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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, February 15, 1881, by Various
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+Title: Harper's Young People, February 15, 1881
+       An Illustrated Weekly
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: February 15, 2014 [EBook #44925]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, FEB 15, 1881 ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Annie R. McGuire
+
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE
+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+VOL. II.--NO. 68. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, February 15, 1881. Copyright, 1881, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: PERILOUS COASTING.--SEE NEXT PAGE.]
+
+A RIPPER.
+
+BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
+
+
+"It's nothing on earth but a pair of bobs. We've rigged that kind of
+thing lots of times over on our hill. All you need is a couple of sleds
+and a plank."
+
+"Yes, Rod, and when you've done it, they won't steer worth a cent."
+
+"Yes, they do. Dig your heels in."
+
+"Stop your sled just so much every time you dig. A rudder's just as bad.
+We've tried 'em."
+
+"So've we, Court Hoffman. I guess there wasn't ever anything much
+started on your hill till after we'd showed you how, over on ours."
+
+"You never showed anybody how to make a ripper like this."
+
+"Ripper? We'll see about that."
+
+There they stood looking at Courtland Hoffman's new coasting machine. He
+was the undoubted leader of the West Hill coasters, as Rodney Sanderson
+was of the East Hill boys.
+
+The new ripper was a beauty, and had cost some money. It was, as Rod
+said, a pair of bobs, with a plank on top to hold them together. There
+was room on it for half a dozen boys, and more if they packed, and it
+was handsomely finished. The one thing about it that no boy in Cuzco
+Centre really believed in, except Court Hoffman, was the steering gear.
+
+This was a half-wheel, as wide as the sled, mounted on the front bob, on
+an axle that went down through the plank; and the idea that when you
+turned that wheel the front bob would turn too, and the ripper be
+steered by it, was too much for anything. Some of the oldest men in the
+village had shaken their heads at that sled, and Squire Sanderson
+himself had remarked to Deacon Rogers, "They didn't spile the boys with
+any sech nonsense in our day, Deacon."
+
+Cuzco Centre had two hills, one on each side, and they were tremendous
+affairs. The older people believed they were put there so as to have a
+valley between them for the village to stand in, but the boys knew
+exactly what they were really for, especially in winter, and when the
+coasting was good.
+
+The main street ran through the middle of the valley and the village;
+but it failed to make a fair division of things, for the river ran a
+crooked parallel with it a short distance eastward. It was the glory of
+the East Side boys that the river ran through their ground--fish,
+swimming-hole, ponds, skating, old bridge, and all--but it cut off the
+lower end of their long coast from the hill road. No sled in Cuzco had
+ever reached the bridge, however, so it was just as well; but the West
+Side boys told wonderful stories of the distances they had buzzed over
+on the half-mile level at the bottom of their hill. That was what Court
+Hoffman meant, too, when he said:
+
+"You wouldn't have room for a ripper on your hill. If you want to see
+how one works, you'll have to come over and look on. Give you a ride,
+too, if you think you wouldn't be afraid. They go just like lightning."
+
+Rod Sanderson did not say anything, but he looked up the road toward the
+East Hill, and the high, white, snow-covered ridge seemed to say:
+
+"Look up here. There is as much of me as ever there was. You do your
+share, and we'll beat 'em."
+
+Court Hoffman made two boys happy by letting them drag his ripper home
+for him, and Rod Sanderson walked off with an idea in his head.
+
+"There'll be a moon to-night. Never was better coasting. I'll just try
+it on."
+
+Part of that idea was now lying over in his father's barn-yard, in the
+shape of an old weather-beaten, worn-out double-seated sleigh, with a
+goose-neck front. It had been a handsome affair in its day, but it had
+not had any day to speak of since Rodney could remember. It was drifted
+under now, and it took a good hour to get it out, even with the help of
+Put Willoughby.
+
+"Going to make a ripper of it?" said Put, doubtfully. "The runners are
+all right, but the box is on it yet, and the seats."
+
+"We'll put in buffalo robes and blankets, and fix it fine."
+
+"How on earth'll you steer? There isn't any boy in Cuzco with legs
+enough to heel it for a sleigh of that size."
+
+"I'll show you. I'm going to rig a boom out astern for a rudder. Steer
+like a ship."
+
+"You don't say!"
+
+Put had a good deal to say, however, when he saw Rod cut a hole in the
+back of that sleigh box, and shove through it a long pole with a spike
+on the end.
+
+"Steer? Of course it will. I could steer it myself. Only how on earth'll
+we ever get it up to the top of the East Hill?"
+
+There might have been some difficulty about that, if all the boys on
+that side of the main street had not taken the matter in hand. They were
+a public-spirited lot, and they were all jealous of Court Hoffman's
+town-made, new-fangled, fancy-painted gimcrack. They knew it wouldn't
+work, and they said so, and they pulled and pushed at Rod's wonderful
+idea that evening until they got it up the hill. Then they all got in,
+or tried to, and the old ark looked more like a pyramid of boys than
+anything else.
+
+It was a splendid moon-lit evening, and the West Hill boys were out,
+every soul of them, and the best friends Court Hoffman had were half
+afraid he wouldn't invite them to ride on his ripper the first time.
+Then they were more than half afraid he would, for they all knew Deacon
+Rogers had said there was no telling where that thing would go to if it
+once got well a-going.
+
+The valley, and the village, and the river, and the East Hill would be
+in the way, to be sure, and that was something; but the hill road was as
+slippery as ice, and the new ripper looked more and more like a shark
+when Court Hoffman lifted it to show them how bright and smooth the
+runner irons were.
+
+He showed them also how the wheel worked, and declared that he could
+steer that ripper all around a house. That was what made Jim Delany ask,
+
+"Could ye stheer it round a wood-sleigh, wid three yoke of oxen, av ye
+met 'em in the sthrate yonder?"
+
+"I'll show you. Now, boys, who's going with me? Hurrah! The more the
+merrier."
+
+"I'm wid ye," shouted Jim Delany. "It'll be bad luck for any horned
+baste we run into."
+
+One after another the larger boys followed Jim, and Court never stopped
+to count.
+
+"Keep your feet on the foot-rests," he shouted. "Hold on hard. Hold
+steady as rocks. We'll be off in a minute. Ready, all? Go, then."
+
+And go it was, with nearly a mile of sloping road before them, and
+beyond that the long glittering reach of the level.
+
+There was time for a cheer or two, and they gave one, and nearly half of
+another; but that second cheer seemed to be cut in two by something.
+
+Court Hoffman grasped his wheel tiller with all the strength he had in
+him, and looked straight ahead. He had ridden on that sort of machine
+before, and he knew what was coming the moment she got her speed on.
+
+But the other boys?
+
+Dan Varick's grip on Jim Delany would have brought a yell from him if he
+had dared to open his mouth. Jim was thinking, too, but he and all the
+rest were thinking the same thought.
+
+"Fences? They're nothing but two black streaks at the side of the road.
+Oh dear! we'll go clean through the village. What if we should run into
+something!"
+
+They held on like good fellows, and made that ripper-load of boys as
+nearly as possible one solid mass, so that it was easier for Court
+Hoffman to steer. Even he, though, was beginning to have his doubts as
+to where they would bring up, and whether he could steer safely around
+the curve where the road from the West Hill crossed the main street, and
+met the road from the East that led over the bridge.
+
+The speed was awful! No express train ever went faster, and a race-horse
+would have been passed as if he were standing still.
+
+Danger in it? Of course there was, and the lives of all of them depended
+upon the nerve and pluck of Court Hoffman, and the skill he might show
+in getting around the curve. Yes, and on whether or not there should be
+a clear road, or a stray team or cow or human being to run against.
+
+It was a terrible risk to run, and all the boys left on the hill were
+glad they had let somebody else try the first ride on the ripper.
+
+Before the beginning of that swift, perilous dash, however, Rod
+Sanderson and the East Side boys had completed their preparations. Some
+of them had to get off and push to get the old sleigh started, and only
+one of these managed to get on again. Three more jumped off before the
+"whopper," as Rodney called her, had gone ten rods, and it may have been
+because they had doubts as to where she would fetch up.
+
+"She just steers lovely," remarked Put Willoughby, as he noticed how Rod
+Sanderson was straining at the long handle of his rudder.
+
+"She's beginning to go faster!"
+
+"She's a-gaining!"
+
+"Don't she go it!"
+
+"Hurrah--ah--aw--aw!"
+
+They all joined in that, but at just that moment the old sleigh shoved
+her goose-necks over the little roll at the edge of the first really
+steep slope of the East Hill road, and she seemed to give a great jump.
+
+"Rod, where's your rudder?"
+
+"Gone! I--"
+
+There was no more to be said. It had been jerked from him, through the
+hole he had cut for it, the moment the bent spike caught in an icy
+place, and the old sleigh had things in her own hands from that moment.
+
+She seemed to know it, and to be tickled half to death over the notion
+of doing her own running, without a span of horses in front of her. She
+was not a ripper, indeed, but she was a whopper, and she had weight
+enough on board to give her all the impetus she needed down that hill.
+
+How she did plunge and slip! and how the loose snow and bits of ice did
+fly! Still, she had been over that road many a time, and seemed to know
+it like a book now; that is, the ruts were deep, and her runners kept in
+them as surely as the wheels of a street car keep in the grooves of the
+track. Faster and faster, with nobody to steer, and no earthly chance of
+stopping her! There never was such coasting, nor so many boys doing it
+on one big sled.
+
+Rod Sanderson looked out ahead over his crouching load, and the wind cut
+by his face as if there had been a hurricane. A team on the bridge! What
+if it should come on into the road? What if the old sleigh should take a
+notion to go on over the bridge and into the village, or anywhere?
+
+"Oh dear! she's going faster!"
+
+The short stretch of level road at the bottom of the East Hill was
+reached like a flash, and it was now going by like another flash--a
+little slower, to be sure, but with no sign of stopping.
+
+The driver of the team on the bridge had halted his oxen, and the boys
+in the sleigh seemed all at once to feel the same impulse to dodge. They
+leaned toward the right, and it may be some of them meant to jump; but
+the pressure helped a clog of wood the runners touched at that moment to
+turn the "whopper" out of the ruts of the road, and into the well-worn
+slide that led down the river-bank. It was her last plunge, and she was
+nearly out of breath when she took it, but it was well for those boys
+the ice was so thick. It bore them splendidly, sleigh and all, and away
+they went, until their ride used itself up, just half way over. Just as
+they were all drawing their breath for a grand hurrah, something black
+and long shot down from the western bank of the river, and out upon the
+very ice that belonged to them.
