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diff --git a/24478.txt b/24478.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16f3ce1 --- /dev/null +++ b/24478.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1393 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII., by Various + +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: The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII. + A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People + +Author: Various + +Release Date: January 31, 2008 [EBook #24478] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, MAY 1873 *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + +THE + +NURSERY + +_A Monthly Magazine_ + +FOR YOUNGEST READERS. + +VOLUME XIII.--No. 5 + + 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. + + Mabel's Cow 129 + + Harry and the Big Pop-Corner 131 + + What Dempsey is proud of 134 + + What Mamie did 136 + + Snip's Story 139 + + The Brindled Cow 142 + + Naming the Kitten 144 + + Little Gilbert 146 + + What Birdie saw in Town 148 + + Prince and Tip 151 + + The Napoleon Violets 153 + + The Life of a Sparrow 154 + + Little Mischief 158 + + +IN VERSE. + + Jenny and Timothy Wren 135 + + Baby in the High Chair 140 + + Guess 150 + + Mistress Mouse 152 + + The Kitten (_with music_) 160 + +[Illustration: MABEL'S COW.] + + + + +MABEL'S COW. + + +[Illustration: T]HE cow nearest to you in the picture is Mabel's cow; +and Mabel Brittan is the taller of the two girls on the bridge. I will +tell you why the cow is called Mabel's cow. + +Her family live in a wild but beautiful part of New Hampshire, where it +is very cold in winter, and pretty warm in summer. There are only two +small houses within a mile of her father's. He keeps cows, and makes +nice butter from the cream. + +Not long ago he bought a cow at a great bargain, as he thought; for she +was a fine-looking young cow, and the price he paid for her was only +twenty-five dollars. + +But, before he had got through the first milking of her, he began to +think she was dear at any price. She would kick over the pail, make +vicious plunges, and try to hook him. Indeed, he grew afraid of her, she +was so violent. + +He took down a heavy whip, and was about to strike her in great anger, +when his little daughter Mabel caught his arm, and said, "She will never +be good for any thing if you strike her. Let me try to manage her." + +And, before Mr. Brittan could prevent her, Mabel had her arm round the +cow's neck, and was calling her all the sweet pet names she could think +of. + +"All that is very well," said her father; "but just you try to milk her: +that's all. No, you sha'n't venture. It would be as much as your life is +worth." + +"I am very sure she will let me milk her," said Mabel. "Do not forbid my +trying. She looks at me out of her big eyes as if she thought me her +friend." + +So Mabel took the tin pail, and sat down on the little low +milking-stool; and soon, to her father's astonishment, she finished +milking, the cow having stood all the while as quiet as a lamb. + +It was found that the cow had been badly treated by the man who had +owned her, and who had been in the habit of milking her. Being a +high-spirited beast, she then gave him so much trouble, that he was soon +glad to be rid of her. + +She would now let no one touch her but Mabel: so Mr. Brittan finally +said that the cow should be Mabel's cow, and that all the butter which +the cow yielded should be hers. But Mabel is a generous girl; and so she +shares the money she earns. Her mother, her sister Emily, and her +brothers Oliver and Frank, all get a part of it. + +Mabel has given the cow a name; and the cow will come to her when she +calls her by name. The name is a very pretty one for a cow, I think. It +is Dido. + + EMILY CARTER. + + + + +HARRY AND THE BIG "POP-CORNER." + + +LITTLE HAROLD was delighted, one winter morning, to hear that he could +go to his grandpapa's with his mother, for a few days. He had often been +there in summer, when the grass was green, and flowers were blooming +around the old homestead; but this was his first _winter_ visit. + +A pleasant ride of forty miles by the railway, then a short ride in an +old-fashioned stage-sleigh, and the sober old horses, with their +jingling bells, stopped before grandpa's pleasant