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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42156 ***
+
+THE
+
+NURSERY
+
+_A Monthly Magazine_
+
+FOR YOUNGEST READERS.
+
+VOLUME XXX.--No. 1.
+
+ BOSTON:
+ THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY,
+ NO. 36 BROMFIELD STREET.
+ 1881.
+
+
+
+
+ Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1881, by
+ THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY,
+ In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
+
+[Illustration: JOHN WILSON & SON UNIVERSITY PRESS]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: Contents.]
+
+
+IN PROSE.
+
+ PAGE
+ Hide and Seek 193
+ Flowers for Mamma 195
+ Outwitted 197
+ Zip Coon 199
+ The Fuss in the Poultry-Yard 201
+ Our Charley 206
+ Drawing-Lesson 209
+ More about "Parley-voo" 210
+ The old Pump 214
+ Winter on Lake Constance 215
+ Swan-upping 216
+ The Man in the Moon 219
+ The Boy and the Cat 220
+
+
+IN VERSE.
+
+ Hammock Song 196
+ Rosie and the Pigs 198
+ What's up 203
+ Minding Mother 204
+ Peet-Weet 207
+ Baby's Ride 212
+ Baby-Brother 222
+ Under Green Leaves (_with music_) 224
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HIDE AND SEEK.
+
+VOL. XXX.--NO. 1.]
+
+
+
+
+HIDE-AND-SEEK.
+
+
+WHERE is Charley? Where can the boy have gone? Just now he was here by
+my side. Now he is out of my sight. I will call him. 'Charley, Charley,
+my boy! where are you?'
+
+"No answer. Hark! I hear a noise up in that tree. Can that be Charley?
+Oh, no! It is a bird. 'Little bird, have you seen a small boy with curly
+hair? Tell me where to look for him.'
+
+"The bird will not tell me. I must ask the squirrel. 'Squirrel, have you
+seen a boy with rosy cheeks?' Away goes the squirrel into a hole without
+saying a word.
+
+"Ah! there goes a butterfly. I will ask him. 'Butterfly, have you seen a
+boy, with black eyes, rosy cheeks, and curly hair?' The butterfly lights
+on a bush. Now he flies again. Now he is off without making any reply.
+
+"Dear me! what shall I do? Is my little boy lost in the woods? Must I go
+home without him? Oh, how can I live without my boy!"
+
+Out pops a laughing face from the bushes.
+
+"Here I am, mamma!" says Charley. "Don't cry. Here I am close by you."
+
+"Why, so you are. Come out here, you little rogue, and tell me where you
+have been all this time."
+
+"I have been right behind this tree, and I heard every word you said,"
+says Charley.
+
+"What a joke that was! Why, Charley, you must have kept still for as
+much as three minutes. I never knew you to do that before."
+
+ IDA FAY.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+FLOWERS FOR MAMMA.
+
+
+OUR readers will remember a picture of this same little girl as she was
+taking her doll to ride. While Dolly was taking her nap, Grace ran into
+the garden again. She flitted about among the flowers, as busy as a bee,
+for a few minutes. Then she came running into the house. The picture
+shows what she brought back to her mamma.
+
+ JANE OLIVER.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+HAMMOCK SONG.
+
+
+ HEIGH-HO, to and fro!
+ How the merry breezes blow!
+
+ Blue skies, blue eyes,
+ Baby, bees, and butterflies,
+
+ Daisies growing everywhere,
+ Breath of roses in the air!
+
+ Dollie Dimple, swing away,
+ Baby darling, at your play.
+
+ MARY D. BRINE.
+
+
+
+
+OUTWITTED.
+
+
+ONE fine summer day a very hungry fox sallied out in search of his
+dinner. After a while his eye rested on a young rooster, which he
+thought would make a very good meal: so he lay down under a wall and hid
+himself in the high grass, intending to wait until the rooster got near
+enough, and then to spring on him, and carry him off.
+
+Suddenly, however, the rooster saw him and flew, in a great fright, to
+the top of the wall.
+
+The fox could not get him there, and he knew it: so he came out from his
+hiding-place, and addressed the rooster thus: "Dear me!" he cried, "how
+handsomely you are dressed! I came to invite your magnificence to a
+grand christening feast. The duck and the goose have promised to come,
+and the turkey, though slightly ill, will try to come also.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"You see that only those of rank are bidden to this feast, and we beg
+you to adorn it with your splendid talent for music. We are to have the
+most delicate little cock-chafers served up on toast, a delicious salad
+of earthworms, in fact all manner of good things. Will you not return
+then with me to my house?"
