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diff --git a/24939.txt b/24939.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e8ca7f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/24939.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1384 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2, 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, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 29, 2008 [EBook #24939] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NURSERY, AUG. 1873, VOL.XIV. NO.2 *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Music +by Linda Cantoni. + + + + + + + +THE + +NURSERY + +_A Monthly Magazine_ + +FOR YOUNGEST READERS. + +VOLUME XIV.--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: + STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY RAND, AVERY, & CO. + +[Illustration: CONTENTS.] + + +IN PROSE. + + PAGE. + + The Mother's Prayer 33 + + Coosie and Carrie 36 + + The Fourth of July Cake 38 + + How our School came to have the Nursery 42 + + Where the Dandelions went 43 + + The Bird's Nest 44 + + Meditations of a Shut-out One 46 + + Dreaming and Doing 48 + + Prairie Dogs 51 + + A Journey to California 55 + + A Letter to George 58 + + The Blackberry Frolic 60 + + +IN VERSE. + + PAGE. + + Charley's Opinion 35 + + Song of the Brook 41 + + Bobolink 50 + + Dear Little Mary 53 + + Little Jack Homer (_with music_) 64 + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration: THE MOTHER'S PRAYER.] + + + + +THE MOTHER'S PRAYER. + + +[Illustration: O]NCE there was a good mother whose chief prayer for her +little boy in his cradle was that he might have a loving heart. She did +not pray that he might be wise or rich or handsome or happy or learned, +or that others might love _him_, but only that _he_ might love. + +When that little boy, whose name was Edward, grew up, it seemed as if +his mother's prayer had been answered, and that, in making it, she had +been wiser than she knew or dreamed. + +She had not prayed that he might be _wise_; but somehow the love in his +heart seemed to make him wise, and to lead him to choose what is best, +and to remember all the good things he was taught. + +She had not prayed that he might be _rich_; but it turned out that he +was so anxious to help and serve others, that he found the only way to +do that was to get the _means_ of helping: and so he became diligent, +thrifty, and prompt in business, till at last he had the means he +sought. + +Edward's mother had not prayed that he might be _handsome_; but there +was so much love and good-will manifest in his face, that people loved +to look on it: and its expression made it handsome, for beauty attends +love like its shadow. + +The prayer had not been that he might be _happy_; but--dear me! how can +there be love in the heart without happiness? Edward had no time for +moping discontent, for revenge, or anger. He was too busy thinking what +he might do for others; and, in seeking _their_ happiness, he found _his +own_. + +But was he _learned_? Of course, when he found it pleased his parents +to have him attend to his studies, he did his best: and though there +were many boys quicker and apter than he, yet Edward generally caught up +with them at last; for love made him attentive and earnest. + +But last of all, though Edward loved others, did others love him? That +is the simplest question of all. You must first _give_ love if you would +_get_ it. Yes: everybody loved Edward, simply because he loved +everybody. And so I advise those little boys and girls who think they +are not loved, to put themselves the question, "But do you love?" + + EMILY CARTER. + + + + +CHARLEY'S OPINION. + + THE girls may have their dollies, + Made of china or of wax: + I prefer a little hammer, + And a paper full of tacks. + + There's such comfort in a chisel! + And such music in a file! + I wish that little pocket-saws + Would get to be the style! + + My kite may fly up in the tree; + My sled be stuck in mud; + And all my hopes of digging wells + Be nipped off in the bud: + + But with a little box of nails, + A gimlet and a screw, + I'm happier than any king: + I've work enough to do. + + ANNA E. TREAT. + + + + +COOSIE AND CARRIE. + + +COUSIN CHARLES said, "Come and see the sheep." So I went to where he was +standing on the front porch, and calling "Co-nan, co-nan, co-nan!" The +gate was open; and the sheep and lambs were coming into the yard. + +I asked, "Why do you tell John to drive the sheep into the yard?" +Charles answered, "Because it has been raining hard; and the brook in +the meadow has grown so big, that I am afraid the sheep will get drowned +in it. + +"Last year we found a sheep lying dead in the brook. Her two lambs were +standing near by, crying for her. We took them to the house, and fed +them with milk. We named them Coosie and Carrie. Mother can tell you +about them." + +Then I ran to auntie, and said, "Oh! tell me all about Coosie and +Carrie." So my aunt told me about them; and this is what she said:-- + + When the two little lambs were first brought + in, Mary, the cook, made a nice bed for them in + one corner of the kitchen. Then she put some + warm milk in a bottle, and took one of the + lambs up in her lap and fed it. Oh, how pleased + it was! And the other lamb stood by crying + until its turn came. + + The lambs soon grew fat and strong, and ran + about the yard. But they made themselves quite + at home in the house; and we could not keep + them out. + + One day I went into my room; and there were + Coosie and Carrie jumping up and down upon my + spring-bed. + + I sat down and laughed heartily; and the lambs + kept on jumping, and looked as if they were + trying to laugh too. But I could not have such + saucy lambs about the house any longer: so they + were driven to the meadow with the rest of the + flock. + +Auntie and I laughed again, to think of the lambs' frolic; and I said, +"O auntie! how I wish they would eat out of my hand now! Do you think +they will?" + +"I am afraid not," said she. "They have been with the flock a whole +year, and I suppose are no longer tame; but you can try. Take some +apples to them." + +So, with some apples in my hand, I went out, calling "Co-nan, co-nan!" +The sheep were afraid, and walked away, crying "Baa-a-ah;" and the +little lambs answered, "~Baa-a-ah.~" + +[Illustration] + +I followed slowly; and at last one sheep stood still. I went up close to +her, calling "Coosie, Carrie!" for I knew it must be one or the other. +She ate the apples out of my hand, and let me pat her head, and feel her +soft wool. + +The next time I went out with apples, two sheep came to my call. They +looked exactly alike to me; but Mary told me which was Coosie, and which +was Carrie. After that, they did not wait to be called, but came +running up as soon as they saw me. + +When the sheep were driven away into the meadow-lot again, I stood near +the gate to see them go. The old sheep walked along quietly; but the +lambs jumped and frisked about, and kicked up their heels in a very +funny way. The sheep called out "Baa-a-ah!" and the lambs answered, +"~Baa-a-ah!~" and sometimes it sounded like "~Maa-a-ah.~" + +Coosie and Carrie ran up, and licked my hand as I said good-by. Now, +were they not dear little pets? + + A. F. A. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE FOURTH OF JULY CAKE. + + +_Fred._--Oh! look here, Bessy and Maggy: come and see the splendid +Fourth of July cake that mother has made! + +_Bessy._--You must not touch it, Fred: mother will be displeased if you +touch it. + +_Fred._--I want to see if she has salted it well. Look at the currants +and the raisins! + +_Bessy._--And how nicely it is sugared and frosted! + +_Maggy._--Me see; me see! + +_Fred._--There! Maggy has put her whole hand in. What will mother say? + +_Bessy._--It will do no harm now for me to taste it. + +_Fred._--Isn't it nice? + +[Illustration] + +_Maggy._--Me want plum. + +_Bessy._--Maggy mustn't stick her hand in. She will spoil mamma's nice +cake. + +_Maggy._--Me want taste. You and Fred taste. + +_Fred._--Hark! I hear mother's step on the stairs. Now scatter, all +three! Lick your fingers clean, and run. + +_Bessy._--I wish we hadn't touched the cake. + + (_Enter_ MOTHER.) + +_Mother._--What's this? Who has been at my cake,--my cake that I took so +much pains to make handsome? + +_Bessy._--Fred wanted to see if it was properly salted. + +_Mother._--Here's the mark of Maggy's hand! And here's a deep hole which +Fred's naughty finger must have made! And here, Bessy, are your marks. +I'm ashamed of you all. Meddling with my nice cake without leave. + +_Bessy._--I'm very sorry I touched it, mother. + +_Fred._--So am I; but I wanted to see if it was well seasoned. + +_Mother._--Well seasoned, sir? You deserve to be well seasoned with a +rod. Now, your punishment shall be, not to taste a crumb of this nice +cake, any one of you. I shall give it to the poor family opposite. + +_Fred._--Hoo-oo-oo-oo! Oh, don't! + +_Maggy._--Don't, mamma; don't! + +_Bessy._--Such a beautiful cake! + +_Mother._--The cake shall be given to the poor; and you must be +contented with your bread and water. + +_Fred._--Forgive us this once, mother. Remember it's the Fourth of +July,--a day when we all want to be jolly. + +_Mother._--They