home. + +Harry ran up to the door, shouting, "We've come, grandpa! We've come!" +The door opened; the little fellow rushed into his grandpa's arms; and +golden curls and thin gray locks were mingled for an instant. Then the +young arms were thrown around dear Aunt Susie; and such a welcome was +given as little boys love to have. + +Harry then trotted off to the kitchen to find his friend Patty, the +cook. In a few minutes he came running back, exclaiming, "O mamma! do +come and see what a big _pop-corner_ Patty has in the kitchen." + +"Corn-popper, I suppose you mean," said his mamma, laughing, as she and +Aunt Susie followed him to the kitchen. There, hanging behind the stove, +was a large brass pan, as bright as gold: it had a cover full of holes, +and a long handle. This was what Harry took for a corn-popper. + +"Oh! that is a warming-pan," said his mother. "A what kind of a pan?" +said Harry with great surprise. "What _do_ you mean, mamma?" + +"Well, Harry, if you can be quiet a minute, I will tell you. When your +Aunt Susie and I were little girls, and your uncles little boys, +grandpapa's house was not warmed all over, as it is now. Furnaces were +not used in those days; and the bed-rooms up stairs were very cold. + +"So, on the coldest nights of winter, grandma would have this pan filled +with hot coals, and the beds all nicely warmed. Sometimes the boys would +have great frolics; for dear grandmamma would have their bed so very +warm, that, as soon as they had jumped in, _out_ they would come, saying +they were burned. + +"But they would spring back again, and cuddle down, and laugh, and tell +stories, and sing, until grandpapa would have to come to the foot of the +stairs, and call out, 'Boys, boys, I must have less noise!'" + +"Well," said Harry after hearing this story, "I should like to try it, +and see how my little uncles felt so long ago. Will you warm my bed +to-night, Patty?"--"Oh, yes! indeed I will. Master Harry," said Patty. + +[Illustration] + +Harry wanted to go to bed earlier than usual that night; and, before +seven o'clock, he ran to the kitchen to ask Patty to put the coals in +the pan. Patty took a shovel, and first put in some hot ashes. "What is +that for?" said Harry. + +"So the sheets will not be burned," said Patty. Then she put in some +glowing coals, and told Harry that the warming-pan was ready. + +Harry called his mamma; and they went up to the square front-room. Patty +gave the cold sheets a good warming while mamma was unbuttoning the +little shoes and clothes; and, when Harry had got on his night-gown, he +said, "Now for a good jump,--one, two, three, four, and away!" + +Then he sprang into the warm nest; and such a shout as the little fellow +gave made even grandpa start from his rocking-chair. "Oh, goody! oh, how +_jolly_! oh, how splendid!" said Harry. "I thought grandpapa's house +was splendid in the summer; but it is a great deal _splendider_ in the +winter. + +"But, mamma," continued he, "won't I have a nice story to tell Charlie +and Susie when I get home, about this big pop-corner?" + + MAMMA. + + + + +WHAT DEMPSEY IS PROUD OF. + + +"WHAT are you proudest of?" said Mattie to Bertie. "I'm proudest of my +new red-top boots," said Bertie. "_I'm_ proudest of my new black hat," +said Clay. Mattie was proudest of her muff and boa. Little Bell was +proudest of her wax doll. + +But Dempsey had the queerest pride of all. He had no boots or mittens; +and his clothes were coarse and worn. What had he to be proud of? This +is what he said, "I'm proudest of my papa's wooden leg." The other +little people were too polite to laugh at him; but they looked at him +with wonder. + +"Let me tell you," said he, "why I'm proud of my papa's wooden leg. One +time when there was a war, and men were wanted to help fight the +battles, my papa took his gun, and went into the army. And when there +was a great battle, and men were shot down all around him, my papa stood +beside the man that held the flag. And, when the man was killed, my papa +would not let the flag fall, but took it in his own hands. Then the +soldiers on the other side fired at the flag with a big cannon; and the +ball took off my papa's leg. He was sick a long time; but he got a +letter from his commander that said he was a brave man, and had done +his duty nobly. This