And then we have such splendid fun
+playing "Tag," first one, and then the
+other, racing round over benches, and
+under and around the desks, until we are
+fairly tired out. Then we hear the bell
+ring, and we march in, two by two, to
+commence our lessons again.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration: U]
+
+Unicorn root,
+Good at times for the health.
+
+[Illustration: V]
+
+A beautiful Vine,
+All alone by itself.
+
+[Illustration: W]
+
+Wheat in the field,
+Gently waved by the wind.
+
+[Illustration: X]
+
+Xanthic flowers, which
+Are a bright yellow kind.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE STORY OF TOPSY.
+
+Topsy had four kittens, but as it was
+settled that we could not keep more
+than one, and little Milly Knight wanting
+one, the other two had to be drowned. So
+Milly came one day and selected a nice little
+black and white one. We were very sorry
+when Tom took the little creatures and put
+them in the pond at the bottom of the
+garden. As they were very young and
+could not feel much, we thought Topsy
+would soon forget them. Well, on the
+evening that they were drowned, while the
+cook was in her pantry, with the window
+open, she saw something come rushing
+along, and, in another minute, Topsy leaped
+through the window, carrying in her mouth
+one of the kittens, dripping wet, which she
+laid on the mat and began to lick with all
+her might. And how she licked it! Over
+and over, and over again, till, as the cook
+said, she "licked it into life." The little
+kitten got well, and became, owing to its
+narrow escape, and the love displayed, a
+great pet ever afterward.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+PLAYING AT HORSES.
+
+
+The copies and the lessons
+ Are finished for to-day,
+And out the happy children
+ At "horses" come to play.
+
+Conny, and Frank, and Archie,
+ With doggie "Trim," are there;
+Conny and Frank are harnessed,
+ And Archie drives the pair.
+
+Away, away they scamper,
+ Across the breezy park;
+And doggie runs beside them
+ With merry, happy bark.
+
+For breath they pause a minute,
+ Then off they start again,
+For they pretend they're going
+ To meet papa's down train.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration: Y]
+
+To find these bright flags,
+In the marsh you must hunt.
+
+[Illustration: Z]
+
+A Zigadenus flower,
+Changing color each month.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+TROTTY'S CARD HORSES.
+
+
+This stands
+ Firm, and strong
+Another one
+ We'll build hereon.
+
+Keep away,
+ Now we'll see,
+If 'twill hold
+ A number three.
+
+Try another,
+ One more,
+Raise it to
+ A fourth floor.
+
+Yet another;
+ Oh, what fun!
+That's too many--
+ Down they come.
+
+
+THE FIRST VALENTINE.
+
+
+Rat-tat at the door! Rat-tat at the door!
+ Here are valentines one, two, three;
+There is one for Harry, and one for Will,
+ And a big one for girlie, see!
+Wildly she flies o'er the nursery floor,
+ Never was girlie so happy before,
+As she shouts in her baby glee--
+"Oh! I've got a valentine, all come, look!
+As big as the sheet of a picture book!
+Now, don't you wish you all, like me,
+Had a great big heart painted red, you see?"
+
+All day long--now in, now out--
+Now up, now down--she wanders about
+Showing her treasure; 'tis fast getting torn,
+But paper, we all know, is very soon worn.
+"Who do you think can love me the most
+To buy this, and send it alone by the post?
+Do look again, you must like to see,
+'Tis a great big heart, and it 'longs to me,
+And please to read me the written line
+That says, 'God bless your sweet valentine!'"
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SAGACITY OF A DOG.
+
+A very interesting story is told by Mr.
+Youatt: "I wanted, one day, to go
+through a tall iron gate, from one part of
+my premises to another, but just within
+it lay a poor lame puppy, and I could not
+get in without perhaps seriously injuring
+him. I stood for a while hesitating, and
+at length determined to go round through
+another gate, when a fine Newfoundland
+dog, who had been waiting patiently for
+his wonted caresses, and wondering why
+I did not come in, looked accidently down
+at the invalid. He comprehended the whole
+business in a moment. He put down his
+great paw, and, as quickly and as gently as
+possible, rolled the invalid out of the way,
+and then drew himself back in order to
+leave room for the opening of the gate."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Little Gleaner.
