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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41679 ***
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+[Illustration]
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+JULY
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+Vol. V. No. 9.
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+1885.
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+OUR LITTLE ONES
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+CONTENTS.
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+ PAGE
+
+ A PICTURE JACK BARLOW 259
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+ NAUGHTY NASNA LAURA E. RICHARDS 260
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+OUR LITTLE ONES
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+ July,
+
+ 1885
+
+ Vol. V. Copyright, 1885, by Russell Publishing Company. No. 9.
+
+
+
+
+A PICTURE.
+
+
+ Dainty little Marguerite,
+ Tripping down the stair,
+ With the dancing sunlight
+ In her golden hair,
+
+ Through the open doorway,
+ In the sunny brightness,
+ Where the morning-glories
+ Nod in airy lightness.
+
+ Mamma, coming downwards,
+ Sees her darling stand,
+ Snowy ruffled apron
+ Held in either hand,
+
+ Making stately courtesy
+ With a childlike grace,
+ And a reverent brightness
+ On her upturned face.
+
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+ Called the mother's voice,
+ While the pretty picture
+ Made her heart rejoice.
+
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+ The open brow adorning,
+ As the little maid replied,
+ "I'm wishing God good morning."
+
+ JACK BARLOW.
+
+
+
+
+NAUGHTY NASNA.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Nasna was a coati-mondi, a cousin of the raccoon family. She was about
+the size of a cat, with thick, coarse fur, brown on the back and sides,
+and shading from yellow to orange underneath. She had a head and four
+legs, and a fat body; but the two most important parts of her, in her
+own opinion at least, were her nose and her tail. The tail was certainly
+very handsome, long, and bushy, with black and yellow rings round it.
+The nose was long, too,--long and sharp, and always poking, poking
+itself everywhere. There never was such an inquisitive nose. Now it was
+lifting the lid of a pot on the kitchen fire (for Nasna was tame, and a
+great pet of her master's), and scalding itself with the steam; now it
+was sniffing at a bottle of strong ammonia, without seeming to be
+troubled in the least by the smell; now it was in her master's pocket,
+trying to find out what it was that went "Tick! tick!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But what do you think the nose did one day? oh! _what_ do you think it
+did? You never could guess, and so I must tell you.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The old cat had been asleep beside the kitchen fire. She had had a
+long, long nap,--the sleepy old cat,--and when she woke up she felt that
+she needed a long, long stretch before she was quite herself again. Now,
+the way in which the old cat stretched herself was this: she put her
+four feet close together, and humped her back just as high as she could
+possibly hump it; then she stretched herself, and opened her mouth to
+its fullest extent, and said, "Mu-aw-yu-aouw!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+This was a singular performance. Nasna had never seen it before, and
+when she saw the red mouth open, wide, wider, widest, she immediately
+said to herself, "Dear me! how very odd! I wonder what there is inside
+that red cavern? I'm going to look!" and the next moment the long,
+velvety nose was poked right into the old cat's mouth, and almost down
+her throat.
+
+Did the old cat shut her mouth? She did, indeed, my child; and who can
+blame her for doing so? But there was a sound of woe in the air, and a
+squealing as of a coati in despair, and the next moment Nasna was
+crouching in the farthest corner of the room, holding her wounded nose
+in both hands, and sneezing violently.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But do not think that this was a lesson to Nasna; nothing of the kind!
+The very next morning she managed to find her way into the dining-room
+when the master and mistress were at breakfast. She climbed up at once
+into the mistress' lap, and poked her nose at the shining coffee-pot.
+Ah! it was hot. Pop went the nose into the cup of coffee that was
+steaming beside the mistress' plate. Oh! that was hotter.
+
+"I won't stay here any longer, to be treated so!" cried Nasna; and down
+she jumped to the floor.
+
+Buzz! buzz! what is that by the window? Something small, flying about,
+with a black and yellow jacket on. See, now it is crawling on the floor,
+and Nasna can catch it. Nasna does catch it, putting her soft paw on it.
+Mr. Wasp extends his sting, as the utmost he has to offer. Nasna squeaks
+wofully, but does not understand yet, so puts her nose down instead of
+her paw. This time there is no doubt about the matter, and she retires
+in great anguish to the kitchen.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+One day as she was playing about, tettered by a string to a chair, her
+master took an egg and placed it on the floor, at a very provoking
+distance. Nasna could just touch it with one paw, but could not get hold
+of it. She tried with fore paws, she tried with hind paws; but all in
+vain: she only succeeded in rolling the egg a little further off. What
+was to be done? She sat down and looked at the egg long and
+thoughtfully. At last she put her head on one side and winked: she had
+an idea. She turned her back on the coveted treasure, and backed towards
+it as far as she could. Then she grasped her tail with one paw,
+stiffened it and curved the tip almost into a hook, and, touching the
+egg with this hook, slowly and cautiously rolled it round in front of
+her, till she could reach it with her fore paw. Then, in triumph and
+much pride, she sat up on her haunches, cracked the egg, and sucked it,
+without spilling a drop. Clever Nasna! I think she deserved a good
+breakfast, don't you?
+
+ LAURA E. RICHARDS.
+
+
+
+
+"CHOW-CHOW."
+
+
+"Chow-Chow" was not a pickle, but a chicken, and a real funny one, too.
