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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, July 27, 1880, by Various
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+Title: Harper's Young People, July 27, 1880
+       An Illustrated Weekly
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: June 6, 2009 [EBook #29050]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JULY 27, 1880 ***
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+Produced by Annie McGuire
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+[Illustration: HARPER'S
+
+YOUNG PEOPLE
+
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. I.--NO. 39. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, July 27, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 per
+Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A FREE SWIMMING BATH.--DRAWN BY A. D. SHULTS.--[SEE NEXT
+PAGE.]]
+
+PODDIE AND DICK AT THE FREE BATH.
+
+BY UNCLE FRANK.
+
+
+"Dick, Uncle Fritz'll never come!" exclaimed Poddie Monell, with an
+impatient stamp of his foot, and once more he peered anxiously through
+the bars of the gate at the South Ferry.
+
+"Hold on; don't be so sure, old fellow; there he comes now," said Dick;
+"look just beyond the Elevated. Let's go meet him."
+
+"Keep cool, boys, keep cool; don't rush; there's plenty of time," said
+the gentleman, kindly, giving a hand to each; and crossing the street,
+they sauntered leisurely along one of the broad walks of the Battery.
+
+"Which of the free baths are we going to, and what are they like?" asked
+Dick, whose mind was always travelling ahead of time in a curious
+fashion.
+
+"We are going to the Battery bath, because it is nearest. They are all
+pretty much alike, however," replied his uncle.
+
+"Do tell us all about them," begged Poddie, earnestly, "for I want to
+know if they're anything like our bath at Central Park--whether they
+have hanging rings, a flying trapeze, and places to dive off of."
+
+"Well, no, they don't indulge in the first two luxuries, but they have
+plenty of space, ropes, diving places, and a fair depth of water. But
+let me tell you how much good they do.
+
+"There are four free baths stationed on the East River--at
+One-hundred-and-twelfth Street, Thirty-seventh Street, Fifth Street, and
+Gouverneur Street; and three on the North River--at the Battery, Bethune
+Street, and Fifty-first Street; and one floating around without any home
+at all--that is, it is built, and the authorities have not decided where
+to anchor it."
+
+"Well?" exclaimed both boys, interestedly.
+
+"Now, boys, in order to understand thoroughly how much these free baths
+are to the people who use them, you must put yourselves in some other
+boys' boots, or perhaps I should say jackets, so many of them have no
+boots at all.
+
+"You and Dick live in a very lovely home. Just imagine yourselves in a
+dingy tenement-house, shut up for the night, with three or four other
+boys, to sleep in a dark room where never sunlight or breeze enters
+through the whole year; the heat is suffocating; you toss uneasily back
+and forth, more than likely on the floor. You have heard during the day
+that to-morrow the Gouverneur Street or some other bath will be open.
+What do you do?
+
+"Before the day breaks you leap from your bed, waken your brothers or
+comrades, fling on your jackets and trousers, rush down the rickety
+stairways out into the cooler air of the morning, and scud down to the
+docks.
+
+"When you arrive there you find already quite a line of boys and men
+ahead of you. You can not go above them--the policemen won't allow
+it--so you take your places at the foot of the line, glad that it is no
+longer. Poddie is number fifty-one, Dick fifty-two. By twos and threes
+the line grows to be three hundred strong. At five o'clock the doors
+open, the keepers appear, and one hundred are admitted. But here we are:
+you shall begin to judge for yourselves."
+
+"Whew!" exclaimed Dick, looking up and down a long line of ragged, grimy
+urchins, who were tiptoeing in impatience to enter. "How will all those
+fellows get in? Shall we have to foot the line?"
+
+"Not while I have my 'open, sesame,' with me," replied Uncle Fritz,
+pointing to a small silver badge on his coat lapel.
+
+The keeper just glanced at it, and Dick was greatly surprised to see how
+politely they were invited to walk in, "all through a bit of shiny
+silver," as he expressed it afterward.
+
+"What a crowd of boys!" thought Poddie, as his eye roved from one to
+another of the hundred ducking, diving, splashing little and big
+fellows, who were laughing and shouting with delight. "What a jolly time
+they're having!" said he, turning to his uncle.
+
+"Yes," said that gentleman. "I don't believe you have more fun at the
+Central Park bath, Poddie."
+
+"Don't know as we do," replied Poddie, dubiously. "But what does that
+mean?" added he, startled by the brazen clangor of a large bell that
+rung high above the noises a warning "Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding."
+
+"Time's up!" shouted the keeper, almost as loud as his bell. Silence
+fell upon the gleeful throng instantly. With downcast faces and slow,
+reluctant feet the bathers commenced to crawl up the wet steps, tumble
+over the railings, and trailing little brooks of water behind them,
+sought the bath-rooms, whence they slowly emerged, some fairly well
+dressed, but the majority in rags and tatters.
+
+"The boys is putty fair to-day, along o' you visitors, sir," said the
+keeper; "but we mostly has to hunt 'em out o' the dark corners--where
+they dart to as soon as the bell rings--with this rattan, or they'd stay
+in all the day."
+
+"How about the girls--do they enjoy the privileges of these free baths?"
+inquired Uncle Fritz?
+
+"Yes, sir, they does, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, an' a lively
+lot they is, too; the women keepers has their hands full."
+
+No sooner had the first crowd of boys disappeared than pell-mell in
+rushed a tumultuous throng, pushing and jostling in spite of the
+shouting keepers.
+
+Begrimed and perspiring, and panting with impatience to enjoy the
+blessing of the cooler element, it is the work of but a moment in the
+bath-rooms; the doors fly open, and down they plunge from steps and
+railings into the cool green depths.
+
+The water splashes and dashes and foams, lashed by scores of active
+hands and feet, until the boys are fairly deafened by the roar.
+
+"Gracious! you'd think they hadn't seen water in a year, wouldn't you,
+Dick?" said Poddie.
+
+"Half o' them's repeaters," said the keeper, overhearing the remark.
+
+"Beg pardon--did you call them repeaters? what's that?" inquired Poddie,
+politely.
+
+"Repeaters? Why, repeaters is boys who go from bath to bath, only
+waiting to get their heads dry; then they rubs mud on their faces to
+make 'em dirty, so we can't know 'em, consequentially they gets in half
+a dozen times at different baths. How are we to know them? bless your
+eyes!"
+
+"Have you any fine swimmers among them?" inquired Uncle Fritz,
+pleasantly.
+
+"Yes, sir," replied the keeper, "some o' these chaps are reg'lar
+fishes--nat'ral-born eels, you may say. Here, Patsy Miller, 'Roxy,'
+'Spider,' come along and show these young gentlemen some o' your
+tricks."
+
+The three boys, hearing their names shouted by the keeper and their
+playmates, come forward, looking sheepishly pleased at their momentary
+importance.
+
+"Go to the roof and dive," commands the keeper.
+
+In a few seconds they appear on the pebbled roof opposite, thin-limbed,
+brown, and lithe as Arabs.
+
+"Ready--dive!"
+
+One after another the heads are bowed, hands are clasped palm to palm
+and pointed forward, and away they go, head-first like frogs. Three
+splashes mark where they go under; three lines of bubbles across the
+bath tell where the glossy heads will come up.
+
+"Bravo! bravo! well done!" cries Uncle Fritz.
+
+"Dive backward, and swim oar stroke," directs the keeper.
+
+Nothing loath, the boys mount the railings, the swimmers making way for
+them. One, two, three. Down they go on their backs, come up like corks,
+throw their arms high in air, bring them down full length behind their
+heads, draw back their feet, and with an oar-like sweep of their limbs
+make long darts through the water.
+
+"How splendid!" observes Dick, turning to his uncle.
+
+"Turn somersaults," shouts the keeper.
+
+"Goody gracious! that's what they do up at the Central," says Dick,
+laughing heartily, as now six heels, then three heads, alternately
+appear on the surface of the water.
+
+"Make a raft," orders the keeper. Immediately Patsy and "Spider" and
+"Roxy" are on their backs again; they lock arms, paddle with their feet,
+and make quite a respectable raft as they cross the bath.
+
+Suddenly the raft goes to pieces, the swimmers dive, and stay under so
+long that Poddie thinks they are gone for good; but no, they are up
+again, ready for more fun.
+
+A game of "leap-frog" and "playing porpoise" are both entered into with
+fine spirit, for the boys all wish to show off.
+
+A boat-race, in which a dozen boys either "sculled" or swam "oar
+stroke," as they fancied, Dick and Poddie declared "quite the best
+thing" they had ever seen in the swimming line.
+
+Once more the great bell sounded its notes of doom, and the dripping
+crowd gave place to a dry one.
+
+"We're obliged to do this in midsummer," remarked the keeper, alluding
+to the clearing-out process, "to give the largest numbers a chance; we
+must git through with the boys, for after six the men'll be comin'
+along, tired and dusty, from their work."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"What do you think of the free baths, boys?" asked Uncle Fritz, as they
+crossed the Battery.
+
+"I'm mighty glad that _poor_ boys have as good a chance as _we_ rich
+fellows," replied Dick, clinking some silver in his pocket, with the air
+of a banker.
+
+"Then it keeps them from the sharks," remarked Poddie, thoughtfully.
+
+"And makes them clean and healthy, besides giving them any amount of
+innocent pleasure," added their uncle.
+
+
+
+
+ROSE AND CATERPILLAR.
+
+
+  "Oh, caterpillar," said a rose
+    One lovely summer day,
+  "Your constant eating drives me wild;
+    I wish you'd go away.
+  I really can not see what use
+    You and your kind can be;
+  You naught but mischief do, and are
+    Unpleasant things to see."
+
+  A moment after that same rose
+    Smiled on a butterfly
+  That stopped to show his rainbowed wings
+    As he was passing by.
+  Oh, if she only could have known--
+    The pretty, dainty rose--
+  _He_ was a caterpillar too,
+    Arrayed in splendid clothes!
+
+
+
+
+VISITING A TEA PLANTATION.--PREPARATION OF TEA.
+
+FROM ADVANCE SHEETS OF "THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE FAR EAST." PART
+SECOND.
+
+BY THOMAS W. KNOX.
+
+
+Frank and Fred had long wished to visit a tea plantation, and while they
+were in Java this wish was gratified. The following extract from their
+journal describes what they saw and learned during their visit:
+
+"The first thing the tea-planter has to do after getting possession of
+his lease is to clear the land and get ready for planting. The outlay
+for this is considerable, and not much unlike clearing up a farm in New
+England, or in the backwoods of Canada. Then the young plants are set
+out; after this has been done, the ground must be kept clear of weeds,
+just as in raising corn or potatoes. It must be frequently stirred, so
+that the plant can get as much nourishment as possible from the earth;
+and when this is done, the planter has the satisfaction of seeing the
+bushes grow with considerable rapidity.
