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+Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, February 1873, Vol. XIII., by Various
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+Title: The Nursery, February 1873, Vol. XIII.
+       A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: January 31, 2008 [EBook #24475]
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+THE
+
+NURSERY
+
+_A Monthly Magazine_
+
+FOR YOUNGEST READERS.
+
+VOLUME XIII.--No. 2
+
+        BOSTON:
+        JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET.
+        1873.
+
+
+
+
+        Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,
+
+        BY JOHN L. SHOREY,
+
+        In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
+
+
+
+
+
+        BOSTON:
+        RAND, AVERY, & CO., STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.
+
+[Illustration: Contents]
+
+
+IN PROSE.
+
+                                                    PAGE.
+
+   The Biography of a Bubble                          33
+
+   The Story of a Little Duck                         37
+
+   Our Thanksgiving Dinner                            40
+
+   The Grandpa Story                                  42
+
+   Miss Jones's Picture                               45
+
+   Clear the Coast                                    48
+
+   Our New Dog                                        50
+
+   Bunny                                              52
+
+   Dandy the Bear                                     55
+
+   Little Mischief                                    57
+
+   Too Many Presents                                  61
+
+   The Dog and the Shadow                             63
+
+
+IN VERSE.
+
+   Jack's Menagerie                                   36
+
+   Jack Frost                                         44
+
+   Sue's Seasons                                      47
+
+   The Children's Party                               54
+
+   Jack and Jill (_with music_)                       64
+
+
+[Illustration: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BUBBLE]
+
+
+
+
+THE BIOGRAPHY OF A BUBBLE.
+
+
+[Illustration: T]HE papa who writes this biography of a bubble never
+wrote a biography before in all his life. This is his first printed
+work. Perhaps some old person will criticise it severely.
+
+"Why use such big words as 'biography' and 'criticise'?" this old person
+may ask. "Are you not writing for little people? Is not your subject a
+poor little bubble that could not have lived longer than three or four
+seconds?"
+
+To which this papa replies: "Old person, do not meddle. This papa knows
+what he is about. The little folks understand very well that a
+'biography' is a story of a life; that to 'criticise' is to find fault;
+and that a 'critic' is a fault-finder."
+
+So all critics will please get out of the way, and leave this papa alone
+while he writes the biography of a bubble.
+
+This bubble was born just as the clock struck four, on the afternoon of
+the 13th of January, 1873. Its name was "Diamond."
+
+"Why, how could a bubble have a name?"
+
+Now, you just be quiet and patient, and in good time you shall learn
+all. Papa had promised his little daughter Grace, that one of these days
+he would blow some bubbles for her amusement.
+
+Grace reminded him several times of his promise; but papa was always too
+busy to attend to it. At last Grace said, "When will _one of these days_
+come?"--"It shall come now," said papa.
+
+So he got a pipe, and a bowl of soap-suds; and Grace stood at his knee
+while he blew bubbles. Grace was delighted. "Name them," said she; for
+papa had named her kittens, and she thought he could name the bubbles.
+
+The first one's name was "Sparkle." It was a very big bubble; but it did
+not live long. The name of the second was "Glory." I think it might have
+lived a second longer than it did, if Grace had not touched it with her
+finger.
+
+The third bubble floated up almost to the ceiling. Its name was
+"Napoleon." It rose as bravely as if it had no fear of breaking. It
+expired of old age, after reaching the term of ten seconds and a half.
+
+At last, just as the clock struck four, little "Diamond" appeared. She
+was a delicate little thing, and bright with all the colors of the
+rainbow. She was not proud like the other bubbles. She did not try to
+mount. Perhaps papa's breath made her go as she did.
+
+Grace admired "Diamond" very much. "Why, see, papa! She is coming to
+kiss me," said the little girl;--"she is on my cheek."
+
+Yes, little "Diamond" ended her life on the cheek of innocence. What
+better end could she have had? Was it not much better than mounting to
+the cold, white ceiling, and living to a dull old age, like the big
+bubble whose name was Napoleon?
+
+                                                   GRACE'S PAPA.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration: MENAGERIE]
+
+
+
+
+JACK'S MENAGERIE.
