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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, January 4, 1881, by Various
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+Title: Harper's Young People, January 4, 1881
+       An Illustrated Monthly
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: January 12, 2014 [EBook #44650]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, JAN 4, 1881 ***
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+Produced by Annie R. McGuire
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+[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. II.--NO. 62. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, January 4, 1881. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
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+
+
+[Illustration: FISHING THROUGH THE ICE.--DRAWN BY W. R. YEAGER, FROM A
+SKETCH BY F. H. TAYLOR.]
+
+MR. CHALKER'S RUSE.
+
+BY FRANK H. TAYLOR.
+
+
+Every country boy in New England knows that the village school-house is
+generally located upon the top of the bleakest hill in the neighborhood,
+and is the sport of every eddying gust of wind that drives down from the
+great pine wilderness of Maine, heaping the great drifts across the road
+and about the door for the children to break through, and then shake
+themselves free of the clinging snow like so many young Newfoundlands.
+
+And where, by any chance, was there ever a school-house containing a
+stove that didn't roast the scholars seated near it, and leave the
+others to freeze?
+
+All wide-awake boys who know the pleasures of skating will agree with me
+that however cold and stormy it is upon the hill-tops, the mill-pond
+(and what does a village amount to without a mill-pond, indeed?) is
+always down in the coziest nook between the hills, where the winds can't
+come with more force than is needed to blow the falling flakes across
+its smooth surface, piling them in great heaps among the bordering
+willows, and leaving the ice in tempting order for "shinny."
+
+In fact, upon this the coldest morning of the winter, the school-house
+on the hill-top is not to be mentioned or thought of in comparison with
+mill-ponds for comfort or attractiveness, and it is hardly surprising
+that Mr. Chalker, the school-master, walked to and fro in solitary
+state, surveying with vexed air an array of vacant desks.
+
+He was not altogether alone, however, for three boys had fought bravely
+through the drifts, and now sat huddled by the red-hot stove, trying
+hard to look as though they, at least, didn't think the weather a good
+excuse for staying at home to hunt hens' nests in the depths of the
+haymow.
+
+Now School-master Chalker was a shrewd observer, and loved a good joke
+as well as any one. He had adopted many original plans of instruction.
+He could see one end of the mill-pond, half a mile away from his window,
+and as he gazed out upon the bleak waste of snow-clad fields he saw a
+couple of small black figures gliding over its surface, and a trace of a
+smile shone among his wrinkles as an idea seemed to strike him.
+
+Perhaps he had recalled the time, ever so many years ago, when he too
+was a lad and the "wildest cub in the town," as his father often
+declared. Turning to one of the boys, he said, "Ben, it seems to me that
+the pond's a much nicer place for us than the school-house to-day. Let's
+go fishing. I can't skate, but perhaps I can show you how we used to
+catch pickerel down there fifty years ago."
+
+Ben and his two companions looked at Mr. Chalker with eyes widely
+opened, but they soon found that he was in earnest, and they agreed to
+the proposition joyfully.
+
+"Now," said Mr. Chalker, "two of you get out the bob-sled, and heap on
+plenty of sticks from the wood-pile. Be sure and get some big ones; and
+you, Berton, go down to Mr. Sampson, the miller, with this note. He will
+let you have some lines, and a few minnows for bait."
+
+When the school-house had been properly locked up, and they had started,
+dragging the sled after them, it occurred to Ben to suggest a slide. So
+all three got upon the wood, and slid away merrily toward the pond. The
+road was steep but straight, though near the bottom there was a sharp
+curve, where the wind had blown away the snow, leaving a crust of smooth
+ice. Over this they sped at a lively pace, Ben steering. Poor Ben
+couldn't turn the corner, and in another second the sled, school-master,
+and all plunged into the depths of a big drift. Nothing was to be seen
+of Mr. Chalker for a moment but his heels; but he shortly emerged,
+puffing and laughing heartily, much to the boys' relief, who had begun
+to think the fun was all over. But Mr. Chalker shook himself, and
+declared he enjoyed it, and was ready to try it over; in fact, he didn't
+act a bit like a school-master, but just like a boy let loose--a very
+old boy, to be sure, but a very hearty one, for all that.
+
+It only required a few minutes to cut a couple of round holes in the
+ice, and to build a roaring fire upon a platform of heavy sticks and
+flat stones--a fire that flung its forked tongues into the keen air in
+merry defiance of the Frost King and all his servants.
+
+The half-dozen boys already on the pond viewed these preparations with
+considerable wonder; but gathering courage, finally skated up and warmed
+their fingers at the fire.
+
+Then somewhat more than a dozen other boys looked out from the windows
+of the houses scattered along the hill-side, and said something like
+this: "Mother, I guess there ain't any school to-day; I don't see any
+smoke comin' out of the chimney. Can't I go down to the pond?"
+
+And an equal number of mothers replied: "Why, of course not. It's much
+too cold for you to go out. You said so yourself, and, besides, you
+don't feel very well."
+
+"There's lots of the boys on the pond, mother, an' the skating's
+splendid. I don't feel so badly now. Can't I go? I won't stay long. I
+think you might let--"
+
+Upon which all the mothers said, in effect, "Well, do go along; but mind
+you don't get into any air-holes."
+
+Thus, before an hour had passed, nearly all of the boys in the school
+were gliding over the pond, or gathered in the group watching Mr.
+Chalker and his fishing party.
+
+Meanwhile the school-master and Ben had enjoyed remarkable luck. Four
+fine pickerel lay on the ice, and a fifth (much the biggest ever seen in
+the pond, of course) had been lost by Ben in pulling him up.
+
+Now it occurred to Mr. Chalker that it would be much nicer if everybody
+had seats, so he suggested to the boys that they should bring some fence
+rails, and sit down in a circle about the fire; all of which was done
+with a merry good-will, and Mr. Chalker surveyed them with infinite
+satisfaction through his glasses as he hauled in another struggling
+victim of his hook.
+
+"Now," said he, "I see plainly that it is all a mistake to hold school
+up there in that uncomfortable building on the hill in such weather as
+this, and so I'm going to propose that on all cold days this winter we
+shall meet here on the pond and hold our classes; in fact, I think we
+may as well begin now." Without further ado the teacher pulled a supply
+of spellers from his several capacious pockets, and said, "The first
+class in spelling will take seats on this side."
+
+Then it dawned upon the minds of the boys that they had been fairly
+trapped, and they nearly choked with inward laughter as they went
+through with spelling, arithmetic, and reading, taking turns at keeping
+their toes warm by the fire; and though a big pickerel was doing his
+best to carry off one of the lines, none of them dared to pull him up,
+for Mr. Chalker looked like a very severe and dignified pedagogue
+indeed, and Ben could scarcely realize that he had seen him tumbled head
+over heels into a snow-drift but a couple of hours before.
+
+When he thought that the real lesson of the day had been well impressed
+upon the scholars, Mr. Chalker dismissed his school, and as he landed
+the last fish, and strung him through the gills with the others upon a
+willow twig, he chuckled to himself, "I don't know who's had the most
+fun to-day, the boys or the master, but I'll venture to say they'll be
+on hand, cold or no cold, after this."
+
+
+
+
+JOHN'S "CAMEL-BIRD."
+
+BY LOUISE STOCKTON.
+
+
+"Now," said John, "if you are really good, I'll give you something you
+like."
+
+The ostrich looked at John out of his small bright eyes, and he gave his
+dingy-looking plumes a little shake, but he did not stir from the spot
+where he was standing; so John took out of his pocket a handful of
+nails, and gave one to the ostrich, who immediately swallowed it, and
+then bobbed his head down for another, and got it.
+
+"But you must not be in such a hurry," said John; "it is not good for
+your health to eat so fast."
+
+But really, if any creature can eat nails and screws and bits of glass,
+as John's ostrich could, it makes little difference whether it eats fast
+or slow. These things, however, never made the ostrich sick. He ate them
+just as the canary-bird eats gravel, and they agreed with him.
+
+After John had finished feeding his ostrich he turned and went into the
+house, and the ostrich, knowing he was to get nothing more, put up his
+funny little wings, and off he went on his long legs like the wind. No
+one tried to stop him, although two or three men stood by, for in the
+first place, no one could do it, and in the second, Perry--that was his
+name--used to go off this way every day.
+
+Of course John did not live in this country, but in the southern part of
+Africa, where his father was an English officer. Perry was a tame
+ostrich, and had been given to John when the boy was quite a little
+fellow, and many a good time they had had together. Sometimes they would
+go out walking; but Perry was not fond of this, because John went so
+slowly, even when he ran. The best arrangement was for John to ride.
+Perry would stand perfectly still, and Captain Richards would put John
+on his back. John would catch tight hold of Perry's neck, and away they
+would go. Go! Why, a race-horse was slow to him. His legs just twinkled
+as he ran, and you could no more have seen them than you can count the
+spokes in a carriage wheel when it is rapidly turning. Perry was strong
+enough to carry Captain Richards, but the Captain could not bear his
+speed as John did, for it almost took his breath away; and once, he
+said, he began to be afraid he would die before Perry stopped. But John
+did not mind it. He liked it, and when he came to England on a visit,
+and rode his cousin's pony, he thought it was like going to a funeral.
+
+When Perry was standing still he was not very handsome. He was dull in
+color, and his splendid feathers often looked dingy and ragged. His head
+was small, but his legs were so long that when John was seven years old
+he did not come to the top of them. When he ran, however, Perry looked
+splendid. He held his head firmly, he opened his queer little wings, his
+fine plume-like tail was erect, and every feather seemed to make him
+swifter and lighter, and he would go round and round like a gust of
+wind, and then, swooping closer, would fly back to John for a bit of
+iron, or perhaps a handful of grass.
+
+Captain Richards told John why the ostrich was called the "camel-bird."
+The Arabs have a story that a King once said to the ostrich, "Fly," and
+it answered, "I can not, for I am a camel." So then he said, "Carry,"
+and it replied, "I can not, for I am a bird." So, while it has the
+endurance of a camel and the swiftness of a bird, it will neither bear a
+burden nor fly through the air; and so, as John said, is neither, and
+yet both.
+
+But one thing he could do. He could see very far. Some of the natives
+said he could see six miles, but John did not believe that. He thought
+no creature could see from his father's house to General Howard's, and
+that was only five miles away.
+
+The one person who did not like Perry was Mrs. Richards. She used to be
+afraid to see John mounted on him, and, as she said, if Perry chose to
+run off into the wilds with John, who could stop him?
+
+"But he won't," said her husband. "A tame ostrich is sure to come home
+to be fed."
