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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/28318-8.txt b/28318-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5d347a --- /dev/null +++ b/28318-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2538 @@ +Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880, 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: Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 + An Illustrated Weekly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 13, 2009 [EBook #28318] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JAN 27, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S + +YOUNG PEOPLE + +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + + * * * * * + +VOL. I.--No. 13. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, January 27, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: "'I'LL YOUR PARTNER BE,' SAID SHE."--DRAWN BY SOL +EYTINGE, JUN.] + +THE DANCE IN THE KITCHEN. + + + Oh, that winter afternoon, + Such a merry, merry tune + As the jolly, fat tea-kettle chose its singing to begin! + 'Twas a lilting Scottish air, + And it seemed, I do declare, + As though bagpipe played by fairy was forever joining in. + + Then the bagpipe ceased to play, + And another tune straightway + Sang the kettle, louder, louder, till its voice grew very big; + And the feet of laughing girls + (Girls with shamrock in their curls) + You could almost hear a-keeping time to that old Irish jig. + + Darling, smiling, cunning Bess + Grasped with tiny hands her dress, + And a pretty courtesy making, while the kettle made a bow, + "I'll your partner be," said she; + "Forward, backward, one, two, three;" + And pussy cried, "Bravo! my dears," in one immense me-ow. + + And they danced right merrily + Till 'twas nearly time for tea, + The kettle tilting this way and then that way--oh, what fun! + And its hat bobbed up and down + On its moist and steamy crown, + With a clatter falling off at last, and then the dance was done. + + + + +THE OLD MAN OF MONTROSE. + + + There was an old man of Montrose + Who had a remarkable nose, + So long and so thin, + And so far from his chin, + 'Twas always in danger of blows. + + One day the old man of Montrose + Went out without muffling his nose; + And it grieves me to tell + That this organ of smell + As stiff as an icicle froze. + + Soon after, in sneezing, "_ker-choo_," + His nose into smithereens flew, + And left but a stump, + A ridiculous lump, + That even in summer looked blue. + + The frost-bitten man of Montrose + Used words that were equal to blows; + And so great his disgrace, + He soon quitted the place, + And where he has gone no one knows. + + + + +"THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE." + + +In the small but strongly fortified town of Saar-Louis, on what was then +the borders of France, in Rhenish Prussia, there was born, a little more +than a hundred years ago, a child whose future intrepid career earned +for him the title of "the bravest of the brave." His father's trade was +nothing more warlike than that of a cooper; his home life and training +were not different from those of many of his playmates; and yet before +he was sixteen years old he had entered a regiment of hussars, or light +cavalry, and before he was thirty had attained the high rank of general +of division. + +But those were warlike days; the French Revolution had just begun; all +Europe was echoing with the clash and tread of such armies as the world +had never before seen; and living as he did in the shadow of +fortifications constructed by France's greatest military engineer, +Vauban, it is not so strange that the youth became filled with an +intense desire to taste the glory and share the danger of a soldier's +life. + +Michael Ney, Marshal of France, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskwa--for +by all these titles, commemorative of some one or other of his numerous +victories, was he known--early rose in the confidence and estimation of +the great Napoleon, and was by him intrusted with the most responsible +commands in Switzerland, Prussia, Austria, and Spain; and it was not +until he met Wellington at Torres Vedras, in the Peninsula, that he met +his superior in the art of war; and even then, by a happy mixture of +courage and skill, Ney was enabled to mitigate to a great extent the +bitterness of defeat. But to relate his whole career would be to fill a +volume, so we will only consider one or two incidents in his life. + +In 1810, Ney took an active part in the invasion of Russia, and by his +address and energy contributed largely to the French victory at the +battle of the Moskwa, called by the Russians the battle of Borodino. + +When the Russian Bear turned upon the invader, and the ever-memorable +retreat commenced, with all its attendant horrors of cold, hunger, and +physical pain, to Ney was assigned the honorable but arduous task of +protecting the rear of the fleeing troops. At the start Ney's force +numbered 7000 men, and on leaving Smolensk he found himself confronted +by an army four times as large. + +He was summoned to surrender before commencing the attack, and his +characteristic reply, "A Marshal of France never surrenders," has passed +into history, though it must be confessed that, in the light of recent +events, history does not always bear out the assertion. Repeatedly +driven back with awful loss, Ney determined to outwit the enemy; so, +under cover of darkness, he and his troops made a wide circuit, and +reached the bank of the river Dnieper far in advance of the pursuers. + +But here a new foe confronted the gallant Marshal. How should he cross +the stream? He had no boats, and although the weather was intensely +cold, the rapid current was covered only by a thin coating of ice that +bent beneath the weight of a single man. However, to deliberate was to +be lost; so, dividing his forces into small companies, he caused the +advance to be sounded, himself stepping first upon the glassy surface. + +What a subject for a painter is here presented!--the frozen snowy +landscape; the bare skeleton trees; the broad serpentine course of the +frost-bound river, with here and there patches of open water showing +darkly against the snow-covered ice; the scattered groups of soldiers +treading carefully, and with the possibility before them that at the +next step the treacherous floor might precipitate them into an icy +grave. + +But the hazardous passage was safely effected, and after a series of +conflicts with forces in every case far superior to his own, Ney +succeeded in rejoining the Emperor at Orsha, where he was received with +open arms, and hailed as "the bravest of the brave"--a name which clung +to him from that time. + +After Napoleon left the army, Ney still continued to fight in the rear +against the ever-increasing hordes of Russians that harassed the flanks +of the fugitive army. Three times was the rear-guard that he commanded +melted away by death, captivity, or flight, and as often was it +reorganized by the indomitable Marshal who "never surrendered." + +At last, with a poor remnant of only thirty men, Ney defended the gate +of the town of Kovno--the last place in the Russian dominions through +which the French retreated--against the pursuers, while the main body +escaped through the gate at the other end of the town. He was himself +the very last man to retire. Snatching a pistol from one of his men, he +fired the last shot in the faces of the Russians, flung the weapon into +the river Niemen, plunged in after it, and amid a storm of bullets swam +the stream, and gained the neighboring forest, successfully eluded his +pursuers, and joined his comrades, who had mourned him as dead, in the +Prussian territory. + +Ney's end was as unfortunate as it was unworthy so brave a soldier. When +Napoleon was banished to Elba, Ney, who had previously incurred his +displeasure, gave his allegiance to the restored Bourbons, and when the +great Emperor re-appeared in France, Ney was placed in command of the +army sent to oppose him, promising his new superiors to bring back +Napoleon "like a wild beast in a cage." + +There is no reason to doubt Ney's sincerity in this unhappy episode of +his career. He was of a brave, impulsive disposition, one accustomed to +act on the spur of the moment; so, when he drew near to the Emperor, and +found that the men he commanded, nearly all of whom had fought at some +time or other under the Emperor, were fixed in a resolve not to fight +against Napoleon, it is not so much to be wondered at that Ney became +Napoleonist with as much ardor as ever. And when Napoleon called on him +by his old title, "the bravest of the brave," to once more rally under +his standard, Ney responded with alacrity, as though the name possessed +a magic spell he could not resist. + +After Waterloo, when all that pertained to the cause of the dethroned +Emperor was irretrievably lost, Ney was brought to trial by the +re-restored Bourbons on the charge of treason, and was condemned to be +shot on December 7, 1815. He met death with that same unflinching +bravery which he so many times displayed, during his eventful career, +on most of the great battle-fields of Europe. + +On December 7, 1853, exactly thirty-eight years after his death, a +statue was raised to the memory of the intrepid Marshal on the precise +spot on which his execution occurred. + + + + +[Begun in No. 11 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, January 13.] + +LADY PRIMROSE. + +BY FLETCHER READE. + + +CHAPTER III. + + "A primrose by the river's brim + A yellow primrose was to him, + And it was nothing more." + +"Princess Bébè! Princess Bébè! Princess Bébè!" + +It was the little gate-keeper, running at the top of his speed, and +shouting at the top of his voice. + +Very much heated and very red in the face was the little man as he stood +before the princess, holding out to her a loaf of bread almost as large +as himself. + +"This is for you," he said, in a choked voice, for he had run so far and +so fast that he could hardly speak at all. "The wise old woman of +Hollowbush sent it. Now eat, eat. Let me see what it is like--let me see +how you do it." + +While the princess ate her loaf of bread with more eagerness than any +member of royalty ever displayed before or since, the gate-keeper +watched her with wondering eyes. + +"Well, I never saw anything like that before," he said at length. "And +you go through that remarkable performance every day! Every day!" he +repeated, in a tone of the most intense astonishment. + +"But where did you find it?" asked the princess, who was more interested +in the bread than in the gate-keeper. + +"Find it!" he exclaimed. "I didn't find it. That wise old woman of +Hollowbush, who has discovered the secret of the three knocks, knocked +on the wall, and when I had opened the door, she thrust it in, saying +she would bring you a fresh loaf every day." + +"Then she has not quite forgotten me," sighed the princess, thinking of +her last conversation with this same wise old lady. "But does she know +that I must stay here the rest of my life?" + +"Oh yes," answered the gate-keeper, shaking his head, and looking very +wise. "That is--there is a secret--did it never occur to you, my dear +princess," he added, suddenly, "that there might be a way of making your +escape?" + +"Oh, you dear delicious little gate-keeper!" exclaimed the princess, +seizing him in her arms, and tossing him up and down. "I see how it is: +you will let me out--you will do it. Oh, I am sure you will!" + +"Not so fast, my dear," said the little man, struggling to free himself. +"Put me down, and I will tell you all about it. But first of all you +must promise to keep the whole matter a profound secret: if you should +tell any one, the plan would fail." + +"Oh, I can keep a secret," said the princess, smiling, and beginning to +feel quite happy again. + +"Well, then," said the gate-keeper, seating himself by the +fountain--which was not a fountain at all, but only an imitation very +skillfully done in aquamarine--"you are to stay here a year. Then, when +the spring comes you are to be changed into a primrose, if you will +consent to it, and grow up out of the ground like other flowers. Hidden +deep within the woods, you must wait patiently, through sunshine and +rain, till some one finds you, and breaks you from the stem. Whoever he +may be, rich or poor, young or old, if he loves the flower well enough +to take it home, and place it carefully in a vase of water, he will have +the power of transforming it into a mortal, and you will be restored to +your home in a world where the sun shines and where flowers grow." + +"Dear! dear!" said the princess, "I suppose I must consent, if that is +the only way of making my escape. But what if no one comes into the +woods, and what if no one cares enough for the primrose to pick it?" + +"Then it will wither on its stem, and you must come back to us, and be +the Princess Bébè for another year." + +The trial which was proposed to her seemed a very hard one, and the year +which followed seemed very long. If it had not been for the kindness of +the gate-keeper, who amused her by showing her all the curiosities which +the kingdom of the mineral-workers contained, and explaining how the +gems were cleaned and polished and cut, I am afraid the poor Princess +Bébè would have died of homesickness long before spring. But at last the +year came to an end, as all years must, and she started on her journey +into the upper world. + +Day after day she struggled through the earth, pushing her roots deep +down into the soil, and stretching her slender leaf-like arms up into +the sunlight. The dew came and kissed the little flower-bud with sweet +moist lips, the sunshine warmed it, and the south wind sang to it, until +at last a yellow primrose opened its eyes in the dark woods. + +Day after day it lived there, trembling at the sound of every footstep, +and wishing and praying deep down in its flower-heart for a friend. + +June days had never seemed so long as these, for, despite her prayers, +no one came, and the lonely primrose grew faint and weary with +disappointment. + +At last, however, a party of children playing in the woods caught sight +of her bright face, and one of them--a merry, rosy-cheeked boy--broke +the flower from its stem. He held it up to his companions, and they ran +laughing after him. + +"Oh, it's nothing but a yellow primrose," he said, as they tried to +snatch the flower from his hand; and with these words he threw it away. + +So it was all in vain that the little flower had lived and died, for the +next day the Princess Bébè found herself back in the kingdom of the +mineral-workers. + +Her diamond necklace was just as beautiful as ever; her opal bed seemed +all alive with trembling colors, soft white and flashing crimson; and +the king welcomed her right royally, without a word of reproach for her +long absence. + +But for all that, her heart grew heavier every day. Even the attentions +of the gate-keeper became tiresome; and when he tried to make her laugh +with his merry ways, she could only smile sadly, and say, "Oh, it was +such a disappointment to be picked, and then thrown away." + +"Never mind--never mind," he would answer, cheerily: "better luck next +time." And so the days dragged slowly by until another spring. + +Then the princess began to hope once more; and when she found herself +actually lifting her head into the sunlight, and felt the soft air blow +over her, she wondered how she could ever have believed for a moment +that anything was better or more beautiful than the deep blue sky above +one, and the green earth beneath. + +Contented and happy, she waited patiently through wind and rain, until +it seemed as if her patience were to be rewarded. + +A young man on a jet-black horse came riding through the woods. His face +was bright and handsome, and he looked out upon the world with as merry +a pair of eyes as you would care to see. + +"Oh, if he would only take me home!" thought the flower. "I should like +to be rescued by such a handsome youth as he." And in spite of her +yellow primrose face, the little flower actually blushed. + +"What a bright little flower!" said the young man, as he rode along. +"If it were not so much trouble getting off my horse, I would carry it +home to Marjorie. But it's only a commonplace little primrose after +all," he added, and so rode on. + +That night the little flower cried itself to sleep among the shadows, +and before morning it had withered on its stem. + +"I will never make the attempt again," said the Princess Bébè, when she +found herself once more in the kingdom of the mineral-workers. + +[Illustration: THE PRINCESS BÉBÈ AND ALECK.] + +"Oh yes, you will," said the gate-keeper, who had come forward to meet +her. "If life is worth having, it is worth struggling for. Next year I +shall send you up for your trial, whether you consent or not." + +"If that is the case, I suppose I may as well consent at once," said the +princess, and so yielded the point. + +And when the long, long days of another year had come and gone, she left +the kingdom of the mineral-workers for the third time. For the third +time she struggled through the ground, lifting up her head among the +blue-eyed violets and slender waving grasses. + +She shook out her petals in the sunlight, and smiled as sweetly as a +primrose can smile; but the spring days went by, and the summer was +almost over, before any one took any notice of her. + +The poor little primrose was almost ready to die of despair, when one +day, looking up quite suddenly, she saw the face of an old man bending +over her. + +He had gray hair and kind gray eyes; and as he looked at the flower he +smiled tenderly, as if he were looking at something that he loved. + +The flower smiled in turn, but could not speak. + +"You must go home with me, little primrose," said the old man, stooping +over the flower. + +The fact that this gray-haired, gray-eyed old man was a poet will +account, perhaps, for his talking to a flower as if it could understand +what he said. At all events, he broke it from the stem, and when he +reached his home placed it in a glass of water, saying, + +"There you must stay, my little flower, until I can write a poem worthy +of your bright face." + +No sooner had he uttered these words than he saw standing before him a +young girl with golden hair and softly shining eyes. + +"Bless me! bless me!" exclaimed the old man, in great surprise, taking +off the spectacles which he had so carefully adjusted across his nose, +"where did you come from, my lady?" + +"I came from the flower," she said; and she threw her arms round his +neck and kissed him on the lips. + +She was so delighted at her escape that she was not wholly responsible +for her actions; and if she cried a little, I don't think any one will +blame her. + +Laughing and crying at the same time, and half wild with excitement, she +told her new friend the story of her life for the past few years; and +he, in his turn, smiled and wept a little, perhaps, and then he kissed +her on the lips, and said, + +"Henceforth, my dear girl, you shall be known as the Lady Primrose, and +you shall stay with me as long as you will." + +Whether or no he ever wrote a poem about her I can not tell. All I know +is that she lived with him for the rest of her life, and was the +sweetest and happiest Lady Primrose imaginable. + +The house was as full of flowers as it could hold, and when the wise old +woman of Hollowbush, who, you may be sure, had not forgotten her, asked +her if she did not want another diamond necklace, Lady Primrose would +answer: + +"I don't care if I never see another diamond. The simplest flowers that +grow in the woods are the loveliest jewels God ever made, and so long as +I can have them, the lifeless flowers of the underground world may bloom +for those who do not know of how little value the jewels they prize so +highly really are." + +THE END. + + + + +EIGHTY YEARS OF A BIRD'S LIFE. + +BY MRS. AMELIA E. BARR. + + +You must understand, my dear young readers, that the Raven of this tale +is not at all an ordinary bird. It is true, he could not sing even as +well as the smallest wren, but then he could talk, and it was generally +believed that he knew a great deal more than the wisest of men and women +supposed. He was, too, the very last representative of an extremely +ancient family of Ravens, who had inhabited some rocky hills just behind +the little cottage for hundreds of years--a family, indeed, so ancient +that they had watched the battle-fields of Celts, Romans, Saxons, Danes, +and Normans, and had had among them very wise birds, who croaked quite +learnedly on the subject. + +Now at the bottom of the lofty rocks which they inhabited was a rich and +beautiful valley, and here, four hundred years ago, a Norman lord, who +was a great fighter, built himself a fine castle. The Ravens and he got +on very well together, and became great friends. His hunting and +fighting supplied them with food, and it is said they told him a great +many things that only a bird can know. He called his castle Ravensfield, +and very soon people began to call him Ravensfield, and then the birds +and he grew more friendly than ever. And it is said that when he was +dying he told his son always to be good to the Ravens, for that just as +long as the Ravens lived on Raven's Rock, the Ravensfields would own the +rich lands below it. + +For two hundred years everything went well; the knights grew rich and +powerful, and the birds fat and numerous. Then the Ravensfields began to +go to London, and spend money, and do all sorts of foolish things, and +get into all kinds of troubles, and though the Ravens croaked and +croaked until they were hoarse, they would not be prudent, and stay at +home and mind their own business. + +So the end of the matter was that every Ravensfield got poorer, and the +fine old castle fell into ruins, and the colony of Ravens among the +rocks also got smaller and smaller, until one morning the last knight of +Ravensfield found in a deserted nest the last of this once powerful +family of birds. It was half fledged and half starved, and he brought it +home, and gave it to his sister to nurse. "Sister Mabel," he said, +sadly, "this is the luck of Ravensfield: nurse it carefully, and +to-morrow I will buckle my sword to my belt and go to India. I do +believe this bird will live to see the old house rebuilt, and the glory +of our family restored." + +So the young Lord Stephen went over the seas, and Miss Mabel nursed the +bird, and talked hopefully to it for fifteen years. But poor Lord +Stephen was killed in a great Indian battle, and soon after there came +to Miss Mabel a little lad who was Lord Stephen's only child. His father +had left him a little money, and his aunt Mabel took great pains with +him, and sent him to the best schools; and when he was twenty years old, +she buckled his sword on his belt, and kissing him tenderly, sent him +away also to India. "For, Stephen," she said, "you must win fame and +gold to buy back the house and lands of Ravensfield." + +All these twenty years the Raven had been growing large and splendid, +and when the second Lord Stephen went away, he looked after him with a +queer sidewise glance that filled Miss Mabel's heart with fear. But he +was a bold, brave youth, and sent happy letters over the sea, and Miss +Mabel told the Raven all the news, and I have no doubt they comforted +each other very much. After nine years had passed, the Raven suddenly +grew silent, and then there came a sad, sad letter: the second Lord +Stephen had been killed fighting under his flag, and his sickly little +baby girl was sent home to his aunt in England. + +Poor Miss Mabel was now sixty years old, and her heart and hopes were +quite crushed. She had little love left for the desolate child, and she +seemed to take a dislike to the poor Raven. At any rate, she never spoke +to it, and the bird became the companion of the little girl. They played +and ate and slept together, and when little Nannette went out to gather +primroses or berries, the Raven always walked solemnly beside her. + +[Illustration: NANNETTE FEEDING THE RAVEN.] + +One morning (the very morning when somebody drew this picture of them) +her aunt was cross--she had a heartache, and a toothache too, poor old +lady!--and Nannette took her porringer of bread and milk out of the +cottage, and she and the bird were enjoying it together, when some one +called out, "Nannette, I am going to shoot that ugly old bird!" + +Then Nannette's little heart stood still in her terror, and she dropped +her breakfast and ran to the boy, crying out that she should die if it +were killed, for it was the only thing in all the world she had to love +her. + +The boy saw that she had great brown eyes, and beautiful brown hair, and +a little mouth like a rose-bud, and he thought, "How lovely she is!" and +dropped his gun, and said so many comforting words to Nannette, that +always after it they were the very dearest of friends. And the Raven +seemed to approve of Reginald also--for Reginald was the little boy's +name, and he was very proud of it, being, as you know, a little out of +the common; he would perch on his shoulder, and what he said to him as +years went by I can not tell; but Reginald became thoughtful, and talked +to Nannette continually about going away, and growing rich, and then +coming home to marry her and make her a great lady. But Reginald did not +have money enough to go away, and so he was often very sad and silent. + +One day he came to Nannette with a paper in his hand. "See!" he cried, +"the squire's son has been lost in the hills while hunting, and there is +one hundred pounds to be given to whoever finds him. I know all about +the hills, and shall certainly find the young squire." Then he said +good-by to Nannette, and would have done so to the Raven, but the bird +flew away before him, and for all his mistress's cries he would not come +back. So together they went up the rocks, and Nannette watched them +quite out of sight. + +And Reginald, who knew a great deal about birds, watched the Raven, and +saw that he flew continually over one spot in a narrow ravine; and there +he found the poor young squire. His horse had been killed by the fall, +and there he lay with a broken leg, and almost dead with hunger and +thirst and pain. After this piece of good luck, Reginald's way was +clear. Every one was then talking about a new country full of gold, +called California; and though it was at the other end of the world, +Reginald bravely sailed away into the West. Aunt Mabel shook her head, +and the Raven nodded his head, and Nannette cried and laughed, and bid +him "come quickly back, and build again the beautiful castle of +Ravensfield"; and Reginald said, gravely, "I will surely do it," whereat +the Raven nodded his wise-looking head harder than before. + +"How long will he be away, Aunt Mabel?" said Nannette, sadly. + +"Twenty years at least, my dear. I shall never see him again. I am +seventy-five years old now." + +"And I am fifteen. Ah! I shall be an old woman when Reginald comes back, +and he won't know his little Nannette any more!" Then the Raven said +something to Nannette, and she laughed, and his "Croak! croak!" sounded +very like "Yes! yes!" It did, indeed. + +Four years after Reginald went away, a very singular thing happened. Two +pairs of strange Ravens came to Raven's Rock, and built nests and reared +their young there. Nannette's Raven went very often to see them, and +seemed to be altogether a changed bird. For though he was getting near +sixty years old, he began to plume his feathers, and to sit continually +at the cottage door, watching, watching, watching, as if he expected +somebody. + +It affected Nannette at last. "I think, aunt," she said, timidly, "that +Reginald must be coming home. Just look at that bird!" + +"Nonsense, child! How should he know?" + +And indeed I don't understand how this wonderful bird knew, but he did; +for that very night, just as Nannette was going to light the candle, she +heard Reginald's step on the crisp snow, and the old lady heard it, and +the Raven heard it, and there was the gladdest meeting you can possibly +imagine; and if ever a bird said "I told you so," that Raven said it at +least a hundred times that night. + +Besides, Reginald had come home with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds +of pounds; and he married lovely Nannette, and rebuilt Ravensfield; and +dear, patient Aunt Mabel, after sixty years of waiting, went back to the +stately old house, and ended her days in the little parlor where she had +kissed her brother Stephen farewell. + +As for the Raven, he showed himself to be a bird of a very aristocratic +nature. He stepped proudly about the fine halls and gardens, and never +went near the little cottage or the village streets again. He lived +until his fine plumage began to turn gray, and Nannette's oldest son was +almost big enough to put on a scarlet coat and a sword; and when he was +nearly eighty years old he died on Nannette's knee, his foot in her +hand, and the last thing he was conscious of was her tears dropping upon +it. + +Very likely, children, some extremely wise men and women will say, "I +would not believe too much of this story, boys and girls." But when you +have lived as long as I have lived, you will know that extremely wise +men and women _don't know everything_. At any rate, there are plenty of +Ravens on Raven's Rock now, and plenty of Ravensfields in the splendid +castle; and if ever you go to England, you can see them if you want to. + + + + +A HARD SWIM. + +BY DAVID KER. + + +There are few things more delightful than to be at sea on a fine summer +day, with a bright blue sky above and a bright blue sea below, while the +fresh breeze fills your sails, and the great smooth waves toss you +lightly along, and spatter you at times with their glittering spray, +like frolicsome giants. But it is a very different thing to be out in +the teeth of a real equinoctial gale, with the whole sky black as ink, +and the whole sea one sheet of boiling foam, and a huge wave coming +thundering over the deck every other minute, sweeping everything before +it, and making the whole vessel tremble from stem to stern. + +So, doubtless, thought Olaf Petersen, captain and owner of the Norwegian +schooner _Thyra_, of Bergen, when just such a storm caught him half way +across the North Sea. It _did_ seem rather hard, after escaping all the +storms of blustering March, that fresh, genial April should serve him +such a trick; but so it was, and instead of having a short and easy run +northeastward to Bergen, as he expected, he found himself flying away to +the west, driven by a gale which seemed strong enough to blow him right +round the world, if it did not happen to sink him by the way. + +All the sails had long since been taken in, and the little craft was +scudding under bare poles, no one being on deck but the two men at the +wheel (who had quite enough to do keeping her head straight) and the +captain himself. A fine picture Olaf Petersen would have made as he +stood there, with the spray rattling like hail upon his drenched +tarpaulins, and his clear bright eye looking keenly out through the wet +hair that was plastered over his face. It might be seen by the firm set +of his mouth that he meant to fight it out while a plank would swim; but +he looked grave and anxious, nevertheless. + +And well he might. This time it was not only his vessel and the lives of +himself and his crew that were in danger: his young wife was on board, +after whom the _Thyra_ had been named, and it was now too late to blame +himself for having granted her entreaty to be allowed to sail along with +him, instead of being left at home by herself for so many weary weeks, +without knowing whether he was alive or dead. + +Still it blew harder, and harder yet. Had not the _Thyra_ been as good a +sea-boat as ever swam, it would have been all over with her. Even as it +was, she could barely hold her own against the mountains of water that +came plunging over her deck with a force that seemed sufficient to rend +a rock. More than once the captain's stiffened fingers were almost torn +from their hold upon the weather rigging, while the men at the wheel +were under water again and again. Vainly did Olaf strain his eyes to +windward in the hope of seeing a break in the inky sky. All was grim and +gloomy, and amid the blinding spray and the deepening darkness it was +hard to tell where the sea ended and the sky began. + +All that night and all the next morning they drove blindly onward, not +knowing where they were; for the sun had not been seen for two whole +days, and no observation could be taken. But Captain Petersen, who had +those seas by heart, began to fear that they were being driven in among +the Orkney Isles, and he knew only too well what chance the stoutest +three-decker would have against those tremendous rocks with such a sea +running. + +Toward afternoon the wind fell suddenly, though the sea still ran high; +but now came something worse than all--one of those terrible Northern +fogs which turn day into night, and make the oldest sailor as helpless +as a child. The lanterns were lit and hoisted, the ship's bell was kept +constantly tolling, and the captain ordered up two "look-outs" besides +himself; but the fog grew thicker and thicker, till those on the +forecastle could barely make out the foremast. + +Ha! what was that huge dim shadow that loomed out suddenly just ahead, +like a threatening giant? Could it be a _rock_? + +"Port your helm!