+
+
+        "THIS is our grand menagerie,
+         Beneath the crooked cherry-tree.
+         The exhibition now begins:
+         Admittance, only thirteen pins;
+         And if the pins you cannot borrow,
+         Why, then, we'll trust you till to-morrow.
+         Don't be afraid to walk inside:
+         The animals are safely tied.
+
+        "This is the elephant on the right:
+         Don't meddle with him, or he'll bite.
+         (He's Rover, Neddie's dog, you know.
+         I wish he wouldn't fidget so!
+         He doesn't think it fun to play
+         Wild beast, and be chained up all day.)
+         We'll feed him, pretty soon, with meat;
+         Though grass is what he ought to eat.
+
+        "In that box are the kangaroos:
+         Go near and pat them if you choose;
+         (They're very much like Susie's rabbits,
+         With just a change of name and habits.)
+         You'll find them lively as a top:
+         See, when I poke them, how they hop.
+         They are not fierce; but, oh! take care:
+         We now approach the grizzly bear.
+
+        "See her long claws, and only hear
+         Her awful growl when I go near!
+         We found her lying on a rug,
+         And just escaped her fearful hug.
+         It took some time to get her caged:
+         She's terrible when she's enraged.
+         (You think, perhaps, it's Mabel's cat,
+         But don't you be too sure of that!)
+
+        "Here is the ostrich in her pen
+         (It's Ernest's little bantam-hen):
+         She came from Africa, of course,
+         And runs as fast as any horse;
+         And up above there is a bird
+         Of whom you all have often heard,--
+         The eagle ('That is not,' says Mary,
+         'A pretty name for my canary')."
+
+         Just at this point, I grieve to say,
+         The elephant broke quite away,
+         O'erthrew the grizzly bear in rage,
+         Upset the eagle in his cage,
+         Flew at the kangaroos, and then
+         Attacked the ostrich in her pen.
+         Thus ended Jack's menagerie
+         Beneath the crooked cherry tree!
+
+                                                           H. B.
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF A LITTLE DUCK.
+
+
+I WAS one of a family of nine brothers and sisters. We all found
+ourselves outside our shells one fine, sunny day in spring; but we felt
+chilly, and were glad to nestle under the wings of the kind old hen whom
+we regarded as our mother.
+
+In a day or two, we began to look about the world. We found that it
+comprised a pretty lawn, on which our mansion was placed, with a brick
+wall at one end of it. The other end of the world was at the foot of the
+lawn, and consisted of a level expanse as smooth as a sheet of glass.
+
+Our mansion was formed of wood, with a high pointed roof, and with open
+bars in front, through which we could look out and enjoy the prospect.
+We could crawl under the bars easily; but mother-hen could not.
+
+One day a great, strong giant came and lifted up our mansion right over
+our heads. This giant had two legs, but no wings. Poor thing! They
+called him a _little boy_. He frightened us very much at first; but as
+he fed us, and called us, "Ducky, ducky!" we soon grew fond of him.
+
+When the boy had lifted up our mansion (which he called a coop),
+mother-hen started at once on a journey round the world. We stopped to
+pick up some bits of grain, and some little worms, which we found.
+"Cluck, cluck!" said mother-hen, which means, "Come, come!" and we all
+said, "Quack, quack!" which means, "Yes, yes!"
+
+On we went, threading our way through the forest of grass; and our ideas
+were much enlarged by finding that the world comprised a vast farm-yard
+as well as our lawn, and the distant glass-like boundary. On we went,
+"Cluck, cluck! quack, quack!" and at last found ourselves close to the
+smooth expanse, which we learned was called a _pond_, and composed of a
+beautiful liquid called "water."
+
+Into this pond my brothers and sisters dashed, and of course I followed.
+How delicious! The water was cool and refreshing, and so buoyant, that
+we moved about on it more easily than we could walk on the land; but,
+when we looked back to the bank, we saw mother-hen calling out in grief
+and dread, "Cluck, cluck! come, come! you'll drown, drown! Oh, oh!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"All right!" said my eldest brother; "no fear: here we are as jolly as
+sandboys! You may as well come. It's capital. Here goes for a dive!"
+And, so saying, under he went, and soon came up again, laughing,
+"Quack, quack! oh, it's _so_ jolly!"