+
+"Well, he may throw the child off," she would reply.
+
+"That depends on John himself, and I don't believe he will let go."
+
+"Very well," she would say, "I am glad you are so content; but if you
+had the feelings of a mother you wouldn't be."
+
+To this Captain Richards could make no reply. He had the feelings of a
+father; but then he was a soldier, and was used to taking risks.
+
+And once Perry, roaming around, looked in a window, and on a table close
+by lay Mrs. Richards's coral breast-pin. It was pretty, and it looked
+good; so in went Perry's head, and in a flash the pin was down his
+throat.
+
+Then, also, he would eat the little chickens. No one cared how many rats
+and grasshoppers he ate, but it was very provoking to have a pretty
+little brood of chickens gobbled up by this long-legged camel-bird. Even
+John did not like this, and he was glad when his father had a slatted
+coop made for the hens and their little ones. For a time all went well,
+but suddenly the chicks began to disappear, and then Mrs. Richards set a
+man to watch.
+
+After a while up walked Perry, and stood watching the chickens.
+Presently a little one came near the slats. Quick as a flash in went
+Perry's head, and _that_ little chicken was gone.
+
+But they spoiled Perry's fun very quickly, for the men went to work at
+once and fixed the coops so Perry could not reach one of the chickens.
+
+Every year Perry used to lose some of his feathers, and after Mrs.
+Richards had saved quite a number of them she sent them to her sister in
+London, and told her what to do with the money for which they were to be
+sold.
+
+John knew nothing of it, and you may know he was surprised when one hot
+Christmas-day he received a box of books and a fine microscope from
+London. He showed them to Perry, but as the ostrich did not seem to care
+for them, John gave him all the nails and clamps from the box, and these
+Perry really did enjoy.
+
+
+
+
+THE LOST STANDARD.
+
+BY LILLIE E. BARR.
+
+
+  On the glorious field of Austerlitz
+    Napoleon stood when the day was o'er;
+  "Legions of France!" he cried, "pass by,
+    Bearing your eagles, stained with gore,
+  And torn with shot; but show to France
+  _That none are lost_. Advance! advance!"
+
+  Then with a shout the legions rose--
+    Napoleon watched them marching by;
+  Each flung its banner to the breeze,
+    And proudly sought their Emperor's eye.
+  Above the surging thousands toss'd
+  The precious eagles--not one lost.
+
+  _Not one?_ Without its fife and drum
+    A silent legion sadly tread;
+  The weary men were dull and dumb--
+    There was no flag above their head:
+  The eagle that Napoleon gave
+  Floated no longer o'er the brave.
+
+  Then, white with anger, "Halt!" he cried,
+    And sternly called the legion's name.
+  "Your eagle, men!--the flag I gave?
+    Why die you not for very shame?
+  Life hath been bought at shameful cost,
+  If honor and your flag are lost."
+
+  With martial tread two veterans step
+    From out the sad and silent band:
+  "Sire, we have fought where'er you led,
+    In Italy, or Egypt's land.
+  Amid the thickest of the fray,
+  Our eagle touched the earth to-day.
+
+  "And we, unable to retake,
+    Pressed where the Russian foe came on--
+  Behold, our Emperor! for thy sake
+    _Two Russian standards_ we have won;
+  Yet if our honor thou still doubt,
+  Then let our lives the stain wipe out."
+
+  The Emperor bared his head; then said,
+    With misty eyes and eager breath:
+  "Heroes! you've _won_ your eagle now--
+    Won it from out the jaws of death.
+  Pass on! these flags shall bear your name
+  Among the standards kept by Fame."
+
+  Beneath the Invalides' grand dome
+    These Russian standards still find room;
+  'Mong royal flags of many lands
+    They droop above Napoleon's tomb.
+  Such praise and glory have the brave,
+    Who knew when honor's sign was lost,
+    At any price, at any cost,
+        Honor itself to save.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+NOBLESSE OBLIGE.
+
+BY MRS. M. E. SANGSTER.
+
+
+  Brownie, old fellow, the grain in the manger
+    Is yours, and you've earned it. No wonder you stare,
+  Amazed and displeased, when a pert little ranger
+    Comes hopping in boldly your dinner to share.
+
+  You beautiful creature! so rugged and steady,
+    So swift and sure-footed, so willing and wise;
+  Whoever may need you, so gentle and ready,
+    I know what you're thinking; it beams from your eyes.
+
+  He ruffles his feathers, this petty intruder,
+    And arches his crest, and is gallant and gay.
+  No conduct could possibly seem to you ruder
+    Than his, as he leisurely stands in your way.
+
+  But you? Why, you'd scorn to be put in a passion;
+    The cause is too slight. You will patiently wait
+  Till the satisfied rooster, in vain rooster fashion,
+    Flies off, without thanks, to some meek little mate.
+
+  The thorough-bred follows the law of his being,
+    'Tis only with equals he cares to contend;
+  He bears with annoyance quite patiently, seeing
+    That sooner or later annoyance must end.
+
+
+
+
+BITS OF ADVICE.
+
+BY AUNT MARJORIE PRECEPT.
+
+SPENDING MONEY.
+
+
+"I wish I had some to spend!" exclaims Florence, as she reads this
+title; "but as I have none, I may as well skip this column of YOUNG
+PEOPLE."
+
+Please read it, Florence. To know how to use money, how to save it, and
+how to spend it are very important parts of education. Every penny is an
+opportunity, and pennies make dollars. There are very few young ladies
+and gentlemen who do not spend a generous sum in the course of the year,
+and so often it goes for trifles of no real value that when the year is
+over they have nothing to show for it. Take the small sum of ten cents.
+It may be expended in chocolate cream drops, and eaten up in a few
+minutes. It may be spent in buying a dainty little easel for your
+mother's photograph, or a pretty illuminated card, or a gay fan, which,
+hung on the wall, will make a vivid bit of color, quite brightening the
+room. Down the street there is a crippled boy, who watches you with a
+sad, wistful face as you go bounding past his window on your way to
+school. Poor Jimmy! the hours move very slowly indeed to him. He is fond
+of reading, but he has read all the books he possesses till he knows
+them almost by heart. For ten cents you can buy a beautiful story, or a
+charming illustrated paper, which will give Jimmy two or three days of
+delight. The money which we deny ourselves, that we may bestow some
+pleasure on others, always is the best investment, for it returns us the
+most true happiness.
+
+Perhaps you can persuade your parents to give you a small amount weekly
+or monthly for your particular expenses. Julia and Arthur, a brother and
+sister of my acquaintance, have such a sum, and they are careful to keep
+an exact account of all that they buy and all that they give away. Their
+pens and pencils, luxuries of every sort, and car fare, as well as their
+charity fund, come from this allowance, and they are learning the right
+use of money as they never could in any other way. A boy who has a
+scroll-saw may earn a little income for himself, if he is industrious,
+in his play-time. So may one who has a printing-press. A girl who has
+learned to embroider nicely, or to paint cups and saucers, can often
+have her own money; and let me tell you, money that is earned by one's
+own diligence is much more enjoyed than any other.
+
+A few years ago little Ailee, a friend of mine, was moulding in clay and
+drawing with crayons just for her childish amusement. Last year, though
+not eighteen, she was able to buy her entire wardrobe from the proceeds
+of her pencil. _Economy_ is a noble word. It does not mean stinginess,
+but rather good management of whatever one has, and care in the use of
+one's means.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: BRINGING WOOD FOR GRANDPA'S FIRE.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OLD BEN COMES TO THE RESCUE.]
+
+[Begun in No. 58 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, December 7.]
+
+TOBY TYLER;
+
+OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.
+
+BY JAMES OTIS.
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+THE FIRST DAY WITH THE CIRCUS.
+
+
+When Toby awakened and looked around he could hardly realize where he
+was, or how he came there. As far ahead and behind on the road as he
+could see, the carts were drawn up on one side; men were hurrying to and
+fro, orders were being shouted, and everything showed that the entrance
+to the town was about to be made. Directly opposite the wagon on which
+he had been sleeping were the four elephants and two camels, and close
+behind, contentedly munching their breakfasts, were a number of tiny
+ponies. Troops of horses were being groomed and attended to; the road
+was littered with saddles, flags, and general decorations, until it
+seemed to Toby that there must have been a smash-up, and he now beheld
+ruins rather than systematic disorder.
+
+How different everything looked now, compared to the time when the
+cavalcade marched into Guilford, dazzling every one with the gorgeous
+display! Then the horses pranced gayly under their gaudy decorations,
+the wagons were bright with glass, gilt, and flags, the lumbering
+elephants and awkward camels were covered with fancifully embroidered
+velvets, and even the drivers of the wagons were resplendent in their
+uniforms of scarlet and gold. Now, in the gray light of the early
+morning, everything was changed. The horses were tired, muddy, and had
+on only dirty harness; the gilded chariots were covered with
+mud-bespattered canvas, which caused them to look like the most ordinary
+of market wagons; the elephants and camels looked dingy, dirty, almost
+repulsive, and the drivers were only a sleepy-looking set of men, who,
+in their shirt sleeves, were getting ready for the change which would
+dazzle the eyes of the inhabitants of the town.
+
+Toby descended from his lofty bed, rubbed his eyes to thoroughly awaken
+himself, and under the guidance of Ben went to a little brook near by
+and washed his face. He had been with the circus not quite ten hours,
+but now he could not realize that it had ever seemed bright and
+beautiful. He missed his comfortable bed, the quiet and cleanliness, and
+the well-spread table; even though he had felt the lack of parents'
+care, Uncle Daniel's home seemed the very abode of love and friendly
+feeling compared to this condition, where no one appeared to care even
+enough for him to scold at him. He was thoroughly homesick, and heartily
+wished that he was back in the old town where every one had some slight
+interest in him.
+
+While he was washing his face in the brook he saw some of the boys who
+had come out from the town to catch the first glimpse of the circus, and
+he saw at once that he was the object of their admiring gaze. He heard
+one of the boys say, when they first discovered him,
+
+"There's one of them, an' he's only a little feller; so I'm going to
+talk to him."
+
+The evident admiration which the boys had for Toby pleased him, and this
+pleasure was the only drop of comfort he had had since he started. He
+hoped they would come and talk with him, and, that they might have the
+opportunity, he was purposely slow in making his toilet.
+
+The boys approached him shyly, as if they had their doubts whether he
+was made of the same material as themselves, and when they got quite
+near to him, and satisfied themselves that he was only washing his face
+in much the same way that any well-regulated boy would do, the one who
+had called attention to him said, half timidly, "Hello!"