--port!" roared the captain, at the full pitch of his +voice. + +But it was too late. The next moment there came a deafening crash, a +shock that threw them all off their feet, and the vessel, with her bows +stove in, was sawing and grinding upon the sharp rocks that had pierced +her through and through, with the water rushing into her like a +cataract. + +The next few minutes were like the confusion of a troubled dream--a +shadowy vision of a huge dark mass overhead, a short fierce struggle +amid swirling foam and broken timbers--and then the captain and wife +found themselves upon one of the higher ledges, hardly knowing how they +had reached it, while the crew, with bleeding hands and sorely bruised +limbs, dragged themselves painfully up after them. + +They were not a moment too soon. Scarcely had the last man gained the +ledge, when a mountain wave took the vessel aback. She slid off the +rocks which had held her up, and went down so quickly that the captain, +turning at the shouts of his men, just caught a glimpse of her topmasts +vanishing under water. + +The situation of the shipwrecked crew was now dreary enough. Alone upon +a bare rock in the midst of a stormy sea, with no means of escape, and +no food but the few brine-soaked biscuits in their pockets, there seemed +to be nothing left for them but to give themselves up and die. But, of +all men living, a sailor is the least apt to think his case hopeless, +however dark it may appear. Having just been saved from apparently +certain death, the stout-hearted seamen were in no mood to despair so +easily; and settling themselves snugly in a sheltered cleft of the rock, +they ate their scanty meal (a good share of which had been reserved for +Mrs. Petersen) as cheerily as if they were lying at anchor in Bergen +Harbor. + +Just as the meal ended, the fog suddenly rolled away like a curtain, and +the last gleam of the setting sun showed them an island several miles to +the north, on the shore of which the keen-eyed captain made out a few +white specks that looked like fishermen's huts. + +"Lads," cried he, "if the wind rises again, it'll blow us all into the +sea; and even if it don't, we shall freeze to death if we stick here all +night, with no room to move about. There's just _one_ chance left for +us, and I'm going to take it. Somebody must swim to that island for +help, and as I believe I'm the best swimmer among us, I'll be the one to +do it." + +"Olaf!" cried his wife, catching him by the arm, "you won't think of it! +It's certain death!" + +"Pooh, pooh!" said the captain, cheerily. "I haven't swum across Bergen +Bay and back for nothing. It's certain death to sit here and freeze, if +you like; but you'll soon see me coming back with half a dozen stout +fellows, and we'll all have a good supper before the night's out. Keep +your heart up, dear. God bless you!" + +The next moment he was in the water, and vanishing from the eager eyes +that watched him into the fast-falling shadows of night. Then came a +long silence. The men looked at each other, no one daring to utter the +thought which was in every one's mind, while Thyra Petersen hid her face +in her hands, and prayed as she had never prayed before. + +Meanwhile Captain Petersen, who had told no more than the truth in +calling himself a good swimmer, was breasting the waves manfully. But he +soon found the difference between attempting a long swim when quite +fresh and vigorous, and doing the same thing after a hard night's work, +on short allowance of food, and with limbs stiffened by wet and cold. +Moreover, the sea, although much quieter than it had been, was still +rough enough to tell sorely against him. Before he had gone a mile he +felt his strength beginning to fail; but he thought of his wife, and of +all the other lives that now depended upon him alone, and struggled +desperately onward. But now came a new trouble. In the deepening +darkness the island for which he was heading soon disappeared +altogether, and he found himself swimming almost at random. Every stroke +was now a matter of life and death, and yet each of those strokes might +be taken in the wrong direction. It was a terrible thought. Heavier and +heavier grew his cramped limbs, harder and harder pressed the merciless +sea. He sank--rose--sank again, and as he came up once more, lifted his +voice in a despairing cry, feeling that all was over. + +"Hist, laddies! there's some ane skirling" (screaming), shouted a hoarse +voice near him. + +There was a sudden splash of oars, a clamor of many voices, and then a +strong hand clutched him as he sank for the last time. So utterly was he +spent that he could barely force out the few words needful to tell his +story; but these were quite enough for the Orkney fishermen, who at once +put about and steered straight for the rock. + +It was a glad sight for the weary watchers, when the boat came gliding +toward them out of the darkness. But when they recognized their captain, +whom they had long since given up for lost, they gathered their last +strength for a feeble cheer, while poor Thyra sprang into the boat, and +threw her arms round his neck without a word. + +So ended Captain Petersen's daring swim, which brought him good in a way +that he little expected; for when the news of the feat reached Bergen, +the townspeople at once started a subscription to buy him another +vessel, in which he is voyaging now. + + + + +SOME CURIOUS ART WORKS AND ARTISTS. + + +The Marquis de Veere once gave each of his household a sufficient +quantity of the richest white silk damask for a suit. Charles V. was +about to make him a visit, and the marquis wished his court to make a +splendid appearance when assisting him to receive the emperor. His +painter, Mabuse, who was always in debt, was granted the privilege of +seeing to the making of his own suit of clothes. Mabuse, however, sold +the damask for a good price, and having made a paper suit, painted it so +perfectly to represent the damask that when he appeared in it all were +deceived. + +When the marquis called the emperor's attention to the beautiful +clothing of his court, and asked which suit he most admired, the emperor +at once selected that of Mabuse. The joke was then explained to the +emperor, but he would not believe that the suit was not of real damask +until he had touched it with his hands. + +It no doubt took Mabuse considerable time to paint his damask, but a +much more celebrated artist once made a wonderful drawing almost in an +instant. At the time of the Cæsars there was at Rome a panel on which +was to be seen nothing but three colored lines. The lines were drawn one +on top of the other, each thinner line dividing the next wider. This was +considered one of the most wonderful art works at Rome. + +The Grecian painter Apelles went one day into Protogenes's studio, and +finding that artist out, drew on a panel the widest of the three lines +in such a peculiar and beautiful manner that Protogenes knew at once his +caller. When Apelles called the second time he found that Protogenes had +drawn a colored line upon the first line, dividing it with the most +delicate accuracy. Seeing this, Apelles divided the second line, to +every one's astonishment. Protogenes lived at Rhodes, and the panel was +taken to Rome to be admired by all who saw it. When the imperial palace +was destroyed, the panel unfortunately shared a like fate. + +In comparison, what a delicate flower is to a huge log, so the work of +Apelles would be to such a vast oil-painting as the "Apotheosis of +Hercules," painted by Lemoin, a Frenchman. This picture measured +sixty-four feet one way by fifty-four feet the other, and the +ultramarine to paint the clouds on it alone cost two thousand dollars. + +Another huge painting, said to be the largest in the world, is +Tintoretto's "Paradise," at Venice. It contains an almost innumerable +multitude of figures, and fills the end of a large hall, over three +hundred feet long and half as wide. + +One of the most minute and beautiful of art works now at Florence is a +glory of sixty saints carved on a cherry stone. It was carved by the +Italian sculptress Rossi, who executed other similar carvings, besides +working in marble. + +Some of the old artists had peculiar methods of working. Aspertino +taught himself to paint with both hands at the same time; and Goya, who +died in this century, frequently used a stick or a sponge rather than a +brush. There are pictures of Goya's done entirely with his palette knife +and finger-ends. + +One of the oddest of all artists was Bazzi, called Il Soddoma. Not only +did he dress peculiarly, but his house was full of strange pet animals, +such as monkeys and queer birds. Among the birds was a raven that could +perfectly imitate his voice and manner of speech. + +Sir Joshua Reynolds painted with brushes the handles of which were a +foot and a half long, and used them so rapidly that he would paint a +portrait in four hours. The finest of his pictures were those of +children. + +Other painters were noted also especially for their rapid work. One +morning when some citizens called upon the Spanish painter Serra with an +order for an altarpiece, he invited them to stay to dinner, and in the +mean while to pass the time in his garden. When dinner-time came, the +citizens were perfectly amazed to see Serra walk into their presence +bearing the finished picture. + +Rizi, another Spanish painter, went in early life to Salamanca to study +theology, but he arrived there without money, and found that to be +received at the college he must pay a hundred ducats. The abbot of the +college gave Rizi but two days in which to get the money, or be refused +as a student. Within that time, however, Rizi painted and sold a picture +for the desired amount. He continued to paint to pay for his education, +and in addition to becoming a famous painter he was made a bishop just +before he died. + +A celebrated painter of fairs and festivals such as took place among the +Dutch was David Teniers. He usually painted on small or moderate-sized +canvases, but the figures often were so numerous that one of his +pictures contains nearly twelve hundred figures, while others with two +hundred and three hundred figures are not rare. Teniers could imitate +the style of other painters. At Vienna is a picture of his representing +a gallery in which he and a gentleman are standing, and on the wall +before them are hung fifty pictures of other artists. The pictures, of +course, are quite small, but any one comparing them with the originals +sees how striking is the imitation of different styles. + +Another clever imitation of a very different kind was that of Peredo's, +whose wife, a lady of rank, wished to have a servant with her whenever +any one called. Peredo was not wealthy enough to keep merely ornamental +servants, and he painted an old lady with glasses sitting in a chair, +and who, apparently, when visitors saluted her, was so busily engaged in +sewing as not to hear them. + + + + +[Illustration: THE LITTLE ARTIST.] + + + + +HARES, WILD AND TAME. + + +The hare family is one of the largest of the great animal kingdom, for +Master Lepus is found in almost every corner of the earth, and whether +hiding in tropical thickets, or scampering on Alpine heights, or through +the frozen regions of the North, it is always the same agile, shy, and +stupid little beast. It has very long ears, tipped with black, and heavy +whiskers growing from each cheek. Its hind-legs are very long. It is a +swift runner, and can jump a great distance. + +Hares are very common throughout the Northern United States, their +favorite haunts being overgrown old clearings, and thickets where are +many snug places of concealment. They change their fur during winter, +throwing off the pretty reddish-brown summer coat, and donning one of +white and dark fawn-color. The color of the fur, however, is so varied +that it is difficult to find two specimens exactly alike. + +[Illustration: HUNTING FOR SUPPER.] + +This little creature will eat any juicy, tender food, such as the young +buds and sprouts in the spring, berries, and leaves. It is fond of +cabbage leaves and young grain, and often does much mischief to the +crops. It generally sleeps through the day, and morning and evening +jumps about in search of food, scampering here and there wherever it can +find a sweet morsel to nibble. It does not burrow its nest in the +ground, like its cousin the rabbit, but scratches together a little heap +of dry grass, which makes a very good temporary lodging. The hare's nest +is called a "form," and is so in harmony with surrounding objects that +it is scarcely noticeable. One may pass very near without suspecting +that under such a heap of dry rubbish a cunning little animal lies +concealed. On English heaths the hare makes its "form" in the little +stubbly furze-bushes. Inside this mass of prickly leaves it hollows out +a soft little bed, where it sleeps away the long sunny day, crouched +close to the ground, its ears laid flat on its back. + +Hares have no means of defending themselves, except their sharp +toe-nails, which they rarely think of using, and they fall an easy prey +to the many enemies which beset them. They are vigorously hunted by men +and dogs on account of the delicate flavor of their flesh, and it has +been thought necessary to place them under the protection of the +game-laws. They are also the prey of foxes, wild-cats, weasels, and many +other animals. Although defenseless, they still are in a measure +protected by their keen ear, which catches the sound of the least rustle +or movement, and warns the little beast against approaching danger. + +The hare is the worst mother in the world. When her little ones are four +or five days old, she leaves them unprotected in their nest, and +scampers away to enjoy herself, returning once or twice, perhaps, to +nurse her forlorn babies, and then leaving them to shift for themselves. +Many little ones, thus neglected, die of cold and hunger, or are swooped +up by hawks and owls. It is a strange fact that the mother hare makes +no attempt to protect her babies, but will run away at the least signal +of danger, and leave them to their fate. Hares have even been known +themselves to bite their children to death. A young hare family remain +together until they are half grown, when they separate, continuing to +live near their native spot, for hares are not travellers, and, unless +disturbed, seldom change their home. They are very short-lived, and +seldom attain the age of ten years. + +Hares are very plentiful in Switzerland, and are found high up among the +ice and snow of the most lofty mountains. These Alpine hares are subject +to a very strange change of costume. In December, when the Alpine world +is one vast expanse of snow, the fur of the hare is the purest white, +only the ears preserving the distinguishing black tip. As spring comes +on, gray-brown hairs appear in the white fur, until, about the end of +May, the animal is entirely covered with a gray-brown coat, which with +the first snows of the autumn begins, in its turn, to change again into +white. Ice hares, which are found as far north as the Parry Islands, are +also subject to the same change, with the exception that the warm +weather continues only long enough to spread a gray mantle along the +back of the little creature, which quickly disappears as the temperature +declines. The ice hare lives on the bark and twigs of the arctic willow +and the dry moss and stubble of the desolate regions it inhabits. It +makes its nest among the rocks, and in winter digs a hole in the snow. + +Hares are good swimmers, but will not enter the water unless to avoid a +foe. There is, however, one species of aquatic hare, found only in the +Southern United States. It is amphibious, like the musk-rat, is a most +expert swimmer, and makes its nest, or "form," on the edge of the +morass, where it sleeps all day, sallying forth morning and evening for +a swim in search of the delicate water-plants upon which it feeds. The +young ones enter the water at a very early age, and may be seen paddling +about with the mother on a hunt for breakfast. + +Tame hares make very pretty pets. They are very stupid about learning +tricks, and are said to have very short memories. Hares which have +escaped from their masters, and have been recaptured after a few days of +freedom, have been found to be entirely wild, as if they retained no +remembrance, even for that short time, of all the petting which had been +bestowed upon them. Dr. Benjamin Franklin is said to have had a pet hare +which lived on the most friendly terms with a greyhound and cat, and +would share the hearth-rug with them in the winter. + +William Cowper, the English poet, had three pet hares, to which he was +much attached, and about which he wrote many pretty things. They were +given to him when they were leverets, as a hare is called during the +first year of its life, and he named them Puss, Bess, and Tiney. He +built them houses to sleep in, and always kept them near him. Bess, who +died soon after he was full grown, "was," writes Cowper, "a hare of +great humor and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage; Tiney was not +to be tamed at all." Once poor Puss was sick. His master nursed him with +the greatest care. He says: "No creature could be more grateful than my +patient after his recovery--a sentiment which he most significantly +expressed by licking my hand, first the back of it, then the palm, then +every finger separately, then between all the fingers, as if anxious to +leave no part of it unsaluted; a ceremony which he never performed but +once again, upon a similar occasion." + +Upon Tiney the kindest treatment had no effect. If his master ventured +to stroke him, he would grunt, strike with his fore-feet, spring +forward, and bite. Tiney lived to be nine years old, and died from the +effects of a fall. Puss survived him two years. A memorandum found among +Cowper's papers reads: "This day died poor Puss, aged eleven years, +eleven months. He died between twelve and one at noon, of mere old age, +and apparently without pain." + +The poet was so fond of his pets that he buried them in his garden, and +wrote an epitaph on Tiney, from which we take the following stanzas: + + "Here lies--whom hound did ne'er pursue, + Nor swifter greyhound follow, + Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, + Nor ear heard huntsman's halloo-- + + "Old Tiney, surliest of his kind, + Who, nursed with tender care, + And to domestic bounds confined, + Was still a wild Jack hare. + + "Though duly from my hand he took + His pittance every night, + He did it with a jealous look, + And, when he could, would bite. + + "His diet was of wheaten bread, + And milk, and oats, and straw; + Thistles, or lettuces instead, + With sand to scour his maw. + + "On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, + On pippin's russet peel, + And when his juicy salads failed, + Sliced carrot pleased him well." + + + + +CHARADE. + + + Out on the sea, when the tempest is blowing, + Over the waters dark and wild, + Guide I the sailor, his pathway showing + Over the shoals and the currents flowing; + Never through me is the ship beguiled. + + Many a wandering step have I guided; + Children at school have I often taught; + Many disputes through me are decided; + Oft has my help, though sometimes derided, + Even the Muse of History sought. + + Off with my head! I'm a living creature; + Trembling I follow, I guide no more; + Large-eyed and gentle, of kindly feature, + Hunted by man; in the wilds of nature, + When he is coming, I fly before. + + Cut off my head again, and for ages + Long have I kindled the spirit of man. + Worshipped by artists, adored by the sages, + Present and past combine in my pages; + There all the secrets of beauty you scan. + + + + +WHEN SKATES WERE BONES. + + +Though it appears to be impossible to fix on the time when skating first +took root in England, there can be no doubt that it was introduced there +from more northern climates, where it originated more from the +necessities of the inhabitants than as a pastime. When snow covered +their land, and ice bound up their rivers imperious necessity would soon +suggest to the Scands or the Germans some ready means of winter +locomotion. This first took the form of snow-shoes with two long runners +of wood, like those still used by the inhabitants of the northerly parts +of Norway and Sweden in their journeys over the immense snow-fields. +These seem originally to have been used by the Finns, "for which +reason," says a Swedish writer, "they were called 'Skrid Finnai' +(Sliding Finns)--a common name for the most ancient inhabitants of +Sweden, both in the North saga and by foreign authors." + +When used on ice, one runner would soon have been found more convenient +than the widely separated two, and harder materials used than wood: +first bone was substituted; then it, in turn, gave place to iron; and +thus the present form of skate was developed in the North at a period +set down by Scandinavian archæologists as about A.D. 200. + +Frequent allusions occur in the old Northern poetry, which prove that +proficiency in skating was one of the most highly esteemed +accomplishments of the Northern heroes. One of them, named Kolson, +boasts that he is master of nine accomplishments, skating being one; +while the hero Harold bitterly complains that though he could fight, +ride, swim, glide along the ice on skates, dart the lance, and row, "yet +a Russian maid disdains me." + +In the "Edda" this accomplishment is singled out for special praise: +"Then the king asked what that young man could do who accompanied Thor. +Thialfe answered that in running upon skates he would dispute the prize +with any of the countries. The king owned that the talent he spoke of +was a very fine one." + +Olaus Magnus, the author of the famous chapter on the Snakes of Iceland, +tells us that skates were made "of polished iron, or of the shank bone +of a deer or sheep, about a foot long, filed down on one side, and +greased with hog's lard to repel the wet." These rough-and-ready bone +skates were the kind first adopted by the English; for Fitzstephen, in +his description of the amusements of the Londoners in his day (time of +Henry the Second), tells us that "when that great fen that washes +Moorfields at the north wall of the city is frozen over, great companies +of young men go to sport upon the ice. Some, striding as wide as they +may, do slide swiftly; some, better practiced to the ice, bind to their +shoes bones, as the legs of some beasts, and hold stakes in their hands, +headed with sharp iron, which sometimes they strike against the ice; +these men go as swiftly as doth a bird in the air, or a bolt from a +cross-bow." Then he goes on to say that some, imitating the fashion of +the tournament, would start in full career against one another, armed +with poles; "they meet, elevate their poles, attack and strike each +other, when one or both of them fall, and not without some bodily hurt." + +Specimens of these old bone skates are occasionally dug up in fenny +parts of Great Britain. There are some in the British Museum, in the +Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries, and probably in other collections; +though perhaps some of the "finds" are not nearly as old as +Fitzstephen's day, for there seems to be good evidence that even in +London the primitive bone skate was not entirely superseded by +implements of steel at the latter part of last century. + +One found about 1839 in Moorfields, in the boggy soil peculiar to that +district, is described as being formed of the bone of some animal, made +smooth on one side, with a hole at one extremity for a cord to fasten it +to the shoe. At the other end a hole is also drilled horizontally to a +depth of three inches, which might have received a plug, with another +cord to secure it more effectually. + +There is hardly a greater difference between these old bone skates and +the "acmes" and club skates of to-day, than there is between the skating +of the Middle Ages and the artistic and graceful movements of good +performers of to-day. Indeed, skating as a fine art is entirely a thing +of modern growth. So little thought of was the exercise, that for long +after Fitzstephen's day we find few or no allusions to it, and up to the +Restoration days it appears to have been an amusement confined chiefly +to the lower classes, among whom it never reached any very high pitch of +art. "It was looked upon," says a recent writer, "much with the same +view that the boys on the Serpentine even now seem to adopt, as an +accomplishment, the acme of which was reached when the performer could +succeed in running along quickly on his skates, and finishing off with a +long and triumphant slide on two feet in a straight line forward. A +gentleman would probably then have no more thought of trying to execute +different figures on the ice than he would at the present day of dancing +in a drawing-room on the tips of his toes." Even as an amusement of the +common people it is not alluded to in any of the usual catalogues of +sport so often referred to. + + + + +THE MONKEYS OF INDIA. + + +A missionary in India gives an interesting account of the monkeys that +live in that far-away country. He says that in the morning, during the +cold season, the monkeys are always very listless, but as soon as they +are warmed with the rays of the sun, they are as playful as kittens. +They will jump over each other's backs, slap each other's faces, pull +each other's tails, and even make pretense to steal each other's babies. + +The gray and the brown species are found nearly all over the continent +of India; the former is more daring and destructive, and the latter more +mischievous and cunning. They both form themselves into separate packs, +or tribes, and rarely go beyond a certain boundary. They seldom migrate, +except it be for food or water in times of drought and scarcity. This +wild citizenship seems to be respected, for they very rarely trespass on +each other's ground. Each tribe has a leader, or king, which can easily +be recognized, and from the manner in which he conducts himself, he is +evidently aware of the dignity of his position. + +Like nearly all other wild animals, they have a keen sense of danger, +and when a certain whoop is given, however scattered or tempted to stay, +in a few moments they are hidden on the tops of the highest trees in the +locality. They have the bump of destructiveness largely developed, and +it is no small calamity when a tribe locates itself near a village. +Scarcely anything in the shape of fruit or grain comes amiss to them, +and when neither are to be had, in the hottest part of the year they eat +the stems of the young leaves. When they commence upon a field of +lentils, pulse, or peas, they always pluck up the plant by the root, +pull off one pod, and then fling the plant away, so that it does not +require many days to clear a whole field. Ripe mangoes have a special +attraction, and it requires no small amount of vigilance to keep them +away from the groves. + +Dogs, however strong and fleet, are of very little use to drive them +away, for the monkeys are sagacious enough to know that their safety is +in keeping near the trees. When the dog has spent himself with barking +and screaming at the foot of the tree, a monkey will come down to the +lowest branch, and wag his long tail within a few inches of the dog's +face, and when the poor dog has retired, completely foiled, a monkey +will soon be after him to tempt him to a second encounter. + +Mischief is certainly in their hearts, for, not content with stealing +the produce of the gardens and fields, they will pull off the thatch +from the native huts, fling the tiles from the better-built houses and +shops to the ground, and we have even seen them try their best to rift +the stones from the temples. A native town in one of the zemindary +estates was so mutilated by them that it looked as if it had sustained a +siege. + +Some years ago, after making our arrangements for our encampment at +night, we constantly had our peaceful rest broken by a tribe of brown +monkeys. They evidently thought that long possession had given them a +prior claim to the grove. For our own comfort it was felt by all that +some means must be adopted to drive them away. Accordingly one was shot. +Death was not instantaneous, and quite a number came around to see it +die. They looked with startling interest into its face, but as soon as +life was extinct they bounded away. Fear had fallen upon them all, and +not a sound was heard from them during the night. Early next morning +they assembled in an adjoining field. The sharp and quick manner in +which they turned their faces first in this way and then in that was a +sight not soon to be forgotten. They had instinct enough to see that +their only safety would be in flight. In the course of an hour the king +headed the tribe, and away they went, and not a solitary monkey was +seen in that region for years afterward. The natives dared not openly +commend us, but they were not a little pleased that we had rid them of +creatures so destructive to their homesteads. + +The monkeys are very numerous in the sacred cities, and especially in +Benares and Pooree. Within a few miles of the temple of Juggernaut there +are many hundreds, if not thousands. They are so tame that they will +come down from the trees and eat rice from the hands of the pilgrims. +When the pilgrim presents his hand with the rice in it, the monkey +seizes it with his left paw, and he will never let go his grip until he +has taken every grain. Very few persons are injured by monkeys, but they +will sometimes seize a basket, if there be fruit in it, when carried by +a woman or child. The natives often say that "monkeys can do everything +except talk, and they would do that were it not for the fear of being +made to work." + + + + +THE LITTLE DELINQUENT. + + +[Illustration: THE LITTLE DELINQUENT.] + +"Lucie, my Lucie, wilt thou not forgive thy little Fritz?" pleaded the +mother of two children whose father had been a soldier in the Prussian +army, and whose bravery had been rewarded with a medal which was worn on +his coat lapel. + +Lucie answered, with a deep sigh, "He was so cruel, dear mother; he +pushed me down so rudely on the hard floor!" + +"Yes, I saw that push; but he was angry." + +"And I tried so well to do what he wished; I kept the step and marched +behind him, and I helped to make his cap, and I ran out to the +poultry-yard for a feather which had dropped from the cock's tail--the +green and blue one that eats so much corn--and I was as good a soldier +as I knew how to be!" + +"Well, what was the matter?" + +"Why, I had my dear Rosa in my arms, and Ludwig looked over the fence, +and laughed at Fritz for having a girl with a doll in his regiment, and +Fritz became very cross, and said he would not play. Then I put my Rosa +down, and went marching again; but that dreadful great cock came and +pecked at her eyes, and I _could_ not see her suffer; so I hid her in my +apron while Fritz was not looking, and we came into the house to fill +our knapsacks; then Fritz saw Rosa, and he said I was a disobedient +soldier, and he pulled her out of my arms, and tossed her down and broke +her, as you see--oh, my dear, my good Rosa!" + +"But I think Fritz is sorry. See! he has been tied to the table a long +while for punishment. Can you not forgive him?" + +Lucie did not answer; her little soul seemed much disturbed. + +"Come, I will tell thee a story, my Lucie, of two other children, and +then, perhaps, thou wilt be more ready to let Fritz go free. Far away up +in the mountains where are the chamois, and where the rocks are rough +and the forests dark, lived Hans and Gretchen. They were wild as the +chamois themselves, and their old grandfather could scarcely keep them +by his side long enough to tell them the story of the Saviour's love, or +teach them even to read. They knew the haunt of every wild creature of +the woods, and many were their quarrels over a nest of young birds, or +the possession of the animals they trapped. They had no kind mother; +their words were often harsh, and sometimes hunger made them really +cruel to each other. They were much to be pitied, for their grandfather +was lame as well as old, and could do little for their support. + +"One day, in an eager chase after a rabbit Gretchen gave Hans a great +push, which sent him down over a rocky ledge on to some stones. She was +frightened to see that he did not move, and still more frightened when +she found he was moaning with pain. She ran to get help, and the +neighbors came and lifted Hans and carried him home; but he never walked +again: his spine was hurt. Ah! what sorrow then was Gretchen's! How she +wished she had never been so unkind! + +"How she missed her companion in her wild rambles, and in her search for +the Edelweiss flowers which she sold to travellers, and so gained a +little money! Lottie by little she learned how to be a better +girl--learned to be patient with Hans, who was often very cross; and as +she grew older, and could better care for the house and her old +grandfather, they came to love her very much. + +"But do you not think that little children who have been taught to be +kind, and to love the dear Father in heaven whose Son died on the cross, +should be willing to forgive when quarrels arise?" + +Both little faces had grown sad, one with earnest resolve never again to +be harsh with his sister, the other with tender regret. At last Lucie +said, "My mother, I forgive Fritz; but what shall I do for poor Rosa?" + +"Rosa shall have a new head when I have saved kreutzers to buy one," +said Fritz; and so they kissed and made up. + + + + +THREE FAMOUS DIAMONDS. + + +A magnificent diamond, belonging to the Emperor of Russia, bought by the +Empress Catherine, weighs over one hundred and ninety-three carats. It +is said to be the size of a pigeon's head, and to have been purchased +for ninety thousand pounds, besides a yearly sum for life to the Greek +merchant from whom it was bought. This diamond formed one of the eyes of +the famous idol Juggernaut, whose temple is on the Coromandel coast, and +a French soldier, who had deserted into the Malabar service, found the +means of robbing the temple of it, and escaped with it to Madras. There +he disposed of it to a ship captain for two thousand pounds, and by him +it was resold to a Jew for twelve thousand pounds. From him it was +transferred for a large sum to the Greek merchant. This diamond now +surmounts the imperial sceptre. + +The diamond of the Emperor of Austria, which formerly belonged to the +Grand Dukes of Tuscany, weighs one hundred and thirty-nine and a half +carats. Its estimated value is one hundred and fifty-five thousand +pounds. This stone is of a lemon yellow color, which greatly lessens its +value. + +Among the Prussian crown jewels is the famous Regent or Pitt diamond, +discovered in the Pasteal mine at Golconda. It weighs one hundred and +thirty-six and three-quarters carats, and is remarkable for its form and +clearness, which have caused it to be valued at one hundred and sixty +thousand pounds, although it cost only one hundred thousand pounds. It +was stolen from the mine and sold to Mr. Pitt, grandfather of the great +Earl of Chatham. The Duke of Orleans purchased the diamond for +presentation to King Louis the Fifteenth. + +After the fall of Louis the Sixteenth, the people insisted that the +crown jewels should be exposed to the gaze of the mob, and with them the +Regent diamond was shown. So little, however, did the exhibitors confide +in the honesty of these patriots that great precautions were taken to +prevent the consequences of too strong an attraction. The passer-by who +chanced to demand, in the name of the sovereign people, a sight of the +finest of the jewels, entered a small room, within which, through a +little window, the diamond was presented for sight. It was fastened by a +strong steel clasp to an iron chain, the other end of which was secured +within the window through which it was handed to the spectator. Two +policemen kept a vigilant watch on the momentary possessor of the gem, +until, having held in his hand the value of twelve millions of francs, +according to the estimate in the inventory of the crown jewels, he again +took up his hook and basket at the door and disappeared. + +This diamond, which decorated the hilt of the sword of state of the +first Napoleon, was taken by the Prussians at Waterloo, and now belongs +to the King of Prussia. + +In former times, superstition attributed to the diamond many virtues. It +was supposed to protect the possessor from poison, pestilence, +panic-fear, and enchantments of every kind. A wonderful property was +also ascribed to it when the figure of Mars, whom the ancients +represented as the god of war, was engraved upon it. In such cases the +diamond was believed to insure victory in battle to its fortunate owner, +whatever might be the number of his enemies. + +For a long time diamonds were sent to Holland to be cut and polished, +but this art is now well understood in England, and has been recently +introduced into this country. + +Diamonds are not only worn as ornaments of dress, or rare objects of +art, but they are employed for several useful purposes, as for cutting +glass by the glazier, and all kinds of hard stones by the lapidary. + + + + +TEMERITY. + + +[Illustration: ON THE TRACK.] + +A butterfly lived like a princess in a green and golden wood, guarded +day and night by the trees; but as there was never a butterfly yet that +did not prefer sunshine to safety, she came fluttering out one morning, +and after dazzling all the flowers in the neighborhood, spread her wings +for a long flight. + +There was no one to warn her of the dangers abroad, so when she came to +the railroad track she just settled upon it, with no more fear than if +it were a twig. An ugly brown worm that had been sunning himself on a +sleeper crept up to her. + +"You are in a dreadfully dangerous place," he groaned. + +"Why?" asked the little rainbow, not a bit scared. + +"There is a great monster coming soon. He crushes everything he meets; +he has no heart; his bones are made of iron." + +"How funny!" exclaimed the butterfly. + +"See how dark the sky is getting; he will soon be here," went on the +worm, solemnly. + +"Oh, pshaw! it's only a shower coming up," said the butterfly, +stretching her wings. + +"No, it is the monster; don't you feel the ground shake? The storm is +coming, but the monster is coming too. Get into this hole under the +track; I beg you, I entreat you, get into this hole and be saved." + +"Nonsense!" laughed the butterfly. + +The rail was trembling, and in the distance a strange wild shriek was +heard, a great puff of smoke went rolling up to the sky. + +"Quick! quick!" implored the worm. "Do as I do, or you will be killed. +There is no time to lose." + +But the only answer he got was a laugh. + +The monster was getting nearer and nearer, and the worm, with one more +vain petition to the butterfly to follow him, squirmed into a crevice +under the rail. + +On came the monster, its great iron limbs pounding back and forth. A +rattle, a shriek, a puff of smoke: he had come and gone. The worm--where +was he? Limp and dead in his little hole under the rail. And the +butterfly--the poor beautiful butterfly? + +Oh, she had simply flown away. + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] + + + NEW YORK CITY. + + In a short paper entitled "The Paradise of Insects," in _Young + People_ No. 10, some interesting facts are told of small + sand-flies, called sancudos, which abound on the Upper Amazons and + other swampy localities of South and Central America. Boys will + like to know the origin of their name. Stilts are called _zancos_ + in Spanish, and these flies, a species of mosquito, are called + sancudos--more properly spelled zancudos--on account of their very + long, slender legs and disproportionately small bodies, which + remind one of a very small boy on very high stilts. Flies on stilts + is a funny idea, but not more funny than the appearance of these + troublesome little insects. + + RODRIGO. + + * * * * * + + I am a little girl twelve years old, and live at Fort Supply, + Indian Territory. My father is a captain in the Twenty-third + Infantry. We live in huts made of logs, and the cracks filled with + mud to keep out the cold, and the inside lined with canvas. We have + frequent visits from the Indians. Not long ago a party of about + fifty Indians were here, some of whom were on the war-path last + fall. We have a school, and about sixteen scholars. If it were not + for school I should be very lonesome, as I have only one playmate. + There are plenty of children here, but they are all too small to + play with. I take _Young People_, and it is a great addition to my + small fund of amusements. + + GRACE W. HENTON. + + * * * * * + + PUTNAM, CONNECTICUT. + + DEAR "YOUNG PEOPLE."