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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880, by Various
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+Title: Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880
+       An Illustrated Weekly
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+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: March 16, 2009 [EBook #28344]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, FEB 3, 1880 ***
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+Produced by Annie McGuire
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+[Illustration: HARPER'S
+
+YOUNG PEOPLE
+
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
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+
+VOL. I.--NO. 14. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, February 3, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
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+
+
+[Illustration: FEEDING THE SPARROWS.]
+
+THE HOUSE-SPARROW.
+
+
+The English house-sparrow, a pert, daring little bird, which is seen in
+crowds in almost all cities of the Northern United States, was first
+brought to this country about twenty years ago. It is said the first
+specimens were liberated in Portland, Maine, where they immediately made
+themselves at home, and began nest-building and worm-catching as eagerly
+as when in their native air. Others were soon brought to New York city,
+and set free in the parks. At that time New York, Brooklyn, and other
+cities were suffering from a terrible visitor, the loathsome
+measuring-worm, which made its appearance just as the trees had become
+lovely with fresh spring green. It infested the streets in armies, hung
+in horrible webs and festoons from the branches of the shade trees, and
+ruined the beauty and comfort of the city during the pleasantest season
+of the whole year. About the first of July, when the worm finished its
+work, the trees appeared stripped and bare, as if scathed by fire, and a
+second budding resulted only in scanty foliage late in the season. A
+month after the worm disappeared, its moth--a small white creature,
+pretty enough except for its connections--fluttered by thousands
+through the city, depositing its eggs for the worm of another year.
+Desperate measures seemed necessary to stop this nuisance, and the
+question of cutting down all the trees was seriously considered. But
+relief was at hand. A gentleman, an Englishman, proposed an importation
+of sparrows, and soon hundreds of these brown-coated little fellows were
+set loose in different cities. They at once became public pets. Little
+houses were nailed up on trees and balconies for them to nest in,
+sidewalks and window-sills were covered with crumbs for their breakfast,
+and boys were forbidden to stone them or molest them in any way.
+
+Now although the sparrow is very willing to feed on bread-crumbs and
+seeds, and save itself the trouble of hunting for its dinner, by a wise
+provision of nature the little ones, until they are fully fledged, can
+eat only worms and small flies and bugs. As the sparrows have three or
+four broods during the warm weather, they always have little ones to
+feed at the very season when worms and other insects destructive to
+vegetation are the most plentiful. An English naturalist states that in
+watching a pair of sparrows feeding their little ones, he saw them bring
+food to the nest from thirty to forty times every day, and each time
+from two to six caterpillars or worms were brought. It is easy to see
+from this estimate how quickly the tree worms would disappear, as proved
+to be the case in the cities where the sparrows were set free.
+
+A very few years after they were introduced not a worm was to be seen.
+The trees now grow undisturbed in their leafy beauty all through the
+summer, and many children will scarcely remember the time when their
+mothers went about the streets where shade trees grew carrying open
+umbrellas in sunny days and starry evenings to protect themselves from
+the constantly dropping worms.
+
+It is no wonder that every one is gratefully affectionate to the
+sparrow. They are very social little birds, and are entirely happy amid
+the noise and dirt and confusion of the crowded street. They are bold
+and saucy too, and will stand in the pathway pecking at some stray crust
+of bread until nearly run over, when they hop away, scolding furiously
+at being disturbed. They are fond of bathing, and after a rain may be
+seen in crowds fluttering and splashing in the pools of water in the
+street. The cold winter does not molest them. They continue as plump and
+jolly and independent as ever, and chirp and hop about as merrily on a
+snowy day as during summer.
+
+In the New York city parks these little foreigners are carefully
+provided for. Prettily built rustic houses may be seen all over Central
+Park, put up for their especial accommodation. During the summer, when
+doors and windows are open, the sparrows hold high revels in the Central
+Park menagerie. They go fearlessly into the eagle's cage, bathe in his
+water dish, and make themselves very much at home. In the cages occupied
+by pigeons, pheasants, and other larger birds, the sparrows are often
+troublesome thieves. They can easily squeeze through the coarse
+net-work, and no sooner are the feed dishes filled with breakfast than
+they crowd in and take possession, scolding and fluttering and darting
+at the imprisoned pigeons and pheasants if they dare to approach.
+
+The smaller parks of New York city contain each about two hundred houses
+for the sparrows. Some of them are of very simple construction, being
+made of a piece of tin leader pipe about ten inches long, with a piece
+of wood fitted in each end. A little round doorway is cut for the birds
+to enter, and they seem perfectly happy in these primitive quarters.
+Feed and water troughs are provided, and it is the duty of the park
+keeper to fill them every morning. The birds know the feeding hour, and
+come flying eagerly, pushing and scolding, and tumbling together in
+their hurry for the first mouthful. The greedy little things eat all
+day. School-children come trooping in, and share their luncheon with
+them, and even idle and ragged loungers on the park benches draw crusts
+of bread from their pockets, and throw the sparrows a portion of their
+own scanty dinner.
+
+It is very easy to study the habits of the sparrow, for it is so bold
+and sociable that if a little house is nailed up in a balcony, or by a
+window where people are constantly sitting, a pair of birds will at once
+take possession, bring twigs and bits of scattered threads and wool for
+a nest, and proceed to rear their noisy little family. Chirp, chirp,
+very loud and impatient, three or four little red open mouths appear at
+the door of the house, the parent birds come flying with worms and
+flies, and then for a little while the young ones take a nap and keep
+quiet, when, they wake up again and renew their clamor for food.
+
+If houses are not provided, the sparrow will build in any odd corner--a
+chink in the wall or in the nooks and eaves of buildings. A pair of
+London sparrows once made their nest in the mouth of the bronze lion
+over Northumberland House, at Charing Cross. They are very much attached
+to their nest, and after the little speckled eggs are laid will cling to
+it even under difficulties. The sailors of a coasting vessel once lying
+in a Scotch port frequently observed two sparrows flying about the
+topmast. One morning the vessel put to sea, when, to the astonishment of
+the sailors, the sparrows followed, evidently bent upon making the
+voyage. Crumbs being thrown on the deck, they soon became familiar, and
+came boldly to eat, hopping about as freely as if on shore. A nest was
+soon discovered built among the rigging. Fearing it might be demolished
+by a high wind, at the first landing the sailors took it carefully down,
+and finding that it contained four little ones, they carried it on shore
+and left it in the crevice of a ruined house. The parent birds followed,
+evidently well pleased with the change, and when the vessel sailed away
+they remained with their young family.
+
+Much has been written about the mischievous doings of the sparrow, and
+war has been waged against it to a certain extent both here and in
+England. But the sparrow holds its ground well, and proves in many ways
+that even if it may drive away robins, and injure grain fields now and
+then, it more than balances these misdeeds by the thousands of
+caterpillars, mosquitoes, and other insects which it destroys, thus
+saving the life of countless trees and plants. The whole year round it
+is the same active, bustling, jolly creature, and our cities would be
+lonely and desolate without this little denizen of the street.
+
+
+
+
+A BRAVE PATRIOT.
+
+
+In 1780, after the fall of Charleston, the British commander had issued
+a proclamation to the people of South Carolina, calling upon them to
+return to their allegiance, and offering protection to all who did so.
+The men inhabiting the tract of country stretching from the Santee to
+the Pedee selected one of their number to repair to Georgetown, the
+nearest British post, to ascertain the exact meaning of the offer, and
+what was expected of them.
+
+In accordance with his instructions, Major John James sought an
+interview with Captain Ardesoif, the commandant of Georgetown, and
+demanded what was the meaning of the British protection, and upon what
+terms the submission of the citizens was to be made.
+
+He was informed roughly that the only way to escape the hanging which
+they so justly deserved was to take up arms in his Majesty's cause.
+
+James, not relishing the tone and manner of the British officer, coolly
+replied that "the people whom he came to represent would scarcely submit
+on such conditions."
+
+Ardesoif, unaccustomed to contradiction, and enraged at the worthy
+major's use of the term "represent," which smote harshly on his ears,
+sprang to his feet, and, with his hand on his sword, exclaimed,
+"Represent! If you dare speak in such language, I will have you hung at
+the yard-arm."
+
+Major James was weaponless, but in his anger was equal to the occasion.
+Seizing the chair upon which he had been sitting, he floored his
+insulter at a blow, and giving his enemy no time to recover, mounted his
+horse and escaped to the woods before pursuit could be attempted.
+
+His people soon assembled to hear his story, and their wrath was kindled
+at hearing how their envoy had been received.
+
+Required to take the field, it needed not a moment to decide under which
+banner, and the result was the formation of Marion's Brigade, which won
+such fame in the swampy regions of the South.
+
+
+
+
+A LATIN WORD SQUARE.
+
+
+  Behold my first! In her palmy days
+    (In the time of my _second_, you understand)
+  She had many poets who sang her praise,
+  Had soldiers and statesmen and wealth to amaze,
+  Her fame was unrivalled in many ways--
+    She had no equal in all the land.
+
+  Again to the time of my _second_ refer,
+    And spell that backward, my third behold--
+  A hero of monstrous strength. They aver
+  He held up a temple its fall to defer,
+  And ate forty pounds (but I hope 'tis a slur)
+    Every day for his food, both hot and cold.
+
+  Now spell my first backward, my fourth appears,
+    The greatest power of any time.
+  All poets have sung of its hopes and fears,
+  All men have known it with smiles and tears,
+  It has ruled and will rule for years and years
+    In every nation and every clime.
