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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880, by Various
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+Title: Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880
+       An Illustrated Weekly
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: March 25, 2009 [EBook #28410]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, MAR 16, 1880 ***
+
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+
+Produced by Annie McGuire
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+
+[Illustration: HARPER'S
+
+YOUNG PEOPLE
+
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. I.--NO. 20. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, March 16, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: FRANK MEETS WITH AN ACCIDENT.]
+
+[Begun in No. 19 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, March 9.]
+
+ACROSS THE OCEAN; OR, A BOY'S FIRST VOYAGE.
+
+A True Story.
+
+By J. O. DAVIDSON.
+
+
+Chapter II.
+
+THE FURNACE-ROOM.
+
+Had Frank lain awake he would have seen a curious sight; for there are
+few more picturesque scenes than the "forecastle interior" of an ocean
+steamer at night, lit by the fitful gleam of its swinging lamp. This
+grim-looking man, fumbling in his breast as if for the ever-ready knife
+or pistol, must be dreaming of some desperate struggle by his set teeth
+and hard breathing. That huge scar on the face of the gaunt, sallow
+figure beside him, whose soiled red shirt and matted beard would just
+suit the foreground of a Nevada gully, might tell a strange tale. That
+handsome, statuesque countenance yonder, again, faultless but for the
+sinister gleam of its restless eyes--what can it be doing among these
+coarse, uncultivated men, not one of whom can tell why they should all
+shrink from it as they do? What a study for a pirate any artist might
+make out of this shaggy, black-haired giant, whose lion-like head is
+hanging over the side of his bunk! His weather-beaten face looks hard as
+a pine knot; but a child would run to him at once, recognizing, with its
+own unerring instinct, the tender heart hidden beneath that rough
+outside. Next to him lies a trim, slender lad, who looks as if he knew
+more of Latin and Greek than of reefing and splicing, and whose curly
+brown head some fond mother has doubtless caressed many a time; yet here
+he is, an unknown sailor before the mast, with all his gifts wasted, and
+doomed perhaps to sink lower still.
+
+But these are the exceptions; the majority are sailors of the ordinary
+type, careless, light-hearted, improvident, never looking beyond the
+present moment--content to accept the first job that "turns up," and
+quite satisfied with a day's food and a shirt to their backs. Some are
+coiled up on lockers and spare sails, others sleeping off their last
+night's "spree" on the bare planks, and rolling over and over with every
+plunge of the vessel.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Whew! what a stream of cold air comes rushing down the hatchway, as it
+opens to let in the deck watch, glad enough to get below again out of
+the cold and wet! Their shouts, as they dash the brine from their beards
+and jackets, and chaff the comrades who are unwillingly turning out to
+relieve them, arouse Frank, who for a moment can hardly make out where
+he is. Then it all flashes upon him, and he "tumbles up," and goes on
+deck.
+
+Certainly, if any one ever could feel dismal at sea, it would be during
+the hour before dawn, the most cheerless and uncomfortable of the whole
+twenty-four. After spending the night in a lively game of cup and ball,
+with yourself for the ball, and an amazingly hard wooden bunk for the
+cup, you crawl on deck, bruised and aching from top to toe. While gazing
+upon the inspiring landscape of gray fog and slaty blue sea, you
+suddenly feel a stream of cold water splashing into your boots, while an
+unfeeling sailor gruffly asks "why in thunder you can't git out o' the
+way?" Springing hastily aside, you break your shins over a spar which
+seems to have been put there on purpose, and get up only to be instantly
+thrown down again by a lee lurch of the ship, amid the derisive laughter
+of the deck watch. Meanwhile a shower of half-melted snow insinuates
+itself into your eyes, and up your sleeves, and down the back of your
+neck; and all this, joined to the agonizing thought that it will be at
+least two hours before you can get any breakfast, speedily fills you
+with a rooted hatred of everything and everybody on board the ship.
+
+Well might poor Frank, contrasting his dismal surroundings with the
+comfortable rooms and piping-hot breakfasts of his forsaken home, begin
+to think that he had made a fool of himself. But he choked down the
+feeling as unworthy of a _man_, and tried to turn his thoughts by
+watching the two quartermasters at the wheel, who were straining every
+muscle to keep the ship's head to the mountain waves that burst over the
+bow every moment with the shock of a battering-ram.
+
+Breakfast came at last, but was not very satisfactory when it did. The
+old saying of "salt-horse and hard-tack" exactly described the food; and
+Frank, eating with one hand while clinging desperately to the long
+narrow table with the other, had quite enough to do in keeping his knife
+from running into his eye, and himself from going head over heels on the
+floor. At every plunge below the water-line the mess-room, already dim
+enough, became almost dark, while the faces of the men looked as green
+and ghastly as a band of demons in a pantomime. And, to crown all, one
+of Frank's neighbors suddenly sent a tremendous splash of grease right
+over him, coolly remarking,
+
+"Now, Greeny, you won't get hurt if you fall overboard--ile calms the
+water, you know."
+
+At which all the rest laughed, and Frank felt worse than a murderer.
+
+Breakfast over, our hero was "told off" to go below with the firemen.
+Down he went, through one narrow hole after another, past deck after
+deck of iron grating--down, down, down--till at last, as he emerged from
+a dark passageway, a very startling scene burst upon him.
+
+Along either side of a long narrow passage (the iron walls of which
+sloped inward overhead) gaped a row of huge furnace mouths, sending out
+a quivering glare of intense heat, increased by the mounds of red-hot
+coals that heaped the iron floor. Amid this chaos, several huge black
+figures, stripped to the waist, and with wet cloths around their sooty
+faces, were flinging coal into the furnaces, or stirring the fires with
+long iron rakes--now standing out gaunt and grim in the red blaze, now
+vanishing into the eddies of hissing steam tossed about by the stream of
+cold air from the funnel-like "wind-sail" serving as a ventilator.
+
+A shovel was thrust into Frank Austin's hand, and he was set to keep the
+doorway clear of the coal that came tumbling into it from the bunkers
+where the coal-heavers were at work. In this way he labored till noon,
+and then, with blistered hands and aching back, crawled up the iron
+ladder, worn out, grimy, and half dazed, to his dinner.
+
+But _what_ a dinner for Christmas-day! No appetizing turkey and
+plum-pudding, eaten in the midst of loving faces and merry talk and
+laughter; nothing but coarse salt-junk and hard ship-biscuit, hastily
+snatched among rough, unsympathetic men, who neither knew nor cared
+anything about him. And as soon as the meal was over, back again to his
+weary toil in the coal bunker, which was fated, however, to be cut short
+in a way that he little expected.
+
+For a time he worked away manfully; but the heat of the room and the
+monotony of his occupation combined to make him careless. Little by
+little his thoughts wandered away to his pleasant home beside the
+Hudson, and the little garden patch where he used to work, and the cozy
+fire, in the ashes of which he and his brothers roasted their chestnuts,
+and--
+
+"Look out there!"
+
+The warning cry came too late. There was a sudden shock--a deafening
+crash--and poor Frank was seen lying on his back senseless and half
+buried beneath the huge heap of coal that blocked the doorway.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+WHAT THE BOYS AND GIRLS PLAYED TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO.
+
+BY HATTIE B. CRAFTS.
+
+
+Do you ever think about the little boys and girls who lived so long ago?
+Well, in the celebrated country of Greece they were as fond of sports as
+children of the present day, only they had not so many wonderful toys
+made for them as are manufactured now. But could we look back upon them
+at some of their sports, we should find them very happy children, and it
+might surprise you to know how many games have been played century after
+century, and are still played and enjoyed to-day.
+
+The babies had their rattles and bright-colored balls, the children
+their hoops and balls, and what we call "Blindman's-buff" was a favorite
+game among them. Perhaps you know about the old giant Polyphemus, who
+was master of a race of one-eyed giants, and who devoured the Greeks
+that were round his cave, until they succeeded in putting out his eye,
+and how he still groped around and endeavored to find them, but in vain.
+Well, the boys and girls of Greece used to represent this story by this
+very game of "Blindman's-buff." The one blindfolded was called
+Polyphemus, and the others would hide and pretend they were the Greeks
+whom he was to find. Another way of playing this game was for the
+children to run round about the blindfolded person, and one of them
+touch him. If he could tell correctly who it was, the two exchanged
+places.
+
+In Athens, and in other cities and towns as well, you might almost any
+day see a whole group of children hopping along on one foot, as though
+the other was hurt; but, no, it was only for the fun, as every child of
+every nation knows, of seeing who could hop the farthest. Sometimes one
+boy would be allowed the use of both his feet, and the others would try
+to overtake him by hopping on only one foot, and for those who could do
+this it was accounted a great victory.
+
+In one of their games they set up a stone, called the Dioroe, and each
+of the players was to stand at a certain distance from it, and in turn
+throw stones at it. But the one who missed had rather a difficult task
+to perform, for the rule of the game was that he must be blindfolded and
+carry the successful player round on his back until he could go directly
+from the standing-point to the Dioroe. A sport not requiring quite so
+much skill, and one which many of you have perhaps practiced, consisted
+in setting a stick upright in the soil wherever it was loose and moist,
+and trying to dislodge it by throwing other sticks at it, keeping, of
+course, at a certain distance.
+
+Who will attempt to enumerate the many games played by a ring of
+children running about one in the centre? There must be a wonderful
+charm about them, so much are they played by both boys and girls in
+every country. Whether little Sallie Waters had her origin in Greece I
+will not pretend to say, but we do know that games were played in a
+similar manner. Here are some, enjoyed especially by the boys. One boy
+sat on the ground, and the others, forming themselves into a ring, ran
+round him, one of them hitting him as they went; if the boy in the
+centre could seize upon the one who struck him, the captive took his
+place. This did very well for the smaller boys, but the older ones had
+an arrangement a little in advance of it. The one in the centre was to
+move about with a pot on his head, holding it with his left hand, and
+the others, running around, would strike him and cry, "Who has the pot?"
+To which he replied, "I, Midas," trying all the time to reach one of
+them with his foot, and the first one touched was obliged to carry the
+pot in his turn.
+
+One of their most interesting games, and one which you would all enjoy,
+was the twirling of the ostrakon. A line was drawn on the ground, and
+the group of boys separated into two parties. A small earthenware disk,
+having one side black and the other white, was brought forward, and each
+party chose a side, black or white. It was then twirled along the line,
+the one throwing it crying, "Night, or day," the black side representing
+night, and the white day. The party whose side came up was called
+victorious, and ran after the others, who fled in all directions. The
+one first caught was styled "ass," and was obliged to sit down, the game
+proceeding without him. And so it was continued until the whole number
+were caught. This was excellent exercise, and often played by the hour
+together.
