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diff --git a/20017.txt b/20017.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..210d003 --- /dev/null +++ b/20017.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1408 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pages for Laughing Eyes, by Unknown + +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: Pages for Laughing Eyes + +Author: Unknown + +Release Date: December 4, 2006 [EBook #20017] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PAGES FOR LAUGHING EYES *** + + + + +Produced by Sigal Alon, Fox in the Stars, Janet Blenkinship +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + +[Illustration] + + + + +Pages + +for + +Laughing + +Eyes. + + + + +[Illustration: A THANKSGIVING SURPRISE.] + + + + +SLEIGHING SONG. + + +[Illustration] + + Hurrah! Hurrah! for the jolly snow! + Over it we lightly go: + Dear sister is so glad, you see, + To have a nice drive in the sleigh with me, + To have a nice drive in the sleigh with me-- + Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! + + Hurrah! Hurrah for the ice and cold! + Both very young and gay and bold, + We fear no snow, we fear no ice, + There's naught in the world that is half so nice, + There's naught in the world that is half so nice-- + Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! + + + + +FOOD FOR HER LITTLE ONES + + +[Illustration] + +Over the lofty peaks of many of the mountains of Europe a magnificent +bird may occasionally be seen flying, while down in the valley, two +thousand feet or more below, a hen may be scratching worms for her +dinner, or a young lamb gamboling over the sweet meadow grass. + +From that enormous height, even, the keen eyes of the eagle can detect +the movement of either, and she flies, or rather drops, straight down +upon the poor fowl, and with her powerful foot kills it at a blow, or +breaks the back of the pretty lamb with same terrible weapon. Then, she +rises upward with her prey, to feed the little ones she has left in the +nest. + + + + +A BUSY STREET + + +Here you have a picture of busy street-life in a great city. Everybody +is in a hurry and everybody wishes to get ahead. The man at the left has +loaded his wagon so high that he finds it hard to hold the reins. Do you +see the cunning little dog in the pony-cart? He means to see all there +is about him. + +[Illustration: A BUSY STREET] + + + + +THE NEW DOLL'S CARRIAGE + + +[Illustration] + +At Christmas Jessie had a pretty French doll given to her by her aunt +Amy. For weeks Jessie thought she had nothing more to wish for, but in +the spring, however, when the days were warm and sunny, and nature +called her out-of-doors, she found it rather inconvenient to take her +dolly with her every time. She couldn't use her arms for anything else, +you see, and like every other child, she liked to run and jump, and pick +flowers and other things that caught her eye. But, like a good little +mother, she thought her dolly needed the fresh air quite as much as +herself; so one night, at the supper-table, she said: "I wish I had a +carriage for Bella, then I could leave her in that when I went for +buttercups and violets." + +Papa was present, and he heard her remark. In a few days Jessie's +birthday would come, and both he and her mamma had been thinking of what +they would give her then; for Jessie was such a good, gentle child, +seldom teasing for what she could not have, that they always took +especial care to remember her on such holidays. + +The innocent hint was just what he wanted. So on the birthday morn, +Jessie found Bella seated in a beautiful little carriage, close beside +her chair at the breakfast-table. You may be sure she was a very happy +little girl then, and that she gave mamma and papa many loving hugs and +kisses for their thoughtfulness and love. + + + + +JOSIE'S FRIEND. + +A TRUE STORY. + + +I must tell you what happened to my little girl, for we all thought it +so wonderful. + +[Illustration] + +She was a dear child, only seven years old, and so anxious to have a +friend all her own. One day I took her to Boston. She was wild with joy +at being allowed to take such a long trip in the cars. As the train +steamed out from Newport, Josie's happy little face was pressed close to +the window; but after a while she grew less interested in the fields +outside, and more so in the passengers near us. + +"O mamma!" she whispered to me, "do you see that little girl opposite? I +want her for a friend so much!" + +The child she had noticed was indeed a sweet little girl, with hair +almost as golden as Josie's own. She was soon smiling at Josie, and the +two little travellers held up their dollies for each other to look at. + +[Illustration] + +But before we got to Boston my little girl had grown weary, and soon was +fast asleep. When we reached Boston she awoke, and saw her little friend +disappearing. Josie waved her hand to her, and then, to my great +surprise, shut her eyes tight. + +"Why, darling," I said, "didn't you hear mamma tell you this was Boston? +Don't go to sleep again; there are auntie and little Bess." + +"Mamma," she answered gravely, "I was not going to sleep. I was asking +God to let that little girl be my friend." + +"But, my dear," I said, "you live in Newport, and you have only seen her +in the cars. She probably lives in Boston. Come, auntie is hunting for +us." + +Josie had a fine time at auntie's, and her cousin Bess for a while +filled completely the position of friend. But the week over, and we were +aboard the train for Newport; and Josie's mind was again filled with the +all-engrossing subject of--a friend. + +We arrived at home in time for luncheon. Immediately after, Josie was in +her room telling her sister all about her visit. Suddenly I heard a cry +of joy. "O mamma! mamma! There she is! God did send her." + +I hurried into Josie's room, and there at the window stood Josie, +holding up her doll, and smiling at the window of the next house. + +A second glance showed me that this was the very child we had seen in +the cars. + +The little girls soon became acquainted, for little Carrie had come to +spend the winter with the Endicotts, who owned the house next our +cottage. + +No words can tell how happy my Josie has been with the little friend God +sent her. + +[Illustration] + + + + +BUTTERFLY WISDOM. + + +[Illustration] + + A butterfly poised on a wild-rose spray, + As a child tripped by one summer day, + And he thought: "How sorrowful she must be + To know she can never have wings like me!" + But the child passed on, with a careless eye + Of the gay-winged, proud, young butterfly, + While he fluttered about, as butterflies will, + Sipping of honey and dew his fill. + + The butterfly spread his wings to the sky, + As the sweet-faced child again tripped by, + And he thought: "How envious she will be + My beautiful azure wings to see!" + But the child passed, with a lightsome heart, + Where never had lodged a poisonous dart, + While he fluttered about, as butterflies will, + Sipping of honey and dew his fill. + +[Illustration] + + When the child again passed the wild-rose sweet, + A bit of azure fell at her feet; + She lifted it from the moss, and said:-- + "Poor little butterfly, it is dead!" + Then she tossed it up towards the wild-rose spray, + And, singing merrily, went her way, + With never a thought, the summer through, + Of the butterfly and its wings of blue. + +[Illustration] + + + + +MR. MONKEY. + + +Oh, fun, fun, fun! Is there anything half so funny in this world as a +monkey? + +[Illustration] + +Just listen a moment, and I will tell you of one that I saw the other +day. + +[Illustration] + +Think what a proud monkey he must have been, dressed in a fine suit of +clothes! Then to have every one look out of the window when he rung the +bell, while he sat up on the corner of the hand-organ. And how the +children laughed to see him! After he had called every one within +hearing to look at him, he made a little bow and took off his hat very +politely. + +[Illustration] + +Then he put down the bell, and his master gave him cymbals, which he +banged together in a lively way. + +How delighted all were to see that Mr. Monkey was a student! It was so +very queer to see the little scholar wearing those spectacles which the +hand-organ man put on his nose; how well he held the tiny book, no +matter if it was wrong side up! + +[Illustration] + +Mr. Monkey would have made a good farmer, we all said, when we saw him +churn. The way that handle flew up and down would have made milk