+
+I made friends with him when he was no bigger than a robin. He was an
+only child; of course his mother had enough to do to pet and fuss over
+him. But he would leave her any time when we called "Chow-Chow." We gave
+him this funny name because he was a great talker. All he said was
+"C-h-o-w-C-h-o-w," and then "_Chow-Chow-Chow-Chow_" as fast as he could
+talk.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+His mother was a beautiful buff Shanghai, but he was a long-legged
+Brahma, dressed in a speckled black and gray suit. As the days got
+chilly, in the fall, it seemed as if he suffered dreadfully from cold
+feet. He was always cuddling down in the warm feathers on his mother's
+back, even when he was a pretty big fellow.
+
+One day I said, "Come, 'Chow-Chow,' don't trouble your mother. I'll give
+you a good warming by the kitchen fire." I carried him into the kitchen,
+opened the oven door, and gave his cold feet a good toasting. Oh, how he
+enjoyed it! He opened and shut his claws as he lay on my lap, and
+_chow-chowed_, and pecked at the buttons of my dress.
+
+The next day it was pretty cold, and the first thing I heard when I
+went into the kitchen was a tapping at the window-pane. There was
+"Chow-Chow" on the window-sill, pecking at the glass, and holding up one
+foot, and then the other. He was talking, or rather scolding, at the top
+of his voice.
+
+I let him in. He went straight to the stove, and waited for me to take
+him in my arms and warm his feet. He seemed to think it was ever so much
+nicer than his mother's feathers.
+
+One cold morning I was busy when he came in. The stove was very hot, and
+"Chow-Chow"--silly bird!--couldn't wait for me to attend to him. He flew
+up on the top of the stove. Then he gave a scream, and landed on the
+table. That was the first and last time he tried to warm his feet
+without my help.
+
+My sister always said that "Chow-Chow" was a hen. I felt sure he was a
+rooster. She said, "The first we know 'Chow-Chow' will lay an egg." _I_
+said, "The first we know 'Chow-Chow' will _crow_."
+
+After a while I saw some bright red whiskers under his chin. Then such a
+pretty coral comb. Still he only talked "Chow-Chow-Chow."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+But one morning he came into the kitchen in a great hurry. He jumped
+upon the table, flapped his wings, and stretched his long neck, opened
+his mouth, and, oh! such a queer noise! It was a squeak and a roar. I
+ran upstairs to my sister. "It _is_ a rooster. Didn't you hear
+'Chow-Chow' crow?"--"Do you call that a crow? Why, I heard an awful
+noise, and wondered what it was."
+
+But our chicken grew up one of the handsomest birds I ever saw. And in a
+few weeks not a rooster in the neighborhood had such a musical, splendid
+crow as our "Chow-Chow."
+
+ BESSIE PEDDER.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+POLLY'S BABY.
+
+
+ ALL in the daintiest cradle
+ That baby could wish to own,
+ It lay contentedly winking,
+ Where Polly had left it alone.
+ It wasn't a mere doll-baby;
+ Ah, no! that Polly would scorn;
+ But this she loved through the daytime,
+ And dreamed of from night till morn.
+
+ A cap its small head adorning,
+ A robe of cambric so white,
+ And round its waist, for a "dress up,"
+ A ribbon so blue and bright!
+ Its eyes were, Polly thought, lovely,
+ Because they were gray, and she
+ Was always brushing the soft hair,
+ As black as black hair could be.
+
+ [Illustration]
+
+ But once our Polly was naughty,
+ And struck her baby at last;
+ When, lo! it jumped out of the cradle,
+ And scampered from danger fast.
+ Do you think that was strange for a baby--
+ For Polly's wee baby--to do?
+ Why, children, 'twas only a kitty,
+ Brimful of mischief--and mew!
+
+ M. D. BRINE.
+
+
+
+
+HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK!
+
+
+WEEZY was so eager to help that she made it hard for herself and for the
+family. She burned her fingers in stirring hot apple-sauce for Bridget.
+She woke the baby in trying to curl the few hairs on his little bald
+head. She meddled with mamma's knitting-work till she had lost every
+needle. Papa Haynes laughed at these things; but when Weezy learned to
+open his writing-desk he looked grave.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"This'll never do," said he to mamma. "The child will be tearing my
+papers next."
+
+So he locked the desk, and hung the key above the tall clock beside it.
+
+"There, my young squirrel, you won't reach that in a hurry," he said to
+himself, kissing his little daughter good-by.
+
+After he was gone mamma stepped into the kitchen to tell Bridget about
+dinner. Weezy stayed in the sitting-room to sing Sambo to sleep. Every
+time she rocked back in her small chair she could see the key shining
+over the clock. It looked very much out of place. She wondered why her
+papa had put it there. She wanted to whistle with it. Oh hum! if she was
+a little speck of a bird she would fly against it and brush it down with
+her wings. Or if Sambo was only an angel! She danced across the floor,
+and threw him up as high as she could. Instead of knocking down the key
+she knocked poor Sambo's stocking-yarn head against the wall, and he
+fell flat upon the top of the desk.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Lie still, Sambo," cried Weezy, mounting a chair. From the chair she
+easily climbed to the broad shelf of the desk. There she rested a
+moment, leaning her chin on the top of the desk and patting Sambo. But
+she did not take him in her arms, for not far above him hung the key.
+She had set her little heart on getting it.
+
+What do you think the little sprite did next? All by herself she
+scrambled to the very top of that big desk. Standing on tiptoe, she
+tried to reach over the clock! Even then she was not quite tall enough
+to grasp the key with her chubby little fingers; but by perching upon
+Sambo she got it at last.