+
+"We walked through the fields where the plants were growing, and found
+them of different ages and sizes. If we had not known where we were, we
+might have thought we were in a field of English myrtle bushes, as the
+tea-plant is much like the myrtle in general appearance. It grows from
+two to six feet high, and has white blossoms that resemble small
+dogroses.
+
+"One of us asked which were the plants that produced green tea, and
+which the black. The owner of the plantation smiled, and said there was
+no difference.
+
+"We laughed at our own ignorance, as he explained that the difference of
+the teas was entirely owing to the manipulation. We asked why it was
+that some districts in China produced only green teas, while others were
+reputed to make none but black; and he told us it was because the
+workmen in those districts had been accustomed to follow only one form
+of manipulation.
+
+"It takes three years to get a plantation in condition to produce tea.
+The seeds are sown in a nursery bed, and the young plants are not ready
+to be set out till they are a year old. They are then about nine inches
+high, and covered with leaves, and the first crop is taken when they
+have been growing two years in the field. The leaves are the lungs of
+the plant, and it would die if all of them were stripped off.
+Consequently only a part of them are removed at a picking; and if a
+plant is sickly, it is not disturbed at all. The plants will last from
+ten to twelve years, and are then renewed; and on all the large
+plantations it is the custom to make nursery beds every year, so that
+there will be a constant succession of new plants for setting out in
+place of the old ones.
+
+"At the first gathering the half-opened buds are taken, and from them
+the finest teas are made. Then they have another gathering when the
+leaves are fully opened, and then another and another, till they have
+five or six gatherings in the course of the year. Each time the leaves
+are coarser than those of the previous gathering, and consequently the
+tea is not of so fine a quality. A well-managed plantation produces all
+kinds of tea; and it was a wise requirement of the Dutch government,
+when they started the tea-culture in Java, that the planters should
+produce proportionate quantities of both black and green, and not less
+than four qualities of each."
+
+[Illustration: GATHERING TEA-LEAVES.]
+
+"The gathering takes place only in clear weather; and for the best teas
+the picking is confined to the afternoon, when the leaves are thoroughly
+dry, and have been warmed by the sun. Only the thumb and forefinger are
+used in plucking the leaves from the bush; the pickers are generally
+women and children, who can gather on the average about forty pounds of
+leaves in a day. It takes nearly four pounds of leaves to make one pound
+of dry tea; and the usual estimate is that a plantation of one hundred
+thousand plants can send ten thousand pounds of tea to market in the
+course of a year."
+
+[Illustration: DRYING TEA IN THE SUN.]
+
+"Different kinds of tea require different treatment, as we have already
+seen. For green tea the leaves are roasted as soon as they have been
+gathered, and are then rolled and dried; but the leaves intended for
+black teas are spread on bamboo trays five or six inches deep, and
+placed on frames where they can have plenty of sun and air. They remain
+here from noon till sunset; and if the weather is damp they are further
+dried by artificial heat. For this purpose they are placed on frames
+over shallow pans containing burning charcoal, and are tossed and
+stirred with the hand until they emit a certain fragrance. The heat
+should be very slight; and the frames are made so high that it is
+necessary for a man to mount a small ladder in order to reach the
+trays.
+
+"The sense of smell in the skillful workers of tea is very acute, and
+they can tell, to almost a minute, the exact time when the drying should
+cease, and the next process begin. The Chinese workmen are better than
+any others for this branch of the business, and on many plantations most
+of the manipulation is performed by Chinese, though their labor is more
+expensive than that of the Malays. Our host showed us through his
+factory, where the men were busy in the various processes; and as he
+told us about each step of the business, he took us to the department
+where that particular work was going on.
+
+"After showing the leaves spread out on the frames, he led the way to a
+sort of stove, where a man was manipulating some tea in a pan over a
+charcoal fire."
+
+[Illustration: DRYING OVER CHARCOAL.]
+
+"'This is what we call roasting,' he said, 'and the great object of the
+roaster is to dry the leaves without burning them. You see he does not
+allow them to be quiet a single instant, but tosses and turns them in
+all directions, so that none may stick to the bottom of the pan, which
+they might easily do, owing to the moisture they contain.'
+
+"We watched the roasting till we thought we understood it well, and as
+the place was hot, we did not care to stay there a great while. The
+leaves lose their fragrance when first thrown into the roasting pan, and
+give out a rank smell, but they gradually recover their perfume, and are
+ready for the next process, which is called rolling.
+
+"The tea from the roasting pan was given to a couple of men, who stood
+in front of a table or bench, with bamboo mats before them. One had a
+large mustache, the largest we had ever seen on a Chinese face, and the
+other consoled himself for the absence of that hairy ornament by smoking
+a pipe.
+
+"The roller takes as much tea as he can cover with both his hands, and
+places it on the mat in a sort of ball. He keeps the leaves closely
+together, and rolls them from right to left; this motion gives each leaf
+a twist on itself, and rolls it so firmly that it retains the shape when
+dry. This part of the work requires peculiar dexterity, and can only be
+performed successfully after long practice. When a man becomes skillful
+in it, he can roll the tea with wonderful rapidity; and when his work is
+done, every leaf will be found separate from the others, and twisted as
+though it had been passed through a machine.
+
+"The work of rolling the tea is very tiresome, and so the men sometimes
+perform it with their feet when they wish to give their hands a rest. We
+saw one man at his occupation in this way, and he certainly seemed to
+enjoy it.
+
+"After they have been properly rolled, the leaves are spread on trays,
+and exposed to the sun and air for several hours, and then they are once
+more roasted. The second roasting is milder than the first, and is done
+over a slower fire; and afterward the leaves are rolled again, to make
+sure that none of them have become spread out. For the black tea the
+roasting is done in a shallow pan, the same as the first; but the green
+teas are put in a deep pan, and subjected to a very high heat.
+
+"While the green tea is being roasted there must be a great deal of care
+on the part of everybody concerned. The pan is nearly red-hot when the
+tea is put into it, about a pound at a time, and the operator in charge
+keeps it in rapid motion. One boy tends the fire, while another stands
+by with a fan to prevent the burning of the tea.
+
+"After their final roasting the teas are put in a long basket, shaped
+like an hour-glass, and having a sieve in the centre. This basket is
+placed over a charcoal fire and submitted to the heat for several
+minutes, when the tea is poured out and receives another rolling. This
+operation is repeated several times, till the tea is thoroughly tired of
+it, and also thoroughly dry. Then it is passed through sieves, to
+separate the different qualities from each other; and finally it is
+winnowed, to remove all the dust and dirt. Then it is 'fired,' or dried,
+once more, to drive away the last particle of moisture; and in this
+condition it is ready to go into the chests in which it is carried to
+the lands where it is to be used."
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in No. 31 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, June 1.]
+
+THE MORAL PIRATES.
+
+BY W. L. ALDEN.
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+The boat was in a shallow part of the river, between the shore and a
+long row of piles that marked the steamboat channel. Harry sounded with
+an oar, and found that the water was only two feet deep. "We'll have to
+get overboard and drag the boat over the piles," said he, "and it's
+going to be a mighty hard job too. That swell threw us over as neat as
+the bull threw Joe over the fence up at Lenox last summer."
+
+"When I got pitched over that fence I staid there," said Joe. "I didn't
+try to get back into the field where the bull was, and I don't see what
+we want to get back where the steamboats are for."
+
+"That's so," exclaimed Harry. "We're safe enough here. Let's get the
+water out of the boat, and keep on this side of the piles."
+
+When the boat was made dry, and the lighted lantern was hoisted to the
+top of the mast, Tom resumed his place at the helm, and Harry and Joe
+prepared to take another nap. "I don't want to grumble," said Joe, "but
+I wish I didn't have to lie on the coffee-pot and a tin cup. I don't
+feel comfortable on that kind of bed."
+
+"I'll change with you if you like," replied Harry. "I'm sleeping on a
+beautiful soft bottle of oil, and some sardine boxes; but I don't want
+to be selfish and keep the best bed for myself."
+
+"Oh, never mind," returned Joe. "I'll manage to sleep if Jim don't step
+on my face. I always did hate to have anybody step on my face when I was
+asleep."
+
+"Well, good-night, everybody," said Harry. "I'm going straight to sleep.
+Tom, be sure you wake me up if a steamboat tries to climb over these
+piles."
+
+This time Tom did not fall asleep at the helm, but the wind gradually
+died away, and the sail hung limp and useless. Jim got out the oars
+without stepping on anybody, and rowed slowly on. In a little while they
+came to the end of the shallow lagoon into which the swell had so
+unexpectedly cast them. A sand-bank stretched from the shore to the line
+of piles, and it was impossible to go any farther. Tom decided to make
+the boat fast to the limb of a willow-tree that projected over the
+water, and to go ashore and sleep on the sand. Neither he nor Jim
+thought it worth while to wake the other boys; so they gathered up their
+blankets, crept quietly out of the boat, and were soon asleep on the
+soft, warm sand. When Harry and Joe awoke at daylight, stiff and
+cramped, they were disposed to be rather indignant at Tom and Jim, who
+were sleeping so comfortably on the sand; but Tom soon convinced them
+that he had acted from the best of motives, and they readily forgave
+him.
+
+[Illustration: GETTING OUT OF THE TRAP.-DRAWN BY A. B. FROST.]
+
+Of course breakfast was the first business of the day, and after that
+was finished the boat had to be entirely unloaded before she could be
+lifted over the piles into the channel. For the first time since they
+had started on the cruise the breeze was ahead, but it was so light that
+it was of very little consequence. The sky was cloudy, and the day
+promised to be a cool one; so the boys resolved to take to their oars,
+and try, if possible, to reach Albany before night. When the boat was
+loaded, Tom and Jim each took a long oar, and Harry took his usual seat
+in the stern-sheets. They all felt fresh, in spite of their night's
+adventure, and started gayly on their intended long day's row.
+
+By this time they had found out that although round tin boxes were very
+well to keep things dry, they are by no means handy to carry in a boat.
+Their shape made it impossible to stow them compactly. Joe, who sat at
+the bow, always had to pick his way over these tin boxes in going to or
+coming from his station; and he was constantly catching his foot in the
+spaces left between the boxes, and falling down on them. This smashed in
+the covers, and tried Joe's temper sorely. Once he sat down so violently
+on the box which held the sugar, that he went completely through the
+cover, and was fastened in the box as securely as a cork in a bottle. He
+was only released after a great deal of work, and just in time to enable
+the boys to have sugar in their coffee at night. Harry resolved that he
+would never cruise again with round boxes, but would have small rubber
+bags made, in which to put everything that required to be kept dry.
+
+The boys took turns at the oars every hour, and rowed steadily until
+noon. They gave themselves an hour for lunch and resting, and then
+resumed their work. Late in the afternoon they came in sight of Albany,
+and went ashore, so as to get their dinner before reaching the city.
+After dinner they again pulled away at the oars, and at about nine
+o'clock they stopped at a lumber-yard on the outskirts of Albany, and,
+creeping in among the lumber, wrapped their blankets around them, and
+dropped asleep, completely worn out, but proud of their long day's row.