--I thought when you made your first appearance + that you were as pretty and interesting as possible, but when you + arrived in your new dress, looking so fresh and bright, wishing us + a "Merry Christmas," I was still more delighted with you. I hope + the number of your subscribers will grow as fast as you have, you + are such a dear little paper. + + ANNA C. B. + + * * * * * + +The two following letters are from very young readers, who wrote in big +capitals with their own little hands: + + NEW YORK CITY. + + I am so glad you have published _Young People_. I am five years + old. I have a little kitten, and my papa says it will soon be a + cat. I wish it wouldn't. + + JIMMIE B. + + * * * * * + + STOCKPORT, NEW YORK. + + I thought I would drop you a line or two about the _Young People_ + and the "Wiggles," and I will. I send you what I make of the last + number of the "Wiggles," and I like the new paper. So good-by. From + + ROBBIE REYNOLDS (six years). + + * * * * * + +Here are two more little folks, who employ an amanuensis: + + BELMONT. + + I thought I would write you a letter to let you know how I like + _Young People_. Grandpa takes it for me. I am only eight and a half + years old. Grandpa is going to copy this, as I can not write very + well. + + EDGAR. E. HYDE. + + * * * * * + + NEW YORK CITY. + + I am only five years old, and can not read or write yet, but my + nurse reads me the stories in _Young People_ every week, and I like + them very much, and the pictures and the letters; and papa says I + ought to send you a letter, and tell you how much I like it. So + does my little sister Lulu, and she is only three years old, and I + have got a little brother only three weeks old, but he hasn't any + name yet. I told papa I would send a letter, but I could not write + it, and he said it would be fair if Nurse Belle would write, only I + must tell her what to put in--I and nobody else--and so I did it. + + LIZZIE F. + + * * * * * + + LANSING, MICHIGAN. + + A few days ago I was walking with a friend when we saw a rabbit in + the road. We ran to catch it, but could not, for it ran too. + Suddenly it stopped. My friend whistled, and then it ran right up to + her, and we caught it. I suppose that rabbits like music. + + LAURA B. + + * * * * * + + NEWTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE. + + I am going to tell you about a butterfly my brother Willie brought + in from the woods this winter. It flew about the rooms for a few + days, till one morning he seemed almost dead. Mamma took him to the + door, and he flew away up over our barn and some great tall + pine-trees. I am ten years old this winter. + + L. MABEL MARSTON. + +What color were the butterfly's wings, and how large was it? + + * * * * * + + HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY. + + I once had a pet rabbit. He was gray and white, and I named him + Mac, after papa. Once I gave him a peach, and another rabbit ran + away with it; then he stood up on his hind-legs and begged for + another. + + HARRY F. + + * * * * * + +George D. B. and Cora B. E., both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also +write of pet rabbits, and Spitz and Newfoundland dogs. + + * * * * * + + NEW YORK CITY. + + I have a chicken that I hatched out by putting the egg in ashes. + While I am writing this letter it is sitting on my hand. When I + call it, it comes to me. I have also four white mice, which are as + tame as the chicken. I did have a squirrel, but it died. I wish you + would tell me how to feed my mice. + + JOSEPH P. + +White mice will eat nuts of all kinds, canary-seed, and various other +grains. They will also nibble bread and cake. They must have plenty of +water, and like a little milk now and then. They should be given a soft, +warm nest of dry moss or of flannel. + + * * * * * + +J. G. D.--In all rooms where meal is kept, the worms generally breed +much faster than they are wanted. The meal-moth is very pretty. Its +fore-wings are light brown, with a dark chocolate-brown spot on the base +and tip of each. It is often to be seen clinging to the ceiling of +kitchen or store-room, with its tail curved over its back. This moth +deposits its eggs in the meal, and in a short time the worm is hatched, +which soon forms itself into a cocoon, from which the moth again comes +forth. You may find this worm crawling in old flour barrels or some box +in which meal has been kept; and if you keep a box of meal standing open +in some warm place, the moth will be very likely to find it, especially +in the summer-time, and use it as a deposit for her eggs. Meanwhile you +can feed your mocking-birds on meal and milk, mixed now and then with +very fine chopped raw beef and with bits of fruit. You can also buy +prepared food for them. Be sure to give them plenty of clean gravel in +the bottom of the cage. + + * * * * * + +"SUBSCRIBER," Moline, Illinois.--Heph_ai_stos is the correct Greek +spelling of Vulcan's name, but Heph_æ_stos is the accepted English +spelling of the word. Either is correct.--The translation of _Don +Quixote_ has become such a standard English work that the ordinary +English pronunciation of the name is allowable. 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Two or three generations of +American youth owe some of their most pleasant hours of recreation to +his story-books; and his latest productions are as fresh and youthful as +those which the papas and mammas of to-day once looked forward to as the +most precious gifts from the Christmas bag of old Santa Claus. The +series published under the general title of "Science for the Young" +might be called "Learning made Pleasant." An interesting story runs +through each, and beguiles the reader into the acquisition of a vast +amount of useful knowledge under the genial pretence of furnishing +amusement. No intelligent child can read these volumes without obtaining +a better knowledge of physical science than many students have when they +leave college.--_N. Y. Evening Post._ + +Jacob Abbott is almost the only writer in the English language who knows +how to combine real amusement with real instruction in such a manner +that the eager young readers are quite as much interested in the useful +knowledge he imparts as in the story which he makes so pleasant a medium +of instruction--_Buffalo Commercial Advertiser._ + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. + +_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on +receipt of the price._ + + + + +[Illustration] + +NOSES OUT OF JOINT. + + + You needn't cry and look so sad; + I love you, pussy dear, the same-- + I truly do--as I loved you + Before this cunning kitty came; + But things are changed a little now, + You know, and 'cause he's very small, + I've got to 'tend the most to him. + Your nose is out of joint, that's all. + Don't you remember that cold day + They left me hours and hours in bed, + And when nurse came for me at last, + "Your nose is out of joint," she said, + "A baby's come to live with us?" + Well, then, that's what's the matter now; + You might have known how it would be-- + Oh dear, my head! 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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: Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 + An Illustrated Weekly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 13, 2009 [EBook #28318] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JAN 27, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_DANCE_IN_THE_KITCHEN"><b>THE DANCE IN THE KITCHEN.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_OLD_MAN_OF_MONTROSE"><b>THE OLD MAN OF MONTROSE.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_BRAVEST_OF_THE_BRAVE"><b>"THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE."</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#LADY_PRIMROSE"><b>LADY PRIMROSE.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#EIGHTY_YEARS_OF_A_BIRDS_LIFE"><b>EIGHTY YEARS OF A BIRD'S LIFE.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#A_HARD_SWIM"><b>A HARD SWIM.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#SOME_CURIOUS_ART_WORKS_AND_ARTISTS"><b>SOME CURIOUS ART WORKS AND ARTISTS.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#HARES_WILD_AND_TAME"><b>HARES, WILD AND TAME.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#CHARADE"><b>CHARADE.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#WHEN_SKATES_WERE_BONES"><b>WHEN SKATES WERE BONES.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_MONKEYS_OF_INDIA"><b>THE MONKEYS OF INDIA.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THE_LITTLE_DELINQUENT"><b>THE LITTLE DELINQUENT.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#THREE_FAMOUS_DIAMONDS"><b>THREE FAMOUS DIAMONDS.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#TEMERITY"><b>TEMERITY.</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX"><b>OUR POST-OFFICE BOX</b></a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><a href="#NOSES_OUT_OF_JOINT"><b>NOSES OUT OF JOINT.</b></a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;"> +<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="383" alt="Banner: Harper's Young People" title="" /> +</div> + +<hr style='width: 100%;' /> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Vol</span>. I.—No. 13.</td><td align='center'><span class="smcap">Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York</span>.</td><td align='right'><span class="smcap">Price Four Cents</span>.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tuesday, January 27, 1880.</td><td align='center'>Copyright, 1880, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>.</td><td align='right'>$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style='width: 100%;' /> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 493px;"><a name="THE_DANCE_IN_THE_KITCHEN" id="THE_DANCE_IN_THE_KITCHEN"></a> +<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="493" height="500" alt=""'I'LL YOUR PARTNER BE,' SAID SHE."—Drawn by Sol Eytinge, Jun." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"'I'LL YOUR PARTNER BE,' SAID SHE."—<span class="smcap">Drawn by Sol Eytinge, Jun.</span></span> +</div> + +<h2>THE DANCE IN THE KITCHEN.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Oh, that winter afternoon,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Such a merry, merry tune</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;">As the jolly, fat tea-kettle chose its singing to begin!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;">'Twas a lilting Scottish air,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;">And it seemed, I do declare,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">As though bagpipe played by fairy was forever joining in.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Then the bagpipe ceased to play,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And another tune straightway</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Sang the kettle, louder, louder, till its voice grew very big;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And the feet of laughing girls</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">(Girls with shamrock in their curls)</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;">You could almost hear a-keeping time to that old Irish jig.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Darling, smiling, cunning Bess</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Grasped with tiny hands her dress,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;">And a pretty courtesy making, while the kettle made a bow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"I'll your partner be," said she;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Forward, backward, one, two, three;"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;">And pussy cried, "Bravo! my dears," in one immense me-ow.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And they danced right merrily</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Till 'twas nearly time for tea,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;">The kettle tilting this way and then that way—oh, what fun!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And its hat bobbed up and down</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;">On its moist and steamy crown,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 20em;">With a clatter falling off at last, and then the dance was done.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_OLD_MAN_OF_MONTROSE" id="THE_OLD_MAN_OF_MONTROSE"></a>THE OLD MAN OF MONTROSE.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">There was an old man of Montrose</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Who had a remarkable nose,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">So long and so thin,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And so far from his chin,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">'Twas always in danger of blows.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">One day the old man of Montrose</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Went out without muffling his nose;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And it grieves me to tell</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">That this organ of smell</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">As stiff as an icicle froze.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Soon after, in sneezing, "<i>ker-choo</i>,"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">His nose into smithereens flew,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And left but a stump,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">A ridiculous lump,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">That even in summer looked blue.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">The frost-bitten man of Montrose</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Used words that were equal to blows;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And so great his disgrace,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">He soon quitted the place,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And where he has gone no one knows.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_BRAVEST_OF_THE_BRAVE" id="THE_BRAVEST_OF_THE_BRAVE"></a>"THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE."</h2> + +<p>In the small but strongly fortified town of Saar-Louis, on what was then +the borders of France, in Rhenish Prussia, there was born, a little more +than a hundred years ago, a child whose future intrepid career earned +for him the title of "the bravest of the brave." His father's trade was +nothing more warlike than that of a cooper; his home life and training +were not different from those of many of his playmates; and yet before +he was sixteen years old he had entered a regiment of hussars, or light +cavalry, and before he was thirty had attained the high rank of general +of division.</p> + +<p>But those were warlike days; the French Revolution had just begun; all +Europe was echoing with the clash and tread of such armies as the world +had never before seen; and living as he did in the shadow of +fortifications constructed by France's greatest military engineer, +Vauban, it is not so strange that the youth became filled with an +intense desire to taste the glory and share the danger of a soldier's +life.</p> + +<p>Michael Ney, Marshal of France, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskwa—for +by all these titles, commemorative of some one or other of his numerous +victories, was he known—early rose in the confidence and estimation of +the great Napoleon, and was by him intrusted with the most responsible +commands in Switzerland, Prussia, Austria, and Spain; and it was not +until he met Wellington at Torres Vedras, in the Peninsula, that he met +his superior in the art of war; and even then, by a happy mixture of +courage and skill, Ney was enabled to mitigate to a great extent the +bitterness of defeat. But to relate his whole career would be to fill a +volume, so we will only consider one or two incidents in his life.</p> + +<p>In 1810, Ney took an active part in the invasion of Russia, and by his +address and energy contributed largely to the French victory at the +battle of the Moskwa, called by the Russians the battle of Borodino.</p> + +<p>When the Russian Bear turned upon the invader, and the ever-memorable +retreat commenced, with all its attendant horrors of cold, hunger, and +physical pain, to Ney was assigned the honorable but arduous task of +protecting the rear of the fleeing troops. At the start Ney's force +numbered 7000 men, and on leaving Smolensk he found himself confronted +by an army four times as large.</p> + +<p>He was summoned to surrender before commencing the attack, and his +characteristic reply, "A Marshal of France never surrenders," has passed +into history, though it must be confessed that, in the light of recent +events, history does not always bear out the assertion. Repeatedly +driven back with awful loss, Ney determined to outwit the enemy; so, +under cover of darkness, he and his troops made a wide circuit, and +reached the bank of the river Dnieper far in advance of the pursuers.</p> + +<p>But here a new foe confronted the gallant Marshal. How should he cross +the stream? He had no boats, and although the weather was intensely +cold, the rapid current was covered only by a thin coating of ice that +bent beneath the weight of a single man. However, to deliberate was to +be lost; so, dividing his forces into small companies, he caused the +advance to be sounded, himself stepping first upon the glassy surface.</p> + +<p>What a subject for a painter is here presented!—the frozen snowy +landscape; the bare skeleton trees; the broad serpentine course of the +frost-bound river, with here and there patches of open water showing +darkly against the snow-covered ice; the scattered groups of soldiers +treading carefully, and with the possibility before them that at the +next step the treacherous floor might precipitate them into an icy +grave.</p> + +<p>But the hazardous passage was safely effected, and after a series of +conflicts with forces in every case far superior to his own, Ney +succeeded in rejoining the Emperor at Orsha, where he was received with +open arms, and hailed as "the bravest of the brave"—a name which clung +to him from that time.</p> + +<p>After Napoleon left the army, Ney still continued to fight in the rear +against the ever-increasing hordes of Russians that harassed the flanks +of the fugitive army. Three times was the rear-guard that he commanded +melted away by death, captivity, or flight, and as often was it +reorganized by the indomitable Marshal who "never surrendered."</p> + +<p>At last, with a poor remnant of only thirty men, Ney defended the gate +of the town of Kovno—the last place in the Russian dominions through +which the French retreated—against the pursuers, while the main body +escaped through the gate at the other end of the town. He was himself +the very last man to retire. Snatching a pistol from one of his men, he +fired the last shot in the faces of the Russians, flung the weapon into +the river Niemen, plunged in after it, and amid a storm of bullets swam +the stream, and gained the neighboring forest, successfully eluded his +pursuers, and joined his comrades, who had mourned him as dead, in the +Prussian territory.</p> + +<p>Ney's end was as unfortunate as it was unworthy so brave a soldier. When +Napoleon was banished to Elba, Ney, who had previously incurred his +displeasure, gave his allegiance to the restored Bourbons, and when the +great Emperor re-appeared in France, Ney was placed in command of the +army sent to oppose him, promising his new superiors to bring back +Napoleon "like a wild beast in a cage."</p> + +<p>There is no reason to doubt Ney's sincerity in this unhappy episode of +his career. He was of a brave, impulsive disposition, one accustomed to +act on the spur of the moment; so, when he drew near to the Emperor, and +found that the men he commanded, nearly all of whom had fought at some +time or other under the Emperor, were fixed in a resolve not to fight +against Napoleon, it is not so much to be wondered at that Ney became +Napoleonist with as much ardor as ever. And when Napoleon called on him +by his old title, "the bravest of the brave," to once more rally under +his standard, Ney responded with alacrity, as though the name possessed +a magic spell he could not resist.</p> + +<p>After Waterloo, when all that pertained to the cause of the dethroned +Emperor was irretrievably lost, Ney was brought to trial by the +re-restored Bourbons on the charge of treason, and was condemned to be +shot on December 7, 1815. He met death with that same unflinching +bravery<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span> which he so many times displayed, during his eventful career, +on most of the great battle-fields of Europe.</p> + +<p>On December 7, 1853, exactly thirty-eight years after his death, a +statue was raised to the memory of the intrepid Marshal on the precise +spot on which his execution occurred.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h4><a name="LADY_PRIMROSE" id="LADY_PRIMROSE"></a>[Begun in No. 11 of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, January 13.]</h4> + +<h2>LADY PRIMROSE.</h2> + +<h3>BY FLETCHER READE.</h3> + +<h3>CHAPTER III.</h3> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"A primrose by the river's brim</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">A yellow primrose was to him,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And it was nothing more."</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>"Princess Bébè! Princess Bébè! Princess Bébè!"</p> + +<p>It was the little gate-keeper, running at the top of his speed, and +shouting at the top of his voice.</p> + +<p>Very much heated and very red in the face was the little man as he stood +before the princess, holding out to her a loaf of bread almost as large +as himself.</p> + +<p>"This is for you," he said, in a choked voice, for he had run so far and +so fast that he could hardly speak at all. "The wise old woman of +Hollowbush sent it. Now eat, eat. Let me see what it is like—let me see +how you do it."</p> + +<p>While the princess ate her loaf of bread with more eagerness than any +member of royalty ever displayed before or since, the gate-keeper +watched her with wondering eyes.</p> + +<p>"Well, I never saw anything like that before," he said at length. "And +you go through that remarkable performance every day! Every day!" he +repeated, in a tone of the most intense astonishment.</p> + +<p>"But where did you find it?" asked the princess, who was more interested +in the bread than in the gate-keeper.</p> + +<p>"Find it!" he exclaimed. "I didn't find it. That wise old woman of +Hollowbush, who has discovered the secret of the three knocks, knocked +on the wall, and when I had opened the door, she thrust it in, saying +she would bring you a fresh loaf every day."</p> + +<p>"Then she has not quite forgotten me," sighed the princess, thinking of +her last conversation with this same wise old lady. "But does she know +that I must stay here the rest of my life?"</p> + +<p>"Oh yes," answered the gate-keeper, shaking his head, and looking very +wise. "That is—there is a secret—did it never occur to you, my dear +princess," he added, suddenly, "that there might be a way of making your +escape?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, you dear delicious little gate-keeper!" exclaimed the princess, +seizing him in her arms, and tossing him up and down. "I see how it is: +you will let me out—you will do it. Oh, I am sure you will!"</p> + +<p>"Not so fast, my dear," said the little man, struggling to free himself. +"Put me down, and I will tell you all about it. But first of all you +must promise to keep the whole matter a profound secret: if you should +tell any one, the plan would fail."</p> + +<p>"Oh, I can keep a secret," said the princess, smiling, and beginning to +feel quite happy again.</p> + +<p>"Well, then," said the gate-keeper, seating himself by the +fountain—which was not a fountain at all, but only an imitation very +skillfully done in aquamarine—"you are to stay here a year. Then, when +the spring comes you are to be changed into a primrose, if you will +consent to it, and grow up out of the ground like other flowers. Hidden +deep within the woods, you must wait patiently, through sunshine and +rain, till some one finds you, and breaks you from the stem. Whoever he +may be, rich or poor, young or old, if he loves the flower well enough +to take it home, and place it carefully in a vase of water, he will have +the power of transforming it into a mortal, and you will be restored to +your home in a world where the sun shines and where flowers grow."</p> + +<p>"Dear! dear!" said the princess, "I suppose I must consent, if that is +the only way of making my escape. But what if no one comes into the +woods, and what if no one cares enough for the primrose to pick it?"</p> + +<p>"Then it will wither on its stem, and you must come back to us, and be +the Princess Bébè for another year."</p> + +<p>The trial which was proposed to her seemed a very hard one, and the year +which followed seemed very long. If it had not been for the kindness of +the gate-keeper, who amused her by showing her all the curiosities which +the kingdom of the mineral-workers contained, and explaining how the +gems were cleaned and polished and cut, I am afraid the poor Princess +Bébè would have died of homesickness long before spring. But at last the +year came to an end, as all years must, and she started on her journey +into the upper world.</p> + +<p>Day after day she struggled through the earth, pushing her roots deep +down into the soil, and stretching her slender leaf-like arms up into +the sunlight. The dew came and kissed the little flower-bud with sweet +moist lips, the sunshine warmed it, and the south wind sang to it, until +at last a yellow primrose opened its eyes in the dark woods.</p> + +<p>Day after day it lived there, trembling at the sound of every footstep, +and wishing and praying deep down in its flower-heart for a friend.</p> + +<p>June days had never seemed so long as these, for, despite her prayers, +no one came, and the lonely primrose grew faint and weary with +disappointment.</p> + +<p>At last, however, a party of children playing in the woods caught sight +of her bright face, and one of them—a merry, rosy-cheeked boy—broke +the flower from its stem. He held it up to his companions, and they ran +laughing after him.</p> + +<p>"Oh, it's nothing but a yellow primrose," he said, as they tried to +snatch the flower from his hand; and with these words he threw it away.</p> + +<p>So it was all in vain that the little flower had lived and died, for the +next day the Princess Bébè found herself back in the kingdom of the +mineral-workers.</p> + +<p>Her diamond necklace was just as beautiful as ever; her opal bed seemed +all alive with trembling colors, soft white and flashing crimson; and +the king welcomed her right royally, without a word of reproach for her +long absence.</p> + +<p>But for all that, her heart grew heavier every day. Even the attentions +of the gate-keeper became tiresome; and when he tried to make her laugh +with his merry ways, she could only smile sadly, and say, "Oh, it was +such a disappointment to be picked, and then thrown away."</p> + +<p>"Never mind—never mind," he would answer, cheerily: "better luck next +time." And so the days dragged slowly by until another spring.</p> + +<p>Then the princess began to hope once more; and when she found herself +actually lifting her head into the sunlight, and felt the soft air blow +over her, she wondered how she could ever have believed for a moment +that anything was better or more beautiful than the deep blue sky above +one, and the green earth beneath.</p> + +<p>Contented and happy, she waited patiently through wind and rain, until +it seemed as if her patience were to be rewarded.</p> + +<p>A young man on a jet-black horse came riding through the woods. His face +was bright and handsome, and he looked out upon the world with as merry +a pair of eyes as you would care to see.</p> + +<p>"Oh, if he would only take me home!" thought the flower. "I should like +to be rescued by such a handsome youth as he." And in spite of her +yellow primrose face, the little flower actually blushed.</p> + +<p>"What a bright little flower!" said the young man, as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span> he rode along. +"If it were not so much trouble getting off my horse, I would carry it +home to Marjorie. But it's only a commonplace little primrose after +all," he added, and so rode on.</p> + +<p>That night the little flower cried itself to sleep among the shadows, +and before morning it had withered on its stem.</p> + +<p>"I will never make the attempt again," said the Princess Bébè, when she +found herself once more in the kingdom of the mineral-workers.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 330px;"> +<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="330" height="400" alt="THE PRINCESS BÉBÈ AND ALECK." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE PRINCESS BÉBÈ AND ALECK.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Oh yes, you will," said the gate-keeper, who had come forward to meet +her. "If life is worth having, it is worth struggling for. Next year I +shall send you up for your trial, whether you consent or not."</p> + +<p>"If that is the case, I suppose I may as well consent at once," said the +princess, and so yielded the point.</p> + +<p>And when the long, long days of another year had come and gone, she left +the kingdom of the mineral-workers for the third time. For the third +time she struggled through the ground, lifting up her head among the +blue-eyed violets and slender waving grasses.</p> + +<p>She shook out her petals in the sunlight, and smiled as sweetly as a +primrose can smile; but the spring days went by, and the summer was +almost over, before any one took any notice of her.</p> + +<p>The poor little primrose was almost ready to die of despair, when one +day, looking up quite suddenly, she saw the face of an old man bending +over her.</p> + +<p>He had gray hair and kind gray eyes; and as he looked at the flower he +smiled tenderly, as if he were looking at something that he loved.</p> + +<p>The flower smiled in turn, but could not speak.</p> + +<p>"You must go home with me, little primrose," said the old man, stooping +over the flower.</p> + +<p>The fact that this gray-haired, gray-eyed old man was a poet will +account, perhaps, for his talking to a flower as if it could understand +what he said. At all events, he broke it from the stem, and when he +reached his home placed it in a glass of water, saying,</p> + +<p>"There you must stay, my little flower, until I can write a poem worthy +of your bright face."