+
+"Hello!" responded Toby, in a tone that was meant to invite confidence.
+
+"Do you belong to the circus?"
+
+"Yes," said Toby, a little doubtfully.
+
+Then the boys stared at him again as if he had been one of the
+strange-looking animals, and the one who had been the spokesman drew a
+long breath of envy as he said, longingly, "My! what a nice time you
+must have!"
+
+Toby remembered that only yesterday he had thought that boys must have a
+nice time with a circus, and he now felt what a mistake that thought
+was; but he concluded that he would not undeceive his new acquaintance.
+
+"And do they give you frogs to eat, so's to make you limber?"
+
+This was the first time that Toby had thought of breakfast, and the very
+mention of eating made him hungry. He was just at that moment so very
+hungry that he did not think he was replying to the question when he
+said, quickly, "Eat frogs! I could eat anything, if I only had the
+chance."
+
+The boys took this as an answer to their question, and felt perfectly
+convinced that the agility of circus riders and tumblers depended upon
+the quantity of frogs eaten, and they looked upon Toby with no little
+degree of awe.
+
+Toby might have undeceived them as to the kind of food he ate, but just
+at that moment the harsh voice of Mr. Job Lord was heard calling him,
+and he hurried away to commence his first day's work.
+
+Toby's employer was not the same pleasant, kindly-spoken man that he had
+been during the time they were in Guilford, and before the boy was
+absolutely under his control. He looked cross, he acted cross, and it
+did not take the boy very long to find out that he was very cross.
+
+He scolded Toby roundly, and launched more oaths at his defenseless head
+than Toby had ever heard in his life. He was angry that the boy had not
+been on hand to help him, and also that he had been obliged to hunt for
+him.
+
+Toby tried to explain that he had no idea of what he was expected to do,
+and that he had been on the wagon to which he had been sent, only
+leaving it to wash his face; but the angry man grew more furious.
+
+"Went to wash your face, did yer? Want to set yourself up for a dandy, I
+suppose, and think that you must souse that speckled face of yours into
+every brook you come to? I'll soon break you of that; and the sooner you
+understand that I can't afford to have you wasting your time in washing,
+the better it will be for you."
+
+Toby now grew angry, and not realizing how wholly he was in this man's
+power, he retorted: "If you think I'm going round with a dirty face,
+even if it is speckled, for a dollar a week, you're mistaken, that's
+all. How many folks would eat your candy if they knew you handled it
+over before you washed your hands?"
+
+"Oho! I've picked up a preacher, have I? Now I want you to understand,
+my bantam, that I do all the preaching as well as the practicing myself,
+and this is about as quick a way as I know of to make you understand
+it."
+
+As the man spoke he grasped the boy by the coat collar with one hand,
+and with the other he plied a thin rubber cane with no gentle force to
+every portion of Toby's body that he could reach.
+
+Every blow caused the poor boy the most intense pain, but he determined
+that his tormentor should not have the satisfaction of forcing an outcry
+from him, and he closed his teeth so tightly that not a single sound
+could escape from his mouth.
+
+This very silence enraged the man so much that he redoubled the force
+and rapidity of his blows, and it is impossible to say what might have
+been the consequences had not Ben come that way just then, and changed
+the aspect of affairs.
+
+"Up to your old tricks of whipping the boys, are you, Job?" he said, as
+he wrested the cane from the man's hand, and held him off at
+arm's-length to prevent him from doing Toby any more mischief.
+
+Mr. Lord struggled to release himself, and insisted that since the boy
+was in his employ, he should do with him just as he saw fit.
+
+"Now look here, Mr. Lord," said Ben, as gravely as if he was delivering
+some profound piece of wisdom: "I've never interfered with you before;
+but now I'm going to stop your games of thrashing your boy every morning
+before breakfast. You just tell this youngster what you want him to do,
+and if he don't do it, you can discharge him. If I hear of your flogging
+him, I shall attend to your case at once. You hear me?"
+
+Ben shook the now terrified candy vender much as if he had been a child,
+and then released him, saying to Toby as he did so, "Now, my boy, you
+attend to your business as you ought to, and I'll settle his account if
+he tries the flogging game again."
+
+"You see, I don't know what there is for me to do," sobbed Toby, for the
+kindly interference of Ben had made him show more feeling than Mr.
+Lord's blows had done.
+
+"Tell him what he must do," said Ben, sternly.
+
+"I want him to go to work and wash the tumblers, and fix up the things
+in that green box, so we can commence to sell as soon as we get into
+town," snarled Mr. Lord, as he motioned toward a large green chest that
+had been taken out of one of the carts, and which Toby saw was filled
+with dirty glasses, spoons, knives, and other utensils such as were
+necessary to carry on the business.
+
+Toby got a pail of water from the brook, hunted around, and found towels
+and soap, and devoted himself to his work with such industry that Mr.
+Lord could not repress a grunt of satisfaction as he passed him, however
+angry he felt because he could not administer the whipping which would
+have smoothed his ruffled temper.
+
+By the time the procession was ready to start for the town, Toby had as
+much of his work done as he could find that it was necessary to do, and
+his master, in his surly way, half acknowledged that this last boy of
+his was better than any he had had before.
+
+Although Toby had done his work so well, he was far from feeling happy;
+he was both angry and sad as he thought of the cruel blows that had been
+inflicted, and he had plenty of leisure to repent of the rash step he
+had taken, although he could not see very clearly how he was to get away
+from it. He thought that he could not go back to Guilford, for Uncle
+Daniel would not allow him to come to his house again; and the hot
+scalding tears ran down his cheeks as he realized that he was homeless
+and friendless in this great big world.
+
+It was while he was in this frame of mind that the procession, all gaudy
+with flags, streamers, and banners, entered the town. Under different
+circumstances this would have been a most delightful day for him, for
+the entrance of a circus into Guilford had always been a source of one
+day's solid enjoyment; but now he was the most disconsolate and unhappy
+boy in all that crowd.
+
+He did not ride throughout the entire route of the procession, for Mr.
+Lord was anxious to begin business, and the moment the tenting ground
+was reached, the wagon containing Mr. Lord's goods was driven into the
+inclosure, and Toby's day's work began.
+
+He was obliged to bring water, to cut up the lemons, fetch and carry
+fruit from the booth in the big tent to the booth on the outside, until
+he was ready to drop with fatigue, and having had no time for breakfast,
+was nearly famished.
+
+It was quite noon before he was permitted to go to the hotel for
+something to eat, and then Ben's advice to be one of the first to get to
+the tables was not needed.
+
+In the eating line that day he astonished the servants, the members of
+the company, and even himself, and by the time he arose from the table,
+with both pockets and his stomach full to bursting, the tables had been
+set and cleared away twice while he was making one meal.
+
+"Well, I guess you didn't hurry yourself much," said Mr. Lord, when Toby
+returned to the circus ground.
+
+"Oh yes, I did," was Toby's innocent reply. "I ate just as fast as I
+could;" and a satisfied smile stole over the boy's face as he thought of
+the amount of solid food he had consumed.
+
+The answer was not one which was calculated to make Mr. Lord feel any
+more agreeably disposed toward his new clerk, and he showed his
+ill-temper very plainly as he said, "It must take a good deal to satisfy
+you."
+
+"I s'pose it does," calmly replied Toby. "Sam Merrill used to say that I
+took after Aunt Olive and Uncle Dan'l: one ate a good while, an' the
+other ate awful fast."
+
+Toby could not understand what it was that Mr. Lord said in reply, but
+he could understand that his employer was angry at somebody or
+something, and he tried unusually hard to please him. He talked to the
+boys who had gathered around, to induce them to buy, washed the glasses
+as fast as they were used, tried to keep off the flies, and in every way
+he could think of endeavored to please his master.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+THE YOUNG ESQUIMAUX.
+
+BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
+
+
+"It's no use, Fred."
+
+"Why not, Rory? We could do it. I just know we could."
+
+"You and I wouldn't be enough. Besides, we haven't the things, and we
+can't get 'em."
+
+"No white bears, do you mean?"
+
+"Yes, and no canoes, and spears, and bows and arrows. And look at the
+way they're dressed. It's no use playing Esquimaux, and not have
+anything to do it with."
+
+"Now," said Fred, with another long look at the picture in the book,
+"you're going for too much. We can get all the boys."
+
+"Guess we can, now they daren't start another snow-ball match."
+
+"Think of all the snow, Rory. It's just thawed enough to pack. We can go
+back of the orchard and make a snow house as big as that."
+
+Fred had spent his whole evening, the night before, over that book of
+_Arctic_ Voyages, and he had brought it to bear on Rory the first thing
+after breakfast.
+
+"I'll read it when we get home," said Rory; "but I'd better go around
+after some boys now."
+
+"And I'll go and pick out a good place, and start the house."
+
+The snow was deep enough anywhere that winter, but it was not a very
+cold day, and every drift and level was in prime condition for
+snow-balling. The difficulty was that too much of that kind of fun had
+been going on all the week, and so the grand "match" set for that
+Saturday had been forbidden by the Academy Trustees.
+
+"They'd about half kill themselves if we'd let 'em," had been the solemn
+comment of old Squire Garrison, and nobody dreamed of disputing his
+decision, for he was President of the Board, and the wisest man in the
+village.
+
+Rory was not gone long, and when he returned, and went through the yard
+and garden into the orchard, half a dozen boys were following him.
+
+Fred had been at work. He had carried out the big wooden snow-shovel and
+the grain-scoop shovel and the spade, but the first question Bob Sanders
+asked was:
+
+"Boards? What are they for? You don't want any boards in a snow house."
+
+"And the Esquimaux don't have any," said Rory.
+
+Fred had put down four of them flat on the snow, and was now shovelling
+a heap of snow upon them from the spot he had chosen for the house.
+
+"Boards?" he said. "Why, boys, that's our brick-yard."
+
+"Brick-yard? Snow bricks? What's the saw for? You can't cut snow with a
+saw."
+
+"I'll show you. Just you fellows pile on snow, and bang it down hard
+with a spade. We're going to do just what the Esquimaux do."
+
+"I've brought my own shovel," said Bill Evans, "and so has Barney
+Herriman."
+
+"We want this foundation trodden hard and level first. It's pretty near
+ready. Now I'll mark it out."
+
+There were other boys in that crowd who could beat Fred at some things,
+even at base-ball and swimming, and he had not taken a single prize at
+the end of the school term; but when it came to "making" anything, he
+could step right ahead, and they all knew it.
