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diff --git a/24941.txt b/24941.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c4d341a --- /dev/null +++ b/24941.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1414 @@ +Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, October 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 4, 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, October 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 4 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 29, 2008 [EBook #24941] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NURSERY, OCT. 1873, VOL.XIV NO.4 *** + + + + +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. + + Threading the Needle 97 + + The Butter Song 100 + + Our Pony 103 + + Nelly's Kitten 105 + + A Morning Ride 108 + + Perils of the Sea 112 + + In Honor of Rosa's Birthday 114 + + Walter's Disappointment 116 + + The Tide coming in 119 + + Letter to George 122 + + Peepy's Pet 124 + + +IN VERSE. + + PAGE. + + The Singing Mouse 101 + + A Funny Little Grandma 107 + + Old Trim 110 + + Our One-Year-Old 115 + + The Boasting Boy 117 + + Cakes and Pies 118 + + Sunrise 121 + + Song of the Monkey (_with music_) 128 + +[Illustration: THREADING THE NEEDLE.] + + + + +THREADING THE NEEDLE. + + +"[Illustration: W]HERE is Lucy all this while?" asked Mrs. Ludlow of +Anna, the maid. + +"I left her five minutes ago, trying to thread a needle," replied Anna. + +"She is a long while about it," said Mrs. Ludlow. "Send her to me." + +When Lucy entered the room, her mother asked her what she had been +about; and Lucy replied, "I have been teaching myself to thread a +needle." + +"But you have been a long time about it," said mother. + +"I will tell you why," continued Lucy. "When I went to walk with papa +yesterday, he saw me get over a stone-wall, which I did rather clumsily: +so he said, 'A thing that is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Let +me teach you how to get over a wall quickly and gracefully.'" + +"So he gave you a lesson in getting over walls, did he?" + +"Yes, mother: he kept me at it at least half an hour; and now I can get +over a wall as quickly and well as any boy." + +"But what has getting over walls to do with threading a needle?" + +"Only this: I thought I would apply papa's rule, and learn to do well +what I was trying to do. So I have been threading and unthreading the +needle, till now I can thread it easily." + +"You have done well to heed your father's advice," said Mrs. Ludlow. "If +you do not see the importance of it now, you will see it often in your +life as you grow older." + +It was not many months before Lucy comprehended how wise her father had +been in training his little girl. She was gathering violets in a field +one day, when she heard a trampling sound, and, looking round, saw a +fierce bull plunging and twisting himself about, and all the time +drawing nearer and nearer to her. Suddenly he made a rush towards her in +a straight line. + +Not far off was a high stone-wall. It would once have seemed to Lucy a +hopeless attempt to try to get over it before the bull could reach her; +but now she felt confident she could do it: and she did it bravely. +Confidence in her ability to do it kept off all fear; and she did not +even tremble. + +The bull came up, and roared lustily when he found she had escaped, and +was on the other side of the wall. But Lucy turned to him, and said, +"Keep your temper, old fellow! This child's father taught her how to get +over a stone-wall in double-quick time. You must learn to scale a wall +yourself, if you hope to catch _her_." + +"Boo-oo-oo!" roared the bull, prancing up and down, but not knowing how +to get over. + +"Why, what a sweet humor you are in to-day, sir!" said Lucy, walking +away, and arranging her bunch of violets for Cousin Susan as she went. + + IDA FAY. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE BUTTER SONG. + + +WHEN I was a little boy, I often helped my mother when she was making +butter. + +I liked to stand in the cool spring-house, and churn for a little while; +but I liked better to look out of the window, and watch the ducks +swimming in the creek, or the little shiners and sunfish darting back +and forth through the clear bright water. + +Sometimes I would forget all about my work, and stand watching the +insects, ducks, and fishes, until some one would call me, and tell me to +go to work again. + +One day I wanted to churn very fast; for my mother had told me that I +might take a swim in the creek when my work was done. + +So I sang a little song that our German girl Bertha had taught me. She +called it the "Butter Song;" and here it is:-- + + Come, butter, come! + Little Harry at the gate + For his buttered bread does wait: + Come, butter, come! + + Come, butter, come! + Fish for Lent, eggs for Easter, + Butter for all days, butter, come faster: + Come, butter, come! + +I thought then, as Bertha told me, that if I sang that song a hundred +and eleven times, and didn't stop churning once while singing it, the +butter would soon be made. I believe so yet; but I think now, that the +_steady work_ had more to do with it than the song had. + + S. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE SINGING MOUSE. + + + HAVE you ever heard of singing mice? There are + such creatures, you must know, or you will not + believe what my verses will tell you. Yes, + indeed: it was only the other day that I heard + of one that was kept in a little cage, like + those used for squirrels, and sang so + delightfully that her owner used to have her by + his bedside to charm him to sleep. She was a + wood-mouse. Wood-mice are the best singers. + Whether the one about which you shall hear came + from the woods or not, I cannot say; nor how + she happened to be in my friend C.'s house: but + there she certainly was; and this is the story + of what she did there. I call it, + + +SERENADE. + + A certain friend William I have, who's so nice, + He's charming to every one,--even to mice. + + You ask how I know it? Well, listen: I'll tell + Of something which proves it, that lately befell. + + One night, when young William was snugly in bed, + A very queer notion came into his head. + + He woke from his slumbers, quite sure that he heard + The musical warbling of some little bird. + + He listened a moment: all silent, and then + The sweet little songster was singing again. + + A lamp, dimly burning, gave light in the room: + Will raised his head softly, and peered through the gloom. + + The door was wide open; and there, on the sill + (It's true, on my word: let them doubt it who will), + + A mite of a mousie sat singing away + As sweetly as bobolink on a June day. + + Erect on her haunches, her head in the air; + That Pussy might catch her she seemed not to care, + + But sang till her sweet serenade was quite done; + Then ran away swiftly as mousie could run. + + Now, said I not truly, that Willy's so nice, + He's charming to every one,--even to mice? + + S. C. R. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +OUR PONY. + + +WE have a pony whose name is Duke. He was very skittish when we first +had him. There are four of us children who ride him,--Mamie, Winnie, +Arthur, and myself. We have another little sister, Florence; but she is +not old enough to ride, being only five years old. + +Winnie is a nice little rider. Duke was Mamie's birthday present. We +were all very much pleased when he came. We danced round him, and +clapped our hands. Mamma wanted to surprise us: so, while we were at +dinner, she had the pony brought up and put in the barn. + +After dinner we went out to play; and Winnie saw the whip and the +saddles, and then she suspected something. So she began looking around +in the stalls. There she found the pony, and then came running in to +mamma to ask if it was really ours. Mamma said, Yes. + +Then we were very much pleased, and said we would ride him. Winnie rode +him up to the house first; then Mamie wanted to ride, so she got on the +boys' saddle. Duke would not stand still for her; and, when she got on, +he went galloping down to the barn. Her hat flew off, and she was very +much frightened. She kept calling out, "Stop him!" but he would not stop +until he reached the barn. Duke was frightened too, because we shouted +at him. + +Mamie is thirteen, but is more afraid to ride than Winnie, who is only +seven. Mamie asks if boys always ride better than girls. I say, "No! +Look at Winnie." Once we tied Duke to the swing; and then he got his +nose pulled by getting the rope twisted round it. Sometimes we have a +good frolic with him in the pasture. He never kicks us. + +Mamie loves to feed Duke; but she wants Arthur to hold him carefully by +the bridle while she does it. As for Winnie, she loves to gallop over +the hills and far away. Sometimes she lets me ride behind her. Duke +seems to love the bold Winnie, and will do whatever she tells him to. + + TILDEN. + +[Illustration] + +[Illustration] + + + + +NELLY'S KITTEN. + + +NELLY'S kitten was the handsomest kitten that ever was. So her little +mistress thought. Nelly made a great pet of her, and brought her up with +great care; and, when she had become a well-grown cat, Nelly gave her +the name of "Pussy Gray." + +One morning while Nelly was being dressed, her sister told her there was +something nice down stairs, and asked her to guess what it was. "I guess +it's pickled limes," said Nelly; for she dearly loved pickled limes. But +her sister said "No."