is why I am proud of my papa's wooden leg." + +Mattie and Bertie and Clay and Bell all thought that this was a pretty +story; and Clay said, "Dempsey is right. He has something more to be +proud of than any of us." + + FANNIE. + +[Illustration] + + + + +JENNY AND TIMOTHY WREN. + + + SWEET little, neat little Miss Jenny Wren, + On a white hawthorn spray, + In the bright month of May, + Sat chirping so sweet,-- + "Pewhit and pewheet," + Where daisies unfold. + And kingcups of gold + Shine out on a glad May morning. + + Down-crested, brown-breasted Timothy Wren, + As he fluttered along, + Trilled the snatch of a song; + Then chirruped her name + As near her he came, + And told of his love, + As meek as a dove, + To Jenny, that bright May morning. + + "Hear, Jenny, dear Jenny, sweet Jenny Wren: + If you'll be my own wife, + I will love you through life; + We'll gather the moss, + Soft feathers, and floss; + And build us a nest, + The neatest and best, + And sing through the bright May mornings." + + May blossoms, gay blossoms, curtained their nest: + Through the tiny mouse-hole, + Little Jenny she stole; + There, of no one afraid, + Ten fine eggs she laid, + While Timothy dear + Sang blithely and clear, + "How sweet are the bright May mornings!" + + GEORGE BENNETT. + + + + +WHAT MAMIE DID. + + +MAMIE is a little girl five years old, with bright black eyes, and rosy +red cheeks. + +She is very fond of "The Nursery," as are a great many other Mamies. + +[Illustration] + +Now, which Mamie is this story about? They are all wondering, but cannot +tell certainly, till they have heard it read. + +Well, one cold winter's day, _this_ little Mamie came to her mother with +a very urgent request. What do you suppose it was? To go out coasting? +No. + +To go to visit her little friend Nellie? No. + +To take a sleigh-ride with her papa? Wrong again. + +Ah! you can never guess, and I will tell you. + +It was this: "O mamma! do put on my things, and let me go out and get +_ex_scribers for 'The Nursery.'" + +Mamma shook her head; though she could not help laughing at the little +girl's mistake, for she meant _sub_scribers. It _is_ a hard word; but +this little Mamie knew the meaning well. + +"O mamma! _please_ do; for you know _I_ love it. And Jennie and Katie +and Bessie will love it too, if they only _know_ about it; and, besides, +I can get a present, if I send some new names to 'The Nursery' man." + +Little Mamie was so urgent in her request, that her mother asked papa +what he thought about it. + +Papa said, "Oh, let her try if she wants to: it will do no harm." How +the black eyes danced! and the little feet could hardly keep still, +while mamma dressed her up very warmly, till she was just about as large +one way as the other. + +"Now, mamma, for my muff; and, oh! I must have a 'Nursery' to show." So, +with a "Nursery" sticking out of one end of the little muff, this Mamie +started on her errand. All the way along to Bessie's house, she kept +saying, _sub_scribe, _sub_scribe, so that she might not make another +mistake in the word. + +She was gone but an hour, and returned with the names of six children, +who were to be made glad each month by the visits of Mamie's friend. + +Mamie was full of glee, and could hardly eat any supper, so anxious was +she for her papa to send the names to Boston. + +Well, they were all sent; and the six little friends have been made glad +by receiving each a "Nursery" of her own; and next month they will be +glad again, and so on for a whole year. + +Did Mamie get a present? Oh, yes! She got a present from "The Nursery" +man, which she values very highly. + +Now, can you tell _which_ little Mamie this is? + + MARY MYRTLE. + +[Illustration] + + + + +SNIP'S STORY. + + +MY name is Snip. You can read it on my collar: though why my master put +it there I can't tell; for everybody knows me, and almost everybody is +my friend. People stop in the street to pat me; the little children love +to have me play with them, because I never snarl and bite; and the +butcher round the corner saves me a bone every day. I think butchers are +very nice men. + +Every morning I go down street to get the newspaper for my master. The +bookseller always has it rolled up, waiting for me, and puts it in my +mouth; and back I trot as fast as my legs will go. To-day I had