+
+By the time mamma came back Weezy had opened the desk, and cut one of
+papa's deeds into paper dolls.
+
+Papa was vexed enough, at noon, when he saw them.
+
+"The loss of that deed will give me a great deal of trouble," said he to
+mamma. "How _did_ Weezy come by the key of my desk?"
+
+ "'Hickory, dickory, dock,
+ The mouse ran up the clock!'"
+
+answered mamma, laughing.
+
+"Why, why, is it possible!" said papa, turning pale. "I'm thankful she
+didn't break her neck,--our little mouse of a Weezy."
+
+ PENN SHIRLEY.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+A MEADOW SONG.
+
+
+ A LITTLE daisy in a meadow grew,
+ Kissed by the sunshine, and fed by the dew;
+ And gayly she sang to the passers-by,
+ "Was ever a daisy so happy as I?"
+
+ Then the clover, hearing the daisy's voice,
+ Began, in her own sweet way, to rejoice;
+ And softly sang, to the prettiest tune,
+ "What bliss to live and to grow in June!"
+
+ The violet peeped from her mossy bed,
+ And round her the sweetest fragrance shed,
+ Till far and near, on the summer air,
+ Floated the perfume, fresh and rare.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ And the buttercup waked from a golden dream
+ To join in the grateful and joyous theme,
+ As daintily over the grass she stepped,
+ The fresher and sweeter from having slept.
+
+ The wild blue flag, with a laughing toss,
+ Spanned her color the green across;
+ "Ho! ho!" she cried. "Oh, how merry are we!"
+ Skipping along in her flowery glee.
+
+ The sweet-brier, growing beside the wall,
+ Quickly blossomed to hear the call,
+ And bent, with a gracious and royal mien,
+ At the jubilant cries of "Our queen! our queen!"
+
+ Then dandelion, golden head,
+ To follow where the others led,
+ Sung till the echoes, loud and long,
+ Resounded with her joyous song.
+
+ The cowslip rose, with a pleased surprise,
+ And, donning a robe of gorgeous dyes,
+ Sang in a voice so rich and sweet
+ The concert now was quite complete.
+
+ The meadow-lark, as he heard the song,
+ Sprung from his nest to greet the throng;
+ And, thrilled to his heart by the joyous lay,
+ Flew, singing, aloft, in the merriest way.
+
+ So, in the dewy meadow-grass,
+ Where all may listen as they pass,
+ Both bird and flower, in sweet attune,
+ Make happier all the days of June.
+
+ ELIZABETH A. DAVIS.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR MOCKING BIRD.]
+
+
+A MOCKING-BIRD made his home in a honeysuckle in front of our cosey
+house. In Arkansas, where we live, this sweet shrub is evergreen. Last
+year the honeysuckle died, and the bird lost his home; but he liked the
+place, and he went with his family to the lattice-room, in the rear of
+the house.
+
+In this apartment he found an old travelling-bag, or gripsack, hanging
+on a nail. Inside of it was an old soft hat. This seemed to be what the
+bird wanted, and he made his nest in it. This was his home all winter,
+and he was happy there. When the cold weather, which we sometimes have
+in Arkansas, came, he went to the water bucket to drink, and we fed him
+with crumbs from the porch.
+
+We started the honeysuckle anew, and when it had climbed to the top of
+the cedar pole it spread out its foliage like an umbrella. The
+mocking-bird liked his old home, and he moved back to its branches in
+the spring. He has a nice family in his nest, and they give us music at
+all times, night and day.
+
+The father bird was as brave as a soldier. His special aversion is a
+large Newfoundland dog, who is one of our pets. The bird will dart down
+upon the dog's back, and make war upon him with a peculiar noise, until
+he drives him away. He does this because he thinks the dog will hurt the
+young in the nest. When there are no little ones he takes no notice of
+the dog.
+
+We think this is a great deal better than keeping the birds in a cage.
+They are tame, and stay with us all the time; but they will not allow
+themselves to be caught.
+
+ VAN BUREN.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+TROTTIE'S DOINGS.
+
+
+TROTTIE is a cunning little boy, not quite three years old. His cradle
+is a little netted hammock. It is fastened at one end to his mamma's
+sewing-machine, and at the other to a hook in the wall. When Trottie
+grows tired he does not trouble his mamma, but gets into the little
+hammock and rocks himself to sleep.
+
+One day the door-bell rang. The little fellow picked up his mother's
+best bonnet, which she had placed upon the bed. Crushing it down over
+his little golden curly head he hastened to the door.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+He found the minister there, a tall, stately gentleman, wearing a
+stove-pipe hat. Trottie's strange appearance made the gentleman laugh,
+and he asked, "Where are you going, my little man?"
+
+Trottie made no answer, but, after a prolonged stare at the stove-pipe
+hat, asked, "Are you Mr. Yankee Doodle?" Mamma came down just then.
+Laughing, she invited the visitor in.
+
+Not long afterwards Trottie thought he would like to churn. When his
+mother's back was turned he put his two dear little kittens, "Starry
+Eyes" and "Bluebell," into the churn, and poured a cup of water over
+them. He was just lifting the dasher when his mother heard the kittens
+mewing and took them out.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+He loves the kittens dearly, and would not hurt them for anything.