+
+A favorite game among the girls was played with five little balls or
+pebbles. They would toss them into the air, and endeavor to catch many
+on the back of the hand or between the fingers. Of course some of them
+would often fall to the ground; but these they were allowed to pick up,
+provided they did so with the fingers of the same hand on which the
+others rested, which required considerable skill. The French girls have
+a very pretty game of this, which is played with five little glass
+balls.
+
+We must not omit the ancestors of Punch and Judy, who lived in these
+early times, though probably under different names. But however they
+were called, they were just as queer-looking a family; and their arms
+would move, their shoulders shrug, their eyes roll, and their feet cut
+as strange capers as those of their descendants; and I have no doubt
+afforded the little ones, and perhaps some older persons, as much
+pleasure then as now.
+
+
+
+
+GARDEN-LORE.
+
+
+  Every child who has gardening tools
+  Should learn by heart these gardening rules:
+  He who owns a gardening spade
+  Should be able to dig the depth of its blade;
+  He who owns a gardening rake
+  Should know what to leave and what to take;
+  He who owns a gardening hoe
+  Must be sure how he means his strokes to go;
+  But he who owns a gardening fork
+  May make it do all the other tools' work;
+  Though to shift, or to pot, or annex what you can,
+  A trowel's the tool for child, woman, or man.
+
+
+
+
+THE ROBBER BLUEBIRD.
+
+BY A LITTLE GIRL.
+
+
+Once upon a time there lived in a beautiful house two little brothers,
+called John and Harry, and they were almost always very good boys.
+
+But one day they got angry at each other, and they looked just like two
+turkey-gobblers, their faces were so red, and they blustered about so.
+John declared that he would thrash Harry; and Harry made faces at John,
+and dared him to fight.
+
+What do you think all the quarrel was about? Why, nothing but a little
+piece of cake that the cook had given to Harry. Now just as they were
+going to strike one another, they saw a beautiful bluebird, with a
+lovely crest upon its head, fly down into the yard and pick up a large
+worm.
+
+He was just going to fly off with it, when another bird, just like
+himself, dived down and tried to take the worm from the one that had
+first found it.
+
+Before the two brothers could say a word, the birds were flying at each
+other, and tearing off their beautiful crests and coats.
+
+Harry and John stood watching them, and quite forgot that they had a
+fight on hand of their own.
+
+Just as the naughty bird that was trying to rob his brother bluebird had
+seized the worm, and was about to fly away with it, there was a sudden
+rush and flash, and Pussy Cat ran under the house with the wicked little
+robber tight between her teeth.
+
+Then the other bird, trembling with fear, flew up into a tree to rest.
+
+"Oh, John!" cried Harry, "just think if that had been you and me, and a
+lion had come and carried one of us off, and ate us up!"
+
+"Only--only it would not have been you, Harry. He would have carried me
+off, because it was I began the quarrel. Cook gave you the cake, and I
+wanted to take it from you, just like the robber bluebird did. Let us
+kiss and be friends, Harry."
+
+"Yes, and you can have half of my cake, John."
+
+"And I hope my little boys will never do so again," said mamma, who had
+been watching, and heard all.
+
+And years afterward, when John and Harry were away from their mamma and
+home, they often reminded each other of the lesson they had learned from
+the fate of the robber bluebird.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+DREAMING.
+
+
+  "He is dreaming. Guess of what, now."
+    "Well, I guess that in his hand
+  Is a marble--such a beauty!
+    And he dreams of wonder-land.
+
+  "Dreams a dream of giants rolling
+    Giant marbles--oh, such fun!
+  See, he smiles, for he has seen one
+    Bigger, brighter, than the sun."
+
+
+
+
+CHAMPION.
+
+BY MRS. L. G. MORSE.
+
+
+Hetty had five brothers and sisters, and Champion, the dog, felt that he
+had too much to do. There were plenty of people in the cottage at Lenox,
+where they lived in summer, to take care of the children, but there is a
+certain sort of responsibility which dogs of good, sound character are
+not willing to intrust to anybody. The baby was always with his mother
+or nurse, and Champion found it easy to take care of the other little
+ones, for they were not allowed to venture outside of the garden gate,
+and if that were carelessly left open, he had only to station himself in
+front of it, and to gently tumble them over on the grass if they
+attempted to pass through it. He had never hurt them, and their mother
+thought that they could not be under any better protection than that of
+good old faithful "Cham."
+
+But Hetty, who was seven years old, and Rudolph, who was nine, worried
+the dog terribly, and caused him to wear almost a perpetual scowl of
+anxiety upon his face. He evidently looked upon them as not old enough
+to be trusted by themselves, and it was a serious annoyance to him that
+they were too big to be rolled over on the grass, and so kept within the
+limits of the garden.
+
+One lovely summer morning Hetty was missing. She had run away with a
+beautiful ripe plum, which her cousin Francis had picked in order to
+show her that the bloom upon it was exactly the color of old "Greylock"
+in the distance. So she climbed the nearest hill, to compare the colors
+of the mountain and the plum. Looking away over the valley, the child
+saw too much beauty all at once. Clasping her hands behind her, she took
+in a long sweet breath of morning air, and did not know what it was that
+filled her whole soul with joy. She laughed aloud up at the clear sky,
+and spreading her arms as if they were the wings of a bird, she ran down
+the hill-side. Oh, there were so many robins! And butterflies flew
+around her in little clouds. The fields were like fairy-land, they were
+so full of flowers. She picked baby daisies, and put them inside of the
+wild-carrot heads, not in blossom yet, which grew in the shape of nests.
+When she climbed over a stone wall to the road, a squirrel ran across
+her path, into the woods on the opposite side. "There!" she whispered,
+softly, "maybe I can find his hole." And she ran after him.
+
+It was a great pity that Champion had so much to do that morning. When
+dinner was ready, and no Hetty appeared, Rudy called the dog, and asked,
+"Cham, where's Hetty?"
+
+Champion whined piteously, and looked first down the road, then up at
+Rudy, and then down the road again.
+
+"Come and eat some dinner, Rudy," said his mother, shading her eyes, and
+looking anxiously toward the woods. "Hetty will feel hungry, and come
+home soon now." But she looked proudly after Rudy when he clapped his
+hat on with a thump, and said, "Never you mind about me, mother; I'll
+eat more if I find Het first," and went racing after Champion, who
+bounded over the ground as if he meant to run all the way to the
+mountain.
+
+At the edge of the woods Rudy waited, and whistled to Cham. "Hold on!"
+he said; "maybe she's hiding." And for a while he looked about the
+laurel bushes in the places where they were accustomed to play, and
+sang, lustily,
+
+  "A-roving, a-roving,
+  I'll go no more a-roving
+    With thee, fair maid."
+
+But after a while he ceased his singing, and answered one of Champion's
+whines by ramming his hands in his pockets, and saying, "Look a-here,
+Cham! If anything has happened to Het, I'll--" The thought brought such
+a film over his honest brown eyes that he had to rub his cuff over them
+a good many times before he could see well enough to go on with his
+search. Fortunately, dogs don't cry tears, and Champion's eyes seemed to
+grow brighter as Rudy's grew dim. He seemed to say to himself: "If Rudy
+is going to give up, and cry about it, I've got to take matters into my
+own hands. Hetty's got to be found, and I can't waste my time waiting
+for a boy to get the better of his feelings. He oughtn't to _have_ any
+feelings until after our business is settled!" And Champion gave Rudy's
+boot a good-by lick, and raced away alone.
+
+Rudy dried his eyes, and had no more idea than the dog had of giving up
+the search. Dogs are just as apt to misunderstand boys as boys are to
+misunderstand dogs.
+
+Rudy ran over woods and fields, up and down the neighboring hills,
+calling Hetty and Champion, whistling and shouting, until he was hoarse.
+He could not find Hetty, and Champion did not return.
+
+After a while he got angry at the dog, and said, between his teeth,
+"I'll give it to Cham for running away from me, just when I want him to
+help me find Het!" But his anger melted into grief when the terrible
+thought came that perhaps some dreadful thing had happened to his
+sister. Once he lay down flat upon his face, and cried aloud at the
+sudden memory of how he had teased her that very morning by running away
+with one of her doll's shoes, which he had only just that moment
+switched out of his pocket. In a few moments, however, he jumped up
+again, looked at the little shoe tenderly, and tied it carefully in a
+corner of his handkerchief, saying, "There! I'll give it back the minute
+I find her, and I'll fix her something for the baby-house, to make up."
+
+He started off once more, this time without stopping to think where
+Hetty would be likely to go, only rushing about in a sort of desperate
+way, calling her by name, and shouting for Cham.
+
+[Illustration: ON GUARD.]
+
+He stopped on top of a high hill called the Ledge, and looked down the
+steep side of it a moment. Hark! He certainly heard the whine of a dog.
+He clambered down a little way, and called his loudest. The dog's whine
+answered him again. With a new hope in his heart, he called, and
+listened until the whine grew louder and louder, and he recognized
+Cham's bark. Catching at branches, stumbling, sliding, and blundering,
+he made his way down the hill-side, until suddenly the dog's bark was
+almost at his ears. And at last, there, farther round the side, on a
+ledge, just where a light motion would send her rolling down a steep
+declivity, lay Hetty; and Champion-stanch old Champion--sat upright
+before her, like a brave, resolute soldier on guard, pricking up his
+ears, barking loud in answer to Rudy's calls, his body quivering all
+over, and his feet restless on the ground. But Rudy knew that Hetty
+could roll no farther, and that Champion would sit there until help
+came. He did not wait to waken Hetty, but climbing to her, he patted
+Cham on the head, and bade him watch her till he returned. Then he
+planted a rough, glad, boyish kiss on her unconscious cheek, and hurried
+home as he had never hurried in his life before.
+
+The mother's pride in her boy that night made her face shine, as she sat
+by Hetty, who lay on the sofa, waited upon by everybody, because of her
+ankle, which was slightly sprained. And she said nothing about the chips
+Rudy was making, against all regulations, on the floor, as he was
+whittling into shape a bench for Hetty's doll's kitchen.
+
+"I'll tell you what, though, Het," said Rudy, "when you want to go off
+again to see whether mountains are plum-colored or not, you'd better
+take somebody along who knows that a carrot-weed's a flower, and that
+stumps and stones _are_ stumps and stones. You'd better take a
+person--like me, you know," he said, winking comically at Hetty--"who
+won't mistake a frightened squirrel for the king of the brown elves off
+on a hunting spree, or for anything else that never was born, except
+inside of your topsy-turvy head."
+
+Hetty laughed, and blushed rosy red. "I guess I won't," she said; "but
+if you had found yourself, Rudy, sliding and tumbling and running like
+lightning down that hill, I guess _your_ head would have been
+topsy-turvy for once. And I don't know which is the funniest, to faint
+away, or to wake up and find Cham licking me. Dear, good, darling Cham!
+I never _will_ go away again without Cham."