+
+"Oh ho!" said the rooster, "how kind you are! What fine stories you
+tell! Still I think it safest to decline your kind invitation. I am
+sorry not to go to that splendid feast; but I cannot leave my wife, for
+she is sitting on seven new eggs. Good-by! I hope you will relish those
+earthworms. Don't come too near me, or I will crow for the dogs.
+Good-by!"
+
+ LEONORA, from the German.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ROSIE AND THE PIGS.
+
+
+ ROSIE was breakfasting out on the grass
+ When two pigs, on a walking tour, happened to pass.
+ One pig, with rude manners, came boldly in front,
+ And first gave a stare, and then gave a grunt,
+ As much as to say, "What is that you have got?
+ Just give us a taste, my dear, out of your pot!"
+
+ T.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ZIP COON.
+
+
+DID you ever see a raccoon? I am going to tell you about one that was
+sent from the South as a present to a lady whose name was Isabella. He
+was called Zip Coon, and a very wise coon he was.
+
+Zip had a long, low body, covered with stiff yellowish hair. His nose
+was pointed, and his eyes were bright as buttons. His paws were regular
+little hands, and he used them just like hands.
+
+He was very tame. He would climb up on Isabella's chair, and scramble to
+her shoulder. Then he would comb her hair with his fingers, pick at her
+ear-rings, and feel of her collar and pin and buttons.
+
+Isabella's mother was quite ill, but sometimes was able to sit in her
+chair and eat her dinner from a tray on her lap. She liked to have Zip
+in her room; but, if left alone with her, Zip would jump up in the
+chair behind her, and try to crowd her off. He would reach around, too,
+under her arm, and steal things from her tray.
+
+Once the cook in the kitchen heard a brisk rattling of tin pans in the
+pantry. She opened the door, and there, on a shelf, was Zip. There were
+two pans standing side by side. One had Indian-meal in it, and the other
+nice sweet milk. In front of the pans stood Zippy.
+
+He had scooped the meal from one pan into the milk in the other pan, and
+was stirring up a pudding with all his might. He looked over his
+shoulder when he heard the cook coming up behind him, and worked away
+all the faster, as if to get the pudding done before he was snatched up,
+and put out of the pantry.
+
+Zip was very neat and clean. He loved to have a bowl of water and piece
+of soap set down for his own use. He would take the soap in his hands,
+dip it into the water, and rub it between his palms; then he would reach
+all around his body, and wash himself. It was very funny to see him
+reach way around, and wash his back.
+
+One day, Isabella, not feeling well, was lying on her bed. Zippy was
+playing around her in his usual way. Pretty soon he ran under the bed,
+and was busy a long while reaching up, and pulling and picking at the
+slats over his head. By and by he crawled out; and what do you think he
+had between his teeth? A pretty little red coral ear-ring that Isabella
+had lost several weeks before. Zip's bright eyes had spied it as he was
+playing around under the bed. So you see Zip Coon did some good that
+time.
+
+When Zip grew older, he became so cross and snappish, that he had to be
+chained up in the woodshed in front of his little house. On the door of
+his house was printed in red letters, "Zip Coon: he bites."
+
+ HELEN MARR.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+THE FUSS IN THE POULTRY-YARD.
+
+
+THERE is no sign of a fuss to be seen in the picture. Little Ellen is
+feeding a quiet old hen, and two or three younger ones are slowly coming
+up to see what is going on. All is calm and serene.
+
+But if we could look round a corner, and take a view of the other side
+of the barnyard, we should see something quite exciting.
+
+The trouble was made by three hens of foreign breed. They felt so proud
+because they had big tufts on their heads, that they looked down on the
+native barn-yard fowls. One old white hen they never cease to pick upon.
+
+Now, the old white hen, although plain, was very smart. If there was a
+good fat worm to be found anywhere, she was sure to scratch it up. This
+was what caused the fuss.
+
+Old Whitey scratched up a worm. Three tufted hens at once tried to take
+it away from her. There was a chase all around the barnyard. Old Whitey,
+with the worm in her mouth, kept the lead.
+
+Out she dashed through an opening in the fence. Down she went, down the
+hill back of the barn. The three tufted hens, like three highwaymen,
+were close upon her.
+
+Well, what was the end of it? They didn't get the worm; I can tell you
+that. But there was a fight, and I can't say that poor Whitey got off
+without being badly pecked.