a hard +time of it; for, just as I got nicely started for home, some bad boys +who were playing in the road saw me, and thought it would be fine fun to +catch me, and take my paper away. + +They ran after me, hooting and yelling; and I was so frightened, that I +trembled all over. But I could run faster than they; and they soon gave +up the chase. That was not the end, though; for one of them threw a +stone after me, which hit me on one of my paws, and so I came home +limping. But do you suppose I let the newspaper drop? Not a bit of it. + +I have been barking at this door a long time; and yet nobody comes to +open it. I wonder where my master is, that he doesn't hear me. Perhaps +he is asleep. I am very hungry for my dinner; and I should like to get +into the house, and lie down in my corner by the kitchen-fire. + +I can push open the garden-gate with my nose; but this door won't move a +bit when I put my paws on it. I wonder why dogs can't open doors as well +as gates. I am going to bark again. Bow-wow-wow! There! Didn't you hear +a footstep? Yes: there comes some one to let me in. + + H. B. + +[Illustration] + + + + +BABY IN HER HIGH CHAIR. + + + HERE I am all ready: here's my little plate + Wants some 'tato on it: papa, you'll be late. + Here's the milk a-waiting in my silver cup; + I'm so hungry! will somebody please to push me up. + + Didn't see me, did you, scrambling up my chair? + Got up all alone too; would you think I'd dare? + Got my clothes all twisted; 'fraid I mussed my curls: + What did papa say about frowsy-headed girls? + +[Illustration] + + Dear, I have such troubles! people are so slow! + Don't they want some supper, I should like to know? + There's a fly gone swimming in my silver cup; + And I can't quite reach him, 'cause I'm not pushed up. + + Here's my mamma coming; here come Sue and Fred; + Now there goes the ding-dong, just as if it said, + "Little folks and big folks, time to come and sup!" + Thank you, papa, thank you, for pushing Bessie up. + + HELEN BARRON BOSTWICK. + + + + +THE BRINDLED COW. + + +[Illustration] + +THE cow is in the pasture, feeding. The pasture has been wet with the +rain, and the grass is fresh and sweet. The rain makes the grass grow. + +[Illustration] + +The sun is hot, and the cow has lain down under a shady tree. She is +chewing her cud. It is nice and cool in the shade. + +[Illustration] + +But the flies bite her, and plague her. She tries to scare them off; but +they come again. Then she gets up, and rubs her nose against the tree. + +[Illustration] + +Now she is standing in the water. The water feels cool to her feet; but +the flies still plague her. She splashes the water to drive the flies +away. + +[Illustration] + +By and by the milk-maid comes out, and calls, "Co-boss, co-boss!" The +cow hears her, and walks slowly along to the barn. + +[Illustration] + +The cow stands quite still while the maid is milking her. But is not the +maid seated on the wrong side of the cow? My cow would kick the pail +over if I should milk her in that way. + + W. O. C. + + + + +NAMING THE KITTEN. + + +"WHAT shall be the kitten's name?" asked Rachel of her younger sister, +who stood holding up her apron, and begging to take the little pet. + +"It is _my_ kitten," pleaded Alice; "and I ought to have it." + +"The old cat evidently thinks it is _her_ kitten. Hark! Hear her mew! +'Mine, mine, mine,' she seems to say." + +"Oh!" said Alice, "I can soon quiet the old cat with a saucer of milk. +Come, give me the kitten; that's a good Rachel!" + +"Well, I will give it to you on one condition." + +"Name it: perhaps I can grant it." + +"The condition is, that you give the kitten a name,--a name that I shall +approve of." + +"Oh! that I can do right off. We will call her Arabella." + +"Nonsense! that is too long and grand a name for a kitten. It will do +very well for a proud lady-doll from Paris, but not for this little +scratcher." + +"How would you like the name of Betsy?" + +"Not at all. I think it a homely sort of name." + +"Well, will any of these do?