+
+  Now take my word square and look all about,
+    Sideways, across, and down the middle,
+  Not a word can be found there by spy or scout
+  Which can not be spelled upside down, inside out,
+  All in Latin, you know; but now I've no doubt
+    You've guessed every word of this easy riddle.
+
+
+
+
+A TERRIBLE FISH.
+
+
+Among the inhabitants of the sea which, from their size or strength,
+have been termed "monarchs of the ocean," are the saw-fish and the
+sword-fish, which are formidable enemies to the whale; but it is not
+merely on their fellow-inhabitants of the deep that these powerful
+fishes exercise their terrible strength. Some singular instances are
+related of their attacking even the ships that intrude upon their watery
+domain. An old sea-captain tells the following story:
+
+"Being in the Gulf of Paria, in the ship's cutter, I fell in with a
+Spanish canoe, manned by two men, who were in great distress, and who
+requested me to save their lines and canoe, with which request I
+immediately complied, and going alongside for that purpose, I discovered
+that they had got a large saw-fish entangled in their turtle net. It was
+towing them out to sea, and but for my assistance they must have lost
+either their canoe or their net, or perhaps both, and these were their
+only means of subsistence. Having only two boys with me at the time in
+the boat, I desired the fishermen to cut the fish away, which they
+refused to do. I then took the bight of the net from them, and with the
+joint endeavors of themselves and my boat's crew we succeeded in hauling
+up the net, and to our astonishment, after great exertions, we raised
+about eight feet of the saw of the fish above the surface of the sea. It
+was a fortunate circumstance that the fish came up with his belly toward
+the boat, or he would have cut it in two.
+
+"I had abandoned all idea of taking the fish, until, by great good luck,
+it made toward the land, when I made another attempt, and having about
+three hundred feet of rope in the boat, we succeeded in making a running
+bow-line knot round the saw, and this we fortunately made fast on shore.
+When the fish found itself secured, it plunged so violently that I could
+not prevail on any one to go near it: the appearance it presented was
+truly awful. I immediately went alongside the Lima packet, Captain
+Singleton, and got the assistance of all his ship's crew. By the time
+they arrived the fish was less violent. We hauled upon the net again, in
+which it was still entangled, and got another three hundred feet of line
+made fast to the saw, and attempted to haul it toward the shore; but
+although mustering _thirty hands_, we could not move it an inch. By this
+time the negroes belonging to a neighboring estate came flocking to our
+assistance, making together about one hundred in number, with the
+Spaniards. We then hauled on both ropes nearly all day before the fish
+became exhausted. On endeavoring to raise the monster it became most
+desperate, sweeping with its saw from side to side, so that we were
+compelled to get strong ropes to prevent it from cutting us to pieces.
+After that one of the Spaniards got on its back, and at great risk cut
+through the joint of the tail, when the great fish died without further
+struggle. It was then measured, and found to be twenty-two feet long and
+eight feet broad, and weighed nearly five tons."
+
+An East Indiaman was once attacked by a sword-fish with such prodigious
+force that its "snout" was driven completely through the bottom of the
+ship, which must have been destroyed by the leak had not the animal
+killed itself by the violence of its own exertions, and left its sword
+imbedded in the wood. A fragment of this vessel, with the sword fixed
+firmly in it, is preserved as a curiosity in the British Museum.
+
+Several instances of a similar character have occurred, and one formed
+the subject of an action brought against an insurance company for
+damages sustained by a vessel from the attack of one of these fishes. It
+seems the _Dreadnought_, a first-class mercantile ship, left a foreign
+port in perfect repair, and on the afternoon of the third day a
+"monstrous creature" was seen sporting among the waves, and lines and
+hooks were thrown overboard to capture it. All efforts to this effect,
+however, failed: the fish got away, and in the night-time the vessel was
+reported to be dangerously leaking. The captain was compelled to return
+to the harbor he had left, and the damage was attributed to a
+sword-fish, twelve feet long, which had assailed the ship below
+water-line, perforated her planks and timbers, and thus imperilled her
+existence on the ocean.
+
+Professor Owen, the distinguished naturalist, was called to give
+evidence on this trial as to the probability of such an occurrence, and
+he related several instances of the prodigious strength of the "sword."
+It strikes with the accumulated force of fifteen double-handed hammers;
+its velocity is equal to that of a swivel-shot, and it is as dangerous
+in its effects as a heavy artillery projectile would be.
+
+The upper jaw of this fish is prolonged into a projecting flattened
+snout, the greatest length of which is about six feet, forming a saw,
+armed at each edge with about twenty large bony spines or teeth. Mr.
+Yarrel mentions a combat that occurred on the west coast of Scotland
+between a whale and some saw-fishes, aided by a force of "thrashers"
+(fox-sharks). The sea was dyed in blood from the stabs inflicted by the
+saw-fishes under the water, while the thrashers, watching their
+opportunity, struck at the unwieldy monster as often as it rose to
+breathe.
+
+The sword-fish is also furnished with a powerful weapon in the shape of
+a bony snout about four or five feet long, not serrated like the
+saw-fish, but of a much firmer consistency--in fact, the hardest
+material known.
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF OBED, ORAH, AND THE SMOKING-CAP.
+
+BY MRS. A. M. DIAZ.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A cozy room, a wood fire, bright andirons, and a waiting company. The
+Family Story-Teller promised the children he would come, and the whole
+circle, young, older, oldest, are expecting a good time; for the Family
+Story-Teller can tell stories by the hour on any subject that may be
+given him, from a flat-iron to a whale-ship. He once told about a
+flat-iron--and nothing can be flatter than a flat-iron--a story half an
+hour long. It began, "Once there was a flat-iron."
+
+But where is he? Has he forgotten? Did the snowstorm hinder? Has he
+missed his horse-car? Hark! a stamping in the entry. Dick runs to open
+the door, and shows Family Story-Teller upon the mat, tall and erect,
+brushing the snow from his cloak, his whiskers, and his laughing eyes.
+
+Miss Flossie declared that he must be "judged" for coming so late.
+
+Said Dick, "I judge him to tell as many stories as we want."
+
+This judgment being thought too easy for a person like him, to make it
+harder he was "judged" to tell the stories all about the same thing. It
+was left to grandpa to say what this thing should be, and grandpa said,
+with a laugh, "going to mill."
+
+"Very well," said Family Story-Teller, "I will begin at once, and tell
+you the entertaining story of 'Obed, Orah, and the Smoking-Cap.'" He
+then began as follows:
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Once upon a time, in the pleasant village of Gilead, dwelt Mr. and Mrs.
+Stimpcett, with their four young children--Moses, Obadiah (called Obed),
+Deborah (called Orah), and little Cordelia. Mrs. Stimpcett, for money's
+sake, took a summer boarder, Mr. St. Clair, a city young man, who wished
+to behold the flowery fields, repose upon the dewy grass, and who had
+also another reason for coming, which will be told presently.
+
+On the morning after Mr. St. Clair's arrival, Mrs. Stimpcett said to
+grandma that, as the noise of four young children at once would be too
+much for a summer boarder until he should become used to it, Obed and
+Orah would go and spend the day with their grandfather's cousin, Mrs.
+Polly Slater. Mrs. Polly Slater lived all alone by herself in a cottage
+at another part of the village of Gilead. Obed was six and a half years
+old, and Orah nearly five.
+
+The two children set forth early in the morning. Orah wore her pink
+apron and starched sun-bonnet, and Obed wore his clean brown linen frock
+and trousers, the frock skirt standing out stiff like a paper fan. As
+his second best hat could not be found, and his first best was not to be
+thought of, he was obliged to wear his third best, which had a torn
+brim, and which he put on with tears and sniffles and loud complaints.
+
+It happened very curiously that as Obed and Orah were walking through
+the orchard, Obed still sniffling, they saw, under a bush, a beautiful
+smoking-cap. Obed quickly threw down his old hat, and put on the
+smoking-cap in a way that the loose part hung off behind.
+
+This beautiful smoking-cap belonged to the summer boarder, and was
+presented to him by a young lady who liked him very much. It was wrought
+in a Persian pattern slightly mingled with the Greek, and was
+embroidered with purple, yellow, crimson, Magenta, sage green, invisible
+blue, ecru, old gold, drab, and other shaded worsteds, dotted with
+stitches of shining silk and beads of silver, the tassel alone
+containing skeins of ecru sewing silk. The young lady lived not very far
+from Mr. Stimpcett's, and _she_ was that other reason why Mr. St. Clair
+became a summer boarder in the pleasant village of Gilead.
+
+Spry, the puppy dog, probably carried the smoking-cap to the orchard;
+but all that is known with certainty is that Mr. St. Clair, the evening
+before, then wearing the cap, reclined upon several chairs with his head
+out of the window, gazing at the moon, and there fell asleep, and that,
+as on account of the abundance of his hair it was a little too small,
+the cap fell off his head, and that when he awoke the pain in the back
+of his neck and the lateness of the hour caused him to forget all about
+it.
+
+Now when Obed and Orah arrived at Mrs. Polly Slater's, they found her
+doors shut and locked. Mr. Furlong, the man who lived in the next house,
+called out to them, "Mrs. Polly Slater has borrowed a horse and cart,
+and gone to mill; she will stay and eat dinner with your aunt Debby."
+Then he added, "I am harnessing my horse to go to mill; how would you
+like to go with me, and ride back with Mrs. Polly Slater in the
+afternoon?"