+
+It was just as Barney Herriman said: "Come on, boys. Fred Park is boss
+of this job."
+
+He was bossing it, as a matter of course, and it looked as if he knew
+pretty well what he was about.
+
+He stuck a peg in the snow for a centre, and around that, with a string
+five feet long and another peg, he marked a circle that was just ten
+feet across.
+
+"Now, boys, there's eight of us, and we can build the biggest snow house
+you ever saw. The snow packs splendidly. We'll make our bricks a foot
+wide and a foot high and a foot and a half long."
+
+How they did pile the soft snow upon those boards, now they understood
+what they were meant for!
+
+Bang! stamp! bang! down went the sticky heap, until Fred said he guessed
+it would cut.
+
+"Keep on, boys; pile it up."
+
+They couldn't help stopping to watch him, though, while he cut out his
+first bricks with that saw. It went through the snow so nice and easy,
+and Bill Evans remarked, "Can't he handle a saw!"
+
+He worked away, till a dozen bricks were ready, and he made them a
+little shorter on one side than on the other.
+
+"What's that for?" asked Bob Sanders. But then Bob never opened his
+mouth without asking something; and all Fred told him was,
+
+"So they'll fit around in a circle. The short side goes in."
+
+"It's the way the Esquimaux do," said Rory. "He read all about it in a
+book last night."
+
+"Go ahead, boys," said Fred. "It'll take just thirty of those bricks to
+go around. It won't take so many after that."
+
+They pounded and shovelled, while he cut and set the bricks, and then he
+went all around that circle with the back of the saw, shaving it off so
+it sloped inward a little.
+
+"Won't it let 'em slip off?" asked Bob.
+
+"Guess not. Don't you see how that one sticks? It only leans in a
+little. You'll see. Let's pitch in. The snow's grand."
+
+So it was--just as if it had been made for bricks; and before long
+Barney Herriman found he could saw them out while Fred was putting them
+on, so that the house went up faster.
+
+The round wall curved in and in, but each successive tier of snow bricks
+held itself up, just as Fred had seen in the picture of the Esquimaux at
+work.
+
+It was not long before he had to send Rory into the house for a chair to
+stand on.
+
+"I've got to stay inside."
+
+"Well," said Bob Sanders, "don't you mean to have any door? How'll you
+get out after your roof's on?"
+
+"Give me the saw, and I'll fix that while Rory's gone for the chair."
+
+It was easy enough to cut a hole two feet square down at the floor, and
+Fred said, "We can make a long crawl-hole entry, such as the Esquimaux
+use, when we've finished the house."
+
+"The roof's the toughest part of the job," said Bill Evans.
+
+He was mistaken in that, however, for the last rounds of bricks were
+fitted in just as easily as any others, only Fred made them shorter and
+shorter, till there was only a hole a foot square left at the middle of
+the roof.
+
+"Going to plug that up, are you?" asked Bob.
+
+"Plug it up? Don't you suppose we want a chimney?"
+
+"Well, but what'll you do for windows?"
+
+"Tell you what, boys, if we had some slabs of ice that weren't too
+thick, we just could have some windows."
+
+"Guess we can fix that," said Bill Evans. "Squire Garrison's men sawed a
+couple of loads of ice out of the pond yesterday, and it didn't freeze
+more'n an inch last night."
+
+He and Joe Herriman and Wash McGee set off almost on a run after some
+of that ice, and they were back in less than twenty minutes with enough
+of it to glaze one of the big windows at the Academy.
+
+Fred shouted when he saw it: "That beats the Esquimaux! Why, it's as
+clear as glass. The light'll come right through."
+
+So it did, when the ice windows were finished, and you could see to read
+inside the house, but you could not enjoy the scenery much through those
+windows.
+
+"Won't need any blinds," said Barney Herriman, "to keep folks from
+looking in."
+
+"Hullo! see what Rory's got."
+
+"Buffalo-skins!"
+
+"Two of 'em."
+
+"Boys, we must put in some furniture. Snow benches--"
+
+"And a snow stove."
+
+"No, I guess the Esquimaux get along without a stove. But then they have
+piles and piles of bear-skins, and seal-skins, and reindeer-skins, and
+all sorts, and they eat whale blubber to keep 'em warm."
+
+"Won't roast pork do just as well?" asked Bob Sanders.
+
+"Well, it might, if it's the fattest kind of pork."
+
+"'Cause that's what we're going to have for dinner at our house. I'll
+eat enough to keep me warm, if I stay in there all the afternoon."
+
+"Come in, boys," said Fred. "And bring in the buffalo-skins. Let's try
+it."
+
+They all crept in, one after the other, and sat down on the soft furs
+like so many Turks.
+
+"They'll want these in the sleigh by-and-by," said Rory.
+
+"Isn't this jolly, though?"
+
+"It's warm enough without any kind of fire."
+
+"I don't want any blubber."
+
+"Nor any pork, either."
+
+"Tell you what, boys, if it freezes good and hard to-night, this
+house'll be wonderfully strong. We'll make an entryway just such as I
+saw in the picture, and we'll get some old carpet, and some stools--"
+
+"Hullo, boys! Fred! Rory! What have you done with my buffalo-robes?"
+
+It was the voice of Dr. Park himself, outside; and then they heard the
+great, deep, gruff tones of Squire Garrison himself.
+
+"I declare, Doctor, they've done it! Bricks! All of a size."
+
+"Cost them a good deal of hard work, I should say."
+
+"Don't tell 'em, Doctor. Don't let 'em know it was work. They'd never
+build another. Couldn't hire 'em to."
+
+Fred and Rory were crawling out with the buffalo-skins, and their father
+said to them:
+
+"It won't do, boys; the Esquimaux never kill any buffaloes."
+
+"Bears, father--white bears--"
+
+"And seals, and whales, and walruses, and--"
+
+"Doctor," exclaimed Squire Garrison, "I'm for a look inside."
+
+The other boys had been keeping as still as so many mice, except that
+they had very promptly kicked the buffalo-skins out from under them, and
+half of them had their hands before their mouths now to keep from
+laughing, as Squire Garrison knocked his tall hat off against the snow
+bricks, and his big gray head came poking in.
+
+Chuckle, chuckle, from the boys, and the Squire looked up.
+
+"I declare, Doctor! Such a lot of young bears!"
+
+"Bears? Oh no, Squire, they're Esquimaux Indians. I heard them talking
+it over this morning. Can you see inside?"
+
+"See? Why, I can stand up! It's capital. Windows, too. Is that glass?"
+
+"No, sir, it's ice."
+
+"Tell you what, boys, this is nice."
+
+"We're going to stick icicles all around, and make it real pretty,
+by-and-by," said Fred.
+
+"Then you come over and get my big square barn lantern, and see how
+that'll make it look after dark."
+
+The Squire was a good friend of boys and fun, after all, and both he and
+the Doctor came out that evening to see the white walls of the Esquimaux
+hut, and the liberal allowance of icicles the boys had stuck up, glitter
+and shine and wink in the light of the great lantern.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE NEW YEAR.]
+
+
+
+
+CAPTAIN WEATHERBY'S FUR CAP.
+
+BY DAVID KER.
+
+
+"If you're going out again to-night, my friend, I'd advise you to leave
+this new fur cap of yours at home, and take your sea cap instead."
+
+So spoke a hospitable Russian merchant to his guest, Captain Cyrus
+Weatherby, skipper and part owner of the good ship _Seabird_, of Boston.
+The Captain had reached St. Petersburg late enough in the fall for it to
+be already pretty cold at night, and his first exploit on landing was to
+buy a magnificent fur cap, which, as he said, would "astonish his folks
+at the Hub some" when he got back.
+
+"What should I leave it at home for?" asked the skipper. "I s'pose I
+ain't going to be arrested as a Nihilist 'cause I've got a new cap on?"
+
+"No; but if you go out with it, you'll most likely come back without
+it."
+
+"Somebody going to steal it, eh?"
+
+"Just so, and I'll tell you how. There's a fellow going around here just
+now who makes a regular trade of snapping up all the good caps he can
+lay his hands on. He hires a hack carriage, and drives about the streets
+after dark at a rattling pace, the driver being, of course, a
+confederate of his own. Then, whenever he passes a man with a
+high-priced cap on--like yours, for instance--he leans forward and
+snatches it off,[1] while the driver puts his horse to speed, and is out
+of sight before there's time to cry, 'Help!'"
+
+"Pretty smart that," growled the Massachusetts man. "I guess I must give
+that land-shark a wide berth. Whereabouts does he cruise, so as I may
+keep clear of him?"
+
+"Well, you might meet him in any of the streets near the Isaac
+Cathedral, but his general place is the Bolshaya Morskaya [Great Marine]
+Street."
+
+"All right."
+
+Up to his room went Captain Weatherby, and taking out the precious cap,
+began to stitch on to it, with sailor-like dexterity, two huge ear-laps,
+each furnished with a stout ribbon. Then he tied it on, and tested the
+strength of the fastenings by a vigorous tug.
+
+"Won't do," he muttered; "they mightn't break, but again they might, and
+then it would be all up. Guess a strap won't do any harm."
+
+The strap being drawn round his head, and buckled firmly under his chin,
+the worthy sailor seemed more at his ease, and grunted, defiantly, "Now,
+then, let's see if a Boston boy ain't a match for any Russian that ever
+ate tallow!"
+
+Out went the Captain; but his friend's warning seemed to have made very
+little impression upon him, for instead of avoiding the neighborhood of
+the Isaac Cathedral, he went straight toward it. The vast golden dome,
+towering over its massive pillars of polished granite, made a gallant
+show in the brilliant Northern moonlight; but just then the Captain had
+something else to think about. At the very corner of the great square he
+suddenly caught sight of a bare-headed man shouting lustily for the
+police, while a drosky (hack carriage) was just vanishing in the
+distance.
+
+"Well, if that pirate hain't scuttled one craft already!" muttered our
+hero; "but he don't catch Cy Weatherby so easy, all the same."
+
+Away tramped the valiant Captain along the sidewalk of the Morskaya,
+turning up the cuffs of his pilot-coat with a business-like air as he
+went. He had scarcely gone a hundred yards when his quick ear caught the
+roll of wheels coming toward him from the other end of the short street,
+which, for a wonder, was almost deserted.
+
+"Stand to your guns, boys," chuckled the Captain; "here comes the
+enemy."