--Pet, Muff, Tabby, Tit, Tip-top, Scamper, +Nap, Mop, Pop, Grab?" + +"I think you must have got those from some story-book." + +"You guessed right that time," said Alice. "Name the kitten yourself, if +none of my names will satisfy you. Put her in my lap, and I will get +some cream, and let her lap it." + +"Lappit, did you say? That's a new name, and a good one!" cried Rachel. +"You have hit upon a name at last. We will call the kitten Lappit. Now +hold up your apron, and I will put Lappit in your lap." + +Alice laughed at her sister's play upon the word; and, taking the kitten +in her apron, she ran off into the garden, followed by the old cat. + +[Illustration: NAMING THE KITTEN.] + + + + +LITTLE GILBERT. + +A TRUE STORY. + + +MANY years ago a little boy, named Gilbert, lived in a small town in New +Brunswick, on the banks of the St. John River. The river is deep and +swift; and Gilbert's papa had often warned him not to go too near the +brink. + +One day, when the little fellow was about six years old, he went with +his papa down to the river; and, while his papa stopped to talk with a +friend, Gilbert wandered along the shore. + +He took with him his fishing-rod, and thought it would be fine fun to +catch a fish all by himself: so he went close to the edge of the water, +and dropped in his line. + +After waiting a few minutes without getting a bite, he thought he would +walk out on a raft that he saw close by, and try his luck in a new spot. +He crept along till he reached the outer edge of the raft; but then, as +he threw out his line, his little bare feet slipped, and over he went, +plump into the river. A splash, a scream, and down he went. + +At the time of this story, there were a good many Indians in New +Brunswick; and a party of them were in camp in the woods near the river. +They were harmless, peaceable Indians, and very friendly to the boys of +the neighborhood, who liked to visit their tents, and see them weave +baskets, and make bows and arrows, and scarlet slippers, and other +pretty things. + +Luckily for Gilbert, an Indian boy happened to be fishing near the raft, +and saw him slip off into the water. Although the Indian boy was not +much older than Gilbert, he was larger and stronger, and he knew how to +swim. In an instant he plunged into the river, seized the poor little +drowning boy, and brought him to the land safe and sound. + +[Illustration] + +His papa took him in his arms, all wet and dripping, and, after thanking +the brave Indian boy for his noble deed, hurried home, scolding Gilbert +by the way for disobedience. Poor little Gilbert was very miserable. It +was not at all nice to be wet and frightened and scolded all at once; +and, worse than all, he feared he would be punished when he got home. + +So, when his papa carried him into the kitchen, it was a great comfort +to the little fellow to see his good grandmother sitting by the fire. +She was very fond of Gilbert; and, when she saw what a plight he was in, +she begged his papa not to punish the dear child this time, saying she +was sure he had been punished enough already by his fright and his +ducking. + +His papa was so happy to have his little boy alive and safe, that it was +easy to forgive him; and in a little while Gilbert was dressed in dry +clothes, and sat down on his little stool before the fire to eat a red +apple which his grandmother had brought him. + +That night, when little Gilbert said his prayer, he put in at the end, +"God bless the brave Indian boy who saved my life!" + + MUZ-MUZ. + + + + +WHAT BIRDIE SAW IN TOWN. + + +"BIRDIE," you must know, is a little girl three and a half years old. +Her real name is Maud; but "Birdie" is her pet name. + +One day she went to the city in the horse-cars with her mamma. They +waited on the corner of the street till a car came in sight; then Birdie +held up her little fat finger, and the conductor saw it, and stopped the +car. + +After they were seated, the conductor called out, "Fares, ladies!" And +Maud said to him, "Here is mamma's ticket; and won't you please leave us +at grandpa's house?" He smiled, and nodded his head, and Birdie felt +satisfied; for she thought he must know, of course, where grandpa lived. + +When they reached town, mamma took her into a store where birds are kept +for sale; and Birdie saw, to her great delight, hundreds of +canary-birds, and a good many bright-colored parrots. It was very funny +indeed to hear them all singing and chattering together. + +There were two beautiful birds in a large cage, taking their morning +bath. They would jump down into their little