+
+Before sunrise the next morning, Tom was awakened by a stick which was
+thrust into his ribs. Without opening his eyes, he muttered, "You quit
+that, or I'll get up and pound you," and immediately dropped asleep
+again. Somebody then kicked him so sharply that he roused himself up,
+and, opening his eyes, was dazzled by the gleam of a bull's-eye lantern.
+He could not at first imagine where he was; but as he presently found
+that a big policeman had him by the collar, and was calling him "an
+impudent young thief," he began to imagine that something was wrong.
+
+"I've got you this time," said the policeman, "and the whole gang of
+you. Where did you steal that property in your boat from, you precious
+young river pirate?"
+
+"We're not river pirates," replied Tom. "We're Moral Pirates, and we
+brought those things in the boat with us from New York."
+
+"Well, I like your cheek!" said the officer; "owning up that you're
+pirates. Now just you and your gang take everything out of that boat and
+let me see what you've got. If any of you try to escape, I'll put a
+bullet into you. You hear me?"
+
+The other boys had been awakened by the loud voice of the policeman, and
+were staring at him in utter astonishment.
+
+"He thinks we're river thieves," said Tom. "Harry, we'll have to show
+him what we've got in the boat, and then he'll see his mistake."
+
+Harry eagerly assured the policeman that they had come from New York on
+a pleasure cruise, and had nothing in the boat except provisions and
+stores. "That's a pretty story," said the officer. "You can tell that to
+the court. Your boat's full of junk that you've stolen from somewhere;
+and you'd better hand it out mighty quick."
+
+The boys were thus compelled to unload their boat, while the policeman
+stood over them with his club in one hand and his lantern in the other.
+He was not a stupid man, and he soon perceived that the boys had told
+him the truth; they were not the gang of river thieves for whom he had
+mistaken them. He therefore apologized, in a rough way, and even helped
+the boys repack the boat.
+
+"What I can't understand," said he, "is why you boys come here and sleep
+in a lumber-yard, when you might be sleeping at home in your beds. Now
+if you were thieves, you couldn't get any better lodgings, you know; but
+you're gentlemen's sons, and you ought to know better. Why don't you go
+down to the hotel, and live like gentlemen? Where's the fun in being
+arrested, and taking up my valuable time?"
+
+The boys assured him that they had never enjoyed themselves more than
+they had while on the cruise, and after a little more talk the officer
+turned slowly away.
+
+"By-the-bye," he exclaimed, suddenly turning back again, "one of you
+told me you were pirates. I ought to take you in after all. I believe
+you're a lot of boys that have been reading dime novels, and have run
+away from home."
+
+"I didn't say we were pirates," replied Tom. "I said we were Moral
+Pirates. That's a very different thing."
+
+"Of course it is," said Joe. "A Moral Pirate is a sort of missionary,
+you know. I'm afraid you don't go to Sunday-school, officer, or you'd
+know better."
+
+The policeman could not quite make up his mind whether Joe was in joke
+or in earnest; but as he could find no real reason for arresting the
+boys, he contented himself with telling them to leave the lumber-yard as
+soon as the sun rose. "And you'd better look out," he added, "that you
+don't come across any real river thieves. They'll make no bones of
+seizing your boat, and knocking you on the head if you make any noise."
+When he was fairly out of sight, the boys crept back to their shelter
+among the lumber, and coolly went to sleep again. They were so tired
+that neither policemen nor river thieves had any terrors for them.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+A CONFESSION.
+
+BY GEORGE N. LOVEJOY.
+
+
+  "Do you love me?" stammered Benny
+    To a bright-eyed little maid;
+  "Do you love me, love me, Jenny?--
+    I'll not tell; don't be afraid."
+
+  "Yes, I love you," answered Jenny;
+    "But 'twas only yesterday
+  That I said the same thing, Benny"
+    (And she blushed), "to Robbie Gray."
+
+
+
+
+POOR BEN!
+
+BY SYDNEY DAYRE.
+
+
+"Ha, Uncle Dud, I've found your lady-love's curl!"
+
+His uncle drew near Hal, as he rummaged in an old desk.
+
+"Ah," he said, "is that there? I haven't seen it for many a year, but
+now I remember putting it there."
+
+He took the short brown lock of hair in his hand, and looked at it with
+almost a tender interest.
+
+"He saved my life when I was a boy, Hal."
+
+"Who, uncle?"
+
+"The one who wore this curl."
+
+"Oh, tell me all about it; come, do, Uncle Dud;" and Hal laid his hand
+coaxingly on his uncle's arm. "Was he one of your playmates?"
+
+"Yes."
+
+"How old was he when he did it?"
+
+"I didn't know exactly his age. Ten or twelve, perhaps, or thereabouts.
+But there is the tea-bell. I'll tell you about it after tea."
+
+Uncle Dudley found his audience increased by four or five expectant boys
+and girls, who gathered around him on the broad piazza, attracted by the
+rumor that "one of Uncle Dud's stories" was in prospect. Little Elsie
+crept into his lap as he began:
+
+"I don't think I have ever told you anything of my poor friend Ben, but
+he played a very important part in many of the pranks and sports and
+joys and sorrows of my earlier boyhood. I think that, outside of my own
+family, my attachment to him was the strongest I have ever formed.
+People used to laugh at us, and call him my younger brother, we showed
+so much affection for each other."
+
+"Was he a son of your neighbor?" asked Hal.
+
+"No, not his son, but his home was with our nearest neighbor. It was
+never known who his parents were. He came to Mr. Washburn's house one
+day, nobody knew where from; but he attracted the attention of all by
+his fine bright, honest face. I shall never forget the look of his great
+earnest brown eyes; I used to think they expressed more in a minute than
+some folks could talk in an hour. Then he had soft hair--this you
+see--brown, with the least tinge of auburn through it, and was most
+graceful in his movements. He would strike any one as a handsome
+fellow."
+
+"What did he come for, uncle? Do you mean that he was a beggar? Did he
+ask for food?"
+
+"He didn't ask for anything, but it was easy to see what he needed, and
+country hospitality was not likely to wait till he asked. He staid about
+there a few days, and made friends with every one. Before long he seemed
+to have quietly grown to be almost one of the family, and I think they
+would have been as sorry to lose him as he would to go. He and I 'took
+to' each other at once, and I owe many of the happiest hours of my boy
+life to his companionship, for I had no brother near my own age."
+
+"And did your parents really allow you to make a companion of such a
+little tramp?" asked Hal, with a slight sniff, and a toss of the head
+which he conceived to be rather aristocratic. "How did they know what
+kind of a fellow he might have been?"
+
+"Well, they never seemed to fear any harm coming to me through him. Ben
+showed a much better disposition than I ever did. He was very gentle in
+his manners, always inclined to yield to me in everything, giving me my
+own way to an extent which unfortunately fostered my tendency to be
+domineering and overbearing. It was this trait in my character which led
+to the incident I am about to tell you of.
+
+"In the summer vacations he and I--"
+
+"Excuse me for interrupting you, Uncle Dud; but how did this Ben get
+along at school?"
+
+"Well, he never went to school--"
+
+"Never went to school? Why, didn't those folks he lived with give him
+any advantages?"
+
+"--But I don't think any one seemed to consider him neglected. He was
+naturally very quick of perception, and had a wonderful faculty of
+gathering information from his surroundings. He seemed so well fitted
+for whatever duties fell to him, that I don't believe any one thought it
+necessary to send him to school."
+
+"What was he good for, anyhow?"
+
+"He made himself generally useful and agreeable. He used to drive cows,
+dig in the garden, etc., and as the family grew fond of him, they used
+to take him out with them a great deal."
+
+"They must have been a queer set, though, to let him grow to be a man in
+ignorance."
+
+"Ben never got to be a man. But I agree with you, Hal, that a man
+without education, or a boy either, is a poor thing."
+
+"Oh, did Ben die young?" said Hal, with a soberer face.
+
+"Yes. I _did_ take him to school with me once--what a tricky young
+rascal I must have been! He walked to the school-house door with me, and
+I forced him in--much against his will it was, but I always made him
+mind me. I seated him in the master's chair, and ordered him to stay
+there, while I went to my seat. Of course the boys all laughed, and poor
+Ben trembled and looked imploringly at me, but I shook my fist at him to
+make him sit still. Presently the master came in. He was a
+quick-tempered man, and when he saw what was going on, how mad he was!
+He snatched up a rule, but Ben was too smart for him. He sprang from the
+chair and went out of the half-open window at one bound, with an awful
+crash of glass and sash, and was off swift as the wind. Then the master
+tried to find out who was in fault, but could get no further than the
+truth that he belonged to none of us. No one told of me, so I missed the
+thrashing which would have been so willingly bestowed."
+
+"I think it was right mean of you to treat Ben so, uncle."
+
+"I think so too, and that wasn't my worst treatment of him, as you shall
+hear.
+
+"A small river formed the boundary of one side of my father's farm. On
+its bank, in one spot which was surrounded and sheltered by a thick
+growth of willows, Ben and I used to spend many an hour. He was an
+excellent swimmer, and very fond of the water. One morning we were
+having a merry time; we swam, dived, and rowed in the lovely sunshine.
+At last I picked up a piece of wood and threw it to the other side of
+the stream, trying to hit a water-rat. As it left my hand, I saw that it
+was a piece I had selected for the hull of a miniature boat, just
+suitable for that purpose, being straight-grained and exactly the right
+thickness. I told Ben to go and get it for me, but he was probably tired
+of play, for, for the first time, he refused to do my bidding, and went
+and lay down under a tree. I was angry, and ordered him loudly and
+roughly, picking up a stone and threatening him. He looked reproachfully
+at me, and turned and walked quickly toward his home.
+
+"Now throwing stones was one of my great faults. I can not tell how
+often my mother had scolded, threatened, and punished me for it. Even at
+that moment there came vividly before me the remembrance of a time when
+I had killed a robin, and brought it and showed her what I had done--for
+I must do myself the justice to say I was always frank in confessing my
+faults. She took the poor dead bird in her hands, and with tears in her
+eyes talked to me in a tone of deeper anger and sorrow than I had ever
+heard from her.
+
+"'They are God's little creatures. They are dumb, except for the sweet
+songs they bring us. They are helpless, except as their helplessness
+appeals to human beings for pity and protection. I believe the Lord's
+blessing will _never_ rest on those who are cruel to things weaker than
+themselves.'
+
+"I was really sorry, and wanted to tell her so, but a spirit of pride
+tempted me to 'brave it out,' so I said, with a poor attempt at a laugh,
+'Oh, I'm sorry, of course, but you know it comes natural to boys to
+throw stones.'
+
+"If I had been at all decent about it, she would have forgiven me at
+once; but, ah me! I never saw her move so quickly as when she went out
+the back door and broke off a supple green apple switch. After making
+most vigorous use of it she sent me to my room, with the remark, 'It
+fortunately comes natural to mothers to punish.'
