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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880, by Various
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+Title: Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880
+       An Illustrated Weekly
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+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: March 27, 2009 [EBook #28423]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, MAR 30, 1880 ***
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+Produced by Annie McGuire
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+[Illustration: HARPER'S
+
+YOUNG PEOPLE
+
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. I.--NO. 22. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, March 30, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A DELUSION AND A SNARE.]
+
+
+
+
+"APRIL-FOOL!"
+
+BY MARGARET EYTINGE.
+
+
+There was one boy in the Merrit Academy who never joined in any of the
+games; never went skating; never went swimming; never made a snow man or
+threw snow-balls; never came to the meetings of the debating society,
+where such questions as, "If a fellow ask a fellow for a bite of a
+fellow's apple, which is the politer way to give it to a fellow--to bite
+off a piece yourself, or let a fellow bite for himself?" were debated
+with much mock gravity and real fun.
+
+He looked with horror on all kinds of fighting; had no admiration for
+great generals; thought war should be abolished; shuddered at tales of
+cruelty and suffering; was constitutionally timid and extremely
+credulous; hated thunder and lightning; liked birds, flowers, pretty
+verses, and fairy tales; believed in ghosts and supernatural beings; was
+very fair haired, very blue eyed, tall, slender, and named Harold Lord.
+But after the first week or two of his attendance at school--he was a
+day scholar--his real name was never heard, for his school-mates,
+quickly finding out his peculiar characteristics, skillfully turned it
+into "Lady Harriet," and Lady Harriet he remained for many a long
+year. Of course, being so girlish in his appearance, ways, and tastes,
+and of so reserved and gentle a disposition, the other boys rather
+looked down upon him, and, after the manner of boys, made him the
+subject of much chaff and many practical jokes; and so it came about
+when Charley Bennet and Ned Morningstar and Hen Rowe began on the
+afternoon of the 31st of March to talk about the 1st of April, they hit
+upon Lady Harriet as a boy who would make a capital "April-fool."
+
+"We can have no end of fun with him," said Charley. "You know he lives
+all alone with his grandmother--"
+
+"A Little Red Riding-hood," interrupted Hen Rowe.
+
+"--down by the cedar woods," continued Bennet. "But the question now in
+order is, what kind of fun shall it be?"
+
+"Dress up like Indians, and pretend you're goin' to scalp him," proposed
+little Al Smith, who had joined the party--a thing no other small boy in
+that establishment would have dared to do; but then Alfred, as his aunt
+called him--and a very cross old aunt she was, too--had no father nor
+mother, and was such a good-natured, willing, reliable young chap that
+his older school-mates made quite a pet of him, and allowed him many
+liberties they would have allowed to no one else in his class.
+
+"Nonsense, Smithey," said Hen Rowe. "Ghosts is the thing;" and striking
+an attitude, he quoted:
+
+                "'I am thy father's spirit;
+  Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night;
+  And, for the day, confined to fast in fires....
+  I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
+  Would harrow up thy soul; fre-e-e-eze thy young blood;
+  Make thy--'"
+
+"That's quite enough of that, Rowe," said Bennet. "A band of young
+desperadoes is my idea. The papers are full of 'em just now--fellows
+living in caves and other queer places, and robbing right and left
+(result of reading too many dime novels; heard the Professor say so this
+morning). Been 'round here too; stole Uncle Jeff's calf day before
+yesterday; and his grandmother goes to sewing society to-morrow night."
+
+"The calf's grandmother?" asked Hen Rowe.
+
+"Didn't know you had any grandmother," said Bennet.
+
+"Charley's hit on the very thing," declared Ned Morningstar. "We'll let
+three or four other fellows into the joke, and I'll be captain, and
+we'll wear masks, and all the old clothes we can beg, borrow, or take,
+and get ourselves up prime as a No. 1 band of reg'lar young villains.
+Aha! your money or your life!" making a lunge at small Al.
+
+"But you won't really hurt Lady Harriet?" said the little fellow, an
+anxious look coming into his soft brown eyes. "He's good to me, and
+gives me candy, and took me fishin' once."
+
+"Took you fishin'!" repeated Charley Bennet, counterfeiting the greatest
+astonishment. "If he did, I'll bet he never let you catch a fish. He'd
+'a fainted when he saw it a-wriggling on the hook."
+
+"He did too," answered Al, stoutly. "I caught four, and six crabs, and
+he got eight," adding, frankly, "but he said he didn't like to catch
+them, only his grandmother said he must."
+
+"Very reprehensible old lady," said Hen Rowe, gravely, "to allow her
+greediness for fish to trample on the softest feelings of her grandson's
+head--I mean heart. But don't be afraid, Smallbones"--stroking Al's dark
+curls--"we won't hurt him, not a bit; make your mind easy about that. He
+shall live to take you a-fishin' again.
+
+"It does him good to wake him up once in a while," added Ned
+Morningstar, "he's such a turtle. I think I see his face when we all
+shout 'April-fool'!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At dusk the next evening, after Grandmother Lord had gone to the sewing
+society, six or seven dreadful-looking objects came splashing through
+the mud up the road which led to her cottage. They were dressed in
+uncouth garments of all sizes and colors. Hats, brimless, or with brims
+very much turned up or very much turned down, two flaming red turbans,
+and a round handleless basket, through the open wicker-work of which the
+hair of the wearer straggled in the most outlandish and porcupinish
+manner, constituted their head-gear. The leader carried a gun. The
+others were armed with hatchets, knives, and clubs. All their faces were
+hidden by paper masks painted in various colors. "This is the house,"
+said one of them, in a voice that seemed to come out of the ground
+beneath his feet, as they ranged themselves on the front porch, and he
+rapped sharply on the door with the stick he carried. It opened, and
+there stood Lady Harriet, gazing out with horror-stricken eyes upon the
+motley gang. "Your money or your life!" demanded he of the gun, at the
+same time pointing the weapon at the trembling boy.
+
+Lady Harriet turned pale, and shrank back. "I have no money," he said,
+in a faltering voice.
+
+"Then we must have your life," was the gruff reply, "unless you consent
+to become one of us. Seize him and search him!"
+
+"_Do_ go away, and leave me alone," implored the boy, falling upon his
+knees and clasping his hands. "There is no use--making me--join your
+gang," he continued, with chattering teeth. "I--couldn't be a--a--what
+you are--to save--my life."
+
+But the young desperadoes paid no attention to his entreaties, and while
+two of their number rifled his pockets, the others, lighting a couple of
+lanterns they had brought with them, followed their leader on a tramp
+through the house, with much noise and deep growling. On the return of
+the latter, the pocket-searchers presented the captain with half a stick
+of peppermint candy, a penknife, a dime, a small book (_The Language of
+Flowers_), and some violets wrapped in a handkerchief.
+
+"Prisoner," said the captain, sternly--that is, as sternly as the pebble
+he had under his tongue would allow--"if you make an attempt to escape,
+the consequences be on your own head. Right about face! March!"
+
+And away they went, dragging poor Lady Harriet, begging and imploring to
+be set free, with them.
+
+"Did you ever see any fellow so scared in all your life?" whispered
+Charley Bennet to Hen Rowe, as their victim began to cry and scream.
+
+"Never," said Rowe. "I begin to feel sorry for him. But what a baby he
+is! Why don't he break and run? He can make good time with those long
+legs when he's a mind to."
+
+"Halt!" cried the captain, when they reached the cedar woods. "This has
+gone quite far enough. We want no cowards among us. Boy, you are--" And
+the mouths of his followers simultaneously opened for a tremendous
+shout, when--
+
+"I perfectly agree with you," interrupted the prisoner, quickly,
+wresting himself at the same time with a dexterous movement from the
+grasp of the two boys who had held him; and then he went on in his usual
+soft voice and slow way: "I mean this joke's gone quite far enough. You
+came half an hour or so before I expected you, but I think we've all
+acted our parts first-rate. Good-evening, Captain Morningstar.
+Good-evening, desperadoes. Farewell, April-fools." And he turned and
+walked leisurely toward his home again.
+
+"Jiminy!" exclaimed Ned Morningstar, snatching off his mask and pulling
+a long face. "Somebody has--"
+
+"Blundered," said Hen Rowe.
+
+  "Fools to the right of me,
+  Fools to the left of me,
+  Fools ev'ry side of me--
+  Oh, how they wondered!
+
+"what's the use of being glum about it. I've an idea it serves us right.
+Three cheers for Lady Harriet. He's not such a fool as he looks."
+
+"As we look, I think," said Roy Wheeler.
+
+And then, like the jolly boys they really were, they gave the cheers
+with a will, and followed them up with a roar of laughter that wakened
+all the echoes for miles around.
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL SCHUYLER AND THE TORIES.
+
+BY BENSON J. LOSSING.
+
+
+The Tories of the Revolution were the most bitter and annoying foes of
+the patriots who were struggling for their independence. The relation of
+the Whigs and Tories was that of belligerents in a civil war--cruel and
+uncompromising.
+
+General Philip Schuyler, whose sleepless vigilance acquired for him the
+title of "the Eye of the Northern Department," was the terror of the
+Tories in Northern New York, from Sir John Johnson down to Joe Bettys.
+Schuyler was, for a long time, commander of the Northern Department. In
+1781 he was not in military command. He lived at his country-seat at
+Saratoga a part of the year, and the rest of the time at his fine
+mansion situated in the southern suburbs of Albany. The British, under
+Burgoyne, having destroyed his mansion at Saratoga, and that place being
+exposed to incursions of the British and Indians, he made his residence
+permanently at Albany.
+
+Early in August, 1781, an attempt was made by some Tories and Indians to
+capture him, that he might be used in exchange for some prominent
+British prisoner, and also to get rid of the watchfulness of that
+dreaded "Eye." In Saratoga lived a man named Walter Myers, who knew
+Schuyler well. He had eaten at his table in Albany, and knew the
+character of his house and its surroundings. Myers had joined the Tory
+Rangers of Colonel Robert Rodgers--a famous partisan on the northern
+frontier. The British authorities in Canada employed Myers, who had
+become a captain under Rodgers, to seize General Schuyler, Governor
+Clinton, and other prominent patriots in the region of the Hudson River,
+as far down as Poughkeepsie. Myers was at the head of the party of
+Tories and Indians above alluded to, who attempted to carry off
+Schuyler. I will let the General tell the story of that attempt in the
+following letter to General Washington, dated "Albany, August 8, 1781."