+
+Obed and Orah liked this so much that they ran and clambered into the
+cart as fast as they could, Orah climbing in over the spokes of a wheel.
+Mr. Furlong fastened Obed's cap on by tying around it a stout piece of
+line.
+
+When they had ridden several miles on their way to mill, they met a boy
+on horseback galloping at a furious rate. The moment this boy saw Mr.
+Furlong, he pulled up his horse--he nearly fell off behind in doing
+so--and said he, "Mr. Furlong, your sister at Locust Point has heard bad
+news, and wants to see you immediately."
+
+Mr. Furlong drove as fast as he could, until he came to the road which
+turned off to Locust Point. Here he set the children down, and showed
+Obed, not quite half a mile ahead of them, a large white building with a
+flag flying from the top. "There," said he, "your aunt Debby, you know,
+lives next to that white building. It is a straight road. I am sorry to
+leave you. Keep out of the way of the horses, and go directly to her
+house." Mr. Furlong then drove to Locust Point.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now after the two children had walked a short distance, they came to a
+road which led across the road in which they were walking, and along
+this cross-road were running boys and girls, some barefoot, some
+bare-headed, some drawing baby carriages at such a rate that the babies
+were nearly thrown out; and all that these boys and girls would say was,
+"Baker's cart! baker's cart!" At last Obed and Orah found out that a
+baker's cart had upset in coming through the woods, and had left
+first-rate things to eat scattered all about. Our two children found a
+whole half sheet of gingerbread, which was not sandy, to speak of; and
+as they sat eating it, they looked through some bushes down a hill, and
+saw there something which looked like a molasses cooky. They scrambled
+down, the blackberry vines doing damage to their clothes, and found two
+molasses cookies, and each took one. But before Orah had finished hers
+she leaned her head on a grassy hummock, and fell asleep. When she
+awoke, sad to relate, they turned the wrong way, and went farther and
+farther and farther into the woods. After walking a long time, they came
+to a brook, and stopped there to drink. They had to lie flat on the
+ground, and suck up the water. Orah took off her shoes and stockings,
+because there was sand in them, and dipped her feet in the brook. Obed
+pulled hard, but he could not pull her stockings on over her wet feet,
+and she had to carry them and her shoes in her hand. The woods became
+thicker as the children walked on, and the trees taller. Obed began to
+cry. "Oh dear!" he said; "we are lost! we are lost!"
+
+"Oh, I want to see my ma! I do! I do!" said Orah, and burst out crying.
+Crying?--roaring!--so the man said who heard it.
+
+This was a charcoal man who happened along just then, driving an empty
+charcoal cart. He kindly asked them where they lived, and whither they
+were going. After Obed had told him, he said to them, "You poor little
+children! You are dirty and ragged, and you are a long way from your
+aunt Debby's. I shall pass near your father's house, and would you like
+to take a ride with me?" Then, as they seemed willing, he helped them
+into his cart, dropping them at the bottom as the safest place. Obed,
+however, by putting his toes into knot-holes and cracks, climbed high
+enough to put his head over the top, and Orah found a loose board which
+she could shove aside, and so push her head through and look up at Obed.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Now as they were rattling down a steep hill not a great way from home, a
+slender young lady started from the sidewalk, and ran after them,
+shouting and waving her parasol in the most frantic manner. The charcoal
+man did not hear her. This frantic and slender young lady was the young
+lady who made for Mr. St. Clair the smoking-cap done in the Persian
+pattern slightly mingled with the Greek, and embroidered with the shaded
+worsteds before mentioned, mingled with stitches of silk and beads of
+silver.
+
+It is not strange that upon seeing that smoking-cap, which had cost her
+so much time and labor and money, appearing over the top of a charcoal
+cart on the head of a sooty little boy--it is not strange, I say, that
+the slender young lady went to Mr. St. Clair and asked what it all
+meant. She found Mr. St. Clair sitting upon the door-step, watching the
+sunset sky. Mr. St. Clair declared that he had spent the whole day in
+looking for the smoking-cap, and that it must have been stolen. Mr. and
+Mrs. Stimpcett came out, and said _they_ had been looking for the cap
+all day, and had felt badly on account of its loss. At this moment,
+grandma, who was confined to her room with rheumatism, called down from
+a chamber window that there were two little beggar children coming round
+the barn--colored children, she thought.
+
+"Why," cried the slender young lady, "that's the very boy!"
+
+Mr. St. Clair rushed out to the barn. Just as he left the door-step who
+should drive up to the gate and come in but Mrs. Polly Slater. "I have
+been to the mill," said she, "and I came home by this road, thinking you
+would like to hear from Debby."
+
+"But where are Obed and Orah?" cried Mrs. Stimpcett, in alarm.
+
+"I have not seen them," said Mrs. Polly Slater.
+
+As she said this, Mr. Furlong stopped at the gate. He said that as he
+was passing by he thought he would ask how Obed and Orah got on in
+finding their aunt Debby's.
+
+"_Aunt Debby's!_" cried Mr. Stimpcett, Mrs. Stimpcett, grandma, and Mrs.
+Polly Slater--"_Aunt Debby's!_"
+
+On hearing at what place Mr. Furlong had left her children, Mrs.
+Stimpcett fainted and fell upon the ground. Then all the people tried to
+revive her. The slender young lady fanned with her parasol, Mrs. Polly
+Slater fetched the camphor bottle, Mr. Furlong pumped, Mr. Stimpcett
+threw dipperfuls of water--though owing to his agitation not much of it
+touched her face--and grandma called down from the chamber window what
+should be done.
+
+In the confusion no one noticed the approach of a newcomer. This was the
+charcoal man, bringing shoes and stockings. "Here are your little girl's
+shoes and stockings," said he. "She left them in my cart."
+
+"They are not _my_ little girl's," said Mr. Stimpcett, throwing a
+dipperful of water on the ground.
+
+"She said she was your little girl," said the charcoal man. "But there
+she is"--pointing to the barn; "you can see for yourself."
+
+Mr. Stimpcett ran to the barn, and was amazed to find that the two
+beggar children were his Obed and Orah. Mr. St. Clair was scolding them,
+and the tears were running down their cheeks in narrow paths. Mr.
+Stimpcett led them quickly to Mrs. Stimpcett. Seeing their mother
+stretched as if dead upon the ground, they both screamed, "Ma! ma!
+m--a!"
+
+The well-known sounds revived her. She opened her eyes, raised herself,
+and caught the children in her arms.
+
+The slender young lady advised that the smoking-cap be hung out-doors in
+a high wind, and afterward cleansed with naphtha. The clothes of Obed
+and Orah were also hung out, and Mr. Stimpcett, for fun, arranged them
+in the forms of two scarecrows, which scared so well that the birds flew
+far away. The consequence was an enormous crop of cherries, all of
+which, except a few for sauce, Mr. Stimpcett sent to the charcoal man.
+
+Mr. St. Clair and the slender young lady were married the next year at
+cherry-time, and it was said that during their honey-moon they subsisted
+chiefly upon cherries. And now my story's done.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"How is this, Mr. Story-Teller?" cried the children's mamma. "The story
+is a story, no doubt, but it can not be counted in, for Obed and Orah
+did not really go to mill."
+
+Family Story-Teller said, looking around with a calm smile, that he
+could tell plenty more, and that in his next one Grandma Stimpcett
+should really go to mill, and should meet with surprising adventures.
+
+
+
+
+PUSSY'S KITTEN (?).
+
+  Once a tiny little rabbit strayed from home away;
+  Far from woodland haunts she wandered, little rabbit gray.
+  Our old Tabby cat, whilst sitting at the kitchen door,
+  Thought she saw her long-lost kitten home returned once more.
+
+  Gave a pounce, and quickly caught it, with a happy mew,
+  Ere the frightened little wanderer quite knew what to do.
+  Gently Tabby brought her treasure to the old door-mat,
+  Purred, and rubbed and licked and smoothed it--motherly old cat!
+
+  But what puzzled pussy truly, and aroused her fears,
+  Was the length to which had grown her kitten's once small ears.
+  Most amazing, most alarming, was that sight to her;
+  Green and round her eyes were swelling, stiff and straight her fur.
+
+  "Poor wee kitty! what a pity you're deformed!" thought she;
+  "Surely this has somehow happened since you went from me.
+  But you're welcome home, my kitten; mother's love is strong,
+  Though I will confess I wish your ears were not so long."
+
+  So the tiny little rabbit grew contented quite,
+  And our visitors like to call and see the pretty sight
+  Of nice old Tabby playing with her rabbit-kitty gray;
+  And she doesn't dream of her mistake, although, the truth to say,
+
+  Her own true kitten went the road that many kittys go;
+  For John the coachman took it to the horse-pond just below.
+  But I think it is most cruel to drown a little cat;
+  And I trust all girls and boys will have too much heart for that.
+
+
+
+
+THE BOYS AND UNCLE JOSH.
+
+BY W. O. STODDARD.
+
+
+"Hey Billy, my boy! Going skating?"
+
+"Yes, Uncle Josh, Joe Pearce and me. The big pond's frozen solid."
+
+"Is it safe?"
+
+"Charley Shadders he says it's twenty feet thick in some places."
+
+"Twenty feet thick! I declare! That's pretty thick ice. How did he
+know?"
+
+"I don't know. I guess he guessed at it. He's an awful guesser."
+
+"I should say he was. Twenty feet thick! Why, Billy, the water's only
+five feet deep in summer."