+
+"I spent the rest of the day there, and as I feasted on bread and water,
+and realized that there was company to tea, and that my whole being
+craved spring chicken, jelly cake, and quince preserves, I made up my
+mind that in future there would be one boy to whom it would come less
+'natural' to throw stones.
+
+"All this passed through my mind as I stood with the stone in my hand.
+But my tyrannical temper mastered me, and as Ben turned and looked back,
+I flung it at him. I did _not_ mean to hit his head, but there was where
+it struck, in the brown hair just above one eye. I saw the blood trickle
+from a cut, as with a sharp cry of pain he ran away and disappeared. I
+was shocked at what I had done, but you know there are some conditions
+of mind in which self-reproach only makes anger hotter. I did not obey
+my impulse to follow the poor fellow, but threw off my jacket and
+plunged into the stream to recover the block I wanted. I suppose I had
+already been too long in the water, for when about half way over I was
+seized with a cramp. In a moment I became helpless, and screamed wildly
+as I felt myself going down--down--down. I arose to the surface again
+too nearly drowned to scream any more, but with just sense enough left
+to feel myself seized by something. That was the last I knew.
+
+"But I was afterward told how my father and some of the farm hands came
+rushing down just in time to see Ben panting, almost exhausted, as he
+drew me to the shore. There was blood on my face, which added to my
+mother's great alarm when I was carried to her. Not my blood, as you may
+guess, but poor Ben's--the result of my cruel blow.
+
+"There is not much more to tell. I was in bed several days after it. The
+first time Ben came to see me I put my arms around his neck, and begged
+him to forgive me."
+
+"What did he say?"
+
+"Not a word. He never was a talker. But I knew by his clear, earnest
+eyes that he had never harbored a hard thought of me. I need not tell
+you I treated him more kindly after that. We continued, if possible,
+closer friends than ever, till I was sent away to school."
+
+"And you say Ben did not live to be a man, uncle?" said Hal, whose
+interest in the "little tramp" had greatly increased. "How old was he
+when he died? Tell us about it, please."
+
+"His death was a very sad occurrence, taking place the same season I
+left home. One night a suspicious-looking person came prowling about Mr.
+Washburn's place. Ben was the first to hear him--he always seemed to
+have one ear open when the interests of his friends were concerned--and
+ran toward him, making all the noise he could to arouse the family. The
+brave fellow seized hold of the marauder, who drew a revolver, and beat
+him about the head, and as he still held on, shot him."
+
+A murmur of regret and indignation arose from the little audience.
+
+"The man made off, and Ben was found to be not dead, but terribly
+injured: a leg was broken, and his head fearfully bruised. All that kind
+care could do for him was done, but it soon appeared that he was beyond
+all hope of recovery, and to put an end to his sufferings another
+bullet--this time aimed in sorrowful kindness--did its quick work on the
+life of poor Ben."
+
+"_What's that?_" cried Hal, starting up. "Do you mean that they _shot_
+him? Killed a boy because he was badly hurt? I never heard of such--"
+
+"_Boy?_" said his uncle, looking at him in great surprise. Then he went
+on: "When I heard of it, it almost broke my heart; and the first time I
+went home after it, and no Ben came bounding to meet me, wagging his
+tail, and with a face beaming welcome, I felt as though I had--"
+
+"Hey, uncle! Wagging _his tail_? _Whose_ tail? What are you talking
+about? Haven't you been telling us about a _boy_ all this time?"
+
+"Yes. _I_ was a boy. But Ben was not."
+
+"A--dog!"
+
+Hal threw himself on the grass-plot and shouted with laughter, all his
+sympathy for Ben lost in his amusement at this unexpected disclosure.
+
+"Oh, Uncle Dud! you're too much for me. 'Never went to school,' 'never
+grew to be a man'--oh no. 'No talker,' 'didn't ask for anything'--modest
+fellow! Oh, that's too good!"
+
+Boys and girls had a hearty laugh, and ran away to play hide-and-seek in
+the summer twilight--all but little Elsie, who tenderly stroked the
+brown curl, and laid it against her soft cheek, sighing, "Poor Ben!
+poo-oor doggie!"
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: AN UNWELCOME GUEST.--DRAWN BY H. P. SHARE.]
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 31, July 13.]
+
+THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN NAVY.
+
+BY BENSON J. LOSSING.
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+"North African pirates are out on the Mediterranean Sea; our budding
+commerce there is in danger; we _must_ have a navy to protect it," wrote
+a distinguished American in Europe to Alexander Hamilton. President
+Washington called the attention of Congress to the matter, and in the
+spring of 1794 he was authorized to have six frigates built, each
+carrying not less than thirty-two cannon. The keel of the _Constitution_
+(yet afloat) was soon laid at Boston, and so the creation of the Navy of
+the United States was begun.
+
+To the heroes of the Continental Navy the people looked for commanders
+of the new frigates, and Barry, Nicholson, Talbot, Barney, Dale, and
+Truxton, all of whom had done gallant service in the war for
+independence, were chosen.
+
+The building of the frigates was unwisely suspended in the fall of 1795.
+"Pay me so many hundred thousand dollars every year, and I will let your
+ships alone," said the piratical ruler of Algiers. The terms were agreed
+to. Congress seemed to think that now all danger to commerce was
+overpast, and a navy would be an extravagant toy. But when, not long
+afterward, French cruisers seized American ships, and English cruisers
+claimed the right (and exercised it) to take seamen from our vessels
+without leave, Congress perceived the folly of their humiliating action.
+
+War with France was threatened in the spring of 1798. The startled
+Congress ordered the six frigates to be finished, and more to be built
+or purchased. A Navy Department was organized, and a Secretary of the
+Navy appointed. Recruits were called for. The navy became very popular,
+and the ships were soon filled, with the sons of the best families in
+the land holding the rank of midshipmen.
+
+The first vessel of the new navy that went to sea was the _Ganges_,
+twenty-four guns. She was to protect the ports of New York,
+Philadelphia, and Baltimore against French cruisers. Toward midsummer
+(1798), Congress authorized the seizure of French armed vessels found
+prowling along our coasts. For this purpose Truxton, with the
+_Constellation_, and Decatur the elder, with the _Delaware_, immediately
+went to sea. Decatur soon returned with the French cruiser _Le Croyable_
+as a prize. She was added to the navy, named _Retaliation_, and put
+under the command of Lieutenant Bainbridge. Captain Barry, with the
+frigate _United States_, soon followed, with many young men who
+afterward became distinguished in their country's service. Before the
+end of the year nearly the whole American navy was among the West India
+Islands, engaged in convoying merchantmen to and from the United States.
+This sudden appearance on the sea of a new naval power astonished the
+English and the French, and made both more cautious.
+
+[Illustration: FIGHT BETWEEN THE "CONSTELLATION" AND "LA VENGEANCE."]
+
+Early in 1799, Truxton, with the _Constellation_, captured the famous
+French frigate _L'Insurgente_, near the island of Nevis, after a severe
+battle for an hour. This triumph made Truxton famous. His praises were
+on every lip. A song called "Truxton's Victory" was sung everywhere in
+public and private. A year later his fame was increased by his combat
+with another French frigate, which he had searched for among the islands
+of the West Indies. Off Guadeloupe he fell in with a large French vessel
+at twilight, and they fought desperately in the darkness that followed.
+Suddenly the stranger disappeared in the gloom of night. Some time
+afterward Truxton learned that the ship was the very one he was
+searching for--the frigate _La Vengeance_; that he had shattered her
+terribly; and that she ran away in the darkness to a friendly port to
+save her life.
+
+These victories made the navy very popular. Truxton was the hero of this
+war with the French on the ocean. It soon ceased, and the little navy
+found ample employment in the Mediterranean.
+
+In the year 1800 Bainbridge was sent, in command of the _George
+Washington_, to pay tribute to the Algerine ruler. The Dey, as he was
+called, commanded the Captain to take an Ambassador to Constantinople.
+Bainbridge refused. "You pay me tribute, and are my slave," said the
+haughty Dey; "you must do as I bid you;" and he pointed to the guns of
+the castle. The Captain was compelled to obey. The Sultan received him
+kindly, for the crescent moon on the Turkish banner, and the stars on
+the American flag, seemed to prophesy good-will between the two nations.
+He gave Bainbridge an order that made the insolent Dey tremble. With it
+in his hand, the Captain said to the turbaned ruler, "Release every
+Christian captive you have, without ransom." The astonished and humbled
+Dey obeyed, and Bainbridge sailed away with threescore liberated
+captives under the American flag.
+
+Meanwhile the rulers of Tunis and Tripoli--other North African
+robbers--had exacted and received tribute from the United States. The
+treatment of Bainbridge made the latter resolve to pay tribute no
+longer, but to humble the piratical powers. In the spring of 1801
+Commodore Dale was sent with a squadron on that errand. He captured a
+Tripolitan pirate ship, and appeared before Tunis, where the flag-staff
+before the house of the American Consul had been cut down. Dale
+threatened the ruler with chastisement. He was astonished and perplexed.
+Dale cruised in the Mediterranean until fall, effectually protecting
+American commerce, for the half-barbarian powers were made timid and
+cautious.
+
+The following year a relief squadron was sent to the Mediterranean
+under Commodore Morris. The _Constellation_ blockaded the harbor of
+Tripoli. A flotilla of Tripolitan gun-boats tried to drive her away, but
+failed. At one time the _Constellation_ successfully fought seventeen of
+them, as well as troops of cavalry on shore. The other vessels of the
+squadron cruised along the northern shores of the Mediterranean,
+effectually protecting American commerce; and in January, 1803, all the
+vessels collected at Malta. In the spring they appeared off the ports of
+the Barbary States, as these African provinces were called, and
+effectually imprisoned their corsairs, or pirate ships, in their
+harbors. In May the _John Adams_, which had been blockading the harbor
+of Tunis, had a severe combat with Tunisian gun-boats and land
+batteries, and was much bruised. Very soon Tripolitan and Algerine
+corsairs appeared, and the whole American squadron was compelled to
+abandon the blockade of the African ports, after they had destroyed a
+cruiser from Tripoli. The squadron left the coast, the Africans regained
+their spirits, and very soon American commerce was again suffering from
+the depredations of corsairs.
+
+The government of the United States, annoyed by the failure of this
+naval campaign in the Mediterranean, resolved to act with more vigor in
+that direction. A squadron of seven vessels was placed under the command
+of Commodore Preble, and sent to the Mediterranean in 1803.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF THE DAISIES.
+
+BY MRS. MARGARET EYTINGE.
+
+
+Daisies, golden-hearted, star-like, smiling daisies, all over the fields
+and meadows, all along the highways and by-ways--bonny wee flowers
+looking bravely up at the dazzling sun, and giving with child-like
+generosity their beauty to the loneliest spots and most desolate places.