--"Then I guess it's kittens," said Nelly; and so +it was. + +Out in the back-room, in a barrel of shavings, were two little bunches +of fur; and, when Nelly took them out and put them on the floor, they +looked as though they were all legs and mouths. Their eyes were shut +tight, and their little pink mouths were wide open. + +But, in a week or two, the eyes came open, and the little kitties saw +their feet and tails for the first time. Then they stood upon their +feet, and played with their tails till they found their mother had one +that was bigger and longer; and then they played with their mother's +tail whenever she forgot to tuck it away and put her paw on it. + +The kittens were always in somebody's way. When Nelly's mamma sat down +in the big rocking-chair for a little rest, the first time she rocked +back, "Mew, mew, mew!" would be heard, and away would scamper a little +kit. + +When Nelly's sister walked across the room in the dark, she was sure to +hit her foot against a little soft ball, and "Oh, dear! there's one of +the kittens," she would say. + +If mamma went out to work in the kitchen, there would be a scampering +from under her feet; and the kittens would be right before her. If she +went to the closet to get any thing, she was sure to knock one of the +kits over as she came out. When she was making pies, something would +come up her dress; and, before she could stop it, there would be a +kitten on her shoulder ready to fall into the pie. + +One day, after mamma had stepped on kittens, and fallen over kittens, +till her patience was all gone, she said she believed she must have the +kittens drowned, they were so much in the way. Pussy Gray, their mother, +was in the room, and heard what was said. She at once went out of the +door, calling the kittens after her. + +That night they didn't come back, nor the next day, nor the next; and, +now that they were really gone, mamma began to feel badly. So she +searched all through the garden, calling "Kitty, kitty;" but though she +looked down the cellar-stairs, and under the back-doorsteps, and +everywhere she could think of, no kitten came. + + MATTIE. + +[Illustration] + + + + +A FUNNY LITTLE GRANDMA. + + + CRADLED on a rose-leaf + By her mother-miller, + In her tiny egg slept + Baby caterpillar, + + Till the sunbeams coaxed her + From her cradle cosey, + To her pretty chamber, + Velvet soft and rosy. + + Dew and honey drinking + As from fairy chalice, + A merry life she led + In that rosy palace. + + Till at length she wove a + Bed of cotton-down, + Where she slept to waken, + Dressed in satin brown. + + Once more in the sunshine, + Oh! how sweet to roam, + And on satin pinions + Seek her flowery home! + + She had joined the noble + Family of millers, + And last I heard was grandmamma + To six small caterpillars. + + CLARA BROUGHTON. + +[Illustration] + + + + +A MORNING RIDE. + + +MAUD is spending her vacation among the woods and mountains of Maine, +where she went with her father and mother about two weeks ago. + +One very pleasant morning papa said, "I think we had better take a ride +this morning." So Maud was called in to get ready; and Hannah, the good +white horse, was harnessed into the buggy. + +The buggy had but one seat: so mamma found a nice box, and folded her +shawl and put on it; and that made a good place for the little girl, +between her father and mother; and they all started on their ride. + +They went along a shady road near the river, and soon they saw some +geese. Several of them were swimming in the water, and one or two were +on the bank. One of these had a sort of frame around its neck, and was +standing on one leg. + +Maud said, "Why, see that poor goose! It has only one leg; and they have +put that frame on so it can walk better." But a few minutes after she +looked again, and the goose was standing very comfortably on both feet. +So it really had two, but had been curling up one of them quite out of +sight. + +[Illustration] + +After riding some time, they came to a ferry,--a place for crossing the +Androscoggin River; and papa drove through a pleasant field down to the +bank of the river. Here they saw a man cutting grass, and asked him +about the ferry-boat. He came up and took a horn that hung on a post, +and blew a blast, which the ferry-boy on the other side of the river +heard. + +When the boy heard it, he began to unfasten his boat, and pull it over; +and Maud and her father and mother waited, sitting in the buggy, until +the boy brought his boat close to the shore, so that they could drive on +to it easily. + +Then papa said, "Are you all ready?" and the boy answered, "Yes, sir;" +and Hannah walked on the boat and stood perfectly still, while the boy +kept pulling a strong rope, until he drew the boat, with the horse and +buggy and people, safely over to the other side. Then they drove up the +bank of the river, and came to a gate, which a little girl opened. + +[Illustration] + +Next they came to a very pleasant wood,--so pleasant that papa stopped +Hannah in the shade, and said she might rest a little; and mamma and +Maud got out of the buggy, and picked the young boxberry-leaves, and the +red berries, and pulled long vines of evergreen, and gathered moss. + +When papa thought it was time to go, he said, "All aboard!" and they got +in, and he drove on. They had not gone far when Maud asked if she might +drive. So papa handed her the reins; and Hannah seemed to go on just as +well as ever. + +After Maud had been driving a little while, her father said he thought +she had better give the reins to him. This she did, and they went to the +village, stopped at the post-office, and then drove swiftly home in +season for dinner. + + H. + + BETHEL, ME. + +[Illustration] + + + + +OLD TRIM. + + + HERE'S brave old Trim: I once with him + Was walking near the docks; + We heard a cry, both Trim and I,-- + The cry that always shocks. + + "Help! boat, ahoy! See, there's a boy: + Make haste, he's going down." + "There! watch him, Trim! in after him! + We must not let him drown." + + Through foam and splash Trim's quick eyes flash: + He strikes out to the place; + And round and round, with eager bound, + He watches for a trace. + + A little hand comes paddling up, + A face so wild and wan: + "Ah, Trim, he's there! Make haste, take care; + And save him if you can!" + + Oh! brave and bold, he seizes hold; + His teeth are firmly set: + Now bear him near; there is no fear: + The boy is breathing yet. + + "Bravo, good Trim!" They welcome him, + And clasp him round for joy; + Then homeward bear, with tender care, + The pale, half-conscious boy. + + O faithful Trim! "Would I sell him?" + Inquired a curious elf: + "What, sell," I cried, "a friend so tried! + I'd rather sell myself." + + GEO. BENNETT. + +[Illustration] + + + + +PERILS OF THE SEA. + + +EDWIN had a present of a ship, sent to him from England; and he named +it, after the giver, "The Uncle George." It was a splendid ship. It had +three masts, as a ship ought to have, and was rigged in complete style. + +One fine day last month, Edwin took his ship down to the Frog Pond on +Boston Common, and set her afloat. On the opposite side of the pond he +saw four boys sailing their boats, and a tall boy carrying a sloop, and +followed by his small brother. + +A sloop, you know, has but one mast. None of these boys had a ship with +three masts, like "The Uncle George." Edwin felt a little proud when he +saw his good ship catch the wind in her sails, and go plunging up and +down over the pond. + +But, dear me, think of the risks of ship-owners! Consider, too, that +Edwin's ship was not insured. What, then, was his dismay, when, as she +got into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (for so Edwin called the +pond), a flaw of wind threw her on her beam-ends, and sent her masts +down under water till she foundered, sank, and disappeared. + +There was a shout from the owners of vessels on the other side of the +Atlantic Ocean. "What a pity!" exclaimed the boy with a dog. + +"What's her name?" asked the tall boy. + +"The Uncle George!" shouted back Edwin. + +"Any insurance on her?" inquired a boy waving his hat. + +"What do you mean by insurance?" asked Edwin. + +"Go and look in your dictionary," said the boy with his hat off. + +Then the tall boy repeated these lines:-- + + "A land-breeze shook her shrouds, and she was overset; + Down went 'The Royal George' with all her crew complete." + +[Illustration: PERILS OF THE SEA.] + +Edwin was half disposed to cry; but then he thought that crying was no +way to get out of trouble. He took a survey of the Atlantic Ocean, and +wondered how deep it was where his ship