+
+But poor mother-hen did not see any thing jolly about it, and was always
+in fear when we went to the pond, into which she would never go herself.
+
+In time we grew up, and found that we could actually _fly in the air_.
+Oh, capital! When that horrible monster with four legs, which they
+called "a dog," ran after us, we opened our wings, and flew over the
+lawn to the pond. And there stood the stupid dog bawling out, "Bow, wow!
+bow, wow!"
+
+One day our ideas were again expanded by our being driven through a
+gate. We then found that the world was much larger than we had thought;
+for beyond our wall was a broad ploughed field, as well as a vast
+forest, the edges of which touched the distant sky. Wonderful discovery!
+How grand a duck feels when gaining useful knowledge!
+
+Every thing went on pleasantly enough, until a great awkward giant,
+named Bob, came and looked very hard at us. At first we did not like
+him; but he was really very kind, and called us "Ducky, ducky, ducky!"
+and threw us handfuls of barley. He then seized two or three of my
+fattest brothers and sisters, and frightened them so much, that they
+called out, "Quack, quack! don't, don't!" But they need not have made
+such a fuss, as he put them safely in a basket with a lid to it to keep
+off the rain, and took a great deal of care of them indeed.
+
+How kind of him to take the trouble to carry them in this basket on his
+arm, instead of leaving them to waddle along the road! In this way he
+has taken all my brothers and sisters away with him, except myself and
+my brother little Jack Drake. I dare say he will soon take _us_ with him
+in his nice basket.
+
+Certainly it is a good thing to have men to attend to us so well. I am
+sure they must be very fond of ducks to take such care of us. And so I
+said to Jack Drake; but all he said in reply was, "Quack, quack! quack,
+quack!"
+
+                                                           T. C.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+OUR THANKSGIVING DINNER.
+
+
+WE live in a little village near the city of Cincinnati. We have not
+lived here many years; and our grandparents and aunts and uncles and
+cousins are so far away, that they cannot often come to see us.
+
+This year, on Thanksgiving Day, none of our friends were with us; and
+mamma and papa felt very sad to have the big turkey cooked, and only our
+own family to eat it.
+
+So, happening to see a ragged little boy in the street, mamma called
+him, and told him to go out and find eleven more poor little boys, and
+tell them to come with him and get a Thanksgiving dinner.
+
+He ran off in high glee; and, sure enough, when twelve o'clock came,
+along came the whole number of poor, hungry little boys. Their eyes
+sparkled with delight when they saw the nice brown turkey, and the pies
+and cakes. They were soon seated at the table; and papa and mamma waited
+on them.
+
+It made us all glad to see how the poor fellows enjoyed their dinner.
+One ragged little boy was so afraid of soiling the cloth, that he
+quietly slipped the bones under the table. Another boy saw him, and told
+the rest; and then they all had a good laugh.
+
+After they had eaten as much as they wanted, they were taken into the
+room where the piano is; and mamma got "The Nursery" containing the song
+of "Mother Hubbard," and played and sung it to them.
+
+Papa then gave each one a paper of candy and a nice large apple, and
+sent them off. No sooner were they out of the door than they set up a
+yell like so many little Indians, and ran to their homes as fast as they
+could, I suppose, to tell about the good time they had had.
+
+We all think now that we enjoyed our Thanksgiving as well as children
+who had their own friends to dine with them. And I do not doubt that
+those poor little boys will remember their unexpected dinner as long as
+they live.
+
+  HARRISON, O.                              ANNIE GRAY PATTISON.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE GRANDPA STORY.
+
+
+"WHICH shall it be to-night, Harry?" I said a little while ago?--"The
+Goblet Story, The Grandpa Story, or About the Runaway Boy?"
+
+"Oh! The Grandpa Story," said Harry at once; "for grandpa has been here
+to-day, and brought me ten notched sugar-plums,--five red ones, and five
+white." So I began:--
+
+        One bright Monday morning, I looked out of the
+        front-window, and said, "Why, Harry, Uncle
+        David has come to town! He is tying his horse
+        under the elm-tree." A minute after, Uncle
+        David opened the door into the sitting-room,
+        and said, "Is there any one here who would like
+        to go out to grandpa's to-day?" And mamma spoke
+        right up, and said, "We would all like to go.