+Close up to a fence that surrounded a garden where bloomed hundreds of
+rare and lovely blossoms they crowded, praising with sweet artlessness
+the grace and fragrance of their more precious sisters, and wondering
+every morning when the gardener came out at early dawn and collected
+many young plants together, and gathered roses, and pansies, and
+gladioles, and verbenas, and pinks, and other flowers by the basketful,
+to carry away, where he took them and what became of them.
+
+"I will tell you," said a tall, graceful white lily that grew near the
+garden gate, one day, as she inclined her fair head toward them. "I have
+been where they are going--I and the tuberoses over yonder. (We are
+growing in pots sunk in the ground, and therefore can be taken up and
+moved from place to place without harm.) Once I helped deck a large,
+sunshiny room--I was a very young bud then--where a great many little
+children, looking like flowers themselves in their gay dresses, sang,
+and played, and laughed, and danced for joy, because a baby friend was
+three years old that day; and once I stood at the right hand of a
+gray-haired minister, in a crowded church, and heard him say, 'Solomon
+in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.' But, dear, simple,
+wee things, you don't understand that, do you? I forgot to whom I was
+talking. They go to a large city, where nothing is seen but brick and
+stone buildings and hosts of people, and nothing is heard but the sound
+of voices and footsteps, and the ringing of bells, and the tramping of
+horses, and rolling of wagons, and where there are no bees, nor
+butterflies, nor birds, save canaries that live in cages, and sparrows
+that can live anywhere."
+
+"But the daisies are never taken to the city," said the daisies, after a
+short pause, "and they are flowers as well as the verbenas and pinks."
+
+"Bless your innocent little hearts! I know they are," said the lily.
+"But the fact is, no one cares to buy daisies."
+
+"So nobody cares for us in the big city," said the daisies to each
+other, "and yet the butterflies and birds tell us we are very pretty."
+
+But the lily was mistaken, for the very next morning the gardener came
+out into the meadow with a trowel in his hand, and digging up some of
+the largest daisy plants, replanted them in a large flower-pot.
+
+"Somebody wants us after all," they called to the grass, and the
+dandelions, and the other daisies, as they were carried away, "and we
+shall see the fine houses, and perhaps live with lilies, roses, and
+geraniums all the rest of our lives. Good-by, dear friends, good-by."
+
+In a short time the daisies found themselves in a market-place--not
+among cabbages and tomatoes, but at the end of a row of blooming plants
+from the garden at which they had so often peeped through the fence. But
+they had scarcely had time to look about them when they saw a shabbily
+dressed boy coming slowly toward them--slowly, poor fellow, because one
+of his feet was sadly misshapen, and in his arms he carried a heavy
+bundle of newspapers. He looked eagerly at the gardener as he came near.
+
+"I've got your daisies, my boy," the man called, cheerily. "Here they
+are, still wet with the dew, as handsome daisies as ever I saw. You must
+keep them in the shade a day or two, giving them a drink now and then,
+and I don't doubt they'll do finely. Will you take them now?"
+
+"Yes, sir, thank you," said the boy, his whole face lighting up, and his
+pale cheeks flushing, "if you will let me leave my papers here a few
+minutes until I can run home with them. But you've brought so many--and
+they're in a nice pot, too--I'm afraid I haven't money enough to pay for
+them."
+
+"Five cents was the price agreed on yesterday," said the good-natured
+gardener, "and I always stick to a bargain. And if there's more than you
+expected, all the better for you--some of 'em'll be sure to thrive
+anyhow. As for the pot, you're welcome to that. A flower-pot more or
+less won't make me or break me."
+
+The boy threw down his bundle, took the daisies with another "thank
+you," and hurried away as fast as his poor foot would let him to an old,
+queer-looking wooden house near the market, where, hugging his treasure
+closely to his breast, he mounted the shaky stairs until he reached the
+garret. Pushing open a door here, he entered a neat little room with
+only one window in it, but that a dormer facing the south. The floor of
+this room was bare, with the exception of two or three round rag mats,
+and the walls were decorated in the oddest manner with pictures cut from
+old papers and magazines, bits of colored glass, strips of glittering
+tin twisted into grotesque shapes, and red and green motto-papers
+fashioned into some semblance of flowers.
+
+On a bed near the window lay a little pale-faced, brown-haired girl,
+with wistful gray eyes, and a smile like sunshine breaking through a
+cloud. In her hands she held a pair of knitting-needles, with which she
+was knitting with marvellous quickness some coarse thread into wide,
+strong lace. Beside the bed stood a small table, holding a box of
+water-colors, a camel's-hair brush or two, a lead-pencil, a cup filled
+with water, and a piece of paper on which was a rude attempt at a
+painting of a bunch of daisies.
+
+"See what I've brought you, Phemie!" cried her brother, joyfully.
+"To-day's your birthday: thirteen years old--almost as old as I am. Bet
+you thought I'd forgotten it; but I didn't, dearie; no, indeed."
+
+"Daisies! daisies!" cried the girl, with a sweet glad laugh, dropping
+her work, and holding out her pretty slender hands. "Oh, brother--dear,
+good, _darling_ brother--will they live and grow?"
+
+"The gardener says they will, and he ought to know," answered her
+brother. "And now you needn't be aching your poor little head any more
+trying to think exactly how they look, for you can study them all day
+long. But, good gracious! I must go and sell my papers, or we'll have no
+berries for dinner, and that would be dreadful." And giving his sister a
+kiss, he hurried away again, as happy, I believe, as any boy in that
+great city on that pleasant summer day.
+
+"I am so glad, so very, _very_ glad that you have come," said Phemie to
+the daisies as soon as he was gone, as she set them on the table, and
+gazed at them with tears in her eyes, "and I beg of you to live, dear
+daisies. I am a poor weak little girl, and I can sit up but a few hours
+each day. But a long while ago I could run about like other little
+girls, and I lived in the country, where thousands of daisies grew, and
+I have never forgotten them. Mamma was alive then, but she's dead now,
+and father left us here a year after she died, and we have never seen
+him since. He didn't care for daisies or us. How good of Brother Frank
+to bring you to me, daisies! I shall knit so much better and faster, and
+earn so much more money, with your bright faces smiling at me. And some
+day I shall make a picture of you--I have been trying to paint one from
+memory--that shall be almost as pretty as your own dear selves." And she
+leaned back against her pillow, singing softly to herself; and while her
+fingers plied the knitting-needles, her spirit, led by the spirits of
+the meadow flowers, wandered to green fields, and listened to the hum of
+the bees and the song of the birds, and grew lighter and happier every
+moment. And Frank, coming in quietly at noon, saw her with closed eyes
+and clasped hands, and heard her say, "Dear God, a helpless child thanks
+Thee for daisies!"
+
+And the daisies all lived, and increased in numbers until the room
+overflowed with them. On floor and shelves they bloomed in cracked
+pitchers, broken jars, old fruit cans, everything that Frank could find
+to fill with them. And Phemie did paint a beautiful picture of them at
+last, and through this picture came much good fortune to that garret
+home. For Frank, showing it, in his brotherly love and pride, to a kind
+gentleman whom he served with papers, was surprised to learn that it was
+worth more than his sister knitting lace for three long months could
+earn.
+
+And now to end the story. The very prettiest New-Year's card that
+appeared to celebrate the birth of 1880 was one on which the New-Year's
+greeting was printed on a ribbon encircling the stems of a bunch of
+daisies. Those daisies are Phemie's daisies. And the young flower
+painter, growing stronger day by day, is the happy mistress of two
+pleasant rooms and a mite of a studio.
+
+
+
+
+OLD HANNIBAL.
+
+BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
+
+
+"No, mother," said Colonel Dunway to his wife, at the breakfast table,
+"I shall ride the black colt on parade to-day. Hannibal is too fat and
+too old."
+
+"Too old? He and Barry are just of an age."
+
+"And Barry's only a little colt yet? Well, you may bring him and Prue
+out to the grand review in the afternoon, but I guess I'll ride the
+black this morning. You can put Hannibal in the carry-all. Perhaps he'd
+like to take a look again at a regiment of troops in line."
+
+Barry and Prue listened with all their ears.
+
+They knew there was to be a grand parade of soldiers that day, and they
+were prouder than they knew how to tell of the fact that their father
+was to wear a uniform, and ride a horse, and give orders to some of the
+men.
+
+"Prue," said Barry, "father's going to 'spect them."
+
+"_In_-speck them," whispered Prue, correcting him. "Nobody else knows
+how."
+
+That might be, for Colonel Dunway had been an officer of the regular
+army, and he was now Colonel of a regiment of militia; but there was one
+thing he had said that puzzled Barry and Prue dreadfully.
+
+"Barry," said Prue, after breakfast, "is Nibble old?"
+
+"Father says he is."
+
+"And he said he was fat."
+
+"Dr. Barnes is old, and he's fat."
+
+"But his head's bare."
+
+"Nibble isn't bald, and he isn't gray either."
+
+"He's brown."
+
+Mrs. Dunway had told the exact truth about Hannibal, or Nibble, as the
+children called him. He and Barry were just of an age, and he had been a
+mere two-year-old colt when Prue was a baby in her cradle.
+
+It was after that that Colonel Dunway had taken Hannibal with him to the
+army, and brought him home again.
+
+He had been a war-horse, the Colonel said, and so it would not do to
+turn him into a plough-horse, and the consequence was that Nibble did
+not have enough work to do, and he grew fat too fast.
+
+Yet he and Barry were only nine years old apiece. That made eighteen
+years between them; and if you added seven years for Prue, it would only
+have made twenty-five, and everybody knows that is not very old, if you
+had given them all to Hannibal.
+
+Barry and Prue would have given him almost anything they had, for he was
+a great friend and crony of theirs.
+
+"Prue," said Barry, "let's go out to the barn. I've got an apple."
+
+"He can have my bun."
+
+What there was left of it, that meant, for Prue's little white teeth had
+been at work on that bun.
+
+That had been a troubled morning for Hannibal. Before he had finished
+his breakfast a party of men rode by the house, and one of them was
+playing on a bugle. He had set Hannibal's mind at work upon army matters
+and war; so when Barry and Prue came to see him, he would not even
+nibble. He smelled of the apple, and he looked at the bun, but that was
+all.
+
+"He's getting old," said Barry.
+
+"And fat," added Prue.
+
+"Tell you what, Prue, let's take him out into the lot. I know mother'd
+let us."
+
+That was likely, for Mrs. Dunway always felt safer about them if Nibble
+were keeping them company.
+
+"I'll get on his back."
+
+"And I'll lead him. Wait till I fix the halter."
+
+Prue climbed up on the side of the stall where Nibble was, and he stood
+perfectly still while she clambered over to her place on his back.
+
+Barry knew exactly what to do, and the old war-horse began to think he
+did himself. He must have been thinking, for he half closed one eye as
+he was walking out, and opened the other very wide, with a wonderfully
+knowing look.
+
+He was looking down the lane, and he saw that the front gate was open,
+and just at that moment there came up the road, very faint and sweet,
+the music of the cavalry bugle.