</p> + +<p>No sooner had he uttered these words than he saw standing before him a +young girl with golden hair and softly shining eyes.</p> + +<p>"Bless me! bless me!" exclaimed the old man, in great surprise, taking +off the spectacles which he had so carefully adjusted across his nose, +"where did you come from, my lady?"</p> + +<p>"I came from the flower," she said; and she threw her arms round his +neck and kissed him on the lips.</p> + +<p>She was so delighted at her escape that she was not wholly responsible +for her actions; and if she cried a little, I don't think any one will +blame her.</p> + +<p>Laughing and crying at the same time, and half wild with excitement, she +told her new friend the story of her life for the past few years; and +he, in his turn, smiled and wept a little, perhaps, and then he kissed +her on the lips, and said,</p> + +<p>"Henceforth, my dear girl, you shall be known as the Lady Primrose, and +you shall stay with me as long as you will."</p> + +<p>Whether or no he ever wrote a poem about her I can not tell. All I know +is that she lived with him for the rest of her life, and was the +sweetest and happiest Lady Primrose imaginable.</p> + +<p>The house was as full of flowers as it could hold, and when the wise old +woman of Hollowbush, who, you may be sure, had not forgotten her, asked +her if she did not want another diamond necklace, Lady Primrose would +answer:</p> + +<p>"I don't care if I never see another diamond. The simplest flowers that +grow in the woods are the loveliest jewels God ever made, and so long as +I can have them, the lifeless flowers of the underground world may bloom +for those who do not know of how little value the jewels they prize so +highly really are."</p> + +<h4><span class="smcap">the end</span>.</h4> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="EIGHTY_YEARS_OF_A_BIRDS_LIFE" id="EIGHTY_YEARS_OF_A_BIRDS_LIFE"></a>EIGHTY YEARS OF A BIRD'S LIFE.</h2> + +<h3>BY MRS. AMELIA E. BARR.</h3> + +<p>You must understand, my dear young readers, that the Raven of this tale +is not at all an ordinary bird. It is true, he could not sing even as +well as the smallest wren, but then he could talk, and it was generally +believed that he knew a great deal more than the wisest of men and women +supposed. He was, too, the very last representative of an extremely +ancient family of Ravens, who had inhabited some rocky hills just behind +the little cottage for hundreds of years—a family, indeed, so ancient +that they had watched the battle-fields of Celts, Romans, Saxons, Danes, +and Normans, and had had among them very wise birds, who croaked quite +learnedly on the subject.</p> + +<p>Now at the bottom of the lofty rocks which they inhabited was a rich and +beautiful valley, and here, four hundred years ago, a Norman lord, who +was a great fighter, built himself a fine castle. The Ravens and he got +on very well together, and became great friends. His hunting and +fighting supplied them with food, and it is said they told him a great +many things that only a bird can know. He called his castle Ravensfield, +and very soon people began to call him Ravensfield, and then the birds +and he grew more friendly than ever. And it is said that when he was +dying he told his son always to be good to the Ravens, for that just as +long as the Ravens lived on Raven's Rock, the Ravensfields would own the +rich lands below it.</p> + +<p>For two hundred years everything went well; the knights grew rich and +powerful, and the birds fat and numerous. Then the Ravensfields began to +go to London, and spend money, and do all sorts of foolish things, and +get into all kinds of troubles, and though the Ravens croaked and +croaked until they were hoarse, they would not be prudent, and stay at +home and mind their own business.</p> + +<p>So the end of the matter was that every Ravensfield got poorer, and the +fine old castle fell into ruins, and the colony of Ravens among the +rocks also got smaller and smaller, until one morning the last knight of +Ravensfield found in a deserted nest the last of this once powerful +family of birds. It was half fledged and half starved, and he brought it +home, and gave it to his sister to nurse. "Sister Mabel," he said, +sadly, "this is the luck of Ravensfield: nurse it carefully, and +to-morrow I will buckle my sword to my belt and go to India. I do +believe this bird will live to see the old house rebuilt, and the glory +of our family restored."</p> + +<p>So the young Lord Stephen went over the seas, and Miss Mabel nursed the +bird, and talked hopefully to it for fifteen years. But poor Lord +Stephen was killed in a great Indian battle, and soon after there came +to Miss Mabel a little lad who was Lord Stephen's only child. His father +had left him a little money, and his aunt Mabel took great pains with +him, and sent him to the best schools; and when he was twenty years old, +she buckled his sword on his belt, and kissing him tenderly, sent him +away also to India. "For, Stephen," she said, "you must win fame and +gold to buy back the house and lands of Ravensfield."</p> + +<p>All these twenty years the Raven had been growing large and splendid, +and when the second Lord Stephen went away, he looked after him with a +queer sidewise glance that filled Miss Mabel's heart with fear. But he +was a bold, brave youth, and sent happy letters over the sea, and Miss +Mabel told the Raven all the news, and I have no doubt they comforted +each other very much. After nine years had passed, the Raven suddenly +grew silent, and then there came a sad, sad letter: the second Lord +Stephen had been killed fighting under his flag, and his sickly little +baby girl was sent home to his aunt in England.</p> + +<p>Poor Miss Mabel was now sixty years old, and her heart and hopes were +quite crushed. She had little love left for the desolate child, and she +seemed to take a dislike to the poor Raven. At any rate, she never spoke +to it, and the bird became the companion of the little girl. They played +and ate and slept together, and when little Nannette went out to gather +primroses or berries, the Raven always walked solemnly beside her.</p> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 296px;"> +<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="296" height="400" alt="NANNETTE FEEDING THE RAVEN." title="" /> +<span class="caption">NANNETTE FEEDING THE RAVEN.</span> +</div> + +<p>One morning (the very morning when somebody drew this picture of them) +her aunt was cross—she had a heartache, and a toothache too, poor old +lady!—and Nannette took her porringer of bread and milk out of the +cottage, and she and the bird were enjoying it together, when some one +called out, "Nannette, I am going to shoot that ugly old bird!"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span></p> + +<p>Then Nannette's little heart stood still in her terror, and she dropped +her breakfast and ran to the boy, crying out that she should die if it +were killed, for it was the only thing in all the world she had to love +her.</p> + +<p>The boy saw that she had great brown eyes, and beautiful brown hair, and +a little mouth like a rose-bud, and he thought, "How lovely she is!" and +dropped his gun, and said so many comforting words to Nannette, that +always after it they were the very dearest of friends. And the Raven +seemed to approve of Reginald also—for Reginald was the little boy's +name, and he was very proud of it, being, as you know, a little out of +the common; he would perch on his shoulder, and what he said to him as +years went by I can not tell; but Reginald became thoughtful, and talked +to Nannette continually about going away, and growing rich, and then +coming home to marry her and make her a great lady. But Reginald did not +have money enough to go away, and so he was often very sad and silent.</p> + +<p>One day he came to Nannette with a paper in his hand. "See!" he cried, +"the squire's son has been lost in the hills while hunting, and there is +one hundred pounds to be given to whoever finds him. I know all about +the hills, and shall certainly find the young squire." Then he said +good-by to Nannette, and would have done so to the Raven, but the bird +flew away before him, and for all his mistress's cries he would not come +back. So together they went up the rocks, and Nannette watched them +quite out of sight.</p> + +<p>And Reginald, who knew a great deal about birds, watched the Raven, and +saw that he flew continually over one spot in a narrow ravine; and there +he found the poor young squire. His horse had been killed by the fall, +and there he lay with a broken leg, and almost dead with hunger and +thirst and pain. After this piece of good luck, Reginald's way was +clear. Every one was then talking about a new country full of gold, +called California; and though it was at the other end of the world, +Reginald bravely sailed away into the West. Aunt Mabel shook her head, +and the Raven nodded his head, and Nannette cried and laughed, and bid +him "come quickly back, and build again the beautiful castle of +Ravensfield"; and Reginald said, gravely, "I will surely do it," whereat +the Raven nodded his wise-looking head harder than before.</p> + +<p>"How long will he be away, Aunt Mabel?" said Nannette, sadly.</p> + +<p>"Twenty years at least, my dear. I shall never see him again. I am +seventy-five years old now."</p> + +<p>"And I am fifteen. Ah! I shall be an old woman when Reginald comes back, +and he won't know his little Nannette any more!" Then the Raven said +something to Nannette, and she laughed, and his "Croak! croak!" sounded +very like "Yes! yes!" It did, indeed.</p> + +<p>Four years after Reginald went away, a very singular thing happened. Two +pairs of strange Ravens came to Raven's Rock, and built nests and reared +their young there. Nannette's Raven went very often to see them, and +seemed to be altogether a changed bird. For though he was getting near +sixty years old, he began to plume his feathers, and to sit continually +at the cottage door, watching, watching, watching, as if he expected +somebody.</p> + +<p>It affected Nannette at last. "I think, aunt," she said, timidly, "that +Reginald must be coming home. Just look at that bird!"</p> + +<p>"Nonsense, child! How should he know?"</p> + +<p>And indeed I don't understand how this wonderful bird knew, but he did; +for that very night, just as Nannette was going to light the candle, she +heard Reginald's step on the crisp snow, and the old lady heard it, and +the Raven heard it, and there was the gladdest meeting you can possibly +imagine; and if ever a bird said "I told you so," that Raven said it at +least a hundred times that night.</p> + +<p>Besides, Reginald had come home with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds +of pounds; and he married lovely Nannette, and rebuilt Ravensfield; and +dear, patient Aunt Mabel, after sixty years of waiting, went back to the +stately old house, and ended her days in the little parlor where she had +kissed her brother Stephen farewell.</p> + +<p>As for the Raven, he showed himself to be a bird of a very aristocratic +nature. He stepped proudly about the fine halls and gardens, and never +went near the little cottage or the village streets again. He lived +until his fine plumage began to turn gray, and Nannette's oldest son was +almost big enough to put on a scarlet coat and a sword; and when he was +nearly eighty years old he died on Nannette's knee, his foot in her +hand, and the last thing he was conscious of was her tears dropping upon +it.</p> + +<p>Very likely, children, some extremely wise men and women will say, "I +would not believe too much of this story, boys and girls." But when you +have lived as long as I have lived, you will know that extremely wise +men and women <i>don't know everything</i>. At any rate, there are plenty of +Ravens on Raven's Rock now, and plenty of Ravensfields in the splendid +castle; and if ever you go to England, you can see them if you want to.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="A_HARD_SWIM" id="A_HARD_SWIM"></a>A HARD SWIM.</h2> + +<h3>BY DAVID KER.</h3> + +<p>There are few things more delightful than to be at sea on a fine summer +day, with a bright blue sky above and a bright blue sea below, while the +fresh breeze fills your sails, and the great smooth waves toss you +lightly along, and spatter you at times with their glittering spray, +like frolicsome giants. But it is a very different thing to be out in +the teeth of a real equinoctial gale, with the whole sky black as ink, +and the whole sea one sheet of boiling foam, and a huge wave coming +thundering over the deck every other minute, sweeping everything before +it, and making the whole vessel tremble from stem to stern.</p> + +<p>So, doubtless, thought Olaf Petersen, captain and owner of the Norwegian +schooner <i>Thyra</i>, of Bergen, when just such a storm caught him half way +across the North Sea. It <i>did</i> seem rather hard, after escaping all the +storms of blustering March, that fresh, genial April should serve him +such a trick; but so it was, and instead of having a short and easy run +northeastward to Bergen, as he expected, he found himself flying away to +the west, driven by a gale which seemed strong enough to blow him right +round the world, if it did not happen to sink him by the way.</p> + +<p>All the sails had long since been taken in, and the little craft was +scudding under bare poles, no one being on deck but the two men at the +wheel (who had quite enough to do keeping her head straight) and the +captain himself. A fine picture Olaf Petersen would have made as he +stood there, with the spray rattling like hail upon his drenched +tarpaulins, and his clear bright eye looking keenly out through the wet +hair that was plastered over his face. It might be seen by the firm set +of his mouth that he meant to fight it out while a plank would swim; but +he looked grave and anxious, nevertheless.</p> + +<p>And well he might. This time it was not only his vessel and the lives of +himself and his crew that were in danger: his young wife was on board, +after whom the <i>Thyra</i> had been named, and it was now too late to blame +himself for having granted her entreaty to be allowed to sail along with +him, instead of being left at home by herself for so many weary weeks, +without knowing whether he was alive or dead.</p> + +<p>Still it blew harder, and harder yet. Had not the <i>Thyra</i> been as good a +sea-boat as ever swam, it would have been all over with her. Even as it +was, she could barely hold her own against the mountains of water that +came plunging over her deck with a force that seemed sufficient to rend +a rock. More than once the captain's stiffened fingers<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span> were almost torn +from their hold upon the weather rigging, while the men at the wheel +were under water again and again. Vainly did Olaf strain his eyes to +windward in the hope of seeing a break in the inky sky. All was grim and +gloomy, and amid the blinding spray and the deepening darkness it was +hard to tell where the sea ended and the sky began.</p> + +<p>All that night and all the next morning they drove blindly onward, not +knowing where they were; for the sun had not been seen for two whole +days, and no observation could be taken. But Captain Petersen, who had +those seas by heart, began to fear that they were being driven in among +the Orkney Isles, and he knew only too well what chance the stoutest +three-decker would have against those tremendous rocks with such a sea +running.</p> + +<p>Toward afternoon the wind fell suddenly, though the sea still ran high; +but now came something worse than all—one of those terrible Northern +fogs which turn day into night, and make the oldest sailor as helpless +as a child. The lanterns were lit and hoisted, the ship's bell was kept +constantly tolling, and the captain ordered up two "look-outs" besides +himself; but the fog grew thicker and thicker, till those on the +forecastle could barely make out the foremast.</p> + +<p>Ha! what was that huge dim shadow that loomed out suddenly just ahead, +like a threatening giant? Could it be a <i>rock</i>?</p> + +<p>"Port your helm!—port!" roared the captain, at the full pitch of his +voice.</p> + +<p>But it was too late. The next moment there came a deafening crash, a +shock that threw them all off their feet, and the vessel, with her bows +stove in, was sawing and grinding upon the sharp rocks that had pierced +her through and through, with the water rushing into her like a +cataract.</p> + +<p>The next few minutes were like the confusion of a troubled dream—a +shadowy vision of a huge dark mass overhead, a short fierce struggle +amid swirling foam and broken timbers—and then the captain and wife +found themselves upon one of the higher ledges, hardly knowing how they +had reached it, while the crew, with bleeding hands and sorely bruised +limbs, dragged themselves painfully up after them.</p> + +<p>They were not a moment too soon. Scarcely had the last man gained the +ledge, when a mountain wave took the vessel aback. She slid off the +rocks which had held her up, and went down so quickly that the captain, +turning at the shouts of his men, just caught a glimpse of her topmasts +vanishing under water.</p> + +<p>The situation of the shipwrecked crew was now dreary enough. Alone upon +a bare rock in the midst of a stormy sea, with no means of escape, and +no food but the few brine-soaked biscuits in their pockets, there seemed +to be nothing left for them but to give themselves up and die. But, of +all men living, a sailor is the least apt to think his case hopeless, +however dark it may appear. Having just been saved from apparently +certain death, the stout-hearted seamen were in no mood to despair so +easily; and settling themselves snugly in a sheltered cleft of the rock, +they ate their scanty meal (a good share of which had been reserved for +Mrs. Petersen) as cheerily as if they were lying at anchor in Bergen +Harbor.</p> + +<p>Just as the meal ended, the fog suddenly rolled away like a curtain, and +the last gleam of the setting sun showed them an island several miles to +the north, on the shore of which the keen-eyed captain made out a few +white specks that looked like fishermen's huts.</p> + +<p>"Lads," cried he, "if the wind rises again, it'll blow us all into the +sea; and even if it don't, we shall freeze to death if we stick here all +night, with no room to move about. There's just <i>one</i> chance left for +us, and I'm going to take it. Somebody must swim to that island for +help, and as I believe I'm the best swimmer among us, I'll be the one to +do it."</p> + +<p>"Olaf!" cried his wife, catching him by the arm, "you won't think of it! +It's certain death!"</p> + +<p>"Pooh, pooh!" said the captain, cheerily. "I haven't swum across Bergen +Bay and back for nothing. It's certain death to sit here and freeze, if +you like; but you'll soon see me coming back with half a dozen stout +fellows, and we'll all have a good supper before the night's out. Keep +your heart up, dear. God bless you!"</p> + +<p>The next moment he was in the water, and vanishing from the eager eyes +that watched him into the fast-falling shadows of night. Then came a +long silence. The men looked at each other, no one daring to utter the +thought which was in every one's mind, while Thyra Petersen hid her face +in her hands, and prayed as she had never prayed before.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile Captain Petersen, who had told no more than the truth in +calling himself a good swimmer, was breasting the waves manfully. But he +soon found the difference between attempting a long swim when quite +fresh and vigorous, and doing the same thing after a hard night's work, +on short allowance of food, and with limbs stiffened by wet and cold. +Moreover, the sea, although much quieter than it had been, was still +rough enough to tell sorely against him. Before he had gone a mile he +felt his strength beginning to fail; but he thought of his wife, and of +all the other lives that now depended upon him alone, and struggled +desperately onward. But now came a new trouble. In the deepening +darkness the island for which he was heading soon disappeared +altogether, and he found himself swimming almost at random. Every stroke +was now a matter of life and death, and yet each of those strokes might +be taken in the wrong direction. It was a terrible thought. Heavier and +heavier grew his cramped limbs, harder and harder pressed the merciless +sea. He sank—rose—sank again, and as he came up once more, lifted his +voice in a despairing cry, feeling that all was over.</p> + +<p>"Hist, laddies! there's some ane skirling" (screaming), shouted a hoarse +voice near him.</p> + +<p>There was a sudden splash of oars, a clamor of many voices, and then a +strong hand clutched him as he sank for the last time. So utterly was he +spent that he could barely force out the few words needful to tell his +story; but these were quite enough for the Orkney fishermen, who at once +put about and steered straight for the rock.</p> + +<p>It was a glad sight for the weary watchers, when the boat came gliding +toward them out of the darkness. But when they recognized their captain, +whom they had long since given up for lost, they gathered their last +strength for a feeble cheer, while poor Thyra sprang into the boat, and +threw her arms round his neck without a word.</p> + +<p>So ended Captain Petersen's daring swim, which brought him good in a way +that he little expected; for when the news of the feat reached Bergen, +the townspeople at once started a subscription to buy him another +vessel, in which he is voyaging now.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="SOME_CURIOUS_ART_WORKS_AND_ARTISTS" id="SOME_CURIOUS_ART_WORKS_AND_ARTISTS"></a>SOME CURIOUS ART WORKS AND ARTISTS.</h2> + +<p>The Marquis de Veere once gave each of his household a sufficient +quantity of the richest white silk damask for a suit. Charles V. was +about to make him a visit, and the marquis wished his court to make a +splendid appearance when assisting him to receive the emperor. His +painter, Mabuse, who was always in debt, was granted the privilege of +seeing to the making of his own suit of clothes. Mabuse, however, sold +the damask for a good price, and having made a paper suit, painted it so +perfectly to represent the damask that when he appeared in it all were +deceived.</p> + +<p>When the marquis called the emperor's attention to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span> beautiful +clothing of his court, and asked which suit he most admired, the emperor +at once selected that of Mabuse. The joke was then explained to the +emperor, but he would not believe that the suit was not of real damask +until he had touched it with his hands.</p> + +<p>It no doubt took Mabuse considerable time to paint his damask, but a +much more celebrated artist once made a wonderful drawing almost in an +instant. At the time of the Cæsars there was at Rome a panel on which +was to be seen nothing but three colored lines. The lines were drawn one +on top of the other, each thinner line dividing the next wider. This was +considered one of the most wonderful art works at Rome.</p> + +<p>The Grecian painter Apelles went one day into Protogenes's studio, and +finding that artist out, drew on a panel the widest of the three lines +in such a peculiar and beautiful manner that Protogenes knew at once his +caller. When Apelles called the second time he found that Protogenes had +drawn a colored line upon the first line, dividing it with the most +delicate accuracy. Seeing this, Apelles divided the second line, to +every one's astonishment. Protogenes lived at Rhodes, and the panel was +taken to Rome to be admired by all who saw it. When the imperial palace +was destroyed, the panel unfortunately shared a like fate.</p> + +<p>In comparison, what a delicate flower is to a huge log, so the work of +Apelles would be to such a vast oil-painting as the "Apotheosis of +Hercules," painted by Lemoin, a Frenchman. This picture measured +sixty-four feet one way by fifty-four feet the other, and the +ultramarine to paint the clouds on it alone cost two thousand dollars.</p> + +<p>Another huge painting, said to be the largest in the world, is +Tintoretto's "Paradise," at Venice. It contains an almost innumerable +multitude of figures, and fills the end of a large hall, over three +hundred feet long and half as wide.</p> + +<p>One of the most minute and beautiful of art works now at Florence is a +glory of sixty saints carved on a cherry stone. It was carved by the +Italian sculptress Rossi, who executed other similar carvings, besides +working in marble.</p> + +<p>Some of the old artists had peculiar methods of working. Aspertino +taught himself to paint with both hands at the same time; and Goya, who +died in this century, frequently used a stick or a sponge rather than a +brush. There are pictures of Goya's done entirely with his palette knife +and finger-ends.</p> + +<p>One of the oddest of all artists was Bazzi, called Il Soddoma. Not only +did he dress peculiarly, but his house was full of strange pet animals, +such as monkeys and queer birds. Among the birds was a raven that could +perfectly imitate his voice and manner of speech.</p> + +<p>Sir Joshua Reynolds painted with brushes the handles of which were a +foot and a half long, and used them so rapidly that he would paint a +portrait in four hours. The finest of his pictures were those of +children.</p> + +<p>Other painters were noted also especially for their rapid work. One +morning when some citizens called upon the Spanish painter Serra with an +order for an altarpiece, he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> invited them to stay to dinner, and in the +mean while to pass the time in his garden. When dinner-time came, the +citizens were perfectly amazed to see Serra walk into their presence +bearing the finished picture.</p> + +<p>Rizi, another Spanish painter, went in early life to Salamanca to study +theology, but he arrived there without money, and found that to be +received at the college he must pay a hundred ducats. The abbot of the +college gave Rizi but two days in which to get the money, or be refused +as a student. Within that time, however, Rizi painted and sold a picture +for the desired amount. He continued to paint to pay for his education, +and in addition to becoming a famous painter he was made a bishop just +before he died.</p> + +<p>A celebrated painter of fairs and festivals such as took place among the +Dutch was David Teniers. He usually painted on small or moderate-sized +canvases, but the figures often were so numerous that one of his +pictures contains nearly twelve hundred figures, while others with two +hundred and three hundred figures are not rare. Teniers could imitate +the style of other painters. At Vienna is a picture of his representing +a gallery in which he and a gentleman are standing, and on the wall +before them are hung fifty pictures of other artists. The pictures, of +course, are quite small, but any one comparing them with the originals +sees how striking is the imitation of different styles.</p> + +<p>Another clever imitation of a very different kind was that of Peredo's, +whose wife, a lady of rank, wished to have a servant with her whenever +any one called. Peredo was not wealthy enough to keep merely ornamental +servants, and he painted an old lady with glasses sitting in a chair, +and who, apparently, when visitors saluted her, was so busily engaged in +sewing as not to hear them.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> +<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="700" height="547" alt="THE LITTLE ARTIST." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE LITTLE ARTIST.</span> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="HARES_WILD_AND_TAME" id="HARES_WILD_AND_TAME"></a>HARES, WILD AND TAME.</h2> + +<p>The hare family is one of the largest of the great animal kingdom, for +Master Lepus is found in almost every corner of the earth, and whether +hiding in tropical thickets, or scampering on Alpine heights, or through +the frozen regions of the North, it is always the same agile, shy, and +stupid little beast. It has very long ears, tipped with black, and heavy +whiskers growing from each cheek. Its hind-legs are very long. It is a +swift runner, and can jump a great distance.</p> + +<p>Hares are very common throughout the Northern United States, their +favorite haunts being overgrown old clearings, and thickets where are +many snug places of concealment. They change their fur during winter, +throwing off the pretty reddish-brown summer coat, and donning one of +white and dark fawn-color. The color of the fur, however, is so varied +that it is difficult to find two specimens exactly alike.</p> + +<div class="figleft" style="width: 294px;"> +<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="294" height="400" alt="HUNTING FOR SUPPER." title="" /> +<span class="caption">HUNTING FOR SUPPER.</span> +</div> + +<p>This little creature will eat any juicy, tender food, such as the young +buds and sprouts in the spring, berries, and leaves. It is fond of +cabbage leaves and young grain, and often does much mischief to the +crops. It generally sleeps through the day, and morning and evening +jumps about in search of food, scampering here and there wherever it can +find a sweet morsel to nibble. It does not burrow its nest in the +ground, like its cousin the rabbit, but scratches together a little heap +of dry grass, which makes a very good temporary lodging. The hare's nest +is called a "form," and is so in harmony with surrounding objects that +it is scarcely noticeable. One may pass very near without suspecting +that under such a heap of dry rubbish a cunning little animal lies +concealed. On English heaths the hare makes its "form" in the little +stubbly furze-bushes. Inside this mass of prickly leaves it hollows out +a soft little bed, where it sleeps away the long sunny day, crouched +close to the ground, its ears laid flat on its back.</p> + +<p>Hares have no means of defending themselves, except their sharp +toe-nails, which they rarely think of using, and they fall an easy prey +to the many enemies which beset them. They are vigorously hunted by men +and dogs on account of the delicate flavor of their flesh, and it has +been thought necessary to place them under the protection of the +game-laws. They are also the prey of foxes, wild-cats, weasels, and many +other animals. Although defenseless, they still are in a measure +protected by their keen ear, which catches the sound of the least rustle +or movement, and warns the little beast against approaching danger.</p> + +<p>The hare is the worst mother in the world. When her little ones are four +or five days old, she leaves them unprotected in their nest, and +scampers away to enjoy herself, returning once or twice, perhaps, to +nurse her forlorn babies, and then leaving them to shift for themselves. +Many little ones, thus neglected, die of cold and hunger, or are swooped +up by hawks and owls. It is a strange fact that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span> the mother hare makes +no attempt to protect her babies, but will run away at the least signal +of danger, and leave them to their fate. Hares have even been known +themselves to bite their children to death. A young hare family remain +together until they are half grown, when they separate, continuing to +live near their native spot, for hares are not travellers, and, unless +disturbed, seldom change their home. They are very short-lived, and +seldom attain the age of ten years.</p> + +<p>Hares are very plentiful in Switzerland, and are found high up among the +ice and snow of the most lofty mountains. These Alpine hares are subject +to a very strange change of costume. In December, when the Alpine world +is one vast expanse of snow, the fur of the hare is the purest white, +only the ears preserving the distinguishing black tip. As spring comes +on, gray-brown hairs appear in the white fur, until, about the end of +May, the animal is entirely covered with a gray-brown coat, which with +the first snows of the autumn begins, in its turn, to change again into +white. Ice hares, which are found as far north as the Parry Islands, are +also subject to the same change, with the exception that the warm +weather continues only long enough to spread a gray mantle along the +back of the little creature, which quickly disappears as the temperature +declines. The ice hare lives on the bark and twigs of the arctic willow +and the dry moss and stubble of the desolate regions it inhabits. It +makes its nest among the rocks, and in winter digs a hole in the snow.</p> + +<p>Hares are good swimmers, but will not enter the water unless to avoid a +foe. There is, however, one species of aquatic hare, found only in the +Southern United States. It is amphibious, like the musk-rat, is a most +expert swimmer, and makes its nest, or "form," on the edge of the +morass, where it sleeps all day, sallying forth morning and evening for +a swim in search of the delicate water-plants upon which it feeds. The +young ones enter the water at a very early age, and may be seen paddling +about with the mother on a hunt for breakfast.</p> + +<p>Tame hares make very pretty pets. They are very stupid about learning +tricks, and are said to have very short memories. Hares which have +escaped from their masters, and have been recaptured after a few days of +freedom, have been found to be entirely wild, as if they retained no +remembrance, even for that short time, of all the petting which had been +bestowed upon them. Dr. Benjamin Franklin is said to have had a pet hare +which lived on the most friendly terms with a greyhound and cat, and +would share the hearth-rug with them in the winter.</p> + +<p>William Cowper, the English poet, had three pet hares, to which he was +much attached, and about which he wrote many pretty things. They were +given to him when they were leverets, as a hare is called during the +first year of its life, and he named them Puss, Bess, and Tiney. He +built them houses to sleep in, and always kept them near him. Bess, who +died soon after he was full grown, "was," writes Cowper, "a hare of +great humor and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage; Tiney was not +to be tamed at all." Once poor Puss was sick. His master nursed him with +the greatest care. He says: "No creature could be more grateful than my +patient after his recovery—a sentiment which he most significantly +expressed by licking my hand, first the back of it, then the palm, then +every finger separately, then between all the fingers, as if anxious to +leave no part of it unsaluted; a ceremony which he never performed but +once again, upon a similar occasion."</p> + +<p>Upon Tiney the kindest treatment had no effect. If his master ventured +to stroke him, he would grunt, strike with his fore-feet, spring +forward, and bite. Tiney lived to be nine years old, and died from the +effects of a fall. Puss survived him two years. A memorandum found among +Cowper's papers reads: "This day died poor Puss, aged eleven years, +eleven months. He died between twelve and one at noon, of mere old age, +and apparently without pain."