+
+"Oh, but," exclaimed Joe Pearce, who had been listening with all the
+eagerness of twelve years old, "it swells water to freeze it, Uncle
+Josh."
+
+"So it does, so it does. But I never heard of a swell like that." And
+Uncle Josh--for he was uncle to all the small boys in the village--shook
+his fat sides with laughter, but it was not all about the remarkable
+ice, for his next question was, "But, Billy, you've put all your skating
+on one foot. How's that?"
+
+"'Cause it's all in one skate."
+
+"Well, it's big enough. Why don't you divide it, and give the other foot
+a fair share?"
+
+"I've put mine on the other foot," shouted Joe, trying to balance
+himself on one leg and hold up an uncommonly large skate for inspection.
+
+How those skates were strapped on! They were even steadied with pieces
+of rope, and had bits of wood and leather stuffed in under the straps to
+make them fit.
+
+"You see, Uncle Josh," explained Billy, "my brother Bob he went away to
+college, and left his skates, 'cause, he said, the college was out of
+ice this winter. And Joe Pearce he didn't have any. And Christmas forgot
+to give me any. And so we divided 'em, and took the sled, and we're
+going to the big pond."
+
+"That was fair. Only you haven't divided the sled."
+
+"The sled won't divide," said Joe, with a solemn shake of his curly
+head; "but I'd like to divide my skate with my other foot."
+
+"I'll tell you what, boys," suddenly exclaimed Uncle Josh, "let's have a
+little Christmas of our own."
+
+"Have you got any?" asked Billy.
+
+"I guess I have. Come right along to the store with me."
+
+"Come on, Joe. Keep your skate on. Don't limp any more'n you can help."
+
+But both he and Joe cut a queer figure as they followed Uncle Josh up
+the street; for when a boy makes one of his legs longer than the other,
+and slips and slides on that foot, it makes a good deal of difference in
+the way he walks.
+
+Everybody knew Uncle Josh, and although he was a deacon and a very good
+man, everybody expected to see a smile on his face, and to hear him
+chuckle over something when they met him. So nobody was half so much
+surprised as Joe and Billy were, and their surprise did not come to them
+until they reached the store. But it came then.
+
+"Skates for these boys," said Uncle Josh, as they went in. "One for each
+foot, all around. Straps too."
+
+That was it, and now the boys were doing more chuckling than Uncle Josh
+himself.
+
+"Billy," asked Joe, "do you know what to say?"
+
+"Why, we must thank him."
+
+"Yes, I s'pose so. But that doesn't seem to be half enough."
+
+"Can't we thank him big, somehow?"
+
+"Enough for two pair of skates?"
+
+"That's so. We can't do it."
+
+They had to give it up; but they did their best, and Uncle Josh cut them
+short in the middle of it.
+
+"Come, come, boys, we can't stay here all day. There won't be another
+Saturday again for a week, and then it may rain. Don't put your skates
+on. Wait till we get to the pond. Bring along the big ones. They'll do
+for me."
+
+"Why, are you going, Uncle Josh?"
+
+"Of course I am. If the ice is twenty feet thick, I want to skate on it.
+That kind of ice'll bear anybody."
+
+And so the boys tied the big skates upon the sled, and were starting
+off, when Uncle Josh exclaimed:
+
+"No, boys, give 'em to me. I haven't had a pair of skates in my hand for
+twenty years. I want to see how it would seem to carry them."
+
+There were not a great many people to be met in a small village like
+that, but every one they did meet had a smile for Uncle Josh and his
+skates, till they reached the miller's house, just this side of the
+pond. And there was Mrs. Sanders, the miller's wife, sweeping the least
+bit of snow from her front stoop.
+
+"Joe," said Billy, "do you see that?"
+
+"And Charley Shadders was guessing, then. He said snow wouldn't light on
+her stoop."
+
+"There isn't but mighty little of it, and it didn't cost her anything."
+
+But just at that moment Mrs. Sanders was resting on her broom, and
+looking very severely at Uncle Josh, and saying,
+
+"Now, Deacon Parmenter, where are you going with those boys? Skates,
+too, at your time of life."
+
+"Good-morning, Sister Sanders. I declare, if you'll go with us, I'll
+trot right back and get a pair of skates for you. I'd like to see a
+good-looking young woman like you--"
+
+"Deacon Parmenter! Me? To go skating? With you and a couple of boys? I
+never!"
+
+But she did not look half so angry as she did at first. She was a plump
+and rosy woman; but she had a pointed nose, and her lips were thin.
+Billy whispered to Joe Pearce, "Aunt Sally says it'd keep any woman's
+lips thin to work 'em as hard as Mrs. Sanders does hers."
+
+They were almost smiling just now, for Uncle Josh went on: "Now, Sister
+Sanders, I know it's a little queer for an old fellow like me, but it's
+just the thing for young folks. Just you say the word, and you shall
+have 'em. You're looking nicely this morning, Sister Sanders."
+
+"Billy," whispered Joe, "how red in the face Uncle Josh is getting!"
+
+"So is she," said Billy. "If he goes on that way, she'll come along and
+spoil the fun."
+
+"No, she won't."
+
+Joe was right, for Mrs. Sanders brought her broom down on the front step
+with a great bang with one hand, and she smoothed her front hair with
+the other, as she answered Uncle Josh: "No, Deacon Parmenter, I couldn't
+bring myself to set such an example. You must take good care of the
+boys, and see that they do not get into any mischief. If I was their
+mothers, I'd feel safer about them to know you was with 'em."
+
+Uncle Josh had a spell of coughing just then, and it seemed to last him
+till he and the boys were away past the miller's house, and going down
+the slope toward the pond.
+
+It was frozen beautifully, for the weather had been bitterly cold,
+without any snow to speak of. The pond was all one glare and glitter,
+and more than twenty men and boys were already at work on it, darting
+around, like birds on their ringing, spinning, gliding skates. Only that
+some of the smaller boys put one more in mind of tumbler pigeons than of
+any other kind of birds.
+
+It was quite wonderful how quickly Joe and Billy had their new skates
+on, and Uncle Josh looked immensely pleased to see how well they both
+knew how to use them.
+
+"Why, boys, you haven't tumbled down once. How's that?"
+
+"Oh, we know how," said Billy; "and the ice is great. Thick ice always
+skates better'n thin ice."
+
+But Uncle Josh had seated himself on the sled, and was hard at work
+trying to put on Brother Bob's big skates.
+
+They fitted him well enough, but he seemed to have a deal of trouble in
+getting hold of the straps.
+
+"Seems as if my feet were further away from me than they were twenty
+years ago."
+
+"Joe," said Billy, "let's help. We can strap 'em for him."
+
+"That's good, boys. Pull tight. Tighter. Let me stamp a little.
+There--one hole tighter. Now buckle."
+
+And so they went on, till Uncle Josh's skates were strapped, as Joe
+Pearce said, "so they couldn't wiggle."
+
+"That's all right," said Uncle Josh. "Now, you boys, just skate away,
+anywhere, and I'll enjoy myself."
+
+They hardly liked to leave him, but off they went, for the boys to whom
+they wanted to show their new skates were away over on the other side of
+the pond.
+
+"I don't know if this ice is twenty feet thick," muttered Uncle Josh, as
+he pulled his feet under him, "but it looks twenty miles slippery. Ice
+on this pond always freezes with the slippery side up. Steady, now.
+There! I'm glad I've got the sled to sit down on."
+
+It was well it was a good strong sled, with thick ice under it, for
+Uncle Josh sat down pretty hard, and he was a fat, jolly, heavy sort of
+man.
+
+He sat right still and laughed for a whole minute, and then he tried it
+again.
+
+This time he succeeded in standing up, and he was just saying to
+himself, "I wish Jemima Sanders had come along to see me skate," when
+one of his feet began to slip away from him.
+
+"I know how," he shouted. "There's no help for it. I must strike right
+out."
+
+So he did, and his first slide carried him nearly a rod on that one
+skate before he could get the other one down. He did that, however, and
+it worked finely, for he had been a good skater when he was a young man.
+He had kept hold of the rope-handle of the sled, and it was following
+him. That is, when he struck out with a foot he swung his long arms too,
+and the sled swung around on the ice as if it was half crazy.
+
+"What can be the matter with my ankles?" he said to himself. "They used
+to be good ankles."
+
+No doubt; but then the last time he had skated before that, they had not
+had so much to carry.
+
+"Billy," exclaimed Joe Pearce, "Uncle Josh is agoing!"
+
+"How he does go! Ain't I glad it's thick ice!"
+
+"Let's go. Come on, boys."
+
+Other eyes than theirs had been watching Uncle Josh, for everybody knew
+him, and nobody had ever seen him skate, and Joe and Billy were followed
+by almost all the boys on the pond.
+
+"Hurrah for Uncle Josh!"
+
+"Can't he skate, though!"
+
+"See him go."
+
+Right across the pond, as if he were in a desperate hurry to reach the
+opposite bank before the ice could melt under him, went Uncle Josh, and
+with him, all around him, swung the sled.
+
+It may have served as a sort of balance-wheel, and helped to steady him,
+but it could not steer him. Neither could he steer himself, and the next
+thing he knew he was headed down the pond, and skating for dear life
+toward the dam.
+
+"If I stop, I shall come down," he said, with a sort of gasp. "I'm
+getting out of breath. Good! I'm pointed for the shore again, and
+there's a snow-bank."
