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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, March 15, 1881, by Various

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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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+Title: Harper's Young People, March 15, 1881

+       An Illustrated Weekly

+

+Author: Various

+

+Release Date: March 16, 2014 [EBook #45152]

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+Language: English

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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, MAR 15, 1881 ***

+

+

+

+

+Produced by Annie R. McGuire

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE

+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+VOL. II.--NO. 72. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR

+CENTS.

+

+Tuesday, March 15, 1881. Copyright, 1881, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50

+per Year, in Advance.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+

+

+

+[Illustration: THE FIRST LESSON.]

+

+[Begun in No. 58 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, December 7.]

+

+TOBY TYLER;

+

+OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.

+

+BY JAMES OTIS.

+

+CHAPTER XIV.

+

+MR. CASTLE TEACHES TOBY TO RIDE.

+

+

+When Toby got within sight of the ring, he was astonished at what he

+saw. A horse with a broad wooden saddle was being led slowly around the

+ring; Mr. Castle was standing on one side, with a long whip in his hand,

+and on the tent pole, which stood in the centre of the ring, was a long

+arm, from which dangled a leathern belt on a long rope that was carried

+through the end of the arm, and run down to the base of the pole.

+

+Toby knew well enough why the horse, the whip, and the man were there,

+but this wooden projection from the tent pole, which looked so much like

+a gallows, he could not understand at all.

+

+"Come, now," said Mr. Castle, cracking his whip ominously as Toby came

+in sight, "why weren't you here before?"

+

+"Mr. Lord just sent me in," said Toby, not expecting that his excuse

+would be received, for they never had been since he had arrived at the

+height of his ambition by joining the circus.

+

+"Then I'll make Mr. Job understand that I am to have my full hour of

+your time, and if I don't get it, there'll be trouble between us."

+

+It would have pleased Toby very well to have had Mr. Castle go out with

+his long whip just then and make trouble for Mr. Lord; but Mr. Castle

+had not the time to spare, because of the trouble which he was about to

+make for Toby, and that he commenced on at once.

+

+"Well, get in here, and don't waste any more time," he said, sharply.

+

+Toby looked around curiously for a moment, and not understanding exactly

+what he was expected to get in and do, asked, "What shall I do?"

+

+"Pull off your boots, coat, and vest."

+

+Since there was no other course than to learn to ride, Toby wisely

+concluded that the best thing he could do would be to obey this new

+master without question; and he began to take his clothes off with as

+much alacrity as if learning to ride was the one thing upon which he had

+long set his heart.

+

+Mr. Castle was evidently accustomed to prompt obedience, for he not only

+took it as a matter of course, but endeavored to hurry Toby in his work

+of undressing.

+

+With his desire to please, and urged by Mr. Castle's words and the

+ominous shaking of his whip, Toby's preparations were soon made, and he

+stood before his instructor clad only in his shirt, trousers, and

+stockings.

+

+The horse was led around to where he stood, and when Mr. Castle held out

+his hand to help him to mount, Toby jumped up quickly without aid,

+thereby making a good impression at the start as a willing lad.

+

+"Now," said the instructor, as he pulled down the leathern belt which

+hung from the rope, and fastened it around Toby's waist, "stand up in

+the saddle, and try to stand there. You can't fall, because the rope

+will keep you up, even if the horse goes out from under you; but it

+isn't hard work to keep on if you mind what you are about, and if you

+don't, this whip will help you. Now stand up."

+

+Toby did as he was bidden, and as the horse was led at a walk, and as he

+had the long bridle to aid him in keeping his footing, he had no

+difficulty in standing during the time that the horse went once around

+the ring; but that was all.

+

+Mr. Castle seemed to think that this was preparation enough for the boy

+to be able to understand how to ride, and he started the horse into a

+canter. As might have been expected, Toby lost his balance, the horse

+went on ahead, and he was left dangling at the end of the rope, very

+much like a crab that has just been caught by the means of a pole and

+line.

+

+Toby kicked, waved his hands, and floundered about generally, but all to

+no purpose, until the horse came round again, and then he made frantic

+efforts to regain his footing, which efforts were aided--or perhaps it

+would be more proper to say retarded--by the long lash of Mr. Castle's

+whip, that played around his legs with merciless severity.

+

+"Stand up! stand up!" cried his instructor, as Toby reeled first to one

+side and then to the other, now standing erect in the saddle, and now

+dangling at the end of the rope, with the horse almost out from under

+him.