+
+Champion licked Rudy's face as he and the boy rolled over on the rug
+together, and blinked at both the children as if he understood and quite
+approved of Hetty's good resolution.
+
+
+
+
+THE LITTLE SHIPS OF THE WATER STREETS.
+
+BY JAMES B. MARSHALL.
+
+
+If the jolly uncle of certain Venetian girls and boys comes home from
+China, and says, "Hurra, children! let's go take a ride, and have a good
+time," they don't imagine it will be in an open carriage behind
+swift-footed horses.
+
+[Illustration: A GONDOLA ON THE GRAND CANAL.]
+
+They would think of a beautiful little ship, about thirty feet long,
+four or five wide, and as light as cork, called a gondola, which means
+"little ship." It would be painted black, like every other gondola, and
+the prow would be ornamented with a high halberd-shaped steel piece,
+burnished to a dazzling glitter. This steel prow would act as a
+counter-balance to their rower, who would stand on the after-end, and
+row with his face in the direction they wished to be taken. The rowlock
+would be simply a notched stick, and he would row with one long oar,
+pushing swiftly along.
+
+He would row so gracefully and easily that you might think you could
+quickly become a good gondolier if you tried. You would change your
+mind, however, after the laughable experience of rowing yourself
+overboard several times, and admit that rowing a gondola requires no
+small skill.
+
+It was the people called the Veneti who, more than a thousand years ago,
+settled Venice, and invented these little ships. The fifteen thousand
+houses of Venice are built on a cluster of islands, over one hundred in
+number, and divided by nearly one hundred and fifty canals, or water
+streets. However, one may visit any part of the city without the aid of
+a gondola, as the islands are joined together by three hundred and
+seventy-eight bridges, and between the houses lead narrow crooked
+passages, many not wider than the width of one's outspread arms.
+
+The canals are salt, and offer at high tide fine salt-water bathing. As
+most of the houses rise immediately from the water, it is not an
+uncommon sight, at certain hours, to see a gentleman or his children
+walk down his front-door steps arrayed for bathing, and take a "header"
+from the lower step. That sounds very funny, but to the Venetians such
+proceedings are quite a matter of course.
+
+In the lagoon around the city are numerous exasperating sand islands,
+exposed to view at low tide. The amateur gondolier seeks this lagoon, to
+be safe from scoffers at his clumsy rowing, and often, right in the
+midst of his "getting the knack of it," the tide leaves him stuck fast
+on a sand island, to wait for its return.
+
+Excepting the Grand Canal, the canals are narrow, and make innumerable
+sharp turns; so that it requires more skill to steer a gondola than it
+does to row, if such a thing is possible. The gondoliers display great
+skill in both rowing and steering, and they cut around corners and wind
+through openings seemingly impassable, always warning each other of
+their intentions by certain peculiar cries.
+
+During Venice's prosperity, gondola regattas were held, and were events
+of great pomp and display. They took place on the Grand Canal, when the
+whole city gathered on its banks, or in many gondolas on its surface,
+and what with the music, the display of flags and banners, and the
+bright-colored clothing of the color-loving people, the spectacle
+certainly must have presented a scene of great brilliancy. The prizes
+were money and champion flags, and with the lowest was also given a live
+pig--a little pleasantry corresponding to the leather medal in American
+contests.
+
+Once a year the Doge, or chief ruler of Venice, and his officers went in
+a vessel of royal magnificence, called the _Bucintora_, out upon the
+Adriatic Sea, followed by a grand procession of gondolas, and there he
+dropped overboard a gold ring, after certain impressive ceremonies, thus
+signifying Venice's espousal with the sea, and her dominion over it.
+
+This _Bucintora_ was a two-decked vessel propelled by one hundred and
+sixty of the strongest rowers of the Venetian fleet. Its sides were
+carved and gilded, some parts gold-plated, and the whole surmounted by a
+gold-embroidered crimson velvet canopy. The mast is still preserved in
+the arsenal at Venice, but the vessel was purposely destroyed to secure
+its gold ornaments.
+
+It is only in the severest winters--of rare occurrence--that gondolas
+can not be used; but then the young Venetians may perform the--to
+them--wonderful feat of walking on the water, and tell of it years
+after. Some two hundred years ago the ice lasted the unheard-of time of
+eighteen days, and such an impression did the event make upon the
+Venetians that the year in which it happened is known to the present day
+as the _anno del ghiaccio_--"year of the ice."
+
+
+
+
+THE GREAT LILY'S MISSION.
+
+BY MRS. J. B. McCONAUGHY.
+
+
+Forty-three years ago last New-Year's Day a native boat was gliding
+along through one of the small rivers of British Guiana, when it came to
+a spot where the stream widened into a little lake. A celebrated
+botanist was a voyager in the little canoe, and all at once his
+attention was fixed on a wonderful plant he found growing along the
+margin of the lake. All his weariness and the many discomforts of his
+situation were forgotten in the enthusiasm of that moment. Never before
+had he seen such a flower. One might fancy a giant had been raising
+lilies to present to some fair giantess.
+
+Imagine the rippling water covered with thick leaves of pale green,
+lined with vivid crimson, each one almost large enough to cover your
+bed, while all about were floating massive lilies, whose single petals
+of white and rosy pink were more than a foot across, and numbered over a
+hundred to a blossom.
+
+The flower was sent home to England, and awakened great enthusiasm among
+the lovers of science, but no one surmised that the fair stranger was
+destined to effect a great revolution in the architecture of the world.
+Yet all great enterprises have generally taken a very roundabout way
+before they came to perfection. You could hardly forecast them when you
+looked at their beginnings.
+
+Such a royal lily well deserved a royal name. So it was christened the
+_Victoria Regia_. Had it been a beautiful princess they were anxious to
+make contented in her adopted land, they could not have taken more pains
+to humor her tastes and whims. Mr. Paxton, the great gardener who had it
+in charge, determined that the baby lily should never know that it was
+not in its native waters, growing in its native soil, under its own
+torrid skies. So he made up a bed for its roots out of burned loam and
+peat; the great lazy leaves were allowed to float at their ease in a
+tank of water, to which a gentle ripple was imparted by means of a
+water-wheel, and then a house of glass, of a beautiful device, was built
+over it all, and the right temperature kept up to still further deceive
+the young South American.
+
+With all this pampering it grew so fast that in a month it had outgrown
+its house. A new one must be had forthwith, or the baby lily would be
+hopelessly dwarfed. Mr. Paxton was not disconcerted by this
+precociousness of his wayward pet, but at once put his talents to work
+to provide it with suitable accommodations. The greenhouse he next built
+was a more novel and elegant conservatory, and might rightly be styled
+the first Crystal Palace.
+
+It was just at this time that the word had gone out over all the earth
+that its nations were invited to a great World's Fair at London. And now
+a very serious question came up about the building in which to house
+them. The committee, of course, decided on a structure of orthodox brick
+and mortar, and then began a fierce war in the papers with regard to the
+project. How would their beautiful Hyde Park be spoiled by letting loose
+in it such an army of shovellers, bricklayers, hewers, and all manner of
+craftsmen! What a spoiling of its ornamental trees, and what a cutting
+up of its smooth drives by the heavy carts loaded with brick and mortar
+enough to build a pyramid!
+
+Mr. Paxton read in the _Times_ these many objections, and the thought
+flashed through his mind that they could all be removed by building on
+the plan of his lily-house. A succession of such structures enlarged and
+securely joined together would produce just such a building as was
+wanted. All could be prepared in the great workshops of the kingdom, and
+brought together with almost as little noise and confusion as was
+Solomon's great Temple.
+
+The building committee were hard to convince. They were joined to their
+idols of brick and mortar. But good Prince Albert, and Sir Robert Peel,
+and Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, were all on the side of iron and
+glass, and at last they won.
+
+Such a beautiful fairy-like structure as went up, almost like Aladdin's
+palace, by New-Year's Day, 1851, the world had never seen. The great
+lily had, all unconsciously, accomplished a wonderful work. Over and
+over again has its crystal house been copied, and not the least
+beautiful of such structures is our own grand Centennial Main Building.
+
+
+
+
+THE MISHAPS OF AN ARAB GENTLEMAN.
+
+
+The Orientals differ in many respects from the Europeans and Americans
+in their customs and manners, their dress, and the furniture of their
+houses. The dress of the men consists of a red cap, wide baggy cloth
+trousers, silken girdle, and a jacket. The houses in Syria are
+invariably built of stone, and in the south of Palestine entirely so.
+The floors of the rooms are paved with marble or granite. At the
+entrance of every room is a space of several feet square, paved with
+figured marble, and never carpeted, generally used as a receptacle for
+shoes and slippers, which the Orientals remove from their feet on
+entering a room. The rest of the floor is raised about half a foot
+higher. The Orientals sleep on the ground, _i. e._, on mattresses laid
+on carpets, or mats spread on the floor.
+
+In an Arab family one of the members became ambitious of transforming
+himself into a European. This young gentleman had received an excellent
+education, being familiar not only with the Arab literature, but master
+of the ancient and modern Greek.
+
+His first step toward the desired end was to study English and French.
+When he had gained a fair knowledge of these languages, he applied for
+the position of interpreter to the American consulate, to which he
+succeeded in being appointed.
+
+His so-far satisfied ambition would no longer allow him to wear the
+Oriental dress, and he soon showed himself to an admiring world of
+natives in European costume. One day he was asked how he liked his new
+costume.
+
+"Not at all," he replied. "I feel as if tied hand and foot in a
+tight-fitting prison."
+
+A few weeks later he one day startled some of his European friends by
+asking them, with a thoughtful seriousness, whether they often tumbled
+out of bed.
+
+"Tumble out of bed!" they exclaimed. "Why, of course not. How could
+one?"
+
+"I would much rather find out how a person could not," was his reply.
+
+He was asked what put such an idea into his head.
+
+The rest is best told in his own words.
+
+"I furnished my rooms with European furniture. Bad luck to the day I was
+foolish enough to do so! A few nights ago, after having locked my door
+and put out my light--things I never did before--I got up into the
+bedstead. My sensations were those of being put away on a high shelf in
+a dark prison. I wondered whether Europeans experienced such feelings
+every night. Finally I fell asleep, comforting myself that I might get
+used to it. How long I slept in that bed I shall never know, for when I
+awoke, it was to find myself in the grave. I was cramped in every limb;
+I felt the cold pavement under me, and icy walls round me. For clothing
+or covering I found nothing within reach but what at the time seemed a
+shroud. Where was I? What had happened? Suddenly the idea came to me
+that I must have fainted, been mistaken for dead, buried, and now
+recovered consciousness in my grave. So convinced was I, that I shouted
+at the top of my voice that I was not dead, and begged to be taken out
+of the tomb. The noise I made soon awoke the whole house, and as I had
+locked my door, no one could get in. I heard my mother and brothers
+uttering pious ejaculations to exorcise the evil spirit which they
+believed had got hold of me, while I trebled my frantic yells for
+deliverance. By vigorously shaking the door, they finally burst it open,
+and then I was surprised to see that I was not in my grave, but that I
+had tumbled out of bed, and rolled along the floor till I landed in the
+space by the door."