+
+All the boys were racing after him now, but they had stopped shouting in
+their wonder at what could have got into Uncle Josh. He himself was
+beginning to feel very warm, for it was a good while since he had done
+so much work in so short a time.
+
+"Here comes the shore!" But just as he said it, there he was, and the
+skate he was sliding on caught in a chip on the ice.
+
+The wind had been at work to keep the pond clean when it piled that
+snow-bank, and had left it all heaped up, white and soft and deep, and
+into it went Uncle Josh, head first, while the sled was pitched a rod
+beyond him.
+
+"Get the sled, Billy," said Joe.
+
+"He skated himself right ashore."
+
+"Guess he isn't hurt."
+
+[Illustration: "HURT? NO, INDEED!"]
+
+"Hurt? No, indeed!" shouted Uncle Josh, as he came up again through the
+snow. "That's the way we used to skate when I was a boy. Billy, where's
+that sled?"
+
+He did not seem in any hurry to stand up, but Joe Pearce found his hat,
+and handed it to him.
+
+"Thank you, Joseph. Billy, you may bring the sled right here in front of
+me."
+
+"He wants to sit down," said one of the boys.
+
+"He's sitting down now," said Joe. But Billy brought the sled, and Uncle
+Josh carefully worked himself forward upon it, and began to brush away
+the snow.
+
+"I'm as white as a miller," he chuckled to himself. "Boys, I guess you
+may do the rest of my skating for me to-day."
+
+"Don't those skates fit?" asked Joe.
+
+"Oh yes, they fit well enough. It's the ice that doesn't fit. It's too
+wide for me."
+
+"Well," said Billy, "we'll pull you across. Take hold, boys."
+
+"I declare!" began Uncle Josh; but the boys had seized the rope, and
+were off in a twinkling.
+
+"It's fun," they heard him mutter; "but what would Sister Sanders say?"
+
+"There she is!" exclaimed Billy, "right down by the shore. She's come to
+see us skate."
+
+"Hold on, boys! hold on! Let me get my skates off."
+
+But there were so many boys pulling and pushing around that sled that
+before they could all let go and stop it, the pond had been nearly
+crossed, and there was Mrs. Sanders.
+
+Uncle Josh did not seem to see her at all, and only said, "Now, boys,
+just unbuckle my skates for me, will you?"
+
+It would have been done more quickly if there had not been so many to
+help, and by the time one skate was loose, Uncle Josh was laughing
+again.
+
+"Deacon Parmenter!"
+
+"Is that you, Sister Sanders? They're all safe--every boy of them. Just
+wait a moment now, and they'll be ready for you."
+
+"Ready for me! What can you mean? I'm just amazed and upset, Deacon
+Parmenter. A man like you, to be cutting up in such a way as this!"
+
+"There they are, Sister Sanders. You can put 'em right on. Come and sit
+down on the sled. They're a little large for me, but they'll just fit
+you; I know they will."
+
+Uncle Josh had very carefully risen to his feet, and was holding out to
+her Brother Bob's big skates, straps and all. Her face grew very rosy
+indeed as she looked at them.
+
+"Fit me!" she exclaimed--"those things fit me! Why, Deacon Parmenter,
+what can you mean?"
+
+"Too small, eh? Well, now, I'd ha' thought--"
+
+But Mrs. Sanders turned right around and marched away toward her own
+house without saying another word.
+
+"Boys," said Uncle Josh, "the skating is fine, but there isn't any more
+of it than you'll want. Billy, take care of Brother Bob's skates for
+him. I hope you'll all have a good time."
+
+He was edging and sliding along toward the shore while he was talking,
+and the last they heard him say was,
+
+"I can skate well enough, but I'm afraid somebody else'll have to do my
+walking for me for a week or two."
+
+"He's just the best man in the village," said Joe Pearce.
+
+"So he is," said Billy; "but I'm glad the ice was thick. What would we
+have done if he'd broken through?"
+
+"That's why fat men like him don't skate, Billy. Did you see what a hole
+he made in that there snow-bank?"
+
+He had, and so had the rest, but they all skated a race across the pond
+to take another look at it, and wonder how he ever managed to get out.
+
+
+
+
+SHIPS PAST AND PRESENT.--[SEE PAGE 162.]
+
+[Illustration: SHIPS OF COLUMBUS.]
+
+[Illustration: NORWEGIAN SHIP OF THE TENTH CENTURY.]
+
+[Illustration: THE FIRST OCEAN STEAM-SHIP.]
+
+[Illustration: THE "MAYFLOWER."]
+
+[Illustration: OCEAN STEAM-SHIP OF TO-DAY.]
+
+[Illustration: AMERICAN CLIPPER SHIP.]
+
+SHIPS PAST AND PRESENT.
+
+
+On page 161 are given illustrations of six different styles of vessels,
+all of which are correct drawings of ships that in different ages have
+acted important parts in the history of this continent.
+
+The upper right-hand picture represents a Norwegian war ship of the
+tenth century, and in such a one Scandinavian traditions assert that,
+early in the eleventh century, Olaf Ericsson and his hardy crew sailed
+into the unknown west for many a day, until at length they reached the
+shores of America. On the authority of these same traditions, some
+people assert that the structure known as the "old stone mill of
+Newport" was erected by this same Olaf Ericsson, and left by him as a
+monument of his discovery.
+
+If Ericsson and his men did make the voyage across the unknown ocean, it
+was a very brave thing for them to do, for as the picture shows their
+ship was a very small affair when compared with the magnificent vessels
+of to-day, and was ill fitted to battle with the storms of the Atlantic.
+She was of about ten tons burden, or as large as an oyster sloop of
+to-day, and carried a crew of twenty-five men. A single mast was stepped
+amidships, and this supported the one large square sail which was all
+that ships of those days carried. Well forward of the mast was a single
+bank of oars, or long sweeps, that were used when the wind was
+unfavorable, or during calms.
+
+Although this style of craft appears very queer to us, in those days it
+was considered the perfection of marine architecture, and in these
+little ships the fierce Scandinavian Vikings, or sea-rovers, became the
+scourge and terror of the Northern seas.
+
+The upper left-hand picture represents three ships very different in
+style from the first, but still looking very queer and clumsy. They are
+the ships in which, in--who can tell the date?--"Columbus crossed the
+ocean blue," and made that discovery of America which history records as
+the first. These caravels, as they were called, were named the _Santa
+Maria_, _Pinta_, and _Nina_. The first-named was much larger than the
+others, and was commanded by Columbus in person; but large as she was
+then considered, she would now be thought very small for a man-of-war,
+as she was, for she was only ninety feet in length. She had four masts,
+of which two were fitted with square and two with lateen sails, and her
+crew consisted of sixty-six men. In old descriptions of this vessel it
+is mentioned that she was provided with eight anchors, which seems a
+great many for so small a ship to carry. The other two vessels were much
+smaller, and were open except for a very short deck aft. They were each
+provided with three masts, rigged with lateen-sails.
+
+From this time forth a rapid improvement took place in the building of
+ships. They were made larger and stronger, as well as more comfortable;
+a reduction was made in the absurd height of the stern, or poop, and
+much useless ornamentation about the bows and stern was done away with.
+
+In the third picture is shown a model ship of the seventeenth century,
+which is none other than the _Mayflower_, in which, in 1620, the
+Pilgrims crossed the ocean in search of a place for a new home, which
+they finally made for themselves at Plymouth.
+
+During the eighteenth century trade increased so rapidly between the
+American colonies and the mother country that the demand for ships was
+very great, and the sailing vessels built then and early in the present
+century have not since been excelled for speed or beauty. But a great
+change was about to take place; and early in this century people began
+to say that before long ships would be able to sail without either the
+aid of wind or oars, and in 1807 Robert Fulton built the first
+steamboat. Twelve years later the first ocean steamer was built, and
+made a successful voyage across the Atlantic. She was named the
+_Savannah_, and our fourth picture shows what she looked like.
+
+The last two pictures are those of a full-rigged clipper ship of to-day
+under all sail, and one of the magnificent ocean steamers that ply so
+swiftly between New York and Liverpool, making in eight or nine days the
+voyage that it took the _Savannah_ thirty days to make.
+
+
+
+
+THE RABBITS' FETE.
+
+BY MRS. E. P. PERRIN.
+
+
+"Good-night, little girl. Go to nurse, and ask her to pop you right into
+bed."
+
+The front door was shut, and Ellie hurried up stairs to the great hall
+window, and looked out to see her mamma and pretty Aunt Janet get into
+the sleigh and drive off. "Hark!" she says to herself, "how nice the
+bells sound! They keep saying,
+
+  'Jingle bells, jingle bells,
+    Jingle all the way;
+  Oh, what fun it is to ride
+    In a one-horse open sleigh!'
+
+It's just as light as day out-doors. The moon makes the snow look like
+frosted cake. I can see the croquet ground as plain as can be, and it
+looks like a great square loaf. There's the arbor, and the seats in it
+have white cushions on them. How funny it would be to play croquet on
+the ice! Only the balls would go so fast we should have to put on skates
+to catch them. I can see ever and ever so far--'way over to the woods
+where Jack sets his traps. He says they are chock-full of rabbits; but I
+don't believe him, for he never catches any. What's that moving on the
+edge of the grove? What can it be? Oh, it's lots of them! They are
+coming this way, and I can hear them laughing and talking."
+
+Ellie watched, and soon saw a troop of rabbits hopping along toward the
+lawn.