+
+ JENNIE JUDSON.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "Seventeen, Eighteen, Maids in Waiting"]
+
+By Margaret Johnson:
+
+
+ WHEN the western light is fading,
+ And the deepening shadows fall,
+ When the night winds through the branches
+ Softly to each other call;
+
+ When in grassy country meadows
+ Heavy hang the clovers red,
+ And the stars begin to twinkle
+ In the dusky arch o'erhead;
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ When within the crowded city
+ Spring the dark lamps into flame,
+ And long rows of lighted windows
+ Set the street as in a frame;
+
+ When the busy hours are over,
+ Cares and worries put away,
+ And the evening enters softly
+ After the retreating day;
+
+ When the sound of homeward footsteps
+ Echoes through the quiet street,
+ Or the wayside grass is trampled
+ By the tread of hurrying feet,--
+
+ Then, in stately shining windows,
+ Hung with misty laces white,
+ Or in low-roofed cottage doorways
+ Opening out into the night;
+
+ With their merry voices silent,
+ And their playthings put aside,
+ Bright eyes, blue or black or hazel,
+ All with eager watching wide,
+
+ Stand a hundred little maidens,
+ Looking out beneath the stars,
+ Waiting in a hundred households
+ For a hundred dear papas;
+
+ And the quick, familiar footsteps
+ Nearer through the darkness come,
+ Till a hundred happy voices
+ Cry at once their "Welcome home!"
+
+
+
+
+THE PIGS' CHOWDER-PARTY.
+
+
+DOWN at Cape Cod there lived two merry little twin brothers. Very full
+of fun and mischief were they, and seldom quiet except when they were
+asleep.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+One day their mamma bought some clams. She was going to have a chowder
+for supper. For safe, cool keeping she put her basket of clams on the
+grass, under a great tree.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Johnnie and Willie stood by, and heard all that their mamma said about
+it to auntie. They just looked and heard it all. Their baby faces--for
+they were only a little over three years old--were as solemn as good old
+Deacon Pitts', who said he "didn't see why people laughed when there was
+no occasion."
+
+These two baby-rogues put their bits of plump little hands into the
+pockets of their pretty white aprons. When mamma and auntie went into
+the house Nurse Jane sat down on the piazza, knitting in hand, to keep
+an eye on them. They began to play bo-peep behind the lilac-bushes. When
+Nurse Jane dropped off to sleep, as she should not have done, then it
+was that these two small men turned their thoughts to other matters.
+First, there was a wild chase after butterflies. Pretty soon they
+trotted down the walk to see Mistress Piggy and her three lazy, grunting
+children. When the pigs heard voices they, too, piped up, squealing out,
+as Johnnie afterwards told his mamma, "Give _us_ some! give _us_ some!"
+
+So at that call the laddies pelted Mistress Piggy and her children with
+tufts of grass. Straying down the walk for more, they spied the basket
+of clams. In a minute they were dragging the damp basket over the grass,
+tugging away at the heavy load until their cheeks were scarlet. Then
+such a pelting as Mistress Piggy and her family had. But they were wild
+with the supper. They crunched and ate until all the clams were gone. A
+pile of shells lay by the trough where their food was usually put. "They
+had the chowder," Willie said.
+
+Mamma and auntie had no chowder _that_ night!
+
+I do not know what mamma said to her small boys, but I do know that they
+went very early to bed.
+
+ FRANCES P. CHAPLIN.
+
+
+
+
+PUSSY'S ADOPTED CHILDREN.
+
+
+WHEN I was a little girl I had a dear old pussy. She was black and
+white, handsome and dignified, yet a grand playfellow when she chose to
+put off her dignity.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Great was my delight, one lovely spring morning, to find that pussy had
+two beautiful little babies in an old basket under the shed steps. She
+was so glad to have me see them, and so proud of the little soft, plump
+things, that she purred her loudest.
+
+For three weeks mamma, kitty, and I nursed those babies with increasing
+pleasure. Whenever she wanted to take the air, or call on a friend, I
+was always ready to sit by the basket till she came back.
+
+One sad night Thomas Gray, an old enemy of pussy's, broke into her house
+and killed both those darlings. Their mother didn't shed a tear, but my
+tears fell fast. The little creatures had just begun to be very cunning,
+and my disappointment was sore.
+
+Over in the brick house across the street was another mamma kitty, with
+five nice children. They were about the same age as our kittens. Two
+were very like ours; so I got the idea of begging for them, and giving
+them to my pussy. Away I ran to ask my mamma's friend in the brick house
+if she would give me two of her kittens. She laughed, and said, "I wish
+you would take them all."
+
+I carried home the two I wanted, and gave them to our sad pussy as she
+lay by the kitchen stove. At first she sniffed at them eagerly, but they
+didn't smell one bit like her own sweet babies. Then she was angry at
+the trick I seemed to be playing. Her eyes looked fierce. She rose up,
+growled, and spit at the little strangers, and tried to run away. But I
+held her while Mary, the girl, brought some milk in a saucer. Kitty was
+hungry, and so were the little ones; they tried to lap the milk with
+her, but they could only wet their bits of noses, and nearly sneezed
+their ears off.
+
+Then they cried piteously, and looked at our pussy mother in such an
+appealing way that it seemed to touch her. In a little while she curled
+down on the floor and let them take her own babies' places.
+
+Presently she began to wash their little heads, and then to sing "gray
+thrums" to them. At last she made up her mind that they were very nice
+little things, and she would be a good mother to them. And she was.
+Nobody would ever guess that they were not her own children.
+
+ S. D. L. H.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+SEVEN TIMES ONE.