wend down. + +Then taking off his shoes and stockings, and rolling up his pantaloons, +he waded in, and succeeded, with the aid of a long stick, in saving "The +Uncle George." + +"Hurrah! Well done, little one!" shouted a boy on the other side. The +tall boy again launched into poetry, and cried out,-- + + "Weigh the vessel up, once dreaded by our foes! + Her timbers yet are sound; and she may float again, + Full charged with England's thunder, and plough the distant main." + + ALFRED SELWYN. + + + + +IN HONOR OF ROSA'S BIRTHDAY + + +[Illustration] + +_Charles._--Am I right madam? is not this Miss Rosa's birthday? + +_Mary._--Yes, sir. My little girl is two years old to-day. + +_Charles._--So I understood; and I have brought her a birthday present. +Here it is,--the largest rose I could find in all the land. Do me the +honor to accept it. + +_Mary._--With pleasure, sir, I accept it for Rosa; but, if I may trust +my eyes, this is a sunflower, not a rose. + +_Charles._--Excuse me madam, in Doll-land they told me it was a rose. + +_Mary._--Ah! they sometimes forget names in Doll-land. I am obliged to +you, sir, all the same. You are very polite. + +_Charles._--I ought to be polite, madam; for my sister Helen goes to +dancing-school. I will bid you good-morning, madam. + +_Mary._--Good-morning, sir. Call again some fine day. + +_Charles._--I shall call without waiting for a fine day, madam. It is +always a fine day when I am with you. + +[Illustration] + + + + +OUR ONE-YEAR-OLD. + + + ALL the people love her, + For she is our darling; + Good and sweet and bright is she, + Never cross nor snarling. + + Bob, the savage bull-dog, + Lamb-like waits upon her; + Hens and geese and turtle-doves + Come to do her honor. + + "Bless her!" says the raven, + "Oh! you cannot match her;" + Swallows fly about her head, + Kittens do not scratch her. + + For she is so gentle, + All the folks obey her; + Even little tom-tit comes + His respects to pay her. + + FROM THE GERMAN. + +[Illustration] + + + + +WALTER'S DISAPPOINTMENT. + + +"HERE is the last white rose in my garden," said Laura to her brother +Walter; "and you shall have it if you will be a good boy." + +"I don't want a white rose," said Walter; "and, if I can't go with Jim +Bacon and the other fellows on the pond, I'll not be a good boy: I'll +make myself as disagreeable as I can." + +"Why, Walter, what a threat!" said Laura, laughing; "but you are a good +deal like the minister's dog Bunkum, who barks terribly, but never +bites." + +"See what I get for being a good boy!" replied Walter. "The first time a +chance for a little fun comes along, then it's, 'O Walter! you and the +other boys are too young to be trusted alone on the water.'" + +Hardly had Walter given utterance to these words, when there were cries +from the roadside near by; and men and women were seen running towards +the pond. What could be the matter? + +It soon was made known what the matter was. The little fellows in the +boat had upset it; and five of them were floundering about in the water. +Fortunately no life was lost. All were saved, but not until all were wet +through to the skin. + +"Now, Walter," said Laura, "are you going to fret, and make yourself +disagreeable, because you did not get a ducking with the other boys?" + +"Sister," said Walter, with a smile, "I think I will accept that +beautiful white rose you offered me just now." + + DORA BURNSIDE. + + + + +THE BOASTING BOY. + + + I KNEW a boy in our town, whose name was Billy Hood: + He had a sword all made of tin, a musket made of wood. + His drum would always let you know when Billy Hood was coming; + For all the neighbors used to say, "I wish he'd stop that drumming." + + Now, very brave this Billy was,--at least, so Billy thought; + And he was not afraid,--not he,--of any thing that fought. + "With this good sword and gun," said he, "I'll fight until I die: + Let man or beast come on! Who fears? Not Billy Hood! Not I!" + + But ah! one day this Billy went where six old geese were straying, + And on his noisy drum began somewhat too loudly playing: + An old goose chased him from the field; and Billy, screaming, ran, + Till on the kitchen floor he sank,--that valiant little man! + + UNCLE CHARLES. + +[Illustration] + + + + +CAKES AND PIES. + + + IN the dough! In the dough! + This is the way we make it go: + Roll it, roll it, smooth and thin; + Pound it with the rolling-pin; + Cut with thimbles, and it makes + Just the nicest dolly cakes. + + Dolly, now, must have a pie: + We will make it, you and I. + Here's a