+I copied it from the original:
+
+     "On Saturday, the 29th, while with the commissions for detecting
+     conspiracies, I received information that a certain Captain Myers,
+     of Rodgers's Rangers, from Canada, lurked in the vicinity of this
+     place, with an intent to take or assassinate me. This corroborated
+     intelligence given to General Clinton by a person escaped from
+     Canada. On the Monday following I was informed by a Tory (whose
+     gratitude for favors received surmounted the influence of his
+     principles) that a reward of 200 guineas had been offered by the
+     government in Canada to bring me there.
+
+     "On Sunday last, Major McKinstry wrote me by express from Saratoga
+     that a party under Captain Jones had ambushed some time about
+     Saratoga, that he had certain intelligence that I was their
+     object, and that another party was down here with the same
+     intentions. I took every precaution, except that of requesting a
+     guard from General Clinton.
+
+     "Last night, about nine o'clock, Myers, with about twenty others,
+     made the attempt. He forced the gate of a close court-yard, and
+     afterward my kitchen door, from which servants, who had taken
+     alarm, flew to their arms, and by a gallant opposition at the door
+     of my house, afforded me time to retire out of my hall, where I
+     was at supper, to my bedroom, where I kept my arms. After having
+     made prisoners of two of the white men, wounded a third, and
+     obliged the other to make his escape out of the house, some
+     surrounded it, and others entered it. Those in the quarter exposed
+     to my fire immediately retired. Those who had got up into the
+     saloon to attempt, I suppose, the room I was in, retreated with
+     precipitation as soon as they heard me call, '_Come on, my lads!
+     surround the house; the villains are in it._' This I did to make
+     them believe that succor was at hand, and it had the desired
+     effect. They carried off two of my men, and part of my plate. The
+     militia from the town and some of the troops ran to my assistance,
+     and pursued the enemy, but too late to overtake them."
+
+Thirty years ago, Mrs. C. V. R. Cochrane, of Oswego, the youngest child
+of General Schuyler, told me the story substantially as it is told here.
+Her father also related that when the family fled up stairs from the
+hall, in affright, the baby was left behind in the cradle. Mrs. Schuyler
+was about to rush down stairs for the child, when the General
+interposed, saying, "_Your_ life is more valuable." Her daughter
+Margaret, then about twelve years of age, hearing this, ran down for the
+baby, snatched it from the cradle, and started up the stairs with it. An
+Indian threw a tomahawk at her. It grazed the infant's head, cut a hole
+in Margaret's dress, and lodged in the mahogany stair rail. That infant
+became Mrs. Cochrane, and Margaret became the wife of Stephen Van
+Rensselaer, the Patroon, at Albany. The mansion yet stands; and well up
+the stairway may be seen the scar made by the keen blade of the tomahawk
+in the rail.
+
+
+
+
+YOUNG DIAMOND MERCHANTS.
+
+
+A noted traveller, who wrote about the diamond mines of India a very
+long time ago, describes the work done by the children. In speaking of a
+visit to the principal mine of Golconda, he says:
+
+"A very pretty sight is that presented every morning by the children of
+the master-miners and of other inhabitants of the district. The
+boys--the eldest of whom is not yet over sixteen, or the youngest under
+ten years of age--assemble, and sit under a large tree in the public
+square of the village. Each has his diamond weight in a bag, hung on one
+side of his girdle, and on the other a purse, containing sometimes as
+much as five or six hundred pagodas.
+
+"Here they wait for such persons as have diamonds to sell, either from
+the vicinity or from any other mine. When a diamond is brought to them,
+it is immediately handed to the eldest boy, who is tacitly acknowledged
+as the head of this little band. By him it is carefully examined, and
+then passed to his next neighbor, who, having also inspected it, gives
+it to the next boy. The diamond is thus passed from hand to hand, amidst
+unbroken silence, until it returns to that of the eldest, who then asks
+the price, and makes the bargain. If the eldest boy is thought by his
+comrades to have given too high a price, he must keep the stone on his
+own account.
+
+"In the evening the children take an account of their stock, examine
+their purchases, and class the diamonds according to their water, size,
+and purity, putting on each stone the price they expect to get for it.
+These children are so perfectly acquainted with the value of all sorts
+of gems, that if one of them, after buying a stone, is willing to lose
+one-half per cent, upon it, a companion is always ready to take it."
+
+The diamond mines of Brazil were discovered by a curious circumstance in
+1730. Some miners in searching for gold found some curious pebbles,
+which they carried home to their masters as curiosities. Not being
+considered of any value, they were given to the children to play with.
+An officer who had spent some years in the East Indies saw these
+pebbles, and sent a handful to a friend in Lisbon to be examined. They
+proved to be diamonds. A few were collected and sent to Holland, and
+were pronounced to be equal to those of Golconda. The news soon reached
+Brazil, and those who possessed any of the "pebbles" soon realized large
+sums of money. The Portuguese government laid a claim upon all diamonds
+that might be found thereafter, a search was made, and mines were
+discovered.
+
+
+
+
+[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 IV.
+
+A DARING FEAT.
+
+Luckily for our hero, Mr. Hawkins, the first officer, was a shrewd,
+clear-headed man, and had his own opinion of Master Monkey. The latter
+told his tale confidently enough, but a few pointed questions confused
+him at once: he stammered, contradicted himself, and was finally turned
+out in disgrace. Austin then gave _his_ version, and the officer, after
+questioning him closely, appeared satisfied.
+
+"Here, my lad," said he, writing a few lines on a slip of paper, "take
+that to the chief engineer--you'll find him in his bunk, I reckon."
+
+In his bunk, sure enough, lay the "chief," groaning dismally. He was a
+tall, fine-looking fellow, with bright blue eyes, and an arm like a
+blacksmith's; but when a man is on his back from seasickness, how _can_
+he look heroic?
+
+"So, my boy, you've run away to sea, eh? Humph! that's just what _I_ did
+when I was your age--and much good I've got by it! It was all through
+reading those precious sea-stories, which made me think I'd only to
+start to be made a captain at once. Wish I'd never learned to
+read--ugh!"
+
+Here came a terrible spasm of sickness, to the great amazement of Frank,
+who had never dreamed of such a thing as a seasick sailor. Such cases,
+however, are not uncommon; and Nelson himself, one of the greatest
+sailors on record, never got over this weakness at all.
+
+"This is how _I_ am for the first week of every voyage," resumed the
+engineer; "and I always vow that every cruise shall be my last; but when
+I get ashore, I can't be happy till I'm afloat again--ugh! oh!"
+
+And another spasm followed, worse than the first.
+
+Frank said nothing, but his pitying face spoke for him; and the sick
+man, evidently touched by it, went on in a cheerer tone:
+
+"Well, youngster, you're lucky not to be sick like me. Your name's Frank
+Austin, eh? Well, go and tell Mr. Harris to give you some work in the
+engine-room."
+
+This promotion was the beginning of a new life for our hero. Now, at
+last, there was a chance of learning something; and the men, in whose
+estimation he had risen greatly since his defeat of Monkey, were always
+ready to answer his eager questions. He was never weary of admiring the
+huge machine which did with one smooth and regular movement the work of
+hundreds of strong men, obeying the slightest turn of a tiny wheel, yet
+capable of tearing the whole ship to pieces should its irresistible
+strength ever break loose.
+
+And now, as they began to enter the tropics, everything grew warm and
+bright. Flannels were doffed, and an awning spread over the after-deck.
+The wind, though it still blew strongly, was now in their favor; and
+foretopsail and mainsail, jib and spanker, were set to catch it, till
+the ship staggered under her press of canvas, and careened as if about
+to dip her very yards.
+
+So passed several days, during which nothing special occurred; for by
+this time everything had got "shaken into its place," and the routine of
+the ship's duties proceeded as regularly as clock-work. Frank, now
+restored to his place at the mess table, and high in favor with the crew
+(who henceforth reserved for Monkey the cuffs and jeers formerly
+bestowed upon our hero), was beginning to feel quite at home in his new
+life, when it was suddenly broken by a very startling adventure.
+
+One evening about dusk the machinery slackened suddenly, and an unusual
+bustle was heard on deck. A man running past thrust an oil-can into
+Frank's hand, and bade him carry it to one of the engineers upon the
+starboard (right-hand) paddle-box. On deck all was confusion. Men were
+rushing hurriedly to and fro, while the paddle-box itself was occupied
+by an excited group of officers and engineers; and it was some time
+before Frank could make out what was the matter.
+
+An obstruction of some kind had impeded the turning of the shaft in the
+"outboard bearing," which had grown dangerously hot. It was this that
+had caused the "slowing down" of the engine, which could not be set
+working again till the impediment was removed, and the "bearing" oiled.
+
+Looking over the side, Austin saw a man hanging by a rope on the outer
+face of the paddle-box, like a spider on its thread, and laboring
+stoutly, with hammer and oil-can, to set matters to rights. Suddenly the
+ship plunged, and the man disappeared into a surging wave. He rose
+again, vanished a second time, reappeared once more, and again the
+blows of his hammer were heard, and again the boiling whirl of foam
+swallowed him up. At every plunge Death seemed to gape for him; but
+drenched, gasping, and half stifled as he was, he still worked bravely
+on.
+
+On the deck all was now deadly still; and in that grim silence the hard
+breathing of the excited crew could be heard as they watched the
+solitary man at his fearful task. Would it _never_ be over? Crash after
+crash the cruel waves came bursting upon him, and all could see that his
+strength was beginning to fail.
+
+But the work is nearly done! A few more hammer strokes and he is safe.
+Already the anxious crew are beginning to breathe more freely, and even
+to greet their hero with encouraging shouts, when suddenly a mountain
+wave is seen coming right down upon him.
+
+"Look out, Allen!" roar the sailors, with one voice.
+
+Allen casts one glance up at the overhanging mass, and then twines his
+arms and limbs around the "open-work" of the paddle-box with the
+strength of desperation. The next moment there comes a stunning shock
+and a deafening crash, and all is one whirl of blinding spray and
+seething foam, amid which nothing can be heard and nothing seen. But
+when the rush passes, the brave man is still there.
+
+A shout of joy arises, but is instantly followed by a terrible cry. _The
+safety-line around Allen's body has parted!_
+
+"Grapple him with boat-hooks, some o' ye!" roars the boatswain. "Fling
+him a rope!--quick! or he's lost."
+
+[Illustration: MAN OVERBOARD!]
+
+But before any of the hands stretched toward the doomed man could reach
+him, his stiffened fingers lost their hold. For one moment he was seen
+balanced in mid-air, with his imploring glance cast upward at the stanch
+comrades who were powerless to save him, and then down he went into the
+roaring sea.
+
+There was an instant rush to the life-boat; but it was barely half way
+to the water when a huge sea dashed it against the ship's side, crushing
+it like an egg-shell. This was the last chance. An arm tossing wildly
+through the foam of a distant wave, a faint cry borne past on the wind,
+and poor Allen was gone forever.