into +butter very shortly, if there had been milk there. + +[Illustration] + +Next came the fiddle, a nice little one, just the right size for a +monkey to play. The hand-organ sounded very slowly while the little +monkey played his fiddle. For fear that his master would feel badly +because he was so far behind, Mr. Monkey put away his instrument, and +bowed very low to the people, taking off his hat to thank them for the +many pennies showered upon him. + + + + +[Illustration: A Ride in A Water Wheel] + +A TRUE STORY. + + +Bertie Gale lived near a noisy little brook, which went singing through +the meadow. Just below the house in which he lived was a dam. It made a +large pond above it, and the water was used to turn the wheel of a small +woollen-mill. + +It was such fun to watch the water pouring over the wheel, turning it +swiftly round and round. + +Bertie was never tired of looking at it, but it made his mother very +anxious if her little boy was long out of her sight. But he had promised +never to go into the water without permission. + +But one summer the water was shut off for a while, and the mill was +silent. The old wheel was badly decayed and broken, and Mr. Gale said a +new wheel must be built. + +[Illustration] + +Every day Bertie hurried home from school to watch his father and the +workmen, as they built the new wheel. + +One day when he came home, he ran down to the mill as usual. The wheel +was in its place all ready for action. + +How new and clean it looked! The workmen had gone, and no one was in +sight. + +"What a nice playhouse it would make," thought the boy. Then he stepped +carefully into the wheel. + +[Illustration] + +"This is my castle," said Bertie to himself, "and the brook is the river +Rhine, and"-- + +Bertie did not finish his sentence. Suddenly there was a terrible +roaring over his head, and the wheel began to go slowly around. The next +thing the boy knew he was lying upon a pile of blocks and shavings, +feeling very much as if he had been through his mother's sausage-mill, +but very thankful that he was not still going around that swiftly-moving +wheel. He was not very much hurt, but it was a long time before he cared +to look at the water-wheel again. + + + + +JAMIE. + + +One day lit-tle Jam-ie went with some friends to see some mov-ing +pic-tures and a play called "The Johns-town Flood." He had been told the +sto-ry be-fore and knew how it turned out. So he sat ver-y still through +three acts, and then he saw a man who had been giv-en the name of "Paul +Re-vere" just for that play, be-cause he was go-ing to do some-thing +such as a real and great Paul Revere once did, more than a hun-dred +years be-fore, a thing to warn the land of dan-ger and help the peo-ple +to be free. + +[Illustration] + +The man in the play had to mount a horse and gal-lop down a val-ley +shout-ing to the peo-ple to go to the hills to get out of the way of a +great flood which had bro-ken out from a res-er-voir a-bove the cit-y. + +Just then, as the man mount-ed the horse, on the stage, little Jam-ie +left his seat and ran home as fast as he could. + +"Why, Jam-ie," said his moth-er "The show can't be o-ver yet, it's on-ly +four o'clock." + +"I know it is-n't o-ver yet, mam-ma," said Jam-ie, "but the ver-y next +act was to be the flood, and I thought that if I staid I'd be drowned!" + + + + +MOTHER'S CHILDREN + + +[Illustration] + +"El-sie, just mind the ba-by for a few min-utes while I fin-ish Jack's +lit-tle trou-sers. He tears his clothes so that it's just patch, patch, +put in pockets and sew on but-tons all the time." + +"Oh, moth-er, look! Ba-by has tak-en a step! Come quick and look at +him!" + +So moth-er ran to see her ba-by-boy, and kiss the brave lit-tle fel-low +who had dared to do this won-der-ful thing. She a-gain seat-ed her-self +at her work, when she heard El-sie call, "Oh, mam-ma! Sa-die has got +hold of grand-ma's bas-ket, and is toss-ing all the things out of it on +the floor. She'll scream when I take it from her, but don't wor-ry, I +think I can man-age her." + +[Illustration] + +It was not long aft-er that when mam-ma cried out, "Why, there must be +some-thing burn-ing! Oh, where is Tom-my? He has so many tricks with +fire!" + +[Illustration] + +Up jumped mam-ma a-gain, and run-ing in-to the