+        It will do my little lads good to have a nice
+        ride."
+
+        "Get ready quick, then," said Uncle David. So
+        mamma put a little blue cloak and a white
+        sun-bonnet on Freddy the baby, and a linen
+        coat, and straw hat with blue ribbons on Harry;
+        and they all went out, and got into the
+        carriage.
+
+        Then away they rode through the pretty streets,
+        and over a covered bridge, where the horse went
+        TROT, TROT, TROT. Then they crossed a
+        railroad-track, and drove past a station, and
+        stopped at a store; and Uncle David went in and
+        bought a great box of sugar for Aunt Mattie,
+        and a little bag of candy to carry home to his
+        little boy Philly.
+
+        [Illustration]
+
+        Then they rode up a steep hill, and came out
+        upon Westfield Plains. And then what beautiful
+        things they saw!--a man with a gun, a squirrel
+        cracking a nut, a little girl with red hair, a
+        man picking apples from a tree, and, best of
+        all, a boy flying a kite.
+
+        [Illustration]
+
+        By and by they drove up a hill to grandpa's
+        house. Cousin Philly, who was out on the
+        piazza, ran into the house to tell his mamma
+        that Aunt Susan had come, and brought all her
+        little boys with her.
+
+        Tiger, the great black dog, said, "Bow, wow!"
+        to Harry, as he went up the steps. Cousin Anne
+        sat in a great rocking-chair by the open
+        window, and sang to her dolly, "Rock-a-by
+        baby."
+
+        Aunt Mattie was glad enough to see them, and
+        gave Harry a round cooky with a hole in the
+        middle, that he thought very funny. Mamma
+        always makes square cookies, with no holes to
+        put your fingers through.
+
+        By and by, when grandpa came in from the
+        orchard, they had a nice supper. They had
+        peaches and cream, and biscuits and honey; and,
+        oh! how good every thing tasted!
+
+        [Illustration]
+
+        Philly lent Harry his cup with the picture of a
+        queen on one side, and "_Remember me_" on the
+        other; and Harry drank two cups of milk, the
+        cup was so pretty.
+
+        After supper Harry's eyes began to droop; and
+        so mamma said, "Kiss grandpa, my little boy,
+        and the dear little cousins, and then let's run
+        to bed with sleepy head."
+
+        In six seconds after Harry's head touched the
+        pillow, he was fast asleep.
+
+        The next morning he awoke fresh and bright;
+        and, after breakfast, Philly and Harry went out
+        into the road to play. They made little
+        sand-hills and houses of pebble-stones, and dug
+        wells in the sand, and had a real good time.
+
+        In the afternoon, mamma put the cloaks and hats
+        on Harry and Freddy; Uncle David drove up to
+        the house; and they all got into the carriage,
+        and had a nice ride home.
+
+                                                        S. B. T.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+JACK FROST.
+
+
+        JACK FROST, he is with us again;
+        He comes every winter, you know:
+          But we're hardy and bold,
+          And we don't mind the cold,
+        And we welcome the ice and the snow.
+
+        Jack Frost plays a rough sort of game
+        With the children wherever he goes:
+          He pinches their cheeks;
+          Their noses he tweaks;
+        And he treads on their ten little toes.
+
+        Jack Frost makes the ground rather hard:
+        But with thick boots we clatter about;
+          And we run till our breath
+          Puffs away like a wreath
+        Of white steam from the teakettle's spout.
+
+        Jack Frost lays his hand on the pond,
+        And turns it to glittering ice;
+          Then the skaters they glide,
+          And the sliders they slide:
+        Think of that, Charley; isn't it nice!
+
+        Jack Frost, he is sure to be found
+        Where the sleigh-bells are tinkling clear;
+          As the horses, so strong,
+          Canter gayly along,
+        While the lads give a shout and a cheer.
+
+        Jack Frost, then, you're welcome again;
+        Of pleasures you bring us a store:
+          But be mild as you can,
+          Oh, you fierce little man!
+        When you visit the feeble and poor.
+
+                                                 GEORGE BENNETT.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+MISS JONES'S PICTURE.