+
+Then, amid the dismal silence, was heard, clear and strong, the firm
+voice of the captain:
+
+"Lads, I won't _order_ any of you to run such a risk; but this job must
+be done somehow, or we shall all go to the bottom together. Fifty
+dollars to any man who'll volunteer!"
+
+A dozen men sprang forward at once; but quick as they were, there was
+_one_ before them--and that one was Frank Austin. Unnoticed by all, he
+had knotted a rope around his waist, fastened the other end to an iron
+stanchion, and before any one could stop him, down he slid to the
+perilous spot, escaping, as if by miracle, several heavy seas which came
+rolling in, one upon another.
+
+[Illustration: OILING THE OUTBOARD BEARINGS.]
+
+For a moment the whole ship's company stood as if thunder-struck; and
+then one of the sailors, muttering, "Guess he'll want _them_, anyhow,"
+lowered a hammer and oil-can, which Frank dexterously caught. The work
+was so nearly done that a few blows of the hammer sufficed to complete
+it; and a deafening cheer greeted the young hero as he prepared to climb
+up again.
+
+"Smart, now, lad!" shouted half a dozen voices; "here's another sea
+comin'."
+
+But Frank saw at once that the wave would be upon him before he could
+reach the deck, and that there was only one way of escape. Thrusting his
+slim figure between the beams of the open-work, where no full-grown man
+could have passed, he held on with all his strength. Crash came the
+great billow against the side, making the whole ship quiver from stem to
+stern; but Austin remained unhurt. The next moment he was safe on deck.
+
+And now came a scene that might have served any painter for a study of
+Horatius among the Romans after his defense of the bridge. Frank was
+snatched up and carried shoulder-high to the forecastle by the cheering
+crew, who kept shouting the news of his exploit to all that had not seen
+it. His hands were shaken till they tingled, and his shoulder-blades
+ached with friendly slaps on the back from the sledge-hammer fists of
+his admirers. Every one was eager to give something to the hero of the
+hour. Offers of pipes, clasp-knives, tobacco, etc., rained upon him from
+the very men who had cuffed and kicked him like a dog but a few days
+before; and even his refusal of these gifts, which would formerly have
+been set down to conceit and "uppishness," was now taken in perfectly
+good part. In fact, that one deed of promptitude and courage had raised
+him from the last to one of the first among the whole crew. So true is
+it that they who succeed best are not always the bravest, or the wisest,
+or the strongest, but simply those who keep their wits about them, and
+never miss a chance of doing something.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+A STRANGE FELLOW-VOYAGER.
+
+
+I've had many a queer voyage in my time, said Captain M----, but the
+queerest I ever had was one that I made (somewhat unexpectedly, as you
+will see), upon the Great Fish River, in South Africa, on my way back
+from a hunting excursion.
+
+As I neared the bank I saw that the river was in full flood, more than
+twice its usual breadth, and running like a mill-race. I knew at once
+that I should have a very tough job to get across, for a flooded African
+river is no joke, I can tell you. But I knew also that my wife would be
+terribly anxious if I didn't come back on the day I had fixed--South
+Africa being a place where a good many things may happen to a man--and
+so I determined to chance it.
+
+Just at the water's edge I found an old Bushman that I knew well, who
+had a boat of his own; so I hailed him at once:
+
+"Well, Kaloomi, what will you take to put me across the river?"
+
+"No go fifty dollar this time, baas" (master), said the old fellow, in
+his half-Dutch, half-English jargon. "Boat no get 'cross to-day; water
+groed" (great).
+
+And never a bit could I persuade him, although I offered him money
+enough to make any ordinary Bushman jump head-first down a precipice.
+Money was good, he said, but it would be no use to him when he was
+drowned; and in short he wouldn't budge.
+
+"Well, if you won't put me across," said I at last, "lend me your boat,
+and I'll just do the job for myself; I can't very well take my horse
+with me, so I'll just leave him here in pledge that I'll pay for the
+boat when I come back."
+
+"Keep horse for you, master, quite willing; but s'pose you try cross
+to-day, you never come back to ask for him."
+
+He spoke so positively that, although I'm not easily frightened, I
+certainly did feel rather uncomfortable. However, when you've got to do
+a thing of that sort, the less you think of it the better, so I jumped
+into the boat and shoved off.
+
+I had barely got clear of the shore when I found that the old fellow was
+right, for the boat shot down the stream like an arrow. I saw in a
+moment that there was no hope of paddling her across, and that all I
+could do was just to keep her head straight. But I hadn't the chance of
+doing even that very long, for just then a big tree came driving along,
+and hitting my boat full on the quarter, smashed her like an egg-shell.
+I had just time to clutch the projecting roots, and whisk myself up on
+to them, and then tree and I went away down stream together, at I don't
+know how many miles an hour.
+
+At first I was so rejoiced at escaping just when all seemed over with
+me, that I didn't think much of what was to come next; but before long I
+got something to think about with a vengeance. The tree, as I've said,
+was a large one, and the branch end (the opposite one to where I sat)
+was all one mass of green leaves. All at once, just as I was shifting
+myself to a safer place among the roots, the leaves suddenly shook and
+parted, and out popped the great yellow head and fierce eyes of an
+enormous lion.
+
+I don't think I ever got such a fright in my life. My gun had gone to
+the bottom along with the boat, and the only weapon I had left was a
+short hunting knife, which against such a beast as that would be of no
+more use than a bodkin. I fairly gave myself up for lost, making sure
+that in another moment he'd spring forward and tear me to bits.
+
+But whether it was that he had already gorged himself with prey, or
+whether (as I suspect) he was really frightened at finding himself in
+such a scrape, he showed no disposition to attack me, so long at least
+as I remained still. The instant I made any movement, however, he would
+begin roaring and lashing his tail, as if he were going to fall on me at
+once. So, to avoid provoking him, I was forced to remain stock-still,
+although sitting so long in one position cramped me dreadfully.
+
+There we sat, Mr. Lion and I, staring at each other with all our
+might--a very picturesque group, no doubt, if there had been anybody
+there to see it. Down, down the stream we went, the banks seeming to
+race past us as if we were going by train, while all around broken
+timber, wagon wheels, trees, bushes, and the carcasses of drowned horses
+and cattle, went whirling past us upon the thick brown water.
+
+All at once I noticed that the lion seemed to be getting strangely
+restless, turning his great head from side to side in a nervous kind of
+way, as if he saw or heard something that he didn't like. At first I
+couldn't imagine what on earth was the matter with him, but presently I
+caught a sound which scared me much worse than it had done the lion. Far
+in the distance I could hear a dull, booming roar, which I had heard too
+often not to recognize at once: we were nearing a water-fall!
+
+I had seen the Great Falls of the Fish River more than once, and the
+bare thought of being carried over those tremendous precipices made my
+very blood run cold. Yet being devoured by a lion would hardly be much
+of an improvement; and as I hadn't the ghost of a chance of being able
+to swim ashore, there really seemed to be no other alternative.
+
+Faster and faster we went; louder and louder grew the roar of the
+cataract. The lion seemed to have quite given himself up for lost, and
+crouched down among the leaves, only uttering a low moaning whine every
+now and then. I was fairly at my wits' end what to do, when all of a
+sudden I caught sight of something that gave me a gleam of hope.
+
+A little way ahead of us the river narrowed suddenly, and a rocky
+headland thrust itself out a good way into the stream. On one of the
+lowest points of it grew a thick clump of trees, whose boughs overhung
+the water; and it struck me that if we only passed near enough, I might
+manage to catch hold of one of the branches, and swing myself up on to
+the rock.
+
+No sooner said than done. I started up, hardly caring whether the lion
+attacked me or not, and planted myself firmly upon one of the biggest
+roots, where I could take a good spring when the time came. I knew that
+this would be my last chance, for by this time we were so near the
+precipice that I could see quite plainly, a little way ahead, the great
+cloud of spray and vapor that hovered over the great water-fall. Even at
+the best it was a desperate venture, and I can tell you that I felt my
+heart beginning to thump like a sledge-hammer as we came closer and
+closer to the point, and I thought of what would happen if I missed my
+leap.
+
+Just as we neared it, it happened, by the special mercy of God, that our
+tree struck against something, and turned fairly crosswise to the
+current, the end with the lion on it swinging out into mid-stream, while
+my end was driven close to the rock on which the clump of trees grew.
+
+Now or never! I made one spring (I don't think I ever made such another
+before or since), and just clutched the lowest bough; and as I dragged
+myself on to it I heard the last roar of the doomed lion mingling with
+the thunder of the water-fall, as he vanished into the cloud of mist
+that overhung the precipice.
+
+As for me, it was late enough that night before I got home, and I found
+my poor wife in a fine fright about me; so I thought it just as well, on
+the whole, to keep my adventure to myself, and it wasn't till nearly a
+year later that she heard a word about my strange fellow-voyager.
+
+
+
+
+EASY BOTANY.
+
+MARCH.
+
+
+The delightful science of botany treats of the forms and habits of
+plants.
+
+This study leads the steps away from the busy town to the quiet woods
+and hills, giving a charm to every stroll, and making for each young
+student hosts of friends whose sweet faces will greet him through life
+with unaltering truth and beauty.
+
+Gathering wild flowers is a pleasure too well known to need dwelling
+upon, but studying plants botanically involves more than this, as the
+student will soon find out. And there are difficulties, such as hard
+Latin words of many syllables which must be pronounced, and, worse
+still, _spelled_--a trying process even to the experienced. Care must
+also be taken to write down everything distinctly, and there must be
+patience, faithfulness, and resolute perseverance. But the reward comes,
+and one feels paid for his trouble when he is able to pick a flower, to
+sit down and _find it out_, and give to it its hard botanical name.
+
+It is now spring, and the tears and smiles of April will quickly awaken
+the sleeping wild flowers. Let me urge the young people to take up the
+study of these "darlings of the forest." Gray's _First Lessons in
+Botany_ will help along beginners, and before the flowers come we will
+tell them where to find them.
+
+Let each one have a ruled blank book of _good size_ to write down the
+botanical and common name of every flower. How many flowers do you think
+you can find in April? and who will find the most?
+
+
+
+
+NOBLESSE OBLIGE.
+
+BY V. G. SMITH.
+
+
+Those of you who have studied French can translate this motto, and those
+who have not may perhaps guess that it means "nobility obliges"; but it
+is a favorite expression with so many different people, and it seems to
+mean such different things to different persons, that perhaps it may be
+worth while to tell a few anecdotes about what nobility has been
+supposed to oblige us to do.