+
+"Why, I do believe it is a rabbit party. How lucky it is I haven't gone
+to bed!"
+
+On they came, chattering in the funniest way, and dressed in the top of
+the fashion. One who seemed to be the leader said: "Ladies and
+gentlemen, this is the spot. You see how level it is for dancing, and we
+can have a game at croquet if you choose. The band will now strike up;
+and take partners, if you please, for a waltz."
+
+Ellie wondered where the band was, but the strains of "Sweet Evelina,
+dear Evelina," came floating on the air, and, looking up, she saw two
+crows perched on the bar from which the swing hung in summer. One had a
+little fiddle, and the other a flute.
+
+"That's the queerest thing yet," thought Ellie. "The idea of a crow
+being able to play on anything, when they make such a horrid noise
+cawing! The night crows must be different from the day ones."
+
+After the waltz was ended, and the couples were promenading, Ellie took
+a good look at the young ladies and their lovely dresses. There was one
+so beautiful she was charmed by her. She was as fair as a lily, and so
+gentle and sweet Ellie called her the belle of the ball. A little gray
+fellow never left her side, and could not do enough for her. He called
+her Alicia, and Ellie did not wonder he seemed so fond of her. She
+noticed, too, a tall young lady who had a white face with a black nose.
+She looked very cross, but was much dressed in a scarlet silk, with a
+long train, which gave her no end of trouble, for it was always in the
+way. Ellie heard her say, in the crossest way: "I suppose Alicia thinks
+she looks well to-night with that high comb in her head. I call her a
+perfect fright."
+
+"You only say so because you haven't one," answered her companion. "I
+think it is very becoming, and it makes her veil float out beautifully
+behind."
+
+The leader called out, "Take partners for the Lancers!" and they quickly
+formed into sets.
+
+They danced to perfection; even the "grand square" was got through
+without a blunder. The leader was unlucky enough to step upon the
+scarlet train, and its wearer turned upon him, crying out: "I do wish,
+Mr. Hopkins, you wouldn't be so clumsy! You will tear my dress off me."
+
+He humbly begged her pardon, but told his partner he should look out and
+not get in the same set with Matilda again; she was as disagreeable as
+ever. "Just because her grandmother was French, she gives herself great
+airs. She is no better than the rest of us."
+
+After the Lancers was finished, Matilda went to the arbor to get her
+train pinned up. It was sadly torn. While one of the matrons was at work
+upon it, Ellie listened to the conversation.
+
+"Why isn't Mrs. Gray here to-night?" asked one.
+
+"Don't you know she has eight little ones a week old to-day?"
+
+"Oh, indeed! Her hands must be full. I have been so busy with my own
+affairs, I know nothing about my neighbors'. But who is that who has
+just arrived? Mr. Hopkins will surely break his neck trying to get to
+him."
+
+"That must be Lord Lepus; he belongs to the Hare family, one of the most
+aristocratic in England. I heard he was to be invited. What an honor!--a
+nobleman at our New-Year's fete."
+
+Matilda grew impatient, and pulled her dress away, saying, "That will
+do; I hope you've been long enough about it," and without a word of
+thanks hurried to join the young people.
+
+"How very rude she is!" thought Ellie. "I always thought that French
+people were polite."
+
+Her attention was drawn to the new arrival. "He must be what Jack calls
+a swell," thought she, "with that long coat almost touching his heels,
+and his button-hole bouquet of carnations, heliotrope, and smilax. How
+does he keep that one eyeglass in his eye? It never moves, and yet he
+skips about like a grasshopper."
+
+"Shall I present your lordship to one of the ladies?" asked Mr. Hopkins.
+"Any of them will be only too happy to dance with you."
+
+"Aw, really now!" answered Lord Lepus. "'Pon my word, they are all such
+charming creatures, it is hard to choose. Who is the little one with the
+blue veil standing with the gentleman in demi-toilet of gray?"
+
+"That is Alicia. The gentleman is Mr. Golightly. They are to be married
+soon."
+
+"How extremely interesting! Pray present me."
+
+His lordship secured the blushing Alicia for a waltz, and was so well
+pleased with his partner he danced with her again and again.
+
+After the last dance, Ellie saw Mr. Hopkins setting out the wickets for
+croquet. The balls were lady apples with different colored ribbons tied
+to the stems, and the mallets were cat-o'-nine-tails, with the pussy end
+going the other way.
+
+"Well," thought she, "I don't see but that rabbits know as much as
+people. I wonder how they will play."
+
+She did not have to wonder long, for they were at it almost before she
+had done thinking. Lord Lepus was a fine player. Alicia was his partner,
+and with his help her balls went flying through the wickets in a
+twinkling. Golightly and Matilda were in the same game, and did their
+prettiest; but his lordship was too much for them.
+
+At last when Alicia sent Matilda's ball spinning, and struck the stake
+for her partner and then for herself, Matilda flew in a rage, and
+lifting her mallet, struck Alicia a blow on the head, which drove the
+teeth of her comb down into the pretty white skin. Poor Alicia gave one
+cry, and dropped senseless. Golightly was beside himself with grief, and
+pushing Lord Lepus aside as he sprang to her aid, cried, "Away! away!
+You took her from me in life: she is mine in death."
+
+"I beg pardon--" politely began his lordship, but was interrupted by
+Mrs. Muff, Alicia's chaperon, who calmly ordered Golightly to stop his
+noise, and help Mr. Hopkins carry her charge to the arbor.
+
+"Oh, what shall we do?" groaned Golightly, beating his brow with his
+hand.
+
+"Do," repeated Mrs. Muff; "why, send for a porous plaster. Here,
+Skipjack, run to Dr. Pine as fast as you can, and fetch me one."
+
+In a moment he was back with it, and Mrs. Muff quickly clapped it upon
+Alicia's head. Ellie looked on with breathless interest, and soon Alicia
+slowly opened her eyes, and looking up, said, in a soft voice, "Dear
+Golightly!"
+
+Mrs. Muff skillfully jerked off the plaster, and Ellie saw the teeth of
+the comb sticking to it.
+
+"Bless my soul! it's the most extraordinary thing," cried his lordship.
+
+"Oh, that's nothing," replied Mrs. Muff; "I always use them when my
+children are teething, with great success. But where is Matilda?"
+
+"The poor girl was terribly cut up, you know, and ran away toward the
+woods," answered Lord Lepus. "How does the charming Alicia find herself?
+Well enough to join us, I hope."
+
+"She must rest awhile. A short nap will entirely restore her," said Mrs.
+Muff.
+
+At that moment Mr. Hopkins put his head in the arbor, and announced
+supper was served.
+
+"Now," said Mrs. Muff, "while you are at supper Alicia shall go to
+sleep, and I will watch her."
+
+Ellie looked out, and saw a table spread on the croquet ground. "Well,
+well, how quick rabbits are! I wonder what they have to eat;" and she
+ran along with the rest of the party to find out. The table was loaded
+with nice things--apples and celery in abundance, and piles and piles of
+popped corn. Lord Lepus had never seen any before, and was so much
+pleased with it, Mr. Hopkins ordered a waiter to fill a bag and give it
+to his lordship when he left. "How strange," thought Ellie; "mamma says
+it is very impolite to carry away anything to eat when you go to
+parties. But perhaps it is different with rabbits."
+
+When they had finished supper, Mr. Cawkins and son--the band--came
+flapping down and picked up everything that was on the table. "I suppose
+that playing makes them hungry," thought Ellie; "but how fast they do
+eat!"
+
+When the last kernel of popped corn had disappeared, the crows flew back
+to their perch and began to play the liveliest, merriest tune Ellie had
+ever heard. Mr. Hopkins said to Lord Lepus, "Will your lordship join us
+in dancing the merry-go-round? It is our national dance, and we always
+have it on New-Year's Eve."
+
+"I shall be most happy; and here comes the fair Alicia, looking as fresh
+as a daisy. I will secure her for my partner."
+
+But Mr. Hopkins formed them into a circle, and they began to dance
+around, singing as they went. Ellie listened, and caught the words,
+
+  "Come dance, come dance the merry-go-round,
+  With sprightly leap and joyous bound.
+  We'll grasp each hand with right good cheer,
+  And welcome in the glad new year.
+    Oh, the merry-go-round, the merry-go-round,
+    We'll dance till day is dawning."
+
+They flew around fast and faster, till Ellie could not tell one from
+another. They looked like a streak on the snow.
+
+"Dear me, how dizzy they will get! Poor Alicia will certainly have the
+headache," thought Ellie; but still quicker went the music, and still
+faster flew the dancers. All of a sudden Ellie was startled by a loud
+"caw." She felt some one shaking her shoulder, and a voice in her ear
+said, "Wake up, Miss Ellie, wake up. The hall clock has just struck half
+past nine, and to think of your being out of bed at this hour! What will
+your mamma say? That giddy-pate Sarah told me she would undress you, for
+I was called away."
+
+"I am so glad," said sleepy little Ellie, "for I have seen the
+merry-go-round."
+
+Nurse gathered her up in her arms, and bore her to the nursery.
+
+"Nursey," asked Ellie, "are English hares better than our rabbits?"
+
+"Yes, miss, much better for soup."
+
+"Soup!" cried Ellie; "how dreadful, when he was so beautifully dressed!"
+
+"Yes," said nurse, "we like to have them dressed; they are so hard to
+skin."
+
+"What do you mean?" exclaimed Ellie. "He wore such a beautiful long
+coat, and had on a locket and three rings."