+
+
+I HAVE just been looking at Miss Jones's picture. How do you think Miss
+Jones looks?
+
+She wears a shawl pinned close up to her throat, a cap tied under her
+chin, and a pair of spectacles over some very wise-looking eyes.
+
+What a funny-looking picture! I call it a funny picture, because the
+clothes are an old lady's clothes; but the face is a little girl's face,
+round and plump and rosy. If I could take off the cap and the shawl and
+the spectacles, I should see a little girl of four years, with a white
+dress, a pink sash, and long curls hanging down over her shoulders.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Her name is Edith May. Her mamma calls her Edie. Edie likes to fix
+herself up, and "play people" as she calls it. She takes many different
+parts.
+
+Sometimes she is an old lady, and sometimes she is a young lady.
+Sometimes she plays she is mamma; and then she runs round taking care of
+her dollies, and says she doesn't know what she _shall_ do now that
+Tilly has the measles, and Hannah has the chicken-pox, and she _verily_
+believes that the baby has the measles too.
+
+The other day, she said she was going to be Miss Jones, and go down to
+the saloon and have her picture taken.
+
+So she fixed herself up with cap and spectacles and shawl, and went down
+to the photograph-room, and told the artist that she was Miss Jones, and
+she had called to have her picture taken.
+
+Then the artist placed a chair for her, and she sat up as straight as
+she could. When the pictures were finished, he sent them to her mamma,
+who has sent one to me; and here you have it in "The Nursery."
+
+                                                        S. F. W.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+SUE'S SEASONS.
+
+
+        IN the spring, when the leaves all start,
+        The crocus thrills at its glowing heart,
+        The windflower opens its tinted cup,
+        While the sap mounts merrily up and up.
+
+        In the spring all the birds begin,
+        Early and late to build and sing:
+        Sweeter music was never heard
+        Then the merry note of a building bird.
+
+        In the summer the roses smile,
+        Painting the roadside, mile by mile;
+        The sweet-brier catches you as you pass,
+        The violets thicken among the grass;
+
+        Little nests run over with song,
+        Little wings grow restless and strong;
+        Daisies shine in the fields afar,
+        Odors float where the lilies are.
+
+        In the autumn the sap runs down,
+        And leaves are tinted with gold and brown:
+        In the winter when wild winds blow,
+        The leaves are dead in a shroud of snow.
+
+                                               MARY N. PRESCOTT.
+
+
+
+
+"CLEAR THE COAST!"
+
+
+I TOLD you last month how Robert hoped that Santa Claus would bring him
+a sled; and how Robert woke on Christmas morning to find by his bedside
+a beautiful sled, painted red, with thick iron runners.
+
+The next day he went with Uncle Charles to the hill on Boston Common,
+near Park Street, to see the boys coast. Here is a picture of the scene,
+drawn from life; and a very correct idea it will give you of the sport
+that may be witnessed in Boston after every snow-storm.
+
+Robert had his sled with him; and as he stood with Uncle Charles,
+looking at the coasters, the little boy longed to be _of_ them and
+_among_ them. But Uncle Charles said, "You are not quite old enough yet
+to coast in public: you have not had practice enough."
+
+Then a big boy, who had been admiring Robert's sled, stepped up and
+said, "I should like to try that sled, sir: I can take the little fellow
+on the sled in front of me. I will take good care of him, sir."
+
+Robert begged so hard to take his first lesson in coasting under the
+care of this big boy, that Uncle Charles at last consented; and in the
+picture you may see Uncle Charles waiting for the two boys to come along
+on the sled.
+
+He could not see them at first: but in about five minutes down they came
+like the rush of a torrent; and little Robert, as he saw Uncle Charles,
+cried out as loud as he could, "Clear the coast, clear the coast!"
+
+Uncle Charles clapped his hands; the ladies waved their handkerchiefs;
+and Robert felt quite proud, when, as he reached the bottom of the hill,
+some boys gathered round, and pronounced his sled "a first-rate
+runner."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+That was a proud day for Robert; for, before he left the Common, he was
+allowed to coast once all alone; and he did it in such good style, that
+the big boy told him he would make a "prime coaster."