+
+
+ MERRY-Sunshine-Bluebell girl,
+ All my fond thoughts fly and furl,
+ Close their wings about your head.
+ May dear angels round you spread
+ Joy from morn to setting sun,--
+ For to-day you're "seven times one."
+
+ Winds that fly from you to me
+ Early, gently, ceaselessly,
+ Whisper, "We have seen her wake,
+ Gifts and kisses shyly take;
+ We have touched her dainty cheek,
+ Heard her gayly, sweetly speak
+ Of the day that makes her seven,--
+ Golden day from morn to even."
+
+ Down I wander to the glen,
+ Meeting whispers there again:
+ Leaves that shake, and waves that whirl,
+ Murmur of my birthday girl.
+ Soft the leaves are, like her hair,
+ And the brook-foam is as fair.
+ Over me the sapphire skies
+ Shine like her own gentle eyes.
+ Break, O brook, in bubbling laughter!
+ Only half you copy after
+ Her who came with morning sun,--
+ Her who now is "seven times one."
+
+ Little morning-glory child,
+ Bright as morn, as morning mild,
+ Twine and wreathe thy fragile soul,--
+ Delicate as the waves that roll
+ Here in rainbows to my feet,--
+ Twine and wreathe thee in our hearts,
+ Sheltered be from storm and smarts;
+ Cover us with dainty bloom;
+ In our love find sunny room
+ For thy dreams, songs, sallies mild,
+ Blessed morning-glory child!
+
+ DAY NOBLE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WHAT KATY DID.
+
+
+"KATY-DID-IT! Katy-did-it!" sang the katy-dids in the trees. Who was
+Katy, and what did she do, that all night long the insects sang about
+her?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Who was Katy? Why, a pretty little girl, six years old. Such a merry
+little girl that every one loved her. Katy had come out to stay with
+Grandma Lee. Mamma's sister was very sick, and mamma had gone to nurse
+her. Papa sent Katy and little Tom, with their nurse, to grandma's.
+
+Grandma Lee lived in the country, in a large house, with a beautiful
+garden to it. Back of the garden was the barn, where Katy liked to hunt
+for eggs, and play in the hay. So Katy played from morning till night at
+grandma's, and was very happy.
+
+One warm afternoon she thought she would go into the parlor and get a
+book that had beautiful pictures in it. It was on a table that had a
+scarf hanging over the edge. When Katy reached to get it she pulled the
+table-scarf off. Down fell the book and a large vase, which was broken
+all to pieces.
+
+"Oh, dear!" said Katy, "grandma will be so angry. I am afraid to tell
+her."
+
+Little Tom had followed Katy in, and now stood beside her. Just then
+Katy heard grandma coming, and ran out on the porch.
+
+She heard grandma say, "You naughty boy, to break grandma's pretty
+vase!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Then Katy thought grandma will never know it was I who did it; for Tom
+cannot talk, and he is always breaking things. I won't tell her I did
+it. So she ran away, and did not come in till grandma called her. Then
+grandma told her that Tom had gone into the parlor, and had broken the
+vase by pulling the scarf off the table.
+
+Katy did not say a word, but she could hardly eat her supper. When
+little Tom came up to kiss her "Good-night," before nurse put him to
+bed, she almost cried. But she thought it would not do to tell then. She
+was glad when bed-time came, she felt so unhappy.
+
+Katy slept in a little room that opened into grandma's. In the middle of
+the night she heard a noise and waked up. The moon was shining into the
+room, and it was almost as light as day. She heard something which
+sounded like "Katy-did-it! Katy-did-it! Katy-did-it!"
+
+She pulled the sheet over her head to shut out the noise; but still she
+heard the singing, "Katy-did-it!"
+
+"They mean me," said Katy. "I wish they would stop." But they only sang
+the louder.
+
+Katy could stand it no longer. She jumped out of bed and ran into
+grandma's room, crying, "O grandma, grandma, Katy did it!"
+
+Grandma jumped up, saying, "Why, child! what's the matter?"
+
+"O grandma," sobbed Katy, "Tom did not do it; Katy did it."
+
+"Did what?" asked grandma.
+
+"I broke the vase," replied Katy, "and then let you think Tom did it."
+
+Then Katy told grandma how the Katy-dids would not let her sleep till
+she had told her all about it. Grandma said she hoped Katy would never
+be afraid again to say "Katy did it," when she had done wrong. I think,
+after that, she never was.
+
+ AUNT FANNY.
+
+
+
+
+PULL THE WEEDS.
+
+
+ PULL the weeds, my little maid,
+ That's good work to do;
+ Better drop the ugly spade,--
+ It's too big for you.
+ In the onion bed, you see,
+ Weeds with onions don't agree;
+ Pull the weeds and set them free,
+ Onions then will grow.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Do you want to help me, dear,
+ Very, very much?
+ Careful walk along right here,
+ And you must not touch;
+ You must learn to keep the row;
+ Pull the weeds where'er they grow;
+ Soon you'll learn to use the hoe,
+ Rake, and spade, and such.
+
+ M. E. McKEE.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THISTLE DOWN.
+
+Words by JENNIE JOY.[A]
+
+Music by T. CRAMPTON
+
+VOICE.
+
+
+ 1. "Dear little Fly-a-way, may I inquire,
+ Whither so fast you are going?
+ See not before you, the creek and the mire,
+ What if the wind should stop blowing,
+ You cannot curb in the windsteeds; and tho'
+ Firm on their necks you're now lying,
+ If they should pause once, away you would go
+ Into the mud and lie dying.