who would be jolly, must begin by being good. The cake +goes to those who need it much more than we do. + + (_The children all cry._) + + ALFRED SELWYN. + +[Illustration] + + + + + +[Illustration: SONG OF THE BROOK] + + + WHAT was the song of the meadow brook, + As under the willows his way he took? + Wouldn't you like to know? + "Let me play a while as I will: + By and by I must turn the mill, + As farther down I go. + + "Daisies, hanging over my side, + Beautiful daisies, starry-eyed, + Kiss me for I must go! + But think of me as I turn the wheel, + Grinding the corn into powdery meal + And drifts of golden snow." + + A. D. W. + +[Illustration] + + + + +HOW OUR SCHOOL CAME TO HAVE THE NURSERY. + + +THERE are fifty little boys and girls who go to the Blank street Primary +School. Brown heads, black heads, yellow heads, all shades of heads, may +there be seen studying their A, B, C. Some are very pretty, and some are +very plain; but they are all good children. I think so, and I ought to +know; for I am their teacher. + +Well, they read and sing and spell; and some of the larger ones write a +little. But we all get tired of doing the same thing day after day; and +I felt that my little pupils needed a change. + +So, one day, I said to them, "If you will each of you learn a little +verse so as to say it very nicely, we will have a good time next +Saturday morning. There shall be no lessons,--nothing but speaking and +singing." + +Some of the little children looked as if they did not know what I +meant. But the older ones came to me, one after another, and said, +"Please find a piece for me to learn." + +So I undertook to find pieces for them all. I thought that was an easy +thing to do; but, when I came to try it, it proved to be a hard task. I +looked through all my books and papers, without finding much of any +thing to suit me. + +I was almost ready to give up the whole plan, when a bright little boy +handed me a book with a green cover, and said, "I think there are some +nice pieces in this." + +I took the book, and looked it through. First I looked at the pictures; +and they pleased me so well, that I turned back to the first page, and +began to read. The more I read, the better I liked it; and, before I got +to the end, I was delighted. + +"Why, Johnny," said I, "I thank you for bringing me this. It is the very +thing we want." + +I sent out at once, and bought twelve back numbers of "The Nursery;" +and, before Saturday morning came, each of the children had learned a +piece from them by heart. + +Since then "The Nursery" has been in regular use in our school; and we +depend upon having a new number every month. Every one of the children +wishes to be the owner of a copy: so I think we shall soon make up quite +a large club. + + E. H. + + + + +WHERE THE DANDELIONS WENT. + + +WHEN Willy was two years old, he lived in a red farmhouse with a yard in +front of it. The dandelions were very thick there; so that the yard +looked yellow, instead of green. + +One bright morning Willy's mamma put on his straw hat, and sent him out +in the yard to play. She knew the yard had a high fence; and he could +not open the gate; so he was safe. + +When it was time for him to have a nap, and mamma went to call him, she +noticed that a great many of the dandelions were gone. She wondered +where they were; but, as Willy could not talk much, she did not ask him +about them. + +A short time after, while Willy was asleep in his crib, his mamma went +out to draw some water. When the bucket came up full of water, the top +was all yellow with dandelions. Looking down into the well, she could +see no water at all, only dandelions. + +It was no wonder, then, where the blossoms had gone. Willy had been very +busy _trying to fill up the well_! + + L. W. GAY. + + + + +THE BIRD'S-NEST. + + +LAST summer little Josie, with her papa and mamma, went into the country +to spend a few weeks with her grandmother. Grandmother lives on a farm; +and Josie had many happy times, tumbling about in the hay, hunting hens' +eggs in the barn, and watching the birds and squirrels. + +One day her papa told her that he had found a bird's-nest in the +orchard, with some queer little birds in it. Of course, Josie was very +anxious to see it; but papa was too busy to go with her then: so mamma +said that she would go. + +Josie clapped her hands, and said, "Oh! you are a good mamma;" and they +started at once for the orchard. A pair of kingbirds had built a nest on +a low branch of an apple-tree; and in the nest were two little +baby-birdies. As soon as the old birds saw Josie and her mamma coming, +they began to scold, and