+
+"What did he mean by a "_prime coaster_"?" asked Robert.
+
+"He meant," said Uncle Charles, "that, with a little more practice, you
+will coast very well,--as well, perhaps, as he does himself."
+
+                                                  ALFRED SELWYN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+OUR NEW DOG.
+
+
+WE have a new dog. His name is Bright. He is only two years old. His
+master one day took the cars near our place for California; and poor
+Bright was left behind.
+
+I met him at the railroad-station. He seemed to be in great distress. I
+had some bread in my hand, and offered him a piece. He was too sad to
+eat. I patted him on the head, and said, "Poor doggie, have you lost
+your master?"
+
+Bright howled as if he understood my question; and I believe he did.
+When I got home that day, I found that he had followed me. As I stood on
+the door-step, he fawned at my feet, and made a low, imploring noise, as
+if he would like to say, "Do be my master, and let me be your dog: I
+will be such a good dog!"
+
+I understood what he wanted, and said, "Well, old fellow, you shall have
+your wish. I adopt you as my own dog."
+
+Thereupon Bright wagged his tail, and barked, and put his fore-feet on
+my shoulders, and tried to lick my face. We understood each other now
+completely.
+
+Bright seemed to understand that he must not only be good to me, but to
+all under my care. I had a little white kitten named Snow-drop. When she
+and Bright first met, she was so much afraid, that she leaped up on top
+of the bookcase to be out of his way.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It was amusing to see how he tried to coax her down, and to make her
+feel that he was her friend. Snow-drop mewed, and raised her back; but
+Bright, by some good-natured half-barks and playful grunts, soon made
+her understand that he was one of the family, and bound to treat her
+well.
+
+By and by Snow-drop left off mewing, and began to purr. Bright lay down
+on the carpet, and began flapping and brushing it in a half-circle with
+his tail. That meant play.
+
+So Kitty at last came down; and, when I left the room, she and Bright
+were having a grand frolic together. I know you would like my dog Bright
+if you could see him.
+
+   KANSAS.                                         EDWIN BARTON.
+
+
+
+
+BUNNY.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+ONE day, when I was in the barn, I happened to look up, and there, on a
+beam, I saw a red squirrel with a great bushy tail. He was looking right
+at me.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The next day I saw him in my yard, trying to jump from one tree to
+another. I thought he would fall; but he just saved himself by catching
+the end of a twig.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Up in one of the chambers there was an old satchel hanging on a nail.
+Bunny climbed in at the window, and filled the satchel with nuts and
+apple-seeds. There was a basket of corn in the wood-house; and Bunny
+carried it almost all away.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+One day, as Bunny was going along in the grass, he heard a noise: so he
+sat up, and looked about. He saw a dog. Up went Bunny into a tree.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The dog came under the tree, and barked. The saucy squirrel ran down,
+and said with his eyes, "Now catch me if you can," and then ran up to
+the top of the tree as quick as a wink.
+
+                                                        W. O. C.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE CHILDREN'S PARTY.
+
+
+        WILL you come to our party to-day, Carrie Wynn?
+        The party is all ready now to begin;
+        And you shall be mother, and pour out the tea,
+        Because you're the oldest and best of the three.
+
+        My white cups and saucers that came Christmas Day
+        Are all set out nicely on Hatty's gilt tray;
+        Real milk in the cream-jug, and real sugar too;
+        But only _play_-tea--we pretend that it's true.
+
+        We've got a _whole_ orange, and three macaroons,
+        And some _blue_-mange--we'll eat it with Hatty's new spoons;
+        And we've carried our table out under the trees:
+        So come, Carrie Wynn, to our party, do, please!
+
+        Hatty'll sit at one end, and the other you'll take;
+        And I'll cut the orange, and she'll help the cake:
+        You'll see something funny--the reason, don't ask it--
+        When we've eaten the cake, we can eat up the basket!
+
+        We invited the dolls; but they both have the mumps;
+        And yesterday mine got two terrible bumps:
+        So we left them in bed; and I do not much care,
+        For dolls never _will_ sit up straight on a chair.
+
+        Then, nicest of all, when our party is done,
+        We'll wash up the dishes; and won't that be fun!