cunning little tin! + Roll and roll the pie-crust thin; + Spread it smoothly now within; + Lay some bits of apple in, + Cover nicely; let it bake: + That's the way our pies we make. + + Dolly may not eat it all; + Then, if playmates chance to call, + We will give them a surprise + With our little cakes and pies. + All we make is good to eat; + For our hands are clean and sweet; + And we have such handy ways. + Our dear mother often says, + That she thinks, by all the looks, + We shall soon be famous cooks. + + EMEROY HAYWARD. + +[Illustration] + + + + +THE TIDE COMING IN. + + +JULIA and Rose were on a visit to their uncle, who lived near the +seaside. They came from Ohio, and did not know about the ebb and flow of +the tide of the ocean. They ran down on the sandy beach, and seated +themselves on a rock. + +Their cousin Rodney was not far off, engaged in fishing for perch. All +at once there was a loud cry from Julia, the elder of the two sisters. +The water had crept up all round the rock on which they sat, thus +forming an island of it; and they did not know what to make of it. + +"The water has changed its place," shouted Rose. + +Rodney was alarmed, and began to blame himself for neglecting, in his +eagerness to catch a few fish, the little girls under his charge. + +He took off his shoes and stockings, rolled up his pantaloons, and ran +into the water over the sandy bottom to the rock. Taking Rose in his +arms, he told Julia to follow. + +"But I shall wet my nice boots," said Julia. + +"Then, wait on the rock," said Rodney, "while I carry Rose, and set her +down on dry land. I will then come for you, and carry you pickback to +the shore." + +"No, Cousin Rodney," said Julia: "I think I will not ride pickback. I +should be too heavy a load. I must not mind wetting my boots and +stockings." + +"Then, place your hand on my shoulder, and come along," said Rodney. +"The tide is gaming on us very fast." + +"I don't know what you mean by the tide," said Julia. + +"Why, cousin," said Rodney, "you must know that the tides are the rise +and fall of the waters of the ocean. It will be high tide an hour from +now; then the water will cover all these rocks you see around us. After +that, the water will sink and go back till we can see the rocks again, +and walk a long way on the sand; then it will be low tide. But we must +not stay here talking: the water will soon be too deep for us." + +So Rodney took Rose in his arms, and Julia placed her left hand on his +right shoulder; and in this way they went through the water to the dry +part of the beach. + +"We must look out for this sly tide the next time," said little Rose as +she ran to tell papa of their adventure. + + UNCLE CHARLES. + +[Illustration] + + + + +SUNRISE. + + + COME and see the sunrise, + Children, come and see; + Wake from slumber early, + Wake, and come with me. + Where the high rock towers, + We will take our stand, + And behold the sunshine + Kindling all the land. + + You shall hear the birdies + Sing their morning lay; + You shall feel the freshness + Of the new-born day; + You shall see the flowers + Opening to the beams, + Flooding all the tree-tops, + Flashing on the streams. + + EMILY CARTER. + + + + +LETTER TO GEORGE.--No. 2. + + +DEAR GEORGE,--When I sat by the door last evening, a great toad hopped +up on the door-step. A bug flew along, and he caught it. He looks very +ugly; but he will not hurt you. + +[Illustration] + +The dog Prince sits and watches the little new chickens every day. I +suppose he wonders what they are. He knows it is wrong to touch them, +because I have told him so. + +[Illustration] + +But he thought he would like to just smell of one: so he put his nose +close to the little soft bunch, and smelt of it. But the chicken's +mother put her head out of the coop, and pecked him so that he cried. + +[Illustration] + +Prince found a bone, and hid it in the ground. But he was afraid the pig +would find it: so he dug it up, and carried it behind the wagon, in the +wagon-house. + +[Illustration] + +The colt is very cunning; but he is naughty. One day the clothes were +hung out on the line to dry. The colt got in the yard, and tore the +clothes all in pieces with his teeth. He ought to know better. + + W. O. C. + +[Illustration] + + + + +PEEPY'S PET. + + +THERE was a little girl who was called Peepy; but why she was called so +I do not know: perhaps it was because, when a baby, she used to peep +from behind a curtain or a door, and cry, "Peep-O!" + +She was a good little girl; but, when she was five years