+

+This command seemed almost needless, as it was exactly what Toby was

+trying to do; but as it was given, he struggled all the harder, until it

+seemed to him that the more he tried, the less did he succeed.

+

+And this first lesson progressed in about the same way until the hour

+was over, save that now and then Mr. Castle would give him some good

+advice, but oftener he would twist the long lash of that whip around the

+boy's legs with such force that Toby believed the skin had been taken

+entirely off.

+

+It may have been a relief to Mr. Castle when that first lesson was

+concluded, and it certainly was to Toby, for he had had all the teaching

+in horsemanship that he wanted, and he thought, with deepest sorrow,

+that this would be of daily occurrence during all the time he remained

+with the circus.

+

+As he went out of the tent he stopped to speak with his friend the old

+monkey, and his troubles seemed to have increased when he stood in front

+of the cage calling "Mr. Stubbs! Mr. Stubbs!" and the old fellow would

+not even come down from off the lofty perch where he was engaged in

+monkey gymnastics with several younger companions. It seemed to him, as

+he afterward told Ben, "as if Mr. Stubbs had gone back on him because he

+knew that he was in trouble."

+

+When he went toward the booth, Mr. Lord looked at him around the corner

+of the canvas--for it seemed to Toby that his employer could look around

+a square corner with much greater ease than he could straight

+ahead--with a disagreeable leer in his eye, as though he enjoyed the

+misery which he knew his little clerk had just undergone.

+

+"Can you ride yet?" he asked, mockingly, as Toby stepped behind the

+counter to attend to his regular line of business.

+

+Toby made no reply, for he knew that the question was only asked

+sarcastically, and not through any desire for information. In a few

+moments Mr. Lord left him to attend to the booth alone, and went into

+the tent, where Toby rightly conjectured he had gone to question Mr.

+Castle upon the result of the lesson just given.

+

+That night old Ben asked him how he had got on while under the teaching

+of Mr. Castle, and Toby, knowing that the question was asked because of

+the real interest which Ben had in his welfare, replied,

+

+"If I was tryin' to learn how to swing round the ring, strapped to a

+rope, I should say that I got along first-rate; but I don't know much

+about the horse, for I was only on his back a little while at a time."

+

+"You'll get over that soon," said old Ben, patronizingly, as he patted

+him on the back. "You remember my words, now; I say that you've got it

+in you, an' if you've a mind to take hold an' try to learn, you'll come

+out on the top of the heap yet, an' be one of the smartest riders

+they've got in this show."

+

+"I don't want to be a rider," said Toby, sadly: "I only want to get back

+home once more, an' then you'll see how much it'll take to get me away

+again."

+

+"Well," said Ben, quietly, "be that as it may, while you're here the

+best thing you can do is to take hold an' get ahead just as fast as you

+can; it'll make it a mighty sight easier for you while you're with the

+show, and it won't spoil any of your chances for runnin' away whenever

+the time comes."

+

+Toby fully appreciated the truth of that remark, and he assured Ben that

+he should do all in his power to profit by the instruction given, and to

+please this new master who had been placed over him.

+

+And with this promise, he lay back on the seat and went to sleep, not to

+awaken until the preparations were being made for the entrée into the

+next town, and Mr. Lord's harsh voice had cried out his name, with no

+gentle tone, several times.

+

+Toby's first lesson with Mr. Castle was the most pleasant one he had;

+for after the boy had once been into the ring, his master seemed to

+expect that he could do everything which he was told to do, and when he

+failed in any little particular, the long lash of the whip would go

+curling around his legs or arms, until the little fellow's body and

+limbs were nearly covered with the blue and black stripes.

+

+For three lessons only was the wooden upright used to keep him from

+falling; after that he was forced to ride standing erect on the broad

+wooden saddle, or pad, as it is properly called, and whenever he lost

+his balance and fell, there was no question asked as to whether or not

+he had hurt himself, but he was mercilessly cut with the whip.

+

+Messrs. Lord and Jacobs gained very much by comparison with Mr. Castle

+in Toby's mind. He had thought that his lot could not be harder than it

+was with them; but when he had experienced the pains of two or three of

+Mr. Castle's lessons in horsemanship, he thought that he would stay with

+the candy venders all the season cheerfully rather than take six more

+lessons of Mr. Castle.