+        Then scrub sticky fingers and sugary thumbs;
+        And the sparrows and robins may clear up the crumbs.
+
+                                                 ELIZABETH SILL.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+DANDY THE BEAR.
+
+
+WE have a dancing bear in our village. His name is Dandy. He belongs to
+Mr. Werner, a German, who leads him about the streets, and makes a show
+of him. We children all give Dandy some of our spare cents when we see
+him; for a bear has to be fed like you and me.
+
+"Come, Dandy," Mr. Werner will say, "here are the young ladies and
+gentlemen, all with plenty of cents in their pockets to give you if you
+perform well. They are good judges of high art. They can admire the
+poetry of motion. So do your prettiest."
+
+Mr. Werner has a monkey and a pet dog. The monkey is called Captain. He
+wears a hat with a feather in it. The name of the pet dog is Grip. He is
+fat and greedy; and, if he sees a boy with a cake, he begs for a piece
+of it; indeed, he wouldn't object to the whole of it. I wonder if you
+can spy out Grip and the Captain in the picture.
+
+But Dandy makes more fun for us than all the rest. "Now, Dandy," Mr.
+Werner will say, "make your most stunning bow to the ladies, and then
+give us a turn on the light fantastic."
+
+By the "light fantastic," Mr. Werner means "the light fantastic toe." He
+has made this joke so many times, that we know what he means by it.
+
+Thus encouraged, Dandy will bow, raise himself on one of his hind-feet,
+and whirl round in a _pirouette_. (If you do not know what a _pirouette_
+is, you must get some one to explain and pronounce the word for you.)
+
+You would laugh to see Dandy imitate the great dancers. Though he can
+hardly be called graceful, he is very amusing; and we children willingly
+pay for the sight a cent each when the Captain passes round the hat.
+
+Mr. Werner thinks of taking Dandy to other towns to show off his
+accomplishments. If you should ever see him, I hope you will treat him
+well for my sake. I am the boy in the picture with a slate under his
+arm; and my name is
+
+                                                    RICHARD ROE.
+
+
+
+
+LITTLE MISCHIEF.
+
+
+IV.
+
+BESSIE went to pass a week with her Aunt Clara and Uncle Frank. Uncle
+Frank was a portrait-painter. One day Bessie took her doll Cornelia, and
+went into his studio.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+On the easel stood a portrait. Bessie looked at it, and thought it must
+be a likeness of her friend Col. Fraser. "But," said she, "the mustache
+is too faint: it wants paint."
+
+Then she remembered hearing her uncle say that he had more work than he
+could attend to. "What if I do a little work for him, and so give him a
+surprise!" thought she.
+
+
+V.
+
+"Uncle Frank, when he is by, never lets me touch his paints," said
+Bessie to herself; "but that must be because he does not know how clever
+I am. Nothing can be easier to paint than a mustache. It is only a
+number of hairs."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So Bessie climbed up into her uncle's chair, and took one of his long
+brushes in her hand. Then she looked at the colors on the palette, and
+tried to mix the blue and red as she had seen Uncle Frank do.
+
+The long brush was hard to manage. However, she remembered the rhyme,
+"Try, try, try again;" and she worked away until she thought she had got
+the tint.
+
+
+VI.
+
+At last Bessie was ready to begin her great work. So, standing on
+tiptoe, she applied the brush to the upper-lip. She was determined,
+while she was about it, to give Col. Fraser a thoroughly good mustache,
+long and thick.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now and then she would step back a little way, and consider the picture
+from a distance, as she had seen her uncle do. She was well pleased with
+her work. It was certainly a great improvement: so Bessie thought.
+
+At last she laid down her brush. She felt quite charmed with her
+success, and picked up her doll off the floor, that she might see how
+well her little mamma could paint.
+
+
+VII.
+
+"It is beautiful! Is it not, Cornelia?" she said, as she threw herself
+back in the chair. "Uncle will never say again that I cannot paint.
+Perhaps it is more blue than Col. Fraser's mustache; but it is all the
+prettier for that."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Bessie remembered, too, that her mamma had once read to her a story
+about a man with a blue beard. "So people _do_ have blue mustaches
+sometimes," thought she.