+
+
+Little Ruth, like the woman of old of that name,
+Returns from the field, where she gathered the grain.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+IN THE SWING.
+
+
+"Up little Gracie! Swing up high,
+As if you're going to touch the sky;
+Only, take care, my darling pet--
+Hold the two ropes, and don't forget.
+
+"Up again, Gracie! There--that's right,
+Laughing away, but holding tight;
+While little Dottie waits below,
+And Harry sends you to and fro.
+
+"Stop, Harry, now! 'tis time for Grace
+To yield to little Dot her place.
+Be gentle, dear, for Dot's so small--
+If you're not careful, she may fall."
+
+The children change; for all the three
+Are fair in play, and well agree;
+And now the youngest laughing pet
+Begs for "a little higher!" yet.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE DONKEY RIDE.
+
+"Oh, papa! will you please buy me a
+donkey?" said little Ella Clark to her
+father, as she ran to meet him. "Well,"
+said her father, "if you will promise to be
+a very good girl, and give your sister May
+a share of the rides, I will get one in the
+city and send it home." So, in a few days
+the donkey came, with a new bridle and
+saddle. The next thing to do was to give
+him a name; so, after trying a great many
+they agreed to call him "Jack." The next
+day Ella and May were up early and went
+to the barn, where they found Henry, and
+asked him to saddle "Jack." Henry brushed
+down "Jack's" thick coat of hair, and made
+him look quite trim, and he then placed Ella
+on "Jack's" back, and walked him up and
+down, holding on to Ella, and in a short
+time she could ride alone, and felt as proud
+as a queen when her father saw her sitting
+up on "Jack's" back. She then gave May
+a ride, and at last got so bold as to take
+"Jack" down the lane alone, and had a
+splendid time riding up and down.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE SPELLING LESSON.
+
+
+Now, Pussy, you must be real good,
+ And learn to spell like me;
+When I say, "Pussy, what is this?"
+ You must say, That is C.
+
+Don't scratch, and twist, and turn about,
+ And try to get away;
+But, Pussy, please to try and learn:
+ This is the letter A.
+
+There now, that's nice, you're doing well;
+ Oh, dear! where can she be;
+Just as I'd taught her how to spell
+ Clear to the letter T.
+
+She jumped and ran away so fast,
+ She must have seen a rat;
+And now how will she ever know
+ That C-A-T spells Cat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"GEE UP, PONY."
+
+
+When mother threw open the nursery door,
+There she found uncle down on the floor;
+While up on his back sat Harry and Fred,
+And Nellie stood by and was stroking his head.
+
+"This is my pony," cried Harry: "gee way;
+Get on, old Dobbin--don't wait here all day."
+And "Gee way," says Freddy, who thinks he must do
+Whatever his brother may do or say too.
+
+And uncle good-humoredly keeps on his round,
+Creeping and crawling about on the ground;
+And mother still hears, as she goes on her way,
+"Come, gee up, my pony--don't wait here all day."
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+GOOD-NIGHT AND GOOD-MORNING.
+
+
+A fair little girl sat careless and free,
+Sewing as long as her eyes could see;
+Then smoothed her work, and folded it right,
+And said "Dear Work! good-night! good-night!"
+
+Such a number of rooks came over her head,
+Crying "Caw! Caw!" on their way to bed.
+She said, as she watched their curious flight,
+"Little black things! good-night! good-night!"
+
+The horses neighed, and the oxen lowed;
+The sheeps "Bleat! bleat!" came over the road--
+All seeming to say with a quiet delight,
+"Good little girl! good-night! good-night!"
+
+The tall pink foxglove bowed his head--
+The violets curtsied and went to bed;
+And good little Lucy tied up her hair,
+And said on her knees her favorite prayer.
+
+And while on her pillow she softly lay,
+She knew nothing more till again it was day;
+And all things said to the beautiful sun,
+"Good-morning! good-morning! our work is begun."
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A DEAR LITTLE GRANNY.
+
+
+I want to be your granny--
+ Granny, granny dear;
+Do you think in glasses
+ I'm anything like near?