li-bra-ry, found Tom-my +in high glee at play in front of a bright coal fire in the grate, on the +top bar of which was a row of small fig-ures made from dough that cook +was work-ing in the kitch-en. Tom had seized a big piece of dough, ran +off with it to the li-bra-ry, and mould-ed it up to suit him in the +shape of a row of small boys tak-ing hold of hands. He set them on the +hot i-ron bar, and was brown-ing them ready to eat! + +"This is great fun, moth-er!" said Tom. "I'll give the chil-dren some +when they are baked!" + + + + +VICTOR. + + +[Illustration] + +"It's a nice thing to have spring come!" said Vic-tor. + +"With my red wheel-barrow I can work out in the gar-den ev-er-y day with +O-bed. He says he'd rath-er have me with him than an-y two men! Why, I +can car-ry a wa-ter-ing-pot, a lot of twigs, leaves and things I've +raked off the flow-er beds, and some-times I e-ven car-ry a whole load +of stones! + +"O-bed is go-ing to teach me how to make one gar-den-bed for my-self. He +says I can plant an-y-thing there that I like. I'm try-ing to think what +I do like. O-bed says that some things come up when you plant seeds and +some come up from bulbs. I like po-ta-toes and sweet peas. I guess I'll +plant them. For a bor-der, I'd like small on-ions. Seems to me some +tur-nips and hol-ly-hocks would look well in my bed. Now would-n't they? +Sweet corn grows up pret-ty and grace-ful, I heard Aunt Hat-tie say, so +I'll have some of that in my bed with a lot of for-get-me-nots. Aun-tie +likes those ver-y much. + +"Oh, I must have the fa-vor-ite flow-ers of each one in our house, come +to think of it! Let's see, what is Papa's fa-vor-ite flow-er? I guess it +must be squash, for he likes mam-ma's squash pies so much. + +"Now what is mam-ma's? It must be he-li-o-trope. It's a hard word, but +I've sure-ly heard her say he-li-o-trope sach-et. It must be a pret-ty +flower, for ev-er-y thing in the clothes press has that per-fume, Ka-tie +says. + +"Now I don't know all these plants I've heard folks talk about. I don't +know an-y of them. Per-haps be-fore I tell O-bed to get all these things +for me to start I'd bet-ter ask him if they'll go well to-geth-er." + + + + +GRANDMOTHER'S HOME. + + +Grand-moth-er Gra-ham was a love-ly old la-dy. She had a beau-ti-ful +home a few miles from the city. Her chil-dren and her grand-chil-dren +went out to see her quite oft-en. + +A-my thought there was no place like Grand-ma's for her sum-mer +va-ca-tion. There was a lake, a boat, white lil-ies, squir-rels, grand +trees old-er than grand-moth-er, her-self. Then there were barns, +sta-bles, hor-ses, cows, calves, and a Shet-land pony that an-y child +could ride. + +A-my had her bi-cy-cle with her, and went off on it to see Grand-ma's +neigh-bors and do any lit-tle er-rands that were re-quired. If cous-in +Jam-ie were on a vis-it at the same time, per-haps he would mount +Gyp-sy, the po-ny, and ride a-long by Am-y's side. A race be-tween the +bi-cy-cle and the po-ny was great fun. + +[Illustration] + +But there were days when rains kept the chil-dren in the house. Grand-ma +told them love-ly sto-ries then. Jam-ie would sit play-ing with his +sol-diers, and A-my al-ways had all she could do in her "house-days" as +she called them, sew-ing to "keep her dolls in clothes," for "Elm +Lodge" was a great place to wear out clothes. + +[Illustration] + +The sto-ries Grand-ma liked best to tell were "true sto-ries" of the +days when her own chil-dren were small, and A-my liked best to hear +a-bout her own fa-ther and what he did when he was a child. So one day +grand-ma told this: + + +GRANDMOTHER'S STORY. + +"My lit-tle Har-vey was ver-y fond of fruit and flow-ers. When he was a +wee bit of a lad he liked noth-ing bet-ter than to pull the tu-lips off +by their heads and fill the crown of his hat with them. We told him that +he must not do this, for there were not e-nough of them to waste in that +way. He looked sad, but sat down un-der a tree, and seemed in deep +thought. He was-n't more than three years old then. + +"We left him and went in-to the house. In a few min-utes he went soft-ly +down the gar-den walk, took off his shoes, stooped down, and scooped up +earth e-nough to fill them, and then, in his stock-ing-feet, ran in +a-mong the tulips and filled each cup full of the earth, emp-ty-ing all +from his shoes in-to them. Daugh-ter and I had been watch-ing the child +from the li-bra-ry win-dow. We crept out of the house and got in-to the +gar-den as quick-ly as we could, and peep-ing be-hind the hon-ey suc-kle +ar-bor, lis-tened while the lit-tle fel-low talked a-loud. 