+
+A drosky came dashing by, and its occupant, just as he passed, bent
+forward and made a snatch at the new cap. But the strap held firm; and
+instantly the sailor's iron hand grasped the fellow's wrist, and jerked
+him from his seat. The next moment he lay writhing on the sidewalk,
+under a shower of battering blows dealt with all the power of a fist
+that might have done duty for a sledge-hammer; while his worthy
+confederate, so far from helping him, drove off as fast as he could go.
+
+"What's all this?" asked a gruff voice in Russian, as a tall
+frieze-coated figure, with the cap and badge of a city policeman,
+appeared at Weatherby's elbow.
+
+The Captain was not much of a Russian scholar, but his expressive signs,
+and a glance at the robber's face, soon enlightened the policeman, who
+rubbed his big hands gleefully.
+
+"You've done us a good turn, father, whoever you are. This is the very
+fellow we've been looking for, and there's a good big reward offered for
+him. Here comes one of my mates, and we'll just bundle the scamp off to
+the _tchast_ [police office] at once."
+
+This was soon done, and Captain Weatherby got his fair share of the
+reward, as well as the satisfaction of having been "too smart for a
+thieving Russian," which, as he assured his Boston friends on his return
+home, was well worth double the money.
+
+FOOTNOTES:
+
+[1] It should be explained that the Russian hack carriages have neither
+roof nor cover, being merely a seat upon wheels.
+
+
+
+
+THE DORMOUSE.
+
+
+Sometimes when people are asked whether they ever kept tame dormice,
+they answer, with a shudder, "Oh dear no!" It then turns out that they
+have never seen one, but think, because they dislike common mice and
+rats, that these must also be disagreeable animals, and are quite
+surprised to hear that they are not really mice, but belong to the
+squirrel tribe. They were always great favorites with us, and we have
+had a long succession of them as pets ever since we were babies. What
+can be prettier than the fat, round little things, with their soft
+red-brown hair, long furry tails, white chests, and great black eyes?
+
+Bertha tells me that the first thing she can remember doing in her whole
+life is running about the room, tossing her pinafore up and down, to the
+great delight, as she supposed, of a dormouse that was in it, and then
+suddenly seeing him clambering up the table-cloth at the other side of
+the room.
+
+The first dormouse that I can remember was one called Mouffette. He also
+belonged to Bertha. He was so tame that she used to put him in a doll's
+cart, with a tiny whip in one hand and the reins in the other, and draw
+it round the garden; and she often walked about out-of-doors with the
+little thing on her shoulder. Another was very fond of cream, though it
+was said to be bad for his health, and was sometimes allowed to drink it
+out of a tiny ivory cup that he held in his hand.
+
+At one time, when both my sisters had a dormouse, my father said that
+whichever of them learned first to work a shirt front very nicely should
+have a beautiful new cage for her pet. Unfortunately, Emily's "Bear"
+had, two days before, got loose, and ran up the bedroom chimney, and
+since then nothing had been seen or heard of him; so she was very
+unhappy, thinking that if she did get a new cage, there would be no
+dormouse to put in it. However, that evening, as they were going to bed,
+they heard a little noise in the chimney, and presently down walked
+Master Bear into his cage, which had been placed on the hob, and began
+to eat nuts.
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 58, December 7.]
+
+MILDRED'S BARGAIN.
+
+A Story for Girls.
+
+BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE.
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+
+Mildred thought she had never seen anything finer than the beautiful
+hall and staircase at Miss Jenner's. She scarcely felt her foot fall on
+the rich dark carpets as she made her way up stairs into a beautiful
+old-fashioned room where half a dozen young people were congregated,
+laying aside their wraps. They were talking and laughing gayly, and
+Mildred recognized them as the daughters of the "leading people" in
+Milltown--girls about her own age or a little younger, to whom she had
+constantly sold ribbons or laces, or the "newest thing" in mantles. Poor
+Milly felt the pink coloring all her face, as she stood among them, some
+way feeling shut out. She was not old enough nor wise enough to realize
+the honorable side of her own life and its hard work; she thought only
+of what their feelings would be were they to recognize in her one of
+"Hardman's" girls. But as no one knew her, two or three whispered
+together, wondering who the pretty lady-like stranger could be, and as
+they all went down the oak stairs together, one of the girls spoke to
+her in a friendly, good-humored way. Milly was glad of company as she
+found herself at the door of the long, beautiful room in which Miss
+Jenner stood waiting for her young friends. The eyes of the poor little
+"sales-woman" were dazzled by the quiet elegance of the room--the many
+pictures, the statuary, and articles of _virtu_ from many lands. Milly
+forgot even her fright and her intense consciousness of her gray silk in
+her pleasure at these novel sights.
+
+"So you found your way here, Mildred," Miss Jenner said, in her brusque
+though kindly voice. "Well, I'm glad to see you. Now come and let me
+introduce you to my niece, for this is _her_ company."
+
+Mildred found herself following Miss Jenner into a pretty half-shaded
+room at the end of the parlor. A young girl of about fifteen, very
+slight and delicate, but exceedingly pretty, was seated there, with one
+or two young people near her.
+
+"Alice," said Miss Jenner, using a tone so soft that Mildred could not
+believe it was her new friend's voice, "this is Mildred Lee: I want you
+to make great friends with her."
+
+The young girl stretched out a slim hand with something uncertain in her
+gesture. As Mildred took it, Miss Jenner whispered, with a deep sigh,
+"She is _blind_."
+
+Mildred felt full of compassion for the poor young girl, who, surrounded
+by so much that was beautiful, could see and understand nothing of it;
+but she speedily found that Alice Jenner took the keenest delight in
+conversation. As they were left by themselves half an hour, Mildred
+found it a pleasant task to entertain her. She described for her
+amusement the little company, the dresses, the effect of everything,
+finally drifting into her own affairs, and avowing her position at Mr.
+Hardman's. Alice listened with delight; Milly's life was so different
+from hers.
+
+"Yes, I should think so," sighed Milly, glancing around at the
+luxurious, warmly tinted rooms; then she remembered the young girl's
+infirmity.
+
+"No, Milly," said Alice, "you would not change with me."
+
+[Illustration: MILDRED AT THE PARTY.]
+
+When tea was announced, Milly found it hard to leave her new friend, but
+she thoroughly enjoyed the bountiful and sumptuous meal to which they
+all sat down. Later, games were played in which Alice could join, and
+finally Miss Jenner's nephew, a tall boy a little older than Milly, was
+called over to take her to the library. Mildred never had seen such a
+room as that library. Not only were there all the books she had most
+wanted to read, but there were photographs of every place under the sun,
+and engravings of all the great masters she had heard her father talk
+about. So keenly interested was she in it all, that young Jenner went
+away, bringing back his blind sister, and begging Milly to "describe it
+all to Alice." Nothing could have pleased her better, and so the three
+bent over a book of engravings, Alice listening eagerly while Mildred
+explained each picture in elaborate detail. Roger Jenner begged Mildred
+not to pause, even though ice-cream was being handed around in the
+parlor--he would go and bring in Alice's and her own share. He returned
+speedily, followed by a servant carrying a tray with the ices and
+delicious cups of hot chocolate upon it. Roger was divided between
+listening to an account of Raphael's St. Cecilia and the duty of handing
+Mildred her chocolate, while Milly absently stretched out her fingers
+for the cup. It was an instant's awkwardness on both sides, followed by
+a little cry from Milly, and a stare of horror from Roger. The cup of
+boiling chocolate poured in a brown stream down the front of her gray
+silk dress.
+
+Poor Mildred! I am afraid, in spite of Roger's anxious apologies and her
+own instinctive politeness, she looked very miserable. The rest of the
+evening hung but heavily on her hands. Alice easily dismissed the
+subject, not guessing of how much importance one silk dress could be to
+any one, little knowing the misery in her companion's mind. Mildred
+tried to continue her narrations, but she was glad when the room filled,
+and Alice's chair became a general centre; still more pleased when it
+came time for her to go home, and she could again wrap her water-proof
+over her new dress, and feel it hidden. Miss Jenner had certainly been
+very kind. Even one or two hours in such a beautiful house was enough to
+fill her with delight, and Alice and Roger were charming companions; but
+Milly, as she stood in the dressing-room, felt somehow the evening had
+not been a success, and her comfort received its last shock on
+overhearing two of the "leading" young ladies whisper to a third, "Why,
+that girl in the gray silk dress is one of Hardman's clerks. How _could_
+Miss Jenner have invited her? And see how she's all dressed up." Mildred
+felt rather than saw the sneering looks which followed her out of the
+room. Poor child! her heart under the much-prized dress was beating with
+mortification and disappointment as she went down stairs. Miss Jenner
+said very little about seeing her again, and when she joined Joe in the
+hall, she found him in a most unamiable mood.
+
+"What is it, Joey?" said Milly, as they went out of the gate. Come what
+might, Mildred was always a thoughtful, gentle elder sister.
+
+"Why, the landlord's been in," Joe said, sulkily, "and he says we _must_
+pay in advance after this. I _wish_ the day could come, Mil," added the
+boy, "when _I_ could get a place in at Hardman's."
+
+Poor Milly gave a little groan. "Don't say that, dear," she said.
+"People talk of _my_ being there as if it was a disgrace. Don't bother
+about Mr. Stiles, Joey; I'll see him to-morrow."
+
+Deborah was waiting up to hear Milly's account of the party, and was
+wrathful at the girl's running quickly up stairs, not knowing what she
+had to conceal. Once in her own room, Milly looked eagerly at the
+stained silk. It was hopelessly ruined! Chocolate she knew never would
+submit to any cleansing, and so she put it away with a sigh, feeling she
+had paid dearly for one evening's finery. For the first time since her
+bargain, the thought of the thirty dollars weighed like a guilty secret
+on her heart. She could not sleep, but after going to bed lay thinking
+of the weekly visit she must receive from that bold, hard-featured
+woman.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+THAT SMALL PIECEE BOY FROM CHINA.
+
+BY MRS. LIZZIE W. CHAMPNEY.
+
+
+  'Twas a little Asiatic
+    Sitting sadly on the deck,
+  Who with wailings loud, emphatic,
+    Watched his home fade to a speck,
+  While his saffron-hued complexion
+    Altered to deep olive green,
+  And the tears of retrospection
+    In his almond eyes were seen.
+  Still he scanned the far horizon,
+    Touching neither bread nor meat;
+  And we feared that he would die soon,
+    For we could not make him eat.
+  Sympathy, and e'en religion,
+    Had for him no hope or cheer.
+  "Speakee you too much fool pigeon,
+    Better China home than here.
+  Me no likee English junkee,
+    English chowchow too no nice.
+  Why no can some roasted monkey?
+    What for not some piecee mice?