+
+Would you take me for her
+ If I wore her cap;
+Told you pretty stories,
+ Took you in my lap?
+
+Gave you lots of sweeties,
+ Cakes and apples too?
+That's the way that grannies,
+ Dear old grannies do!
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+PLAYING IN THE HAY.
+
+Little Elsie and Gertie live in the
+country. They do not see the gay
+shops full of pretty things that amuse children
+in New York, and they have never
+been to a bazaar, or to the Zoological
+Gardens, but they have sweet flowers to
+smell and look at, and live creatures about
+them at home. They find amusements at
+all seasons of the year, and are very merry.
+You see them now in the field where the
+grass has been cut and is drying into hay
+that the horses and cows will eat. The
+children have had fine fun in the hay; they
+have spread and tossed it, and Gertie has
+pretended to feed her toy goat with it, and
+now she wants Elsie to hide her in it that
+she may jump out and surprise James their
+brother, who is coming in at the gate.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+"Lamb of God! I look to Thee,
+Thou shalt my example be;
+Thou art gentle, meek and mild;
+Thou wast once a little child.
+
+Fain I would be as Thou art.
+Give me thy obedient heart:
+Thou art pitiful, and kind;
+Let me have thy loving mind.
+
+Let me above all fulfil
+God my heavenly Father's will;
+Never his good Spirit grieve,
+Only to his glory live.
+
+Loving Jesus, gentle Lamb!
+In thy gracious hands I am;
+Make me, Saviour, what Thou art;
+Live thyself within my heart.
+
+I shall then show forth thy praise;
+Serve thee all my happy days;
+Then the world shall always see
+Christ, the Holy Child in me."
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+PUPPIES AND TORTOISE.
+
+
+A sight most strange and wonderful
+ Three little puppies saw--
+A creature out of shell of horn
+ Popped out a head and claw.
+
+They jumped and barked, and barked again,
+ And stared with open eyes;
+The sight of such a strange shaped thing
+ So filled them with surprise.
+
+They wondered at its smooth, brown shell,
+ Its skin both brown and green;
+And thought it was the strangest sight
+ They ever yet had seen.
+
+They would have tried to bite and scratch
+ This funny looking thing;
+But now they thought it might have hid
+ A sharp and biting sting.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"I'M GRANDMOTHER."
+
+Mary is a good little girl, but is meddlesome.
+She has a good Grandmother,
+called Mrs. Mason, and she sometimes goes
+to her house. One day Mary got into mischief.
+Seeing her Grandmother's spectacles
+on the table, she put them on her nose, and
+said, "I'm Grandmother." Mary began to
+march about the room in a very grand way.
+Presently the spectacles fell off, and the
+glasses were broken. Poor Mary cried bitterly,
+and at first did not know what to do;
+but when Mrs. Mason came in, she told her all,
+and promised never to play "Grandmother"
+again. Mrs. Mason told her not to cry, and
+she might play "Grandmother" as much as
+she liked, but she was to be very careful not
+to take her spectacles, and she would get her
+papa to get a pair of tin ones, with holes
+in them, so that she could see as well, and
+look all the funnier.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Our Band.
+
+
+[Illustration: R]ub-a-dub, rub-a-dee,
+ Oh, such jolly fun!
+I'm Signor Blowmore,
+ And he's Herr Bertrun.
+
+Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dee!
+ Do we make a noise?
+That's the very thing you know
+ Pleases little boys.
+
+Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dee!
+ Full of young life's joys,
+Playing with the horn and drum,
+ Best of all the toys.
+
+Rub-a-dub, rub-a-dee!
+ Music now hath charms;
+You can blow and beat away,
+ And it no one alarms.
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE SWAN AND THE DRAKE
+
+
+
+Slowly, in majestic silence,
+ Sailed a Swan upon a lake;
+Round about him, never quiet,
+ Swam a noisy quacking Drake.
+
+"Swan," exclaimed the latter, halting,
+ "I can scarcely comprehend
+Why I never hear you talking:
+ Are you really dumb, my friend?"
+
+Said the Swan, by way of answer:
+ "I have wondered, when you make
+Such a shocking, senseless clatter,
+ Whether you are deaf, Sir Drake!"