+
+"Nibble! Nibble!" exclaimed Barry, "where are you going?"
+
+Hannibal did not answer a word, but walked on down the lane very fast
+indeed, and Barry lost hold of the halter.
+
+As for Prue, she was not scared a particle, for she had ridden in that
+way many a time, and her confidence in herself and old Nibble was
+unbounded.
+
+"Cluck, cluck, cluck--get-ap."
+
+"Stop, Prue, stop. He's going faster."
+
+"Get-ap! Come, Barry. Oh, there's mother at the window!"
+
+[Illustration: THE "THREE CHILDREN."--DRAWN BY KELLY.]
+
+Mrs. Dunway was not frightened any more than Prue, for she said to
+herself, "Too old, indeed! Well, they're more like three children, when
+they're together, than anything else. I'm glad he is fat. He won't go
+too fast for Prue."
+
+He was in the road now, and he seemed disposed to keep Barry from again
+getting hold of that halter.
+
+"Oh dear," said Barry, "the parade-ground's down there."
+
+Hannibal knew that, by the music, and he was almost trotting now.
+
+In fact, he was looking younger and younger, somehow, every minute, and
+Barry felt more and more as if he ought to have hold of the halter,
+instead of merely running along-side and shouting to Prue.
+
+The regiment was drawn up on the great bare field where the review was
+to be that afternoon, and they looked splendidly.
+
+Colonel Dunway was saying so, as he sat in front of them, on his
+handsome black colt, and a number of other officers who were riding with
+him said the same, and so did the ladies who were keeping them company.
+
+Just then the bugle sounded again, from the head of the column, and Prue
+had to hold on hard, for Hannibal suddenly began to canter, and he
+answered the music with a loud, clear whinny of delight.
+
+Barry was half out of breath with running, but he kept up with the other
+two, and in a moment more Hannibal halted, proudly arching his neck, and
+treading daintily upon the grass, right in front of the regiment.
+
+"I declare," exclaimed Colonel Dunway, "the old fellow has come to
+review the troops."
+
+"So has Prue," said one of the officers.
+
+Barry hardly knew whether to laugh or to cry, but the soldiers suddenly
+broke out in a grand "hurrah."
+
+They were cheering Prue and her war-horse, and Colonel Dunway himself
+was compelled to let the "three children" stay and keep the place
+Hannibal chose for them at the head of the regiment.
+
+There was plenty of apples for Nibble that day.
+
+
+
+
+SEA-BREEZES.
+
+LETTER No. 2 FROM BESSIE MAYNARD TO HER DOLL.
+
+
+  OLD ORCHARD BEACH, _July, 1880_.
+
+The days must seem very long and lonely to you, my sweet Clytemnestra,
+and I will send you another letter, to "cheer you up a bit," as nursie
+used to say when she gave me a lump of sugar, after pulling my curls
+'most out of my head, trying to get out the tangles.
+
+How are you getting along all this time? and what do you find to amuse
+yourself with? Do you sit still in your own corner of the baby-house day
+after day, or does some kind fairy come in once in a while and wind you
+up, so that you can run round the room and get a little exercise? We
+will have lots of walks and talks when I get home, my Clytie. I heard
+mamma telling Cousin Frank last night that we should proberly go next
+month. If I did not know that you were at home expecting and wanting me,
+it would be awfully hard to think of leaving this place; for life by the
+sad sea waves is truly (as I heard a lady say yesterday) "fassernating
+and terancing."
+
+There are so many people here it seems like a party all the time. There
+are not many children, though--at least not at _our_ hotel; only Fanny,
+Dora, and me for girls; Randolph Peyton, Jack Hunter, Charley Phillips,
+and Hal Davis for boys; Snip and Moppet for dogs; and the cunningest wee
+little mite of a pussykin, named Whitetoes, for cats. Not that cats and
+dogs are exactly _children_, either, but they are just as good, and
+sometimes better. I'm sure I would rather play any time with Snip and
+Whitetoes than with that horrid Randolph. He is the very unpolitest boy
+I ever knew. Let me tell you something he did yesterday, and then I
+guess you will agree with me. We seven children and the dogs had planned
+a beautiful picnic down on "the island," as we call it.
+
+You know the geography says (or you _would_ know if you had ever been to
+school, poor child!) that "an island is a portion of land entirely
+surrounded by water." Well, _this_ "portion of land" runs out ever so
+far into the sea, and has a pretty grove on it; and at high tide the
+water covers the little strip of land where it really joins the beach,
+so that for a little while it _is_ an island, but the rest of the time
+it is a _peninsula_. That is a big word, and you don't know a bit what
+it means, and I can't tell you now; you shall learn about it when we
+begin our lessons.
+
+But, oh dear, I was going to tell you about the picnic, and Randolph
+Peyton, the great disagreeable boy. Somehow or other, when I begin to
+write to you, there are so many things to essplain that I never seem to
+"come to the point," as papa says.
+
+We had planned to start at eight o'clock, but what with Moppet's running
+away, and Snip's taking a nap behind a hay-cock down in the orchard,
+where we only found him by accident at the very last minute, we were
+not fairly on our way till almost nine. The boys carried the lunch
+baskets, Fan wheeled her baby carriage, with poor invalid Jane lying
+back on the pillows, looking too forlorn for anything, but really Fan
+seems to love her even more than she loved Lucille; and I do think,
+considering what Jane has been through, that she is the very best child
+in the world.
+
+Sometimes when I look at her woe-begone face, and her poor little head
+without a single hair on it (she wears a lace cap, but we can see the
+_bald_ right through), and remember her cheeks as they used to be, and
+her lovely golden curls, and then think how gentle and kind she is,
+never complaining, nor speaking a single cross word, I can't help
+saying' right out to her, "You poor little dear thing. Solomon was right
+when he said 'Handsome is, that handsome does.'" Well, Fan wheeled her
+along, and I carried Moppet curled up in my arms like a white puff-ball,
+while Dora ran races all along the beach with Snip.
+
+I forgot to tell you that Randolph had been behaving badly all the way,
+teasing us girls, pinching the dogs, and making fun of Jane; but the
+terrible thing of all did not happen till we were crossing over to the
+island. We always lay a board across from a rock on the beach side to a
+rock on the island side, and over that we girls walk, though the boys
+generally wade right through the water.
+
+[Illustration: HOW WE LOOKED JUST BEFORE _IT_ HAPPENED.]
+
+Fan and Jane went first on the board, then Dora and Snip, and last
+Moppet and me.
+
+Now listen, my Clytie, though, without having seen it, you never can
+quite know how perfectly terrible it was. Just as Dora and Snip were in
+the very middle of the board, and _all_ of us were _on_ it, Randolph,
+who was standing in the water, gave a most unearthly screech, and at
+that very minute-- But, mercy me! there's the tea-bell, and you _must_
+excuse me, my lamb, for leaving you right here, for how can I help it
+when I smell _waffles_?--waffles, and muffins too, I think.
+
+  In greatest haste,
+  Your own mamma,
+  BESSIE.
+
+P.S.--It _was_ waffles I smelled, and I thought of you, dear Clytie, as
+I ate them. Now I shall have to leave my story of Randolph at its very
+smilax (or climax, which is it?), and finish it in my next letter, for I
+have written so much my fingers are all cramped up; so good-night.
+
+
+
+
+THE PITIFUL HARE.
+
+FROM THE JAPANESE, BY W. E. GRIFFIS.
+
+
+Hares are always treated kindly by the Chinese and Japanese people, who
+make household pets of them. The Chinese believe that the hare lives to
+be a thousand years old, and that at the end of five centuries its hair
+becomes white. Instead of seeing a man in the moon, they imagine they
+see a hare standing on its hind-legs, and pounding drugs in a mortar.
+There are great creatures like gigantic men, called genii, who live in
+the moon, and make "the elixir of life," a draught of which confers very
+long life. The hare is their steward, and spends his time in pounding
+the precious roots and bark of the "tree of the king of drugs," from
+which the elixir is made. In the Japanese fairy tales, whoever smells,
+touches, or tastes of this tree is immediately healed of all disease.
+
+The country folks in Japan believe a great deal more in the influence of
+the moon on crops, and good luck, and the weather, than our farmers do,
+and some of the Japanese almanacs are very funny to read. It is for
+these reasons that the people do not injure the hare, for fear of
+hindering the good influence of the moon.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The hare is considered above all others the faithful animal, and in the
+story which the picture tells he is comforting his master.
+
+It would seem very queer to you, my readers, to see tame hares running
+about the house instead of your pet dogs and cats? But this is what the
+little Japanese see.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]
+
+
+  MEREDITH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
+
+     I thought some of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE would like to hear
+     about a young robin my papa found under a cherry-tree near the
+     house. He thought I could raise him, and take him back to New York
+     for a pet. But after I had kept him two days in my room, he would
+     chirp so mournfully when he heard the other birds singing merrily
+     outside that it made me feel so sorry, I took him and put him on a
+     branch of the tree. Oh, I wish you could have seen him flap his
+     wings with delight. Then the old birds came, so glad to greet him.
+     And how glad I was then that I had given him his freedom!
+
+  ALBERTO A. DAL M.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     I am a subscriber to YOUNG PEOPLE, and am much pleased with it. It
+     is the only pet I have.
+
+     I live near the Alleghany College, and I like to see the students
+     drilling. On Commencement afternoon they had a regular sham
+     battle. The military is composed of four companies, all under the
+     command of Major H----. The Major ordered out two companies for
+     the sham battle. One company he sent around the base of a hill,
+     and up through a ravine. The other company turned the cannon
+     round, and made the attacking party surrender as they came out in
+     sight.
+
+  WILLIE V.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MISSOURI.
+
+     I caught some turtles, which I keep in a tub. I feed them on meat,
+     bread, and carrots. Last summer I hatched out two land turtles.
+     Now I have fifteen turtles' eggs, and I think they will hatch. We
+     found a land turtle that had July 3, 1776, carved on its back. I
+     hope "The Moral Pirates" will catch some turtles. I am nine years
+     old.
+
+  C. G. R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  WELLSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA.
+
+     I was up in the woods a few days ago, and I saw a woodchuck go in
+     a hole. Having heard that they had a great deal of curiosity, I
+     hid behind a heap of dirt real close to the hole, and in a minute
+     out the woodchuck came to get a better look at me. Just then Dick,
+     a little dog, came scampering up, ran by the hole, turned round,
+     and crept softly back and stopped, watching, with eyes and ears on
+     the alert. But I made a noise, so the woodchuck did not come out
+     again.
+
+     Once Dick was watching on the top of a steep bank, and a great big
+     woodchuck stuck its head out of a hole. Dick grabbed it, and
+     together they rolled to the bottom of the bank, where, if somebody
+     had not killed the woodchuck, Dick would have had the worst of the
+     fight, as he was the smallest.
+
+     Are ground-squirrels, chipmunks, and gophers the same kind of
+     animals?