+
+"But did you not wake with the fall?"
+
+"No; I felt nothing till I awoke, as I believed, in my tomb, but really
+in the shoe receptacle; and since you all assure me that Europeans never
+tumble out of their beds, I resign all hopes of ever being transformed
+into one. I shall in the future, as I have done in the past, sleep on
+the ground, from which there is no danger of tumbling."
+
+
+
+
+THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.
+
+
+The hippopotamus, or river-horse, is found exclusively in the great
+rivers, lakes, and swamps of Africa. Fossil remains of extinct species
+have been discovered in both Europe and Asia, but ages have passed since
+they existed. This animal is amphibious, and can remain under water five
+minutes or more without breathing. When it comes to the surface it
+snorts in a terrible manner, and can be heard at a great distance. It is
+never found far away from its native element, to which it beats a
+retreat at the least alarm. Travellers along the White Nile and in
+Central Africa often encounter enormous herds of these ungainly
+creatures sometimes lying in the water, their huge heads projecting like
+the summit of a rock, sometimes basking on the shore in the muddy ooze,
+or grazing on the river-bank; for this animal is a strict vegetarian,
+and the broad fields of grain and rice along the Upper Nile suffer
+constantly from its depredations.
+
+The hippopotamus is a hideous-looking beast. It has an enormous mouth,
+armed with four great tusks that appear viciously prominent beneath its
+great leathern lips. These tusks are so powerful that a hippopotamus has
+been known to cut holes through the iron plates of a Nile steamer with
+one blow. Its eyes are very small, but protruding, and placed on the top
+of its head. Its body resembles a huge hogshead perched on four short,
+stumpy legs. A full-grown animal will sometimes measure twelve feet in
+length and as much in circumference. The hide of this beast is very
+thick and strong, and is used to make whips. Ordinary bullets, unless
+they strike near the ear, rattle off the sides of this King of the Nile
+like small shot. Sir Samuel Baker, the African traveller, relates an
+encounter with a large bull hippopotamus which was taking an evening
+stroll on the bank of the river, quietly munching grass. Baker and his
+attendant were armed only with rifles. They aimed and fired, hitting as
+near the ear as possible, but the great beast only shook its head and
+trotted off. At the sound of firing the remainder of the party hurried
+up, and poured a volley of musketry at the retreating beast, but the
+hippopotamus walked coolly to the edge of a steep cliff, about eighteen
+feet high, and with a clumsy jump and a tremendous splash vanished in
+the water. As the flesh of the hippopotamus, which is said to resemble
+pork in flavor, was much desired as food by the soldiers under Baker's
+charge, he had a small explosive shell constructed, which, fired into
+the creature's brain, seldom failed to leave its huge body floating dead
+on the surface of the river.
+
+[Illustration: FIGHT WITH A HIPPOPOTAMUS.]
+
+The natives are very fond of hippopotamus flesh, and resort to many
+expedients to secure the desired delicacy. Hunting this beast is
+dangerous sport, for in the water it is master of the situation, and
+will throw a canoe in the air, or crunch it to pieces with its terrible
+jaws. In Southern Africa, Dr. Livingstone encountered a tribe of natives
+called Makombwé who were hereditary hippopotamus-hunters, and followed
+no other occupation, as, when their game grew scarce at one spot, they
+removed to another. They built temporary huts on the lonely grassy
+islands in the rivers and great lakes, where the hippopotami were sure
+to come to enjoy the luxurious pasturage, and while the women cultivated
+garden patches, the men, with extraordinary courage and daring, followed
+the dangerous sport which passes down among them from father to son.
+When they hunt, each canoe is manned by two men. The canoes are very
+light, scarcely half an inch in thickness, and shaped somewhat like a
+racing boat. Each man uses a broad, short paddle, and as the canoe is
+noiselessly propelled toward a sleeping hippopotamus not a ripple is
+raised on the water. Not a word passes between the two hunters, but as
+they silently approach the prey the harpooner rises cautiously, and with
+sure aim plunges the weapon toward the monster's heart. Both hunters now
+seize their paddles and push away for their lives, for the infuriated
+beast springs toward them, its enormous jaws extended, and often
+succeeds in crushing the frail canoe to splinters. The hunters, if
+thrown in the water, immediately dive--as the beast looks for them on
+the surface--and make for the shore. Their prey is soon secured, for the
+well-aimed harpoon has done its work, and the hippopotamus is soon
+forced to succumb. Should it be under water, its whereabouts is
+indicated by a float on the end of the long harpoon rope, and it is
+easily dragged ashore.
+
+Travellers on the Nile are often placed in great peril by the attacks of
+these beasts, which although said to be inoffensive when not molested,
+are so easily enraged that the noise of a passing boat excites them to
+terrible fury. Baker relates being roused one clear moonlight night by a
+hoarse wild snorting, which he at once recognized as the voice of a
+furious hippopotamus. He rushed on deck, and discovered a large specimen
+of this beast charging on the boat with indescribable rage. The small
+boats towed astern were crunched to pieces in a moment, and so rapid
+were the movements of this animal, as it roared and plunged in a cloud
+of foam and wave, that it was next to impossible to take aim at the
+small vulnerable spot on its head. At length, however, it appeared to be
+wounded, and retired to the high reeds along the shore. But it soon
+returned, snorting and blowing more furiously than ever, and continued
+its attack until its head was fairly riddled with bullets, and it rolled
+over and over, dead at last.
+
+Young hippopotami have been captured and placed in zoological gardens,
+but as they become old they grow savage, and are very hard to manage.
+Some fine specimens were formerly in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris.
+They ate all kinds of vegetables and grass, and slept nearly all day,
+generally lying half in and half out of the big water tank provided for
+them.
+
+The hippopotamus is supposed by many to be identical with the behemoth
+of Scripture, which is described as a beast "that lieth under the shady
+trees, in the covert of the reed and fens." It is also spoken of as one
+that "eateth grass as an ox," and that "drinketh up a river," and the
+"willows of the brook compass him about."
+
+
+
+
+THE CAT'S-MEAT MAN.
+
+
+[Illustration: PREPARING CAT'S MEAT IN FULTON MARKET.]
+
+In one corner of Fulton Market in New York city is the snug little stall
+of the cat's-meat man. He is a jolly, merry-looking fellow, as you may
+see by his picture; and he sings and whistles as he works. In the
+morning he goes about the streets feeding his cats; but his afternoons
+are devoted to preparing their food for the next day.
+
+Most of this food is raw meat, which, with a sharp knife, he cuts up
+into very small pieces, until several hundred pounds are thus prepared.
+Sometimes a small portion of the meat is boiled; but this cooked meat is
+only intended for cats who are not very well, and who need something
+more delicate than raw meat. Once a week--on Thursdays--the cat's-meat
+man cuts up fish instead of meat; for on Fridays all his cats have a
+meal of fish, of which they are very fond, and which is very good for
+them.
+
+After the meat or fish has been nicely cut into bits, it is all done up
+in small brown-paper parcels, each of which weighs a pound; and these
+parcels are packed into great strong baskets. Each basket holds forty
+or fifty of these pound packages, and is pretty heavy for the cat's-meat
+man to carry.
+
+[Illustration: STARTING OUT]
+
+Bright and early in the morning, soon after sunrise, the cat's-meat man
+begins to feed his cats, starting out from the market with a big basket
+of meat on his shoulder, and threading his way through the crooked
+streets and lanes of the lower part of the city to the homes of his
+little customers.
+
+[Illustration: SOME DOWN-TOWN CATS.]
+
+Everywhere the cats and kittens are anxiously waiting and watching for
+him, and sometimes they run out and meet him at the corners half a block
+or more away from their homes. Often when he is feeding the cats on one
+side of the street, those living on the other side run across, and
+rubbing against his legs, mewing and purring, seem to beg him to hurry
+and get over to their side. Of course these cats do not belong to the
+cat's-meat man, though he takes just as much interest in them, and is
+just as fond of them, as though they were his own. They are the cats
+that live in the stores and warehouses of the lower portion of the city,
+where they are kept as a protection against the armies of fierce rats
+that come up from the wharves, and do terrible damage wherever the cats
+are not too strong for them. For this reason the cats are highly prized
+and well cared for in this part of the city, and the cat's-meat man
+finds plenty of work to do in feeding them. He is paid for this by the
+owners of the cats, and as he has about four hundred customers his
+business is quite a thriving one.
+
+[Illustration: THE MORNING CALL.]
+
+The cats all know and love him, and are generally expecting him; but if
+he opens the door of a store where one of his cats lives, and she is not
+to be seen, he calls "Pss-pss-pss," and the kitty comes racing down
+stairs, or from some distant corner, so fast that she nearly tumbles
+head over heels in her hurry to get at her breakfast.
+
+Some of the cats are only fed every other day, and they know just as
+well as anybody when it is "off day," as the cat's-meat man calls it. On
+these off days they lie perfectly still as he passes, paying no
+attention to him; but on the days they are to be fed, these
+"every-other-day cats" are the most eager of all, and travel the
+greatest distances to meet their friend.
+
+[Illustration: CARLO.]
+
+Besides the cats, several dogs are fed daily by the cat's-meat man, and
+of these the most interesting is Carlo. Carlo used to be a sailor dog,
+but now he lives quietly in a store on Old Slip. His first master was a
+sea-captain, with whom Carlo made voyages to many different parts of the
+world. At last his kind master, who was as fond of Carlo as though he
+had been an only child, became very sick with a terrible fever, and when
+his ship reached New York, he was taken to a hospital to die. Carlo went
+to the hospital with him, and just before the dying sailor breathed his
+last, he begged a kind gentleman who stood beside his bed to take care
+of Carlo. The gentleman promised to do so, and has ever since kept his
+promise by giving Carlo a good home in his store, and paying the
+cat's-meat man to feed him every day. Carlo repays this kindness by
+keeping the store free from rats, and his reputation as a famous ratter
+has spread far and wide through the neighborhood.
+
+[Illustration: A CHARITY CAT.]
+
+Many stray cats watch for the coming of the cat's-meat man, for they
+know that he will befriend them, and many a tidbit does he give to some
+lean hungry creature as he merrily trudges along through the winter
+snow-drifts.
+
+At certain corners the cat's-meat man is met by one of his assistants,
+with whom he exchanges his empty basket for a full one. These
+halting-places are well known to all the forlorn and homeless cats and
+dogs, and at them a number of these always await his approach. He most
+always throws them a few bits from his well-filled basket, for which
+they seem very grateful, though they look as if they would be very glad
+of more.