old, her mother +had to go to Europe for her health, and Peepy was sent to board in the +family of a farmer whose name was Miller. + +One day Mr. Miller made her a present of a bright silver quarter of a +dollar. Peepy had been taught to sew by Susan Miller; and so Peepy put +her work-box on a chair in her little room, and sat down and made a +little bag in which to keep the bright silver coin. + +Then she took a walk near the grove, and saw two boys who had caught a +robin, and were playing with it. They had tied a string to its legs; +and, when the poor bird tried to fly away, they pulled it back again, +and laughed at its struggles. + +[Illustration] + +At last the little robin was so tired and frightened, that it lay on the +ground, panting, with its feathers ruffled, and its beak wide open, and +its eyes half closed. It seemed ready to die. Then the rude, cruel boys +pulled the string to make it fly again. + +"Please don't be so cruel," said little Peepy. "How can you be so +cruel?" And she ran to the poor bird, and took it up very gently. + +"You let our bird alone!" one of the boys cried out. But Peepy still +held it, and was ready to cry when she felt its little heart beating +with fear. + +"Do give it to me, please," said Peepy. "I will thank you for it very +much." But the boys laughed at her, and told her roughly to let the bird +alone. "We caught the bird, and the bird is ours," said one of them. + +"Will you sell me the bird?" asked Peepy, taking her bright quarter of a +dollar out of its bag, and offering it. + +[Illustration] + +"Ah! now you talk sensibly," said the larger of the boys. "Yes: we'll +sell it." + +So Peepy parted with her money, but kept the precious bird. The boys ran +off, knowing they had done a mean thing, and fearing some man might come +along, and inquire into it. + +Peepy took the bird home; and Mrs. Miller told her she had done right, +and helped her to mend an old cage into which they could put the poor +little bruised bird. Soon it took food from their hands, and grew quite +tame. + +Peepy named it Bella, and kept it in her chamber where she could hear it +sing. Bella loved Peepy, and would fly about the room, and light on her +head, and play with her curls. + +But as summer came on, and the weather grew warm and pleasant, Peepy +thought to herself, "Bella loves me, and is grateful for all my care; +but liberty is as sweet to birds as to little girls. I will not +selfishly keep this bird in prison. I will take it into the grove, and +set it free." + +[Illustration] + +So Peepy took it into the grove, and set it free; and Bella lighted on a +bough, and sang the sweetest song you ever heard. It then flew singing +round Peepy's head, as if to say, "Thank you! thank you a thousand +times, you dear little girl!" If Bella's song could have been translated +into words, I think they would have been these:-- + + "Darling little Peepy, + When you're sad or sleepy, + I will come and sing you a merry, merry song: + So do not be grieving + At this tender leaving; + I shall not forget you, dear, for Oh! love is strong." + +Peepy went home rather sad with her empty cage. But what was her joy the +next day, to see Bella on the window-sill! She opened the window, Bella +flew in, and they had a nice frolic. Then, when the dinner-bell rang, +the little bird flew off. Peepy was happy to think it had not forgotten +her. + + IDA FAY. + +[Illustration: Song of the Monkey] + + + + +SONG OF THE MONKEY. + +[Illustration: Music] + + Words by MARIAN DOUGLAS. Music by T. CRAMPTON. + + My master grinds an organ, + And holds me by a chain; + And when the money I pick up, + You laugh and shout again; + But though I dance and caper, + Still I feel at heart forlorn + I wish I were in monkey-land, + The place where I was born; + I wish I were in monkey-land, + The place where I was born. + + 2 There cocoanuts are growing + Around the palm-tree's crown: + I used to climb and pick them off, + And hear them--crack!--come down. + There all day long the purple figs + Are falling, I declare: + How pleasant 'tis in monkey-land! + Oh, would that I were there! + + 3 On some tall tree's top branches + The fleecy clouds would sail + Just over me: I wish that I + Were swinging by my tail! + I'd swing and swing so merrily, + How happy I would be! + But oh! a travelling monkey's life + Is very hard for me. + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Notes: + +Obvious punctuation errors repaired. + +This issue was part of an omnibus. 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