+
+Better, like the Swan, remain in
+ Silence grave and dignified,
+Than keep, drake-like, ever prating,
+ While your listeners deride.
+
+
+W.R.E.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+UPSETTING BABY'S MILK.
+
+"Ponto," the dog, who was longing for a
+run with nurse and baby, came up into
+the nursery to see if they were nearly ready
+for their walk. Nurse had gone out of the
+room, leaving baby fastened into her chair
+with a saucer of milk on the ledge in front of
+her. Ponto would not have taken the milk
+without leave--he knew better how to behave
+than that; but he wanted baby to give
+him some, and did not know how easily the
+saucer would be upset: one great paw put
+on the little shelf sent it over, broke it, and
+spilt the milk. You see the baby is not at
+all afraid of the dog, and she is too good-tempered
+to cry about the milk being spilt; but
+she holds her spoon out of Ponto's way and
+says, "Naughty, naughty!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+CLEVER TRAY.
+
+I want to tell you a true story about the
+terrier dog you see having a game at hide-and-seek
+with our two children.
+
+One evening, nurse had put baby to bed,
+and tucked her in quite snug and warm.
+Having to do some shopping, nurse went out,
+and, in going along the street she felt something
+pulling her skirt, and on looking down
+discovered Tray with her skirt in his mouth.
+Nurse thought he was only playing, and tried
+to shake him off, but he began to bark and
+whine, and seemed to say, in his doggish way:
+"Please _do_ attend to me; _do_ come back
+with me!" that at last, just to see if he would
+leave off, she began to walk home. And oh,
+how delighted Tray was! When they reached
+the house Tray ran up-stairs, and nurse
+discovered baby sitting up in bed, and screaming
+sadly. The little thing had awoke, and
+finding herself alone, began to cry; and the
+faithful dog had heard her, and set off
+directly to find nurse.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+MY FRIEND WASHINGTON.
+
+When I was a very little girl, one of
+my best friends was Washington
+Henry. He was one of our servants, who
+made himself useful inside of the house, and
+was as black as night, as you may see by
+the picture. He liked nothing better than
+to meet me outside the house and have a
+romp, and he would take me all round the
+barn and show me the ducks, and hens, and
+the nice little chickens, and wheel me round
+in the baby-carriage, while he capered and
+danced about like a high-mettled steed. I
+can tell you we had plenty of fun, and father
+often used to wonder how it was I liked
+Washington so much, but it was only because
+he was more kind and considerate
+than any of the other servants. His old
+mother lived in a little cottage with his
+younger brother and sister, and he used to
+take me round there sometimes, and they
+had always something new to show me.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE YOUNG MONKEY.
+
+
+A little Monkey chanced to find
+A walnut in its outward rind;
+He snatched the prize with eager haste,
+And bit it, but its bitter taste
+Soon made him throw the fruit away.
+"I've heard," he cried, "my mother say
+(But she was wrong), the fruit was good;
+Preserve me from such bitter food!"
+A monkey by experience taught,
+The falling prize with pleasure caught;
+Took off the husk and broke the shell,
+The kernel peeled, and liked it well.
+"Walnuts," said he, "are good and sweet,
+But must be opened ere you eat."
+And thus in life you'll always find
+Labor comes first,--reward behind.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+DON'T YOU LIKE MY CAT?
+
+
+I like my cat, I like him well,
+ As all the house may see
+I like him for himself, and not
+ Because the cat likes me.
+
+He counts his only work in life,
+ To flourish and be fat;
+And this he does with all his might;--
+ Of course, I like my cat.
+
+His eyes shine out beneath his brows,
+ As eyes have rarely shone;
+His beauty is the grandest thing
+ That ever cat put on.
+
+He wears a paw of wondrous bulk,
+ With secret claws to match,
+And puts a charm in all its play,
+ The pat, the box, the scratch.
+
+I have not heard how cats are made
+ Within their furry veil,
+But rather fancy Tippo's thoughts
+ Lie chiefly in his tail.
+
+For while in every other part
+ His portly person sleeps,
+That bushy tail, with steady wave,
+ A ceaseless vigil keeps.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A LARK IN A CRICKET-GROUND.