+
+When James I. of England was a little boy in Scotland, he had an
+extremely clever tutor, George Buchanan. Now Buchanan was a great Latin
+scholar. He wrote verses, and was called the Scotch Virgil. Of course he
+was very ambitious that his royal pupil should be a good Latin scholar
+too, and the books say he "_whipped_ so much knowledge into him" that
+James was called the "British Solomon." This was the approved way in
+Great Britain at that time to educate boys. But there is a fact about
+which most of the books are silent: Buchanan and his friends reasoned
+that though it was quite true that James could never learn Latin unless
+some one was whipped, it would be a dreadful thing to strike a boy of
+the blood royal, and so they arranged that another boy should live at
+court, who should be whipped every time James failed in his declensions
+and conjugations.
+
+This seems to have been a very satisfactory arrangement, and you see, in
+this case, "nobility obliged" somebody else to be punished when the
+"nobility" had done wrong.
+
+This is the sense in which a great many splendid and magnificent people,
+with crowns on their heads and sceptres in their hands, have understood
+the motto.
+
+Tradition does not say what James himself thought about it. Perhaps he
+worked all the harder with his lessons, and felt that "nobility obliged"
+him not to let any one else suffer for his faults. If that was so, it
+was not a bad plan, after all.
+
+There is a better sense in which some have understood the motto. Perhaps
+some of you have read the touching letter of the Prince Imperial before
+he went to the fatal Zululand, where he was so cruelly murdered. The
+poor boy felt as if he had no object in England. He thought of the great
+deeds of the other Napoleons, and was stung at his own inaction. There
+seemed to be no duty left for him to do, in the way of fighting; but
+fight he must, to show he was as brave as the rest of his family. They
+say he was a gentle, affectionate, noble-spirited boy, and it seems as
+if he thought others would suppose he was weak unless he did some deed
+of daring. _His_ nobility obliged him to be foremost in the most
+desperate places; and so he died, and the world mourned for him.
+
+I think, as you read history more and more, you will believe, as I do,
+that men, and even children, of high birth, are surer to be brave and
+courageous than those in more obscure station. They may have other
+faults--dreadful ones--but it seems as if they dare not be cowards,
+because their whole race is looking at them, and expecting them to be
+noble. In this country, where we know so little about our ancestors, we
+need a still higher courage to make us do as grand things from yet
+higher motives.
+
+For, much as I pity and admire the little Prince, I think there is even
+a better way than his to understand the old motto.
+
+Perhaps you have been reading lately some account of the wedding
+festivities of the young King Alfonso of Spain; but it is not very long
+since he was married to his first wife, sweet little Princess Mercedes,
+who died within a few months after her marriage. Indeed, their nobility
+often obliges kings who lose their wives to be married again very soon.
+
+It is of Queen Mercedes I wish to tell you. When she was about thirteen
+or fourteen years old she was sent to school to a convent in France. The
+convent was full of lovely and noble ladies, who had gone there because
+they had met with misfortunes of one kind or another. These ladies
+taught the young girls under their care very gently; still, there were
+certain light punishments for those who were careless or idle. I think
+one of these was that the offender should stand in a corner for a
+certain length of time.
+
+Although most of the girls were of high birth, the little Princess, soon
+to be Queen, was of higher rank than any of the others. Her seat was a
+little apart from theirs, and by various small tokens of this kind her
+position was recognized.
+
+Now one day it happened that Mercedes committed some fault. Perhaps she
+was late in rising, or failed in some other way to carry out the convent
+rules. The fault was not serious, and the Sisters did not think it
+necessary to enforce the punishment; but Mercedes, blushing very much,
+went of her own accord to the corner where she knew she ought to stand,
+and staid the appointed time. You see she felt that if she was of too
+high rank to receive punishment from others, the duty of inflicting it
+upon herself was her own. _Noblesse oblige._
+
+Although the illustrations I have given you have all been from royal
+families, where, I suppose, the motto originated, I am sure you will be
+able to apply it to hundreds of other cases, and will believe that
+nobility of character obliges us with still more force to do the best
+things always, though we are bound by no outward law.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE SUN AT MIDNIGHT.
+
+
+There are portions of our globe, away toward either pole, where the sun
+remains above the horizon for about two months of the year, making one
+long day. During this period the pleasant alternations of morning, day,
+evening, and night, are unknown in those regions; and there is also a
+long season of night, when the sun is not seen at all. This must be
+still more unpleasant, because it is winter-time. The pale cold moon
+sheds a chilling light at times over the snow and ice, and the aurora
+borealis flashes its splendors through the heavens. The cold is so great
+that old chroniclers, writing about the arctic regions, pretended that
+when the inhabitants tried to speak, their very words froze in coming
+out of their mouths, and did not thaw out till spring. It is not safe to
+believe all that old chroniclers tell us, and perhaps in this case they
+only tried, in an extravagant way, to make their readers understand how
+very cold it was in that Northern land.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Our next picture shows the pleasanter side of arctic life, when the sun
+is above the horizon most of the time, and disappears from sight for
+short periods only. Many travellers have gone as far as the famous North
+Cape, in Norway, for the sake of seeing the sun at midnight. Among them
+is Du Chaillu, whom many of our readers know through his interesting
+books about Africa. He stood on the very edge of the cape one July
+midnight--that is, it was midnight by the clock--and saw the sun descend
+nearly to the horizon, and then begin to rise again. Far to the
+northward stretched the deep blue waters of the Arctic Ocean; close
+around him was a bleak, dreary, desolate landscape. A few blades of
+grass sprouted at the edge of the cape. Further back, in places
+sheltered from the winds, the ground was clothed in rich verdure, and
+adorned with flowers. Still further inland were little patches of dwarf
+birch, scarcely a foot high, crouching close to the ground to escape
+being torn away by the furious winds that sweep over the land. There was
+none of the abundant life that we see around us in our fields and woods.
+A spider, a bumble-bee, and a poor little wanderer of a bird, were the
+only living things Du Chaillu saw.
+
+But he beheld the sun at midnight. As the hour of twelve approached, the
+pale orb sank almost to the horizon, the line of which it seemed to
+follow for a few moments, as it shone serenely over the lonely sea and
+desolate land. It was a sight never to be forgotten by one who had
+travelled hundreds of miles to witness it.
+
+Sailors and explorers in the far Northern regions find it hard at first
+to accustom themselves to the long arctic day; and animals carried on
+board ship from lower latitudes are entirely at a loss when to go to
+sleep. There is a curious story of an English rooster that seemed to be
+utterly bewildered because it never came night. He appeared to think it
+unnatural to sleep while the sun was shining, and staggered about until
+he fell down from exhaustion. After a while he got into regular habits,
+but was apparently so disgusted to wake up in broad daylight, instead of
+the gray dawn to which he was accustomed, that he discontinued crowing.
+Perhaps he thought he had over-slept himself, and was ashamed to crow so
+late.
+
+It seems almost incredible that the dreary regions of which our pictures
+afford a glimpse enjoyed, ages ago, a climate even warmer than our own.
+The chilling waves that dash against the base of the dreary North Cape
+once washed shores clothed in luxuriant vegetation. Stately forests
+stood where now only stunted shrubs struggle a few inches above ground.
+The mammoth, and other animals that require a warm climate, roamed in
+multitudes through those regions. Their bones, found in great abundance
+when the banks of the lakes and rivers thaw out and crumble away in the
+spring, form an important article of traffic.
+
+The people who live in the dreary regions of the far North are,
+generally speaking, industrious, sober, simple-minded, and contented.
+They have few pleasures, and their lives are toilsome. But in whatever
+region we find them--in the fishing villages of the northernmost coast
+of Norway or Lapland, and even in Greenland--they fondly believe their
+country to be the best and most favored part of the world. We must beg
+leave to differ with them. We love our changing seasons, that gradually
+come and go, the sweet succession of day and night, the joyous life that
+fills our fields and woods, and the comforts, luxuries, and all the
+advantages of civilization. But it is a great blessing to mankind that,
+wherever our lot may be cast in this great and wonderful world,
+
+  "Our first, best country ever is at home."
+
+
+
+
+A BOARDING-SCHOOL CLUB.
+
+BY ELINOR ELLIOTT.
+
+
+"Well, Mildred, what does she say?" asked Dr. Clifford of his pretty
+eldest daughter, as she came to the end of her long letter; and the
+shower of questions following showed how eager were all at the breakfast
+table to hear from the sister away at boarding-school.
+
+"She says so much," laughs Mildred, "that I will read it to you."
+
+  ELM BANK, ---- 13, 1880.
+
+     DEAR MILLY,--I am rejoiced to know your first party was a success,
+     and that you were spared the ignominious fate of "full many a
+     flower born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on
+     the"--ball-room wall.
+
+     Your dress must have been a beauty, but I do not envy you. "Fine
+     clo'" I have forsworn, and I would not exchange my jolly
+     school-days for all your festive parties.
+
+     Tell papa I must have some new boots--very thick, with broad soles
+     and low heels--and entreat him not to send them C. O. D., for I
+     truly can't pay the expressage.
+
+     We girls have formed a club for the "Abolition and Extirpation of
+     Grotesque Idiotic Style."
+
+     Our initials, A, E, G, I, S, as you see, spell "Aegis," which is
+     to be our shield (its literal meaning) from aristocratic scorn. I
+     dare say I shall not be received in polite circles when I go home,
+     but when I look at my ring, on which is engraved A E G I S, I
+     shall gain such invulnerability that all sneers will glance aside
+     ineffective.
+
+     There is a curious fact about our club and motto. Like the old
+     English Cabal, we have five members whose initials form the name,
+     viz.,
+
+  Anna Clifford,
+  Enid Evans,
+  Gertrude Wood,
+  Ida Langford,
+  Sallie Peterson.
+
+     I have given up curling my hair, and braid it. Of course it isn't
+     becoming, but we Aegises stoop not to vanity. I have gained five
+     pounds since Christmas; so when my spring suit is made, tell the
+     dress-maker to put the extra material into the waist, and not
+     waste it (a pun, but very poor) in puffs and paniers, for we have
+     abolished them. We try to get along with the bare necessities of
+     life.
+
+     I'd give a good deal to see you all, but I'm not the least bit
+     homesick.
+
+     Good-by. Give my double-and-twisted love to everybody, and kiss
+     the dear pink of a baby a hundred times for me.
+
+  Lovingly,
+  ANNA I. CLIFFORD.
+
+     P.S.--When you send the boots, perhaps if you put them in a
+     fair-sized box, there'll be room for a cooky or two.
+
+  A. I. C.