+
+Besides feeding cats and dogs, the cat's-meat man cares for them when
+they are sick, preparing special food for his patients, and sometimes
+giving them small doses of medicine. So, you see, the cat's-meat man is
+a real benefactor, and it is no wonder that all the cats and dogs in the
+lower part of the city watch for his coming, and are glad when they see
+him.
+
+
+
+
+MY TARTAR.
+
+BY DAVID KER.
+
+
+Most of us have read descriptions and seen pictures of those sallow,
+flat-faced, narrow-eyed, round-headed hobgoblins who, under the name of
+Tartars (a wrong one, too, for it should be Tatâré), used to amuse
+themselves by conquering Eastern Europe every now and then some hundreds
+of years ago. But it is not every one who has had the pleasure of
+travelling alone with one of these fellows over nearly a thousand miles
+of Asiatic desert in time of war--a pleasure which I enjoyed to the full
+in 1873.
+
+And a very queer journey it was. First came a range of steep rocky hills
+(marked on the map as the Ural Mountains), where we had to get out and
+walk whenever we went up hill, and to hold tight to the sides of our
+wagon, for fear of being thrown out and smashed, whenever we went down
+hill. Then we got out on the great plains, where we came upon a
+post-house of dried mud (the only house there was) once in three or four
+hours; and here we used to change horses by sending out a Cossack with
+his lasso to see if he could catch any running loose on the prairie; for
+there are no stables in that country.
+
+Next came a sand desert, where we harnessed three camels to our wagon
+instead of horses. Here the people lived in tents instead of mud houses,
+while a hot wind blew all day, and a cold wind all night. One fine
+evening we had a sand-storm, which almost buried us, wagon and all; and
+the sand stuck so to my Tartar's yellow face that he looked just like a
+peppered omelet.
+
+After this came a "rolling prairie," where the people lived in holes
+under the ground, popping up like rabbits every now and then as we
+passed. Beyond it was a large fresh-water lake (called by the Russians
+"Aralskoë Moré," or Sea of Aral), where the mosquitoes fell upon us in
+good earnest. Here we were both boxed up in a mud fort for seven weeks
+by a Cossack captain, on suspicion of being spies, like Joseph's
+brethren. When we got out again, we had to go up a great river (called
+the Syr-Daria, or _Clear_ Stream, though it was the dirtiest I ever
+saw), fringed with thickets, and huge reeds taller than a man, where the
+mosquitoes were doubled, and we had the chance of meeting a tiger or two
+as well. Then came some more deserts, and then some more mountains; and
+so at last we got to the capital of the country--a big mud-walled town
+called Tashkent, or Stone Village--I suppose because there is not a
+single stone within twenty miles of it.
+
+All this while, Murad (for so my Tartar was named) had been like a man
+of stone. He never complained; he never smiled; he never got angry. When
+our food and water ran out; when the sand-flies and mosquitoes bit us
+all over; when we lost our way on the prairie at midnight in a pouring
+rain; when the jolting of our wagon bumped us about till we were all
+bruises from head to foot; when we had to sit for hours upon a sand-heap
+waiting for horses, with the sun toasting us black all the time; when
+our wheels came off, or our camels ran away--honest Murad's heavy,
+mustard-colored face never changed a whit. At every fresh mishap he only
+shrugged his shoulders, saying, "It is my _kismet_" (fate); and when he
+had said that, he seemed quite satisfied. I never even saw him laugh but
+_once_. That once, however, I had good reason to remember; and this was
+how it happened.
+
+On getting to Tashkent we took up our quarters at a native hotel
+(_caravanserai_ they call it there), where we were kindly allowed a
+stone floor to sleep on, provided we brought our own beds and our own
+food along with us. However, we were pretty well used to that sort of
+thing by this time; so I got out my camp-kettle, and proceeded to make
+tea, while Murad, like Mother Hubbard in the song,
+
+  "Went to the baker's to buy him some bread."
+
+By this time our daily mess of food had become a _mess_ in every sense.
+Bumped and jolted about as we had been, it was no uncommon thing for me
+to find my bottle of cold tea standing on its head with the cork out, my
+soda powders fraternizing with the salt and pepper, and my brown loaf
+taking a bath in the contents of a broken ink-bottle, the splinters of
+which would be acting as seasoning to the mashed remains of a Bologna
+sausage. I was not surprised, therefore, to discover a piece of
+chocolate half buried in my last packet of tea, and by way of experiment
+I decided to boil the two together, and try how they agreed.
+
+But apparently they didn't agree at all, for I had hardly taken a sip of
+my first tumbler[1] when I became aware of the most horrible and
+astounding taste imaginable, as if a whole apothecary's shop had been
+boiled down into that one glass. The second tumbler was, if possible,
+even worse than the first; but this time I noticed a white froth on the
+top, such as I had never seen upon any tea before. A frightful suspicion
+suddenly occurred to me. I emptied out my camp-kettle, and
+discovered--with what emotion I need not say--that the supposed
+chocolate was nothing less than a piece of brown _soap_!
+
+Just at that eventful moment in came my Tartar. One glance at the soap,
+my distorted visage, and the froth in the glass, told him the whole
+story; and the effect was magical. To throw himself on the floor, to
+kick up his heels in a kind of convulsive ecstasy, to burst into a
+succession of shrill, crowing screams, like a pleased baby, was the work
+of a moment; and he kept on kicking and crowing, till, provoked as I
+was, I could not help laughing along with him. Then he suddenly sprang
+up and stood before me with his usual solemn face, as if it were
+somebody else who had been doing all this, and _he_ were utterly shocked
+at him. But he never afterward alluded to the occurrence, nor did I ever
+again see him laugh, or even smile.
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+1 The Russians drink tea in tumblers, with lemon-juice instead of milk.
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in No. 17 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, February 24.]
+
+BIDDY O'DOLAN.
+
+BY MRS. ZADEL B. GUSTAFSON.
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+Little Katy Kegan had the blackest hair and eyes you ever saw, and she
+was very pretty, with color like the cream and red of the lady-apples
+packed in tempting pyramids in the fruit stalls. She was the kind of
+girl who keeps you always expecting, without your knowing what it is you
+expect. Katy was very bright, quick as a dart in her motions, but as
+rough and sharp as a prickly-brier if things didn't go to suit her. She
+had all the bad habits which friendless little children learn from
+living on the streets, with no one to care what they do or how they
+feel. She was saucy and bold, and used very bad words, and thought it
+smart to steal fruit and pea-nuts when she could; and she would tell a
+lie about her thefts, or indeed about anything else, as glibly as a toad
+swallows a fly. If you ever saw that done, you know that it is pretty
+swiftly done; and just as a toad, when it has swallowed a fly, looks as
+if it had never so much as heard of such an insect, so Katy, when she
+told a lie, would look straight at you, and smile with an air of such
+innocence that you would find it hard to not believe her. These sad
+faults were Katy's misfortunes. She did not know how wrong they were.
+
+But you can see, if you think a moment, that such habits would be a
+great trouble in the way of her finding a home, because good people
+would not like to take a little child with such naughty ways into their
+homes, to be with their own dear children. Still, Katy's pretty face and
+bright mind, and the love she was so quick to give to any one who was
+kind to her, made people feel like trying to see what they could do for
+her.
+
+Three times Mr. Kennedy placed Katy in good homes, in the care of noble
+people, who wished to help him in such work. In each instance Katy had
+been loved, because she was so bright and sweet and lovable when she
+felt like being so; but her sudden fits of anger, and the strange and
+naughty things she would say and do, made her new friends feel anxious
+and troubled. Yet Katy had never been sent away from these homes.
+Perhaps she might have been, but she never waited for that; she ran away
+of her own accord each time, without saying a word about it, and nothing
+that Biddy or Mr. Kennedy could say could make Katy agree to go back
+when once she had run away.
+
+One day Miss Kennedy, who had thought a great deal about this willful
+child, said to her brother, "Don't be discouraged about Katy; you and
+Biddy will save the dear little thing yet."
+
+"But I do feel a little discouraged," said Mr. Kennedy. "You see, she is
+so uncertain; she's tricky as a kitten, and you can never tell what
+she'll be at next. If the trouble only all came to us, you know, we
+would be glad to bear it, for there is something very dear about little
+Katy that pays for care and bother. But how can I go on asking our
+friends to put up with such a little harum-scarum? And she _will_ take
+things that don't belong to her, and she will deny it. I really don't
+know what to do."
+
+Biddy sat sewing, but she listened, and looked very earnest. Miss
+Kennedy smiled.
+
+"I've thought of something, Phil," said she. "I think we have been
+making a mistake all along in fixing things too easy and pleasant for
+Katy. I think she needs to have a weight put on her."
+
+"A weight? How do you mean?"
+
+"Well, I mean this. Katy is very loving, and she is more full of active,
+bounding life than any one I ever saw. I don't think she wants to have
+things done for her; I think she wants to do things herself. I think she
+needs to feel that some one, in some real plain way, depends on her,
+needs her, so that she can not do without her. I have seen feelings in
+Katy that make me think a weight of this kind would hold her."
+
+Mr. Kennedy looked pleased, and sat some moments thinking. Then he
+asked: "Well, sister, how will you find such a weight for Katy? I
+wouldn't like to have her bright wings too closely clipped."
+
+"I've thought of that, Phil, and I've thought it would be well to let
+Biddy--Katy loves Biddy with all her warm little heart--to let Biddy
+coax her to go to Mrs. Raynor."
+
+"Mrs. Raynor!" cried Phil.
+
+"I know you are thinking of such a madcap as Katy in Jenny Baynor's
+sick-room. But that is just my reason. I've talked with Mrs. Raynor, and
+she is quite willing to try Katy, if we can only get her there to be
+tried. If there's any one in this world who can tame Katy's wild humors
+and turn them to good uses, it is Mrs. Raynor. And Jenny needs some one
+to care for her all the time. Katy can not help loving them, and between
+them I think they will find a way to hold Katy till she grows to see
+what a little girl's life means."
+
+The very next day Biddy went out to look for wayward Katy, for it was
+Katy's having run away again from her third home which had led to this
+talk between Mr. Kennedy and his sister. Biddy found Katy sitting on
+some steps on Fulton Street, eating pea-nuts, and tossing up the shells.
+She looked so happy that Biddy felt a new wonder about her. She
+remembered how she had longed for a home, and here was Katy liking
+nothing so well as to run about the streets, and seeming to think home
+was a great bother. Suddenly a thought came to Biddy, and made her say,
+quickly, as she reached Katy, "Oh, Katy, did you ever have a doll?"