+
+"Dear me," thought nurse, "she has been in the moonlight so long I am
+afraid it has turned her brain. She certainly seems a little looney. The
+sooner she is undressed and in her bed, the better."
+
+"Oh, nursey, the next time baby has any teeth coming, put on a porous
+plaster, and it will pull them right through his gums."
+
+"Bless the child! What is she talking about now? Hares and plasters! The
+moon is a dangerous thing, and Sarah shall be well scolded for her
+neglect."
+
+As Ellie laid her head on the pillow, she said, "They danced the
+merry-go-round, and at the end of every verse they sang, 'Oh, the
+merry-go-round, the merry-go-round, we'll--dance--till--day--'"
+
+Nurse looked, and saw that little Ellie was fast asleep.
+
+
+
+
+A WISE DOG.
+
+
+Many anecdotes have been published respecting dogs, proving that,
+besides giving evidence of being endowed with certain moral qualities,
+they possess and exercise memory, reasoning powers, and forethought;
+they can communicate with each other, form plans, and act in concert.
+The subject, however, is by no means exhausted, and dog stories almost
+always meet with a welcome reception, especially from juvenile readers.
+
+The following story gives an instance, in the first place, of two dogs
+combining to perform a certain action; in the second place, it shows
+that one of these dogs evidently understood from the conversation of his
+master and another man the consequences likely to result from this
+action, and that he thereupon formed and carried out a plan to avoid
+them.
+
+[Illustration: COME OUT AND HAVE SOME FUN.]
+
+A farmer who resided in a town on the borders of Dartmoor was the owner
+of a valuable sheep-dog. So skillful was this dog in collecting and
+driving the sheep, that he almost performed the part of a shepherd. If
+the farmer, on his return from market, wanted the sheep to be driven to
+the field, he had only to say, "Keeper, take the sheep to field," and
+the dog would collect the flock and drive them to the field without
+suffering a single one to stray. But the proverb, "Evil communications
+corrupt good manners," is as applicable to dogs as to men. Keeper got
+acquainted with another dog, which proved to be of disreputable
+character, and like other disreputable characters, had a habit of
+rambling about at night. When the farmer was smoking his evening pipe by
+the kitchen fire, and Keeper was stretched along the hearth, apparently
+asleep, a low bark would be heard outside; Keeper would prick up his
+ears, and when the door was opened, would make his escape and join his
+companion, and then away would go both dogs on a ramble.
+
+This game was carried on for some little time; Keeper's bad habits were
+not suspected at home, and he did his duty by his master's sheep as
+faithfully as ever. In the mean time it became known in the town that a
+few miles distant many sheep had been "worried" by dogs, but as yet the
+culprit or culprits had not been discovered. It may, perhaps, be as well
+to explain that by "worrying" sheep is meant that they have been
+attacked by dogs, which seize the sheep by the throat, bite them, and
+suck the blood, and then leave them to perish. In a single night one dog
+has been known to "worry" forty sheep. No wonder such animals are a
+terror to farmers. Besides, if a dog once takes to "worrying" sheep, he
+never leaves off the habit.
+
+One evening as the farmer sat by his fire smoking and conversing with a
+neighbor, Keeper as usual basking by the fire, and waiting the expected
+call of his dog companion, the conversation turned on the great number
+of sheep that had been lately "worried" and destroyed, and the loss that
+would ensue to the farmers.
+
+"Well," said the neighbor, "we caught one on 'em, with his mouth and
+coat bloody, and we hanged him up on the spot. They do say thy dog
+Keeper was with un."
+
+"It is too true, he was there," replied the farmer; then looking at the
+apparently sleeping dog, and shaking his head at him, he said, "Thee
+knows thee has been with un. Thy turn will come next. We'll hang thee up
+to-morrow."
+
+Keeper lay still, pretending sleep, but with his ears open. He had heard
+his death-warrant, and was determined that it should not be carried into
+execution if he could prevent it. When the outer door was opened, he
+slunk off quietly, and was never seen again.
+
+What became of him was never known.
+
+Who will say after this that dogs do not understand the conversation of
+men, especially when it relates to "worrying" sheep, and the punishment
+it entails on the guilty dogs?
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Music: A Fox went out in a hungry plight.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=The Lesson of the Bath.=--One of the most valuable discoveries made by
+Archimedes, the famous scholar of Syracuse, in Sicily, relates to the
+weight of bodies immersed in water. Hiero, King of Syracuse, had given a
+lump of gold to be made into a crown, and when it came back he suspected
+that the workmen had kept back some of the gold, and had made up the
+weight by adding more than the right quantity of silver; but he had no
+means of proving this, because they had made it weigh as much as the
+gold which had been sent. Archimedes, puzzling over this problem, went
+to his bath. As he stepped in he saw the water, which his body
+displaced, rise to a higher level in the bath, and to the astonishment
+of his servants he sprang out of the water, and ran home through the
+streets of Syracuse almost naked, crying, "_Eureka! Eureka!_" ("I have
+found it! I have found it!").
+
+What had he found? He had discovered that any solid body put into a
+vessel of water displaces a quantity of water equal to its own bulk, and
+therefore that equal weights of two substances, one light and bulky, and
+the other heavy and small, will displace different quantities of water.
+This discovery enabled him to solve his problem. He procured one lump of
+gold and another of silver, each weighing exactly the same as the crown.
+Of course the lumps were not the same size, because silver is lighter
+than gold, and so it takes more of it to make up the same weight. He
+first put the gold into a basin of water, and marked on the side of the
+vessel the height to which the water rose.
+
+Next, taking out the gold, he put in the silver, which, though it
+weighed the same, yet, being larger, made the water rise higher; and
+this height he also marked. Lastly, he took out the silver and put in
+the crown. Now if the crown had been pure gold, the water would have
+risen only up to the mark of the gold, but it rose higher, and stood
+between the gold and silver marks, showing that silver had been mixed
+with it, making it more bulky; and by calculating how much water was
+displaced, Archimedes could estimate roughly how much silver had been
+added. This was the first attempt to measure the _specific gravity_ of
+different substances; that is, the weight of any particular substance
+compared to an equal bulk of some other substance taken as a standard.
+In weighing solids or liquids, water is the usual standard.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=How this Solid Earth keeps Changing.=--The student of history reads of
+the great sea-fight which King Edward III. fought with the French off
+Sluys; how in those days the merchant vessels came up to the walls of
+that flourishing sea-port by every tide; and how, a century later, a
+Portuguese fleet conveyed Isabella from Lisbon, and an English fleet
+brought Margaret of York from the Thames, to marry successive Dukes of
+Burgundy at the port of Sluys. In our time, if a modern traveller drives
+twelve miles out of Bruges, across the Dutch frontier, he will find a
+small agricultural town, surrounded by corn fields and meadows and
+clumps of trees, whence the sea is not in sight from the top of the
+town-hall steeple. This is Sluys.
+
+Once more. We turn to the great Baie du Mont Saint Michel, between
+Normandy and Brittany. In Roman authors we read of the vast forest
+called "Setiacum Nemus," in the centre of which an isolated rock arose,
+surmounted by a temple of Jupiter, once a college of Druidesses. Now the
+same rock, with its glorious pile dedicated to St. Michael, is
+surrounded by the sea at high tides. The story of this transformation is
+even more striking than that of Sluys, and its adequate narration justly
+earned for M. Manet the gold medal of the French Geographical Society in
+1828.
+
+Once again. Let us turn for a moment to the Mediterranean shores of
+Spain, and the mountains of Murcia. Those rocky heights, whose peaks
+stand out against the deep blue sky, scarcely support a blade of
+vegetation. The algarobas and olives at their bases are artificially
+supplied with soil. It is scarcely credible that these are the same
+mountains which, according to the forest-book of King Alfonso el Sabio,
+were once clothed to their summits with pines and other forest trees,
+while soft clouds and mist hung over a rounded, shaggy outline of wood
+where now the naked rocks make a hard line against the burnished sky.
+But Arab and Spanish chroniclers alike record the facts, and
+geographical science explains the cause. There is scarcely a district in
+the whole range of the civilized world where some equally interesting
+geographical story has not been recorded, and where the same valuable
+lessons may not be taught. This is comparative geography.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]
+
+
+That our youthful correspondents may not think we slight any of their
+favors, we would say that we regret exceedingly that our limited space
+compels us to print so few of their prettily worded and neatly written
+letters. We thank you all for your praise and hearty goodwill, but while
+we read all your comments on _Young People_ with attention, as in that
+way we learn what pleases you best, we must choose for printing those
+letters which tell something of interest to other young readers.
+
+To one thing we would call your attention. When you send drawings of
+"Wiggles" and other picture puzzles, be careful to do it on a separate
+piece of paper. Your letters are all recorded, and filed away, and if
+your idea for a "Wiggle" is drawn on the same piece of paper on which
+you write your letter, it makes confusion. We hope our young
+correspondents will pay attention to this suggestion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  ISHPEMING, MICHIGAN.
+
+     In _Harper's Young People_, No. 10, Mr. Lossing wrote about
+     "Putnam's Narrow Escape." He said his informant was General
+     Ebenezer Mead. Please tell Mr. Lossing that General Mead was my
+     great-grandfather. I am nine years old. I was born in Evergreen,
+     Louisiana, and came North when I was only three weeks old, so I
+     don't remember about any home but where I live now.
+
+  BEN BRYANT HILL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  DEL NORTE, COLORADO.