+
+"Isn't that a happy letter!"
+
+"Think of our dainty, exquisite Anna so independent! her pretty brown
+curls straightened out in a braid, and her dresses shorn of puffs and
+ruffles!"
+
+"That's the kind of 'society' for school-girls to form," says papa.
+"I'll order the thickest boots I can find to be sent up; also a chicken
+for Bridget to roast; and as she has given us so delicate a hint,
+perhaps you can find something else to put in the box."
+
+Afternoon finds the Clifford family again assembled in the dining-room,
+intent upon packing the boots and "cookies"; and from the size of the
+box on the table one would infer that the boots must be No. 17's, and
+the cookies as large as cheeses, or, more correctly, that something more
+is to be added.
+
+"Wouldn't it be fine to send five things for the club individually?"
+asks one.
+
+"Capital!" "Good!" "Just the thing!" cry all.
+
+"And have their initials spell Aegis."
+
+"What shall the first be?"
+
+"A--Apples!" sounds a full chorus.
+
+"It is a vote. And the next?"
+
+"E--Eels," suggests fourteen-year-old Dick, whose suggestions are apt to
+be more ludicrous than elegant.
+
+"Eggs; hard-boiled eggs are always dear to my heart in the scenes of my
+childhood."
+
+"Bridget, put on a dozen eggs, to boil ten minutes."
+
+"G--Ginger-snaps."
+
+"Grapes."
+
+"Gum-arabic," from Dick.
+
+It takes so long to decide this important point that Dr. Clifford calls
+out the fourth letter:
+
+"I."
+
+A hush falls upon them, but, as Dick would say, made no noise, and did
+no damage in falling. No one can think of anything but ice-cream. And I
+challenge you: put your hand over your eyes, and name two other edibles
+beginning with "I."
+
+At last Dick, in an ecstasy of inspiration, starts up, and cries,
+"Inch-worms!"
+
+A peal of laughter, and each one suggests some impossible or awful
+article; and then the dauntless Richard again: "A few _I_deas."
+
+"If we had them to spare," says papa, dryly.
+
+"Irish potatoes would be like coals at Newcastle."
+
+"I feel it in my bones that Bridget would suggest '_I_sters.'"
+
+"Apropos of that," says Milly, "I think we shall have to adopt the
+sound, and send Inglish walnuts, as Anna loves them dearly."
+
+"Now for the last letter."
+
+"S--Sardines."
+
+The things are collected, and stowed away in the box; it is sent off by
+express, and in a few days the following letter announces its arrival.
+
+  ELM BANK, ---- 16, 1880.
+
+     DEAR, DEAR, DEAR FAMILY,--I know I can't show you my delight
+     better than by telling you all about it.
+
+     Yesterday we Aegises were out walking all the afternoon, and when
+     we came home, hungry as wolves, were cheered by a chorus from the
+     piazza:
+
+  "A Clifford box, a Wood box--
+  A Clifford box, a Wood box."
+
+     Perhaps you have no appetizing association with a wood-box, but
+     the news quickened our steps, and inspired us with the elasticity
+     of a quintette of rubber balls as we bounded up the steps, and
+     fell upon our boxes with all the love of a father upon a returned
+     prodigal.
+
+     I sat down on my box, and Gertie on hers, and there we sat, as
+     happy as two enthroned queens, with serfs and vassals standing
+     near. How every girl in school idolized us last night!
+
+     "George has driven Madame over to town, and won't be back till
+     late," said Enid, coming from her expedition to the basement in
+     search of George. (George is the man-servant who "does the chores"
+     and "plays hero" for the school.)
+
+     "How can we ever get these up stairs?" asks Gertie.
+
+     "Carry them ourselves," cried a brawny girl; "we'll all help."
+
+     So, with a girl at each corner of each box, we struggled up
+     stairs. Mine was not very heavy, but Gertie's was; and one girl
+     let her corner slip, which threw us all into confusion, and in the
+     midst of the hurly-burly we became aware of a majestic presence at
+     the head of the stairs, and there stood--Miss Coningham, the first
+     assistant. Our hearts stood still, for we had not asked
+     permission; but Sallie, whom nothing overcomes, saved us.
+
+     "Oh, Miss Coningham," she called, "_do_ come and help us;" and she
+     actually stepped down and caught it as the girls were losing
+     control of it, and engineered it into our sitting-room.
+
+     You know we five Aegises have one sitting-room, with three
+     bedrooms opening out of it. As she turned to go, I thought I saw
+     in her face a longing to stay, and be a girl with the rest of us,
+     and I said,
+
+     "Don't go, Miss Coningham; stay and see what is in the boxes."
+
+     "Thank you; I know you will enjoy yourselves more alone. Madame
+     told me to give you five young ladies permission to have supper in
+     your own room to-night."
+
+     "Why?" we all cried. "What made her?"
+
+     "Because it is Miss Wood's birthday."
+
+     "My birthday!" cried Gertie, in amaze. "I didn't once think of
+     it;" while the girls flew at her ears.
+
+     "I don't see how any one could forget such a thing--do you, Miss
+     Coningham?" I asked, as she stood in the door.
+
+     "No; I could not forget mine," she said. "This is mine too."
+
+     When I told the girls it was Miss Coningham's birthday too, they
+     unanimously proposed to give her a present, and ran to their rooms
+     for their purses.
+
+     "There are just ten of us," said Enid, counting.
+
+     "Pass round a hat," said Ida.
+
+     "This will do," cried Sallie, seizing an India rubber shoe, and
+     taking up the collection. "If you have little, give little, but if
+     you've got a lot, give a good deal. Six dollars and ninety cents,"
+     said Sallie, counting it. "Now what shall we get?"
+
+     "Flowers? They fade so quickly."
+
+     "Let's get something she can keep."
+
+     "Well, what?"
+
+     "A gold thimble. You know hers rolled down the register, and was
+     lost."
+
+     We agreed upon the thimble. Then Enid went to Miss Coningham, and
+     gained permission for us to go down to the jeweller's. So the five
+     other girls left the selection of the thimble to us, and went down
+     stairs.
+
+     "Wasn't 'Cony' good?" said Sallie. "Little did she suspect our
+     object."
+
+     "Would it be a bad idea to ask her to feast with us to-night?"
+
+     "Not at all bad. Do you believe she'll come?"
+
+     "Very doubtful. Who will ask Madame if we may have the feast?"
+
+     "I," said Sallie; "my life for my country."
+
+     We bought a beautiful gold thimble for six dollars, and spent the
+     rest for flowers; then hurried home to open the boxes, and get
+     everything ready before study hour.
+
+     "What shall we do for a table-cloth?"
+
+     "Take a fresh sheet," said Sallie.
+
+     "Isn't there anything better?" asks Ida.
+
+     "Positively nothing," answered Sallie, throwing a sheet at her.
+     "Take this, and be thankful it isn't sheet lightning that strikes
+     you. Now I start for my interview with Madame."
+
+     "Good luck attend you! Enid, put the flowers in the centre, with a
+     lemon pie at one side and a mince at the other."
+
+     "Here is a roast chicken," I cried. "Ida, put it at one end."
+
+     "Enid," called Gertie, "here's a duck in my box; put him opposite
+     the chicken."
+
+     "'Dido _et dux_,'" said Enid.
+
+     "Well," answered Gertie, "I'm glad she didn't eat them all."
+
+     Here Sallie came in, triumphant.
+
+     "I showed her the thimble, girls, and told her all about
+     everything, and she says we five and the other five and Miss
+     Coningham--Elsie, she called her--can come up here right after
+     prayers, and stay till ten o'clock."
+
+     "Could anything be jollier?"
+
+     "She says Elsie was our age when she first came here, and was as
+     full of fun as we are."
+
+     Then I found your note, saying there were _A_pples for Anna,
+     _E_ggs for Enid, _G_rapes for Gertie, _I_nglish walnuts for Ida,
+     and _S_ardines for Sallie. We saw how hard up you were for I's,
+     but we'd rather have the nuts than anything.
+
+     We had just got everything in order when the study bell rang. You
+     can scarcely mention a "goody" that was not in one of those boxes.
+     Gertie had a birthday cake with fifteen tapers on it, which we
+     lighted.
+
+     I can't begin to tell you what a jolly time we had when we came
+     back up stairs. All our invitations were accepted. Miss Coningham
+     was charmed with the thimble. We "toasted" all you good people at
+     home who were the cause of our joy, and sent the flowers to Madame
+     when our revelry was o'er.
+
+     By-the-way, the boots are exactly right. Now, with the love and
+     thanks of all the Aegises, I must close, for I haven't touched a
+     lesson for to-morrow.
+
+  Lovingly, gratefully, and thankfully yours,
+  ANNA I. CLIFFORD.
+
+
+
+
+THE BABY ELEPHANT.
+
+
+On the 10th of this month an event occurred in Philadelphia that has
+aroused universal curiosity and interest. It was the birth of a baby
+elephant, which immediately became famous as being the first of his
+kind, so far as is known, ever born in captivity. All other elephants
+brought to this country for exhibition, or used in Eastern countries as
+beasts of burden, have been captured and tamed, and it has heretofore
+been regarded as an unquestioned fact that they would not breed in
+captivity.
+
+The mother of the cunning little fellow who is attracting so much
+attention is a large black Asiatic elephant named Hebe, and belongs to
+the Great London Circus. She is acknowledged by all the other elephants
+of the circus as their queen, and they are all loyally devoted to her.
+She and six other large elephants have been spending the winter in a
+stable at the corner of Twenty-third Street and Ridge Avenue,
+Philadelphia. Here the elephants stand in a large room, each with their
+hind-legs chained to posts.
+
+[Illustration: THE EXCITED ELEPHANTS.]
+
+Immediately upon the birth of the little elephant the others seemed to
+become crazy with joy. They had been very quiet, but they now set up the
+most tremendous bellowing and trumpeting imaginable. Some of them broke
+their chains, and danced about in the most grotesque manner, besides
+performing all the tricks they had been taught in the circus ring. The
+general excitement communicated itself to Hebe, and in a moment she
+became the most frantic of them all. Snapping the chains that bound her
+to the posts as though they were threads, and apparently becoming, for
+the first time, aware of the presence of her baby, she seized him with
+her trunk and threw him with great force, twenty yards or more, to the
+opposite side of the room. He fell close beside a large stove, around
+which was a railing of heavy timbers. Rushing after him, his crazy
+mother beat down this railing, threw over the stove, and in her madness
+would probably have killed her baby, had not her keeper, who had fled
+for his life upon the first outbreak, returned with help, and attracted
+her attention. With considerable difficulty she was secured and again
+chained to the posts, and the other animals were also quieted. During
+all the confusion the baby had stood motionless in the place to which
+his mother had flung him, and had regarded the whole scene with a look
+of wise solemnity such as only a baby can assume.