+
+"Hallo! that you?" said Katy. "Want some pea-nuts? No, I never had no
+dawl--don't want no dawl--seen lots of 'em--think they're silly. Dawls
+is only pretendin'--Hallo! catch 'em;" and she tossed a handful of
+pea-nuts to Biddy.
+
+[Illustration: "BIDDY SAT DOWN ON THE STEPS BY KATY."]
+
+Biddy sat down on the steps by Katy, and told her as kindly as she could
+that she wanted her to try once more to like a good home. She held a bit
+of Katy's skirt in her hand, for fear Katy would run; but she did not
+think Katy knew she had hold of her dress, till Katy said, "No need to
+hold on to me--ain't goin' to run."
+
+"Oh, Katy, what have you done with your pretty shoes?" exclaimed Biddy.
+
+"Guv 'em to gal 'at wanted 'em--likes to go barefoot," said Katy,
+promptly; then she turned her black eyes on Biddy with a queer, sharp
+look, and said, "Needn't ask no more queshshuns--sha'n't answer."
+
+After a little more talk, in which Katy insisted that she didn't think
+she could stay in a home, though she was willin' to try, 'cause she
+liked to see insides of houses, they started off together.
+
+The Raynors lived in a larger and more beautiful house than the
+Kennedys, and a well-behaved maid showed the children into a room which
+was so dark that Biddy and Katy could hardly see anything at first.
+Biddy felt Katy twitch at her hand as if she would dart off and rush out
+into the merry sunlight again. All the way up stairs Katy had been
+making droll faces at the maid, who went on before them, and mimicking
+her walk in the funniest manner. Biddy had not seemed to notice, though
+she had found it hard not to laugh right out at Katy's mischief. Now
+Biddy held fast to the little hand that wriggled in hers, and as their
+eyes grew used to the dimness, they saw a large bed with folds of lace
+hanging around, but drawn away at the sides, and in this bed lay the
+whitest little girl they had ever seen, with soft eyes looking at them
+kindly, and close to them was a tall, handsome lady. But what ailed
+Biddy?
+
+She looked at the white-faced child in the bed, and she looked at the
+lady. A flush came in Biddy's cheek, and her eyes opened so wide they
+were almost as round as marbles. It was the most puzzled little face
+Mrs. Raynor had ever seen.
+
+"I expected you, and I'm very glad to see you," said she.
+
+In an instant Biddy turned and threw her arms around Katy, who stared,
+and looked as if she would "cut," as she called it when she ran away.
+
+"Oh, Katy! Katy!" said Biddy, with a queer little quick shake in her
+voice, "it's the hospital lady, and the hospital little girl that gave
+me the flowers!" Jenny Raynor's eyes were getting to be as round as
+Biddy's had been. "Oh, don't you remember the little bit of a girl that
+was run over, and lay in the hospital on Christmas-day, ever and ever so
+long ago?" cried Biddy.
+
+Biddy stopped, as had always been her way when feeling became very
+strong. Mrs. Raynor made her sit down by the bed, and then put out her
+hand to Katy, who stood so still in the centre of the room. All the
+bright color had gone out of Katy's cheeks, so that her black eyes
+looked darker than ever. She staid just where she was, she put her hands
+down in her apron pockets, raising her small shoulders in doing so. She
+was the picture of a little elf that might vanish if any one stirred.
+She looked at Biddy, and said, "Is that gal in the bed the hospital gal
+what guv ye the flowers?"
+
+Biddy said, "Yes."
+
+"What's matter of 'er?"
+
+"She has been sick a long time," said Mrs. Raynor.
+
+"Stay in bed all time?" asked Katy, still looking at Biddy.
+
+"Oh yes; I shall never get up any more," said Jenny Raynor. "Will you
+come up here, close to me, little girl?" Katy came forward a little.
+"Miss Kennedy says you like to run about a great deal," said Jenny; "I
+used to like that very much."
+
+Katy came close to the bed. She took her hands out of her pockets; they
+were full of pea-nuts. She laid them on the bed, and nodded to Biddy.
+"I'll stay here," said she.
+
+And Katy Kegan kept her word. She didn't get over her faults right off.
+She had a hard fight with them; but for the first time in her life she
+tried hard to get rid of them, and soon showed she had great strength to
+do what she had made up her mind to do.
+
+But Miss Kennedy was right. All Katy had needed was to _be needed_. This
+was her "weight."
+
+She was the very best thing that could have been brought into Jenny
+Raynor's sad and shut-up life. Jenny was a good little girl, but no
+little child can be easily content and cheerful who can not go out into
+the sunlight, and enjoy the sweet full life of the birds and flowers,
+and the merry games with other little girls and boys. It is very hard
+for a child to lie always in bed, and be shut out from all other
+children's lives. Now Katy Kegan was so wild, so merry, so constantly
+full and running over with bright ideas of how to get fun out of
+everything and anything, that she was a whole play-ground in her one
+little self; and she brought all this life into the room where Jenny
+lay, and made a new world for Jenny there. Katy was as good as a
+theatre, for she imitated people, and did it quite wonderfully, so that
+Jenny could tell just whom she meant; that is, if she had ever seen the
+person Katy was taking off. And Katy would show her all that she had
+seen or noticed on the street, in just this way by imitating, so that
+Jenny seemed almost to make new acquaintances with people whom she had
+never really seen, by means of Katy's droll mimicry. When Katy saw how
+all her pranks and fun made Jenny laugh and look so pleased, she took
+good care to find out some fresh thing to amuse her with whenever she
+went out.
+
+When Jenny Raynor gave the flowers to poor Biddy in the hospital so long
+ago, she could not know that the little kindness would come back to her
+a thousandfold through another little girl whom she had then never seen
+at all.
+
+Least of all would you imagine that an old broken-armed doll fished out
+of an ash-can could be the means of doing so much good, and leading to
+so much happiness in so many lives. For the good that began in these
+little things goes on, and may reach into countless lives in time to
+come. Nothing stops, and nothing stands quite apart by itself from other
+things. You will find this out, and think of it more and more, as you
+grow older. As for Biddy O'Dolan, she is quite a young woman now. Of
+course she does not play with her doll any more. But she keeps it. No
+money could buy it, with that little wooden arm on it which Charley
+made. She calls it her first friend, and I think it was a very good
+friend, don't you?
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ALICE'S QUESTION.
+
+
+  Softly, gently upward
+    A strain from the organ floats,
+  And the children at play in the nursery
+    Listen awhile to the notes,
+
+  Stop, and are silent a moment--
+    They are almost tired of play,
+  And the shadows of evening are falling,
+    Making twilight out of the day.
+
+  Then down the broad old staircase
+    Comes the patter of little feet,
+  And in through the open doorway,
+    Drawn by the sounds so sweet.
+
+  Then close to the organ stealing,
+    With awe-struck eyes they gaze
+  At the player, and listen mutely
+    To the deep clear notes of praise.
+
+  Then drawing nearer and nearer,
+    Made bold by the twilight gray,
+  Little Alice looks up, and whispers,
+    "Did God teach you how to play?"
+
+
+
+
+THE CARE OF PARROTS.
+
+
+Parrots are among the most intelligent of household pets, and much
+attention should be bestowed upon them. So large a bird suffers if kept
+constantly confined in a cage, but a parrot is so destructive that it is
+impossible to allow it the liberty of a house, as chairs, carpets, in
+short, every article of furniture, will soon show the marks of its
+strong beak. If there is a garden, the parrot should be given a daily
+promenade during warm weather. It is a necessity to this bird to
+exercise its beak, and if kept in a cage, it should often be given a
+chip of wood to tear to pieces. A parrot will amuse itself for hours
+biting a chip into small fragments. The cage and feed dishes should be
+thoroughly cleaned every day, and fresh gravel kept in the bottom of the
+cage.
+
+Parrots are fond of canary and hemp seed, and should always have fresh
+water, in which a little cracker may be soaked. A little sweetened weak
+coffee and milk, with bread crumbed in it, may be given about once a
+week. Apples, pears, and oranges are healthy food, and should always
+have the seeds left in, as a parrot will eat those first, carefully
+peeling them, and devour the meat afterward. A slice of lemon and a
+small red pepper should be given occasionally, also English walnuts.
+
+Cleanliness is essential to the health of a parrot, and as it will not
+bathe itself like most other birds, it should occasionally be stood in a
+pan containing an inch or two of tepid water, and its back sprinkled
+gently. The bird will scream and rebel, but will feel better after it.
+It should be left in its bath for a few moments only (as it easily gets
+chilled), and then placed on its perch, where it can not feel any wind,
+to dry and plume itself. During a warm summer shower it is well to stand
+the cage out-of-doors for a short time. The parrot will usually spread
+its wings to receive the drops, and scream with delight, as that is its
+natural way of bathing. Parrots have very tender feet, and they often
+suffer if their claws are not kept perfectly clean. The perch should on
+this account be wiped dry every day. Meat, or anything greasy, is
+harmful to a parrot, and parsley will kill it, although lettuce, and
+especially green peas in the pod, are healthy diet.
+
+Parrots are almost always savage to strangers, but so affectionate to
+the person who tends them that they fully repay for the care bestowed
+upon them.
+
+
+
+
+PENCIL DRAWING, No. 2.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Simple as it may seem to draw _leaves_, there must be care, and
+patience, and faithful effort. After a while, the young student who
+_succeeds_ will go on to _flower_ drawing, which is more difficult, but
+very delightful, and will be illustrated by-and-by.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+At present we must try _easy leaves_. I make a few illustrations, enough
+to begin with. Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are fuchsia leaves; No. 4, oxalis. These
+may be drawn again and again. A whole page of fuchsia leaves of
+different sizes is very pretty, and so of any leaf. By a skillful hand
+they may be arranged with artistic grace.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Attention to a few points will give a precision and interest to the
+drawing. Let the drawing be _lightly_ rather than heavily done. Learn to
+draw the _double lines_ of _stems_ and _veins_ with great correctness.
+Make a darker line on the under edge of leaves, and on one side of the
+stems. By turning the leaf on the wrong side the veins can be distinctly
+seen, and easily drawn. Do not be discouraged, but _persevere_. Begin
+to-morrow, or to-day: these beginnings may help you to become a skillful
+sketcher, and will give to you a delightful occupation that will grow
+dearer to your heart every day of your life.
+
+
+
+
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+
+
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+attractive and instructive variety of illustrated reading.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  LOCKPORT, ILLINOIS.
+
+     I saw in YOUNG PEOPLE a letter from Edwin A. H., telling about his
+     cabinet. Although I have been collecting only three years I have
+     quite a cabinet. It contains a sea-cow, which measures fourteen
+     inches from the tip of its tail to the nose. It is larger than any
+     I have ever seen either in Chicago, New York, or Canada. That and
+     a sea-horse came from Cuba. I have also some fine specimens of
+     different corals and sponges; a box of agates and other stones
+     from Africa; some beautiful specimens of quartz from the Rocky
+     Mountains; a specimen from the Matanzas Cave in Cuba; a collection
+     of Indian arrow-heads; a variety of petrifactions, among them a
+     very large, perfect trilobite; a few very old coins, four of
+     which, I think, are from Pompeii; a collection of foreign stamps;
+     shells from California, Cuba, and other places; and other things I
+     have no room to mention. Can any one tell me how I can obtain some
+     really good specimens of minerals? And is the whale that arrived
+     at the New York Aquarium last summer alive yet?