</p> + +<p>The poet was so fond of his pets that he buried them in his garden, and +wrote an epitaph on Tiney, from which we take the following stanzas:</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">"Here lies—whom hound did ne'er pursue,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Nor swifter greyhound follow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Nor ear heard huntsman's halloo—</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">"Old Tiney, surliest of his kind,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Who, nursed with tender care,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And to domestic bounds confined,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Was still a wild Jack hare.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">"Though duly from my hand he took</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">His pittance every night,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">He did it with a jealous look,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And, when he could, would bite.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">"His diet was of wheaten bread,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And milk, and oats, and straw;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">Thistles, or lettuces instead,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">With sand to scour his maw.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">"On twigs of hawthorn he regaled,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">On pippin's russet peel,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 24em;">And when his juicy salads failed,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Sliced carrot pleased him well."</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="CHARADE" id="CHARADE"></a>CHARADE.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Out on the sea, when the tempest is blowing,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 23em;">Over the waters dark and wild,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Guide I the sailor, his pathway showing</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Over the shoals and the currents flowing;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 23em;">Never through me is the ship beguiled.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Many a wandering step have I guided;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 23em;">Children at school have I often taught;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Many disputes through me are decided;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Oft has my help, though sometimes derided,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 23em;">Even the Muse of History sought.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Off with my head! I'm a living creature;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 23em;">Trembling I follow, I guide no more;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Large-eyed and gentle, of kindly feature,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Hunted by man; in the wilds of nature,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 23em;">When he is coming, I fly before.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Cut off my head again, and for ages</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 23em;">Long have I kindled the spirit of man.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Worshipped by artists, adored by the sages,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Present and past combine in my pages;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 23em;">There all the secrets of beauty you scan.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="WHEN_SKATES_WERE_BONES" id="WHEN_SKATES_WERE_BONES"></a>WHEN SKATES WERE BONES.</h2> + +<p>Though it appears to be impossible to fix on the time when skating first +took root in England, there can be no doubt that it was introduced there +from more northern climates, where it originated more from the +necessities of the inhabitants than as a pastime. When snow covered +their land, and ice bound up their rivers imperious necessity would soon +suggest to the Scands or the Germans some ready means of winter +locomotion. This first took the form of snow-shoes with two long runners +of wood, like those still used by the inhabitants of the northerly parts +of Norway and Sweden in their journeys over the immense snow-fields. +These seem originally to have been used by the Finns, "for which +reason," says a Swedish writer, "they were called 'Skrid Finnai' +(Sliding Finns)—a common name for the most ancient inhabitants of +Sweden, both in the North saga and by foreign authors."</p> + +<p>When used on ice, one runner would soon have been found more convenient +than the widely separated two, and harder materials used than wood: +first bone was substituted; then it, in turn, gave place to iron; and +thus the present form of skate was developed in the North at a period +set down by Scandinavian archæologists as about A.D. 200.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span></p> + +<p>Frequent allusions occur in the old Northern poetry, which prove that +proficiency in skating was one of the most highly esteemed +accomplishments of the Northern heroes. One of them, named Kolson, +boasts that he is master of nine accomplishments, skating being one; +while the hero Harold bitterly complains that though he could fight, +ride, swim, glide along the ice on skates, dart the lance, and row, "yet +a Russian maid disdains me."</p> + +<p>In the "Edda" this accomplishment is singled out for special praise: +"Then the king asked what that young man could do who accompanied Thor. +Thialfe answered that in running upon skates he would dispute the prize +with any of the countries. The king owned that the talent he spoke of +was a very fine one."</p> + +<p>Olaus Magnus, the author of the famous chapter on the Snakes of Iceland, +tells us that skates were made "of polished iron, or of the shank bone +of a deer or sheep, about a foot long, filed down on one side, and +greased with hog's lard to repel the wet." These rough-and-ready bone +skates were the kind first adopted by the English; for Fitzstephen, in +his description of the amusements of the Londoners in his day (time of +Henry the Second), tells us that "when that great fen that washes +Moorfields at the north wall of the city is frozen over, great companies +of young men go to sport upon the ice. Some, striding as wide as they +may, do slide swiftly; some, better practiced to the ice, bind to their +shoes bones, as the legs of some beasts, and hold stakes in their hands, +headed with sharp iron, which sometimes they strike against the ice; +these men go as swiftly as doth a bird in the air, or a bolt from a +cross-bow." Then he goes on to say that some, imitating the fashion of +the tournament, would start in full career against one another, armed +with poles; "they meet, elevate their poles, attack and strike each +other, when one or both of them fall, and not without some bodily hurt."</p> + +<p>Specimens of these old bone skates are occasionally dug up in fenny +parts of Great Britain. There are some in the British Museum, in the +Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries, and probably in other collections; +though perhaps some of the "finds" are not nearly as old as +Fitzstephen's day, for there seems to be good evidence that even in +London the primitive bone skate was not entirely superseded by +implements of steel at the latter part of last century.</p> + +<p>One found about 1839 in Moorfields, in the boggy soil peculiar to that +district, is described as being formed of the bone of some animal, made +smooth on one side, with a hole at one extremity for a cord to fasten it +to the shoe. At the other end a hole is also drilled horizontally to a +depth of three inches, which might have received a plug, with another +cord to secure it more effectually.</p> + +<p>There is hardly a greater difference between these old bone skates and +the "acmes" and club skates of to-day, than there is between the skating +of the Middle Ages and the artistic and graceful movements of good +performers of to-day. Indeed, skating as a fine art is entirely a thing +of modern growth. So little thought of was the exercise, that for long +after Fitzstephen's day we find few or no allusions to it, and up to the +Restoration days it appears to have been an amusement confined chiefly +to the lower classes, among whom it never reached any very high pitch of +art. "It was looked upon," says a recent writer, "much with the same +view that the boys on the Serpentine even now seem to adopt, as an +accomplishment, the acme of which was reached when the performer could +succeed in running along quickly on his skates, and finishing off with a +long and triumphant slide on two feet in a straight line forward. A +gentleman would probably then have no more thought of trying to execute +different figures on the ice than he would at the present day of dancing +in a drawing-room on the tips of his toes." Even as an amusement of the +common people it is not alluded to in any of the usual catalogues of +sport so often referred to.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_MONKEYS_OF_INDIA" id="THE_MONKEYS_OF_INDIA"></a>THE MONKEYS OF INDIA.</h2> + +<p>A missionary in India gives an interesting account of the monkeys that +live in that far-away country. He says that in the morning, during the +cold season, the monkeys are always very listless, but as soon as they +are warmed with the rays of the sun, they are as playful as kittens. +They will jump over each other's backs, slap each other's faces, pull +each other's tails, and even make pretense to steal each other's babies.</p> + +<p>The gray and the brown species are found nearly all over the continent +of India; the former is more daring and destructive, and the latter more +mischievous and cunning. They both form themselves into separate packs, +or tribes, and rarely go beyond a certain boundary. They seldom migrate, +except it be for food or water in times of drought and scarcity. This +wild citizenship seems to be respected, for they very rarely trespass on +each other's ground. Each tribe has a leader, or king, which can easily +be recognized, and from the manner in which he conducts himself, he is +evidently aware of the dignity of his position.</p> + +<p>Like nearly all other wild animals, they have a keen sense of danger, +and when a certain whoop is given, however scattered or tempted to stay, +in a few moments they are hidden on the tops of the highest trees in the +locality. They have the bump of destructiveness largely developed, and +it is no small calamity when a tribe locates itself near a village. +Scarcely anything in the shape of fruit or grain comes amiss to them, +and when neither are to be had, in the hottest part of the year they eat +the stems of the young leaves. When they commence upon a field of +lentils, pulse, or peas, they always pluck up the plant by the root, +pull off one pod, and then fling the plant away, so that it does not +require many days to clear a whole field. Ripe mangoes have a special +attraction, and it requires no small amount of vigilance to keep them +away from the groves.</p> + +<p>Dogs, however strong and fleet, are of very little use to drive them +away, for the monkeys are sagacious enough to know that their safety is +in keeping near the trees. When the dog has spent himself with barking +and screaming at the foot of the tree, a monkey will come down to the +lowest branch, and wag his long tail within a few inches of the dog's +face, and when the poor dog has retired, completely foiled, a monkey +will soon be after him to tempt him to a second encounter.</p> + +<p>Mischief is certainly in their hearts, for, not content with stealing +the produce of the gardens and fields, they will pull off the thatch +from the native huts, fling the tiles from the better-built houses and +shops to the ground, and we have even seen them try their best to rift +the stones from the temples. A native town in one of the zemindary +estates was so mutilated by them that it looked as if it had sustained a +siege.</p> + +<p>Some years ago, after making our arrangements for our encampment at +night, we constantly had our peaceful rest broken by a tribe of brown +monkeys. They evidently thought that long possession had given them a +prior claim to the grove. For our own comfort it was felt by all that +some means must be adopted to drive them away. Accordingly one was shot. +Death was not instantaneous, and quite a number came around to see it +die. They looked with startling interest into its face, but as soon as +life was extinct they bounded away. Fear had fallen upon them all, and +not a sound was heard from them during the night. Early next morning +they assembled in an adjoining field. The sharp and quick manner in +which they turned their faces first in this way and then in that was a +sight not soon to be forgotten. They had instinct enough to see that +their only safety would be in flight. In the course of an hour the king +headed the tribe, and away they went, and not a solitary monkey<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span> was +seen in that region for years afterward. The natives dared not openly +commend us, but they were not a little pleased that we had rid them of +creatures so destructive to their homesteads.</p> + +<p>The monkeys are very numerous in the sacred cities, and especially in +Benares and Pooree. Within a few miles of the temple of Juggernaut there +are many hundreds, if not thousands. They are so tame that they will +come down from the trees and eat rice from the hands of the pilgrims. +When the pilgrim presents his hand with the rice in it, the monkey +seizes it with his left paw, and he will never let go his grip until he +has taken every grain. Very few persons are injured by monkeys, but they +will sometimes seize a basket, if there be fruit in it, when carried by +a woman or child. The natives often say that "monkeys can do everything +except talk, and they would do that were it not for the fear of being +made to work."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_LITTLE_DELINQUENT" id="THE_LITTLE_DELINQUENT"></a>THE LITTLE DELINQUENT.</h2> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 291px;"> +<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="291" height="400" alt="THE LITTLE DELINQUENT." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE LITTLE DELINQUENT.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Lucie, my Lucie, wilt thou not forgive thy little Fritz?" pleaded the +mother of two children whose father had been a soldier in the Prussian +army, and whose bravery had been rewarded with a medal which was worn on +his coat lapel.</p> + +<p>Lucie answered, with a deep sigh, "He was so cruel, dear mother; he +pushed me down so rudely on the hard floor!"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I saw that push; but he was angry."</p> + +<p>"And I tried so well to do what he wished; I kept the step and marched +behind him, and I helped to make his cap, and I ran out to the +poultry-yard for a feather which had dropped from the cock's tail—the +green and blue one that eats so much corn—and I was as good a soldier +as I knew how to be!"</p> + +<p>"Well, what was the matter?"</p> + +<p>"Why, I had my dear Rosa in my arms, and Ludwig looked over the fence, +and laughed at Fritz for having a girl with a doll in his regiment, and +Fritz became very cross, and said he would not play. Then I put my Rosa +down, and went marching again; but that dreadful great cock came and +pecked at her eyes, and I <i>could</i> not see her suffer; so I hid her in my +apron while Fritz was not looking, and we came into the house to fill +our knapsacks; then Fritz saw Rosa, and he said I was a disobedient +soldier, and he pulled her out of my arms, and tossed her down and broke +her, as you see—oh, my dear, my good Rosa!"</p> + +<p>"But I think Fritz is sorry. See! he has been tied to the table a long +while for punishment. Can you not forgive him?"</p> + +<p>Lucie did not answer; her little soul seemed much disturbed.</p> + +<p>"Come, I will tell thee a story, my Lucie, of two other children, and +then, perhaps, thou wilt be more ready to let Fritz go free. Far away up +in the mountains where are the chamois, and where the rocks are rough +and the forests dark, lived Hans and Gretchen. They were wild as the +chamois themselves, and their old grandfather could scarcely keep them +by his side long enough to tell them the story of the Saviour's love, or +teach them even to read. They knew the haunt of every wild creature of +the woods, and many were their quarrels over a nest of young birds, or +the possession of the animals they trapped. They had no kind mother; +their words were often harsh, and sometimes hunger made them really +cruel to each other. They were much to be pitied, for their grandfather +was lame as well as old, and could do little for their support.</p> + +<p>"One day, in an eager chase after a rabbit Gretchen gave Hans a great +push, which sent him down over a rocky ledge on to some stones. She was +frightened to see that he did not move, and still more frightened when +she found he was moaning with pain. She ran to get help, and the +neighbors came and lifted Hans and carried him home; but he never walked +again: his spine was hurt. Ah! what sorrow then was Gretchen's! How she +wished she had never been so unkind!</p> + +<p>"How she missed her companion in her wild rambles, and in her search for +the Edelweiss flowers which she sold to travellers, and so gained a +little money! Lottie by little she learned how to be a better +girl—learned to be patient with Hans, who was often very cross; and as +she grew older, and could better care for the house and her old +grandfather, they came to love her very much.</p> + +<p>"But do you not think that little children who have been taught to be +kind, and to love the dear Father in heaven whose Son died on the cross, +should be willing to forgive when quarrels arise?"</p> + +<p>Both little faces had grown sad, one with earnest resolve never again to +be harsh with his sister, the other with tender regret.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span> At last Lucie +said, "My mother, I forgive Fritz; but what shall I do for poor Rosa?"</p> + +<p>"Rosa shall have a new head when I have saved kreutzers to buy one," +said Fritz; and so they kissed and made up.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THREE_FAMOUS_DIAMONDS" id="THREE_FAMOUS_DIAMONDS"></a>THREE FAMOUS DIAMONDS.</h2> + +<p>A magnificent diamond, belonging to the Emperor of Russia, bought by the +Empress Catherine, weighs over one hundred and ninety-three carats. It +is said to be the size of a pigeon's head, and to have been purchased +for ninety thousand pounds, besides a yearly sum for life to the Greek +merchant from whom it was bought. This diamond formed one of the eyes of +the famous idol Juggernaut, whose temple is on the Coromandel coast, and +a French soldier, who had deserted into the Malabar service, found the +means of robbing the temple of it, and escaped with it to Madras. There +he disposed of it to a ship captain for two thousand pounds, and by him +it was resold to a Jew for twelve thousand pounds. From him it was +transferred for a large sum to the Greek merchant. This diamond now +surmounts the imperial sceptre.</p> + +<p>The diamond of the Emperor of Austria, which formerly belonged to the +Grand Dukes of Tuscany, weighs one hundred and thirty-nine and a half +carats. Its estimated value is one hundred and fifty-five thousand +pounds. This stone is of a lemon yellow color, which greatly lessens its +value.</p> + +<p>Among the Prussian crown jewels is the famous Regent or Pitt diamond, +discovered in the Pasteal mine at Golconda. It weighs one hundred and +thirty-six and three-quarters carats, and is remarkable for its form and +clearness, which have caused it to be valued at one hundred and sixty +thousand pounds, although it cost only one hundred thousand pounds. It +was stolen from the mine and sold to Mr. Pitt, grandfather of the great +Earl of Chatham. The Duke of Orleans purchased the diamond for +presentation to King Louis the Fifteenth.</p> + +<p>After the fall of Louis the Sixteenth, the people insisted that the +crown jewels should be exposed to the gaze of the mob, and with them the +Regent diamond was shown. So little, however, did the exhibitors confide +in the honesty of these patriots that great precautions were taken to +prevent the consequences of too strong an attraction. The passer-by who +chanced to demand, in the name of the sovereign people, a sight of the +finest of the jewels, entered a small room, within which, through a +little window, the diamond was presented for sight. It was fastened by a +strong steel clasp to an iron chain, the other end of which was secured +within the window through which it was handed to the spectator. Two +policemen kept a vigilant watch on the momentary possessor of the gem, +until, having held in his hand the value of twelve millions of francs, +according to the estimate in the inventory of the crown jewels, he again +took up his hook and basket at the door and disappeared.</p> + +<p>This diamond, which decorated the hilt of the sword of state of the +first Napoleon, was taken by the Prussians at Waterloo, and now belongs +to the King of Prussia.</p> + +<p>In former times, superstition attributed to the diamond many virtues. It +was supposed to protect the possessor from poison, pestilence, +panic-fear, and enchantments of every kind. A wonderful property was +also ascribed to it when the figure of Mars, whom the ancients +represented as the god of war, was engraved upon it. In such cases the +diamond was believed to insure victory in battle to its fortunate owner, +whatever might be the number of his enemies.</p> + +<p>For a long time diamonds were sent to Holland to be cut and polished, +but this art is now well understood in England, and has been recently +introduced into this country.</p> + +<p>Diamonds are not only worn as ornaments of dress, or rare objects of +art, but they are employed for several useful purposes, as for cutting +glass by the glazier, and all kinds of hard stones by the lapidary.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="TEMERITY" id="TEMERITY"></a>TEMERITY.</h2> + +<div class="figright" style="width: 120px;"> +<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="120" height="400" alt="ON THE TRACK." title="" /> +<span class="caption">ON THE TRACK.</span> +</div> + +<p>A butterfly lived like a princess in a green and golden wood, guarded +day and night by the trees; but as there was never a butterfly yet that +did not prefer sunshine to safety, she came fluttering out one morning, +and after dazzling all the flowers in the neighborhood, spread her wings +for a long flight.</p> + +<p>There was no one to warn her of the dangers abroad, so when she came to +the railroad track she just settled upon it, with no more fear than if +it were a twig. An ugly brown worm that had been sunning himself on a +sleeper crept up to her.</p> + +<p>"You are in a dreadfully dangerous place," he groaned.</p> + +<p>"Why?" asked the little rainbow, not a bit scared.</p> + +<p>"There is a great monster coming soon. He crushes everything he meets; +he has no heart; his bones are made of iron."</p> + +<p>"How funny!" exclaimed the butterfly.</p> + +<p>"See how dark the sky is getting; he will soon be here," went on the +worm, solemnly.</p> + +<p>"Oh, pshaw! it's only a shower coming up," said the butterfly, +stretching her wings.</p> + +<p>"No, it is the monster; don't you feel the ground shake? The storm is +coming, but the monster is coming too. Get into this hole under the +track; I beg you, I entreat you, get into this hole and be saved."</p> + +<p>"Nonsense!" laughed the butterfly.</p> + +<p>The rail was trembling, and in the distance a strange wild shriek was +heard, a great puff of smoke went rolling up to the sky.</p> + +<p>"Quick! quick!" implored the worm. "Do as I do, or you will be killed. +There is no time to lose."</p> + +<p>But the only answer he got was a laugh.</p> + +<p>The monster was getting nearer and nearer, and the worm, with one more +vain petition to the butterfly to follow him, squirmed into a crevice +under the rail.</p> + +<p>On came the monster, its great iron limbs pounding back and forth. A +rattle, a shriek, a puff of smoke: he had come and gone. The worm—where +was he? Limp and dead in his little hole under the rail. And the +butterfly—the poor beautiful butterfly?</p> + +<p>Oh, she had simply flown away.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX" id="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX"></a> +<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="600" height="248" alt="OUR POST-OFFICE BOX." title="" /> +</div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">New York City</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>In a short paper entitled "The Paradise of Insects," in <i>Young +People</i> No. 10, some interesting facts are told of small +sand-flies, called sancudos, which abound on the Upper Amazons and +other swampy localities of South and Central America. Boys will +like to know the origin of their name. Stilts are called <i>zancos</i> +in Spanish, and these flies, a species of mosquito, are called +sancudos—more properly spelled zancudos—on account of their very +long, slender legs and disproportionately small bodies, which +remind one of a very small boy on very high stilts. Flies on stilts +is a funny idea, but not more funny than the appearance of these +troublesome little insects.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Rodrigo</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am a little girl twelve years old, and live at Fort Supply, +Indian Territory. My father is a captain in the Twenty-third +Infantry. We live in huts made of logs, and the cracks filled with +mud to keep out the cold, and the inside lined with canvas. We have +frequent visits from the Indians. Not long ago a party of about +fifty Indians were here, some of whom were on the war-path last +fall. We have a school, and about sixteen scholars. If it were not +for school I should be very lonesome, as I have only one playmate. +There are plenty of children here, but they are all too small to +play with. I take <i>Young People</i>, and it is a great addition to my +small fund of amusements.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Grace W. Henton</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Putnam, Connecticut</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Dear "Young People."</span>—I thought when you made your first appearance +that you were as pretty and interesting as possible, but when you +arrived in your new dress, looking so fresh and bright, wishing us +a "Merry Christmas," I was still more delighted with you. I hope +the number of your subscribers will grow as fast as you have, you +are such a dear little paper.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Anna C. B.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>The two following letters are from very young readers, who wrote in big +capitals with their own little hands:</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">New York City</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am so glad you have published <i>Young People</i>. I am five years +old. I have a little kitten, and my papa says it will soon be a +cat. I wish it wouldn't.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Jimmie B.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Stockport, New York</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I thought I would drop you a line or two about the <i>Young People</i> +and the "Wiggles," and I will. I send you what I make of the last +number of the "Wiggles," and I like the new paper. So good-by. From</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Robbie Reynolds</span> (six years).</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Here are two more little folks, who employ an amanuensis:</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Belmont</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I thought I would write you a letter to let you know how I like +<i>Young People</i>. Grandpa takes it for me. I am only eight and a half +years old. Grandpa is going to copy this, as I can not write very +well.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Edgar. E. Hyde</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">New York City</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am only five years old, and can not read or write yet, but my +nurse reads me the stories in <i>Young People</i> every week, and I like +them very much, and the pictures and the letters; and papa says I +ought to send you a letter, and tell you how much I like it. So +does my little sister Lulu, and she is only three years old, and I +have got a little brother only three weeks old, but he hasn't any +name yet. I told papa I would send a letter, but I could not write +it, and he said it would be fair if Nurse Belle would write, only I +must tell her what to put in—I and nobody else—and so I did it.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Lizzie F.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Lansing, Michigan</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>A few days ago I was walking with a friend when we saw a rabbit in the +road. We ran to catch it, but could not, for it ran too. Suddenly it +stopped. My friend whistled, and then it ran right up to her, and we +caught it. I suppose that rabbits like music.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Laura B.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Newton, New Hampshire</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I am going to tell you about a butterfly my brother Willie brought +in from the woods this winter. It flew about the rooms for a few +days, till one morning he seemed almost dead. Mamma took him to the +door, and he flew away up over our barn and some great tall +pine-trees. I am ten years old this winter.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">L. Mabel Marston</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>What color were the butterfly's wings, and how large was it?</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Hoboken, New Jersey</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I once had a pet rabbit. He was gray and white, and I named him +Mac, after papa. Once I gave him a peach, and another rabbit ran +away with it; then he stood up on his hind-legs and begged for +another.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Harry F.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>George D. B. and Cora B. E., both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also +write of pet rabbits, and Spitz and Newfoundland dogs.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">New York City</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>I have a chicken that I hatched out by putting the egg in ashes. +While I am writing this letter it is sitting on my hand. When I +call it, it comes to me. I have also four white mice, which are as +tame as the chicken. I did have a squirrel, but it died. I wish you +would tell me how to feed my mice.</p></div> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 42em;"><span class="smcap">Joseph P.</span></span><br /> +</p> + +<p>White mice will eat nuts of all kinds, canary-seed, and various other +grains. They will also nibble bread and cake. They must have plenty of +water, and like a little milk now and then. They should be given a soft, +warm nest of dry moss or of flannel.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><span class="smcap">J. G. D.</span>—In all rooms where meal is kept, the worms generally breed +much faster than they are wanted. The meal-moth is very pretty. Its +fore-wings are light brown, with a dark chocolate-brown spot on the base +and tip of each. It is often to be seen clinging to the ceiling of +kitchen or store-room, with its tail curved over its back. This moth +deposits its eggs in the meal, and in a short time the worm is hatched, +which soon forms itself into a cocoon, from which the moth again comes +forth. You may find this worm crawling in old flour barrels or some box +in which meal has been kept; and if you keep a box of meal standing open +in some warm place, the moth will be very likely to find it, especially +in the summer-time, and use it as a deposit for her eggs. Meanwhile you +can feed your mocking-birds on meal and milk, mixed now and then with +very fine chopped raw beef and with bits of fruit. You can also buy +prepared food for them. Be sure to give them plenty of clean gravel in +the bottom of the cage.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>"<span class="smcap">Subscriber</span>," Moline, Illinois.—Heph<i>ai</i>stos is the correct Greek +spelling of Vulcan's name, but Heph<i>æ</i>stos is the accepted English +spelling of the word. Either is correct.—The translation of <i>Don +Quixote</i> has become such a standard English work that the ordinary +English pronunciation of the name is allowable. In Spanish it is +pronounced Ke-ho-tay, with a slight accent on the second syllable.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Favors are acknowledged from Belle R., Tennessee; Willie D. V., Indiana; +Robbie B. H., St. John, New Brunswick; Alpha T. E., Pennsylvania; from +Illinois—Mamie Ripley, Tommy C. H., Edith Patterson, Joseph K.; from +Massachusetts—Kennie Norwood, L. Tyler P., Stanley K. H., Harry B., +F. U. T.; from Ohio—Lulie H., Oscar B., Willie Gordon, Ralph M. F., Hattie +Mitchell; from Michigan—Nellie M. C., L. A. Waldron, Edward D. E.; from +New York—Fred L. Colwell, A. M. Tucker, D. C. Gilmore; Eddie R. +Derwart, Toronto, Canada.</p> + +<p>Correct answers to puzzles received from Walter S. Dodge, Washington, +D. C.; Merton L. T., Massachusetts; James A. S., Connecticut; Sallie V. B., +Nebraska; L. A. W., Canada; Harry Lewis, Kentucky; C. M. J., Ohio; from +Pennsylvania—R. O. Lowry, George N. Hayward, Walter Lowry, Chester B. F., +Florence M.; from New Jersey—K. H. 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The +Volumes of this Series are printed and bound uniformly, and contain +numerous Illustrations. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00 per volume; Set in box, 32 +vols., $32.00.</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="75%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>Cyrus the Great.</td><td align='left'>William the Conqueror.</td><td align='left'>Henry IV.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Darius the Great.</td><td align='left'>Richard I.</td><td align='left'>Louis XIV.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Xerxes.</td><td align='left'>Richard II.</td><td align='left'>Maria Antoinette.