+
+When quiet was restored, he became very frisky, and was willing to make
+friends with everybody. He ran about with his mouth wide open, and his
+little trunk pointing upward in the funniest way possible. He blundered
+about here and there, running against all sorts of things, and finally
+seemed overjoyed to be taken back to his mother, who has ever since
+shown the greatest fondness for him. He is thirty-five inches high, and
+weighs 214 pounds, so that he is about the size of a large Newfoundland
+dog. He is fed by means of a nursing-bottle made of a yard of rubber
+hose and a large funnel. One end of the hose is put in his mouth, and
+the other is attached to the funnel, into which the keepers pour warm
+milk until the baby shows that he has had enough by throwing down his
+end of the tube.
+
+
+
+
+PRACTICAL JOKES.
+
+BY FRANK BELLEW.
+
+
+As a general rule, practical jokes are a kind of fun that should not be
+encouraged; but there are a few harmless ones which may be made the
+means of a good deal of innocent merriment.
+
+Tom Hood, who was one of the most kindly and genial of men, as well as
+one of the greatest of poets, was very fond of playing little practical
+jokes on members of his own family and immediate circle of intimate
+friends. On one occasion, when his wife had made a magnificent English
+plum-pudding, as a Christmas present for some German friends, Hood
+surreptitiously got hold of it, and filled it with wooden skewers, which
+he ran through in every direction, and in this condition it was sent by
+the unsuspicious Mrs. Hood to her friends in Germany, who no doubt
+thought English cookery a most eccentric art.
+
+On another occasion he wrote as follows, from London, to an intimate
+friend, one Lieutenant Franck, of the Prussian army:
+
+"I also send for yourself an imitation gold-fish. It appears that there
+is something in the color or taste of the gold-fish which renders it
+irresistible to other fish as a bait. They are quite mad after it. It
+appears to be intended to be sunk with a weight, and pulled about under
+water, or else to float on the top; but they say it is taken in anyway."
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 1.]
+
+This wonderful bait was made of wood, and painted yellow, or covered
+with gilt paper, and presented an appearance like the annexed engraving.
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 2.]
+
+But under this innocent exterior lurked Tom Hood's joke. The fish was
+made of two pieces of wood, like Fig. 2, glued or gummed together, only
+one of which was attached to the line, and on this piece was burned,
+with a red-hot knitting-needle, the words, "_O, you April fool!_" Of
+course, after the sportsman had dragged this about in the water for some
+time, the glue melted, the loose half of the bait floated away, and when
+he hauled in his line to see how things were getting along, he
+discovered the inscription, and at the same time that he had been made a
+_fool_ of, whether it happened to be April or not.
+
+
+THE CLOCK BEWITCHED.
+
+I was once at one of those little social gatherings which the Scotch
+call a "cooky-shine," and the English a "tea-fight," where two young
+ladies appeared escorted by a rustic beau (for be it known this was in
+the country), who, like many beaux from both city and country, had a
+very well-developed opinion of his own shrewdness and sagacity, of which
+opinion he gave several rather obtrusive illustrations during the course
+of the evening. This peculiarity, added to the fact that, quite early in
+the festivities, he displayed an anxiety to hurry the young ladies home
+in the midst of their enjoyment, made him anything but popular. The fact
+was that the young man, having exhausted his limited stock of
+conversation, grew bored and sleepy, and wanted to go home himself. Not
+being able to accomplish this, he seated himself in an obscure corner
+of the room, where he soon dropped off into a doze. Now among the
+company was a little imp of a boy, a son of the hostess, who seemed to
+feel himself called upon to amuse the rest of the guests. He whispered a
+few words in his sister's ear, and then left the room. In about fifteen
+minutes the drowsy beau woke up with a start, and asked what o'clock it
+was.
+
+"I really don't know," responded one of the ladies. "What time was it
+when you went to sleep?"
+
+"Sleep--sleep! I haven't been to sleep--'wake all the time."
+
+"Indeed you have," chorussed the party; "nearly two hours, and saying
+all sorts of things."
+
+[Illustration: WHAT TIME IS IT?]
+
+The youth looked blank, and rather frightened, but tried to brave it
+out. "Oh, pshaw! two hours. Sleep!--why, I haven't been to sleep
+ten--that's to say, I've been awake the whole time. Now we'll see." And
+he arose and walked into the next room, which was rather dimly lighted,
+to look at the clock. He remained there a long time, shuffling about,
+and emitting sundry whiffs and snorts, and then rejoined the company,
+rubbing his eyes, and rumpling his hair all over his head, with an
+expression of bewilderment on his countenance which set every one
+present tittering.
+
+"All right," he said. "Guess't's 'bout time to start home."
+
+"Oh no, not yet," answered the hostess. "We are going to have some cider
+and doughnuts."
+
+The cider and doughnuts were brought in and handed round, the sleepy
+beau receiving his last. He took a good Irish bite. A pause. Something
+was the matter. He pulled, he gnawed, he wrestled, he grunted, he
+struggled: it was no use; that doughnut was too much for him. Suddenly,
+with a quick motion worthy of the late lamented Mr. Grimaldi, he whipped
+the doughnut out of his mouth and into his pocket. He thought he was
+unobserved, but a roar of rustic laughter from all sides of the room
+soon undeceived him. We will draw a veil over the scene, etc., etc., as
+the novels say. In a few seconds his two fair charges, in charity,
+proposed to go home; and they went.
+
+Now what was this all about? I will tell you. When the young imp left
+the room, as before mentioned, he slipped into the back parlor, turned
+down the lights, and carried the clock off into the kitchen, where with
+some Indian ink and a brush he marked on its face half a dozen extra
+hands. He then replaced the clock on the mantelpiece in the parlor, and
+returning to the kitchen, procured two small balls of cotton batting,
+which he soaked in some batter the cook was using for doughnuts, and
+these he fried till they exactly resembled the genuine article the cook
+had just made. He had previously let the ladies into the secret, so that
+when the sleepy beau went into the back parlor to look at the clock, as
+they took care he should, they perfectly knew the bewildered frame of
+mind he was in while trying to find out the time. The sister, too, while
+handing round the doughnuts, managed to reserve the cotton ones for the
+same gentleman.
+
+The next day our hostess received a polite note from the discomfited
+escort, thanking her for the gift of the doughnut, which he said had
+been of infinite value to him, as he had given it to a neighbor's dog
+which kept him awake all night, and the dog had since died. So he took
+it good-naturedly, after all.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THE JOLLY DOG'S PRACTICAL JOKE.
+
+
+  'Twas near dinner-time, and the pudding was hot,
+     Nelly, her cheeks all aglow
+  (The master liked icy-cold pudding), ran out,
+    And popped the dish into the snow.
+
+  For though on that morn smiling April was born,
+    A snow-heap that March left behind,
+  When he hastened away, in a dark corner lay
+  Of the garden, blown there by the wind.
+
+  Singing merrily, back to the kitchen went Nell,
+    When a jolly dog came up the lane.
+  "Aha! something good!" and he stopped and he sniffed,
+    Looked around, cocked his ears, sniffed again.
+
+  Then, the gate being open, he boldly walked in,
+    Going straight to the snowy spot where
+  The dish sat a-cooling--three great gulps he gave,
+    And a pudding no longer was there.
+
+  Down the stoop flew the maid. "I must now take it in,
+    For I'm sure by this time it is cool."
+  Said the dog, running off, "Pray don't trouble yourself;
+    _I_ have taken it in--April-fool!"
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]
+
+
+  CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.
+
+     I wonder if the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE know how delightful the
+     climate and surroundings of Chattanooga are. Near the base of
+     Lookout Mountain, which has grown historical since the war, the
+     views in all directions are magnificent, that from the point on
+     the mountain being the grandest, where one can see places in seven
+     different States. Chattanooga is an Indian word, meaning eagle's
+     nest.
+
+  PAUL DWIGHT MOROSS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN.
+
+     I live in a lonesome country, but it is very beautiful in the
+     summer. We have nice lakes and woods, and all kinds of birds.
+     There is a little bird which builds such a queer nest. It is like
+     a hanging cup, and so small you scarcely notice it. There are five
+     white eggs, with black spots on the ends, in it. The bird is
+     blackish color, with a round white spot in the middle of each
+     wing. There is a bird here called grosbeak. It is very handsome,
+     and a splendid singer. You can hear its clear note in the morning
+     above all the rest. My sister Julia found a nest, and took out a
+     male bird. It had hardly any feathers. She brought it up on bread
+     and milk, and it was so tame it would sit on her finger; but one
+     morning it flew away, and never came back. Perhaps some of the
+     readers of YOUNG PEOPLE have tamed the little yellow-birds. Julia
+     tamed one, and it was a great pet. I have a pet dove named Philip.
+     He will follow me about in the woods. When he misses me, he hunts
+     till he finds me. When we are eating dinner, if the door is open,
+     I often hear a pat-pat on the step, and in comes Philip, nodding
+     his head from side to side, and lights on my shoulder, for me to
+     give him his dinner. He is now two years old. I will send you his
+     portrait. I think Bertie Brown drew a first-rate picture.
+
+  ALLIE VOORHEES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN.
+
+     The first hepaticas (liverwort) that I saw this year were picked
+     the first day of March. Has any one living in the same latitude
+     found them earlier? The arbutus is nearly in bloom. When we were
+     out in the woods the other day we saw a beautiful gray fox.
+
+  MABEL BATES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  COLLEGE GROVE, TENNESSEE, _March 1, 1880_.
+
+     I send you a violet, and also the earliest wild flower of this
+     section, _Erigenia_, or "daughter of the early spring" [a species
+     of groundsel]. We have had crocuses and daffodils ever since
+     Christmas. I have lots of pets. We have nine cats. One is fourteen
+     years old. And we have a shepherd dog that has a great deal of
+     sense. I have three white hens--one top-knot, one plain, and one
+     with pantalets. I have a chicken grave-yard, and we have funerals.
+     The red and blue birds, wrens, jays, and woodpeckers, staid with
+     us all winter. I found a nest of hatched partridge eggs, and the
+     large ends were all picked round even, and opened like box-tops.
+     We live in the woods, and I see many pretty things.
+
+  ANNA RUCKER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am twelve years old. I live on the border of a large lake in the
+     province of New Brunswick, Canada. Though so far north, our
+     winters are often mild and pleasant. Father says it is because we
+     are not far from the sea. I have been ill with acute rheumatism
+     for six months past, and the weekly visits of YOUNG PEOPLE are a
+     great comfort and pleasure to me, as I am mostly confined to the
+     house. I found some willow "pussies" three days ago (March 4), and
+     I send a few, to let you see what New Brunswick can do in this
+     way.