+
+  L. H. N.
+
+Are any correspondents informed about the health and present condition
+of the whale?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA.
+
+     I write to tell you about my collection of minerals. I am now ten
+     years old. I commenced to collect when I was nine. My minerals are
+     very fine, and I took the three-dollar premium for them at the
+     fair.
+
+  WILLIAM L. BETTON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  CINCINNATI, OHIO.
+
+     I am a little girl thirteen years old. I live in Ann Arbor,
+     Michigan, but I am spending the winter in Cincinnati. I take YOUNG
+     PEOPLE, and like it very much. I am collecting curiosities, but I
+     have no Proteus.
+
+  GRACE D. HALL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  MACON, GEORGIA.
+
+     I will write and tell you what a warm winter we have had. There
+     were strawberries and peach blossoms in January, and now we have
+     many kinds of flowers blooming in the gardens. I am writing St.
+     Valentine's Day, and I and my two sisters, Bessie and Kate, have
+     had several pretty valentines.
+
+  LAURA C. PARMELEE (9 years).
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  "BAY CLIFF," LONG ISLAND.
+
+     I am a little boy ten years old, and live by the water. I have a
+     nice little row-boat named _Broadbill_, with patent oars. I have a
+     Shetland pony named Fanny. She is about three feet high, and is
+     very kind and gentle, and I can ride or drive her. My guinea-pig
+     is also a pet. I feed it cabbage leaves, carrots, boiled potatoes,
+     and lettuce.
+
+  E. T. I.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
+
+     My most cunning pet is a guinea-pig named Tip, who creeps under my
+     arm and goes to sleep. I put cabbage and celery in a train of cars
+     and run across the floor; Tip gallops after and steals the leaves,
+     stops to munch them, and then races for more.
+
+  ARTHUR A. CRANDELL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.
+
+     I have had experience with guinea-pigs, and I thought I would tell
+     Mark Francis what mine eat. They like all kinds of green
+     vegetables, such as lettuce and cabbage, but they like grass
+     better than anything else; I can not give them enough. The only
+     cooked food they like is Graham bread and oatmeal mush. Sometimes
+     they eat oats and apples. My auntie has kept them for fifteen
+     years, and she never gave them any water. She says if they want
+     water, they are sick. They are always very sensitive to the cold.
+
+  GRACE B. PETERSON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  NEW YORK CITY.
+
+     I have been reading all the letters from little girls and boys
+     about their pets, and I must tell them about mine. I have a little
+     kitten named "Buttercup," and she is just as sweet and pretty as
+     any buttercup that ever grew, and so good and so cunning. She will
+     jump upon the bureau and watch the canary, and he will peck at her
+     with his little bill, and she does not even look cross at him, and
+     we know she would not ruffle a feather for all the world. I wonder
+     if any other little girl can leave her kitten with her birds, and
+     know she will not hurt them? And you should see her go to the
+     mirror and look at herself--just like any lady--and she seems to
+     think herself so pretty, I am really afraid she is vain. There are
+     so many other things I could tell about her, but mamma says you
+     will not print my letter if I write any more.
+
+  ELLA SELWYN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BRADLEY, MICHIGAN, _February 18_.
+
+     I found a willow bush covered with "pussies" yesterday. The
+     rabbits never run up to me when I whistle, like the one Laura B.
+     wrote about. They stop and turn around and look at me, and then
+     they just snap their eyes and scoot.
+
+  FRANK C. NOURSE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am only seven years old, and I live way out in Fort Klamath,
+     Oregon, and I can't write a very good letter, but I like the
+     stories in YOUNG PEOPLE, and the letters in the Post-office from
+     little children so much. It is nice to be out here where there is
+     so much snow to have fun with. I have a pair of snow-shoes, a
+     little brother, and a pet dog to play with, besides lots of other
+     things. I don't go to school, because there is no school here, but
+     I say my lessons to mamma every day.
+
+  SOPHIE L. W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  DAVENPORT, IOWA.
+
+     I am going to write this all myself. I have a pony. His name is
+     Dick. We all love him dearly. He shakes hands. We say, "Shake
+     hands, Dick," and he puts up his right foot. He is just as sweet
+     as honey. He is white. We used to live on a farm, and my sister
+     and I used to go after the cows on Dick. We carried a long whip.
+     Some cows would lag behind, and we would say, "Bite the cow,
+     Dick," and the dear little fellow would lay back his white ears
+     and just bite her awful hard. We are going to have a cabinet
+     picture taken of him.
+
+  GRACE H. (9 years).
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SCHENECTADY, NEW YORK.
+
+     I am five years old. I have a blue terrier--Wax. He plays
+     hide-and-seek. Mamma covers his eyes with her hand, and I hide.
+     When I say, "Coop," mamma lets him go. Then he rushes all round,
+     standing on his hind-legs to look on tables, and peeping under the
+     couch, and looking upon chairs. When he finds me, he begins to
+     bark loud, and tries to bite my toes, but he has very few teeth.
+     He is old.
+
+  ROGER GRISWOLD PERKINS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  ALBANY, NEW YORK.
+
+     I am a boy who have recently come to the city from the country. I
+     have a young Skye-terrier, and he gives me much trouble by running
+     away every time the hall door is opened. Then I have to run after
+     him. As he can run the fastest, it is hard work for me, but fun
+     for him. People must think I have two dogs, for when he goes out
+     he is a blue dog, and when he comes back he is mud-color. When we
+     give him a good washing, he is blue again. He likes to play, and I
+     would be lonesome without him.
+
+  DWIGHT RUGGLES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     I saw in the Post-office letters one from a little boy who had two
+     Maltese cats, and one of them was very fond of pea-nuts. I had a
+     beautiful black and white kitty, in Centennial year, that would
+     follow me round whenever I came from the Exhibition, begging for
+     the sugared balls of pop-corn I always brought home with me. I had
+     another kitty afterward that was just as fond of candy. They are
+     both dead now, and I have no pets. I am nine years old.
+
+  FLORENCE OZIAS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+C. H. WILLIAMSON.--All of Jacob Abbott's books for the young are in
+print. Valuable works on Long Island history have been published by the
+Long Island Historical Society of Brooklyn. Hitchcock's _Geology_ and
+Gray's _Lessons in Botany_ will be of service to you.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+C. F. ALLEN.--Danger Island is in the Chagos Archipelago, on the west
+end of the great Chagos Bank, Indian Ocean.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Here is a very pretty experiment, sent by F. V. G., Madison, Wisconsin:
+"Take an ordinary water-pail. Lay across the top two pieces of stout
+wire, about two inches apart. Then lay a lump of ice on the wires. In
+about half an hour go and look at it, and you will find that the wires
+pass through the middle of the lump of ice, but you can not see how they
+came there."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following tribute to the egg tombola is from Ella W.:
+
+  From an egg, shot, and tallow, with care,
+  A merry tombola I soon did prepare;
+  I brushed up his locks in a very fine way,
+  And dressed him in garments of nice sober gray;
+  And when he was ready all came to admire,
+  So portly was he that I called him the Squire.
+
+  I then laid him down to measure, and see
+  Whether standing or lying the tallest he'd be;
+  When he lifted himself with a nod and a bound,
+  Rocked backward and forward and balanced around.
+  The giddy tombola! he will not lie down;
+  It's useless to urge such a funny old clown.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MADISON COOPER.--The direction given to Charley D. M., in YOUNG PEOPLE
+No. 18, will probably apply to your fish.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ELLA FULLER and HELEN THOMPSON.--We fear there is no remedy for your
+unfortunate animals.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+HENRY B. H.--Excellent directions for the construction of a cheap
+telescope are given in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 1.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHARLES CONNER.--We can not undertake any such commissions.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+J. R. FOSTER.--Pages of advertisements are almost always given in weekly
+papers. You will find them in every bound volume of HARPER'S WEEKLY, and
+similar publications.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"NORTH STAR."--You understand the art of making puzzles, but you must be
+more careful with your spelling. There is only one "e" in cathedral.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ALBERT MULLEN.--Box-wood only is used by engravers on wood, as it has a
+fine grain and the requisite hardness. It can be got out in small pieces
+only, and these are either glued or screwed together to form large
+blocks. When a picture is to be engraved in haste, the block is taken
+apart and the pieces are given to several engravers, in order to save
+time. Sometimes thirty or more engravers are employed at once on a
+single block.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LEONARD S. E.--If you send four cents in postage stamps to the
+publishers the number you require will be forwarded to you.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A. H. ELLARD.--Your handwriting is very neat and distinct for a boy of
+your age. In a Numerical Charade each figure represents a letter of the
+solution. Supposing the answer to be "America," you could make "car"
+from the sixth, seventh, and fourth letters, and proceed in this way
+until you had used every letter of the solution.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+JAMES W. C., H. W. G., and OTHERS.--Thanks for your kind letters, but we
+have decided to use no more puzzles referring in any way to ourselves.
+We also wish to remind some of you that enigmas must be in rhyme,
+otherwise they can not be printed. Do not take your own name nor the
+names of any of your friends to form a puzzle, because children to whom
+you are entire strangers could never guess it. Be careful to use new
+solutions in making puzzles; and when you see that we have already
+published one on Washington, Bonaparte, or the name of any other
+celebrated man, do not send us a repetition. We pay no attention to
+puzzles not accompanied by full answers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Willow "pussies" are to be found now in almost all localities, judging
+from the many reports sent us by our youthful correspondents. Crocuses
+have pushed upward to the spring sunshine, and rose bushes are
+beginning to send out tender green shoots. "Pussies" have been reported
+by C. H. W., Mary M. R., Joe Ward, and many others; and Louis C. Vogt
+sends a twig of these pretty downy tokens of spring, which he
+accompanies with a very neatly printed letter. It is now time to begin
+to watch for violets and anemones, and other early flowers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Answers to question by S. R. W. in Post-office Box, No. 17, are received
+from "North Star," W. F. Bruns, Harry V. G., Florence B., E. L. M.,
+Freddie H., Kittie A. R., "Mystic," and others. Eight words have been
+sent. They are Scion, Suspicion, Coercion, Pernicion, Epinicion,
+Internecion, Ostracion, Cestracion; these are all to be found in
+Worcester's Dictionary. There is also Cion, which is synonymous with
+Scion. There are, besides, several obsolete words with the same ending
+not to be found in modern English dictionaries.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Favors are acknowledged from Charlie Markward, Willie H. McVean, Amy L.