+
+ UNCLE CHARLES.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WHAT'S UP?
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ WHY does Miss Prim;
+ So stylish and slim,
+ Hold up her head so high?
+ What does she see?
+ A bird in the tree?
+ Or is it a star in the sky?
+
+ And here is young Jane
+ In bonnet so plain:
+ And why is she looking up too?
+ Do they seek at high noon
+ For the man in the moon?
+ Now, really, I wish that I knew?
+
+ V. W.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+MINDING MOTHER.
+
+
+ "OROOK, orook, orook!"
+ It is the half-grown turkeys going,
+ In the hot sunshine, through the fields;
+ Their black feet trampling down the mowing.
+ Across the clover rosy red,
+ Through the tall brake-leaves in the hollow,
+ The old hen-turkey, calling, goes;
+ And close behind the others follow.
+ "Old birds know best," the young ones say,
+ "And we let mother choose the way."
+
+ The dancing oats, all tasselled green,
+ Are full of grasshoppers and crickets;
+ The raspberry-bushes, red with fruit,
+ Grow round the rocks in thorny thickets;
+ The partridge-plants beside the wall
+ Lift up their clustered purple berries;
+ And from the wind-stirred branches fall
+ Upon the grass the small wild cherries:
+ Just where they are the old hen knows,
+ And all her noisy brood she shows.
+
+ Why feast all day?--the trodden oats
+ Will scarce be worth the mowing;--
+ "'Tis time," the old bird says, "at last
+ We home again were going."
+ Back through the clover-bloom she strides,
+ Down through the braky hollow:
+ She flies up on the fence to roost,
+ And all the others follow.
+ "We always have," the young ones say,
+ "When mother leads, a pleasant day."
+
+ MARIAN DOUGLAS.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+OUR CHARLEY.
+
+
+CHARLEY was our horse, and a more gentle and kind horse never drew a
+carriage. He would carry four boys on his back, and walk off from the
+watering-trough to the barn as carefully as if he knew that small boys
+could not hold on very well. He seemed to feel that the boys were in his
+charge.
+
+What I am going to tell happened one spring day. It was warm and
+beautiful out, and the doors and windows of the house were left open for
+the fresh air to circulate freely. Charley was turned into the
+front-yard to nibble the green grass for a while. It must have seemed
+good to him after eating straw and hay all winter.
+
+He ate and ate until he had eaten all he wanted, and probably felt as
+boys and girls sometimes do when they have room for nothing more, except
+pie, or pudding, or whatever the dessert may be.
+
+In the house dinner was over, and the table was waiting for Katy to come
+from the kitchen to clear it off. The family had gone into the
+sitting-room, and were busy talking about a ramble in the woods for
+flowers, which had been promised us children for that afternoon.
+
+All at once we heard the tramp of heavy feet passing through the hall
+into the dining-room. "Run, Willy," said mother, "and see what is making
+such a noise."
+
+Willy ran out, and came back laughing so he could hardly speak. "It's
+old Charley," said he. "He's in the dining-room." We all rushed to the
+door, and, sure enough, there stood Charley by the table, eating what he
+could find on the platters and children's plates.
+
+Oh, how we all laughed to see him standing there, as sober as if it were
+his own stall and manger! We were willing that Charley should have what
+we had left; but it seemed hardly right that a horse should be in the
+house; besides, we feared that he might push the dishes off.
+
+So Willy took him by the mane, and led him out of the house. He went off
+chewing what he had in his mouth, and nodding his head, as much as to
+say, "That pie-crust and salt are pretty good. If you please, I'll call
+again."
+
+ N. T. B.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+PEET-WEET.[A]
+
+
+ SIR PEET-WEET and his little wife
+ Live, yonder by the water's edge,
+ A merry life, a busy life,
+ A life of love, and not of strife,
+ Close nestled in the sandy sedge,
+ Where the great hungry billows gnaw:
+ A fairy creature is Sir Peet;
+ Such slender legs you never saw,
+ Not larger than a barley-straw;
+ Yet wind and wave are not so fleet.
+
+ While madam sits upon her eggs,--
+ Four spotted eggs, a pair for each,--
+ He loves to match his nimble legs
+ Against the breaker as it drags
+ The sand-drift up and down the beach.
+ So fast behind the wave he trips,
+ You hardly see his little feet;
+ Below him, in the wet sand, slips
+ His picture, and their toes touch tips,
+ And their pink bills in kissing meet.