+
+ 2. "Wee, winsome trouble-heart, can you not see,
+ Home on these windsteeds I'm going?
+ There to sleep sweetly, 'till Spring calls to me?
+ Then a fair flow'r I'll be growing,
+ Tho' but a weak little waif I appear,
+ Purposes wise I'm fulfiling,
+ Nothing that God rules is hopeless, my dear,
+ Speed then winds, blow if you're willing."]
+
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+Every spool warranted unequalled for Hand or Machine Sewing. Smooth,
+Strong, Full Length. Ladies, ask your storekeeper for "CORTICELLI" Spool
+Silk.
+
+SOLD BY LEADING DEALERS.
+
+_Our latest Book on Knitting (No 5), with samples of Knitting and
+Etching Silk, sent on receipt of three two-cent stamps._
+
+NONOTUCK SILK COMPANY,
+
+FLORENCE, MASS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+LUNDBORG'S
+
+PERFUMES.
+
+ =Lundborg's Perfume=, Edenia.
+ =Lundborg's Perfume=, Maréchal Niel Rose.
+ =Lundborg's Perfume=, Alpine violet.
+ =Lundborg's Perfume=, Lily of the Valley.
+
+LUNDBORG'S
+
+RHENISH COLOGNE.
+
+A box containing Samples of all the above five articles prepaid to your
+nearest Railroad Express Office (which should be named) for Fifty
+Cents--Money Order, Stamps or Currency.
+
+Address: YOUNG, LADD & COFFIN, 24 Barclay Street, New York.
+
+
+
+
+WHAT IS THE TIME?
+
+_There is no occasion to put this question to another when you can get a
+Number One_
+
+TIME-KEEPING WATCH FOR $3.50.
+
+[Illustration: THE WATERBURY WATCH.
+
+THE WATERBURY WATCH.
+
+THE WATERBURY
+
+Time To Get Up Sister.]
+
+
+A STRONG, SUBSTANTIAL ARTICLE.
+
+ A STEM-WINDER. CAN BE REGULATED PERFECTLY. RUNS FOR 28 HOURS.
+
+KEEPS IN ORDER WELL.
+
+This is the merchant's Watch, the farmer's Watch, the miner's Watch, the
+laborer's Watch, the boy's Watch, the school-girl's Watch--in fact
+everybody's Watch. The Waterbury Watch Company has a national reputation
+for making the
+
+Best Cheap Watch in the World.
+
+THE WATERBURY WATCH is a stem-winder, and will run 28 hours. The case is
+Nickel-Silver, and will always remain as bright as a new silver dollar.
+The Watch has a heavy beveled edge and crystal face. The works of the
+Watch are made with the finest automatic machinery. Every Watch is
+tested in varying positions and is perfect before leaving the factory.
+Every Watch is put up in a handsome new improved satin-lined case for
+safe transportation through the mails.
+
+Teach your children to be on time. Give them a WATERBURY WATCH. No Boy
+or Girl should be without one.
+
+So perfect is the machinery used in making this Watch, and so exact are
+all its parts, that if it needs repairs, if sent direct to the factory,
+the charge for actual repairs (including parts used) never exceeds 50
+cents. This will explain why they are so cheap and so easily repaired.
+
+A FEW TESTIMONIALS--THOUSANDS MORE COULD BE GIVEN.
+
+ [From Thomas A. Edison, Electrician, New York,
+ February 10, 1885.]
+
+ "I have used the Waterbury Watch for some time and
+ find that it is the only one which will keep
+ reasonably perfect time when used around powerful
+ dynamo machines."
+
+ The New York _Tribune_ says: "It is remarkable how
+ quickly the Waterbury Watch has stepped into popular
+ favor. No doubt, the secret of its instant success has
+ been the fact of its excellence. No amount of
+ advertising could push into favor a poor article. The
+ Waterbury Watch is good and cheap."
+
+ "I have carried a Waterbury for over a year and find
+ it a most excellent time-keeper. It has run beside a
+ $100 gold watch without showing the least
+ variation."--F. G. PERRY, Wakefield, R. I.
+
+ "My Waterbury after three years' trial continues to
+ give satisfaction, and is now going as good as when I
+ received it. At four o'clock daily we receive the time
+ over our wire, and my watch is always prompt to the
+ minute."--A. S. LETTS, Pennsylvania Railroad, Jersey
+ City.
+
+Sent by registered mail, postage paid, on receipt of $3.50.
+
+The advertiser refers to the publishers of this magazine and to the
+North National Bank of Boston, as to his responsibility.
+
+Address all orders to
+
+GEO. A. FOXCROFT, 38 Bromfield St., Boston, Mass.
+
+"INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY ONE WHO WRITES."
+
+The Genuine A. T. Cross STYLOGRAPHIC PEN.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Writes 10,000 to 20,000 words with once filling. Never leaks or blots. A
+perfect pen and ink bottle combined. Will last for years. =Price, $2.00
+plain; $2.50 gold mounted.= Sent by registered mail, on receipt of
+price. A six month's supply of ink forwarded on receipt of 25 cents.
+
+THE CROSS PEN COMPANY, No. 3 Milk Street, Boston, Mass.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+[Illustration: THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY]
+
+GOOD NEWS TO LADIES!