+  Number one no washee dishee,
+    Catchee chopsticks scouree bright;
+  Too much workee, this boy wishee
+    Top-side makee, flyee kite."
+
+  "Make a kite, you foolish fellow,"
+    Kindly then the Captain said.
+  With delight his cheeks so yellow
+    Flushed almost to rosy red.
+  As he worked, an inspiration
+    In his eager fingers burned.
+  Each on board made his donation,
+    Every scrap to use was turned.
+  To begin, the galley scullion
+    Gave a worn-out cracked guitar,
+  Which would utter shrieks aeolian
+    As the breeze bore it afar;
+  Slats there were from blinds Venetian,
+    And a tattered parasol.
+  Wondered we at such provision,
+    Sure it could not carry all.
+  Two old bonnets, an air cushion,
+    With a bandbox painted green,
+  Rockets two, to set it rushing,
+    And an ancient crinoline,
+  Wings from a torn old umbrella,
+    While a tail of many rags
+  Showed in its red, white, and yellow
+    He had stol'n the signal flags.
+
+  Vain our taunts, our sneers invidious,
+    For each day the structure grew
+  Stronger, vaster, and more hideous,
+    Yet more awful to the view.
+  Cloven tongue all barbed and hissing,
+    And a snaky horned wig,
+  Goggle eyes revolving, whizzing
+    In a fiery whirligig;
+  Till with joy Kong's face resembled
+    A great orange sent from Seville.
+  All who saw the kite now trembled,
+    'Twas so very like a devil.
+  And Kong scanned the far horizon,
+    Till from out the western main
+  Rose a black and threatening typhoon,
+    And it blew a hurricane.
+  On the poop Kong danced ecstatic,
+    And he gave his demon string.
+
+  As it tugged with curve erratic
+    Loud and clear we heard him sing:
+  "No more chowchow mutton hashee,
+    Soon me suck fat shark tail fin,
+  Soon one pigtail full of cashee
+    Me give cumshaw Joss, Pekin;
+  Soon me sing my China sing-song,
+    Chowchow nice bird-nest pudding.
+  Ha quai, fly, go top-side Chin chong
+    Choy, old English junk. Chin chin."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Shrieked we all in accents frantic,
+    "Oh, come back, you China boy!"
+  Vain: he soared o'er the Atlantic
+    In a straight course for Amoy.
+  And the soldiers of Gibraltar
+    Saw him whizzing through the sky,
+  Like a bomb-shell to the assault, or
+    A gigantic comet high.
+  And the tempest waged still windier
+    As he crossed the great canal,
+  Till, with but a glance at India,
+    He reached safe the China wall.
+  There, in a pagoda finer
+    Far than I can tell or write,
+  That small piecee boy from China
+    Now reposes with his kite.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.]
+
+
+  DARLINGTON HEIGHTS, VIRGINIA.
+
+     My papa says there is no difficulty in painting magic-lantern
+     slides with water-color paints, and the design can easily be made
+     without using those dangerous chemicals. He used to make slides in
+     this way when he was a boy: Take a slip of glass of the proper
+     size, and cover one side with a coat of mastic varnish, and let it
+     dry well. Then make your sketch on a piece of white paper, and lay
+     your slide over it, and trace the outlines on the glass with a fine
+     camel's-hair brush and India ink. Now mix your water-colors with
+     thin gum water, and you will find you can paint quite well on the
+     varnished surface. If there is any difficulty, a little ox-gall,
+     which can be bought at any paint shop, will make it right. All the
+     details must be carefully painted with a very fine brush, as the
+     magic lantern magnifies all defects. Only transparent colors, like
+     gamboge, Prussian blue, lakes, and madders, can be used. The slides
+     should be finished by covering all the glass, except the figures,
+     with black oil-paint, and adding another coat of varnish to the
+     slide.
+
+  HARRY J.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  STALYBRIDGE, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND.
+
+     I am a little English girl nine years old; I have a kind auntie in
+     America, who sends us HARPER'S BAZAR and YOUNG PEOPLE. My sisters
+     and I are delighted with them. My papa has some very kind cousins
+     in Kentucky. Cousin S---- has invited us to go and see him, and
+     have some of his nice fruit, and mamma says we may some time if we
+     are good. We call him uncle, because we love him so. He sent some
+     American flour to papa, who keeps a store here, and we have had one
+     hundred barrels of American apples, and are going to have more. We
+     have the Stars and Stripes and Union-Jack at papa's store, and the
+     children here call it the "'Merica shop."
+
+  LOUISE MARY K.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  MANKATO, KANSAS.
+
+     I have lived in this place ten years. I am eleven years old. A
+     great change has taken place here since I came. Not long ago this
+     was the Indians' country. We could see traces of them, and often
+     felt afraid. Buffalo, antelopes, and wolves were very numerous, and
+     frequently ran past our house. Nearly everybody lived in "dug-outs"
+     then, but now things are beginning to look civilized. We have a
+     railroad, and churches and school-houses. People are building fine
+     houses, and everything is progressing rapidly. Papa and mamma have
+     lived in Kansas for twenty-one years.
+
+      We have a large cat and a mocking-bird, which are on very friendly
+      terms with each other, and will often eat together from the same
+      dish.
+
+  ELEANOR W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     Here are two pretty botanical experiments, which may be new to some
+     readers of YOUNG PEOPLE. Place a sponge of any size in a saucer,
+     which must be kept filled with water. Sprinkle some canary-seed on
+     the top of the sponge, and in a short time it will sprout and
+     become a beautiful bunch of long green grass.
+
+      A crocus bulb, if wrapped in cotton and placed in a saucer of
+      water, will in course of time sprout and bloom.
+
+  CARL R. E.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     When I was seven years old my brother, my two sisters, and myself
+     were presented with four white Angora rabbits. Two were lost, but
+     before long the other pair had five little ones, and in time there
+     were nineteen.
+
+      Two summers ago we visited the White Mountains. I had a baby
+      rabbit which I liked better than any of the others, so I took it
+      with me. It was very tame, and would follow me everywhere. Its
+      name was Snowball. It lived on bread, milk, clover, and other
+      greens, and it liked candy as well as I do. I took it to the White
+      Mountains in a basket with a little hay in it. When we reached
+      there, Snowball was very tired, and I put it to bed. We were among
+      the mountains eleven days, and Snowball grew very fat before we
+      came home.
+
+      I never let it out in the rain; but one day it ran out when I did
+      not know it; I caught it, and was carrying it up stairs to comb
+      and dry its hair, when it fell backward from my shoulder and
+      dislocated its back. I had to have it killed with chloroform. It
+      was stuffed, and is now in my room.
+
+      In the winter all of my rabbits died except eight, and the day I
+      went back to the country those were left out-of-doors in a coop.
+      In the morning when I went to feed them they were all dead. A dog
+      had broken into the coop in the night. That was the end of my
+      beautiful rabbits, and I can not tell of my great sorrow.
+
+  H. F. WHITE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA.
+
+     I am eleven years old, and I delight to read YOUNG PEOPLE. I like
+     it better and better every week.
+
+      We have just returned from a pleasure-trip all over California. It
+      was delightful eating oranges from the trees in Los Angeles, and
+      catching trout in the beautiful streams in the Sierra Nevada
+      Mountains.
+
+  TOMMIE H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  OCCIDENTAL, CALIFORNIA.
+
+     I live in the far West, among the redwoods of Sonoma County,
+     seventy miles from San Francisco, on the North Pacific Coast
+     Railroad. There are a number of saw-mills here, and there are large
+     redwood trees, some of which are over twelve feet through. Some of
+     the pine-trees will make seventeen cords of four-foot wood.
+
+      Not far from our house there is one of the highest railroad
+      bridges in the State. It is one hundred and thirty-seven and a
+      half feet from the creek to the roadway.
+
+      We have several kinds of wild animals around here.
+
+  S. EDWARD E.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  TRINITY, LOUISIANA.
+
+     I live in a little town called Trinity, because it is built where
+     three rivers meet. We have an overflow here nearly every year, and
+     have lots of fun going about in boats, but we generally get tired
+     before the water goes off the ground.
+
+      I am ten years old. I have five sisters and four brothers. We do
+      not go to school, but have a governess. We had a pet deer, but it
+      died the first cold weather. I have been taking music lessons
+      seven months, and can play a few pieces. We all like YOUNG PEOPLE
+      very much.
+
+  RETTA S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SUNBURY, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     I have never written to YOUNG PEOPLE before, and now I want to tell
+     about my flowers. I raised over one hundred and fifty plants from
+     slips last summer. I like the light blue heliotrope better than any
+     other house plant, so I have propagated about twenty-five plants of
+     that.
+
+      I had a rabbit given to me recently. I call it Dicky. It eats
+      turnips, cabbage, and apples.
+
+      I like YOUNG PEOPLE very much. "Out of the Woods" was a splendid
+      story. I am thirteen years old.
+
+  MARY R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.
+
+     I wish to tell all the correspondents that, as I have exchanged
+     postage stamps with a great many, I have now no more duplicates
+     left, and will not be able to supply any more boys.
+
+  G. C. WIGGIN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am all out of curiosities now, and can not exchange them any
+     longer, but I would like to exchange postmarks.
+
+  TEDDY SMITH,
+  641 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I live on the great prairies of Dakota, not far from the pipe-stone
+     quarries. It is said to be the only place in the world where
+     pipe-stone is found. It is used by the Indians for making pipes,
+     rings, beads, and other things. I would like to exchange specimens
+     of pipe-stone for sea-shells, ocean curiosities, Egyptian postage
+     stamps, foreign coins, or Indian relics.
+
+  GEORGE F. SMITH,
+  Care of Allen Smith, P. O. Box 38,
+  Aurora, Brookings County, Dakota.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:
+
+     Relics gathered on the ancient sites of Onondaga Indian villages
+     for Indian relics from other localities, ocean curiosities, or
+     minerals.
+
+  LYMAN H. NORTON,
+  Plainville, Onondaga County, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     California birds' eggs for eggs from other localities.
+
+  FANNIE W. ROGERS,
+  Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Crochet patterns and postmarks.
+
+  TESSIE LINDSAY,
+  Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks, minerals, sea-shells, coins, and other curiosities.
+
+  GEORGE J. ANTHONY,
+  235 First Street, Jersey City, N. J.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps and postmarks.
+
+  LESLIE I. RAY, Ishpeming, Mich.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Foreign postage stamps. A stone from New York State, for one from
+     any other State except New Jersey.
+
+  EDWIN M. COX, JUN.,
+  Spuyten Duyvel, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps and sea-shells.