bath-tub, dip their heads +in the water, and then plunge in all over; then they would perch on the +side of the tub, shake the bright drops from their feathers, and seem to +be enjoying themselves as much as Birdie herself does when mamma puts +her into her bath-tub. + +[Illustration] + +Then there were some squirrels in a cage that went round and round; and +Birdie thought she should never get tired of looking at them, with their +bushy tails and bright black eyes. She saw them crack some nuts with +their little sharp teeth. + +There were also a great many goldfishes in a little pond; and Birdie +watched them darting through the water, and thought how nice it would be +to have some of them at home. + +One thing more Birdie saw, which pleased her very much. On the corner of +the street stood a man with a basket on his arm; and in it were four or +five little black-and-white puppies ("baby-dogs" Birdie called them), +all cuddled up in a heap, and looking very comfortable in their +wicker-carriage. + +The little girl took good care to point out all the sights to Daisy, her +doll, whom she carried in her arms, and who always has to take an airing +when her little mistress does. + + FLORENCE. + +[Illustration] + + + + +GUESS. + + + I SEE two lilies, white as snow, + That mother loves and kisses so; + Dearer they are than gold or lands: + Guess me the lilies,--baby's hands! + + I know a rosebud fairer far + Than any buds of summer are; + Sweeter than sweet winds of the south: + Guess me the rosebud,--baby's mouth! + + I've found a place where shines the sun: + Yes, long, long, after day is done; + Oh! how it loves to linger there: + Guess me the sunshine,--baby's hair! + + There are two windows where I see + My own glad face peep out at me; + These windows beam like June's own skies: + Guess me the riddle,--baby's eyes! + + GEORGE COOPER. + + + + +PRINCE AND TIP. + + +PRINCE is a small shaggy dog, of a light-brown color. Tip is also a +small dog, but is black, and has short, smooth hair. They are very fond +of each other, and frolic together like two kittens. + +Prince is always making acquaintances. He has several places in the +neighborhood where he makes himself at home. He is always welcome, and +he knows it: so he comes and goes as he pleases. Even when his master +ties him, he cannot be kept from visiting his friends. + +It was for a long time a wonder to us how he got untied; but we kept +watch one day, and found that Tip, with his paws and mouth, loosened the +knot, so that Prince could slip his head out; and then the two dogs +scampered off in great glee. Prince, or Pinny, as we call him, plays +some funny tricks. When we tell him to shake hands, he stands up on his +hind-feet, and gives first his right, and then his left paw. + +Sometimes we say to him, "Now, Pinny, play sick." Then he lies down, +droops his head, and puts on a woe-begone look. We run around him, +saying, "Poor Pinny!" and he all the while seems to enjoy the joke. As +soon as we say, "Up Pinny, all well," he jumps up, shakes himself, and +gives a knowing look, which seems to say, "Didn't I do that well?" + +When we tell him to play beggar, he sits up on his haunches, raises his +fore-paws, and whines dolefully. + +When we hear a noise, and say, "See if anybody's coming, Pinny!" he goes +to the door, and listens: if any one is coming, he barks loudly; if not, +he comes quietly back. + +Sometimes the two dogs play horses. Their master takes a rope a few feet +long, and ties one end around Pinny's neck, and the other around Tip's. +Then, when the word is given, they set off and gallop up the road +abreast, like two ponies. When their master whistles, they turn round, +and come back. + +Sometimes they are harnessed to a little wagon; and the children take +turns in having a ride. The dogs seem to enjoy it as much as the +children. They are impatient to start; but they wait for each other to +be harnessed: they are not in quite such a hurry as the dog in the +following picture. + + GERTIE ADAMS. + +[Illustration] + + + + +MISTRESS MOUSE. + + + MISTRESS MOUSE + Built a house + In mamma's best bonnet. + All the cats + Were catching rats, + And didn't light upon it. + + At last they found it, + And around it + Sat watching for the sinner; + When, strange to say, + She got away, + And so they lost