+
+Greatest inducements ever offered, Now's your time to get up orders for
+=our celebrated Teas and Coffees=, and secure a beautiful Gold Band or
+Moss Rose China Tea Set, or Handsome Decorated Gold Band Moss Rose
+Dinner Set, or Gold Band Moss Decorated Toilet Set. For full particulars
+address
+
+ THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA CO.,
+ P O. Box 289. 31 and 33 Vesey St., New York.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+CANDY
+
+Send $1, $2, $3, or $5 for a retail box by express of the best candies
+in America, put up elegantly, and strictly pure. Suitable for presents.
+Refers to all Chicago. Address
+
+ GUNTHER, Confectioner, 78 Madison St., Chicago.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+NO SIDELING HEELS!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+NO BROKEN HEADS! SANFORD'S PERFECT HEEL PROTECTOR will keep the heel
+square, will not slip, is not noisy, cannot work loose. Will save any
+man or woman $1 in repairs. Ask your shoemaker for them or send 10 cts,
+for sample pair to SANFORD MANUFACTURING CO., 89 High Street, Boston,
+Mass.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+=117 PIECES.= 10 Lovely Dolls and wardrobe; 3 sets Doll's Parlor, Dining
+and Bedroom Furniture all for 23cts. NOVELTY CO., Passaic, N. J.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+=100 SCRAP PICTURES=, no 2 alike and set of 4 large Adv. Cards for 10c.
+C. C. DePUY, Syracuse, N. Y.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
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+
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+Teachers.
+
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+
+ * * * * *
+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+ for
+
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+
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+ offered by the publishers, to
+
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+
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+ largely used in schools throughout the country as a supplementary
+ Reader. To any others a sample copy will be sent
+ free, on application to the publishers.
+
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+
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+
+ * * * * *
+
+
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+
+ _BOSTON REFERENCES { Lee and Shepard;
+ { Estes & Lauriat._
+
+Boston Bureau of Advertising.
+
+GEO. A. FOXCROFT, Manager.
+
+_36 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass._
+
+Correspondence solicited and estimates furnished for any desired line of
+advertising. Advertisements inserted in all first-class publications at
+lowest rates.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+GATE CITY STONE FILTER,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ "Simplest, Best and only Perfect Filter." S. W.
+ Lambeth, Phila.
+
+ "It makes our muddy river water clear, pure and sweet
+ as mountain spring water. G. W. Stewart, Atty., St.
+ Louis.
+
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+ Orleans.
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+Avoid Cholera, Malaria, Brights Disease, Typhoid and Scarlet Fever. Send
+stamp to _Gate City Stone Filter Co, 14 East 14th St., New York for
+price list_.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+BROWN'S FRENCH DRESSING.
+
+
+_The Original. Beware of Imitations._
+
+Paris Medal on Every Bottle.
+
+AWARDED HIGHEST PRIZE AND ONLY
+
+[Illustration]
+
+MEDAL, PARIS EXPOSITION, 1878.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+Fireworks and Decorations,
+
+Flags, Balloons, Animal Figured Balloons, etc.
+
+THE UNEXCELLED FIREWORKS CO.,
+
+_The Largest Manufacturers of Fireworks in the World._
+
+ "ALL COLORED" FIREWORKS ONLY.
+ Sole Importers of Japanese Day Fireworks
+
+B. NOYES, Agent, 90 Chauncy St., Boston.
+
+Estimates furnished for Public and Private Displays. Catalogues mailed
+on application, and mail orders promptly attended to.
+
+
+Parson Wilder Calls on Mrs. Puffy.
+
+By Neil Burgess.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"It did my soul good," said Mrs. Puffy, "to see old Parson Wilder come
+in, the dear old soul; he looked as smiling as a basket of chips, and it
+was a nice morning, the sun shining right into our setting-room; and, as
+luck would have it, I'd just got all cleaned up and had put on a clean
+calico and white apron, and, if I do say it, I looked as slick as a
+whistle; and our garden--well, you'd oughter to seen it--a mass of
+posies and blossoms everywhere; and as it had rained in the night
+everything was as fresh as a cowcumber. 'Well, well!' says the parson,
+'this is a picture one could never forget,' and he looked at my floor
+and kitchen-table; they were both white as snow, and my milk-pans--well
+you could just see your face in 'em, and everything was as neat as a
+pink.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"I cut him a pie and got him a pitcher of milk, cause I could see he was
+powerful hungry, and when he got filled up he commenced: 'Cleanliness is
+next to Godliness; now,' says he, 'what makes this home look so bright
+and pure as the lily?' Says I 'It's Sapolio.'
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"'How?' says he, putting his hand to his ear, 'cause he's a little deaf.
+'Sapolio!' I yelled in his ear. 'No,' says he, 'no; it's virtoo, moral
+virtoo, that's er shining through it all,' and he kept that up till
+supper time, and stayed and eat a big supper (I'm afraid they ain't er
+feeding the old man as well up to his house as they oughter); and after
+he had gone hum, I couldn't help thinking, as I looked at my floor,
+table, pans and etceterer, that it may be moral virtoo shining through
+'em, _but it takes Sapolio to fetch it out!_"
+
+If your grocer does not keep Sapolio he can order it for you from any
+wholesale grocer in the United States.
+
+What is Sapolio?
+
+It is a solid, handsome cake of scouring soap, which has no equal for
+all cleaning purposes, except the laundry.
+
+What will Sapolio do? Why, it will clean paint, make oil cloths bright.
+You can scour the knives and forks with it, and make the tin things
+shine brightly.