+
+ To see them chasing, you would say
+ The giant Ocean and his pet
+ Were let out for a holiday,
+ Playing at "tag" as children play,
+ And laughing at the fun they get.
+ 'Tis more than fun; the big bluff sea
+ To his small friend brings savory meat:
+ Peet dines, and hurries, full of glee,
+ To set his faithful lady free,
+ That she may run and dance and eat.
+
+ GEORGE S. BURLEIGH.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[A] Peet-weet is the common name of the spotted Sandpiper, derived from
+its note.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DRAWING-LESSON.
+
+VOL. XXX.--NO. 1.]
+
+
+
+
+MORE ABOUT "PARLEY-VOO."
+
+
+HOW a little boy came to be called by such a queer nickname as
+"Parley-voo" was told in the March number of "The Nursery." This is a
+story about the same boy.
+
+"Where's Parley-voo?" asked aunt Tib one afternoon. "I haven't seen him
+for a long time."
+
+"Where can he be?" said mamma, looking concerned.
+
+"Where _can_ he be?" echoed the French nurse, throwing down her sewing,
+and going in search of him. "Where can he be? _Le méchant!_" (She meant
+"The naughty little boy.") Then she ran down the walk, calling out,
+"Parley-voo, Parley-voo, Parley-voo!" But not a sound came back.
+
+She went down the lane to the house of the tailoress, where Parley-voo
+had sometimes been known to go. "Have you seen our little boy to-day?"
+she asked anxiously of the tailoress, who sat at the window, making a
+vest.
+
+The tailoress looked up over her glasses, and laughed. "Why, yes: he's
+here," said she; "and I don't know what his mother will say when she
+sees him."
+
+The nurse went up to the window, and looked in. There sat Parley-voo on
+a little wooden cricket, and ever so much of his bright, pretty hair--as
+much as he could get at--lay on the floor beside him.
+
+When Parley-voo saw the nurse, he ran into a corner, and hid his face.
+The poor nurse was so amazed, that she could hardly speak. How came the
+child in such a plight?
+
+The tailoress told the story as follows. She had gone out to pick some
+peas in the garden, leaving her husband, a blind man, in the room with
+Parley-voo. He heard the little boy about the room, and, fearing that he
+might be in some mischief, told him that he "must not meddle."
+
+But pretty soon the blind man heard the sound of shears going across the
+table. Parley-voo was certainly doing something with the shears.
+
+"Little boy, you must not meddle," said the blind man again. The noise
+stopped. "Ah! the boy does not dare to disobey me," thought the blind
+man.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+All of a sudden the noise began again; but it was a very different
+noise. It was not on the table. The shears went together every little
+while with a sharp click.
+
+The blind man felt very uneasy. "I do wish," he thought, "my wife would
+come in and see what the little chap is up to."
+
+To console himself, the blind man opened his snuff-box and took a pinch
+of snuff. What do you think the little chap did? He slyly put in his
+finger and thumb, and took a pinch too. And then how he did sneeze!
+
+The tailoress heard him sneeze, and came in. She saw at once what had
+been going on. Parley-voo had been cutting his hair.
+
+"Oh, my!" exclaimed mamma, when the nurse brought him home.
+
+"Dear, dear!" cried aunt Tib, "what a looking child!"
+
+Then the _bonne_ told where she found him, and they looked at his hair,
+and talked so much about it, that Parley-voo wished he could sink
+through the floor out of sight. And he thought to himself that he would
+never again touch any thing he had been told not to.
+
+The nurse took him up to the nursery, and dressed him all fresh and nice
+before his father came home. But the pretty yellow hair was two or three
+months growing out.
+
+ ELIZABETH A. DAVIS.
+
+
+
+
+BABY'S RIDE.
+
+
+ CLEAR the way all, move the playthings aside,
+ Baby is having a glorious ride:
+ See! from the hall he comes galloping in,
+ Dimpled hands folded beneath papa's chin.
+
+ Golden curls flying, fat cheeks all aglow,
+ Three pearly teeth peeping out in a row:
+ Hark! how he crows, and laughs out in his glee!
+ Never was baby more happy than he.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Now he goes trotting along to the town,
+ Far away, far away, up hill and down;
+ Back to mamma then as quick as he can,
+ There's a good ride for papa's little man!
+
+ RUTH REVERE.
+
+
+
+
+THE OLD PUMP.