'Now 'ou +tu-lips, dear, make haste and grow. All this dirt will make 'ou grow, I +know, and then there'll be e-nough tu-lips for me to fill my 'it-tle hat +full ev'ry day!' + +"The lis-ten-ers had to laugh at that. My ba-by-boy dropped his shoes +and ran as fast as he could a-way from us, 'round-and-'round, through +the damp gar-den paths! He led us quite a chase be-fore we could catch +him." + +How A-my and Jam-ie laughed when Grand-ma told "tales out of school" as +she called them. + +[Illustration: ALL HER CHILDREN LIKED TO VISIT GRANDMA.] + +"But I must just tell you this, my dear, for the tu-lip-story al-ways +makes me think of it. + +"There came a day, at last, when we had to send Har-vey to school. +Tom-my Short took him, with his green wool-len bag, slate, pen-cil, and +two cook-ies, just round the cor-ner to Miss Burt's school. Aft-er a few +weeks, Grand-pa Chase met the new pu-pil in the gar-den one day, just as +he came in from school. + +"'Well, Har-vey' said Grandpa, 'I suppose you can spell al-most an-y +thing by this time!' + +"'Yes, sir?' said Har-vey. + +"'Can you spell rat?' + +"'R-a-t, rat' said the small boy, with much pride. + +"'Ver-y well, my boy. Now can you spell mouse?' + +"Har-vey wrink-led up his fore-head and tried hard to think how it could +be done. Aft-er a few min-utes the child said, 'No, Grandpa, I can't do +it.' + +"'What,' cried Grandpa Chase, 'you can spell a great rat and can't spell +a lit-tle bit of a mouse!' + +"A-gain Har-vey thought hard, and then he said, 'Yes I can spell a big +rat, but I guess a spelt mouse is a great deal big-ger than a spelt +rat!'" + + + + +CHEER UP! + + +[Illustration] + + You do not like this weath-er, Ralph, + But March is pass-ing by, + We'll sure-ly have bright days at last, + With A-pril's laugh-ing sky. + + + + +CHILDREN'S WORK. + + +The Berk-ville Ham-let School pu-pils took much in-ter-est in the Fresh +Air Chil-dren who had been sent out to their vil-lage for sum-mer +out-ings. They had thought of ways in which mon-ey could be raised to +help a-long the good cause. + +"Why could-n't we have some tab-leaux and oth-er things in our school +house on Sa-tur-day af-ter-noons in May?" asked Jen-nie Hill. "Tom-my +Burns would print the tickets and all the chil-dren in the vil-lage +will, I know, sell them." + +So the mat-ter was talked ov-er, and all the peo-ple liked the plan so +much that the young folks soon be-gan to prac-tice their parts for the +first day. + +Le-on and Ef-fie King were to wear old time cos-tumes, stand ver-y +still, and not speak. They made a pleas-ing tab-leau. There was a +plat-form in the school room, on the back of which were placed +ev-er-green trees. For some scenes a pho-tog-ra-pher's screens were used +for a back-ground. + +[Illustration] + +An-na Mor-ris ap-peared af-ter Le-on and Ef-fie. She made a pret-ty +pic-ture. + +Al-lan Frost, in a clear, pleas-ant voice gave the name of each scene. +He was a boy in the Pri-ma-ry class. All liked to hear young Al-lan +speak. When he called "The Task," the cur-tain, which had been hung +a-cross the plat-form end of the room, was pulled aside, and there sat +Ann Green, the lar-gest girl in school look-ing as if she were hard at +work at the task of puzz-ling out some prob-lem. + +[Illustration] + +Bes-sie Burns said she would play she was a laun-dress. She did her part +well. + +[Illustration] + +The school chil-dren thought up what they would like to be. Hen-ry +Hard-ing a dark-eyed, black hair-ed boy said he thought he could get +him-self up to look like a pic-ture he seen of an East-ern Grass +Sell-er. So he was announced un-der that ti-tle. All thought he looked +his part. + +It would make too long a sto-ry to tell ev-er-y thing a-bout that show. +But the last scene was rath-er an odd one. One far-mer who lived out a +short dis-tance from the vil-lage, had an old-fash-ioned ma-chine which +had been in his cel-lar for a great man-y years. One of the school boys +knew of this queer ar-ti-cle and coaxed the loan of it for the show. + +[Illustration] + +Jer-ry Jar-vis, fath-er of one of the pu-pils, said that he had turned +the crank of that ma-chine time and time a-gain when he was a boy, and +that he was will-ing to go on the stage with it at that time if it would +help a-long the "Show," and raise mon-ey for the "Cause." So when the +clos-ing scene came Al-lan Frost called "The Grind-er!" + +[Illustration] + +The folks all en-joyed those Sa-tur-day af-ter-noons. The chil-dren +tried to va-ry the shows as much as they could. One day they gave a +con-cert. Once they sold home-made can-dy and cakes. Their "Col-o-ni-al +Loan" par-ty was much praised. The vil-lage had man-y treas-ures in old +chi-na, fur-ni-ture, can-dle sticks, kit-chen ar-ti-cles, pic-tures, +guns, swords, and clothes of old times. + +[Illustration] + +All were sur-prised at the ti-dy sum col-lect-ed and man-y a poor ci-ty +child re-joiced in the out-ing that mon-ey brought to them through the +Fresh Air So-ci-ety. + + + + +EGGS IN THE HAY MOW. + + +"Run out to the barn, An-nie and see if you can find some eggs. I mean +to make cake this morn-ing and I shall want four or five," said Mrs. +Brown to her lit-tle daugh-ter, An-nie, who had been help-ing her +moth-er in the kit-chen work. + +Hunt-ing for hen's eggs was great fun for the chil-dren at Brown Farm. +Some-times two of them would go out to-geth-er, and each would try to +get more eggs than the oth-er, and be the first to reach the kit-chen +with a cap or hat full. + +[Illustration] + +An-nie placed a short light lad-der a-gainst a high beam in the barn, +climbed up and just as she reached the top, her bright eyes peep-ing in +through the hay piled up on the barn-loft floor, she saw a nice hol-low +place, some-thing like a small cave, where one wise bid-dy had scratched +out a co-sy nest for her-self, and laid some five large eggs. The hen +had gone out for a walk or for a lunch-eon, so An-nie took four of the +eggs, put them in-to the crown of her hat, and hast-ened back to give +them to her moth-er. + +"May I not beat them up for you, with the whirl-i-gig beat-er, moth-er, +it is so much fun?" + +"Yes, you may, An-nie, and it will be quite a help to me." + +So on through the morn-ing the lit-tle girl found man-y a use-ful and +plea-sant thing to do. When the work was all done and an out-ing had +been planned for the af-ter-noon, Mrs. Brown said to An-nie, "This +lit-tle verse comes to my mind. I think one of my old-er chil-dren once +learned it at school. It is, + + "Work while you work, + Play while you play, + That is the way + To be hap-py and gay. + All that you do + Do with all your might; + Things done by halves + Are nev-er done right." + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE LOST SKATES. + + +[Illustration] + +"Oh, I'll go and see if the ice is firm," said Robin to +his friend Marjie, one winter's morning. + +He went off carrying his skates, and when he reached the ice he laid +them on the bank, and then thought he would have a slide. + +Marjie, who had followed Robin to the pond, caught up the skates and +went behind a tree and put them on, and was soon skating across the +pond. After a while she went to Robin, who was standing by the bank, +looking full of dismay. + +"Why, Marjie!" he cried, "I never saw you come! I've lost my skates! I +left them on the bank and they are gone!" + +[Illustration] + +"Some wicked person must have taken them!" said Marjie. + +"I would like to catch him," said Robin. + +"Then catch me, Robin!" said Marjie. + +Robin gazed at her. Then a light broke over his face. + +"Oh, I see!" he cried: "you put them on while I was sliding! Well, now +we can take turns with the skates!" + +Marjie thought, as she gave Robin a hug, that there was never a dearer +friend than he! + + + + +NO JOKE AT ALL. + + +[Illustration] + + "Ha!" thought Tommy Purr one day, + "Here's a chance a joke to play; + See him drop upon the floor + All those books, and hear me roar!" + + Chuckling to himself in glee, + "I do love a joke," said he, + Pushed poor Whiskers, just for fun-- + Down the books came, every one. + +[Illustration] + + But the biggest book of all, + Happened on his crown to fall; + Tommy roared with might and main, + Not