+
+  W. SCOTT BUTLER, Jun.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BETHANY, MISSOURI.
+
+     I see so many little folks writing to you, I thought I would write
+     too. I am eight years old, and I live where the sun goes down. I
+     never saw a railroad in my life, and never went to school. Mamma
+     teaches us at home. I have a cream-colored pony, and sister Grace
+     has a pet lamb. She had to get a baby's nursing-bottle to raise
+     the lamb with, and it is just too funny to see her feed it. It
+     sucks away at the bottle as hard as ever it can, and wags its
+     little tail ever so fast. We have learned nearly all we know from
+     HARPER'S MAGAZINE and the BAZAR and WEEKLY, for papa and mamma
+     have taken them all our lives. We could not do without the
+     pictures. I wish you could see our stacks and heaps of the MONTHLY
+     and the papers. When we want a good old time, we get them all out,
+     and they are as good as new. We think there never was such a
+     splendid paper as YOUNG PEOPLE. My sister Grace wanted to write to
+     you too, but mamma said one nuisance was enough at a time.
+
+  NELLIE BLACKBURN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  CROOKSTON, MINNESOTA.
+
+     I borrowed HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE of one of my neighbors, and I
+     like it so much I intend to take it as soon as I can earn money
+     enough to pay for it. I am a cripple boy. I have no feet. One was
+     cut off below and one above the knee, and when I move round I have
+     to go on my hands. I want a pair of Newfoundland dogs for a team,
+     but I can not find where I can get them. I knit a pair of mittens,
+     and sold them to help pay for YOUNG PEOPLE, and now I am mending
+     grain bags to earn the rest of the money. I am fond of reading,
+     and feel lonesome without books and papers.
+
+  ELMER R. BLANCHARD.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SALT LAKE, UTAH TERRITORY.
+
+     Father wants me to tell you that he made me a telescope of
+     sheet-iron as you described in the first number of YOUNG PEOPLE,
+     and although my object-glass is only one and one-quarter inches in
+     diameter, we can plainly see Jupiter's four moons. Jupiter itself
+     appears as big as a nickel five-cent piece. We can also see the
+     rings of Saturn. But when we look at anything on the earth, it is
+     turned upside down. This glass gives us a great deal of pleasure.
+
+  OLAF THOMASSEN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  TERRYVILLE, CONNECTICUT.
+
+     My uncle caught two young gray squirrels in the woods, and brought
+     them home in a cage. We gave them walnuts and chestnuts, but they
+     were so cross they bit each other's tails, which when they were
+     little looked more like rats' tails than squirrels'. When we let
+     them out of the cage, they soon learned to go into my uncle's
+     pockets after nuts. Then they would sit on his head or shoulder
+     and eat them. When we gave them more than they could eat, they
+     would hide them on the ground, and cover them with leaves and dry
+     grass. They did it so neatly that even when we saw where they put
+     them, we would have to hunt a long time to find them. When it came
+     warm weather, they went back to the woods. What do squirrels live
+     on in summer before the nuts are ripe?
+
+  ANGIE B. BALDWIN.
+
+Squirrels eat all kinds of berries, the tender twigs and bark of certain
+trees, and grain. Corn fields are feasting grounds for them, as the
+fresh tender stalks are as delicious food as the fully formed kernels.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  CLARKSVILLE, NEBRASKA.
+
+     I want to tell you about a ride I had the other day with papa and
+     mamma. We drove out about four miles from here, to a prairie-dog
+     town, where we saw hundreds of these little animals playing about
+     in the sunshine. The prairie-dogs are very curious little
+     creatures. They dig their holes, throwing out the earth so as to
+     make quite a mound. They look very cunning from a distance,
+     standing on their hind-legs. Some were near their holes, ready to
+     jump in as soon as we drove near. Others, which were a good way
+     off from their homes, scampered back as fast as they could. Their
+     town covered about a section of land, so you can see they have
+     quite a large city.
+
+  PAUL BEARDSLEY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.
+
+     Last spring we had a pretty pair of canaries, and we raised five
+     little birds. They were dear little things, and before we gave any
+     of them away it was great fun to watch them play together. One was
+     very light yellow, nearly white, another was dark yellow, two were
+     spotted with green, and one was all very dark green. The green one
+     was the prettiest of all, but it always fought for the best place
+     in the cage, and pecked at all the others; but if they fought,
+     they always made up after it. The yellow one was very tame, and
+     would come right to our hands to eat. The lightest one died, and
+     the others we gave away, but we were very sorry to part with them.
+
+  FROGGIE.
+
+The following was written in big printed letters:
+
+     If you put Froggie's letter in your paper, I hope you will put
+     mine in. I can't write as he can, because I am only five years
+     old. I like your paper very much. Froggie reads it to me, and I
+     read the pictures myself. I like that picture of the pussy.
+
+  FROGGIE'S LITTLE BROTHER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  READING, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     We were very glad to see that story of Colonel Gregg in No. 19,
+     for he was one of our ancestors. We have a parrot from the Isle of
+     Pines, which seems to be a very smart bird. I would like to know
+     if there is any particular way by which we can teach it to talk.
+
+  DAVID M. GREGG.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  KANSAS.
+
+     I live on the prairie between the Arkansas and Smoky Hill rivers.
+     My nearest playmate is a mile and a half away, and I am very glad
+     when YOUNG PEOPLE comes. Can you tell me who has been considered
+     the most famous man in the world?
+
+  LULU A. G.
+
+There have been so many "famous men," that it would be difficult to
+place any one among them at the head of the list.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am ten years old, and I live in Dickinson County, Kansas. We
+     have three dogs--Queen, Cetchum, and Custer--and we have use for
+     them all. Pa uses Queen to hunt prairie-chickens with, and Queen
+     and Cetchum hunt rabbits by themselves. We have gray rabbits and
+     jack rabbits. The jack rabbits are very large, and have long ears.
+     Pa says they are very much like the English hare. We have a great
+     many peaches and grapes and water-melons, and there are bad men
+     and boys that sometimes steal them. In the summer I tie Queen in
+     the peach orchard every night. If she hears anything, she barks
+     very loud, and then Custer runs to help her. If any man is there,
+     he is sure to be bitten. Custer is an English bull-dog, and a
+     great fighter. He can whip a wolf. We have a great many wolves
+     here, and they are so bold that if we did not keep dogs, they
+     would come round the house in the daytime, and steal young pigs
+     and lambs and chickens.
+
+  SIDNEY B. PRAY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  TAYLORSVILLE, TEXAS.
+
+     I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. It gives a great deal of
+     instruction. I live on the banks of the San Gabriel River, which
+     has some very large fish in it. I read all the letters in the
+     Post-office Box. I liked Gertrude Balch's letter very much, and I
+     like to draw the "Wiggles."
+
+  J. L. PAXTON.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  FAIRFIELD (STONE P. O.), PICKENS COUNTY, ALABAMA.
+
+     I would like very much to exchange some of our native flower seeds
+     for flower seeds of other localities with any of the "Young
+     People."
+
+  MAMIE JONES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  GALT, CALIFORNIA.
+
+     Will any little girl press me some specimens of Eastern flowers?
+     If she will, I will press her some of our floral beauties here in
+     California, and send them to her.
+
+  GENEVIEVE.
+
+If Genevieve will send her full address, no doubt some little girl in
+the Eastern States will be glad to exchange pressed flowers with her.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  NEW BRIGHTON.
+
+     Can you tell me the longest word in the English language?
+
+  K. POST.
+
+Valetudinarianism is a long word. Can any correspondent find a longer
+one?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BUFFALO PAPER-MILL, NORTH CAROLINA.
+
+     Would you kindly give a description of the animal called drill. I
+     would like to know the country of its nativity, and any other
+     information in regard to it. I have tried to find something about
+     it, and have failed.
+
+  WILLIAM LIDDY.
+
+The drill (_Papio leucophaeus_) is a large baboon, and one of the ugliest
+of its family. It has a heavy thick body covered with coarse
+grayish-brown hair, a large head with a hideous black face, stout clumsy
+legs, and a short stubbed tail. It lives in the woods and rocky regions
+along the west coast of Africa. In Guinea it is so abundant as to be a
+terror to man and beast, as its ferocity and strength render it a
+dangerous foe. Great herds of the drill, when driven by hunger,
+sometimes attack the negro villages, and have been known to kill women
+and children. Specimens of this savage creature have been captured and
+placed in zoological gardens in France and England, but all efforts to
+tame it have been in vain.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REBECCA H.--Your puzzle was not noticed, because you failed to send the
+answer. Meanwhile, one with the same solution has been received, and has
+already been printed. It is, therefore, too late to make any use of
+yours, which was very pretty, and neatly constructed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+C. B. F.--Grinnell Land is within the arctic circle, and is not claimed
+by any nation.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+S. H. M.--The letters in the corners of English postage stamps indicate
+the year when the stamp was printed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+J. M. T.--Full directions for boat-building would occupy too much space
+in our Post-office Box, but if you go to any good boat-builder, he will
+no doubt give you the desired information.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+F. S.--The custom of Easter eggs is very ancient, and it is not known
+when it first arose. There are many pretty legends in regard to it, but
+all are without foundation.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Favors are acknowledged from Allie B. W., Hermann H. Davis, Emily W.
+Berry, Mamie W. Howe, Florence C., Minnie Shepard, Henry B. Teal, J. D.
+Burroughs, Charles H. MacHenry, Fannie Wright, Ella Warren, George B.
+Wendell, Lily Jones, Edith, Fannie C. Shuford, Stella and Fannie, W. K.
+Grier, Mira K. Abbott, George Russell, J. A. P., Josie B., Eddie Hunter,
+Daisy Brainard, F. W. Fenner, Harry Robertson, Willie Hughes, "Silly,"
+Vinie Summy, Herbert Meacham, Willie H. C., Willie Ellis, "Subscriber,"
+Lizzie L., Arthur Brumbach, Arthur E. T., Arthur Walcott, "Little
+Agnes," Frankie Pratt, Louis C. S., G. R. A., Bessie Saunders.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles are received from Eddie D. Raymond, Marion E.