+
+
+THIS is the pump that stands in the field near our house. The well is
+very deep, and the water is pure and cold. There is a trough at which
+the cows and horses often come to drink.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Bridget goes to the pump two or three times a day to get a pail of
+water. It is quite a task to bring it so far. But Bridget's arms are
+quite strong. She takes all the care of the hens and cows and pigs.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ T. S. R.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+WINTER ON LAKE CONSTANCE.
+
+
+THE Lake of Constance, which lies between Switzerland and Germany, is
+seldom frozen over. The last time it was frozen was in December, 1879.
+Before that, it had not been frozen over since 1829.
+
+People came from far and near to see it and to skate on it. The lake was
+black with skaters who were gliding over its surface.
+
+Men, women, and children alike shared the fun. There had not been such
+skating before for fifty years, and it is no wonder that they made the
+most of it while it lasted.
+
+In January a warm wind blew for two days: the huge masses of snow
+melted, and the little brooks were once more set running down the
+mountain-sides. But winter was soon back again with redoubled severity,
+bringing fresh snow and severer frost, and thus keeping the lake frozen.
+
+On Candlemas Day (the second day of February) there was a grand festival
+on the ice. The peasants came from far and near. There were thousands of
+them there. In the evening there was a grand illumination, and after
+that there were fireworks, and then a dance on the ice.
+
+In summer the water of Lake Constance is of a dark green color. The
+River Rhine enters it at the western end, and flows out at the eastern
+end. The lake is about forty-four miles long and nine miles wide.
+
+The view of the frozen lake from the mountains is said to have been very
+fine. As you looked down on its smooth glittering surface, the skaters
+moving over it appeared like mere specks, while the houses in the
+village were like doll-houses.
+
+ LEONORA, from the German.
+
+
+
+
+SWAN-UPPING.
+
+
+HERE we have a picture that tells its own story. It reminds me of some
+swans in my native island, England, and of a curious custom called
+"swan-upping."
+
+Some miles from London, on one of the most beautiful parts of the River
+Thames, a great number of swans are kept, which are owned by the Dyers'
+and Vintners' Companies.
+
+The owners value them so highly, and take such care of them, that they
+have about as nice a time as any birds could wish to have. I fancy that
+these Thames swans hold their heads higher, and feel prouder, than any
+other swans in England.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They build their nests in the osier-beds, by the side of the river, but
+out of the reach of the water. These nests are compact, handsome
+structures, formed of osiers, or reeds.
+
+Every pair of swans has its own walk, or district, within which no
+other swans are permitted to build. Every pair has a keeper appointed to
+take the entire charge of them.
+
+The keeper receives a small sum for every cygnet that is reared; and it
+is his duty to see that the nest is not disturbed. Sometimes he helps
+these lordly birds by building the foundation of the nest for them.
+
+Once a year, in August, the swans are counted and marked. This is called
+"swan-upping," and a good time it used to be. In gayly decorated barges,
+with flags flying, and music playing, the city authorities came up the
+river to take up the swans and mark them.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The "upping" began on the first Monday after St. Peter's Day. But,
+before the swans could be taken up, they had to be caught. This was no
+easy matter; for the swans are strong; and often they would lead the
+uppers a hard chase among the crooks of the river.
+
+The mark of the Vintners' Company is two nicks: hence came the
+well-known sign on so many inns in England, "The Swan with Two Necks," a
+corruption from "two nicks."
+
+These "Thames swans" are very beautiful birds, and well worth a trip up
+the river to see: so I hope, that, if ever the little readers of "The
+Nursery" take a trip to England, they will visit Hurley in Bucks, and
+there they will find "The Swans with Two Nicks."
+
+ B. P.
+
+
+
+
+THE MAN IN THE MOON.
+
+
+I KNOW two children,--a little girl named Helen, and a little boy named
+Lewis. Sometimes in the evening, after tea, they come to me, and say,
+"Papa, will you be the man in the moon and take us all a-sailing?"
+
+Then I get into the rocking-chair, take Helen on one knee and Lewis on
+the other, and as they lean on my breast, with their eyes shut, I rock
+and talk to them thus:--
+
+"Here we are up in the sky on the moon. Oh, how high we are! Below us
+see the clouds blown about like feathers. Here we are safe and sound in
+the moon. Look down, and see the trees on the earth. There's where the
+birds are going to bed. Do you see that streak that looks like a silver
+ribbon? That is a river flowing to the sea. Now we are over the ocean.
+You can see our moonlight like great plates of silver all over it. See!