with laughter but with pain. + + Tommy now has gone to bed + With a big bruise on his head; + Vinegar and paper brown + Cover up his aching crown. + + There in sorrow Tommy lies, + Wishing he had been more wise; + For although those books did fall, + His joke proved no joke at all. + + + + +WINTER HOLIDAYS. + + + O it's merry in the winter + When the holidays come round, + When the air is crisp and frosty + And the snow is on the ground. + + Though Jack Frost may nip your noses, + There is nothing that I know + Like a jolly game of snowballs, + Making feet and fingers glow! + + You can take your baby sister + For a voyage in a sleigh; + You can build a monster snow-man + That will pass the time away. + + Then there's hanging up the holly + And the Christmas mistletoe, + Roasting chestnuts in the firelight, + When you can't go out, you know. + + If you try, you can be happy + In a score of different ways. + O, it's wonderful how pleasant + Are the winter holidays! + +[Illustration] + + + + +WHEN I GROW UP. + + +[Illustration] + + "When I grow up my dress shall be + All made of silk and lace, + My hair I'll wear in some fine style + That best will suit my face; + With rings upon my fingers, too, + And bracelets on my arms, + I'll be the finest lady out, + With wondrous mighty charms. + + "When I grow up, you understand, + I'll always dine at eight, + And go to dances and 'At homes,' + And sit up very late. + I'll never touch rice-puddings then, + But pastry eat, and cheese, + And always do just what I like + And go just where I please. + + "When I grow up I'll have no nurse, + Nor yet a governess; + And lessons will not bother me + When I grow up, I guess. + I'll pay no heed to proper nouns, + Nor yet to mood nor tense"-- + Here nurse put in: "When you grow up + Let's hope you'll have some sense!" + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE TEA PARTY. + + +[Illustration] + + Little Miss Betty has had a tea-party + Everyone came with an appetite hearty; + Animals, dollies, and toys were invited; + Bobby was good and our Baby delighted; + And when it was over they ran and asked mother + If they might to-morrow have just such another! + + + + +TOMMY THE TEASE. + + +"Here's a pie I found cooling on the bench under the pantry window!" +said Tom Sommers. "I'm going to eat it all myself!" + +[Illustration] + +"That is the cook's pie. I saw her making it," said wee George. + +"Won't 'ou div me some pie?" asked little Ella. + +"No, I won't give you one single bit. This pie is full of plums and +juice, I know. Ah! but it will have a good taste! No, Nancy, Susanna, +Mariah Anniah you shall not have even a taste of this sweet pie!" + +"My name is'nt 'Ria Sannia' 'Ou're a bad boy. 'Ou call me names. 'Ou +won't div me any pie! 'Ou eat it all alone!" + +"Well, now, this is too bad. Not a knife in any of my pockets! Happen to +have a jack-knife with you, Georgie?" + +"No, I haven't any knife." + +"What, a big boy like you and no jack-knife?" + +"I'd like one, but folks say I'm too little to have one yet. But I'm +going to save all my candy money now and buy one for myself." + +"Very well, no knife, no pie! It's getting late and I must be going +along. It'll take me some time to get there for I must walk slowly so as +not to spill a drop of this juicy pie. Good bye." + +Saying this, Tom walked away with the pie. + +Just then a loud and angry voice was heard shouting, "Where's that pie?" +The stout cook came rushing upon the scene, shaking her dish cloth and +rolling pin in the air. "Who's got that pie?" she screamed as she ran +around and around and back again to the same bench where she had placed +the pie to cool. What was her surprise, then, to see the very same pie +just where she had left it! + +"Oh it's that bad boy, Tom Sommers, who has been playing this trick on +me!" she shouted, in a loud voice. "Just let me catch him!" + + + + +THE YOUNG LAMB. + + +One day when brother John came home from market he brought a baby lamb +for Maude. + +"I thought you'd like this little playmate, sister, you seem to be alone +so much. This baby doesn't know how to nibble grass yet and you'll have +to get mamma to show you how to bring him up." + +[Illustration] + +Maude was delighted with her present. Her mother took a baby's +nurse-bottle and