+
+     I have a barrel sunk in the ground, with cold water running in and
+     out, and about two hundred minnows in it. Please tell me something
+     good to feed them on.
+
+  SAMUEL J.
+
+The ground-squirrel and chipmunk are the same animal, but the gopher, or
+Canada pouched rat, belongs to a different family.--Feed your minnows by
+throwing bread-crumbs, and flies, and other small insects on the surface
+of the water.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  CHIMACUM VALLEY, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
+
+     I live on a farm. I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I think it is a very
+     nice little paper.
+
+     I have had the rheumatism since Christmas so bad that I could not
+     walk nor turn myself in bed. Do you know what will get me well? I
+     am thirteen years old.
+
+     A lady gave me eight ducks' eggs. I set them under a hen, and now
+     I have five little ducks. The old hen looks so frightened when her
+     little ones go swimming in a pan of water! I suppose she thinks
+     they are strange chickens. I have a dog named Prince. He knows so
+     much he comes very near talking. Whenever I go away and come back,
+     he will pick up a stick in his mouth and run toward me. I have a
+     hen with nine little chicks. Whenever they get hungry, the mamma
+     hen will come to the door of the house and cluck. My father milks
+     twenty-eight cows. They give a bucket of milk apiece.
+
+  ARTHUR S. R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  YOSEMITE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA.
+
+     I live in Philadelphia, but it is so hot there in the summer that
+     we decided to spend a few weeks in this beautiful Californian
+     valley, camping out.
+
+     We travelled from Merced to this place in our own wagons, pitching
+     our tents every night. I like camp life very much, sleeping in
+     tents and eating in the open air. Sometimes we build a camp fire
+     in the evening, and all sit around it, telling stories and
+     singing. It is very warm in the daytime here, and cold at night;
+     and there is such a strong wind almost all the time that if you go
+     too near the water-falls the spray is blown over you like rain. We
+     make excursions every day to mountains and water-falls near by.
+
+     On the way here we saw a tree so large that it took fourteen of us
+     to get our arms round it.
+
+     If any of the readers of YOUNG PEOPLE ever get a chance to go
+     camping, I advise them to do it, for I think it is a great deal of
+     fun.
+
+     I like to read YOUNG PEOPLE very much, and I am so glad I take it.
+     I am twelve years old.
+
+  ALICE W. S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  GLENORA, MISSISSIPPI.
+
+     My grandma gives YOUNG PEOPLE to my brother and myself, and we
+     like it very much. I have no pets to write about, for my little
+     pet deer, named Nettie, died. We live in the country, on the banks
+     of a beautiful lake, and have a nice time fishing and taking skiff
+     rides. I wish you could see the lovely magnolia-trees in my
+     grandma's yard; and she has so many pretty roses too.
+
+  LOUISE B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.
+
+     My papa is in Europe this summer, and he writes me very funny
+     letters. His last one was from Paris, and he told me what people
+     did when they wanted to take a bath in their room at the hotel.
+     You touch an electric bell, and the man in the office telegraphs
+     to a station, and a cart carrying a round boiler with hot and cold
+     water, and drawn by a horse, comes dashing up to the hotel just
+     like a fire engine; a man rushes up to your room with a tub and
+     towels, and before you know it you are taking a nice warm bath.
+     Papa said one day, just for fun, he rang for two baths at the same
+     time, and it was very comical to see the two Frenchmen fight to
+     see which bath should be used first. Papa makes little sketches
+     all through his letters, so I know just how things look. I guess
+     we shall all go to Europe another year, and then I will write you
+     a letter from London or Paris.
+
+  PAUL S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  DANSVILLE, NEW YORK.
+
+     I am four and a half years old, and I can not read or write, but
+     mamma is writing this for me. Papa has taken HARPER'S WEEKLY since
+     1865, and binds it himself, and now he takes YOUNG PEOPLE for me,
+     and is going to bind that too. I love to look at the pictures and
+     hear mamma read the stories in my paper as soon as it is sewed and
+     cut.
+
+     I have many nice toys and playthings, and two pet kittens; their
+     names are Dick and Spot.
+
+     Papa plays on the violin, and mamma plays the organ, and I play on
+     my triangle with them. I have a little violin, too, that grandpa
+     gave me, but I don't play on it much when papa and mamma play. I
+     can sing a great many pieces. I like music.
+
+     We live in a pleasant farm-house south of Dansville. I do lots of
+     chores for papa and mamma, and I ride our horse to water nearly
+     every day. We have plenty of nice fruit and flowers.
+
+     I think the Post-office Box is nice.
+
+  CLYDE H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  HASTINGS, MINNESOTA.
+
+     I take YOUNG PEOPLE, and I like it so much. I always read the
+     letters the very first thing when I get my paper. Almost all the
+     boys and girls write about their pets. I have no pets except my
+     dolls. I have eight dolls. The largest is wax, and I call her
+     Bessie.
+
+     As I was trying to paint, the other day, I saw a large ant run
+     along. I touched it with my brush, and then it was a green ant
+     instead of a black one.
+
+     I tried the recipe for cup-cake that Bessie L. S. sent, and it was
+     just splendid.
+
+     I think the story of "The Moral Pirates" is very nice. When I get
+     a whole volume of YOUNG PEOPLE, I am going to have it bound. I am
+     ten years old.
+
+  MABEL I.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  JENKINTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     Our school closed on the last day of June, and the 1st of July we
+     had a picnic, and we all enjoyed ourselves very much.
+
+     I like YOUNG PEOPLE, especially the Post-office Box. The story of
+     "The Moral Pirates" is splendid, and I hope it will be a good long
+     one.
+
+     I have no tame pets, but there are some chipping sparrows around
+     our house. One pair built a nest in the honeysuckles by the
+     kitchen door, and another pair built in the grape arbor.
+
+     Here is a recipe for cake for the Cooking Club: One and a half
+     cups of sugar; one egg; two table-spoonfuls of butter; three cups
+     of sifted flour; one cup of sweet milk; two tea-spoonfuls of cream
+     of tartar; one of soda; a little essence of either lemon or
+     almond--I like almond best. This will make a good big cake.
+
+  ELLA B. R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I found fifty-five new flowers in June. Among them was the
+     _Ceanothus americanus_, or New Jersey tea, the leaves of which,
+     mamma read to me, were used for tea during the American
+     Revolution. It is a pretty shrub with white flowers.
+
+     I have two pet kittens, named Puck and Blossom.
+
+     I would like to send Carrie Harding some pressed arbutus, but it
+     has done blooming for this year. I would be glad to exchange other
+     kinds of pressed flowers with her, if she would like to do so.
+
+  HARRY H. MOORE,
+  Windsor, Connecticut.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  ANACOSTIA, D. C.
+
+     On the 10th of July I was nine years old. Although it is vacation
+     now, I practice writing in my copy-book, for it is very important
+     to be a good writer.
+
+     I have a butterfly net, and have caught some very pretty
+     specimens. If Walter H. P. would use benzine to kill his
+     butterflies, he would find it quite as good as cyanide of
+     potassium, which is so poisonous. Benzine can be bought by the
+     quart at the paint shops at a low price, and one or two drops on
+     the head of a butterfly will kill it at once.
+
+     I have a bantam rooster so tame that he will allow me to pick him
+     up and carry him in my arms. I have a kitchen-garden, too. In it
+     there are potatoes, corn, tomatoes, water-melons, a pea-nut vine,
+     and two fine tobacco plants. One of my tomato vines has fruit on
+     it. There are no weeds in my garden.
+
+     I think HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE is the best paper published for
+     children.
+
+  WILLIE C. S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  HARSHMANVILLE, OHIO.
+
+     Papa takes HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE for my brother. Mamma made him a
+     pie from Helen's recipe. It was very nice. Mamma says some little
+     girls are born cooks.
+
+     When my brother reads the fairy stories in YOUNG PEOPLE, he says
+     he would like to wade the Atlantic Ocean, and put a few whales in
+     his pocket for his minnow tank. Now he wants to go fishing in a
+     boat. He is almost ten, and I am seven.
+
+     Mamma says, Tell Puss Hunter to set her bread to rise in a deep
+     vessel, as the less surface exposed, the better it is, as the gas
+     is kept confined in the dough. A flannel cloth to cover it with is
+     best, for the same reason. Mamma says she is a friend to all
+     little bakers.
+
+  MYRTIE BELLE E.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange dried grasses, Southern moss, birds' eggs
+     and nests, for sea-shells, with any reader of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  HORACE L. BARLOW,
+  Refugio, Refugio County, Texas.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would be glad to exchange birds' eggs with any correspondent of
+     YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  S. E. STRONG,
+  1394 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am eleven years old. I have a pony, some rabbits, guinea-pigs,
+     and ferrets. Not long ago my pony went into the bantam-house, and
+     ate up a whole boxful of oats which was standing there. Then he
+     pulled down a bag of oats, and scattered them all over the floor.
+     I have two canaries which have set twice this spring, but have not
+     raised a bird.
+
+     I would like to exchange pressed flowers with some little girl in
+     California.
+
+  WINNIE WALDRON,
+  Care of Mr. E. H. Waldron, Lafayette, Indiana.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Will Harry Starr Kealhofer, of Memphis, Tennessee, please send his full
+address, and a list of stamps he wishes to exchange, to M. C. Stryker,
+corner of Argyle Avenue and Biddle Street, Baltimore, Maryland?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
+
+     Will you please tell me the origin of the name of strawberries? I
+     take YOUNG PEOPLE, and like it very much, and my little cousins in
+     Louisiana take it too. I am eight years old.
+
+  WINNIE S. G.
+
+The word strawberry is from the Anglo-Saxon, and was formerly written
+_streawberie_. The reason for applying the name to the delicious little
+fruit is undecided. Some authorities hold that it should be written
+strayberry, and that it refers to the creeping or straying habit of the
+vines.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+C. L. B.--Alwur, sometimes written Alwar or Alvar, is a town of India,
+eighty-five miles southwest of Delhi.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BONANZA, IDAHO.
+
+     I have heard that there are a great many towns in the United
+     States named Vicksburg. Can you tell me how many?
+
+     My sister tried Helen's recipe for lemon pie, in YOUNG PEOPLE No.
+     32, and it was very nice.
+
+  F. M. G.
+
+There are five towns and cities named Vicksburg, one in each of the
+following States: Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania,
+Mississippi.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WILLIE M.--Directions for making an ordinary kite were given in
+Post-office Box No. 19. "Sim Vedder's Kite," in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 25,
+also contained some valuable suggestions.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WAVE.--Common sunfish can not injure the gold-fish and other inhabitants
+of your aquarium.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  OTTAWA, CANADA.
+
+     I am nine years old, and I have two sisters and one brother, Ruth,
+     Alonzo, and baby Vera.
+
+     There was a boy who wrote to YOUNG PEOPLE and said he was very
+     fond of history. So am I. I have read _Peter Parley's History of
+     the United States_ five times, and now I am reading Charles
+     Dickens's _Child's History of England_. I don't know what to read
+     next. I wish you would tell me the names of some child's
+     histories, for I do not understand very well those written for
+     older people.