+there comes a ship all white. It looks as if it had its nightdress on.
+
+"Here we are over a town. How beautiful the streets look with gas-lamps
+burning! And see all the pretty things in the shop-windows. I know what
+Helen is looking at. It is the big doll dressed in silk and satin. I
+know what Lewis is looking at. He is looking at the ginger-bread.
+
+"Oh! now we are just over a little white house. I can see through the
+window a man with two children in his lap. Oh, dear! he's going to do
+something dreadful with them."
+
+"What's that?" asks Helen. "Put them to bed," I say. But Lewis says
+nothing. He is fast asleep.
+
+ HIERONIMUS.
+
+
+
+
+THE BOY AND THE CAT.
+
+
+SEE this small boy on the kitchen-table. How did he ever get up there
+with such little short legs? And what is he looking at?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+He is looking out of the window. He sees a cat on the sill outside. It
+is an old strange cat.
+
+The little boy is fond of kittens; but he does not like cats. He is not
+polite to the strange cat.
+
+"What do you want here?" he says. "Why do you stare at me so? Do you
+want to eat me? I'm not a mouse. Go away!"
+
+The cat answers with one word, "Mew!"
+
+"What do you say?" asks the boy. "Are you cold? Do you want to come in?
+Do you want some milk?"
+
+And all that the cat says is, "Mew!"
+
+"Go away!" says the boy again. "My mother does not like strange cats. I
+do not like strange cats. If you are hungry, go and catch a rat. You
+can't come in here."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The cat does not budge an inch. But still she answers with a pitiful
+"Mew!"
+
+Cats cannot talk; but they can think. This cat looks in at the window
+and sees the boy. This is what she thinks.
+
+"That boy looks like a boy that I knew when I was a kitten. I was a pet
+then. Now I am a cat without any home. Nobody cares for me. I go from
+house to house; but nobody takes me in. I wonder if I can't make that
+little boy take pity on me. I will try.
+
+"Ah! he treats me like everybody else. He tells me to go away. Pretty
+soon he will say, 'Scat!' and throw water on me. No: he will not do
+that. He is so much like the little boy who used to pet me when I was a
+kitten, that I will not run away from him. I will beg to be let in."
+
+So the cat sat still and said, "Mew!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And the cat did not make a mistake. The little boy did take pity on her
+at last. He toddled off to his mother as fast as his legs would carry
+him, and got a pan of milk, which he set on the floor.
+
+His mother opened the window for him, and the strange cat came in. How
+eagerly she lapped up the milk! She was really a very nice cat. The
+little boy soon began to make a pet of her.
+
+And the cat was happy, and the boy was happy; and I don't know which was
+the happier of the two.
+
+ UNCLE SAM.
+
+
+
+
+BABY-BROTHER.
+
+
+ THIS is my baby-brother,
+ Just one year old to-day:
+ He cannot talk, he cannot walk;
+ But he can laugh and play!
+
+[Illustration]
+
+ Step out now, baby-brother,
+ And use your feet so small;
+ Oh, never fear! while I am here,
+ You shall not have a fall.
+
+ W. G.
+
+
+
+
+UNDER GREEN LEAVES.
+
+Words by IDA FAY.
+
+Music by T. CRAMPTON.
+
+
+[Illustration: Music]
+
+ 1. The birdies are merrily singing;
+ And Minnie is merrily swinging;
+ And Minnie is merrily swinging;
+ Safe from the forest tree, . . .
+ Hangs the swing you may see;
+ And the breeze a sweet odor is bringing,
+ Under green leaves so free.
+
+ 2 Hold tight to the ropes, little lady,
+ || All round us is pleasant and shady; ||
+ And now we will not go,
+ Where the sun scorches so,
+ But will stay in the grove, little lady,
+ Where the cool streamlets flow.
+
+ 3 You sit the swing well I am thinking,
+ || Your eyes, as you rise, never blinking; ||
+ You're brave, you little girl,
+ But your hair's out of curl;
+ Very soon at the glass you'll be prinking;
+ Smoothing each glossy curl.
+
+ * * * * *
+
+Transcriber's Notes: Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
+
+The original text for the July issue had a table of contents that
+spanned six issues. This was divided amongst those issues.
+
+Additionally, only the July issue had a title page. This page was
+copied for the remaining five issues. Each issue had the number added on
+the title page after the Volume number.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's The Nursery, July 1881, Vol. XXX, by Various
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42156 ***