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Alexander the Great.</td><td align='left'>Richard III.</td><td align='left'>Madame Roland.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Romulus.</td><td align='left'>Margaret of Anjou.</td><td align='left'>Josephine.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hannibal.</td><td align='left'>Mary Queen of Scots.</td><td align='left'>Joseph Bonaparte.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pyrrhus.</td><td align='left'>Queen Elizabeth.</td><td align='left'>Hortense.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Julius Cæsar.</td><td align='left'>Charles I.</td><td align='left'>Louis Philippe.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cleopatra.</td><td align='left'>Charles II.</td><td align='left'>Genghis Khan.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nero.</td><td align='left'>Hernando Cortez.</td><td align='left'>King Philip.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Alfred the Great.</td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>Peter the Great.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p>For the convenience of buyers, these Histories have been divided into +Six Series, as follows:</p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="70%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='center'>I.</td><td align='center'>III.</td><td align='center'>V.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'><i>Founders of Empires.</i></td><td align='center'><i>Earlier British Kings and Queens.</i></td><td align='center'><i>Queens and Heroines.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>CYRUS.</td><td align='left'>ALFRED.</td><td align='left'>CLEOPATRA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>DARIUS.</td><td align='left'>WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.</td><td align='left'>MARIA ANTOINETTE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>XERXES.</td><td align='left'>RICHARD I.</td><td align='left'>JOSEPHINE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ALEXANDER.</td><td align='left'>RICHARD II.</td><td align='left'>HORTENSE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>GENGHIS KHAN.</td><td align='left'>MARGARET OF ANJOU.</td><td align='left'>MADAME ROLAND.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PETER THE GREAT.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p><br /><br /></p> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="70%" summary=""> +<tr><td align='center'>II.</td><td align='center'>IV.</td><td align='center'>VI.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center'><i>Heroes of Roman History.</i></td><td align='center'><i>Later British Kings and Queens.</i></td><td align='center'><i>Rulers of Later Times.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ROMULUS.</td><td align='left'>RICHARD III.</td><td align='left'>KING PHILIP.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>HANNIBAL.</td><td align='left'>MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.</td><td align='left'>HERNANDO CORTEZ.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PYRRHUS.</td><td align='left'>ELIZABETH.</td><td align='left'>HENRY IV.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>JULIUS CÆSAR.</td><td align='left'>CHARLES I.</td><td align='left'>LOUIS XIV.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NERO.</td><td align='left'>CHARLES II.</td><td align='left'>JOSEPH BONAPARTE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='left'></td><td align='left'>LOUIS PHILIPPE.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h3>ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S OPINION OF ABBOTTS' HISTORIES.</h3> + +<p>In a conversation with the President just before his death, Mr. Lincoln +said: "<i>I want to thank you and your brother for Abbotts' Series of +Histories. I have not education enough to appreciate the profound works +of voluminous historians; and if I had, I have no time to read them. But +your Series of Histories gives me, in brief compass, just that knowledge +of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest +interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I +have.</i>"</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York</span>.</h3> + +<h4>☞ <i>Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the +United States, on receipt of the price.</i></h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center">"<i>A book beyond the pale of criticism.</i>"</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 30em;"><span class="smcap">N. Y. Daily Graphic</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h2>THE</h2> + +<h2>Boy Travellers in the Far East.</h2> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h3>ADVENTURES OF</h3> + +<h3>TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY</h3> + +<h3>TO</h3> + +<h3>JAPAN AND CHINA.</h3> + +<h4>Illustrated, 8vo, Cloth, $3.00.</h4> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>A more attractive book for boys and girls can scarcely be imagined.—<i>N. Y. +Times.</i></p> + +<p>The best thing for a boy who cannot go to China and Japan is to get this +book and read it.—<i>Philadelphia Ledger.</i></p> + +<p>One of the richest and most entertaining books for young people, both in +text, illustrations, and binding, which has ever come to our +table.—<i>Providence Press.</i></p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h3>Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, N. Y.</h3> + +<h4>☞ <i>Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the +United States, on receipt of the price.</i></h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h3>A BOOK FOR EVERYBODY.</h3> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h4>Ninth Edition now Ready.</h4> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p class="center"><b>HOW TO GET STRONG, AND HOW TO STAY SO.</b> By <span class="smcap">William Blaikie</span>. With +Illustrations. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>Your book is timely. Its large circulation cannot fail to be of great +public benefit.—Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Ward Beecher</span>.</p> + +<p>It is a book of extraordinary merit in matter and style, and does you +great credit as a thinker and writer.—Hon. <span class="smcap">Calvin E. Pratt</span>, <i>of the New +York Supreme Bench</i>.</p> + +<p>A capital little treatise. It is the very book for ministers to +study.—Rev. <span class="smcap">Theodore L. Cuyler</span>, D.D., <i>in New York Evangelist</i>.</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h3>Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.</h3> + +<h4>☞ <i>Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the +United States, on receipt of the price.</i></h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Old Books for Young Readers.</h2> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h3>Arabian Nights' Entertainments.</h3> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The Thousand and One Nights; or, The Arabian Nights' +Entertainments. Translated and Arranged for Family Reading, with +Explanatory Notes, by <span class="smcap">E. W. Lane</span>. 600 Illustrations by Harvey. 2 +vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3.50.</p></div> + +<h3>Robinson Crusoe.</h3> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, +Mariner. By <span class="smcap">Daniel Defoe</span>. With a Biographical Account of Defoe. +Illustrated by Adams. Complete Edition. 12mo, Cloth, $1.50</p></div> + +<h3>The Swiss Family Robinson.</h3> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures of a Father and Mother +and Four Sons on a Desert Island. Illustrated. 2 vols., 18mo, +Cloth, $1.50.</p> + +<p>The Swiss Family Robinson—Continued: being a Sequel to the +Foregoing. 2 vols., 18mo, Cloth, $1.50.</p></div> + +<h3>Sandford and Merton.</h3> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The History of Sandford and Merton. By <span class="smcap">Thomas Day</span>. 18mo, Half +Bound, 75 cents.</p></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h3>Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.</h3> + +<h4>☞ <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span> <i>will send any of the above works by +mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of +the price</i>.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center">"<i>Learning made pleasant.</i>"</p> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 30em;"><span class="smcap">N. Y. Evening Post</span>.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h2>SCIENCE FOR THE YOUNG.</h2> + +<h3>By JACOB ABBOTT.</h3> + +<h4><i>ILLUSTRATED.</i></h4> + +<h4>4 volumes, 12mo, Cloth, $1.50 each.</h4> + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='right'>I.</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Heat</span>.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>II.</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Light</span>.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>III.</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Water and Land</span>.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>IV.</td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Force</span>.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<p>If a mass-meeting of parents and children were to be held for the +purpose of erecting a monument to the author who has done most to +entertain and instruct the young folks, there would certainly be a +unanimous vote in favor of Mr. Jacob Abbott. Two or three generations of +American youth owe some of their most pleasant hours of recreation to +his story-books; and his latest productions are as fresh and youthful as +those which the papas and mammas of to-day once looked forward to as the +most precious gifts from the Christmas bag of old Santa Claus. The +series published under the general title of "Science for the Young" +might be called "Learning made Pleasant." An interesting story runs +through each, and beguiles the reader into the acquisition of a vast +amount of useful knowledge under the genial pretence of furnishing +amusement. No intelligent child can read these volumes without obtaining +a better knowledge of physical science than many students have when they +leave college.—<i>N. Y. Evening Post.</i></p> + +<p>Jacob Abbott is almost the only writer in the English language who knows +how to combine real amusement with real instruction in such a manner +that the eager young readers are quite as much interested in the useful +knowledge he imparts as in the story which he makes so pleasant a medium +of instruction—<i>Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.</i></p> + +<hr style='width: 25%;' /> + +<h3>Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.</h3> + +<h4>☞ <i>Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the +United States, on receipt of the price.</i></h4> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 418px;"><a name="NOSES_OUT_OF_JOINT" id="NOSES_OUT_OF_JOINT"></a> +<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="418" height="500" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>NOSES OUT OF JOINT.</h2> + +<p> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">You needn't cry and look so sad;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">I love you, pussy dear, the same—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">I truly do—as I loved you</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Before this cunning kitty came;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">But things are changed a little now,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">You know, and 'cause he's very small,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">I've got to 'tend the most to him.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Your nose is out of joint, that's all.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Don't you remember that cold day</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">They left me hours and hours in bed,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And when nurse came for me at last,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">"Your nose is out of joint," she said,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">"A baby's come to live with us?"</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Well, then, that's what's the matter now;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">You might have known how it would be—</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Oh dear, my head! Please don't me-ow,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Or I must send you out the room;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Nice little <i>girls</i> don't make a noise</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">When their mammas give almost all</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Their kisses to small red-faced boys.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">I tell you, puss, you are too big</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">To sit with kit upon my knee,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And it's no worse for you to have</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Your nose put out of joint than me.</span><br /> +</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 207px;"> +<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="207" height="400" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<h2>THE ELEPHANT PUZZLE.</h2> + +<p>The puzzle is, with two cuts of the scissors to make this elephant stand +on all fours.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Instructions</span>.—Trace or copy the accompanying figure on a piece of +Bristol-board or thick writing paper, and then go to work with your +scissors and see what you can do.</p> + +<p>The solution will be given in our next.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p><b>Ants that Bite.</b>—Foraging ants by countless thousands are met with +everywhere on the banks of the Amazons. Some of them are dwarfs not more +than one-fifth of an inch long, while others are giants ten times as +long, with monstrous heads and jaws. When the pedestrian falls in with a +train of these ants, the first signal given him is a twittering and +restless movement of small flocks of plain-colored birds (ant-thrushes) +in the jungle. If this be disregarded until he advances a few steps +further, he is sure to fall into trouble, and find himself suddenly +attacked by numbers of the ferocious little creatures. They swarm up his +legs with incredible rapidity, each one driving its pincer-like jaws +into his skin, and with the purchase thus obtained doubling in its tail, +and stinging with all its might. There is no course left but to run for +it; if he is accompanied by natives, they will be sure to give the +alarm, crying, "Tanóca!" and scampering at full speed to the other end +of the column of ants. The tenacious insects that have secured +themselves to his legs then have to be plucked off one by one—a task +which is generally not accomplished without pulling them in twain, and +leaving heads and jaws sticking in the wounds.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 485px;"> +<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="485" height="500" alt=""WHAR IS YER GWINE TO, MELINDY?"" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"WHAR IS YER GWINE TO, MELINDY?"</span> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="600" height="319" alt="BLISSFULLY UNCONSCIOUS." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BLISSFULLY UNCONSCIOUS.</span> +</div> + +<p><br /></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="600" height="327" alt="PAINFULLY CONSCIOUS." title="" /> +<span class="caption">PAINFULLY CONSCIOUS.</span> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JAN 27, 1880 *** + +***** This file should be named 28318-h.htm or 28318-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/3/1/28318/ + +Produced by Annie McGuire + +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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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: Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 + An Illustrated Weekly + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 13, 2009 [EBook #28318] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JAN 27, 1880 *** + + + + +Produced by Annie McGuire + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: HARPER'S + +YOUNG PEOPLE + +AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.] + + + * * * * * + +VOL. I.--No. 13. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR +CENTS. + +Tuesday, January 27, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 +per Year, in Advance. + + * * * * * + + + + +[Illustration: "'I'LL YOUR PARTNER BE,' SAID SHE."--DRAWN BY SOL +EYTINGE, JUN.] + +THE DANCE IN THE KITCHEN. + + + Oh, that winter afternoon, + Such a merry, merry tune + As the jolly, fat tea-kettle chose its singing to begin! + 'Twas a lilting Scottish air, + And it seemed, I do declare, + As though bagpipe played by fairy was forever joining in. + + Then the bagpipe ceased to play, + And another tune straightway + Sang the kettle, louder, louder, till its voice grew very big; + And the feet of laughing girls + (Girls with shamrock in their curls) + You could almost hear a-keeping time to that old Irish jig. + + Darling, smiling, cunning Bess + Grasped with tiny hands her dress, + And a pretty courtesy making, while the kettle made a bow, + "I'll your partner be," said she; + "Forward, backward, one, two, three;" + And pussy cried, "Bravo! my dears," in one immense me-ow. + + And they danced right merrily + Till 'twas nearly time for tea, + The kettle tilting this way and then that way--oh, what fun! + And its hat bobbed up and down + On its moist and steamy crown, + With a clatter falling off at last, and then the dance was done. + + + + +THE OLD MAN OF MONTROSE. + + + There was an old man of Montrose + Who had a remarkable nose, + So long and so thin, + And so far from his chin, + 'Twas always in danger of blows. + + One day the old man of Montrose + Went out without muffling his nose; + And it grieves me to tell + That this organ of smell + As stiff as an icicle froze. + + Soon after, in sneezing, "_ker-choo_," + His nose into smithereens flew, + And left but a stump, + A ridiculous lump, + That even in summer looked blue. + + The frost-bitten man of Montrose + Used words that were equal to blows; + And so great his disgrace, + He soon quitted the place, + And where he has gone no one knows. + + + + +"THE BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE." + + +In the small but strongly fortified town of Saar-Louis, on what was then +the borders of France, in Rhenish Prussia, there was born, a little more +than a hundred years ago, a child whose future intrepid career earned +for him the title of "the bravest of the brave." His father's trade was +nothing more warlike than that of a cooper; his home life and training +were not different from those of many of his playmates; and yet before +he was sixteen years old he had entered a regiment of hussars, or light +cavalry, and before he was thirty had attained the high rank of general +of division. + +But those were warlike days; the French Revolution had just begun; all +Europe was echoing with the clash and tread of such armies as the world +had never before seen; and living as he did in the shadow of +fortifications constructed by France's greatest military engineer, +Vauban, it is not so strange that the youth became filled with an +intense desire to taste the glory and share the danger of a soldier's +life. + +Michael Ney, Marshal of France, Duke of Elchingen, Prince of Moskwa--for +by all these titles, commemorative of some one or other of his numerous +victories, was he known--early rose in the confidence and estimation of +the great Napoleon, and was by him intrusted with the most responsible +commands in Switzerland, Prussia, Austria, and Spain; and it was not +until he met Wellington at Torres Vedras, in the Peninsula, that he met +his superior in the art of war; and even then, by a happy mixture of +courage and skill, Ney was enabled to mitigate to a great extent the +bitterness of defeat. But to relate his whole career would be to fill a +volume, so we will only consider one or two incidents in his life. + +In 1810, Ney took an active part in the invasion of Russia, and by his +address and energy contributed largely to the French victory at the +battle of the Moskwa, called by the Russians the battle of Borodino. + +When the Russian Bear turned upon the invader, and the ever-memorable +retreat commenced, with all its attendant horrors of cold, hunger, and +physical pain, to Ney was assigned the honorable but arduous task of +protecting the rear of the fleeing troops. At the start Ney's force +numbered 7000 men, and on leaving Smolensk he found himself confronted +by an army four times as large. + +He was summoned to surrender before commencing the attack, and his +characteristic reply, "A Marshal of France never surrenders," has passed +into history, though it must be confessed that, in the light of recent +events, history does not always bear out the assertion. Repeatedly +driven back with awful loss, Ney determined to outwit the enemy; so, +under cover of darkness, he and his troops made a wide circuit, and +reached the bank of the river Dnieper far in advance of the pursuers. + +But here a new foe confronted the gallant Marshal. How should he cross +the stream? He had no boats, and although the weather was intensely +cold, the rapid current was covered only by a thin coating of ice that +bent beneath the weight of a single man. However, to deliberate was to +be lost; so, dividing his forces into small companies, he caused the +advance to be sounded, himself stepping first upon the glassy surface. + +What a subject for a painter is here presented!--the frozen snowy +landscape; the bare skeleton trees; the broad serpentine course of the +frost-bound river, with here and there patches of open water showing +darkly against the snow-covered ice; the scattered groups of soldiers +treading carefully, and with the possibility before them that at the +next step the treacherous floor might precipitate them into an icy +grave. + +But the hazardous passage was safely effected, and after a series of +conflicts with forces in every case far superior to his own, Ney +succeeded in rejoining the Emperor at Orsha, where he was received with +open arms, and hailed as "the bravest of the brave"--a name which clung +to him from that time. + +After Napoleon left the army, Ney still continued to fight in the rear +against the ever-increasing hordes of Russians that harassed the flanks +of the fugitive army. Three times was the rear-guard that he commanded +melted away by death, captivity, or flight, and as often was it +reorganized by the indomitable Marshal who "never surrendered." + +At last, with a poor remnant of only thirty men, Ney defended the gate +of the town of Kovno--the last place in the Russian dominions through +which the French retreated--against the pursuers, while the main body +escaped through the gate at the other end of the town. He was himself +the very last man to retire. Snatching a pistol from one of his men, he +fired the last shot in the faces of the Russians, flung the weapon into +the river Niemen, plunged in after it, and amid a storm of bullets swam +the stream, and gained the neighboring forest, successfully eluded his +pursuers, and joined his comrades, who had mourned him as dead, in the +Prussian territory. + +Ney's end was as unfortunate as it was unworthy so brave a soldier. When +Napoleon was banished to Elba, Ney, who had previously incurred his +displeasure, gave his allegiance to the restored Bourbons, and when the +great Emperor re-appeared in France, Ney was placed in command of the +army sent to oppose him, promising his new superiors to bring back +Napoleon "like a wild beast in a cage." + +There is no reason to doubt Ney's sincerity in this unhappy episode of +his career. He was of a brave, impulsive disposition, one accustomed to +act on the spur of the moment; so, when he drew near to the Emperor, and +found that the men he commanded, nearly all of whom had fought at some +time or other under the Emperor, were fixed in a resolve not to fight +against Napoleon, it is not so much to be wondered at that Ney became +Napoleonist with as much ardor as ever. And when Napoleon called on him +by his old title, "the bravest of the brave," to once more rally under +his standard, Ney responded with alacrity, as though the name possessed +a magic spell he could not resist. + +After Waterloo, when all that pertained to the cause of the dethroned +Emperor was irretrievably lost, Ney was brought to trial by the +re-restored Bourbons on the charge of treason, and was condemned to be +shot on December 7, 1815. He met death with that same unflinching +bravery which he so many times displayed, during his eventful career, +on most of the great battle-fields of Europe. + +On December 7, 1853, exactly thirty-eight years after his death, a +statue was raised to the memory of the intrepid Marshal on the precise +spot on which his execution occurred. + + + + +[Begun in No. 11 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, January 13.] + +LADY PRIMROSE. + +BY FLETCHER READE. + + +CHAPTER III. + + "A primrose by the river's brim + A yellow primrose was to him, + And it was nothing more." + +"Princess Bebe! Princess Bebe! Princess Bebe!" + +It was the little gate-keeper, running at the top of his speed, and +shouting at the top of his voice. + +Very much heated and very red in the face was the little man as he stood +before the princess, holding out to her a loaf of bread almost as large +as himself. + +"This is for you," he said, in a choked voice, for he had run so far and +so fast that he could hardly speak at all. "The wise old woman of +Hollowbush sent it. Now eat, eat. Let me see what it is like--let me see +how you do it." + +While the princess ate her loaf of bread with more eagerness than any +member of royalty ever displayed before or since, the gate-keeper +watched her with wondering eyes. + +"Well, I never saw anything like that before," he said at length. "And +you go through that remarkable performance every day! Every day!" he +repeated, in a tone of the most intense astonishment. + +"But where did you find it?" asked the princess, who was more interested +in the bread than in the gate-keeper. + +"Find it!" he exclaimed. "I didn't find it. That wise old woman of +Hollowbush, who has discovered the secret of the three knocks, knocked +on the wall, and when I had opened the door, she thrust it in, saying +she would bring you a fresh loaf every day." + +"Then she has not quite forgotten me," sighed the princess, thinking of +her last conversation with this same wise old lady. "But does she know +that I must stay here the rest of my life?" + +"Oh yes," answered the gate-keeper, shaking his head, and looking very +wise. "That is--there is a secret--did it never occur to you, my dear +princess," he added, suddenly, "that there might be a way of making your +escape?" + +"Oh, you dear delicious little gate-keeper!" exclaimed the princess, +seizing him in her arms, and tossing him up and down. "I see how it is: +you will let me out--you will do it. Oh, I am sure you will!" + +"Not so fast, my dear," said the little man, struggling to free himself. +"Put me down, and I will tell you all about it. But first of all you +must promise to keep the whole matter a profound secret: if you should +tell any one, the plan would fail." + +"Oh, I can keep a secret," said the princess, smiling, and beginning to +feel quite happy again. + +"Well, then," said the gate-keeper, seating himself by the +fountain--which was not a fountain at all, but only an imitation very +skillfully done in aquamarine--"you are to stay here a year. Then, when +the spring comes you are to be changed into a primrose, if you will +consent to it, and grow up out of the ground like other flowers. Hidden +deep within the woods, you must wait patiently, through sunshine and +rain, till some one finds you, and breaks you from the stem. Whoever he +may be, rich or poor, young or old, if he loves the flower well enough +to take it home, and place it carefully in a vase of water, he will have +the power of transforming it into a mortal, and you will be restored to +your home in a world where the sun shines and where flowers grow." + +"Dear! dear!" said the princess, "I suppose I must consent, if that is +the only way of making my escape. But what if no one comes into the +woods, and what if no one cares enough for the primrose to pick it?" + +"Then it will wither on its stem, and you must come back to us, and be +the Princess Bebe for another year." + +The trial which was proposed to her seemed a very hard one, and the year +which followed seemed very long. If it had not been for the kindness of +the gate-keeper, who amused her by showing her all the curiosities which +the kingdom of the mineral-workers contained, and explaining how the +gems were cleaned and polished and cut, I am afraid the poor Princess +Bebe would have died of homesickness long before spring. But at last the +year came to an end, as all years must, and she started on her journey +into the upper world. + +Day after day she struggled through the earth, pushing her roots deep +down into the soil, and stretching her slender leaf-like arms up into +the sunlight. The dew came and kissed the little flower-bud with sweet +moist lips, the sunshine warmed it, and the south wind sang to it, until +at last a yellow primrose opened its eyes in the dark woods. + +Day after day it lived there, trembling at the sound of every footstep, +and wishing and praying deep down in its flower-heart for a friend. + +June days had never seemed so long as these, for, despite her prayers, +no one came, and the lonely primrose grew faint and weary with +disappointment. + +At last, however, a party of children playing in the woods caught sight +of her bright face, and one of them--a merry, rosy-cheeked boy--broke +the flower from its stem. He held it up to his companions, and they ran +laughing after him. + +"Oh, it's nothing but a yellow primrose," he said, as they tried to +snatch the flower from his hand; and with these words he threw it away. + +So it was all in vain that the little flower had lived and died, for the +next day the Princess Bebe found herself back in the kingdom of the +mineral-workers. + +Her diamond necklace was just as beautiful as ever; her opal bed seemed +all alive with trembling colors, soft white and flashing crimson; and +the king welcomed her right royally, without a word of reproach for her +long absence. + +But for all that, her heart grew heavier every day. Even the attentions +of the gate-keeper became tiresome; and when he tried to make her laugh +with his merry ways, she could only smile sadly, and say, "Oh, it was +such a disappointment to be picked, and then thrown away." + +"Never mind--never mind," he would answer, cheerily: "better luck next +time." And so the days dragged slowly by until another spring. + +Then the princess began to hope once more; and when she found herself +actually lifting her head into the sunlight, and felt the soft air blow +over her, she wondered how she could ever have believed for a moment +that anything was better or more beautiful than the deep blue sky above +one, and the green earth beneath. + +Contented and happy, she waited patiently through wind and rain, until +it seemed as if her patience were to be rewarded. + +A young man on a jet-black horse came riding through the woods. His face +was bright and handsome, and he looked out upon the world with as merry +a pair of eyes as you would care to see. + +"Oh, if he would only take me home!" thought the flower. "I should like +to be rescued by such a handsome youth as he." And in spite of her +yellow primrose face, the little flower actually blushed. + +"What a bright little flower!" said the young man, as he rode along. +"If it were not so much trouble getting off my horse, I would carry it +home to Marjorie. But it's only a commonplace little primrose after +all," he added, and so rode on. + +That night the little flower cried itself to sleep among the shadows, +and before morning it had withered on its stem. + +"I will never make the attempt again," said the Princess Bebe, when she +found herself once more in the kingdom of the mineral-workers. + +[Illustration: THE PRINCESS BEBE AND ALECK.] + +"Oh yes, you will," said the gate-keeper, who had come forward to meet +her. "If life is worth having, it is worth struggling for. Next year I +shall send you up for your trial, whether you consent or not." + +"If that is the case, I suppose I may as well consent at once," said the +princess, and so yielded the point. + +And when the long, long days of another year had come and gone, she left +the kingdom of the mineral-workers for the third time. For the third +time she struggled through the ground, lifting up her head among the +blue-eyed violets and slender waving grasses. + +She shook out her petals in the sunlight, and smiled as sweetly as a +primrose can smile; but the spring days went by, and the summer was +almost over, before any one took any notice of her. + +The poor little primrose was almost ready to die of despair, when one +day, looking up quite suddenly, she saw the face of an old man bending +over her. + +He had gray hair and kind gray eyes; and as he looked at the flower he +smiled tenderly, as if he were looking at something that he loved. + +The flower smiled in turn, but could not speak. + +"You must go home with me, little primrose," said the old man, stooping +over the flower. + +The fact that this gray-haired, gray-eyed old man was a poet will +account, perhaps, for his talking to a flower as if it could understand +what he said. At all events, he broke it from the stem, and when he +reached his home placed it in a glass of water, saying, + +"There you must stay, my little flower, until I can write a poem worthy +of your bright face." + +No sooner had he uttered these words than he saw standing before him a +young girl with golden hair and softly shining eyes. + +"Bless me! bless me!" exclaimed the old man, in great surprise, taking +off the spectacles which he had so carefully adjusted across his nose, +"where did you come from, my lady?" + +"I came from the flower," she said; and she threw her arms round his +neck and kissed him on the lips. + +She was so delighted at her escape that she was not wholly responsible +for her actions; and if she cried a little, I don't think any one will +blame her. + +Laughing and crying at the same time, and half wild with excitement, she +told her new friend the story of her life for the past few years; and +he, in his turn, smiled and wept a little, perhaps, and then he kissed +her on the lips, and said, + +"Henceforth, my dear girl, you shall be known as the Lady Primrose, and +you shall stay with me as long as you will." + +Whether or no he ever wrote a poem about her I can not tell. All I know +is that she lived with him for the rest of her life, and was the +sweetest and happiest Lady Primrose imaginable. + +The house was as full of flowers as it could hold, and when the wise old +woman of Hollowbush, who, you may be sure, had not forgotten her, asked +her if she did not want another diamond necklace, Lady Primrose would +answer: + +"I don't care if I never see another diamond. The simplest flowers that +grow in the woods are the loveliest jewels God ever made, and so long as +I can have them, the lifeless flowers of the underground world may bloom +for those who do not know of how little value the jewels they prize so +highly really are." + +THE END. + + + + +EIGHTY YEARS OF A BIRD'S LIFE. + +BY MRS. AMELIA E. BARR. + + +You must understand, my dear young readers, that the Raven of this tale +is not at all an ordinary bird. It is true, he could not sing even as +well as the smallest wren, but then he could talk, and it was generally +believed that he knew a great deal more than the wisest of men and women +supposed. He was, too, the very last representative of an extremely +ancient family of Ravens, who had inhabited some rocky hills just behind +the little cottage for hundreds of years--a family, indeed, so ancient +that they had watched the battle-fields of Celts, Romans, Saxons, Danes, +and Normans, and had had among them very wise birds, who croaked quite +learnedly on the subject. + +Now at the bottom of the lofty rocks which they inhabited was a rich and +beautiful valley, and here, four hundred years ago, a Norman lord, who +was a great fighter, built himself a fine castle. The Ravens and he got +on very well together, and became great friends. His hunting and +fighting supplied them with food, and it is said they told him a great +many things that only a bird can know. He called his castle Ravensfield, +and very soon people began to call him Ravensfield, and then the birds +and he grew more friendly than ever. And it is said that when he was +dying he told his son always to be good to the Ravens, for that just as +long as the Ravens lived on Raven's Rock, the Ravensfields would own the +rich lands below it. + +For two hundred years everything went well; the knights grew rich and +powerful, and the birds fat and numerous. Then the Ravensfields began to +go to London, and spend money, and do all sorts of foolish things, and +get into all kinds of troubles, and though the Ravens croaked and +croaked until they were hoarse, they would not be prudent, and stay at +home and mind their own business. + +So the end of the matter was that every Ravensfield got poorer, and the +fine old castle fell into ruins, and the colony of Ravens among the +rocks also got smaller and smaller, until one morning the last knight of +Ravensfield found in a deserted nest the last of this once powerful +family of birds. It was half fledged and half starved, and he brought it +home, and gave it to his sister to nurse. "Sister Mabel," he said, +sadly, "this is the luck of Ravensfield: nurse it carefully, and +to-morrow I will buckle my sword to my belt and go to India. I do +believe this bird will live to see the old house rebuilt, and the glory +of our family restored." + +So the young Lord Stephen went over the seas, and Miss Mabel nursed the +bird, and talked hopefully to it for fifteen years. But poor Lord +Stephen was killed in a great Indian battle, and soon after there came +to Miss Mabel a little lad who was Lord Stephen's only child. His father +had left him a little money, and his aunt Mabel took great pains with +him, and sent him to the best schools; and when he was twenty years old, +she buckled his sword on his belt, and kissing him tenderly, sent him +away also to India. "For, Stephen," she said, "you must win fame and +gold to buy back the house and lands of Ravensfield." + +All these twenty years the Raven had been growing large and splendid, +and when the second Lord Stephen went away, he looked after him with a +queer sidewise glance that filled Miss Mabel's heart with fear. But he +was a bold, brave youth, and sent happy letters over the sea, and Miss +Mabel told the Raven all the news, and I have no doubt they comforted +each other very much. After nine years had passed, the Raven suddenly +grew silent, and then there came a sad, sad letter: the second Lord +Stephen had been killed fighting under his flag, and his sickly little +baby girl was sent home to his aunt in England. + +Poor Miss Mabel was now sixty years old, and her heart and hopes were +quite crushed. She had little love left for the desolate child, and she +seemed to take a dislike to the poor Raven. At any rate, she never spoke +to it, and the bird became the companion of the little girl. They played +and ate and slept together, and when little Nannette went out to gather +primroses or berries, the Raven always walked solemnly beside her. + +[Illustration: NANNETTE FEEDING THE RAVEN.] + +One morning (the very morning when somebody drew this picture of them) +her aunt was cross--she had a heartache, and a toothache too, poor old +lady!