+
+"Coming right for us!"
+
+"Boys! boys! that's Court Hoffman's ripper!"
+
+Court had done it. He had steered successfully around the curve, partly
+because some of his speed had gone when he reached it, and his remaining
+impetus had carried him on until he slipped into the gentle declivity
+toward the bridge and the river.
+
+"I say," said Rod Sanderson, as the passengers of the ripper sprang to
+their feet, "how far did you have to haul that thing after you got down
+hill?"
+
+"Ran all the way itself."
+
+"Well, so did our whopper. Steered herself, too, and that's more'n yours
+can do."
+
+"Well, yes, I should say so."
+
+Court was looking and feeling a little thoughtful. The coasting on the
+West Hill was almost too good for his ripper, and he wanted to consider
+the matter before he tried it again.
+
+As for the "whopper," there was no such thing as persuading the East
+Hill boys to haul her up the road for another free ride that evening.
+
+
+
+
+CHATS ABOUT PHILATELY.
+
+III.
+
+BY J. J. CASEY.
+
+
+In a previous chat with you I gave a few directions how to start
+properly in collecting stamps. You also got an inkling of the vast
+extent of Philately. While it embraces but two classes, stamps for
+postal purposes and stamps for revenue purposes, it has divided these
+two classes into several divisions, each of which has an equal
+importance, and each of which claims for itself all that can be given to
+it either of time or money. Jack of all trades, and master of none, can
+very truly be applied to stamp collecting. One who attempts to collect
+all kinds of stamps may, by the expenditure of a very large amount of
+money, succeed in accumulating a very great number of stamps; but one
+becomes merely an accumulator, and has ceased to be a Philatelist. The
+rule among collectors to-day is to take up some special portion of
+Philately, and to direct all their efforts to that portion.
+
+Stamps for postal purposes include government adhesive stamps, local
+stamps recognized by several governments, private express stamps and
+private post-office stamps once prevalent in this country, stamped
+envelopes and stamped newspaper wrappers, postal cards, and proofs and
+essays. Stamps for revenue purposes include government adhesive stamps,
+municipal stamps, private die stamps of the United States, and proofs
+and essays. Here are divisions enough. To attain excellence, or even
+good results, in any one division, the others must be given up. One is
+just as fruitful of interest as another, but postage stamps of
+government issue are the most popular, being the easiest within reach.
+
+Stamped envelopes and wrappers and postal cards should not be mutilated
+by having the design cut out. In the early days of collecting, attention
+was generally paid to the design only, which, whether in adhesive stamps
+or on envelopes, was trimmed up to the printed portion. The album-makers
+were responsible for this mutilation by marking off spaces in their
+albums. Collectors foolishly trimmed their stamps to fit into the
+prescribed spaces--a course which they have since regretted; for these
+trimmed specimens, exceedingly valuable, and oftentimes priceless when
+not mutilated, would not now be admitted into any first-class
+collection. Even to this day the album-makers virtually compel the
+collector to cut the impression out of the envelope, or else have an
+album with unsightly pages here and there. But under no consideration
+should the envelope or postal card be mutilated. You may say that it is
+not practicable to keep the entire envelope in a book. But you do not
+keep butterflies or birds' eggs in a book. Keep the envelopes and cards
+in a box until you can devise a plan of your own for mounting them. I
+have a very excellent plan for mounting envelopes and cards, and one of
+these days I may explain it to you.
+
+Government local stamps are privileges extended to individuals or
+localities for postal purposes within limits. The most important of
+these are the Russian local stamps. You are aware that Russia has a
+large extent of territory; the postal service of the Russian Empire is
+not yet adequate enough to cover properly this vast extent, and
+accordingly it has extended to all the governments or provinces of
+Russia local mail privileges. As a result of this, over a hundred and
+ten towns have their special postage stamps. These are the most
+interesting of all stamps, from the many historical or emblematical
+designs engraved on them. A full collection of these stamps would number
+between four and five hundred specimens.
+
+With these government local stamps must not be confounded what are
+sometimes, but erroneously, called "United States locals," but which are
+in reality nothing more than private express stamps. Between thirty and
+forty years ago, private individuals, and sometimes express companies,
+carried letters between various cities, or most usually within the
+limits of certain cities or towns. Payment was indicated by stamps. The
+Post-office Department soon broke up these concerns, as interfering with
+the postal privileges of the government, and none are now in existence
+as letter-carrying concerns save a few firms in this city to whom the
+privilege is given by one of the old colonial charters, and with which
+the government can not interfere. I shall not discuss the admissibility
+of these stamps into a collection, although opinion is divided. But I
+would advise my young friends to give them a wide berth. Of the hundreds
+which are known, you can not possibly get together enough genuine
+specimens to fill up a page of your book. To supply the demand there is
+no lack of counterfeits, or concoctions, which will be represented to
+you as just as good as the stamps themselves.
+
+But do not fill your albums with these vile forgeries. Many an album
+containing many fine stamps has been rendered almost worthless because
+page after page was plastered over with forgeries, reprints, and
+re-strikes of these private express stamps.
+
+Among revenue stamps there are two most interesting classes--the
+municipal stamps of Italy and the private die or private proprietary
+stamps of this country. Revenue stamps are more in number than postage
+stamps, and, generally speaking, are more difficult to obtain, because
+of the higher values which the stamps represent. But the Italian
+municipal and the United States private die stamps will well repay the
+efforts of the young collector.
+
+On one other point I wish to counsel you. Let there be consistency in
+your collection. By this I mean, let your stamps be all cancelled or all
+uncancelled!! Nothing looks so bad as to see part of a set bright and
+clean, and the rest all smudged with cancelling ink. Cancelled stamps
+are in the main much cheaper than uncancelled stamps, and the collector
+has less difficulty in procuring cancelled specimens than he has in
+procuring uncancelled specimens. In fact, one difficulty collectors of
+clean stamps have to contend against is that it is almost impossible to
+procure clean copies of some of the great rarities. But these will not
+trouble you for some time. Bear in mind what I said in a previous paper
+about putting in your collection none but perfect specimens. If you are
+careless on this point, you may be often imposed upon by many dealers,
+who will take particular pains to offer you their worst specimens.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+MY FIRST MUFF.
+
+BY F. C.
+
+
+  Here's my little lady,
+    Dressed with thoughtful care,
+  Smiling at the sunlight,
+    Smiling at the air.
+
+  Whither, little lady,
+    Whither shall we go?
+  O'er the lofty hill-tops--
+    Through the winter's snow?
+
+  Will you with me wander
+    Through the copses bare,
+  Where the dead leaves linger?--
+    Autumn left them there.
+
+  No, my little lady;
+    Snows would damp your feet;
+  Thorns would tear your jacket,
+    Trimmed with ermine neat.
+
+  I will fetch a carriage,
+    Drawn by ponies fine,
+  Lined with silken cushions,
+    Fit for lady mine.
+
+  We will drive right swiftly
+    O'er the hill-tops then--
+  Drive as quick as lightning
+    Through the merry glen.
+
+  Then my little lady
+    Safe from harm will be,
+  And her rich soft ermine
+    From sharp thorns be free.
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in No. 58 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, December 7.]
+
+TOBY TYLER;
+
+OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.
+
+BY JAMES OTIS.
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+MR. STUBBS AT A PARTY.
+
+
+Toby was about to say that he did not intend to represent the matter
+other than it really was, when a voice from behind the canvas screen
+prevented further conversation.
+
+"Sam-u-el, come an' help me carry these things in."
+
+Something very like a smile of satisfaction passed over Signor Castro's
+face as he heard this, which told him that the time for the feast was
+very near at hand, and the snake-charmer, as well as the Albino
+Children, seemed quite as much pleased as did the sword-swallower.
+
+"You will excuse me, ladies and gentlemen," said the skeleton, in an
+important tone; "I must help Lilly, and then I shall have the pleasure
+of helping you to some of her cooking, which, if I do say it, that
+oughtn't, is as good as can be found in this entire country."
+
+Then he too disappeared behind the canvas screen.
+
+Left alone, Toby looked at the ladies, and the ladies looked at him, in
+perfect silence, while the sword-swallower grimly regarded all, until
+Mr. Treat appeared bearing on a platter an immense turkey, as nicely
+browned as any Thanksgiving turkey Toby ever saw. Behind him came his
+fat wife carrying several dishes, each one of which emitted a most
+fragrant odor; and as these were placed upon the table, the spirits of
+the sword-swallower seemed to revive, and he smiled pleasantly, while
+even the ladies appeared animated by the sight and odor of the good
+things which they were to be called upon so soon to pass judgment.
+
+Several times did Mr. and Mrs. Treat bustle in and out from behind the
+screen, and each time they made some addition to that which was upon the
+table, until Toby began to fear that they would never finish, and the
+sword-swallower seemed unable to restrain his impatience.
+
+At last the finishing touch had been put to the table, the last dish
+placed in position, and then, with a certain kind of grace, which no one
+but a man as thin as Mr. Treat could assume, he advanced to the edge of
+the platform, and said,
+
+"Ladies and gentlemen, nothing gives me greater pleasure than to invite
+you all, including Mr. Tyler's friend Stubbs, to the bountiful repast
+which my Lilly has prepared for--"
+
+At this point, Mr. Treat's speech--for it certainly seemed as if he had
+commenced to make one--was broken off in a most summary manner. His wife
+had come up behind him, and, with as much ease as if he had been a
+child, lifted him from off the floor, and placed him gently in the chair
+at the head of the table.
+
+"Come right up and get dinner," she said to her guests; "if you had
+waited until Samuel had finished his speech, everything on the table
+would have been stone-cold."
+
+The guests proceeded to obey her kindly command, and it is to be
+regretted that the sword-swallower had no better manners than to jump on
+to the platform with one bound, and seat himself at the table with the
+most unseemly haste. The others, and more especially Toby, proceeded in
+a leisurely and more dignified manner.
+
+A seat had been placed by the side of the one intended for Toby for the
+accommodation of Mr. Stubbs, who suffered a napkin to be tied under his
+chin, and generally behaved in a manner that gladdened the heart of his
+young master.
+
+Mr. Treat cut generous slices from the turkey for each guest, and Mrs.