+Orr, Harry C. Peck, Edward L. Haines, Percy and George, Alma Hoffmann,
+Rebecca Hedges, Willie C. S., Alice E. Stephenson, Lottie C. Underhill,
+Bessie L. Stewart, Jennie Clark, Charlie A. Mather, H. H. Pitcairn,
+Nellie G. Vaughn, J. D., Willie R. H., Frank Coniston, Mina L. C., Lyman
+C., Willie B. A., Leonie Young, Mamie Brooke, James Walker, Katie Black,
+Henry Koehler, G. Walter Burnham, Effie E. P., Geraldine Watson, Ray
+Bennett, Anabel Turner, Freddie C., Arthur B., R. L. R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Numerous correspondents have sent new answers to our Puzzle Picture in
+No. 14; and although many have given nine names, but two, Florence Ozias
+and Mark Robbins, have found D-rill, the mischievous monkey concealed by
+our artist.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles received from E. T. Smith, George H.
+Churchill, Mamie E. F., Herbert N. Twing, Fannie T., and Belle M.,
+Leonard S. E., Effie K. Talboys, E. P. Walker, J. F. Sullivan, H. S. T.,
+Gracie Flint, W. Robertson, Katie Wentz, Millie Benson, Ella W., Nellie
+Bartlett, Goldie Williams, W. H. Kurtz, Henry Cullyford, J. H. Crosman,
+Jun., Stella, Jay H. M., L. L. Lee, Marie Doyle, Gracie K. Richards.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Answer to Charade in No. 17, on page 216--Fishball.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+NUMERICAL CHARADE.
+
+  I am composed of 12 letters.
+  My 1, 3, 4 is a measure.
+  My 6, 2, 9, 12 is a girl's name.
+  My 11, 10, 4, 8, 3, 6, 5 is a young reptile.
+  My 1, 7, 11 is a small animal.
+  My whole is a South American river.
+
+  CHESLY B. H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+DOUBLE ACROSTIC.
+
+A small rope. A scent. A question often asked. Variegated. To clasp.
+Water. Answer--two English poets.
+
+  M. L.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  My first is in loss, but not in gain.
+  My second is in France, but not in Spain.
+  My third is in sling, but not in stung.
+  My fourth is in old, and also in young.
+  My fifth is in Venus, but not in Mars.
+  My whole is composed of beautiful stars.
+
+  ALFRED W. S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 4.
+
+RHOMBOID.
+
+Across--A descent; a bench; to clip; to hold. Down--In flap; a
+preposition; to allow; a bird; a knot; a pronoun; in flap.
+
+  N. L. COLLAMER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 5.
+
+WORD SQUARE.
+
+First, manner of walking. Second, a movement of the ocean. Third, to
+manage a publication. Fourth, tame animals.
+
+  NELLIE B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 6.
+
+DIAMOND PUZZLE.
+
+A vowel. An animal. A well-known fruit. A man's name. A vowel.
+
+  H. N. T.
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS.
+
+
+
+
+HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE will be issued every Tuesday, and may be had at
+the following rates--_payable in advance, postage free_:
+
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+
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+risk of loss.
+
+ADVERTISING.
+
+The extent and character of the circulation of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE
+will render it a first-class medium for advertising. A limited number of
+approved advertisements will be inserted on two inside pages at 75 cents
+per line.
+
+  Address
+  HARPER & BROTHERS,
+  Franklin Square, N. Y.
+
+
+
+
+A Fool's Errand.
+
+By One of the Fools.
+
+_The most successful Novel for more than a quarter of a Century. A
+masterpiece._
+
+"Holds the critic spellbound. * * * English literature contains no
+similar picture."--International Review.
+
+"Must be read by everybody who desires to be well informed."--Portland
+Advertiser.
+
+"A thrilling book, indeed."--Cincinnati Commercial.
+
+"The most powerful National and social study since 'Uncle Tom's
+Cabin.'"--Boston Courier.
+
+"Read with breathless interest."--Hartford Courant.
+
+"* * * Not matched in the whole range of modern fiction."--Boston
+Traveller.
+
+"Written in brains."--Rochester Rural Home.
+
+"Selling by thousands every week."--N. Y. Tribune.
+
+_Cloth, $1. Sold everywhere, or mailed by_
+FORDS, HOWARD & HULBERT, 27 PARK PEACE, N. Y.
+
+
+
+
+CANDY
+
+Send one, two, three, or five dollars for a sample box, by express, of
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+to all Chicago. Address
+
+  C. F. GUNTHER,
+  Confectioner,
+  78 MADISON STREET, CHICAGO.
+
+
+
+
+=KEEP YOUR BIRD= IN HEALTH AND SONG by using =SINGER'S PATENT GRAVEL
+PAPER=. Sold by Druggists and Bird Dealers.
+
+Depot, 582 Hudson St., N. Y.
+
+
+
+
+The Child's Book of Nature.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     The Child's Book of Nature, for the Use of Families and Schools:
+     intended to aid Mothers and Teachers in Training Children in the
+     Observation of Nature. In Three Parts. Part I. Plants. Part II.
+     Animals. Part III. Air, Water, Heat, Light, &c. By WORTHINGTON
+     HOOKER, M.D. Illustrated. The Three Parts complete in One Volume,
+     Small 4to, Half Leather, $1.31; or, separately, in Cloth, Part I.,
+     53 cents; Part II., 56 cents; Part III., 56 cents.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A beautiful and useful work. It presents a general survey of the kingdom
+of nature in a manner adapted to attract the attention of the child, and
+at the same time to furnish him with accurate and important scientific
+information. While the work is well suited as a class-book for schools,
+its fresh and simple style cannot fail to render it a great favorite for
+family reading.
+
+The Three Parts of this book can be had in separate volumes by those who
+desire it. This will be advisable when the book is to be used in
+teaching quite young children, especially in schools.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
+
+_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on
+receipt of the price._
+
+
+
+
+BOOKS FOR YOUNG MEN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Character.
+
+     Character. By SAMUEL SMILES. 12mo, Cloth, $1.00.
+
+It is, in design and execution, more like his "Self-Help" than any of
+his other works. Mr. Smiles always writes pleasantly, but he writes
+best when he is telling anecdotes, and using them to enforce a moral
+that he is too wise to preach about, although he is not afraid to
+state it plainly. By means of it "Self-Help" at once became a standard
+book, and "Character" is, in its way, quite as good as "Self-Help."
+It is a wonderful storehouse of anecdotes and biographical
+illustrations.--_Examiner_, London.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Self-Help.
+
+     Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and
+     Perseverance. By SAMUEL SMILES. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged.
+     12mo, Cloth, $1.00.
+
+The writings of Samuel Smiles are a valuable aid in the education of
+boys. His style seems to have been constructed entirely for their
+tastes; his topics are admirably selected, and his mode of communicating
+excellent lessons of enterprise, truth, and self-reliance might be
+called insidious and ensnaring if these words did not convey an idea
+which is only applicable to lessons of an opposite character and
+tendency taught in the same attractive style. The popularity of this
+book, "Self-Help," abroad has made it a powerful instrument of good, and
+many an English boy has risen from its perusal determined that his life
+will be moulded after that of some of those set before him in this
+volume. It was written for the youth of another country, but its wealth
+of instruction has been recognized by its translation into more than one
+European language, and it is not too much to predict for it a popularity
+among American boys.--_N. Y. World._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Thrift.
+
+     Thrift. By SAMUEL SMILES. 12mo, Cloth, $1.00.
+
+The mechanic, farmer, apprentice, clerk, merchant, and a large circle of
+readers outside of these classes will find in the volume a wide range of
+counsel and advice, presented in perspicuous language, and marked
+throughout by vigorous good sense; and who, while deriving from it
+useful lessons for the guidance of their personal affairs, will also be
+imbibing valuable instruction in an important branch of political
+economy. We wish it could be placed in the hands of all our
+youth--especially those who expect to be merchants, artisans, or
+farmers.--_Christian Intelligencer_, N. Y.
+
+In this useful and sensible work, which should be in the hands of all
+classes of readers, especially of those whose means are slender, the
+author does for private economy what Smith and Ricardo and Bastiat have
+done for national economy. * * * The one step which separates
+civilization from savagery--which renders civilization possible--is
+labor done in excess of immediate necessity. * * * To inculcate this
+most necessary and most homely of all virtues, we have met with no
+better teacher than this book.--_N. Y. World._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
+
+_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on
+receipt of the price._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE TRAMP PUZZLE.
+
+
+With one straight cut of the scissors get out of this tramp a handsome
+Persian and a sea-cow.
+
+
+
+
+A PERSONATION: WHO AM I?
+
+
+My enemies declare I was alike faithless to friend or foe; my partisans,
+that I was a martyr. In either case, I expiated my follies and
+weaknesses with my life, as had my grandmother before me. I was born at
+Dunfermline, November 19, 1600, and died January 30, 1649--not an old
+man, as you see. I was heir to great possessions, and held a high
+position, but I lost land, fortune, and honor. When young, my great
+friend, also a favorite with my father, obtained a hold on me, and
+induced me, as soon as I succeeded my father in my inheritance, to begin
+my career by paying no heed to my people's wishes. I was very obstinate,
+and as determined as my people to carry my point, and we soon fell out.
+What I could not gain fairly, I tried to obtain by treachery, and the
+result can be readily guessed. I introduced many measures; none of them
+were liked, and the struggle as to who would conquer--the one or the
+many--began. My habits were extravagant, but then I had fine tastes;
+collected many beautiful pictures, which, alas! at my death, were
+scattered, never again to be a collection. The painter Vandyck was a
+favorite of mine, and when he lay dying I sent my own doctor to attend
+him, but in vain. He painted several likenesses of me and my family. I
+had very warm friends, who stood by me in all my troubles, but nothing
+could save me; and at last, January 15, 1649, I was put on trial for my
+life. My judges were prejudiced against me, and I was not allowed to
+plead my own cause, so was adjudged worthy of death. All agree, friends
+and foes, that I met my fate bravely, and when you find out who I am,
+"remember" the last word I spoke. My family were scattered and poor.
+Afterward my eldest son avenged my "murder," as he considered it, but
+three of my judges escaped, and found shelter in America. There was,
+however, a taint of falsehood in all of us, and my children's children
+were at last dispossessed of what had been my inheritance.
+
+What most grieved me was not my losses, but remembering how many friends
+suffered with me; and, spite of all my faults, few have been more loved.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: WILL IT BITE?]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+CHARLES. "What did you have for Dessert to-day, Lil? We had Omelet
+Sho-Fly!"
+
+LILLIE. "What is that?"
+
+CHARLES. "Oh, papa says it's French for blowed."]
+
+
+
+
+
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