+
+A few days ago I was passing through
+Sonning, an old English village on the
+Thames, when I was attracted to a field near
+the road by hearing the merry sounds of the
+village school at a game of cricket. I could
+not resist the pleasure of pausing to watch the
+boys at play. Before long my curiosity was
+aroused by shouts of "Look out!" "Take care!"
+"Mind where you're going!" whenever any
+boy approached a certain spot, which seemed
+to be within a few yards of one of the wickets.
+I asked one of the party what such outcries
+meant. He replied--"Oh, that's our lark,
+sir!" On inquiry I found that some weeks
+before, the boys discovered a titlark's nest
+in the ground close to their cricket-piece.
+One of the boys seems to have made the suggestion
+that the school should take the lark
+under their special patronage. The proposal
+was adopted, and it became a daily
+business to see, before settling to their
+play, that all was right with the lark.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+HELPING MOTHER.
+
+
+I shall help mother when I am grown big;
+When I am old enough, oh! wont I dig,
+Plough with the horses, and call out "Gee-ho!"
+Plant the potatoes, fell timber, and mow?
+
+Then I shall fetch the cows home to the byre,
+Carry such fagots to make mother's fire,
+Reap and make hay--Hush! who calls? I shant go!
+Its only to play with the baby, I know.
+
+A boy who is seven is too big to do that,
+Can't mother nurse her, or give her the cat?
+Oh, what a bother! She's calling me still--
+"Come and take the baby off my hands, Bill."
+
+"I _must_ get your father's socks finished to-night,
+And I can't while the little girl pulls the thread tight;
+There--lift him up, play at ball or Peep-bo--
+You will help mother then very greatly you know."
+
+Bill waited a moment. Then into his mind
+Came a thought,--"Little boy, if you don't feel inclined
+To help mother now, when you easily can,
+I'm afraid you won't do it when you are a man."
+
+So he brightened his face till the baby smiled too;
+Hid himself in the cupboard and called out "Cuckoo."
+And on his knee fed her with delicious cream,
+And helping mother was not so bad it would seem.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A FOUR-FOOTED THIEF.
+
+
+The Paris _Figaro_ says:--"On Friday a
+new kind of robber was arrested not
+far from a hatter's, and holding a hat between
+his teeth. When efforts were made to take
+the hat away he stood on the defensive, and
+there was a fight, which ended very badly
+for the hat. The thief was a dog. His
+master, who has not yet been found, had
+taught him to bring home goods to him for
+sale, and the hatter accuses him of having
+carried off no less than six hats within a
+week."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE PERFORMING MONKEYS.
+
+Amusing creatures! I can look at the
+picture with pleasure, because they
+are evidently well treated, and have not the
+miserably cowed expression we see upon
+many of the monkeys that go about our
+streets. Sometimes when I have given a
+monkey a piece of cake or fruit, I have made
+a bargain with the master to let him sit still
+and eat it, and much amused I have been
+watching the little animal's extreme enjoyment
+of the treat and the holiday. The monkeys
+at the Zoological Gardens have tolerably
+large cages. I wish the parrots were as
+well off: they sadly need more space, and
+would be glad of bits of stick to play
+with.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"BEG, DOGGIE, BEG!"
+
+
+Beg, doggie, beg: Come, come, sit up,--
+No, not that way, you silly pup;
+ Upon your hind legs sit,
+And I will tell you how to ask
+For bread--it is an easy task;
+ And then you'll get a bit.
+
+Now there--that's right--keep up your paw!
+A better dog I never saw.
+ Oh dear! you're down once more:
+I cannot let you off: Now try,
+Oh, Jack, I really fear that I
+ Have got a "treat" in store;
+
+Look at this cake. Now, sit upright
+And stare at me with all you're might,
+ And then I'll place the food:
+That's well: Now, doggie,--quite still--
+You must not stir an inch until
+ I tell you,--come, that's good!
+
+One trial more, and you shall eat
+This great round cake, just for a treat:
+ Now sit up, Jacky--so,
+Ask for it, sir--just say "bow-wow"--
+And louder still! There make your bow--
+ Good dog! now you may go.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+
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