their dinner. + + + + +THE NAPOLEON VIOLETS. + + +THERE are three profiles of famous persons to be found among the +outlines of this picture, which was drawn as long ago as the year 1815. +One of the profiles is of Napoleon Bonaparte, a great soldier, who made +himself emperor of France; another profile is of his wife, Marie Louise; +and another of his son, Napoleon Francis Charles Joseph Bonaparte, +styled King of Rome, and by his father proclaimed Emperor of the French, +under the title of Napoleon II., in the year 1815, when he was only +about four years old. + +[Illustration] + +Owing to the defeats and disappointments of his father, the child +Napoleon never actually became either King of Rome, or Emperor of +France. He died in the year 1832, in Austria, where his grandfather was +emperor. + +Now, which of our readers will be able to discover the three portraits +hidden in this symbolical bunch of violets? + +"Oh, dear! What a big word is this! What does Uncle Charles mean by +_symbolical_?" I fancy some of my little friends will exclaim. Well, +then, a _symbol_ is merely a sign, or mark, by which one knows a thing. +When you see an umbrella in a man's hand, it is a symbol, or sign, that +he expects a shower. So the profiles in this bunch of violets make it +_symbolical_; that is, suggestive of a family group, who, it was hoped, +would be renewed like the violets, and once more fill a large space in +the history of France. + + UNCLE CHARLES. + + + + +THE LIFE OF A SPARROW. + +BY HIMSELF. + + +I AM a very old sparrow, but not so old that I cannot still relish a +cherry, a grape, or a nice fat worm. I am about to write a short history +of my life, for the instruction of my children, grandchildren, and +great-grandchildren. + +[Illustration] + +My parents, after having reared a numerous family, decided to seek a new +home. One lovely day in spring, they came to a pretty village which +pleased them, and alighted on a cherry-tree to consult together. "Here +we will remain," said my father. "Look at the cherry-trees and the +grape-vines. We have found the right place at last." + +[Illustration] + +After looking carefully about for some time, they chose for their home a +new house with a projecting roof, before which stood three large +cherry-trees in full bloom. My mother, with the help of my father, built +a nest high up under the roof of the house, and lined it with soft +feathers. She laid four eggs, but hatched out only one little sparrow; +and I was that lucky one. + +[Illustration] + +My parents fed me constantly with tender worms; and it is no wonder that +the feathers began to grow on my naked little body, or that my father +soon thought me able to fly. So one fine day I stood on the edge of the +nest, fluttered my wings, and flew out of my father's house. With many +fears and a beating heart I at last alighted on an acacia-tree. While I +sat there, I saw many large birds walking about, and also a cat, against +whom my mother had already warned me; and, directly over my head, I +heard the scream of a hawk. + +[Illustration] + +In my fright, I cried out bitterly; but when the cat ran away, and the +hawk flew into the woods near by, I grew calm again. My cry soon brought +my mother to my side; and my father came, bringing a delicious worm to +comfort me. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + +Before many days I was able take care of myself. About this time I met +with an adventure. One day I saw several of my comrades fly in through +an open window. Wishing to know what they found, I also flew in, and +soon was as busy as any of them eating the grains of wheat with which +the floor was covered. Suddenly the window was shut, and we were +caught. A laughing boy put his hand over me, took me up, then cut my +wings, and let me hop. He was very kind to me; but I longed for my +liberty. Fortunately my wings soon grew; and one day, when the window +stood open, I flew away, and found my mother again. + +[Illustration] + +One sunny day in the autumn, my mother and I sat on a gate, eating some +grains of wheat. A sly old cat who had hidden under a burdock which grew +beside the gate, suddenly sprang up, and seized my dear mother with her +sharp claws. + +[Illustration] + +My mother was a very wise bird: so, instead of struggling to get away, +she