+
+  WALTER MANDELL,
+  666 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Foreign postage stamps for Indian relics and other curiosities.
+
+  A. H. VAN BUSKIRK,
+  429 East Fifty-eighth Street, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Stones, stamps, and coins.
+
+  CHARLES STEWART,
+  North Evanston, Cook County, Ill.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps.
+
+  ANNIE P. CARRIER,
+  Shady Side, Pittsburgh, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks, Indian arrow-heads, or specimens of iron, copper, or
+     nickel ores from Norway, for birds' eggs or foreign postage stamps.
+
+  GERTRUDE A. ARNOLD,
+  177 North Pearl Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     An open boll of cotton, exactly as grown on the stalk, for foreign
+     stamps or coin.
+
+  JOSEPH HAWKINS, Prosperity, S. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     About six hundred postage stamps and an international stamp album
+     for a scroll saw.
+
+  A. S. WETTACH,
+  P. O. Box 891, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps.
+
+  JAMES H. DEWSON,
+  113 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps and relics.
+
+  JOHN A. SELKIRK,
+  132 First Street, Albany, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks.
+
+  ROBERT KREIDER,
+  P. O. Box 119, Mauch Chunk, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Pressed leaves and ferns, or postmarks, for leaves and ferns from
+     other localities.
+
+  AGNES and CARRIE RAUCHFUSS,
+  Golconda, Pope County, Ill.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Birds' eggs.
+
+  O. M. FREEMAN,
+  Albion, Providence County, R. I.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Indian arrow-heads for birds' eggs.
+
+  ISOBEL JACOB,
+  Darlington Heights, Prince Edward Co., Va.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks for different kinds of buttons.
+
+  EMMA RADFORD,
+  Gloversville, Fulton County, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Minerals, fossils, and ferns.
+
+  RUTHE S. COLLIN,
+  Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps.
+
+  FRED HARRIS,
+  322 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Birds' eggs.
+
+  S. D. WRIGHT,
+  Care of J. B. Wright,
+  Columbus, Muscogee County, Ga.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Insects and postage stamps.
+
+  GRACE STURTEVANT,
+  South Framingham, Mass.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Pieces of crystallized starch from what is said to be the largest
+     starch factory in the world, dovetailed pieces of wood from a large
+     box manufactory, or pebbles and stones from Lake Ontario, for
+     specimens of workmanship from any manufacturing establishment in
+     the United States, or minerals.
+
+  GEORGE D. GILLETT,
+  136 West Fourth Street, Oswego, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Twenty postmarks for ten foreign postage stamps. No duplicates.
+
+  JOHN V. L. PIERSON,
+  Bloomfield, Essex County, N. J.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps.
+
+  Louis HUICQ,
+  Hoboken, N. J.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Minerals, fossils, birds' eggs, and foreign and United States
+     postage stamps.
+
+  ARTHUR MILLIKEN,
+  Emporia, Kan.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Stones from Utah and Germany, and Indian arrow-heads for birds'
+     eggs or stamps.
+
+  HARRY EVERETT,
+  2447 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Iron, lead, zinc, sulphur, and magnetic iron for curiosities, other
+     ores, or stamps.
+
+  EDWIN HEILIG,
+  Wytheville, Wythe County, Va.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks.
+
+  ALLAN J. HOUGHTON,
+  P. O. Box 619, Washington, D. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Michigan postmarks and minerals and shells from the Atlantic Ocean
+     for shells and curiosities from the Pacific coast.
+
+  ROBERT J. LASIER,
+  124 Fort Street West, Detroit, Mich.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WILLIE J. F.--Club or Acme. For full information, see advertisement of
+Peck & Snyder, or Barney & Berry, in our columns.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WILLIE F. W.--1. Twenty-five-cent gold pieces have been coined by the
+United States, but they have never been in general circulation.--2.
+There is no work on practical book-binding from which the business can
+be learned. Your best way would be to make the acquaintance of some
+book-binder, and get him to show you the process. There are excellent
+works on ornamental book-binding, but they are expensive, and would be
+of no use to an amateur.--3. No. Each kind has its partisans.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BOATMAN.--Full directions for making a flat-bottomed boat will soon be
+given in YOUNG PEOPLE, with working diagrams.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CLIFTON J.--To make a toboggan take a thin birch board about five feet
+long and a foot and a half wide. Steam one end to turn up, and secure
+the curve by stout cord or wire. This primitive sled, which is an
+invention of the Canadian Indians, is used only on crusted snow, and is
+steered with two short sticks held firmly in the hands.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+H. H. HENRY.--Pekin, the capital city of China, is situated in the
+province of Chili. Its population is estimated from 1,648,000 to
+2,000,000, but it is impossible to arrive at an exact statement.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+IDA L. G.--See answer to Miriam B. and others in Post-office Box of
+YOUNG PEOPLE No. 52.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+N. L. JONES.--Land lizards feed on small insects. If you have house
+plants, and allow the lizards liberty to run among them, they will keep
+them free from lice and small worms, which often do great injury to the
+leaves.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+C. W. M.--You can send soil or other specimens in a small box by mail.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LUCY WILSON, L. L. G., N. B. GREENE, AND MANY OTHERS.--Write and make
+your inquiries from the correspondents with whom you wish to exchange.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     DEAR FRIENDS,--About a fortnight ago, when we boys and girls of the
+     "Children's Hour" were busy at our drawing and painting, Miss
+     Donlevy, our teacher, told us we had all been invited to visit
+     Harper's Building.
+
+      You may just think we clapped our hands with delight, and made
+      considerable noise for a minute or two, but then we promised to
+      behave very quietly.
+
+      When the day came, we all, with our teacher, took the Third Avenue
+      elevated car, and whizzed down in no time to Franklin Square, and
+      soon found ourselves mounting up the winding stairs to the office
+      of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+      We had all been wondering whether we should have to look
+      dignified, and mind our p's and q's, supposing the editor was
+      oldish and wore spectacles; he wasn't, though, for he was young,
+      and as kind and friendly as if he was one's own grown-up brother
+      or cousin, and let us ask questions until I guess his ears ached
+      and his head spun.
+
+      The girls took off their cloaks and the boys their overcoats, and
+      piled them up on a chair. The editor took us to the art
+      department, where we were introduced to the art critic and an
+      artist famous for drawing grasses and flowers and landscapes. As
+      they were only talking, we went into the next room to see artists
+      at work. One had a small block of box-wood on his desk, covered
+      with a transparent paper, called gelatine paper; on this was
+      traced in red pencil a picture of a house and trees. He was going
+      over all the red lines with a pointed instrument. When the
+      gelatine paper was lifted off, there were the lines faintly cut in
+      the wood. Then the artist took a lead-pencil and went over the cut
+      lines with it; next came shading the picture with a brush and
+      India ink. When we had watched them doing this we were all marched
+      off to the engraving department.
+
+      What busy people engravers are! There they sat, looking as if they
+      thought there wasn't a thing in the world to be looked at but the
+      block picture on the padded cushion before them. All the engravers
+      had shades over their eyes, and were looking through
+      magnifying-glasses at their work.
+
+      One of them let me look through his, and, whew! how big the things
+      looked! I saw in a minute that all the parts of the block are cut
+      away except the parts marked by the lead-pencil and brush; these
+      must stand up higher than the rest of the wood, to take the ink
+      for printing. But I tell you what seemed like magic--taking a
+      proof. The proof-taker just laid the engraved block picture on its
+      back in his press, and ran an inked roller over its face; then he
+      laid a sheet of paper on it; then he pulled the press down on it,
+      and it only took a second's pressure; when he lifted up the press
+      and took the paper out, there was the loveliest picture of a baby
+      sitting in a high chair. All the class wanted one immediately, but
+      we had no time to wait; so away we marched up some more winding
+      stairs to the "composing-room." Now you mustn't think that's where
+      they compose stories; it's only the place for setting up type, and
+      such work.
+
+      Here a number of young men were filling small iron things, called
+      "sticks," with type; as each stick was loaded, the types were
+      taken out in a bunch and put into a tray called a "galley." This
+      is called "composing." Stickful after stickful was arranged, until
+      a page of type lay there. It seemed all spelled backward, to make
+      it come out right when printed.
+
+      The "galley man" then inked this page of type, and struck off a
+      proof for each of us, just as the picture proof was struck off
+      down stairs. As this page was only a letter from a doll, I didn't
+      care much for it, but all the girls just went wild over it;
+      however, I took one for the curiosity's sake; for what fellow is
+      there cares for dolls?
+
+      HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE is not printed right from these type, as I
+      thought when the proofs were being made for us, for the type would
+      soon wear off. A wax mould is made from each page of set-up type.
+      I asked the editor what good a soft wax thing like that mould
+      could be, so he took us all into a wonderful room, where they make
+      copper plates from the wax moulds. We had only been there a minute
+      or two when the foreman asked us if we'd like to see him strike
+      lightning. In the middle of the room stands a large bath of glass,
+      with a smaller one inside of it filled with a dark blue liquid.
+      Joined to it were some broad bands of copper, reaching nearly to
+      the ceiling. Well, the foreman touched one of these belts with
+      some kind of a bar of metal, and right away the sparks flew, and
+      there came flashes like lightning. Of course some of the girls ran
+      away, and one of the boys ran too.
+
+      We boys staid, and the foreman showed us how the wax moulds were
+      hung in the blue-vitriol water, with plates of copper hanging near
+      them. Somehow--I can not understand exactly how--the electricity
+      makes the copper dissolve and fall in powder on the wax, where it
+      hardens; when it is taken out of this bath it is a beautiful
+      copper picture, black on the front and red on the under side.
+
+      We were told the under or hollow side would next be filled in with
+      lead, just as boys fill in a bullet mould. We were only allowed to
+      peep into the lead-melting room, where we saw a great caldron
+      filled with boiling lead. I would have liked to give it a good
+      stir up with the big ladle, but of course didn't ask the favor.
+      This built-up copper plate is very strong, and any number of
+      pictures or letters--for they make moulds and plates of both--can
+      be printed from them.
+
+      Then the editor said we should see the men printing from these
+      plates, fastened into iron frames called "forms." So down ever so
+      many winding stairs we travelled, until we came to a dark
+      under-ground room, where the "Hoe" printing-presses are. Whew!
+      what a whizzing and buzzing there was!