+Treat piled their plates high with all sorts of vegetables, complaining,
+after the manner of housewives generally, that the food was not cooked
+as she would like to have had it, and declaring that she had had poor
+luck with everything that morning, when she firmly believed in her heart
+that her table had never looked better.
+
+After the company had had the edge taken off their appetites, which
+effect was produced on the sword-swallower only after he had been helped
+three different times, the conversation began by the fat woman asking
+Toby how he got along with Mr. Lord.
+
+Toby could not give a very good account of his employer, but he had the
+good sense not to cast a dampener on a party of pleasure by reciting his
+own troubles, and he said, evasively,
+
+"I guess I shall get along pretty well, now that I have got so many
+friends."
+
+Just as he had commenced to speak, the skeleton had put in his mouth a
+very large piece of turkey--very much larger in proportion than he was
+himself--and when Toby finished speaking, he started to say something
+evidently not very complimentary to Mr. Lord. But what it was the
+company never knew, for just as he opened his mouth to speak, the meat
+went down the wrong way, his face became a bright purple, and it was
+quite evident that he was choking.
+
+Toby was alarmed, and sprang from his chair to assist his friend,
+upsetting Mr. Stubbs from his seat, causing him to scamper up the tent
+pole, with the napkin still tied around his neck, and to scold in his
+most vehement manner. Before Toby could reach the skeleton, however, the
+fat woman had darted toward her lean husband, caught him by one arm, and
+was pounding his back, by the time Toby got there, so vigorously that
+the boy was afraid her enormous hand would go through his
+tissue-paper-like frame.
+
+"I wouldn't," said Toby, in alarm; "you may break him."
+
+"Don't you get frightened," said Mrs. Treat, turning her husband
+completely over, and still continuing the drumming process. "He's often
+taken this way; he's such a glutton that he'd try to swallow the turkey
+whole if he could get it in his mouth, an' he's so thin that 'most
+anything sticks in his throat."
+
+"I should think you'd break him all up," said Toby, apologetically, as
+he resumed his seat at the table; "he don't look as if he could stand
+very much of that sort of thing."
+
+But apparently Mr. Treat could stand very much more than Toby gave him
+credit for, because at this juncture he stopped coughing, and his face
+was fast assuming its natural hue.
+
+His attentive wife, seeing that he had ceased struggling, pulled him up
+above the chair, and sat him down with a force that threatened to snap
+his very head off.
+
+"There!" she said, as he wheezed a little from the effects of the shock;
+"now see if you can behave yourself, an' chew your meat as you ought to.
+One of these days when you're alone you'll try that game, and that'll be
+the last of you."
+
+"If he'd try to do one of my tricks long enough, he'd get so that there
+wouldn't hardly anything choke him," the sword-swallower ventured to
+suggest, mildly, as he wiped a small stream of cranberry-sauce from his
+chin, and laid a well-polished turkey bone by the side of his plate.
+
+"I'd like to see him try it!" said the fat lady, with just a shade of
+anger in her voice. Then turning toward her husband she said,
+emphatically, "Samuel, don't you ever let me catch you swallowing a
+sword!"
+
+"I won't, my love, I won't; and I will try to chew my meat more,"
+replied the very thin glutton, in a feeble tone.
+
+Toby thought that perhaps the skeleton might keep the first part of that
+promise, but he was not quite sure about the last.
+
+It required no little coaxing on the part of both Toby and Mrs. Treat to
+induce Mr. Stubbs to come down from his lofty perch; but the task was
+accomplished at last, and by the gift of a very large doughnut he was
+induced to resume his seat at the table.
+
+The time had now come when the duties of a host, in his own peculiar way
+of viewing them, devolved upon Mr. Treat, and he said, as he pushed his
+chair back a short distance from the table, and tried to polish the
+front of his vest with his napkin:
+
+"I don't want this fact lost sight of, because it is an important one.
+Every one must remember that we have gathered here to meet and become
+better acquainted with the latest and best addition to this circus, Mr.
+Toby Tyler."
+
+Poor Toby! As the company all looked directly at him, and Mrs. Treat
+nodded her enormous head energetically, as if to say that she agreed
+exactly with her husband, the poor boy's face grew very red, and the
+squash pie lost its flavor.
+
+"Although Mr. Tyler may not be exactly one of us, owing to the fact that
+he does not belong to the profession, but is only one of the adjuncts to
+it, so to speak," continued the skeleton, in a voice which was fast
+being raised to its highest pitch, "we feel proud, after his exploits at
+the time of the accident, to have him with us, and gladly welcome him
+now, through the medium of this little feast prepared by my Lilly."
+
+Here the Albino Children nodded their heads in approval, the
+sword-swallower gave a little grunt of assent, and thus encouraged, the
+skeleton proceeded:
+
+"I feel, when I say that we like and admire Mr. Tyler, all present will
+agree with me, and all would like to hear him say a word for himself."
+
+The skeleton seemed to have expressed the views of all present
+remarkably well, judging from their expressions of pleasure and assent,
+and all waited for the honored guest to speak.
+
+Toby knew that he must say something, but he couldn't think of a single
+thing; he tried over and over again to call to his mind something which
+he had read as to how people acted and what they said when they were
+expected to speak at a dinner table, but his thoughts refused to go back
+for him, and the silence was actually becoming painful. Finally, and by
+the greatest effort, he managed to say, with a very perceptible stammer,
+and while his face was growing very red:
+
+"I know I ought to say something to pay for this big dinner that you
+said was gotten up for me, but I don't know what to say, unless to thank
+you for it. You see I hain't big enough to say much, as Uncle Dan'l
+says, I don't amount to very much 'cept for eatin', an' I guess he's
+right. You're all real good to me, an' when I get to be a man, I'll try
+to do as much for you."
+
+[Illustration: TOBY SITS DOWN ON MR. STUBBS.]
+
+Toby had arisen to his feet when he began to make his speech, and while
+he was speaking, Mr. Stubbs had crawled over into his chair. When he
+finished, he sat down again without looking behind him, and of course
+sat plump on the monkey. There was a loud outcry from Mr. Stubbs, a
+little frightened noise from Toby, an instant's scrambling, and then
+boy, monkey, and chair tumbled off the platform, landing on the ground
+in an indescribable mass, from which the monkey extricated himself more
+quickly than Toby could, and again took refuge on the top of the tent
+pole.
+
+Of course all the guests ran to Toby's assistance; and while the fat
+woman poked him all over to see that none of his bones were broken, the
+skeleton brushed the dirt from his clothes.
+
+All this time the monkey screamed, yelled, and danced around on the tent
+pole and ropes as if his feelings had received a shock from which he
+could never recover.
+
+"I didn't mean to end it up that way, but it was Mr. Stubbs's fault,"
+said Toby, as soon as quiet had been restored, and the guests, with the
+exception of the monkey, were seated at the table once more.
+
+"Of course you didn't," said Mrs. Treat, in a kindly tone; "but don't
+you feel bad about it one bit, for you ought to thank your lucky stars
+that you didn't break any of your bones."
+
+"I s'pose I had," said Toby, soberly, as he looked back at the scene of
+his disaster, and then up at the chattering monkey that had caused all
+the trouble.
+
+Shortly after this, Mr. Stubbs having again been coaxed down from his
+lofty position, Toby took his departure, promising to call as often
+during the week as he could get away from his exacting employers.
+
+Just outside the tent he met old Ben, who said, as he showed signs of
+indulging in another of his internal laughing spells,
+
+"Hello! has the skeleton an' his lily of a wife been givin' a blow-out
+to you too?"
+
+"They invited me in there to dinner," said Toby, modestly.
+
+"Of course they did, of course they did," replied Ben, with a chuckle;
+"they carries a cookin'-stove along with 'em, so's they can give these
+little spreads whenever we stay over a day in a place. Oh, I've been
+there!"
+
+"And did they ask you to make a speech?"
+
+"Of course. Did they try it on you?"
+
+"Yes," said Toby, mournfully, "an' I tumbled off the platform when I got
+through."
+
+"I didn't do exactly that," replied Ben, thoughtfully; "but I s'pose you
+got too much steam on, seein' 's how it was likely your first speech.
+Now you'd better go into the tent an' try to get a little sleep, 'cause
+we've got a long ride to-night over a rough road, an' you won't get
+more'n a cat-nap all night."
+
+"But where are you going?" asked Toby, as he shifted Mr. Stubbs over to
+his other shoulder, preparatory to following his friend's advice.
+
+"I'm goin' to church," said Ben, and then Toby noticed for the first
+time that the old driver had made some attempt at dressing up. "I've
+been with the circus, man an' boy, for nigh to forty years, an' I allus
+go to meetin' once on Sunday. It's somethin' I promised my old mother I
+would do, an' I hain't broke my promise yet."
+
+"Why don't you take me with you?" asked Toby, wistfully, as he thought
+of the little church on the hill at home, and wished--oh, so
+earnestly!--that he was there then, even at the risk of being thumped on
+the head with Uncle Daniel's book.
+
+"If I'd seen you this mornin', I would," said Ben; "but now you must try
+to bottle up some sleep agin to-night, an' next Sunday I'll take you."
+
+With these words old Ben started off, and Toby proceeded to carry out
+his wishes, although he rather doubted the possibility of "bottling up"
+any sleep that afternoon.
+
+He lay down on the top of the wagon, after having put Mr. Stubbs inside
+with the others of his tribe, and in a very few moments the boy was
+sound asleep, dreaming of a dinner party at which Mr. Stubbs made a
+speech, and he scampered up and down the tent pole.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+STANLEY'S GREAT JOURNEY.
+
+BY WILLIAM L. ALDEN.
+
+
+The great journey of Mr. Henry M. Stanley, in which he crossed the
+continent of Africa, was both the longest and the most important journey
+that any African traveller has made. Both Dr. Livingstone and Commander
+Cameron had already crossed Africa, but they crossed it by a more
+southerly and much shorter path than that taken by the American
+traveller. They suffered a great deal from fever and weariness and the
+terrible heat; but Mr. Stanley, in addition to these miseries, was
+compelled to fight his way through tribe after tribe of blood-thirsty
+cannibals, and to follow the course of a dangerous river, full of
+rapids, in a frail boat. It is almost a miracle that he ever lived to
+reach the civilized world; and had he not been as prudent and skillful
+as he was brave and persevering, he never would have finished his
+journey.