remained so quiet, that Mrs. Pussy soon thought she must be dead. +Before long she put her down upon the grass, that she might admire at +her leisure the nice fat sparrow she had caught for her dinner. All at +once up flew my mother, and in an instant was far beyond the reach of +the cat. + +Now I thought I was old enough to have a family of my own. So I chose me +a little sparrow-wife; but I had to fight several battles before I could +conquer all my rivals. My bravery won her heart; and I think she has +been well content with her choice. We built our nest, and soon I had the +pleasure of seeing in it five bluish-white, brown-and-gray-dotted eggs, +and, fourteen days after, five pretty sparrows,--three sons, and two +daughters. + +[Illustration] + +One saucy rogue, with a golden bill, we lost. Like me, he was caught; +but he never regained his liberty. A friendly little maiden was his +mistress, who made him so tame, that he would eat from her hand. She +gave him so many dainties, that he became too fat, and died. I saw how +the little maiden dug him a grave in her garden. Bitterly weeping, she +placed him therein, covered him with earth, and planted a cross of +flowers on the little mound. + +[Illustration] + +Our other children, one after the other, founded homes of their own, and +all lived good and useful sparrow-lives. The multitude of my +grandchildren I am no longer able to count. + + FROM THE GERMAN. + + + + + + "THE seed that springs, and the bird that sings, + And the shining summer sun, + The tiny bee, and the mighty sea, + God made them, every one." + + + + +LITTLE MISCHIEF. + + +XIII. + +WHAT mischief was there for Bessie to-day? The fish in her mother's +aquarium had not been benefited by the hot bath which Bessie had given +them; but that was no reason, thought she, why a bath would not be a +good thing for her new doll Felicia. + +[Illustration] + +She had a little doll bath-tub made of tin. So she put it on a little +table, and filled it from a jug of hot water which happened to be on the +hearth. Then she undressed Felicia, and, holding her up, said, "Now, +little lady, you are going to have a nice warm bath: so be good." + + +XIV. + +Having put Felicia in the bath-tub, Bessie sat down in a chair before +her, and said, "There are not many dolls, little lady, that have such a +kind, loving mother as I am. You ought to be very good and grateful." + +[Illustration] + +Here dolly slipped down in the bath-tub, and her nice blooming face was +all soaked in the hot water. When Bessie took her out, you would hardly +have known Felicia for the same doll. Her head, which was of wax, was +quite ruined; and her whole body was out of shape and spoiled. + +Bessie ran crying to her mother: but her mother said, "You do not +deserve to have another doll." + +[Illustration: Music] + +[Illustration] + + + + +Words from "The Nursery." + +THE KITTEN + + Music by T. CRAMPTON, + Chiswick, W. London. + + VOICE + AND + PIANO + + 1. I'm a pretty little kitten, + My name is Tabby Gray, + I live out in the country, + Some twenty miles away. + My eyes are black and hazel, + My skin is soft as silk; + I'm fed each night and morning + With a saucer full of milk. + + 2. The milk comes fresh and foaming, + Fresh from the good old cow; + And, after I have lapped it, + I frolic--you know how. + I'm petted by the children, + And the mistress of the house; + And sometimes, when I'm nimble, + I catch a little mouse. + + 3. But sometimes, when I'm naughty, + I climb upon the stand, + And eat the cake and chicken, + Or any thing at hand; + Ah! then they hide my saucer, + No matter if I mew; + And that's the way I'm punished + For naughty things I do. + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Note: + +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 entire year of 1873. The remaining text of the table of +contents can be found in the rest of the year's issues. + +Page 144, "thing" changed to "think" (I think it a) + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII., by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, MAY 1873 *** + +***** This file should be named 24478.txt or 24478.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/4/7/24478/ + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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