+
+The wash basin, the bath tub, even the greasy kitchen sink, will be as
+clean as a new pin if you use SAPOLIO.
+
+BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+COLUMBIA
+
+BICYCLES & TRICYCLES
+
+Illustrated Catalogue sent Free.
+
+THE POPE MFG. CO.
+
+BOSTON MASS
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+GRANULA
+
+=An Incomparable Food.= Ready for _immediate use_. Unequaled for
+_children_ and _invalids_. A delicious diet. Unsurpassed for
+constipation and dyspepsia. Sold by Grocers. Box by mail, 48c. =Our Home
+Granula Co.=, DANSVILLE, N. Y., Manufacturers.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+JOSEPH GILLOTT'S
+
+STEEL PENS
+
+SOLD BY ALL DEALERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
+
+GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSITION--1878.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+ Artist's Materials,
+ of every description.
+
+ Decorative Art Goods,
+ Art Pottery, &c.
+
+ FROST & ADAMS, Importers,
+ 37 Cornhill, Boston, Mass.
+
+_Illustrated Catalogue free._
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+BAKER'S
+
+Breakfast Cocoa.
+
+Warranted _=absolutely pure Cocoa=_, from which the excess of Oil has
+been removed. It has _three times the strength_ of Cocoa mixed with
+Starch, Arrowroot or Sugar, and is therefore far more economical. It is
+delicious, nourishing, strengthening, easily digested, and admirably
+adapted for invalids as well as for persons in health.
+
+Sold by Grocers everywhere.
+
+W. BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Mass.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+
+[Illustration: MELLIN'S
+
+FOOD
+
+Trade Mark.
+
+Ora et labora
+
+FOR INFANTS & INVALIDS]
+
+=The only perfect substitute= for Mother's Milk. The most nourishing
+diet for invalids and nursing mothers. Keeps in all climates. Commended
+by physicians. Sold everywhere. Send for our book "The Care and Feeding
+of Infants." Sent free. DOLIBER, GOODALE & COMPANY.
+
+ 40, 41, 42 & 43 Central Wharf, Boston, Mass.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+For washing the hair only the very best soap and pure water should be
+used.
+
+The average soap contains too much free alkali, which draws the natural
+oil from the hair and scalp, and leaves the former dry and lusterless
+while it roughens the latter, causing scurf or dandruff.
+
+The purity and mildness of the Ivory Soap gives it pre-eminence for
+cleaning the hair and scalp. It contains no free alkali, so its use
+insures a clean and healthy head of hair of the luster and softness of
+silk.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+If your grocer does not keep the Ivory Soap, send six two-cent stamps,
+to pay the postage, to Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, and they will send
+you _free_ a large cake of IVORY SOAP.]
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+ALL THE LEADING DRUGGISTS SELL PEARS' SOAP
+
+PEARS' SOAP
+
+THE FAMOUS ENGLISH
+
+COMPLEXION SOAP.
+
+HIS OPINION OF PEARS' SOAP
+
+ If Cleanliness is next to Godliness, Soap must be
+ considered as a Means of Grace and a Clergyman who
+ recommends moral things should be willing to recommend
+ Soap. I am told that my commendation of Pears' Soap
+ has opened for it a large sale in the United States. I
+ am willing to stand by every word in favor of it that
+ I ever uttered. A man must be fastidious indeed who is
+ not satisfied with it.
+
+ Henry Ward Beecher
+
+ESTABLISHED in LONDON 100 Years.
+
+GOOD COMPLEXION
+
+NICE HANDS
+
+PEARS SOAP
+
+ I HAVE FOUND IT MATCHLESS FOR THE HANDS. COMPLEXION.
+
+ Adelina Patti
+
+
+A SPECIALTY FOR THE SKIN & COMPLEXION,
+
+As recommended by the greatest English authority on the Skin,
+
+PROF. SIR ERASMUS WILSON, F. R. S.
+
+Pres. of the Royal Col. of Surgeons, England.
+
+Nothing adds so much to personal appearance as a =Bright, Clear
+Complexion and a Soft Skin=. With these the plainest features become
+attractive. Without them the handsomest are but coldly impressive.
+
+_Many a complexion is marred by impure alkaline and Colored Toilet
+Soap._
+
+PEARS' SOAP
+
+Is specially prepared for the delicate skin of ladies and children and
+others sensitive to the weather, winter or summer. In England it is
+pre-eminently the complexion Soap, and is recommended by all the best
+authorities, as, on account of its emollient, non-irritant character,
+=Redness, Roughness and Chapping are prevented, and a clear and bright
+appearance and a soft, velvety condition imparted and maintained, and a
+good, healthful and attractive complexion ensured=.
+
+Its agreeable and lasting perfume, beautiful appearance, and soothing
+properties commend it as the greatest luxury of the toilet. Its
+durability and consequent economy is remarkable.
+
+15 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS.
+
+ALL THE LEADING DRUGGISTS SELL PEARS' SOAP]
+
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Transcriber's Notes:
+
+Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+Advertise in "Our Little Ones and The Nursery", "the the" changed to
+"the" (the library shelf)
+
+Page 270, "PEM" changed to "PENN" (PENN SHIRLEY)
+
+Page 288, song, "hopless" changed to "hopeless" (rules is hopeless)
+
+Ivory Soap advertisement, "healty" changed to "healthy" (and healthy
+head of)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Little Ones and The Nursery, Vol.
+V, No. 9, July 1885, by Various
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41679 ***
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