+
+      We all stood around a great big machine, and the editor kindly
+      lifted us up in turn so we might all see it. On the top, on a
+      large metal plate, the white paper is laid, the plate moves
+      forward, and up come a lot of shining steel prongs that catch the
+      paper and drag it under so you can't see it. Just then, below, at
+      the other side, we caught sight of a large "form" with the metal
+      plate of type, or text, and pictures of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE in
+      it. It seemed to know just what to do, for it moved toward the
+      sheet of paper, which was somewhere down under the rollers, and
+      the next thing we saw was the sheet coming out at the other end on
+      a wooden frame, which lifted up and turned it over on a pile which
+      had been printed before we came in. Just think, boys and girls:
+      that press can turn out two thousand YOUNG PEOPLE in an hour!
+
+      We only took a peep at the two big "Corliss" steam-engines that
+      were making the whole thing go. Here some of the girls were afraid
+      again; so, as it was near twelve o'clock, we hurried up the
+      winding stairs again to see the folding and binding and
+      "marbleizing" done.
+
+      The folding-machine is just the cleverest thing. The sheet is laid
+      on a moving roller which carries it over to a second and then a
+      third roller, and it goes in and out, and the first thing you know
+      it drops down in a trough at the side, all nicely folded, and cut,
+      too, for binding.
+
+      Then we saw a lot all ready for the sewers. Well, I think I never
+      saw needles fly like those that the girls were sewing the leaves
+      in lots with. Fifty-two YOUNG PEOPLES sewed together make a pretty
+      fat-looking book, but when it is put in a heavy press it comes out
+      looking considerably slimmer. Next we saw the fly-leaves
+      marbleized. My! but wasn't it pretty! A man stood in front of a
+      large square bath filled with gum and water. There were lots of
+      cans around, filled with red, blue, yellow, green, and other
+      colored paints. First he dipped his brush in the red and shook it
+      over the gum water--the drops made circles of red--then he shook
+      yellow spots with another brush; then blue, till the top of the
+      water was beautifully spotted. Next he took what looked like a
+      very big comb and stroked the water softly, so all the colors took
+      curious long shapes; then he stroked it the other way with a finer
+      comb, until it had a pretty peacock-feather pattern on it, and was
+      ready for the paper, which he just laid flat on top of the gay
+      water, and then hung it up to dry for fly-leaves.
+
+      After that we watched the men brush paste on the backs of the
+      books, put the covers on, and place them in presses to make the
+      paste stick. We couldn't wait to see them come out of the presses,
+      so we thanked the editor, and started for home. Some of the girls
+      said they would know how to mend books now when the covers came
+      off. Every one of them said they were going to marbleize paper
+      when they got home; but I know something more tip-top than that:
+      _I'm_ going to rig up a machine to strike lightning. And now, dear
+      friends, I must say good-by.
+
+  FRANK E. F.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Favors are acknowledged from E. D. Kellogg, C. W. Seagar, A. D. H., Ben
+J. R., Phebe O'Reilly, T. F. Weishampel, H. G. M., Ellie Earle, F. D.
+Crane, Willy Rochester, Nellie E. Owen, Lydia M. Bennett, Mary Daucy,
+Willie A. Scott, Albert K. Hart, Bobbie C. Horntager, Dany J. O., T. N.
+Jamieson, Belle Dening, Joe T. P., Freddie C. Y., Mamie S., Eva M.
+Moody, Gracie E. Stevens.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles are received from Charles Gaylor, Mabel
+Lowell, The Dawley Boys, Alice Ward, Tom Kelley, Jun., Cal I. Forny,
+Mark Marcy, George Willie Needham, Walter P. Hiles.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+HALF-SQUARE--(_To Mark Marcy_).
+
+Last.--A bird. To pinch. White. A letter.
+
+  MABEL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+NUMERICAL CHARADES.
+
+  1. I am a plant found in pastures, composed of 8 letters.
+  My 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 is a little animal.
+  My 6, 7, 8 is a part of the body.
+
+  GEORGIA.
+
+  2. I am an animal composed of 9 letters.
+  My 4, 2, 3, 8 is a kind of grain.
+  My 6, 7, 9 is something good to eat.
+  My 5, 1 is aloft.
+
+  MAUD.
+
+  3. I am a city in New England composed of 8 letters.
+  My 1, 2, 3, 4 is a kind of wine.
+  My 5, 6, 7, 8 is to disembark.
+
+  MABEL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+RHOMBOID--(_To Zelotes_).
+
+Across.--To stain. A kind of three-masted vessel. Scoffs. A city of
+Northern Italy. A part cut to enter a mortise.
+
+Down.--Always in mischief. An animal. A part of the body. Death. To
+repel. To wax. Wrong-doing. A denial. In scorn.
+
+  BOLUS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 4.
+
+HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE--(_To Rip Van Winkle_).
+
+A lake in the United States. A city in South America. An African
+sea-port. A river in Scotland. In Hamburg. A river in Russia. A city in
+Italy. A country in South America. A city in South America. Centrals
+read downward spell the name of a country in South America.
+
+  OWLET.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 59.
+
+No. 1.
+
+  H E A R
+  E A T
+  A T
+  R
+
+No. 2.
+
+  I B I S
+    E D I T
+      A L O E
+        L O D E
+
+No. 3.
+
+North Pole.
+
+No. 4.
+
+  A o R t A
+  R o U n D
+  M a N i A
+
+No. 5.
+
+  J ean D'Ar C
+  U   rsul   A
+  L amartin  E
+  I socrate  S
+  U   rani   A
+  S  chille  R
+
+Julius Caesar.
+
+No. 6.
+
+  T O L L   B E A R
+  O B E Y   E L S E
+  L E E R   A S I A
+  L Y R E   R E A R
+
+  S O A P   R I C E
+  O N C E   I R O N
+  A C T S   C O R D
+  P E S T   E N D S
+
+
+
+
+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+
+SINGLE COPIES, 4 cents; ONE SUBSCRIPTION, one year, $1.50; FIVE
+SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00--_payable in advance, postage free_.
+
+The Volumes of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE commence with the first Number in
+November of each year.
+
+Subscriptions may begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it
+will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the
+Number issued after the receipt of the order.
+
+Remittances should be made by POST-OFFICE MONEY-ORDER OR DRAFT, to avoid
+risk of loss.
+
+Volume I., containing the first 52 Numbers, handsomely bound in
+illuminated cloth, $3.00, postage prepaid: Cover, title-page, and index
+for Volume I., 35 cents; postage, 13 cents additional.
+
+  HARPER & BROTHERS,
+  Franklin Square, N. Y.
+
+
+
+
+FUNNY FLIRTATION CARDS.
+
+BY FRANK BELLEW.
+
+
+[Illustration: FIG. 1.]
+
+Charley Sparks is one of those sunshiny young fellows who occasionally
+come beaming upon us out of the gloom and mist of this rather foggy
+world. He always has a smile, and generally something new in the way of
+a puzzle, or a riddle, or a notion of some sort wherewith to amuse his
+friends. The other evening he dropped in to see us, with his usual
+amount of sunshine to compete with the gas-light in the parlor, but
+there was an extra twinkle in his eye which told me that he had
+something novel to communicate. There were several of the girls present,
+and a couple of friends, one of whom was Maggie Martin, a bright little
+brunette, as piquant as a French sauce, and the other a Miss Sarah
+Gooch, an amiable maiden lady of about forty-five. After a few words of
+greeting, Charley pulled from his pocket a card, of which Fig. 1 is a
+copy, and presenting it to Miss Gooch, asked her if she could solve the
+enigma. As you will see, it is a very simple rebus, which most people
+could readily make out.
+
+Miss Gooch looked at it steadily for some minutes, and then slowly and
+deliberately said, "Eye--yes, eye."
+
+"That's right," said Charley; "you can dot that eye."
+
+"Eye," repeated Miss Gooch--"door--sheep. Eye--door--sheep. Well, I
+don't see anything in that." Then there was a pause. Charley would not
+help her out. "However, I'll try again: eye--oh yes, I see--a
+door--sheep."
+
+"Oh no, you don't," said Charley. "You may like a mutton-chop now and
+then, Miss Gooch, but to adore a whole sheep--no, no."
+
+Miss Gooch tried it again.
+
+"Eye--a door--sheep--lamb--ram--wether--ewe. Oh, I have it: I adore
+you."
+
+"Do you?" exclaimed Charley, in the most impassioned tones, as he threw
+himself on one knee, and seized her hand. "Then I am indeed the happiest
+of mortals."
+
+A box on the ear from the laughing Miss Gooch brought him to his feet,
+and terminated the love scene.
+
+[Illustration: FIG. 2.]
+
+[Illustration: FIG. 3.]
+
+Before we had all recovered from our merriment at this performance,
+Charley approached Maggie Martin with great deference, and handed her
+another card, on one side of which was inscribed hieroglyphics like
+those on Fig. 2, and on the other side other figures, like those on Fig.
+3.
+
+"Why, you seem to have brought a whole pack of cards with you, Mr.
+Sparks," said Maggie.
+
+"A pack of nonsense you mean," replied Charley.
+
+"Well, let us look at your nonsense."
+
+"Oh, this is not nonsense, but the most deadly earnest."
+
+Maggie turned the card over and over, first looking at one side and then
+at the other.
+
+"Are these inscriptions taken from the Obelisk?" she queried, archly.
+
+"No; they are copied from an inscription carved upon my heart."
+
+"Oh, another stone, eh?"
+
+"I wish it were a stone"--with a sigh. "But try my puzzle. I am deeply
+interested in it."
+
+Maggie turned it over and over, held it edgeways this side and edgeways
+the other, but could make nothing of it.
+
+"I am surprised you can not find it out," said Charley; "it is very
+transparent."
+
+"Transparent? Oh, it is very transparent, is it? I see." And she held it
+up to the light, which, shining through the thin card, blended the two
+unmeaning inscriptions together so that they revealed distinctly a
+sentence, which she began to read:
+
+"I lo--" Then suddenly checking herself, she said, with a laugh, "No you
+don't, Mr. Sparks; you don't trap me into any expression of adoration,
+as you did Miss Gooch. But tell me, how do you make these cards?"
+
+"The simplest thing in the world. You take a piece of thin card-board,
+and outline on it in pencil any sentence you wish, as I have done 'I
+love you'; then you blacken portions of the letters, as I have also
+done, and place the card with its face to a window-pane, so that the
+light shining through will show what you have done on the other side.
+Complete the letters on the opposite side to the one on which you wrote
+the first part of your inscription, and the thing is done."
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DOUBT.
+"Shall I--or--shall I not? Perhaps it would be better to let him go."]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: THE SINGING LESSON.]
+
+
+
+
+
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