+
+What did Uncle Frank say when he saw what she had done? I am sorry to
+say he did not agree with Bessie that the picture was improved. At first
+he was vexed; then he laughed; then he gave Bessie a kiss.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+TOO MANY PRESENTS.
+
+
+DID you ever hear of the boy who had a drum and a trumpet and a
+rocking-horse for his Christmas presents, and cried, after all, because
+Santa Claus had given his sister a doll, and hadn't given him one?
+
+I have heard of that boy; but, to tell the truth, I doubt the whole
+story. It is a little too tough for me. I don't believe there ever was
+such a boy; and I won't believe in him until I see him.
+
+But I did know a little boy who _almost_ cried because he had _no_
+Christmas present. He was a good boy too. He would have been pleased
+with any thing; and it was too bad that Santa Claus forgot to bring some
+little gift for him.
+
+The queerest case, though, is that of the little boy whose picture we
+have here. You see him just as he looked on Christmas morning, with his
+presents all around him; and yet you see he does not look happy. What
+can be the matter with the child?
+
+Ah! the trouble is, that he has too many presents. He has so many that
+he doesn't know what to do with them. He doesn't know which to play with
+first. He is afraid all the time that some of them will get lost. And
+so, by trying to enjoy them all at once, he fails to enjoy them at all.
+
+Poor boy! he is having a hard time of it, and I pity him very much. If I
+were going to prescribe for him, this is what I should say, "Tom, my
+boy" (I know by his looks that his name is Tom), "don't be cast down.
+I'll show you the way out of your trouble. Your case is pretty bad; but
+there's a remedy. What you want to do is to _give away_ something.
+
+"Now, there's that doll that you are hugging so closely. What does a boy
+like you want of a doll? That must have been meant for some little girl.
+It was sent to you on purpose to give away. Of course it was.
+
+"Then there are those two wagons. You don't want both of them. You know
+you don't. Find the boy who hadn't any Christmas presents, and give one
+of the wagons to him. Let that wooden soldier go with it; for what do
+you want of a soldier, when you have a gun of your own?
+
+"And what if you should give away something that you do want very much;
+why, it wouldn't hurt you a bit: you would feel all the better for it.
+Just try now, Tom, and see if you wouldn't."
+
+Perhaps the little boy would take my advice; and perhaps he wouldn't,
+but, if he should, I'm sure he would make a much more cheerful picture
+than he does now.
+
+                                                      UNCLE SAM.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE DOG AND THE SHADOW.
+
+
+A DOG, crossing a bridge with a piece of meat in his mouth, saw in the
+water what he took to be another dog, with a piece of meat twice the
+size of his own. Letting go his own, he flew at the other dog to get the
+larger piece from him. He thus lost both,--that which he grasped at in
+the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream
+swept it away.
+
+[Illustration: Music]
+
+
+
+
+JACK & GILL
+
+Old Nursery Rhyme extended.
+
+Music by T. CRAMPTON.
+
+
+        VOICE
+
+        AND
+
+        PIANO
+
+        1. Jack and Jill went up the hill
+             To fetch a pail of water;
+           Jack fell down and broke his crown,
+             And Jill came tumbling after.
+           Jack got up and said to Jill--
+              As in his arms he caught her--
+           "If you're not hurt, wipe off the dirt,
+             And then we'll fetch the water."
+
+        2. Jack and Jill went round the hill
+             To tend the geese and gander,
+           But strolled away to sport and play,
+             And left the geese to wander:
+           A fox came down and pounced on one,
+             And stole it for his dinner.
+           While Jill and Jack came running back,
+             But Foxy was the winner.
+
+        3. Jack and Jill went down the hill
+             To scare away the crows there:
+           Jack fired his gun, and soon killed one,
+             But blew off his own nose there.
+           Says Jill, "Good luck, my darling Jack!
+             I'll go and fetch your master;
+           And don't suppose you've lost your nose,
+             We'll stick it on with plaster."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+This issue was part of an omnibus. The original text for this issue did
+not include a title page or table of contents. This was taken from the
+January issue with the "No." added. The original table of contents
+covered the first six months of 1873. The remaining text of the table of
+contents can be found in the other issues.
+
+
+
+
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