+
+  PERCY R.
+
+All of Abbott's Illustrated Histories would interest you. Then there are
+some good histories for young readers by Miss Yonge; and child's
+histories of the United States, of Greece, and of Rome, by Bonner; an
+interesting child's history of the United States, by T. W. Higginson;
+and many other books referring to special periods, like Mr. Coffin's
+_Story of Liberty_ and _Boys of '76_, where you will find much valuable
+information. The works by Abbott, Bonner, and Coffin are published by
+Harper & Brothers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ELLA W.--The date of the invention of gun-powder is unknown. Tradition
+says that it was used in China as early as A.D. 85, for fire-works and
+blasting, and that the Arabs employed it at the siege of Mecca in 690.
+Roger Bacon is supposed to allude to its explosive force, and it is said
+that Berthold Schwartz, a monk, about 1336, discovered the mode of
+manufacturing it. It is also said that the knowledge of it was conveyed
+to Europe by the returning Crusaders.
+
+Tempt your parrot with English walnuts, bits of apple and pear, and
+canary and hemp seed, and also give it a red pepper to pick to pieces.
+Let it out of its cage to climb about an hour or more every morning. A
+parrot can not be healthy without some exercise.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GEORGE F.--Directions for "Model Yacht Building" were given in YOUNG
+PEOPLE No. 23.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+F. H. L.--Any hardware merchant will send to New York city for a
+catalogue of toy steam-engines for you, which will give you full
+information in regard to styles, prices, and how and where the engine
+you require can be obtained.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FRED H. H.--You can purchase turtles at any store where gold-fish and
+materials for an aquarium are sold. They will cost you very little--ten
+or fifteen cents apiece, perhaps, for small ones. If you are going to
+the country, you can catch plenty of them yourself. By reading former
+numbers of Our Post-office Box you will find many directions for the
+care of turtles. A water turtle needs clean water, and also stones to
+climb up on.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Flavors are acknowledged from Anna Stuart, John Parr, Lulu A. Sacchi,
+Helen E. H., Ed. Walshe, Edith Haigh, Blanche C., H. Krause, Fannie
+L. D., Eddie A. Leet.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles are received from Joseph Roome, Philip E.
+Ide, William I. Coleman, Harry Louis, May L. Davis, R. H. King, W.
+Fowler, J. H. Shaw, Otis L. How, John W., Harry E. Furber, George W.
+Raymond, W. Callaghan, Leon Munroe, Beryl Abbott, Willie Miner, Eddie
+Wheeler, H. M. P., Helen W. Dean, Howard Rathbone, Daisy Violet, Paul
+Sterling, F. and B. Haigh, M. C. Stryker, Winnie Waldron, George
+Francis, Carrie and Cora, Wilfred H. Warner, Lucie Ruprecht, H. H.
+Gottleben, Lillian Clark, Minnie Lewis, Eddie S. Hequembourg, G.
+Volckhausen, Alfred Jaquith, A. H. Ellard, Nannie S. S., Hallie S.
+Morgan, Jessie and Gertie Evans.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+NUMERICAL CHARADE.
+
+  I am composed of 16 letters.
+  My 11, 8, 15, 5 is used in winter.
+  My 7, 12, 9, 2, 8 is found on the sea-shore.
+  My 1, 3, 14, 6, 10 is a flock of birds.
+  My 2, 3, 5, 15 is a vein of metal.
+  My 1, 16, 13, 4, 5 is floating vapor.
+  My whole was a noted British admiral.
+
+  "TOUT OU RIEN."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+WORD SQUARE.
+
+First, a division of time. Second, a girl's name. Third, disagreeable.
+Fourth, beams of light.
+
+  M. E. N.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+HIDDEN CITIES AND COUNTRIES.
+
+1. I know the girls have nice new gloves. 2. Yes, I am going to start
+for Europe to-morrow. 3. The hero met his comrades. 4. At the sale many
+people were present. 5. The ox for David was brought home yesterday. 6.
+When you go to Ceylon, do not neglect to write often to mother. 7. Near
+the foxes' den marks of feet were seen. 8. When Johnny whispers, I
+always tell him to speak louder. 9. Being unjustly accused by our
+teachers, we deny having disobeyed the rules. 10. There were so many
+people, I thought the procession would never pass.
+
+  S. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 4.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  My first is in float, but not in sink.
+  My second is in write, but not in ink.
+  My third is in barn, but not in store.
+  My fourth is in nickel, but not in ore.
+  My fifth is in garden, but not in walk.
+  My sixth is in stem, but not in stalk.
+  My whole is a delicious fruit.
+
+  W. H. L.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 5.
+
+DIAMOND PUZZLE.
+
+In soprano. A mineral. A musical instrument. A verb. In soprano.
+
+  WILLIE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 6.
+
+DOUBLE ACROSTIC.
+
+A period of time. A measurement. An animal. A river in the United
+States. To signify. Answer--Two of the United States.
+
+  JUPITER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN NO. 36.
+
+No. 1.
+
+  1. Black, bl_o_ck, b_r_ock, br_i_ck, _t_rick, tric_e_, tri_t_e,
+        _w_rite, w_h_ite.
+  2. Rose, r_i_se, ri_l_e, _w_ile, wil_y_, _l_ily.
+  3. Beef, _r_eef, ree_l_, re_a_l, _v_eal.
+  4. Lamb, lam_e_, la_n_e, lan_d_, _b_and, b_o_nd, bo_l_d, _w_old,
+        wol_f_.
+  5. Sick, si_l_k, sil_l_, _w_ill, w_e_ll.
+  6. Moon, _b_oon, boo_r_, bo_a_r, _s_oar, s_t_ar.
+  7. Town, to_r_n, _m_orn, mor_e_, mo_t_e, m_i_te, _c_ite, cit_y_.
+  8. Hawk, ha_r_k, _b_ark, bar_d_, b_i_rd.
+  9. Sew, se_t_, s_i_t, si_p_, _r_ip.
+  10. Page, _r_age, ra_c_e, rac_k_, r_o_ck, ro_o_k, _b_ook.
+
+No. 2.
+
+Alabama.
+
+No. 3.
+
+      M
+    S E T
+  M E L O N
+    T O P
+      N
+
+No. 4.
+
+A rolling stone gathers no moss.
+
+No. 5.
+
+  P E A L
+  E N V Y
+  A V E R
+  L Y R E
+
+No. 6.
+
+Pudding.
+
+
+
+
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+
+SOLUTION TO MONDDIA PUZZLE.
+
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 1.]
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 2.]
+
+With a pair of scissors cut the straight line from A to B in Fig. 1.
+Then join the two pieces as in Fig. 2, and you have a Diamond.
+
+
+
+
+FIRE-EATING.
+
+BY F. BELLEW.
+
+
+You have read accounts, no doubt, if you have not seen the actual
+performance, of men who do wonderful things in the way of swallowing
+fire. Some of these feats may be executed by amateurs, with very good
+effect, in parlor entertainments.
+
+I will first describe the feat of swallowing fire. This is very simple.
+Take a small piece of jeweller's cotton about the size of a walnut, and
+pour on it a little alcohol; a few drops will do. Then, standing with
+your face to the audience, you light this with a match. You then take a
+long breath, and open your mouth wide, holding your breath, mind, all
+the time; then you put the blazing cotton into your mouth, but just as
+it passes your lips you blow all the air sharply from your lungs (this
+extinguishes the fire in the cotton); shut your mouth quickly on the
+cotton, and press it boldly to the roof of your mouth with your tongue.
+You then slip the wad of cotton into your cheek, and swallow a draught
+of water from a tumbler you have ready on the table. As you wipe your
+mouth with your handkerchief after drinking the water, you remove the
+bit of cotton, and then you can allow any one of the audience to examine
+your mouth in order to satisfy himself that you really swallowed the
+fire.
+
+In these fire-eating tricks, if you wash your mouth out with alum and
+water, all the better.
+
+The other feat of fire-eating is a very old one, and has been often
+published, but I have seen so very many people astonished by it that I
+venture to give it again for the new generation.
+
+
+THE CANDLE TRICK.
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 1.]
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 2.]
+
+Procure a good, large apple or turnip, and cut from it a piece of the
+shape of Fig. 1, to resemble the butt-end of a tallow candle; then from
+a nut of some kind--an almond is the best--whittle out a small peg of
+about the size and shape of Fig. 2. Stick the peg in the apple as in
+Fig. 3, and you have a very fair representation of a candle. The wick
+you can light, and it will burn for at least a minute. In performing you
+should have your candle in a clean candlestick, show it plainly to the
+audience, and then put it into your mouth, taking care to blow it out in
+the same way as you would the cotton, and munch it up. If you think
+best, you can blow the candle out and allow the wick to cool, and it
+will look, with its burned wick, so natural that even the sharpest eyes
+can not distinguish it from the genuine article.
+
+[Illustration: Fig. 3.]
+
+Once, at a summer resort in Massachusetts, I made use of this candle
+with considerable effect. While performing a few parlor tricks to amuse
+some friends, I pretended to need a light. A confederate left the room,
+and soon returned with a lantern containing one of these apple
+counterfeits.
+
+"Do you call that a candle?" I said.
+
+"Certainly," he replied.
+
+"Why, there is scarcely a mouthful."
+
+"A mouthful? Rather a disagreeable mouthful, I guess."
+
+"You have never been in Russia, I presume?"
+
+"Never."
+
+"Then you don't know what is good."
+
+"Good?"
+
+"Yes, good. Why, candle ends, with the wick a little burned, to give
+them a flavor, are delicious. They always serve them up before dinner in
+Russia as a kind of relish. It is considered bad taste in good society
+there to ask a friend to sit down to dinner without offering him this
+appetizer."
+
+"The bad taste would be in the relish, I think."
+
+"Not at all. Try a bit."
+
+I took the candle out of the lantern, and extended it toward my
+confederate, who shrank back with disgust.
+
+"Well," I said, "if you won't have it, I'll eat it myself." And so
+saying, I put it into my mouth and munched it up, amid the cries of
+surprise and horror of the assembled party. Two old maids insisted on
+looking into my mouth to see whether it was not concealed there.
+
+
+
+
+A RIDDLE IN RHYME.
+
+
+On one occasion, while at a dinner party, Dr. O. W. Holmes composed the
+following riddle:
+
+  "My initials show my date to be
+    The morning of the Christian year;
+  Though fatherless, as all agree,
+    I am a father, it is clear:
+  A mother too, beyond dispute;
+    And when my son comes,
+  He's a fruit.
+    Now, not to puzzle you too much,
+    'Twas I gave Holland to the Dutch."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: A WARM DAY IN THE COUNTRY--SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF VILLAGE
+SCHOOL-MISTRESS, AND EQUALLY SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF SCHOLARS.]
+
+
+
+
+
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