+
+Mr. Stanley started from Zanzibar--a town on the east coast of
+Africa--in November, 1874, with three young Englishmen and three hundred
+and fifty-three native Africans. Only a few of these were armed with
+rifles, for most of them were porters. In Africa, calico and beads are
+used for money, and as a traveller must have plenty of these with him,
+he has to employ a great many porters. You will ask why he does not have
+horses or oxen to carry his goods. The reason is that there is an insect
+in Africa, called the tsetse, the bite of which kills all animals of
+burden, so that travellers have to hire natives to carry all their
+property on their heads.
+
+Stanley marched first to Lake Victoria--a lake discovered by Captain
+Speke in 1858, and which is one of the sources of the Nile. After
+sailing all around this lake in a boat which was made for him in
+England, and was built so that it could be taken apart and carried by
+the porters, he went to another great lake, discovered by Captain Burton
+in 1856, and called Lake Tanganyika. This he also circumnavigated in his
+boat, and discovered that it had no outlet. West of Lake Tanganyika Dr.
+Livingstone had discovered a great river, which he thought might be the
+Congo. Commander Cameron had also seen this river, and both of them
+wanted to descend it to its mouth, but they thought it would be
+impossible to make their way through the fierce savages who live on its
+banks.
+
+When Stanley reached this great river, two of the young Englishmen that
+had started with him, Fred Barton and Edward Pocock, had already died of
+the deadly African fever, and so many of his other men had died, or
+deserted, or been killed, that he had only one white man, Frank Pocock,
+and one hundred and forty-nine natives--some of whom were women--who
+were willing to join him in a voyage down the river. He bought a number
+of canoes, and with these and his English boat, the _Lady Alice_, began
+his voyage. He had to fight almost constant battles with the natives,
+and the great river, with its swift current, that swept many of his
+canoes over the rapids, was almost as dangerous as the savages. In one
+of these rapids poor Frank Pocock was drowned, and when, after suffering
+the most terrible hardships, Stanley reached the Portuguese settlement
+near the mouth of the Congo, he had only one hundred and fifteen
+followers left, and these, like himself, were nearly dead from
+starvation, disease, and hardship.
+
+One day Mr. Stanley was sailing on Lake Victoria in the _Lady Alice_
+with eleven natives, and being out of provisions, and very hungry, they
+rowed toward the shore, intending to land and buy food. About two
+hundred savages, armed with spears and bows and arrows, gathered to meet
+them. Stanley's men called to them, and told them they were friends, and
+wanted to buy food. The savages seemed to be peaceful, but as soon as
+the boat touched the shore, they seized it, and dragged it twenty yards
+up the beach, with Mr. Stanley sitting in it.
+
+Then they swarmed around him, yelling and flourishing their clubs and
+spears. Many of them took aim at Stanley with their arrows; but he told
+his men to speak gently to them, and to convince them that they were
+friends. They demanded calico and beads, and Stanley gave them all they
+asked. Then they seized the boat's oars, and carried them off; but still
+the traveller made no resistance. The crowd constantly increased, until
+there were at least three hundred of the savages, all armed and painted
+for battle. They abused Stanley and his men, telling them they were
+cowards, and that they were going to kill them, and twenty times Mr.
+Stanley thought his last moment had come. Finally he told one of his men
+to go a little distance away from the boat, and to engage the attention
+of the savages, while the rest of them should take hold of the boat on
+each side, and at the word of command try to launch it. They did so; but
+the savages saw the boat moving, and rushed to the water's edge just as
+she glided into the lake. The man who had tried to attract the attention
+of the wretches while the boat was launched sprang into the water after
+her, and a savage was just on the point of spearing him, when Stanley
+fired, and saved his follower's life by shooting the spear-man. The men
+now climbed into the boat, and tearing up the bottom boards, tried to
+paddle with them away from the shore, while Stanley threatened the
+savages with his gun, and for a few moments kept them at a distance.
+They soon plucked up courage, however, and springing into their canoes,
+paddled after the _Lady Alice_. There was no escape except by driving
+the enemy back, and Mr. Stanley, with four shots from his elephant
+rifle, loaded with explosive balls, sunk two of the canoes, and killed
+five men, after which the others retreated, and the _Lady Alice_, after
+paddling all night, and driving before a heavy gale all the next day and
+all the next night, in imminent peril of sinking, brought her exhausted
+crew to an uninhabited island, seventy-six hours after the fight.
+Instead of showing a hard-hearted readiness to fire on the poor
+Africans, in this, as in all his other fights, Stanley showed the most
+wonderful self-control, and only used his rifle when he had to choose
+between being killed, together with his men, and firing on his brutal
+foes.
+
+[Illustration: STANLEY ATTACKED BY THE NATIVES.]
+
+The greater part of Stanley's battles were fought while descending the
+Congo. Sometimes the natives came out in canoes and attacked him on the
+river, and sometimes they attacked him while he was camping on the
+shore. Once fifty-four canoes, carrying at least two thousand men, were
+successfully beaten off in a sharp battle. At night the camp had to be
+protected by a stockade made of brush-wood; and often the tired
+explorer, after paddling all day, had to watch all night to repel the
+constant attacks of the enemy. Sometimes, when they were dragging the
+canoes through the forest around the rapids, the woods would suddenly be
+alive with cannibals who had been lying in ambush. Armed with clubs and
+spears and poisoned arrows, they would rush on Stanley and his handful
+of men, shouting that they would eat the strangers for dinner. But
+whether there were a hundred or a thousand of them, Stanley always
+managed to drive them back. It was his cool courage, quite as much as
+the rifles of his men, which gave him the victory. Had he not been a man
+born to command, he could never have inspired his men with courage to
+face such swarms of savages; and had he not been as brave a man as ever
+lived, he could never have fought hand to hand with a score of hungry
+cannibals all at once, and driven them back in terror of the dauntless
+white man.
+
+Mr. Stanley has furnished a splendid example of what patience,
+perseverance, and courage can accomplish in the face of the most
+formidable obstacles, and he will always be celebrated as one of the
+greatest explorers the world has ever known.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "PERSEVERANCE."]
+
+
+
+
+A STRANGE VALENTINE.
+
+BY KATE McD. R.
+
+
+"When _will_ you be ready to go down street for our valentines, Lilla?"
+asked Margie Goold, as she stood listlessly at the window watching the
+passers-by. "You said you'd go half an hour ago, and I've been waiting
+ever since."
+
+But Lilla was deep in her arithmetic, and apparently unconscious that
+Margie had asked any question, until suddenly she jumped up, and
+throwing some papers well covered with figures into the grate,
+exclaimed,
+
+"I would have been ready long ago had it not been for that horrid D."
+
+"Why, Lilla Goold, you ought to be ashamed to call D. _horrid_," cried
+little Fay, indignantly, from her seat on the rug, where she was giving
+Fido a lesson in making believe dead.
+
+"Yes, indeed, you ought," seconded Margie. "Mamma was saying just a day
+or two ago that we must respect D., and remember what a faithful nurse
+she was to all of us. And you, of all others, to call her names, when
+she sat up night after night with you when you were so ill! And anyway
+she has only come to bring the clothes home, and will probably go right
+away again, as she always does."
+
+Lilla interrupted Margie's praise of their old nurse by throwing herself
+on the sofa and laughing immoderately.
+
+Margie looked indignant, Fay puzzled, while Fido came quickly to life
+and barked vociferously.
+
+"There! even Fido resents having D. so talked about," cried Margie,
+triumphantly.
+
+"I never meant _Dinah_ at all," laughingly protested Lilla. "She is a
+dear old soul. I mean the D in my example, who is digging a ditch with
+A, B, and C, and I'm to find out how long it takes them, and then how
+much faster D works than A. I get along finely until D appears, and then
+I don't know how to go on."
+
+"Oh," said Margie, in a relieved tone; "but wasn't it strange that just
+as you said something about D, old nurse D. came across the street with
+the washing, and of course I thought you meant her. Here she comes out
+again, and the poor thing can hardly stand, it is so slippery.
+Mamma"--as Mrs. Goold entered the room--"why does D. bring the clothes
+still? I should think Rosa would offer to come with them, instead of
+sending her old aunt out. Why, just see! she can scarcely stand."
+
+"Rosa does not send her, dearie," said Mrs. Goold, joining her little
+girls at the window, "for she told me she thought it dangerous for Dinah
+to be out in the winter so unprepared as she is, but that Dinah
+_persists_ in coming, no matter what the weather, that she may inquire
+_herself_ about 'de chillen.'"
+
+"Good old D.," said Fay, using the name that Lilla--the first baby--had
+given Dinah, and both the others had adopted in their turn. "Why,
+mamma," continued the little one, straining her eyes to catch a glimpse
+of Dinah's departing figure, "how will she ever get home? There! good!
+Rosa has met her. I'm so glad!"
+
+"D. needs a pair of that new kind of rubbers that we stopped to look at
+to-day in Mr. Brooks's store window," said Lilla, putting away her
+books, "and then she could get along finely."
+
+"Let's get her a pair," exclaimed the wide-awake Margie, "when we go for
+our valentines. Will you give us the money, mamma? I think the price is
+a dollar."
+
+"I'll give twenty-five cents toward it," answered Mrs. Goold, as she
+laid some money on the table, and left the room.
+
+"Of course mamma means by _that_ that we ought to give the rest. What do
+you say to getting the rubbers, instead of valentines for Lou and Jess?"
+suggested Margie.
+
+"Then they won't send us any. They never do, you know, until they get
+ours."
+
+"That's so; and Madge Hammond proposed to-day that all the girls bring
+their valentines to school Monday, and we want to have as many as we
+possibly can, and here"--spreading them out upon the table as she
+spoke--"so far I've got only three."
+
+Fay's brown eyes were opening wider and wider as she listened. "Papa
+gave me a lot of pennies to send a vantaline to Cousin Daisy, but I'd
+rather send a rubber vantaline to Dinah."
+
+"You little darling!" cried Lilla, kissing her, "you're a lesson to us."
+Then, turning to Margie: "I guess if baby can give _her_ money, _we_
+can. Let's go right down for the rubbers, and send them in valentine
+style, as Fay proposes. Yes, of course Fay shall go too," she added,
+noticing the large eyes turned questioningly to hers.
+
+About an hour later they rushed into the sitting-room, exclaiming,
+"We've got them, and they're beauties--lined throughout, and come over
+the ankles."
+
+"How did you know the size?" inquired Mrs. Goold, after she had duly
+admired them.