--and Nannette took her porringer of bread and milk out of the +cottage, and she and the bird were enjoying it together, when some one +called out, "Nannette, I am going to shoot that ugly old bird!" + +Then Nannette's little heart stood still in her terror, and she dropped +her breakfast and ran to the boy, crying out that she should die if it +were killed, for it was the only thing in all the world she had to love +her. + +The boy saw that she had great brown eyes, and beautiful brown hair, and +a little mouth like a rose-bud, and he thought, "How lovely she is!" and +dropped his gun, and said so many comforting words to Nannette, that +always after it they were the very dearest of friends. And the Raven +seemed to approve of Reginald also--for Reginald was the little boy's +name, and he was very proud of it, being, as you know, a little out of +the common; he would perch on his shoulder, and what he said to him as +years went by I can not tell; but Reginald became thoughtful, and talked +to Nannette continually about going away, and growing rich, and then +coming home to marry her and make her a great lady. But Reginald did not +have money enough to go away, and so he was often very sad and silent. + +One day he came to Nannette with a paper in his hand. "See!" he cried, +"the squire's son has been lost in the hills while hunting, and there is +one hundred pounds to be given to whoever finds him. I know all about +the hills, and shall certainly find the young squire." Then he said +good-by to Nannette, and would have done so to the Raven, but the bird +flew away before him, and for all his mistress's cries he would not come +back. So together they went up the rocks, and Nannette watched them +quite out of sight. + +And Reginald, who knew a great deal about birds, watched the Raven, and +saw that he flew continually over one spot in a narrow ravine; and there +he found the poor young squire. His horse had been killed by the fall, +and there he lay with a broken leg, and almost dead with hunger and +thirst and pain. After this piece of good luck, Reginald's way was +clear. Every one was then talking about a new country full of gold, +called California; and though it was at the other end of the world, +Reginald bravely sailed away into the West. Aunt Mabel shook her head, +and the Raven nodded his head, and Nannette cried and laughed, and bid +him "come quickly back, and build again the beautiful castle of +Ravensfield"; and Reginald said, gravely, "I will surely do it," whereat +the Raven nodded his wise-looking head harder than before. + +"How long will he be away, Aunt Mabel?" said Nannette, sadly. + +"Twenty years at least, my dear. I shall never see him again. I am +seventy-five years old now." + +"And I am fifteen. Ah! I shall be an old woman when Reginald comes back, +and he won't know his little Nannette any more!" Then the Raven said +something to Nannette, and she laughed, and his "Croak! croak!" sounded +very like "Yes! yes!" It did, indeed. + +Four years after Reginald went away, a very singular thing happened. Two +pairs of strange Ravens came to Raven's Rock, and built nests and reared +their young there. Nannette's Raven went very often to see them, and +seemed to be altogether a changed bird. For though he was getting near +sixty years old, he began to plume his feathers, and to sit continually +at the cottage door, watching, watching, watching, as if he expected +somebody. + +It affected Nannette at last. "I think, aunt," she said, timidly, "that +Reginald must be coming home. Just look at that bird!" + +"Nonsense, child! How should he know?" + +And indeed I don't understand how this wonderful bird knew, but he did; +for that very night, just as Nannette was going to light the candle, she +heard Reginald's step on the crisp snow, and the old lady heard it, and +the Raven heard it, and there was the gladdest meeting you can possibly +imagine; and if ever a bird said "I told you so," that Raven said it at +least a hundred times that night. + +Besides, Reginald had come home with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds +of pounds; and he married lovely Nannette, and rebuilt Ravensfield; and +dear, patient Aunt Mabel, after sixty years of waiting, went back to the +stately old house, and ended her days in the little parlor where she had +kissed her brother Stephen farewell. + +As for the Raven, he showed himself to be a bird of a very aristocratic +nature. He stepped proudly about the fine halls and gardens, and never +went near the little cottage or the village streets again. He lived +until his fine plumage began to turn gray, and Nannette's oldest son was +almost big enough to put on a scarlet coat and a sword; and when he was +nearly eighty years old he died on Nannette's knee, his foot in her +hand, and the last thing he was conscious of was her tears dropping upon +it. + +Very likely, children, some extremely wise men and women will say, "I +would not believe too much of this story, boys and girls." But when you +have lived as long as I have lived, you will know that extremely wise +men and women _don't know everything_. At any rate, there are plenty of +Ravens on Raven's Rock now, and plenty of Ravensfields in the splendid +castle; and if ever you go to England, you can see them if you want to. + + + + +A HARD SWIM. + +BY DAVID KER. + + +There are few things more delightful than to be at sea on a fine summer +day, with a bright blue sky above and a bright blue sea below, while the +fresh breeze fills your sails, and the great smooth waves toss you +lightly along, and spatter you at times with their glittering spray, +like frolicsome giants. But it is a very different thing to be out in +the teeth of a real equinoctial gale, with the whole sky black as ink, +and the whole sea one sheet of boiling foam, and a huge wave coming +thundering over the deck every other minute, sweeping everything before +it, and making the whole vessel tremble from stem to stern. + +So, doubtless, thought Olaf Petersen, captain and owner of the Norwegian +schooner _Thyra_, of Bergen, when just such a storm caught him half way +across the North Sea. It _did_ seem rather hard, after escaping all the +storms of blustering March, that fresh, genial April should serve him +such a trick; but so it was, and instead of having a short and easy run +northeastward to Bergen, as he expected, he found himself flying away to +the west, driven by a gale which seemed strong enough to blow him right +round the world, if it did not happen to sink him by the way. + +All the sails had long since been taken in, and the little craft was +scudding under bare poles, no one being on deck but the two men at the +wheel (who had quite enough to do keeping her head straight) and the +captain himself. A fine picture Olaf Petersen would have made as he +stood there, with the spray rattling like hail upon his drenched +tarpaulins, and his clear bright eye looking keenly out through the wet +hair that was plastered over his face. It might be seen by the firm set +of his mouth that he meant to fight it out while a plank would swim; but +he looked grave and anxious, nevertheless. + +And well he might. This time it was not only his vessel and the lives of +himself and his crew that were in danger: his young wife was on board, +after whom the _Thyra_ had been named, and it was now too late to blame +himself for having granted her entreaty to be allowed to sail along with +him, instead of being left at home by herself for so many weary weeks, +without knowing whether he was alive or dead. + +Still it blew harder, and harder yet. Had not the _Thyra_ been as good a +sea-boat as ever swam, it would have been all over with her. Even as it +was, she could barely hold her own against the mountains of water that +came plunging over her deck with a force that seemed sufficient to rend +a rock. More than once the captain's stiffened fingers were almost torn +from their hold upon the weather rigging, while the men at the wheel +were under water again and again. Vainly did Olaf strain his eyes to +windward in the hope of seeing a break in the inky sky. All was grim and +gloomy, and amid the blinding spray and the deepening darkness it was +hard to tell where the sea ended and the sky began. + +All that night and all the next morning they drove blindly onward, not +knowing where they were; for the sun had not been seen for two whole +days, and no observation could be taken. But Captain Petersen, who had +those seas by heart, began to fear that they were being driven in among +the Orkney Isles, and he knew only too well what chance the stoutest +three-decker would have against those tremendous rocks with such a sea +running. + +Toward afternoon the wind fell suddenly, though the sea still ran high; +but now came something worse than all--one of those terrible Northern +fogs which turn day into night, and make the oldest sailor as helpless +as a child. The lanterns were lit and hoisted, the ship's bell was kept +constantly tolling, and the captain ordered up two "look-outs" besides +himself; but the fog grew thicker and thicker, till those on the +forecastle could barely make out the foremast. + +Ha! what was that huge dim shadow that loomed out suddenly just ahead, +like a threatening giant? Could it be a _rock_? + +"Port your helm!--port!" roared the captain, at the full pitch of his +voice. + +But it was too late. The next moment there came a deafening crash, a +shock that threw them all off their feet, and the vessel, with her bows +stove in, was sawing and grinding upon the sharp rocks that had pierced +her through and through, with the water rushing into her like a +cataract. + +The next few minutes were like the confusion of a troubled dream--a +shadowy vision of a huge dark mass overhead, a short fierce struggle +amid swirling foam and broken timbers--and then the captain and wife +found themselves upon one of the higher ledges, hardly knowing how they +had reached it, while the crew, with bleeding hands and sorely bruised +limbs, dragged themselves painfully up after them. + +They were not a moment too soon. Scarcely had the last man gained the +ledge, when a mountain wave took the vessel aback. She slid off the +rocks which had held her up, and went down so quickly that the captain, +turning at the shouts of his men, just caught a glimpse of her topmasts +vanishing under water. + +The situation of the shipwrecked crew was now dreary enough. Alone upon +a bare rock in the midst of a stormy sea, with no means of escape, and +no food but the few brine-soaked biscuits in their pockets, there seemed +to be nothing left for them but to give themselves up and die. But, of +all men living, a sailor is the least apt to think his case hopeless, +however dark it may appear. Having just been saved from apparently +certain death, the stout-hearted seamen were in no mood to despair so +easily; and settling themselves snugly in a sheltered cleft of the rock, +they ate their scanty meal (a good share of which had been reserved for +Mrs. Petersen) as cheerily as if they were lying at anchor in Bergen +Harbor. + +Just as the meal ended, the fog suddenly rolled away like a curtain, and +the last gleam of the setting sun showed them an island several miles to +the north, on the shore of which the keen-eyed captain made out a few +white specks that looked like fishermen's huts. + +"Lads," cried he, "if the wind rises again, it'll blow us all into the +sea; and even if it don't, we shall freeze to death if we stick here all +night, with no room to move about. There's just _one_ chance left for +us, and I'm going to take it. Somebody must swim to that island for +help, and as I believe I'm the best swimmer among us, I'll be the one to +do it." + +"Olaf!" cried his wife, catching him by the arm, "you won't think of it! +It's certain death!" + +"Pooh, pooh!" said the captain, cheerily. "I haven't swum across Bergen +Bay and back for nothing. It's certain death to sit here and freeze, if +you like; but you'll soon see me coming back with half a dozen stout +fellows, and we'll all have a good supper before the night's out. Keep +your heart up, dear. God bless you!" + +The next moment he was in the water, and vanishing from the eager eyes +that watched him into the fast-falling shadows of night. Then came a +long silence. The men looked at each other, no one daring to utter the +thought which was in every one's mind, while Thyra Petersen hid her face +in her hands, and prayed as she had never prayed before. + +Meanwhile Captain Petersen, who had told no more than the truth in +calling himself a good swimmer, was breasting the waves manfully. But he +soon found the difference between attempting a long swim when quite +fresh and vigorous, and doing the same thing after a hard night's work, +on short allowance of food, and with limbs stiffened by wet and cold. +Moreover, the sea, although much quieter than it had been, was still +rough enough to tell sorely against him. Before he had gone a mile he +felt his strength beginning to fail; but he thought of his wife, and of +all the other lives that now depended upon him alone, and struggled +desperately onward. But now came a new trouble. In the deepening +darkness the island for which he was heading soon disappeared +altogether, and he found himself swimming almost at random. Every stroke +was now a matter of life and death, and yet each of those strokes might +be taken in the wrong direction. It was a terrible thought. Heavier and +heavier grew his cramped limbs, harder and harder pressed the merciless +sea. He sank--rose--sank again, and as he came up once more, lifted his +voice in a despairing cry, feeling that all was over. + +"Hist, laddies! there's some ane skirling" (screaming), shouted a hoarse +voice near him. + +There was a sudden splash of oars, a clamor of many voices, and then a +strong hand clutched him as he sank for the last time. So utterly was he +spent that he could barely force out the few words needful to tell his +story; but these were quite enough for the Orkney fishermen, who at once +put about and steered straight for the rock. + +It was a glad sight for the weary watchers, when the boat came gliding +toward them out of the darkness. But when they recognized their captain, +whom they had long since given up for lost, they gathered their last +strength for a feeble cheer, while poor Thyra sprang into the boat, and +threw her arms round his neck without a word. + +So ended Captain Petersen's daring swim, which brought him good in a way +that he little expected; for when the news of the feat reached Bergen, +the townspeople at once started a subscription to buy him another +vessel, in which he is voyaging now. + + + + +SOME CURIOUS ART WORKS AND ARTISTS. + + +The Marquis de Veere once gave each of his household a sufficient +quantity of the richest white silk damask for a suit. Charles V. was +about to make him a visit, and the marquis wished his court to make a +splendid appearance when assisting him to receive the emperor. His +painter, Mabuse, who was always in debt, was granted the privilege of +seeing to the making of his own suit of clothes. Mabuse, however, sold +the damask for a good price, and having made a paper suit, painted it so +perfectly to represent the damask that when he appeared in it all were +deceived. + +When the marquis called the emperor's attention to the beautiful +clothing of his court, and asked which suit he most admired, the emperor +at once selected that of Mabuse. The joke was then explained to the +emperor, but he would not believe that the suit was not of real damask +until he had touched it with his hands. + +It no doubt took Mabuse considerable time to paint his damask, but a +much more celebrated artist once made a wonderful drawing almost in an +instant. At the time of the Caesars there was at Rome a panel on which +was to be seen nothing but three colored lines. The lines were drawn one +on top of the other, each thinner line dividing the next wider. This was +considered one of the most wonderful art works at Rome. + +The Grecian painter Apelles went one day into Protogenes's studio, and +finding that artist out, drew on a panel the widest of the three lines +in such a peculiar and beautiful manner that Protogenes knew at once his +caller. When Apelles called the second time he found that Protogenes had +drawn a colored line upon the first line, dividing it with the most +delicate accuracy. Seeing this, Apelles divided the second line, to +every one's astonishment. Protogenes lived at Rhodes, and the panel was +taken to Rome to be admired by all who saw it. When the imperial palace +was destroyed, the panel unfortunately shared a like fate. + +In comparison, what a delicate flower is to a huge log, so the work of +Apelles would be to such a vast oil-painting as the "Apotheosis of +Hercules," painted by Lemoin, a Frenchman. This picture measured +sixty-four feet one way by fifty-four feet the other, and the +ultramarine to paint the clouds on it alone cost two thousand dollars. + +Another huge painting, said to be the largest in the world, is +Tintoretto's "Paradise," at Venice. It contains an almost innumerable +multitude of figures, and fills the end of a large hall, over three +hundred feet long and half as wide. + +One of the most minute and beautiful of art works now at Florence is a +glory of sixty saints carved on a cherry stone. It was carved by the +Italian sculptress Rossi, who executed other similar carvings, besides +working in marble. + +Some of the old artists had peculiar methods of working. Aspertino +taught himself to paint with both hands at the same time; and Goya, who +died in this century, frequently used a stick or a sponge rather than a +brush. There are pictures of Goya's done entirely with his palette knife +and finger-ends. + +One of the oddest of all artists was Bazzi, called Il Soddoma. Not only +did he dress peculiarly, but his house was full of strange pet animals, +such as monkeys and queer birds. Among the birds was a raven that could +perfectly imitate his voice and manner of speech. + +Sir Joshua Reynolds painted with brushes the handles of which were a +foot and a half long, and used them so rapidly that he would paint a +portrait in four hours. The finest of his pictures were those of +children. + +Other painters were noted also especially for their rapid work. One +morning when some citizens called upon the Spanish painter Serra with an +order for an altarpiece, he invited them to stay to dinner, and in the +mean while to pass the time in his garden. When dinner-time came, the +citizens were perfectly amazed to see Serra walk into their presence +bearing the finished picture. + +Rizi, another Spanish painter, went in early life to Salamanca to study +theology, but he arrived there without money, and found that to be +received at the college he must pay a hundred ducats. The abbot of the +college gave Rizi but two days in which to get the money, or be refused +as a student. Within that time, however, Rizi painted and sold a picture +for the desired amount. He continued to paint to pay for his education, +and in addition to becoming a famous painter he was made a bishop just +before he died. + +A celebrated painter of fairs and festivals such as took place among the +Dutch was David Teniers. He usually painted on small or moderate-sized +canvases, but the figures often were so numerous that one of his +pictures contains nearly twelve hundred figures, while others with two +hundred and three hundred figures are not rare. Teniers could imitate +the style of other painters. At Vienna is a picture of his representing +a gallery in which he and a gentleman are standing, and on the wall +before them are hung fifty pictures of other artists. The pictures, of +course, are quite small, but any one comparing them with the originals +sees how striking is the imitation of different styles. + +Another clever imitation of a very different kind was that of Peredo's, +whose wife, a lady of rank, wished to have a servant with her whenever +any one called. Peredo was not wealthy enough to keep merely ornamental +servants, and he painted an old lady with glasses sitting in a chair, +and who, apparently, when visitors saluted her, was so busily engaged in +sewing as not to hear them. + + + + +[Illustration: THE LITTLE ARTIST.] + + + + +HARES, WILD AND TAME. + + +The hare family is one of the largest of the great animal kingdom, for +Master Lepus is found in almost every corner of the earth, and whether +hiding in tropical thickets, or scampering on Alpine heights, or through +the frozen regions of the North, it is always the same agile, shy, and +stupid little beast. It has very long ears, tipped with black, and heavy +whiskers growing from each cheek. Its hind-legs are very long. It is a +swift runner, and can jump a great distance. + +Hares are very common throughout the Northern United States, their +favorite haunts being overgrown old clearings, and thickets where are +many snug places of concealment. They change their fur during winter, +throwing off the pretty reddish-brown summer coat, and donning one of +white and dark fawn-color. The color of the fur, however, is so varied +that it is difficult to find two specimens exactly alike. + +[Illustration: HUNTING FOR SUPPER.] + +This little creature will eat any juicy, tender food, such as the young +buds and sprouts in the spring, berries, and leaves. It is fond of +cabbage leaves and young grain, and often does much mischief to the +crops. It generally sleeps through the day, and morning and evening +jumps about in search of food, scampering here and there wherever it can +find a sweet morsel to nibble. It does not burrow its nest in the +ground, like its cousin the rabbit, but scratches together a little heap +of dry grass, which makes a very good temporary lodging. The hare's nest +is called a "form," and is so in harmony with surrounding objects that +it is scarcely noticeable. One may pass very near without suspecting +that under such a heap of dry rubbish a cunning little animal lies +concealed. On English heaths the hare makes its "form" in the little +stubbly furze-bushes. Inside this mass of prickly leaves it hollows out +a soft little bed, where it sleeps away the long sunny day, crouched +close to the ground, its ears laid flat on its back. + +Hares have no means of defending themselves, except their sharp +toe-nails, which they rarely think of using, and they fall an easy prey +to the many enemies which beset them. They are vigorously hunted by men +and dogs on account of the delicate flavor of their flesh, and it has +been thought necessary to place them under the protection of the +game-laws. They are also the prey of foxes, wild-cats, weasels, and many +other animals. Although defenseless, they still are in a measure +protected by their keen ear, which catches the sound of the least rustle +or movement, and warns the little beast against approaching danger. + +The hare is the worst mother in the world. When her little ones are four +or five days old, she leaves them unprotected in their nest, and +scampers away to enjoy herself, returning once or twice, perhaps, to +nurse her forlorn babies, and then leaving them to shift for themselves. +Many little ones, thus neglected, die of cold and hunger, or are swooped +up by hawks and owls. It is a strange fact that the mother hare makes +no attempt to protect her babies, but will run away at the least signal +of danger, and leave them to their fate. Hares have even been known +themselves to bite their children to death. A young hare family remain +together until they are half grown, when they separate, continuing to +live near their native spot, for hares are not travellers, and, unless +disturbed, seldom change their home. They are very short-lived, and +seldom attain the age of ten years. + +Hares are very plentiful in Switzerland, and are found high up among the +ice and snow of the most lofty mountains. These Alpine hares are subject +to a very strange change of costume. In December, when the Alpine world +is one vast expanse of snow, the fur of the hare is the purest white, +only the ears preserving the distinguishing black tip. As spring comes +on, gray-brown hairs appear in the white fur, until, about the end of +May, the animal is entirely covered with a gray-brown coat, which with +the first snows of the autumn begins, in its turn, to change again into +white. Ice hares, which are found as far north as the Parry Islands, are +also subject to the same change, with the exception that the warm +weather continues only long enough to spread a gray mantle along the +back of the little creature, which quickly disappears as the temperature +declines. The ice hare lives on the bark and twigs of the arctic willow +and the dry moss and stubble of the desolate regions it inhabits. It +makes its nest among the rocks, and in winter digs a hole in the snow. + +Hares are good swimmers, but will not enter the water unless to avoid a +foe. There is, however, one species of aquatic hare, found only in the +Southern United States. It is amphibious, like the musk-rat, is a most +expert swimmer, and makes its nest, or "form," on the edge of the +morass, where it sleeps all day, sallying forth morning and evening for +a swim in search of the delicate water-plants upon which it feeds. The +young ones enter the water at a very early age, and may be seen paddling +about with the mother on a hunt for breakfast. + +Tame hares make very pretty pets. They are very stupid about learning +tricks, and are said to have very short memories. Hares which have +escaped from their masters, and have been recaptured after a few days of +freedom, have been found to be entirely wild, as if they retained no +remembrance, even for that short time, of all the petting which had been +bestowed upon them. Dr. Benjamin Franklin is said to have had a pet hare +which lived on the most friendly terms with a greyhound and cat, and +would share the hearth-rug with them in the winter. + +William Cowper, the English poet, had three pet hares, to which he was +much attached, and about which he wrote many pretty things. They were +given to him when they were leverets, as a hare is called during the +first year of its life, and he named them Puss, Bess, and Tiney. He +built them houses to sleep in, and always kept them near him. Bess, who +died soon after he was full grown, "was," writes Cowper, "a hare of +great humor and drollery. Puss was tamed by gentle usage; Tiney was not +to be tamed at all." Once poor Puss was sick. His master nursed him with +the greatest care. He says: "No creature could be more grateful than my +patient after his recovery--a sentiment which he most significantly +expressed by licking my hand, first the back of it, then the palm, then +every finger separately, then between all the fingers, as if anxious to +leave no part of it unsaluted; a ceremony which he never performed but +once again, upon a similar occasion." + +Upon Tiney the kindest treatment had no effect. If his master ventured +to stroke him, he would grunt, strike with his fore-feet, spring +forward, and bite. Tiney lived to be nine years old, and died from the +effects of a fall. Puss survived him two years. A memorandum found among +Cowper's papers reads: "This day died poor Puss, aged eleven years, +eleven months. He died between twelve and one at noon, of mere old age, +and apparently without pain." + +The poet was so fond of his pets that he buried them in his garden, and +wrote an epitaph on Tiney, from which we take the following stanzas: + + "Here lies--whom hound did ne'er pursue, + Nor swifter greyhound follow, + Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, + Nor ear heard huntsman's halloo-- + + "Old Tiney, surliest of his kind, + Who, nursed with tender care, + And to domestic bounds confined, + Was still a wild Jack hare. + + "Though duly from my hand he took + His pittance every night, + He did it with a jealous look, + And, when he could, would bite. + + "His diet was of wheaten bread, + And milk, and oats, and straw; + Thistles, or lettuces instead, + With sand to scour his maw. + + "On twigs of hawthorn he regaled, + On pippin's russet peel, + And when his juicy salads failed, + Sliced carrot pleased him well." + + + + +CHARADE. + + + Out on the sea, when the tempest is blowing, + Over the waters dark and wild, + Guide I the sailor, his pathway showing + Over the shoals and the currents flowing; + Never through me is the ship beguiled. + + Many a wandering step have I guided; + Children at school have I often taught; + Many disputes through me are decided; + Oft has my help, though sometimes derided, + Even the Muse of History sought. + + Off with my head! I'm a living creature; + Trembling I follow, I guide no more; + Large-eyed and gentle, of kindly feature, + Hunted by man; in the wilds of nature, + When he is coming, I fly before. + + Cut off my head again, and for ages + Long have I kindled the spirit of man. + Worshipped by artists, adored by the sages, + Present and past combine in my pages; + There all the secrets of beauty you scan. + + + + +WHEN SKATES WERE BONES. + + +Though it appears to be impossible to fix on the time when skating first +took root in England, there can be no doubt that it was introduced there +from more northern climates, where it originated more from the +necessities of the inhabitants than as a pastime. When snow covered +their land, and ice bound up their rivers imperious necessity would soon +suggest to the Scands or the Germans some ready means of winter +locomotion. This first took the form of snow-shoes with two long runners +of wood, like those still used by the inhabitants of the northerly parts +of Norway and Sweden in their journeys over the immense snow-fields. +These seem originally to have been used by the Finns, "for which +reason," says a Swedish writer, "they were called 'Skrid Finnai' +(Sliding Finns)--a common name for the most ancient inhabitants of +Sweden, both in the North saga and by foreign authors." + +When used on ice, one runner would soon have been found more convenient +than the widely separated two, and harder materials used than wood: +first bone was substituted; then