fly about in great alarm. + +[Illustration] + +I guess the father-bird said, "Oh, dear! here come some giants; and, if +we are not very fierce, they will steal away our babies. So, +mother-bird, you just sit here on this cherry-tree, and scream, while I +stand ready on the apple-tree to fly at them if they come near our +nest." + +Josie and her mamma walked slowly along, not knowing how angry the +kingbirds were getting, until they came to the apple-tree. "Here is the +nest, Josie," said mamma; and they went close to the tree. But the +mother-bird began to scream, and fly about, and seemed to feel so badly, +that mamma said, "We will go away from the nest, Josie; for we are +making the old bird unhappy." But Josie said, "Oh! do let me take just +one peep at the little birdies. Do, mamma, hold me up to the nest just +once!" + +Now, all this time the father-bird had kept so still that they did not +know he was on the tree just above their heads; but, as soon as mamma +lifted Josie so that she might look into the nest, he flew straight down +at them, pecked at Josie's hands, pulled mamma's hair, and beat her face +with his wings. Josie was frightened, and began to cry; but mamma held +her close in her arms, and ran away from the tree as fast as she could. + +When they reached the gate, and stopped to rest, they heard the old +birds talking it over. I guess the father-bird said, "There! I've driven +those wicked thieves away. They'll never dare to come here again." And +the little birds began to cry, "Tweet, tweet!" And the mother-bird sat +down in the nest, and said, "There, darlings, just tuck your little +heads under my wings and go to sleep. No one shall harm my dear babies." + +Josie says, "I think they were real cross not to let a little girl just +_look_ at their babies." But I think they were brave birds to take such +good care of their little ones. What do you think about it, little +"Nursery" folks? + + JOSIE'S MAMMA. + + + + +MEDITATIONS OF A SHUT-OUT ONE. + + +WELL, now, do you call that good manners? My master shut the gate in my +face, as much as to say, "Stay where you are, Bob." Then he goes in to +dine and play chess with the parson, and leaves me here to watch and +wait. + +Three hours, I do believe, I have been here on the watch,--three long, +long hours. And there he sits yonder with the folks in the summer-house. +The roast meat seems to be deliciously done, if I may judge from the +odor. Just one little bone for me, if you please, good master mine. + +What do I see? He gives a bone to that scamp Fido; but for me, his +trusty one, who, year in and year out, have guarded yard and stable so +faithfully,--for me he has nothing, not even a mouthful! And here I sit +hungering and thirsting till my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. + +[Illustration] + +But stop! I hear a whistle. Yes, it comes from my master. And there +comes Betty with a whole plateful of bones in her hand! After all, there +isn't a master like mine in all the world. I knew he wouldn't forget old +Bob. Yes, here they come. Truly a patient waiter is no loser. Bow-wow! + + FROM THE GERMAN. + + + + +DREAMING AND DOING. + + +AMY was a dear good girl in many things; but she had one bad habit: she +was too apt to waste time in dreaming of doing, instead of doing. + +In the village where she lived, Mr. Thornton kept a small shop, where he +sold fruit of all kinds, including berries in their season. + +One day he said to Amy, "Would you like to make some money?" + +"Of course I would!" said Amy; "for my dear mother often has to deprive +herself of things she needs, so that she may buy shoes or clothes for +me." + +"Well, Amy, I noticed some fine ripe blackberries along by the stone +walls in Mr. Green's five-acre lot; and he said that I or anybody else +was welcome to them. Now, if you will pick the ripest and best, I will +pay you sixteen cents a quart for them." + +Amy was delighted at the thought, and ran home and got her basket, and +called her little dog Quilp, with the intention of going at once to pick +the blackberries. + +Then she thought she would like to find out, with the aid of her slate +and pencil, how much money she should make, if she were to pick five +quarts. She found she should make eighty cents,--almost enough to buy a +new calico dress. + +"But supposing I should pick a dozen quarts: how much should I earn +then?" So she stopped and figured that out. "Dear me! It would come to a +dollar and ninety-two cents!" + +Amy then wanted to know how much fifty, a hundred, two hundred, quarts +would give her; and then, how much she should get if she were to put +thirty-two