+
+"The most fortunate thing in the world," answered Margie, "was our
+meeting Rosa just as we were going into the store, and after she had
+promised not to breathe a syllable to D., we told her the plan, took her
+into the store with us, and she selected the rubbers."
+
+And as Margie paused, Lilla went on: "Rosa says they're just the thing,
+and she's coming over to-night to tell us how D. likes them. Mr. Brooks
+waited on us himself at first, and looked crosser than a bear. He had
+his green glasses on, and stared at us so hard that I was glad when a
+gentleman came in to see him, and one of the clerks took his place."
+
+"And the clerk," put in Margie, "kept telling us that the rubbers were
+the latest thing in the market, and I laughed right out at the thought
+of D.'s knowing or caring whether they were in style."
+
+"Then," resumed Lilla, "as we were leaving the store, Mr. Brooks stepped
+forward, and said, in the sternest tone, to Rosa--you know she used to
+work at his house--'I wish you would wait a few moments, Rosa; I desire
+to speak to you;' so we left her there."
+
+It was a picture not soon to be forgotten that met Mr. Goold's gaze as
+he came upon the little group in the cozy sitting-room, lighted only by
+the bright coals in the grate.
+
+"Still talking valentines?" he asked, kissing mamma, and lifting Fay
+from her arms to his own. Then sitting down, and putting her on his
+knee, he questioned, "Well, how about them?"
+
+Lilla and Margie then began an account of buying Dinah's rubber shoes,
+and when they were brought for his inspection, to their great delight he
+dropped a piece of money in each.
+
+"Now Rosa will have a s'prise too," cried Fay, clapping her hands.
+
+Supper over, the sleigh came round, and soon the package was left at
+Dinah's door, and the children were home again.
+
+"Now I must try that example once more," announced Lilla, as she bent
+over her book. Then, after a few moments' study, "Oh! I see--I have it!"
+she cried, triumphantly: "D works just twice as fast as A."
+
+"D must have worn a pair of stylish rubbers," laughed Margie. "Probably
+A couldn't stand as firmly in the ditch."
+
+While they were laughing at Margie's explanation, Jane came to the door
+with some valentines, which excited the usual amount of wonderment.
+
+"I had no idea we'd get so many," said Lilla, in a satisfied, tone; "I
+don't believe Madge can be ahead of us."
+
+Another knock, and Rosa presented herself with a "Can I come in?" which
+showed all her beautiful teeth. The children made a rush for the young
+colored girl, and overwhelmed her with questions.
+
+"Oh, chillen, she _was_ so pleased, and so berry thankful! She wanted to
+come right over and show dem to you all, but I 'suaded her to wait till
+mornin'." And then Rosa went on to say what a perfect fit the rubbers
+were, and how Dinah was singing around, as happy as could be, and in a
+hurry for morning, that she might wear them.
+
+"Does she s'pect who sent 'em?" asked Fay.
+
+"I's 'fraid she does, honey, 'cause when she went to try dem on, some
+money fell out, an' I said: 'Dem careless chillen! I's feared Miss
+Goold's bringin' dem up to tink money grows on bushes'; an' Aunt Dinah
+said, 'Did dey gib 'em?' so I jest said, 'I'll take de money dar fust,
+anyway, an' see,'" and Rosa held up two silver pieces, saying, "Who
+lost, I's found?"
+
+"Why, Rosa, it's your s'prise," explained Fay--"your vantaline," at
+which Rosa's astonishment and delight knew no bounds.
+
+"Altogether it's been the nicest Valentine's Day we've ever had," Lilla
+and Margie agreed, as they were getting ready for bed, and Fay said,
+drowsily, from her crib, "I shouldn't think you'd care, _now_, if Madge
+Hammond"--and then the words came slower and slower, "should
+bring--twenty--rubbers--in--a--ditch."
+
+Jane came into the nursery next morning, saying, "There is a valentine
+at each of your plates this morning;" but not another word would she say
+about them.
+
+You may be sure no one was late to breakfast _that_ morning, and I wish
+you could have seen how three expectant faces lit up as each spied a
+tiny basket of flowers at her plate.
+
+"When _did_ they come?" "Who _could_ have sent them?" "Will they keep
+fresh till Monday?"
+
+"Wait a minute," said papa, feeling for his pencil. "I must write down
+all these questions. Now I'm ready for number four."
+
+"Don't tease us, papa," pleaded Margie. "Just answer what we've asked
+already."
+
+"Agreed: firstly, they came last night, and mamma thought it best not to
+wake you; secondly, Mr. Brooks sent them."
+
+"Mr. Brooks!" all in chorus.
+
+"Yes, he's a kind of bear, I heard yesterday," said papa.
+
+Lilla looked ashamed.
+
+"Thirdly, they _will_ keep till Monday, if good care is taken."
+
+"Then we can carry them to school," joyfully exclaimed Lilla.
+
+"And what do you think of Mr. Brooks now?" asked mamma.
+
+"Why, I don't know _what_ to think, I'm so surprised. Are you certain
+they're from him?"
+
+"I judge so, from what Rosa told me last night. Mr. Brooks asked her who
+you were, and when she told him you were going to send the rubbers as a
+valentine to Dinah, he said, 'I believe I'll write down their names:
+"One good turn deserves another."' And more than that, Rosa says he is
+one of the kindest men she ever knew, and far from being as cross as he
+looks."
+
+"I think," said Lilla, "I shall remember after this lesson to 'judge not
+by appearances.'"
+
+"I guess I'll keep account of all the proverbs about Mr. Brooks," said
+Margie, and reaching mischievously for papa's pencil, she wrote:
+
+  "Before you say 'tis chill December,
+  Know all the signs of mild September."
+
+
+
+
+  Said Blackbird to Miss Yellow-Bird:
+    "How bright the sun does shine!
+  And you look sweet. Oh, pray consent
+    To be my Valentine!"
+  "I really can't," said Yellow-Bird;
+    "I don't to you incline;
+  I am too blonde--indeed, I am--
+    To be your Valentine."
+
+
+
+
+[Begun in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 66, February 1.]
+
+PHIL'S FAIRIES.
+
+BY MRS. W. J. HAYS,
+
+AUTHOR OF "PRINCESS IDLEWAYS," ETC.
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+PHIL HAS A VISITOR.
+
+
+Phil was alone, as indeed he was always, except on Sundays, or the few
+half-holidays that came to Lisa. Once in a while Lisa begged off, or
+paid another woman for doing an extra share of work in her place, if
+Phil was really too ill for her to leave him. The hot sun was pouring
+into the garret room, though a green paper shade made it less blinding,
+and Phil was lying back in a rocking-chair, wrapped in a shawl. On a
+small table beside him were some loose pictures from a newspaper, a
+pencil or two, and an old sketch-book, a pitcher of water, and an empty
+plate.
+
+The boy opened his closed eyes as Joe came in, after knocking, and
+looked surprised.
+
+"Why, Joe, what is the matter?" he asked. "You do not come twice a day
+very often."
+
+"No," said Joe, "nor are you always a-sufferin' as you was this mornin'.
+I've come to know how you are, and to bring you _that_," said he,
+triumphantly putting the nosegay before the child's eyes.
+
+The boy nearly snatched the flowers out of Joe's hand in his eagerness
+to get them, and putting them to his face, he kissed them in his
+delight.
+
+"Oh, Joe dear, I am so much obliged! Oh, you darling, lovely flowers,
+how sweet you are! how delicious you smell! I never saw anything more
+beautiful. Where did they come from, Joe?"
+
+"Ah, you can't guess, I reckon."
+
+"No, of course not; they are so sweet, so perfect, they take all my pain
+away; and I have been nearly smothered with the heat to-day. Just see
+how cool they look, as if they had just been picked."
+
+"It's a pity the one who sent 'em can't hear ye. Shall I bring her in?"
+
+"Who, Joe--who do you mean?"
+
+"Joe means me," said a soft voice; "I sent them to you, and I am Miss
+Rachel Schuyler, an old friend of Joe's. I want to know you, Phil, and
+see if I can not do something for that pain I hear you suffer so much
+with. Shall I put the flowers in water, so that they will last a little
+longer? Ah, no, you want to hold them, and breathe their sweet
+fragrance."
+
+Miss Schuyler had opened the door so gently, and appeared so entirely at
+home, that Phil took her visit quite as a matter of course, and though
+astonished, was not at all flurried. He fastened his searching gaze upon
+her, over the flowers, which he held close to his lips, and made up his
+mind what to say. At last, after deliberating, he said, simply, "I thank
+you very much." His thoughts ran this way: "She is a real lady, a kind,
+lovely woman; she has on a nice dress--nicer than Lisa's; she has little
+hands, and what a soft, pleasant voice! I wonder if my mother looked
+like her?"
+
+Miss Schuyler's thoughts were very pitiful. She was much moved by the
+pale little face and brilliant eyes, the pleased, shy expression, the
+air of refinement, and the very evident pain and poverty. She could not
+say much, and to hide her agitation, took up the sketch-book, saying,
+"May I look in this, please?"
+
+Phil nodded, still over the flowers.
+
+As the leaves were opened, one after the other, Miss Schuyler became
+still more interested. The sketches were simply rude copies of newspaper
+pictures, but there was no doubt of the taste and talent that had
+directed their pencilling.
+
+"Have you ever had any teaching, Phil?" she asked.
+
+"No, ma'am," answered Joe for Phil, thinking he might be bashful. "He
+hasn't had no larnin' nor teachin' of anythin'; but it is what he wants,
+poor chile, and he often asks me things I can't answer for want of not
+knowin' nuthin' myself."
+
+"And what is this?" said Miss Schuyler, touching the box with violin
+strings across it, which was on a chair beside her.
+
+"Please don't touch it," answered Phil, anxiously; then fearing he had
+been rude, added: "It is my harp, and I am so afraid, if it is handled,
+that the fairies will never dance on it again. You ought to hear what
+lovely music comes out of it when the wind blows."
+
+Phil spoke as if fairies were his particular friends. Miss Schuyler
+looked at him pitifully, thinking him a little light-headed. Joe nodded,
+and looked wise, as much as to say, "I told you so."
+
+Just then Phil's pain came on again, and it was as much as he could do
+not to scream; but Miss Rachel saw the pallor of his face, and turning
+to Joe, asked:
+
+"Does he have a doctor? Is anything done for him?"