filled it with sweet new milk and in a very short time +Lambkin could take, through the rubber tube, all the milk his kind +friends would give him. + +Maude and her pet made a pretty picture playing together in the meadow. + +Nora, who worked in the kitchen, used to sing an odd little song, some +of the words being, + + "Little lamb, little lamb, + Will you leave your old dam + And sit with me by the nursery fire? + You shall have bread and milk, + And a cushion of silk, + And a cradle as soft as a lamb could desire. + + "No! no, little child + I'd rather run wild + And play all the day by the side of my dam; + For we love one another + Like you and your mother + And she'd cry all the day for the loss of her lamb." + + + + +TROTTY'S LESSON. + + +"Now try to learn this, Trotty. Of course, you're little and don't know +much, but when folks ask you how old your brother is you can just say 'a +whole hand old!'" + +[Illustration] + +"What for buver?" + +"Well, it's because I'm just five years old! You won't have to learn to +count yet, but you take a short path and say 'a whole hand old!' Now +will you do it?" + +"I will try!" + + + + +RUTH. + + +"Company coming to-morrow and not a crumb of cake in the house!" said +Mrs. Brown one morning. "Jane's gone and there's all the sweeping to do, +the baby to take care of, and three meals a day to get!" + +[Illustration] + +"Mother, mother dear," called Ruth from the next room, "do let me make +the cake. I should like nothing better. It would be great fun." + +"Great fun! Now that is what one says who knows nothing about it. It +would be better to go without any cake at all than to place before our +friends some that they cannot eat," replied the tired mother. + +"When I was at Aunt Fanny's," said Ruth, "she taught me how to make a +kind of cake that we all liked. Uncle John said he could eat all I could +make. Do let me try, mother dear." + +"Oh, Ruth, what a tease you are. Well, it will keep you quiet for a +while and I suppose you must learn somehow." + +Then Ruth ran into the kitchen in high glee. First she looked at the +fire in the stove as Aunt Fanny had taught her to do. More coal was +needed. So she had to go down cellar and bring up as much as she could +in the hod. She opened the draughts and put on a little coal at first. +When that had kindled she put on a little more. She took a whisk and +swept out the stove oven. Then she put more water into the kettle on on +top of the stove. Soon it was time to close the draughts. She put her +hand into the oven to feel how hot it was just as she had seen her Aunt +Fanny do. + +[Illustration] + +When the stove was as she wanted it, Ruth ran out to the barn and found +four warm eggs in nests among the hay. These she brought into the house, +and breaking them into a bowl, began to beat them up quickly. Next she +took a yellow dish from the dresser and put into it one cup of butter +and two cups of sugar. For a long time she mixed these two together +until they were "all one," as she called it. + +Next she put the four beaten eggs into the bowl with the butter and +sugar, and beat them until her little hands ached. Then she measured out +three cups of flour and sifted it into another dish. With this she put +two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and then sifted flour and baking +powder together. After this was done, she added a little of it at a time +to the mixture of butter and eggs, beating away until all the flour had +been used up. Then she put into it a teaspoonful of vanilla essence and +added enough milk to make a thick batter. Little pans shaped like hearts +and rounds, and one large round pan were then well greased, and the +beaten up cake put into each pan until it was half full. Then the pans +of cake were set into the oven and in ten or fifteen minutes all the +tiny "hearts and rounds" were baked a light brown, while the large pan +had to stay baking ten or fifteen minutes more. + +A very happy child was young Ruth when she took out her pans of cake. + +Her father, mother, brothers and the "company" who arrived the next day +thought it the "nicest cake ever made by so young a little girl." + + + + +MISCHIEVOUS BABY. + + +[Illustration] + + Full of mischief? 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