+Norcross, Birdie A. R., Robbie Reynolds, Harry Van A., S. G. Rosenbaum,
+Alfie Welden, R. W. Dawson, William and Mary L., H. K. P., Louise
+Nichols, A. H. Ellard, Angie Baldwin, Fannie Reeves, Alfred Opdyke,
+Alma, Stella B., Sarah Zelnicker, "North Star," Istalina Beach, Minnie
+Williams, Paul Beardsley, C. B. Howard, B. L. Townsend, Florence
+Stilwell, S. Birdie D., Daisy, Walter Crull, G. C. MacIntosh, G. Vasa
+Edwards, Cass Shelby, Alex and Lewis Mack, Mabel H. B., L. Fobes.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  My first is in left, but not in came.
+  My second is in fire, but not in flame.
+  My third is in flour, but not in lard.
+  My fourth is in soft, but not in hard.
+  My fifth is in blue, but not in pink.
+  My sixth is in water, but not in ink.
+  My seventh is in wren, but not in bird.
+  My whole is a game of which you have heard.
+
+  MARGARET.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+DOUBLE ACROSTIC.
+
+To wither. A proper name. A house of entertainment. Something every city
+is full of. Annually. Answer--Two flowers.
+
+  M. L.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+WORD SQUARE.
+
+First, crystallized vapor. Second, an appellation. Third, a foreboding.
+Fourth, a part of the verb to go.
+
+  STELLA.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 4.
+
+NUMERICAL CHARADE.
+
+  I am composed of 13 letters.
+  My 10, 8, 4, 7 is a manner of walking.
+  My 3, 6, 5, 2, 1 is a fruit.
+  My 10, 12, 11, 13, 9 is a color.
+  My whole is a common Latin phrase.
+  Also the name of a flowering plant.
+
+  W. F. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 5.
+
+DIAMOND PUZZLE.
+
+A vowel. An insect. A violent passion. A useful plant. A consonant.
+
+  H. N. T.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 6.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  My first is in wrong, but not in right.
+  My second is in nymph, but not in sprite.
+  My third is in Willie, but not in Ann.
+  My fourth is in tin, but not in can.
+  My fifth is in tinkle, but not in bell.
+  My sixth is in ill, but not in well.
+  My seventh is in see, but not in look.
+  My eighth is in read, but not in book.
+  My whole is the name of a poet.
+
+  F. W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 19.
+
+No. 1.
+
+Constantinople.
+
+No. 2.
+
+  R   ea   M
+  A  die   U
+  P reache R
+  H  agga  I
+  A lcoho  L
+  E   ar   L
+  L  ared  O
+
+  Raphael, Murillo.
+
+No. 3.
+
+Bread.
+
+No. 4.
+
+  W A R M
+  A R E A
+  R E A L
+  M A L E
+
+No. 5.
+
+Trifles often lead to serious results.
+
+No. 6.
+
+      S
+    U T E
+  S T O R K
+    E R A
+      K
+
+Charade on page 248--Offend.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SOAPBOXTICON.
+
+We have received numerous letters from correspondents about the
+Soapboxticon. Some report great success in making it, while others have
+been unable to make it work right. To the unsuccessful ones we would say
+that you probably do not remove your lens box far enough from the muslin
+screen, your outer box not being quite long enough. In this case, you
+can move the lens box out of the other box as far back as you please.
+The lens we use is about two and a half inches in diameter, but the size
+is of little consequence. The main conditions are to keep the light well
+to one side, that no direct rays pass through the lens to illuminate the
+screen, and to concentrate as bright a light as possible on the picture,
+and on that alone. There should be no other light in the room when the
+experiment is tried, and the picture should be very clear and distinct.
+Two double convex lenses placed one at each end of a tube of card-board
+will act better than one lens alone.
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENTS.
+
+
+
+
+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE will be issued every Tuesday, and may be had at
+the following rates--_payable in advance, postage free_:
+
+  SINGLE COPIES                     $0.04
+  ONE SUBSCRIPTION, _one year_       1.50
+  FIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS, _one year_     7.00
+
+Subscriptions may begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it
+will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the
+Number issued after the receipt of order.
+
+Remittances should be made by POST-OFFICE MONEY ORDER or DRAFT, to avoid
+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.
+
+
+
+
+CANDY
+
+Send one, two, three, or five dollars for a sample box, by express, of
+the best Candies in America, put up elegantly and strictly pure. Refers
+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.
+
+
+
+
+FOR 1880. JUST OUT.
+
+[Illustration: SPALDING'S BASE BALL GUIDE]
+
+The highest authority on Base Ball. The only book published containing
+the official =League Playing Rules=, under which every club in America
+plays; also players' averages, illustrations on curve pitching, batting,
+&c. Every lover of base ball should have a copy. Mailed, postpaid, upon
+receipt of 10c. =A. G. SPALDING & BROS., Publishers, Chicago, Ill.=
+
+
+
+
+OUR CHILDREN'S SONGS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Our Children's Songs. Illustrated. 8vo, Ornamental Cover, $1.00.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The best compilation of songs for the children that we have ever
+seen.--_New Bedford Mercury._
+
+This is a large collection of songs for the nursery, for childhood, for
+boys and for girls, and sacred songs for all. The range of subjects is a
+wide one, and the book is handsomely illustrated.--_Philadelphia
+Ledger._
+
+It contains some of the most beautiful thoughts for children that ever
+found vent in poesy, and beautiful "pictures to match."--_Chicago
+Evening Journal._
+
+An excellent anthology of juvenile poetry, covering the whole range of
+English and American literature.--_Independent_, N. Y.
+
+Songs for the nursery, songs for childhood, for girlhood, boyhood,
+and sacred songs--the whole melody of childhood and youth bound in
+one cover. Full of lovely pictures; sweet mother and baby faces;
+charming bits of scenery, and the dear old Bible story-telling
+pictures.--_Churchman_, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
+
+HARPER & BROTHERS _will send the above work by mail, postage prepaid, to
+any part of the United States, on receipt of the price_.
+
+
+
+
+CHILDREN'S
+
+PICTURE-BOOKS.
+
+     Square 4to, about 300 pages each, beautifully printed on Tinted
+     Paper, embellished with many Illustrations, bound in Cloth, $1.50
+     per volume.
+
+The Children's Picture-Book of Sagacity of Animals.
+
+     With Sixty Illustrations by HARRISON WEIR.
+
+The Children's Bible Picture-Book.
+
+     With Eighty Illustrations, from Designs by STEINLE, OVERBECK,
+     VEIT, SCHNORR, &c.
+
+The Children's Picture Fable-Book.
+
+     Containing One Hundred and Sixty Fables. With Sixty Illustrations
+     by HARRISON WEIR.
+
+The Children's Picture-Book of Birds.
+
+     With Sixty-one Illustrations by W. HARVEY.
+
+The Children's Picture-Book of Quadrupeds and other Mammalia.
+
+     With Sixty-one Illustrations by W. HARVEY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
+
+_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on
+receipt of the price._
+
+
+
+
+Old Books for Young Readers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
+
+     The Thousand and One Nights; or, The Arabian Nights'
+     Entertainments. Translated and Arranged for Family Reading, with
+     Explanatory Notes, by E. W. LANE. 600 Illustrations by Harvey. 2
+     vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3.50.
+
+Robinson Crusoe.
+
+     The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York,
+     Mariner. By DANIEL DEFOE. With a Biographical Account of Defoe.
+     Illustrated by Adams. Complete Edition. 12mo, Cloth, $1.50.
+
+The Swiss Family Robinson.
+
+     The Swiss Family Robinson; or, Adventures of a Father and Mother
+     and Four Sons on a Desert Island. Illustrated. 2 vols., 18mo,
+     Cloth, $1.50.
+
+     The Swiss Family Robinson--Continued: being a Sequel to the
+     Foregoing. 2 vols., 18mo, Cloth, $1.50.
+
+Sandford and Merton.
+
+     The History of Sandford and Merton. By THOMAS DAY. 18mo, Half
+     Bound, 75 cents.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.
+
+_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on
+receipt of the price._
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 1.]
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 2.]
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 3.]
+
+MISFITS.
+
+
+Bob has discovered another amusement. The other evening he suddenly
+commanded me to "draw a head" on a piece of paper that he placed before
+me.
+
+"Don't let me see it, nor anybody. Now fold it back, and leave a little
+bit of the neck showing. Now I'll draw the body."
+
+Which he did, and again folded the paper.
+
+"Now, papa, you draw the legs."
+
+Papa obediently took the pencil, and had his turn at the paper.
+
+"Now, Mamie, you name it. Call it after somebody you know, if you like."
+
+So Mamie named it Miss Foot, in honor of her school-teacher, the most
+stately of maiden ladies. Then Bob unfolded the paper, and displayed to
+us a most comical mixture of flesh and fowl.
+
+"More like a _misfit_, than _Miss Foot_," said papa.
+
+"There! that's what I'll call 'em," exclaimed Bob--"_misfits_. That's
+just what they are, you know--misfits."
+
+"She's a duck, anyway," said Mamie.
+
+"Looks more like a goose," said Bob.
+
+We afterward tried another, in which Mamie had a hand with the pencil. I
+named it after myself, and was rewarded for my vanity by finding "Nelly"
+a more ungainly object than even "Miss Foot."
+
+In making "Misfits" you must remember to leave a small piece of one
+picture projecting into the other, in order to have them join properly.
+You will also find it better to draw them on a larger scale than the
+pictures we give.
+
+
+
+
+CHARADE.
+
+
+  A nimble spring, a noiseless tread,
+  A playful poise of the restless head,
+  A sleepy song of sweet content,
+  While slyly on schemes of mischief bent--
+  'Tis thus the days of my _first_ are spent.
+
+  To do my _second_ is surely human;
+  They say the fault was first with a woman.
+  'Tis a little word, but its power was great,
+  To change the course of a happy fate.
+
+  My _third_ is seen in many a land,
+  Where ancient temples ruined stand,
+  Like a grim sentry, placed before,
+  To guard an open palace door.
+
+  My _whole_, with slow and measured grace,
+  Among the lowly takes its place:
+  Nor dreams its future yet shall be
+  A wondrous thing of mystery.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+SOLUTION OF CHICKEN PUZZLE.
+
+
+The Chicken Puzzle given on page 216 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, No. 17,
+has proved too difficult for any of our readers to solve, and not a
+single correct answer to it has been sent us. The puzzle was to make a
+chicken out of an orange with four cuts of the scissors and the prick of
+a pin. In Fig. 1 of the above diagram the dotted lines on the stalk and
+the white lines on the orange show where the cuts with the scissors are
+to be made, and Fig. 2 shows the pieces put together, and the chicken
+complete.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: LITTLE TOMMY'S NIGHTMARE, AFTER SPENDING AN UNUSUALLY
+BUSY DAY KITE-FLYING.]
+
+
+
+
+
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