+
+"Nuthin', Miss Rachel, that I knows of. I never knew of his havin' a
+doctor."
+
+[Illustration: PHIL AND MISS SCHUYLER.]
+
+"Poor child!" said Miss Rachel, smoothing his forehead, and fanning him.
+Then she tucked a pillow behind him, and did all so gently that Phil
+took her hand and kissed it--it eased his pain so to have just these
+little things done for him. Then she poured a little of her cordial in a
+glass with some water, and he thought he had never tasted anything so
+refreshing. She sent Joe after some ice, and spreading her napkins out
+on Phil's table, set all her little store of dainties before him,
+tempting the child to eat in spite of his pain.
+
+Phil thought it was all the fairies' doing and not Joe's--poor pleased
+Joe--who looked on with a radiant face of delight. Phil would not eat
+unless Joe took one of his cakes, so the old fellow munched one to
+please him.
+
+Meanwhile Miss Schuyler gazed at the boy with more and more interest; a
+something she could hardly define attracted her. At first it had been
+his suffering and poverty, for her heart was tender, and she was always
+doing kind deeds; but now as she looked at him she saw in his face a
+likeness to some one she had loved, the look of an old and familiar
+friend, a look also of thought and ability which only needed fostering
+to make of Phil a person of great use in the world--one who might be a
+leader rather than a follower in the path of industry and usefulness.
+The grateful little kiss on her hand had gone deeply into her heart.
+Phil must no longer be left alone: he must have good food and medical
+care and fresh air, and Lisa must be consulted as to how these things
+should be gained. So while Phil nibbled at the good things, and Joe
+chuckled and talked, half to himself and half to Phil, Miss Schuyler
+wrote a note to Lisa, asking her to come and see her that evening, if
+convenient, explaining how her interest had been aroused in Phil, and
+that she wanted to know more about him, and wanted to help him, and was
+sure she could make his life more comfortable, and that Lisa must take
+her interference kindly, for it was offered in a loving spirit. Then she
+folded the note, and gave it to Phil for Lisa, and arranging all his
+little comforts about him, bade him good-by.
+
+Phil thought her face like that of an angel's when she stooped to kiss
+him; and after Joe, too, had hobbled off, promising to come again soon
+with his violin, he took up his pencil, and tried to sketch Miss
+Schuyler. Face after face was drawn, but none to his taste: first the
+nose was crooked, then the eyes were too small, then the mouth would be
+twisted, and just as Lisa came in, with a tired and flushed face, he
+threw his pencil away, and began to sob.
+
+"Why, my dear Phil," said Lisa, in surprise, "are you so very miserable
+to-night?"
+
+"No, I am not miserable at all," said Phil, between his tears; "that is,
+I have had pain enough, but I have had such a lovely visitor!--Joe
+brought her--and I wanted to make a little picture of her, so that you
+could see what she looked like; and I can not. Oh dear! I wish I could
+ever do anything!"
+
+"Ah, you are tired; drink this nice milk, and you will be better."
+
+"I have had delicious things to eat, and I saved some for you, Lisa.
+Look;" and he showed her the little parcel of cakes Miss Schuyler had
+left. "And see the big piece of ice in my glass."
+
+"Some one has been kind to my boy."
+
+"Yes; and here is a note for you; and you must dress up, Lisa, when you
+go to see our new friend."
+
+Lisa looked down at her shabby garments; they were all she had, but she
+did not tell Phil that her only black silk had been sold long ago. She
+read the note, and her face brightened. There seemed a chance of better
+things for Phil.
+
+"I will go to-night, if you can spare me."
+
+"Not till you have rested, Lisa; and you must drink all that milk your
+own self. Did you ever hear of Miss Schuyler?"
+
+"I don't know," said Lisa, meditating; "the name is not strange to me.
+But there used to be so many visitors at your father's house, Phil dear,
+that I can not be sure."
+
+"She is so nice and tender and kind-- Have you had a tiresome day,
+Lisa?" added Phil, quickly, fearing Lisa might think herself neglected
+in his eager praise of the new friend.
+
+"Yes, rather; but I can go. So Joe brought her here?"
+
+"Yes; and see these flowers--yes, you must have some. Put them in your
+belt, Lisa."
+
+"Oh, flowers don't suit my old clothes, child; keep them yourself, dear.
+Well, it is a long lane that has no turning," she said, half to herself
+and half to Phil. "Perhaps God has sent us Miss Schuyler to do for you
+what I have not been able to; but I have tried--he knows I have."
+
+"And I know it too, dear Lisa," said Phil, pulling her down to him, and
+throwing both arms around her. "No one could be kinder, Lisa; and I love
+this old garret room, just because it is your home and mine. Now get me
+my harp, and when you have put it in the window, you can go; and I will
+try not to have any pain, so that you won't have to rub me to-night."
+
+"Dear child!" was all Lisa could say, as she did what he asked her to
+do, and then left him alone.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+THE END OF MY MONKEY.
+
+BY JIMMY BROWN.
+
+
+I haven't any monkey now, and I don't care what becomes of me. His loss
+was an awful blow, and I never expect to recover from it. I am a crushed
+boy, and when the grown folks find what their conduct has done to me,
+they will wish they had done differently.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It was on a Tuesday that I got the monkey, and by Thursday everybody
+began to treat him coldly. It began with my littlest sister. Jocko took
+her doll away, and climbed up to the top of the door with it, where he
+sat and pulled it to pieces, and tried its clothes on, only they
+wouldn't fit him, while sister, who is nothing but a little girl, stood
+and howled as if she was being killed. This made mother begin to dislike
+the monkey, and she said that if his conduct was such, he couldn't stay
+in her house. I call this unkind, for the monkey was invited into the
+house, and I've been told we must bear with visitors.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A little while afterward, while mother was talking to Susan on the front
+piazza, she heard the sewing-machine up stairs, and said, "Well I never
+that cook has the impudence to be sewing on my machine without ever
+asking leave." So she ran up stairs, and found that Jocko was working
+the machine like mad. He'd taken Sue's nightgown and father's black coat
+and a lot of stockings, and shoved them all under the needle, and was
+sewing them all together. Mother boxed his ears, and then she and Sue
+sat down and worked all the morning trying to unsew the things with the
+scissors.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They had to give it up after a while, and the things are sewed together
+yet, like a man and wife, which no man can put asunder. All this made my
+mother more cool toward the monkey than ever, and I heard her call him a
+nasty little beast.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The next day was Sunday, and as Sue was sitting in the hall waiting for
+mother to go to church with her, Jocko gets up on her chair, and pulls
+the feathers out of her bonnet. He thought he was doing right, for he
+had seen the cook pulling the feathers off of the chickens, but Sue
+called him dreadful names, and said that when father came home, either
+she or that monkey would leave the house.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Father came home early Monday, and seemed quite pleased with the monkey.
+He said it was an interesting study, and he told Susan that he hoped
+that she would be contented with fewer beaux, now that there was a
+monkey constantly in the house. In a little while father caught Jocko
+lathering himself with the mucilage brush, and with a kitchen knife all
+ready to shave himself. He just laughed at the monkey, and told me to
+take good care of him, and not let him hurt himself. Of course I was
+dreadfully pleased to find that father liked Jocko, and I knew it was
+because he was a man, and had more sense than girls. But I was only
+deceiving myself and leaning on a broken weed. That very evening when
+father went into his study after supper he found Jocko on his desk. He
+had torn all his papers to pieces, except a splendid new map, and that
+he was covering with ink, and making believe that he was writing a
+President's Message about the Panama Canal. Father was just raging. He
+took Jocko by the scruff of the neck, locked him in the closet, and sent
+him away by express the next morning to a man in the city, with orders
+to sell him.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The express-man afterward told Mr. Travers that the monkey pretty nearly
+killed everybody on the train, for he got hold of the signal cord and
+pulled it, and the engineer thought it was the conductor, and stopped
+the train, and another train just behind it came within an inch of
+running into it and smashing it to pieces. Jocko did the same thing
+three times before they found out what was the matter, and tied him up
+so that he couldn't reach the cord. Oh, he was just beautiful! But I
+shall never see him again, and Mr. Travers says that it's all right, and
+that I'm monkey enough for one house. That's because Sue has been saying
+things against the monkey to him; but never mind.
+
+First my dog went, and now my monkey has gone. It seems as if everything
+that is beautiful must disappear. Very likely I shall go next, and when
+I am gone, let them find the dog and the monkey, and bury us together.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.
+
+
+  ROMA, ON THE RIO GRANDE, TEXAS,
+  _December_ 31, 1880.
+
+     Early this morning, just as we were all dressed, a great noise was
+     heard on the stairs; it was Morton, who was shouting, "Oh, papa,
+     the ground is all over white, and the orange-tree has a great white
+     cap on its head!"
+
+      We all knew at once that it was snow, which we children had heard
+      and read so much about, but had never seen.
+
+      We all rushed out, and found the air full of little feathers, and
+      everything dazzling white. We went wild over it. Papa chased our
+      two little brothers, washed their faces with snow, and showed them
+      how to make snow-balls, and after doing so, got pelted by his
+      boys, and girls too, for that matter, for we all took part. Two
+      inches of snow had fallen. The air was still and calm. And at last
+      we thought of the snow crystals we had read about in HARPER'S
+      YOUNG PEOPLE, and asked papa to show them to us. He got a piece of
+      black cloth, and we spread it on the top of a box in the yard, and
+      recognized nearly all of the forms we had seen in the
+      illustration. Little Northern readers will say, "Why such a fuss
+      about two inches of snow?" But they must remember we had never
+      seen it before, and I do not believe they ever saw an orange-tree
+      loaded with snow, and its golden fruit shining out from a setting
+      of frosted silver and deep green leaves. I know they never saw
+      anything so beautiful in their lives.
+
+      But I forgot--I must tell you who I am, or rather who we are. We
+      are seven sisters and brothers. Our two elder sisters are married,
+      and have homes of their own. I am the youngest of the girls, and
+      the two boys are the youngest of the family. My mother is a
+      Mexican lady, and father is an American from Ohio. He has lived in
+      this country thirty years. One sister, one brother, and myself
+      were born in Mexico, and Spanish is our mother-tongue, but we read
+      and understand YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+  CLOTILDE C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  THYATIRA, MISSISSIPPI.
+
+     I have six goats. Two of them I work in a little wagon. When I can
+     get some little boys to help me, it is royal fun to drive them.