+
+     I am ten years old, and live away out in the Rocky Mountains. I
+     went down to the hotel last night, and saw the twelve Ute chiefs
+     who are on the way to Washington. Ouray, the head chief, had his
+     wife with him. There being but one chair in the room, she very
+     kindly sat flat upon the floor, and allowed her husband to occupy
+     the chair.
+
+  WALLACE S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SHEEPSCOTT BRIDGE, MAINE.
+
+     I am eleven years old. My father tells me lots of stories about
+     Indians, and shows me the places where some poor people were killed
+     by them. Our field takes in a part of Garrison Hill, where people
+     used to come into the fort when the Indians came. My father says
+     Sheepscott is a very old place, and the Pilgrims came here for
+     corn. Close by our field is an old barn where the Indians came when
+     some men were threshing, and fired on them, and killed two and took
+     their scalps off, and one man hit back at them with his flail, and
+     broke an Indian's arm, and they carried him prisoner to Canada. It
+     says so on his old grave-stone, and I have seen it. My grandfather
+     shot bears, but there are none here now. The people here build
+     little houses on the ice, and catch lots of smelts through a hole
+     in the ice. Sometimes there are as many as a hundred houses. The
+     smelts are sent to New York. I like _Young People_, and hope I
+     shall always get it.
+
+  CLARENCE E. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  WARREN, OHIO.
+
+     I want to tell you about my dogs. I have two coach-dogs; Spot and
+     Sport are their names. I used to drive them in a sleigh, and they
+     would draw me all about the town. I trained them all myself. Sport
+     was just like some horses; he would back and kick and chew his
+     harness. One day he chewed it all to pieces. Spot was good all the
+     time. I am older now, and drive ponies. I drove the dogs when I was
+     five years old.
+
+  ALASKA P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  EMPORIA, KANSAS.
+
+     My uncle gave me a little axe on New-Year's Day, of which I am very
+     proud, and make good use of it by cutting wood for my mamma, but
+     Kansas wood is very hard to split. My papa says, "Where there is a
+     will there is a way," and I am going to earn money enough with my
+     axe to subscribe for _Young People_.
+
+  PORTER HUNTER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  EAST SMITHFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     I have a canary. His name is Willie. He sings very sweetly, but he
+     has not bathed for a long time. Do you know any way to make him
+     take his bath?
+
+  MARY.
+
+Sometimes canaries will not bathe in cold weather. You must give your
+bird tepid water, otherwise it will get chilled, and sicken. Try putting
+the bath dish in its cage and leaving it alone. Some canaries will never
+bathe if they are watched.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  PEABODY, MASSACHUSETTS.
+
+     I have two Maltese cats exactly alike. One of them will eat
+     pea-nuts faster than I can crack them. The one that eats pea-nuts
+     has a bad cold. What can I do for her?
+
+  HARRY P. H.
+
+Your kitty has a very funny appetite. Keep her in a warm corner by the
+fire, and give her plenty of warm milk to drink, and her cold will get
+well. A little weak catnip tea mixed with the milk would do her good.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Robie I. G. has a kitty which climbs up on the balusters every morning
+and tries to open his chamber door; Carlotta P. writes that her kitties
+Betsy and Busti play with balls, and run up the curtains as if they were
+climbing trees; Charlie M. S., Annie C. and Maggie W., Mattie V. S., and
+Ida R. L., also write of pet cats and dogs and birds.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MAYNARD A. M.--Your story and poems are very pretty, and show much fancy
+and imagination for a boy of your age, but we have not room to print
+them. We return them to Detroit, Michigan, the only address you give.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"MYSTIC."--Your drawing is very well done, but we can not use it.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISS A. T.--There is no commentary on Pope's translation of Homer, but
+many interesting papers have been published on the subject.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EDWARD M. VAN C.--Your letter was a long time reaching its destination,
+as it first took a trip to the Dead-letter Office at Washington, and was
+forwarded to us from there. Like the little girl mentioned in the paper
+on the Dead-letter Office in _Young People_, No. 11, you posted it
+_without a stamp_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+E. L. M.--You write a very pretty letter considering that you are "only
+a little girl nine years old," and you need not feel nervous in future.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISS E. W.--Many thanks for the charming letter and poem you so kindly
+forward from the bright little nine-year-old girl, Jennie Lancaster, of
+Marshall, Texas.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ADDIE W. P.--The quotation you wish is probably this: "Nothing in his
+life became him like the leaving it." It occurs in Shakspeare's play of
+_Macbeth_, act first, scene fourth.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GEORGE O. D.--We are very sorry you are so unfortunate, and trust the
+weekly visit of _Young People_ will continue to brighten the monotony of
+your illness.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+W. T. DOTY.--The incident you mention must be taken as an exception to a
+general rule, as the personal observation of many students of natural
+history establishes the statement to which you demur.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ETHEL S. M.--Either spelling of the word is correct. The form you object
+to is more often used by American writers than the one you found in your
+English history.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Favors are acknowledged from Esther B., Minnesota; Osborn D., Arkansas;
+Bert C. S., Iowa; Tillie F. W., Maryland; Ethel P., Washington, D. C.;
+Willie Baldwin, Massachusetts; Louis C. V., New Jersey. From
+Connecticut--Archie H. L., "Daisy." From New York--M. Cohn, Addie
+and A. Goodnow. From Missouri--Charlie B., Theodore W. B. From
+Illinois--S. M. H., Marion Potter. From California--Mary M. Carr, Arthur
+White.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles are received from Charlie A. T., Illinois;
+H. W. Singer, Ohio; Florence and Pauline W., California; J. T. Newcombe,
+Michigan; Ida U. B., Minnesota; John R. Glen, Georgia; S. Addison W.,
+Maryland; C. S. C., Connecticut; J. H. Hassett, New Hampshire. From
+Massachusetts--A. A. Gilmore, Stanley King, C. H. A., A. F. C. From New
+York--Thomas H. Van T., F. W. P., Mabel L., William MacG., Walter L.,
+H. and B., Rufus W. T., E. S., F. Bisbee. Oscar F., New Jersey.
+
+Many of these answers are given in very neat operations in figures.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Answers to Mathematical Puzzles in No. 10:
+
+No. 5.--While selling their apples separately the boys received an
+average price of two and one-twelfth cents per apple. The boy who sold
+the whole lot together received only two cents per apple, losing
+one-twelfth of a cent on each. This loss on sixty apples amounted to
+five cents.
+
+No. 6.--Mother's age, sixty-five; oldest daughter's, thirty; second
+daughter's, twenty; youngest daughter's, fifteen.
+
+
+
+
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+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+My Apingi Kingdom:
+
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+     Ostrich, Hyena, &c. By PAUL B. DU CHAILLU. Illustrated. 12mo,
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+
+In this book Mr. Du Chaillu relates the story of his sojourn in Apingi
+Land, of which he was elected king by the kind-hearted and hospitable
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+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Country of the Dwarfs.
+
+     By PAUL B. DU CHAILLU. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1.50.
+
+Hail to thee, Paul! thou hero of single-handed combats with gorillas and
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+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+PUZZLE PICTURE.
+
+
+The envelope in the middle of this picture is supposed to contain a
+number of letters. These letters taken from the envelope, and correctly
+placed before the several objects shown in the picture, will transform
+them into wild animals.
+
+
+
+
+THROWING LIGHT.
+
+
+I am intangible; can't be seen, yet can be felt; am apparent to the
+taste--certainly to the touch, for I am pocketed daily, and there is no
+one who would not gladly grasp me at any time when offered; at the same
+time, I am almost always disagreeable, and very rarely desired. Too much
+of me is dangerous, and yet how could any one have too many of me?
+though even a sip is more than any one craves. No one was ever heard to
+say he was tired of me, and yet how many tears I have made children
+shed! I am the means of making people happy, yet I am dangerous under
+certain circumstances, though, to be sure, if I make people sick, I also
+make them well. Once I made a dreadful disturbance in New York, but yet
+I doubt if there is any city in this country where more of me, if as
+many, pass from people's hands.
+
+I cost nothing, anybody can have me that wants me, yet no one if poor
+can keep me, though I am easily bottled. You can't confine me, though
+you can shut me out, for there is nothing to take hold of, but a little
+package will hold many hundreds of me. I am a fluid, yet I am only air.
+I can be made by a stroke of the pen, but the greatest care must be
+exercised in making me properly; but when I am made artificially I am
+not half as refreshing as when Nature makes me. You can carry me in your
+pocket, but you can not take hold of me. You may swallow me, but you can
+not touch me. What am I? Let some one else throw a light.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+=Answer to Charade.=--Answer to Charade on page 146 of HARPER'S YOUNG
+PEOPLE No. 13 is "Chart."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 1.]
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 2.]
+
+=Answer to the Elephant Puzzle.=--To solve the Elephant Puzzle presented
+in No. 13 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE make two cuts with the scissors as
+shown by the white lines in Fig. 1, and transpose the section thus cut
+out, placing it in the position shown by the white lines of Fig 2.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+IT BEING DICK'S BIRTHDAY, HE IS ALLOWED TO STAY HOME FROM SCHOOL.
+
+  1. Exploring the closets.
+  2. Bread and butter, with plenty of sugar.
+  3. Plays horse with the parlor chairs.
+  4. "I've sawed the chair. What will mother say?"
+  5. Ornaments the walls.
+
+_Result: On Dick's next Birthday he will go to School._
+
+
+
+
+
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