it, in turn, gave place to iron; and +thus the present form of skate was developed in the North at a period +set down by Scandinavian archaeologists as about A.D. 200. + +Frequent allusions occur in the old Northern poetry, which prove that +proficiency in skating was one of the most highly esteemed +accomplishments of the Northern heroes. One of them, named Kolson, +boasts that he is master of nine accomplishments, skating being one; +while the hero Harold bitterly complains that though he could fight, +ride, swim, glide along the ice on skates, dart the lance, and row, "yet +a Russian maid disdains me." + +In the "Edda" this accomplishment is singled out for special praise: +"Then the king asked what that young man could do who accompanied Thor. +Thialfe answered that in running upon skates he would dispute the prize +with any of the countries. The king owned that the talent he spoke of +was a very fine one." + +Olaus Magnus, the author of the famous chapter on the Snakes of Iceland, +tells us that skates were made "of polished iron, or of the shank bone +of a deer or sheep, about a foot long, filed down on one side, and +greased with hog's lard to repel the wet." These rough-and-ready bone +skates were the kind first adopted by the English; for Fitzstephen, in +his description of the amusements of the Londoners in his day (time of +Henry the Second), tells us that "when that great fen that washes +Moorfields at the north wall of the city is frozen over, great companies +of young men go to sport upon the ice. Some, striding as wide as they +may, do slide swiftly; some, better practiced to the ice, bind to their +shoes bones, as the legs of some beasts, and hold stakes in their hands, +headed with sharp iron, which sometimes they strike against the ice; +these men go as swiftly as doth a bird in the air, or a bolt from a +cross-bow." Then he goes on to say that some, imitating the fashion of +the tournament, would start in full career against one another, armed +with poles; "they meet, elevate their poles, attack and strike each +other, when one or both of them fall, and not without some bodily hurt." + +Specimens of these old bone skates are occasionally dug up in fenny +parts of Great Britain. There are some in the British Museum, in the +Museum of the Scottish Antiquaries, and probably in other collections; +though perhaps some of the "finds" are not nearly as old as +Fitzstephen's day, for there seems to be good evidence that even in +London the primitive bone skate was not entirely superseded by +implements of steel at the latter part of last century. + +One found about 1839 in Moorfields, in the boggy soil peculiar to that +district, is described as being formed of the bone of some animal, made +smooth on one side, with a hole at one extremity for a cord to fasten it +to the shoe. At the other end a hole is also drilled horizontally to a +depth of three inches, which might have received a plug, with another +cord to secure it more effectually. + +There is hardly a greater difference between these old bone skates and +the "acmes" and club skates of to-day, than there is between the skating +of the Middle Ages and the artistic and graceful movements of good +performers of to-day. Indeed, skating as a fine art is entirely a thing +of modern growth. So little thought of was the exercise, that for long +after Fitzstephen's day we find few or no allusions to it, and up to the +Restoration days it appears to have been an amusement confined chiefly +to the lower classes, among whom it never reached any very high pitch of +art. "It was looked upon," says a recent writer, "much with the same +view that the boys on the Serpentine even now seem to adopt, as an +accomplishment, the acme of which was reached when the performer could +succeed in running along quickly on his skates, and finishing off with a +long and triumphant slide on two feet in a straight line forward. A +gentleman would probably then have no more thought of trying to execute +different figures on the ice than he would at the present day of dancing +in a drawing-room on the tips of his toes." Even as an amusement of the +common people it is not alluded to in any of the usual catalogues of +sport so often referred to. + + + + +THE MONKEYS OF INDIA. + + +A missionary in India gives an interesting account of the monkeys that +live in that far-away country. He says that in the morning, during the +cold season, the monkeys are always very listless, but as soon as they +are warmed with the rays of the sun, they are as playful as kittens. +They will jump over each other's backs, slap each other's faces, pull +each other's tails, and even make pretense to steal each other's babies. + +The gray and the brown species are found nearly all over the continent +of India; the former is more daring and destructive, and the latter more +mischievous and cunning. They both form themselves into separate packs, +or tribes, and rarely go beyond a certain boundary. They seldom migrate, +except it be for food or water in times of drought and scarcity. This +wild citizenship seems to be respected, for they very rarely trespass on +each other's ground. Each tribe has a leader, or king, which can easily +be recognized, and from the manner in which he conducts himself, he is +evidently aware of the dignity of his position. + +Like nearly all other wild animals, they have a keen sense of danger, +and when a certain whoop is given, however scattered or tempted to stay, +in a few moments they are hidden on the tops of the highest trees in the +locality. They have the bump of destructiveness largely developed, and +it is no small calamity when a tribe locates itself near a village. +Scarcely anything in the shape of fruit or grain comes amiss to them, +and when neither are to be had, in the hottest part of the year they eat +the stems of the young leaves. When they commence upon a field of +lentils, pulse, or peas, they always pluck up the plant by the root, +pull off one pod, and then fling the plant away, so that it does not +require many days to clear a whole field. Ripe mangoes have a special +attraction, and it requires no small amount of vigilance to keep them +away from the groves. + +Dogs, however strong and fleet, are of very little use to drive them +away, for the monkeys are sagacious enough to know that their safety is +in keeping near the trees. When the dog has spent himself with barking +and screaming at the foot of the tree, a monkey will come down to the +lowest branch, and wag his long tail within a few inches of the dog's +face, and when the poor dog has retired, completely foiled, a monkey +will soon be after him to tempt him to a second encounter. + +Mischief is certainly in their hearts, for, not content with stealing +the produce of the gardens and fields, they will pull off the thatch +from the native huts, fling the tiles from the better-built houses and +shops to the ground, and we have even seen them try their best to rift +the stones from the temples. A native town in one of the zemindary +estates was so mutilated by them that it looked as if it had sustained a +siege. + +Some years ago, after making our arrangements for our encampment at +night, we constantly had our peaceful rest broken by a tribe of brown +monkeys. They evidently thought that long possession had given them a +prior claim to the grove. For our own comfort it was felt by all that +some means must be adopted to drive them away. Accordingly one was shot. +Death was not instantaneous, and quite a number came around to see it +die. They looked with startling interest into its face, but as soon as +life was extinct they bounded away. Fear had fallen upon them all, and +not a sound was heard from them during the night. Early next morning +they assembled in an adjoining field. The sharp and quick manner in +which they turned their faces first in this way and then in that was a +sight not soon to be forgotten. They had instinct enough to see that +their only safety would be in flight. In the course of an hour the king +headed the tribe, and away they went, and not a solitary monkey was +seen in that region for years afterward. The natives dared not openly +commend us, but they were not a little pleased that we had rid them of +creatures so destructive to their homesteads. + +The monkeys are very numerous in the sacred cities, and especially in +Benares and Pooree. Within a few miles of the temple of Juggernaut there +are many hundreds, if not thousands. They are so tame that they will +come down from the trees and eat rice from the hands of the pilgrims. +When the pilgrim presents his hand with the rice in it, the monkey +seizes it with his left paw, and he will never let go his grip until he +has taken every grain. Very few persons are injured by monkeys, but they +will sometimes seize a basket, if there be fruit in it, when carried by +a woman or child. The natives often say that "monkeys can do everything +except talk, and they would do that were it not for the fear of being +made to work." + + + + +THE LITTLE DELINQUENT. + + +[Illustration: THE LITTLE DELINQUENT.] + +"Lucie, my Lucie, wilt thou not forgive thy little Fritz?" pleaded the +mother of two children whose father had been a soldier in the Prussian +army, and whose bravery had been rewarded with a medal which was worn on +his coat lapel. + +Lucie answered, with a deep sigh, "He was so cruel, dear mother; he +pushed me down so rudely on the hard floor!" + +"Yes, I saw that push; but he was angry." + +"And I tried so well to do what he wished; I kept the step and marched +behind him, and I helped to make his cap, and I ran out to the +poultry-yard for a feather which had dropped from the cock's tail--the +green and blue one that eats so much corn--and I was as good a soldier +as I knew how to be!" + +"Well, what was the matter?" + +"Why, I had my dear Rosa in my arms, and Ludwig looked over the fence, +and laughed at Fritz for having a girl with a doll in his regiment, and +Fritz became very cross, and said he would not play. Then I put my Rosa +down, and went marching again; but that dreadful great cock came and +pecked at her eyes, and I _could_ not see her suffer; so I hid her in my +apron while Fritz was not looking, and we came into the house to fill +our knapsacks; then Fritz saw Rosa, and he said I was a disobedient +soldier, and he pulled her out of my arms, and tossed her down and broke +her, as you see--oh, my dear, my good Rosa!" + +"But I think Fritz is sorry. See! he has been tied to the table a long +while for punishment. Can you not forgive him?" + +Lucie did not answer; her little soul seemed much disturbed. + +"Come, I will tell thee a story, my Lucie, of two other children, and +then, perhaps, thou wilt be more ready to let Fritz go free. Far away up +in the mountains where are the chamois, and where the rocks are rough +and the forests dark, lived Hans and Gretchen. They were wild as the +chamois themselves, and their old grandfather could scarcely keep them +by his side long enough to tell them the story of the Saviour's love, or +teach them even to read. They knew the haunt of every wild creature of +the woods, and many were their quarrels over a nest of young birds, or +the possession of the animals they trapped. They had no kind mother; +their words were often harsh, and sometimes hunger made them really +cruel to each other. They were much to be pitied, for their grandfather +was lame as well as old, and could do little for their support. + +"One day, in an eager chase after a rabbit Gretchen gave Hans a great +push, which sent him down over a rocky ledge on to some stones. She was +frightened to see that he did not move, and still more frightened when +she found he was moaning with pain. She ran to get help, and the +neighbors came and lifted Hans and carried him home; but he never walked +again: his spine was hurt. Ah! what sorrow then was Gretchen's! How she +wished she had never been so unkind! + +"How she missed her companion in her wild rambles, and in her search for +the Edelweiss flowers which she sold to travellers, and so gained a +little money! Lottie by little she learned how to be a better +girl--learned to be patient with Hans, who was often very cross; and as +she grew older, and could better care for the house and her old +grandfather, they came to love her very much. + +"But do you not think that little children who have been taught to be +kind, and to love the dear Father in heaven whose Son died on the cross, +should be willing to forgive when quarrels arise?" + +Both little faces had grown sad, one with earnest resolve never again to +be harsh with his sister, the other with tender regret. At last Lucie +said, "My mother, I forgive Fritz; but what shall I do for poor Rosa?" + +"Rosa shall have a new head when I have saved kreutzers to buy one," +said Fritz; and so they kissed and made up. + + + + +THREE FAMOUS DIAMONDS. + + +A magnificent diamond, belonging to the Emperor of Russia, bought by the +Empress Catherine, weighs over one hundred and ninety-three carats. It +is said to be the size of a pigeon's head, and to have been purchased +for ninety thousand pounds, besides a yearly sum for life to the Greek +merchant from whom it was bought. This diamond formed one of the eyes of +the famous idol Juggernaut, whose temple is on the Coromandel coast, and +a French soldier, who had deserted into the Malabar service, found the +means of robbing the temple of it, and escaped with it to Madras. There +he disposed of it to a ship captain for two thousand pounds, and by him +it was resold to a Jew for twelve thousand pounds. From him it was +transferred for a large sum to the Greek merchant. This diamond now +surmounts the imperial sceptre. + +The diamond of the Emperor of Austria, which formerly belonged to the +Grand Dukes of Tuscany, weighs one hundred and thirty-nine and a half +carats. Its estimated value is one hundred and fifty-five thousand +pounds. This stone is of a lemon yellow color, which greatly lessens its +value. + +Among the Prussian crown jewels is the famous Regent or Pitt diamond, +discovered in the Pasteal mine at Golconda. It weighs one hundred and +thirty-six and three-quarters carats, and is remarkable for its form and +clearness, which have caused it to be valued at one hundred and sixty +thousand pounds, although it cost only one hundred thousand pounds. It +was stolen from the mine and sold to Mr. Pitt, grandfather of the great +Earl of Chatham. The Duke of Orleans purchased the diamond for +presentation to King Louis the Fifteenth. + +After the fall of Louis the Sixteenth, the people insisted that the +crown jewels should be exposed to the gaze of the mob, and with them the +Regent diamond was shown. So little, however, did the exhibitors confide +in the honesty of these patriots that great precautions were taken to +prevent the consequences of too strong an attraction. The passer-by who +chanced to demand, in the name of the sovereign people, a sight of the +finest of the jewels, entered a small room, within which, through a +little window, the diamond was presented for sight. It was fastened by a +strong steel clasp to an iron chain, the other end of which was secured +within the window through which it was handed to the spectator. Two +policemen kept a vigilant watch on the momentary possessor of the gem, +until, having held in his hand the value of twelve millions of francs, +according to the estimate in the inventory of the crown jewels, he again +took up his hook and basket at the door and disappeared. + +This diamond, which decorated the hilt of the sword of state of the +first Napoleon, was taken by the Prussians at Waterloo, and now belongs +to the King of Prussia. + +In former times, superstition attributed to the diamond many virtues. It +was supposed to protect the possessor from poison, pestilence, +panic-fear, and enchantments of every kind. A wonderful property was +also ascribed to it when the figure of Mars, whom the ancients +represented as the god of war, was engraved upon it. In such cases the +diamond was believed to insure victory in battle to its fortunate owner, +whatever might be the number of his enemies. + +For a long time diamonds were sent to Holland to be cut and polished, +but this art is now well understood in England, and has been recently +introduced into this country. + +Diamonds are not only worn as ornaments of dress, or rare objects of +art, but they are employed for several useful purposes, as for cutting +glass by the glazier, and all kinds of hard stones by the lapidary. + + + + +TEMERITY. + + +[Illustration: ON THE TRACK.] + +A butterfly lived like a princess in a green and golden wood, guarded +day and night by the trees; but as there was never a butterfly yet that +did not prefer sunshine to safety, she came fluttering out one morning, +and after dazzling all the flowers in the neighborhood, spread her wings +for a long flight. + +There was no one to warn her of the dangers abroad, so when she came to +the railroad track she just settled upon it, with no more fear than if +it were a twig. An ugly brown worm that had been sunning himself on a +sleeper crept up to her. + +"You are in a dreadfully dangerous place," he groaned. + +"Why?" asked the little rainbow, not a bit scared. + +"There is a great monster coming soon. He crushes everything he meets; +he has no heart; his bones are made of iron." + +"How funny!" exclaimed the butterfly. + +"See how dark the sky is getting; he will soon be here," went on the +worm, solemnly. + +"Oh, pshaw! it's only a shower coming up," said the butterfly, +stretching her wings. + +"No, it is the monster; don't you feel the ground shake? The storm is +coming, but the monster is coming too. Get into this hole under the +track; I beg you, I entreat you, get into this hole and be saved." + +"Nonsense!" laughed the butterfly. + +The rail was trembling, and in the distance a strange wild shriek was +heard, a great puff of smoke went rolling up to the sky. + +"Quick! quick!" implored the worm. "Do as I do, or you will be killed. +There is no time to lose." + +But the only answer he got was a laugh. + +The monster was getting nearer and nearer, and the worm, with one more +vain petition to the butterfly to follow him, squirmed into a crevice +under the rail. + +On came the monster, its great iron limbs pounding back and forth. A +rattle, a shriek, a puff of smoke: he had come and gone. The worm--where +was he? Limp and dead in his little hole under the rail. And the +butterfly--the poor beautiful butterfly? + +Oh, she had simply flown away. + + + + +[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] + + + NEW YORK CITY. + + In a short paper entitled "The Paradise of Insects," in _Young + People_ No. 10, some interesting facts are told of small + sand-flies, called sancudos, which abound on the Upper Amazons and + other swampy localities of South and Central America. Boys will + like to know the origin of their name. Stilts are called _zancos_ + in Spanish, and these flies, a species of mosquito, are called + sancudos--more properly spelled zancudos--on account of their very + long, slender legs and disproportionately small bodies, which + remind one of a very small boy on very high stilts. Flies on stilts + is a funny idea, but not more funny than the appearance of these + troublesome little insects. + + RODRIGO. + + * * * * * + + I am a little girl twelve years old, and live at Fort Supply, + Indian Territory. My father is a captain in the Twenty-third + Infantry. We live in huts made of logs, and the cracks filled with + mud to keep out the cold, and the inside lined with canvas. We have + frequent visits from the Indians. Not long ago a party of about + fifty Indians were here, some of whom were on the war-path last + fall. We have a school, and about sixteen scholars. If it were not + for school I should be very lonesome, as I have only one playmate. + There are plenty of children here, but they are all too small to + play with. I take _Young People_, and it is a great addition to my + small fund of amusements. + + GRACE W. HENTON. + + * * * * * + + PUTNAM, CONNECTICUT. + + DEAR "YOUNG PEOPLE."--I thought when you made your first appearance + that you were as pretty and interesting as possible, but when you + arrived in your new dress, looking so fresh and bright, wishing us + a "Merry Christmas," I was still more delighted with you. I hope + the number of your subscribers will grow as fast as you have, you + are such a dear little paper. + + ANNA C. B. + + * * * * * + +The two following letters are from very young readers, who wrote in big +capitals with their own little hands: + + NEW YORK CITY. + + I am so glad you have published _Young People_. I am five years + old. I have a little kitten, and my papa says it will soon be a + cat. I wish it wouldn't. + + JIMMIE B. + + * * * * * + + STOCKPORT, NEW YORK. + + I thought I would drop you a line or two about the _Young People_ + and the "Wiggles," and I will. I send you what I make of the last + number of the "Wiggles," and I like the new paper. So good-by. From + + ROBBIE REYNOLDS (six years). + + * * * * * + +Here are two more little folks, who employ an amanuensis: + + BELMONT. + + I thought I would write you a letter to let you know how I like + _Young People_. Grandpa takes it for me. I am only eight and a half + years old. Grandpa is going to copy this, as I can not write very + well. + + EDGAR. E. HYDE. + + * * * * * + + NEW YORK CITY. + + I am only five years old, and can not read or write yet, but my + nurse reads me the stories in _Young People_ every week, and I like + them very much, and the pictures and the letters; and papa says I + ought to send you a letter, and tell you how much I like it. So + does my little sister Lulu, and she is only three years old, and I + have got a little brother only three weeks old, but he hasn't any + name yet. I told papa I would send a letter, but I could not write + it, and he said it would be fair if Nurse Belle would write, only I + must tell her what to put in--I and nobody else--and so I did it. + + LIZZIE F. + + * * * * * + + LANSING, MICHIGAN. + + A few days ago I was walking with a friend when we saw a rabbit in + the road. We ran to catch it, but could not, for it ran too. + Suddenly it stopped. My friend whistled, and then it ran right up to + her, and we caught it. I suppose that rabbits like music. + + LAURA B. + + * * * * * + + NEWTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE. + + I am going to tell you about a butterfly my brother Willie brought + in from the woods this winter. It flew about the rooms for a few + days, till one morning he seemed almost dead. Mamma took him to the + door, and he flew away up over our barn and some great tall + pine-trees. I am ten years old this winter. + + L. MABEL MARSTON. + +What color were the butterfly's wings, and how large was it? + + * * * * * + + HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY. + + I once had a pet rabbit. He was gray and white, and I named him + Mac, after papa. Once I gave him a peach, and another rabbit ran + away with it; then he stood up on his hind-legs and begged for + another. + + HARRY F. + + * * * * * + +George D. B. and Cora B. E., both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, also +write of pet rabbits, and Spitz and Newfoundland dogs. + + * * * * * + + NEW YORK CITY. + + I have a chicken that I hatched out by putting the egg in ashes. + While I am writing this letter it is sitting on my hand. When I + call it, it comes to me. I have also four white mice, which are as + tame as the chicken. I did have a squirrel, but it died. I wish you + would tell me how to feed my mice. + + JOSEPH P. + +White mice will eat nuts of all kinds, canary-seed, and various other +grains. They will also nibble bread and cake. They must have plenty of +water, and like a little milk now and then. They should be given a soft, +warm nest of dry moss or of flannel. + + * * * * * + +J. G. D.--In all rooms where meal is kept, the worms generally breed +much faster than they are wanted. The meal-moth is very pretty. Its +fore-wings are light brown, with a dark chocolate-brown spot on the base +and tip of each. It is often to be seen clinging to the ceiling of +kitchen or store-room, with its tail curved over its back. This moth +deposits its eggs in the meal, and in a short time the worm is hatched, +which soon forms itself into a cocoon, from which the moth again comes +forth. You may find this worm crawling in old flour barrels or some box +in which meal has been kept; and if you keep a box of meal standing open +in some warm place, the moth will be very likely to find it, especially +in the summer-time, and use it as a deposit for her eggs. Meanwhile you +can feed your mocking-birds on meal and milk, mixed now and then with +very fine chopped raw beef and with bits of fruit. You can also buy +prepared food for them. Be sure to give them plenty of clean gravel in +the bottom of the cage. + + * * * * * + +"SUBSCRIBER," Moline, Illinois.--Heph_ai_stos is the correct Greek +spelling of Vulcan's name, but Heph_ae_stos is the accepted English +spelling of the word. Either is correct.--The translation of _Don +Quixote_ has become such a standard English work that the ordinary +English pronunciation of the name is allowable. 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The +Volumes of this Series are printed and bound uniformly, and contain +numerous Illustrations. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00 per volume; Set in box, 32 +vols., $32.00. + + Cyrus the Great. + Darius the Great. + Xerxes. + Alexander the Great. + Romulus. + Hannibal. + Pyrrhus. + Julius Caesar. + Cleopatra. + Nero. + Alfred the Great. + William the Conqueror. + Richard I. + Richard II. + Richard III. + Margaret of Anjou. + Mary Queen of Scots. + Queen Elizabeth. + Charles I. + Charles II. + Hernando Cortez. + Henry IV. + Louis XIV. + Maria Antoinette. + Madame Roland. + Josephine. + Joseph Bonaparte. + Hortense. + Louis Philippe. + Genghis Khan. + King Philip. + Peter the Great. + +For the convenience of buyers, these Histories have been divided into +Six Series, as follows: + +I. + +_Founders of Empires._ + + CYRUS. + DARIUS. + XERXES. + ALEXANDER. + GENGHIS KHAN. + PETER THE GREAT. + +II. + +_Heroes of Roman History._ + + ROMULUS. + HANNIBAL. + PYRRHUS. + JULIUS CAESAR. + NERO. + +III. + +_Earlier British Kings and Queens._ + + ALFRED. + WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. + RICHARD I. + RICHARD II. + MARGARET OF ANJOU. + +IV. + +_Later British Kings and Queens._ + + RICHARD III. + MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. + ELIZABETH. + CHARLES I. + CHARLES II. + +V. + +_Queens and Heroines._ + + CLEOPATRA. + MARIA ANTOINETTE. + JOSEPHINE. + HORTENSE. + MADAME ROLAND. + +VI. + +_Rulers of Later Times._ + + KING PHILIP. + HERNANDO CORTEZ. + HENRY IV. + LOUIS XIV. + JOSEPH BONAPARTE. + LOUIS PHILIPPE. + + * * * * * + +ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S OPINION OF ABBOTTS' HISTORIES. + +In a conversation with the President just before his death, Mr. Lincoln +said: "_I want to thank you and your brother for Abbotts' Series of +Histories. I have not education enough to appreciate the profound works +of voluminous historians; and if I had, I have no time to read them. But +your Series of Histories gives me, in brief compass, just that knowledge +of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest +interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I +have._" + + * * * * * + +PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. + +_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on +receipt of the price._ + + + + +"_A book beyond the pale of criticism._" + + N. Y. DAILY GRAPHIC. + + * * * * * + +THE + +Boy Travellers in the Far East. + + * * * * * + +ADVENTURES OF + +TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY + +TO + +JAPAN AND CHINA. + +Illustrated, 8vo, Cloth, $3.00. + + * * * * * + +A more attractive book for boys and girls can scarcely be +imagined.--_N. Y. Times._ + +The best thing for a boy who cannot go to China and Japan is to get this +book and read it.--_Philadelphia Ledger._ + +One of the richest and most entertaining books for young people, both in +text, illustrations, and binding, which has ever come to our +table.--_Providence Press._ + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, N. Y. + +_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on +receipt of the price._ + + + + +A BOOK FOR EVERYBODY. + + * * * * * + +Ninth Edition now Ready. + + * * * * * + +=HOW TO GET STRONG, AND HOW TO STAY SO.= By WILLIAM BLAIKIE. With +Illustrations. 16mo, Cloth, $1.00. + + * * * * * + +Your book is timely. Its large circulation cannot fail to be of great +public benefit.--Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER. + +It is a book of extraordinary merit in matter and style, and does you +great credit as a thinker and writer.--Hon. CALVIN E. PRATT, _of the New +York Supreme Bench_. + +A capital little treatise. It is the very book for ministers to +study.--Rev. THEODORE L. CUYLER, D.D., _in New York Evangelist_. + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. + +_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on +receipt of the price._ + + + + +Old Books for Young Readers. + + * * * * * + +Arabian Nights' Entertainments. + + The Thousand and One Nights; or, The Arabian Nights' + Entertainments. Translated and Arranged for Family Reading, with + Explanatory Notes, by E. W. LANE. 600 Illustrations by Harvey. 2 + vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3.50. + +Robinson Crusoe. + + The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, + Mariner. By DANIEL DEFOE. With a Biographical Account of Defoe. + Illustrated by Adams. Complete Edition. 12mo, Cloth, $1.50 + +The Swiss Family Robinson. + + The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures of a Father and Mother + and Four Sons on a Desert Island. Illustrated. 2 vols., 18mo, + Cloth, $1.50. + + The Swiss Family Robinson--Continued: being a Sequel to the + Foregoing. 2 vols., 18mo, Cloth, $1.50. + +Sandford and Merton. + + The History of Sandford and Merton. By THOMAS DAY. 18mo, Half + Bound, 75 cents. + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. + +HARPER & BROTHERS _will send any of the above works by mail, postage +prepaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the price_. + + + + +"_Learning made pleasant._" + + N. Y. EVENING POST. + + * * * * * + +SCIENCE FOR THE YOUNG. + +By JACOB ABBOTT. + +_ILLUSTRATED._ + +4 volumes, 12mo, Cloth, $1.50 each. + + I. HEAT. + II. LIGHT. + III. WATER AND LAND. + IV. FORCE. + + * * * * * + +If a mass-meeting of parents and children were to be held for the +purpose of erecting a monument to the author who has done most to +entertain and instruct the young folks, there would certainly be a +unanimous vote in favor of Mr. Jacob Abbott. Two or three generations of +American youth owe some of their most pleasant hours of recreation to +his story-books; and his latest productions are as fresh and youthful as +those which the papas and mammas of to-day once looked forward to as the +most precious gifts from the Christmas bag of old Santa Claus. The +series published under the general title of "Science for the Young" +might be called "Learning made Pleasant." An interesting story runs +through each, and beguiles the reader into the acquisition of a vast +amount of useful knowledge under the genial pretence of furnishing +amusement. No intelligent child can read these volumes without obtaining +a better knowledge of physical science than many students have when they +leave college.--_N. Y. Evening Post._ + +Jacob Abbott is almost the only writer in the English language who knows +how to combine real amusement with real instruction in such a manner +that the eager young readers are quite as much interested in the useful +knowledge he imparts as in the story which he makes so pleasant a medium +of instruction--_Buffalo Commercial Advertiser._ + + * * * * * + +Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. + +_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on +receipt of the price._ + + + + +[Illustration] + +NOSES OUT OF JOINT. + + + You needn't cry and look so sad; + I love you, pussy dear, the same-- + I truly do--as I loved you + Before this cunning kitty came; + But things are changed a little now, + You know, and 'cause he's very small, + I've got to 'tend the most to him. + Your nose is out of joint, that's all. + Don't you remember that cold day + They left me hours and hours in bed, + And when nurse came for me at last, + "Your nose is out of joint," she said, + "A baby's come to live with us?" + Well, then, that's what's the matter now; + You might have known how it would be-- + Oh dear, my head! Please don't me-ow, + Or I must send you out the room; + Nice little _girls_ don't make a noise + When their mammas give almost all + Their kisses to small red-faced boys. + I tell you, puss, you are too big + To sit with kit upon my knee, + And it's no worse for you to have + Your nose put out of joint than me. + + + + +[Illustration] + +THE ELEPHANT PUZZLE. + + +The puzzle is, with two cuts of the scissors to make this elephant stand +on all fours. + +INSTRUCTIONS.--Trace or copy the accompanying figure on a piece of +Bristol-board or thick writing paper, and then go to work with your +scissors and see what you can do. + +The solution will be given in our next. + + * * * * * + +=Ants that Bite.=--Foraging ants by countless thousands are met with +everywhere on the banks of the Amazons. Some of them are dwarfs not more +than one-fifth of an inch long, while others are giants ten times as +long, with monstrous heads and jaws. When the pedestrian falls in with a +train of these ants, the first signal given him is a twittering and +restless movement of small flocks of plain-colored birds (ant-thrushes) +in the jungle. If this be disregarded until he advances a few steps +further, he is sure to fall into trouble, and find himself suddenly +attacked by numbers of the ferocious little creatures. They swarm up his +legs with incredible rapidity, each one driving its pincer-like jaws +into his skin, and with the purchase thus obtained doubling in its tail, +and stinging with all its might. There is no course left but to run for +it; if he is accompanied by natives, they will be sure to give the +alarm, crying, "Tanoca!" and scampering at full speed to the other end +of the column of ants. The tenacious insects that have secured +themselves to his legs then have to be plucked off one by one--a task +which is generally not accomplished without pulling them in twain, and +leaving heads and jaws sticking in the wounds. + + + + +[Illustration: "WHAR IS YER GWINE TO, MELINDY?"] + + + + +[Illustration: BLISSFULLY UNCONSCIOUS.] + +[Illustration: PAINFULLY CONSCIOUS.] + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880, by Various + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JAN 27, 1880 *** + +***** This file should be named 28318.txt or 28318.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/3/1/28318/ + +Produced by Annie McGuire + +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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