+
+      I do not go to school, as we have none near by, and I have no one
+      to go with me. I had three sweet little sisters and one little
+      brother, but they all died. I would love to tell you a great deal
+      about them, but this is my first letter to the Post-office Box,
+      and I am afraid it will be too long, and go into that much-dreaded
+      waste basket. I will be nine years old the 17th of February.
+
+      It is awfully cold here this winter.
+
+  JACK C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.
+
+     I thought I would write to say how much I like the stories of "Toby
+     Tyler" and "Mildred's Bargain." They are so nice I can not help
+     writing to tell you.
+
+      I am glad to hear from so many little girls who have seen blossoms
+      and fruit as late in the season as I have.
+
+  REBA H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN.
+
+     I want to tell the boys and girls what we do away out here in
+     Sheboygan. This winter has been very cold, and it has been thirty
+     degrees below zero part of the time. A good deal of snow has
+     fallen, and yesterday the pupils of my school took a sleigh-ride.
+     We were in a large sleigh drawn by four horses. We went to
+     Sheboygan Falls, and on the way we saw farm-houses, forests, and
+     fields all covered with deep snow.
+
+      Sheboygan is a nice place in summer. It is on the western shore of
+      Lake Michigan, about sixty miles north of Milwaukee. I am eleven
+      years old.
+
+  ERWIN B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  BRIDGEWATER, NEW YORK.
+
+     My brother takes YOUNG PEOPLE, and we like it ever so much.
+
+      We have the dearest little three-year-old colt. Papa broke him to
+      the harness last fall, and he seems to enjoy taking us out to
+      ride. Papa is going to have him trained to the saddle for my use.
+
+      I have to walk three-quarters of a mile to school. The snow has
+      drifted nearly level with the fences, and now the crust has
+      formed, so that we enjoy skimming over it.
+
+  MAY R.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  WASHINGTON, D. C.
+
+     I think YOUNG PEOPLE is just splendid, and only wish it would come
+     every day. I could never get tired of reading it. Toby Tyler's life
+     with the circus is delightful. I would like to have such a friend
+     as "Mr. Stubbs."
+
+      We are having the coldest winter known in this city for years. My
+      little sister, my brother, and myself have elegant times coasting
+      down the streets.
+
+  EMMA H. T.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  GILROY, CALIFORNIA.
+
+     I have received so many answers to my request for exchange, which
+     was printed in YOUNG PEOPLE, that my stock of duplicate eggs is
+     exhausted. I will keep the addresses, and in the spring, when I can
+     get a new supply of eggs, will try to answer all letters which I
+     can not answer now.
+
+  FANNIE W. ROGERS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Owing to the severe weather, I have been unable to collect enough
+     arrow-heads to supply all my correspondents, but I will send them
+     as soon as possible. If those who have offered me coins and other
+     things in exchange will wait until I can get some more arrow-heads,
+     which will be before long, I will be very glad.
+
+  ISOBEL L. JACOBS,
+  Darlington Heights, Prince Edward County, Va.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I am very much interested in the Post-office Box. I like YOUNG
+     PEOPLE very much.
+
+      I live beside the beautiful Geneva Lake, which is a great summer
+      resort. In warm weather we have great sport fishing, but now it is
+      all ice-boating and skating.
+
+      We raised five Bramah chickens last summer. They were very tame.
+      One went to sleep with its head on my aunt's shoulder, and they
+      were capital pickpockets. They were in such demand that we had to
+      part with all but one. She is named Pulleta, and is so tame I can
+      pick her up anywhere.
+
+      I would like to exchange postmarks, for foreign stamps, or shells
+      from the Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic coast.
+
+  HUBERT C. SCOFIELD,
+  P. O. Box 207, Geneva, Wis.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange pieces of bass-wood, red and white oak,
+     bird's-eye and hard and soft maple, iron-wood, red and yellow
+     birch, elm, ash, and butternut, for specimens of other kinds of
+     woods. Correspondents will please mark specimens.
+
+  GEORGE EMPEY,
+  Hersey, St. Croix County, Wis.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange postmarks, for sea-shells. I am nine years
+     old.
+
+  REYNOLDS WHITE,
+  132 East Forty-fifth Street, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I will exchange postmarks, for stamps, with any little boy or girl.
+     I am nine years old.
+
+  PERCY G. LAPEY,
+  62 Clinton Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange postage stamps. I have a Swedish, a
+     Canadian, and a New South Wales stamp, two Italian, some French,
+     English, and old issues of United States stamps, which I will give
+     for others.
+
+  A SUBSCRIBER TO "YOUNG PEOPLE,"
+  141 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I wish to notify correspondents that I do not wish to exchange for
+     postage stamps any longer, but I will exchange stamps, curiosities,
+     shells, and minerals, for curiosities, shells, and minerals.
+
+  V. L. KELLOGG,
+  P. O. Box 411, Emporia, Kansas.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I would like to exchange shells and pressed sea-weeds, for other
+     shells, Lake Superior agates, ore, or other small specimens of
+     minerals. I would like everything sent me to be clearly marked, and
+     I, in return, will name and classify the shells.
+
+  MISS MAY HART,
+  Soquel, Santa Cruz County, Cal.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I live only eighteen miles from King's Mountain, where a great
+     battle of the Revolutionary war was fought.
+
+      I have a little rat terrier I have named Rip Van Winkle, because
+      he sleeps so much. I would like to exchange birds' eggs with
+      readers of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. I am twelve years old.
+
+  WILLIE F. ROBERTSON, Yorkville, S. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     I have a collection of about fifteen hundred stamps, and I have
+     about five hundred duplicates, which I would like to exchange for
+     others. Correspondents will please send a list of those they
+     desire.
+
+  HIRAM H. BICE,
+  39 Second Street, Utica, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:
+
+     Coins or specimens of woods, for Indian relics, curiosities,
+     fossils, or minerals.
+
+  ALFRED S. KELLOGG,
+  P. O. Box 103, Westport, Fairfield County, Conn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps.
+
+  J. CLARKE BURRELL,
+  307 East Eighty-sixth Street, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps, for Indian relics, or anything suitable for a
+     museum.
+
+  GEORGE LUNHAM,
+  147 Skillman Street, Brooklyn, L. I.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Foreign postage stamps.
+
+  LIONEL W. CROMPTON,
+  Care of Mr. Clifton, 104 Sixth St., Hoboken, N. J.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Foreign postage stamps, for old issues of United States postage
+     stamps, or for any Department stamps.
+
+  FRANK BANG,
+  271 Avenue B, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks, for stamps.
+
+  JAY HOLLIS GIBSON,
+  Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     A silver Japanese coin and a piece of prehistoric pottery, for a
+     genuine Indian bow and arrow.
+
+  DAVID M. GREGG,
+  404 Penn Street, Reading, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Ocean curiosities, for a guinea-hen's egg or other eggs; or
+     twenty-five postmarks, for a Chinese stamp and nine other foreign
+     stamps.
+
+  HELEN S. LOVEJOY,
+  39 Munjoy Street, Portland, Maine.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Cotton and rice as they grow, Spanish moss, arrow-heads, Southern
+     insects, or pressed flowers, for stamps.
+
+  JOHN J. HAWKINS,
+  Prosperity, S. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     An ancient Spanish coin to exchange for some curiosity.
+
+  THOMAS EWING,
+  Osceola, Clark County, Iowa.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Persian, Japanese, and other stamps, for Turkish or South American
+     stamps or minerals.
+
+  THEODORE MORRISON,
+  3262 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Teasels, which are pretty for bouquets and decorating, for coins,
+     curiosities, or minerals.
+
+  J. E. GARBUTT,
+  Garbutt, Monroe County, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     A stone from Delaware or Pennsylvania, for one from any other
+     State; or shells, postmarks, or June beetles, for ore of any kind,
+     or for curiosities.
+
+  S. STINSON,
+  1705 Oxford Street, Philadelphia, Penn.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Sea-shells or minerals, for minerals.
+
+  JOHN D. BROWN,
+  P. O. Box 171, Newton Centre, Mass.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Pressed sea-weeds from Santa Cruz, on Monterey Bay, for ferns or
+     sea-weeds from other localities.
+
+  NELLIE HYDE,
+  162 Third Street, Oakland, Cal.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks.
+
+  HENRY F. STEELE,
+  63 East Fifty-fifth Street, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Soil from Illinois, for that of any other State.
+
+  ARTHUR DAVENPORT,
+  34 Ogden Avenue, Chicago, Ill.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     An Italian stamp, for one of any other foreign country.
+
+  GIORGINO CHAPMAN,
+  Everett House, Union Square, New York City.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     A ten-cent United States stamp, War Department stamps, or a Cuban,
+     Spanish, or Netherlands stamp, for a Brazilian ten-reis.
+
+  FRED MCGAHIE,
+  78 Second Place, Brooklyn, L. I.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Twenty-five postmarks, for a Japanese, Chinese, or East Indian
+     stamp, or twelve other foreign stamps.
+
+  ANNIE DRYDEN,
+  Care of John Dryden, Brooklin, Ontario, Canada.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Buttons, or California postmarks, for postage stamps.
+
+  FLOY MOODY,
+  Care of Charles Moody,
+  San José, Santa Clara County, Cal.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks and postage stamps, for Indian relics and ocean
+     curiosities.
+
+  CHARLES B. BARTLETT,
+  92 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postage stamps, minerals, fossils, coins, ocean curiosities, and
+     Indian relics.
+
+  S. G. GUERRIER,
+  Emporia, Kansas.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Stamps from Peru, United States official stamps, and others, in
+     exchange for rare stamps.
+
+  ALLEN R. BAKER,
+  P. O. Box 1275, Bay City, Mich.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Copper ore from the Eli Copper Mines, New Hampshire, specimens of
+     meteoric rock, and stone from the Hoosac Tunnel, for Indian relics,
+     ocean curiosities, fossils, or minerals.
+
+  FRED W. GLASIER,
+  P. O. Box 235, Adams, Berkshire County, Mass.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Ocean curiosities, for turtles not more than three inches long,
+     newts, or lizards. Correspondents will please write before sending
+     any of these creatures.
+
+  DANIEL D. LEE, 14 Myrtle Street,
+  Jamaica Plains, Suffolk County, Mass.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+     Postmarks, for postmarks; or twice the number of postmarks, for any
+     number of postage stamps.