dollars in the savings bank, and receive six per cent +interest on it. + +[Illustration: DREAMING AND DOING.] + +Quilp grew very impatient, but Amy did not heed his barking; and, when +she was at last ready to start, she found it was so near to dinner-time +that she must put off her enterprise till the afternoon. + +As soon as dinner was over, she took her basket, and hurried to the +five-acre lot; but a whole troop of boys from the public school were +there before her. It was Saturday afternoon. School did not keep; and +they were all out with their baskets. + +Amy soon found that all the large ripe berries had been gathered. Not +enough to make up a single quart could she find. The boys had swept the +bushes clean. All Amy's grand dreams of making a fortune by picking +blackberries were at an end. Slowly and sadly she made her way home, +recalling on the way the words of her teacher, who once said to her, +"One doer is better than a hundred dreamers." + + ANNA LIVINGSTON. + + + + +BOBOLINK. + + + BOBOLINK, Bobolink! + Are you tipsy with drink? + Or why do you swagger round so? + You've a nest in the grass + Somewhere near where I pass, + And fear I'll molest it, I know. + + Bobolink, Bobolink! + Do you think, do you think, + I'd trouble your dear little nest? + Oh! I would not do that; + For I am not a cat: + So please let your mind be at rest. + + NORTH ANDOVER, MASS. AUNT CLARA. + +[Illustration] + + + + +PRAIRIE-DOGS. + + +ANNIE and her baby-brother went to ride with their papa and mamma. They +crossed the river on a long bridge; and beyond it they saw horses and +cows feeding on the green prairie. + +"What are all these heaps of dirt for?" said Annie. + +"We are just entering 'dog-town,'" said her papa; "and those are the +houses of the inhabitants. Do you see the two little fellows sitting up +on that mound?" + +"Yes," said Annie; "but they look like little fat squirrels; don't they, +mamma?" + +Baby pointed his little chubby finger, and said, "Ish!" + +"They are prairie-dogs," said mamma; "but are sometimes called the +'wish-ton-wish' and 'prairie marmot,' and sometimes 'prairie marmot +squirrel.' It is like the marmot because it burrows in the ground, and +like the squirrel because it has cheek-pouches." + +"Well, what do they call them _dogs_ for?" said Annie. + +"Let us stop and watch them," said her papa. "Hark! do you hear them +bark?" + +"Yes: it is a little squeaking bark," said Annie. "It sounds like +'chip-chip-chip.'" + +"Now see," said her papa, "how funnily that little fellow sits up, with +his fore-paws hanging down, and watches us." + +Annie shook the whip; and the prairie-dog scampered into his hole. Up +he popped his head again in a moment, and jerked his short tail, and +barked. + +This seemed a signal for the whole town. On almost every mound appeared +two or three dogs; and they set up such a barking and jerking of tails, +that everybody in the wagon laughed and shouted. + +"Now we will ride up close to the mound," said papa, as he started up +old Fox, and sung a bit of the old song:-- + + "The prairie-dogs in dog-town + Will wag each little tail, + And think there's something coming + Riding on a rail." + +There were several bushels of dirt in the mound. In the centre of it was +the hole, which was very large at the entrance. The earth all around was +worn very smooth and hard. + +Here the little dogs sit and bark and jerk, ready to dodge into their +hole in a moment. They all looked fat and clumsy. Their color is +reddish-brown. Owls and rattlesnakes are often found living with them; +but Annie did not see any. + + MRS. O. HOWARD. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +DEAR LITTLE MARY. + + + DEAR little Mary, + Susan and Loo, + Jenny and Lizzie, + And Margaret too; + Now the sun's peeping, + Softly and sly, + In at the window, + Pets, where you lie! + + Up, up, my darlings, + Up and away! + Out to the meadows + Sweet with new hay; + + Out where the berries, + Dewy and red, + Hang in great clusters, + High overhead! + +[Illustration] + + Out where the golden-rod + Bends on its stalk, + And the wild roses + Gladden our walk; + Where amid bushes + Hidden but heard, + Joyous and grateful + Sings many a bird. + + Out where the waters, + Merry and sweet, + Ripple and tinkle + Close by your feet; + Where all things happy, + Fragrant, and fair, + In the bright morning + Welcome you there! + + MATHIAS BARB. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +A JOURNEY TO CALIFORNIA. + + +TWO little girls, Annette and Lisette, went to California with their +parents in 1849. There was no Pacific Railroad at that time; and the +journey across the plains was a long and a hard one. + +Annette and Lisette rode in the great wagon drawn by oxen. They thought +that fine fun. At night they slept in a tent. On pleasant days they +walked with their mamma for miles over the green prairies, plucking +wild-flowers as they went along. + +They saw great numbers of the funny little prairie-dogs sitting in the +doors of their cunning houses; sometimes they caught sight of an +antelope; and they often passed great herds of shaggy buffaloes. + +They liked the prairie-dogs and the antelopes; but they were afraid of +the buffaloes; and, when their papa went out to shoot one, they would +almost cry for fear he would get hurt. But, when he came back with +plenty of nice buffalo-meat, they had a real feast; for they had had no +meat but salt-pork for many a day, and they did not like that very well. + +Sometimes a storm would come up with fearful peals of thunder, and +flashes of lightning. More than once the tent was blown down, and the +rain came pouring on them; but the little girls put their heads under +the bed-clothes, and crept close to their mamma, and never minded the +storm. + +After travelling in this way three or four months, they were still many, +many days' journey away from California, and Annette and Lisette began +to wish themselves back in their old home; for now the plains were no +longer green and bright with flowers, but hot, sandy, and dusty, with +only ugly little bushes, called "sage-bushes," growing on them. + +Sometimes they would have to go all day without water; for the water was +so warm and impure, that nobody could drink it,--not even the cattle. +They saw several hot springs, so hot that they could not put their hands +in them; but their mamma found them very nice for washing clothes. + +Late in the fall they crossed the Sierra Nevada Mountains; and, oh! how +steep and narrow and rough the road was! Often their papa had to fasten +logs of wood to the wagons to keep them from going down the mountains +too fast. Sometimes a wagon would upset, and go rolling down hill. + +Yet the children enjoyed being in the mountains; for they liked to play +under the tall pine-trees, picking up the cones, and hunting for lumps +of pine-gum, and hearing all the time the sweet music of the wind as it +sang in the branches. + +But in a few days the weather got very cold. Heavy snow-storms came on. +One night twenty head of cattle were frozen to death; and as there were +few oxen left, and the flour was almost gone, the little girls began to +be very much afraid that they should perish too. + +Luckily their papa shot some fat deer, which gave them plenty to eat; +and, after many hardships, the whole party reached the Sacramento River +in safety. Here they got on board of a flat-boat, and went to Sacramento +City, where they lived in a tent for many months. I may some time tell +you how they went to the mines. + +A journey to California is a very easy matter now-a-days. You may go by +railroad all the way, and have every comfort by day and night. + +Annette and Lisette have made the journey more than once in a palace +car; but they often think of the times when they were two happy little +girls riding over the prairies in a baggage-wagon, or playing together +under the mountain pines. + + A. F. + + SALT-LAKE CITY, UTAH. + +[Illustration] + + + + +A LETTER TO GEORGE. + + +DEAR GEORGE,--I wish you were with me now on my farm. We are having nice +times. There is a little colt here that follows me all about. He does +this because I give him apples. But I think he is more fond of the +apples than of me. + +[Illustration] + +One day I had nothing to give him; and this made him feel very cross. He +put back his ears, and kicked up his heels, and scared the chickens +almost to death. + +[Illustration] + +There are ten little chickens. One of them was sick; but it has got +better. One of them was running along the other day, and caught his foot +in a string; the string caught on a bush, and held him fast; and there +he was standing on one leg and struggling until I pulled the string off. + +[Illustration] + +William and Jane are going down to Mr. Walker's to get a basket of +apples. Come and see me, and I will give you some; and you shall make +friends with the colt. + + W. O. C. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE BLACKBERRY FROLIC. + + +"WHY, where are you going, Nelly?" asked Martin Ray of his sister, as, +with a plate of pudding for him, she entered his chamber where he was +confined to his bed. + +Poor Martin had broken his leg by a fall from a tree, and he had to keep +very still. + +"We have made up a blackberry-party," said Nelly. "The girls and boys +are waiting for me at the door; and I can only stop a minute to say that +you must be good, and not fret while I am away." + +"Don't be late in returning home," said Martin; "for mother is going to +take me down stairs for the first time, this afternoon; and I want to +see you before I go up to bed." + +"All the sweetest berries I can find shall be saved for you," said +Nelly, as she tied the little scarf about her neck, put on her hat, and +kissed Martin for good-by. + +Nelly's companions were waiting impatiently for her at the door; and, +when she came, they raised a shout of "Here she is!" Then they set off, +through a shady lane, on their walk to Squire Atherton's woods, along +the borders of which the blackberries grew in great profusion. + +Soon they came to a place where a brook crossed between two fields, with +such a narrow plank for a bridge that some of the girls did not half +like going over it; for the brook seemed to be quite full and deep. + +"What a fuss you girls make about trifles!" cried Robert Wood. "Who but +a girl would think of being frightened at a bridge like this?" + +[Illustration] + +"Stop that, Robert," said Harry Thorp. "I will help them across in a way +that will prevent all danger." + +Harry plucked up a stout bulrush that grew near by, and held it out over +the plank to the girls to serve as a kind of support for them to hold +by. Susan Maples was the first to lay hold of the thick end of the +bulrush, by which Harry led her across. Then the other girls followed; +but, just as Nelly got on, Robert Wood shook the plank, and tried to +scare her. + +He did not succeed in this; for Nelly was thinking of her dear brother +at home with his broken leg, and she felt that she would not be afraid +of a much more dangerous crossing than that over the plank. + +After a walk of a mile, they came to the edge of the wood. "Jewels of +jet! Look here!" cried Harry Thorp. "See the bouncers! Here's sweetness! +Here's blackness! Here's richness!" + +[Illustration] + +And, true enough, there they were. Never were high-bush blackberries +finer or riper; but the largest and ripest seemed always the hardest to +get at. The boys cut hooked sticks, with which they pulled down the +branches; and their mouths were soon black with the juice of the +berries. Then the girls began filling their baskets. + +The sun was low in the west when Nelly remembered her promise to Martin, +and said, "Now for home!" to which the rest cried, "Agreed!" + +But the girls had not gone far before they began eating the berries from +their baskets, and offering them to one another,--all but Nelly Ray. She +did not eat any of her blackberries, nor did she give any away; and yet +she had the best basketful of all. + +She had, besides, a branch of a bush, with berries on it, which she was +carrying very carefully; so that she kept a few steps behind the other +girls. + +When Nelly reached home, she looked in at the open door, and saw Martin +down stairs for the first time since his accident. He was wrapped in +shawls; and Nelly said, as she put the full basket on his knees, and +waved the branch before his eyes, "Why, brother, they have wrapped you +up so, and your face is so pale, that you look like a girl." + +"Looks are nothing: behavior is all," said Martin, laughing. "Why, +Nelly, what a splendid feast we shall have! What big ones! Thank you, +dear, dear sister." + +As she heard those words, and saw his pleased looks, Nelly felt she was +well repaid for all her trouble. + + IDA FAY. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration: Music] + + + + + +LITTLE JACK HORNER. + + + Words by AUNT CLARA. Music by T. CRAMPTON, W. London. + + 1. Little Jack Horner, + He sat in the corner, + Crying for something to eat; + In came Mother Hubbard, + And went to the cupboard, + And bro't him a nice plate of meat. + Then little Jack Horner + Came out of the corner, + And threw his nice meat on the floor: + "I want some mince pie!" + Was the naughty boy's cry, + As he clung to the drawing-room door. + + 2 "I don't like cold lamb; + Give me raspberry-jam:" + But old Mother Hubbard said, "No! + If a boy cannot eat + Such nice, wholesome meat, + To bed without food he must go." + + 3 So little Jack Horner, + Who cried in the corner, + Was washed clean, and put into bed: + After sleeping all night, + He awoke fresh and bright, + And was glad to eat plain meat and bread. + + * * * * * + +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 nor a table of contents. This was taken from +the July issue with the "No." added. 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