+
+  RALPH D. CLEARWATER,
+  Care of A. T. Clearwater, Kingston, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EDMUND S. H., AND R. D. BRITTON.--The disastrous war between Peru and
+Chili originated in a dispute about certain privileges to mine copper
+and nitrate of soda in the desert region of Atacama, the strip of
+sea-coast on the Pacific, belonging to Bolivia, which separates Peru
+from Chili. In 1875, the nitrate grounds were ceded by the Bolivian
+government to a Peruvian business house, which transferred a portion of
+its rights to some Chilian merchants. A heavy export duty was
+immediately laid on the nitrate by Bolivia, which step was considered by
+the Chilian government as a direct insult to its merchants, and also to
+be in contradiction to earlier concessions made by Bolivia to Chili. The
+Peruvians, fearing the ruin of their mining interest, took up the cause
+of Bolivia, and much secret diplomacy was going on, when suddenly, on
+April 6, 1879, Chili made a declaration of war against Peru, and
+prepared to support its claims by arms. The naval combat of Iquique took
+place in May of the same year, in which both Chili and Peru lost
+valuable war vessels. For several months Chili maintained the blockade
+of Iquique, and meanwhile the Peruvian iron-clad _Huascar_ was harassing
+Chilian ports, until, in October, 1879, she was captured by two Chilian
+men-of-war. The Chilian army and the united forces of Peru and Bolivia
+met in numerous engagements, but since the capture of the _Huascar_ the
+war has been one prolonged success for Chili. After the battle of
+Chorillos, on January 14, 1881, in which the Peruvian forces were
+completely overthrown, the Chilian armies marched triumphantly into
+Lima, on the 17th of the same month. An armistice is now asked for by
+the diplomatic body at Lima, and it is to be hoped that this foolish
+devastation of a beautiful country will soon come to an end.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GRACE H.--You will find simple recipes for cream candy in the
+Post-office Boxes of YOUNG PEOPLE Nos. 35 and 38.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WILLIE F. W.--It is impossible to trace the superstition concerning
+Friday to its source. It exists among many different peoples, each
+assigning to it an origin in accordance with the belief of the country.
+The Friday superstition is met with even among the Brahmins of India,
+who hold it unlucky to begin any enterprise on that day. In ancient
+times, thirty-two days in the year were considered unlucky by the
+astrologers, and warnings were given against the performance of any work
+of importance on those days--an advice which was no doubt strictly
+followed by all lazy people.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FRED L. C.--Mount Everest is the highest mountain of the earth. It is
+situated in the northern part of Nepaul, which is an independent state
+of Hindostan, lying between Thibet and British India. Mount Everest is a
+part of the eastern range of the Himalayas, and, according to
+measurements taken in 1856, has an altitude of 29,002 feet, and
+thousands of cattle and sheep and mountain goats are herded on its broad
+slopes of pasture-lands.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+J. N. H.--If your puzzles are suitable for our columns, they will be
+accepted.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+M. I. S.--The double-page pictures in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE are bound by
+being fastened to a narrow strip of paper, which is called a "guard."
+Any good book-binder will understand how this should be done.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A. J.--The line in question appeared in literature, and was often given
+as a quotation, long before the ballad which you mention was printed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LULU DE L.--We can not make room to print your little story.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+KARL C. W., AND OTHERS.--The answers to all puzzles given in our columns
+are printed in full three weeks after the publication of the puzzles.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+H. D. F.--The directions for tracing a pattern on Russia crash were
+given in "Embroidery for Girls, No. 2," in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 57,
+November 30, 1880.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+H. H. C.--Egypt and China are both supposed to be the oldest countries
+in the world, but it is impossible to tell to which the greatest age may
+be assigned, as the most learned historians differ upon this point. The
+earliest development of civilization was probably in Egypt. Damascus, if
+not the first city in the world, was certainly one of the earliest of
+consequence. The date of its foundation is unknown, but it was a
+flourishing place in the time of Abraham, and is mentioned in the book
+of Genesis.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MAMIE BROOKE.--If what appears to be sand and dirt will not wash off
+from your copper ore, we can not tell you how to clean it, without
+seeing the specimen. What you consider dirt may be a coating of
+oxide.--Your wiggles were received too late for insertion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CONSTANT READER.--A very good mucilage, similar to that used on postage
+stamps, may be made as follows: acetic acid, one part; gum-dextrine, two
+parts; water, five parts. Dissolve in a water-bath, which consists of
+one vessel within another, like a double glue-pot, so that the mixture
+may be evenly heated. When the gum is well dissolved, add one part of
+alcohol.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FALL RIVER.--Make your camera box of quarter-inch black-walnut; or pine
+of the same thickness will do equally well, and will be more easily
+worked, and cost less, and if neatly stained will make a pretty box. The
+expense of your camera, apart from the lenses (see answer to Fred B. and
+Fred W. in Post-office Box of No. 67), will be very small; and if you
+are handy with tools, you will have no trouble in the construction, if
+you follow the directions and drawings given in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE
+No. 63. Perseverance and ingenuity will have a great deal to do with
+your success.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHARLES A. G.--It is not easy to give you advice in a matter which may
+affect your whole life, but we venture to suggest the trade of a printer
+as one by which a boy of your age, if he be industrious, can earn his
+living in a very pleasant manner after he has conquered the difficulties
+which meet a beginner in whatever branch of apprenticeship he may
+select.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WILLIE LLOYD AND M. D. AUSTIN.--Send your full address, and we will
+gladly print your requests for exchange.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Favors are acknowledged from Addie B. McEwen, Annie H. Rundlett, Mamie
+E. S., Charlie Hopper, Charles F. Bailey, Lyman C. S., Ella A., Edward
+L. Haines, Albert H. F., J. A. M. and A. W. W., Milard B., M. B. W.,
+Istalina B., Jamie Craig, Edith M., Eva D. Aldrich, Joseph T. H.,
+Wilfred J. Wood, George W. Merritt, Howard Coleman, J. D. Pettigrew,
+E. G. Robinson, Arthur W. French, H. M. Redlein, E. A. Folsom, Percy T.
+Warner, Helena Pierce, Minnie L., George C. Williams, Ferdinand Travis,
+Ollie J. McKay, Louie Van A., Lena Burrows, Eudora Bishop, Belle
+Wallace, S. J. Coatsworth, E. B. G., Jacob S. Kinsely, Josie L. Stone,
+Frank A. Taylor, Gottfried Steenken.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles have been sent by Willie F. Robertson, Edwin
+Nesmith, Bessie Comstock, Cora R. Price, "Lone Star," Dora Neville
+Taylor, J. M. Haydock, Willie Parkhurst, Willie F. Woolard, Percy L.
+McDermott, Nellie Brainard, W. I. Trotter, "Jupiter," M. Lila Baker,
+"Bolus," Ed I. T., Annie De Pfuhl, James W. Downing, Benno Myers, Karl
+C. Wells, Millie C. B., Blanche Jefferson, Frank Lomas, Andrew De Motte,
+Fred Wieland, "Starry Flag," Grace A. McE., Jennie and May Ridgway,
+Charlie Haight, Grace Montgomery, Fanny B. Squire, Willie M. Hargest.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+HALF-SQUARE.
+
+A poetic foot. To honor. Snug. To endeavor. A pronoun. A letter.
+
+  STARRY FLAG.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.
+
+A debate. Permanent. A public carriage. Kindness. A home of wild beasts.
+In February. Cunning. A fruit. Decoration. An angry speech. Negligent.
+Centrals--An emblem of peace.
+
+  DAME DURDEN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  First in carol, not in song.
+  Second in justice, not in wrong.
+  Third in save, not in keep.
+  Fourth in huddle, not in heap.
+  Fifth in vain, not in proud.
+  Sixth in still, not in loud.
+  Seventh in slave, not in master.
+  Eighth in slow, not in faster.
+  Ninth in grieve, not in cry.
+  An enterprising town am I,
+  And though my site is drear and cold,
+  Men seek me for my hidden gold.
+
+  E. B.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 4.
+
+NUMERICAL CHARADE.
+
+  My whole is composed of 10 letters, and has been received by many
+      readers of YOUNG PEOPLE.
+  My 4, 8, 5 is a sin.
+  My 6, 10, 7 is used by fishermen.
+  My 2, 1, 9 is the front of an army.
+  My 3, 9, 7 is an insect.
+
+  G. T. W.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 5.
+
+ENIGMA.
+
+  In smart, not in good.
+  In hat, not in hood.
+  In plant, not in tree.
+  In caged, not in free.
+  In viola, not in flute.
+  The whole a Southern fruit.
+
+  BOLUS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 65.
+
+No. 1.
+
+Bombshell.
+
+No. 2.
+
+  1. Never too late to mend.
+  2. Kalmia.
+  3. Fire-place.
+
+No. 3.
+
+1. Crane. 2. Owl. 3. Kite. 4. Heron. 5. Wren. 6. Robin. 7. Snow-bird. 8.
+Linnet.
+
+
+
+
+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+
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+
+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.
+
+  HARPER & BROTHERS,
+  Franklin Square, N. Y.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Ho! ho! St. Valentine once more
+  Returns, with all his brilliant store
+  Of verses sweet and pictures gay;
+  You pick and choose whate'er you may.
+  Poor Bobby sees one, bright and fine;
+  He wants it for his Valentine.
+  Alas! his pennies all are spent;
+  For candies and for cakes they went.
+  What, Bobby! sobs and tears? O fie!
+  You can do better if you try:
+  Just write her one, in rhyme and metre,
+  And she will think it all the sweeter.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+      Oh! Kitty dear,
+      See here, see here,
+  Some one a Valentine has sent
+      For "Kitty Lee";
+      That's you or me--
+  How can we tell which one is meant?
+
+      I think 'tis me;
+      For, don't you see,
+  By dear young Tommy Dodd 'tis written;
+      If 'twas for you,
+      'Tis surely true,
+  It would have come from Tommy's kitten.
+      (And Pussy said, "Me-you!")
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Here sits a maiden all forlorn,
+    Without her Valentine;
+  She's waited there since early morn--
+    The post brought ne'er a line.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Some love short boys,
+    Some love tall;
+  This little maiden
+    Loves them all.
+
+  Whoever passes,
+    Rain or shine,
+  She thinks 'tis sure
+    Her Valentine.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  I love my neighbor over the way,
+  And bless the Saint who makes this day;
+  In coming years may her love and mine
+  Date from to-day and my Valentine!
+
+
+
+
+
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