+

+Night after night he fell asleep from the sheer exhaustion of crying, as

+he had been pouring out his woes in the old monkey's ears, and laying

+his plans to run away. Now, more than ever, was he anxious to get away,

+and yet each day was taking him farther from home, and consequently

+necessitating a larger amount of money with which to start. As old Ben

+did not give him as much sympathy as Toby thought he ought to give--for

+the old man, while he would not allow Mr. Job Lord to strike the boy if

+he was near, thought it a necessary portion of the education for Mr.

+Castle to lash him all he had a mind to--he poured out all his troubles

+in the old monkey's ears, and kept him with him from the time he ceased

+work at night until he was obliged to commence again in the morning.

+

+The skeleton and his wife thought Toby's lot a hard one, and tried by

+every means in their power to cheer the poor boy. Neither one of them

+could say to Mr. Castle what they had said to Mr. Lord, for the rider

+was a far different sort of a person, and one whom they would not be

+allowed to interfere with in any way. Therefore poor Toby was obliged to

+bear his troubles and his whippings as best he might, with only the

+thought to cheer him of the time when he could leave them all by running

+away.

+

+But despite all his troubles, Toby learned to ride faster than his

+teacher had expected he would, and in three weeks he found little or no

+difficulty in standing erect while his horse went around the ring at his

+fastest gait. After that had been accomplished, his progress was more

+rapid, and he gave promise of becoming a very good rider--a fact which

+pleased both Mr. Castle and Mr. Lord very much, as they fancied that in

+another year Toby would be the source of a very good income to them.

+

+The proprietor of the circus took considerable interest in Toby's

+instruction, and promised Mr. Castle that Mademoiselle Jeannette and

+Toby should do an act together in the performance just as soon as the

+latter was sufficiently advanced. The boy's costume had been changed

+after he could ride without falling off, and now while he was in the

+ring he wore the same as that used by the regular performers.

+

+The little girl had, after it was announced that she and Toby were to

+perform together, been an attentive observer during the hour that Toby

+was under Mr. Castle's direction, and she gave him many suggestions that

+were far more valuable, and quicker to be acted upon, than those given

+by the teacher himself.

+

+"To-morrow you two will go through the exercise together," said Mr.

+Castle to Toby and Ella, at the close of one of Toby's lessons, after he

+had become so skillful that he could stand with ease on the pad, and

+even advanced so far that he could jump through a hoop without falling

+more than twice out of three times.

+

+The little girl appeared highly delighted by this information, and

+expressed her joy.

+

+"It will be real nice," she said to Toby, after Mr. Castle had left them

+alone. "I can help you lots, and it won't be very long before we can do

+an act all by ourselves in the performance, and then won't the people

+clap their hands when we come in?"

+

+"It'll be better for you to-morrow than it will for me," said Toby,

+rubbing his legs sorrowfully, still feeling the sting of the whip. "You

+see, Mr. Castle won't dare to whip you, an' he'll make it all count on

+me, 'cause he knows Mr. Lord likes to have him whip me."

+

+"But I sha'n't make any mistake," said Ella, confidently, "and so you

+won't have to be whipped on my account, and while I am on the horse you

+can't be whipped, for he couldn't do it without whipping me, so you see

+you won't get only half as much."

+

+Toby brightened up a little under the influence of this argument; but

+his countenance fell again, as he thought that his chances for getting

+away from the circus were growing less each day.

+

+"You see, I want to get back to Uncle Dan'l an' Guilford," he said,

+confidentially; "I don't want to stay here a single minute."

+

+Ella opened her eyes wide in astonishment, as she cried: "Don't want to

+stay here? Why don't you go home, then?"

+

+"'Cause Job Lord won't let me," said Toby, wondering if it was possible

+that his little companion did not know exactly what sort of a man his

+master was.

+

+Then he told her, after making her give him all kinds of promises,

+including the ceremony of crossing her throat, that she would never tell

+a single soul, that he had had many thoughts, and had formed all kinds

+of plans for running away. He told her about losing his money, about his

+friendship for the skeleton and the fat lady, and at last he confided in

+her that he was intending to take the old monkey with him when he should

+make the attempt.

+

+She listened with the closest attention, and when he told her that his

+little hoard had now reached the sum of seven dollars and ten cents,

+almost as much as he had before, she said, eagerly: "I've got three

+little gold dollars in my trunk, an' you shall have them all; they're my

+very own, for mamma gave them to me to do just what I wanted to with

+them. But I don't see how you can take Mr. Stubbs with you, for that

+would be stealing."

+

+"No, it wouldn't, neither," said Toby, stoutly. "Wasn't he give to me to

+do just as I wanted to with? an' didn't the boss say he was all mine?"

+

+"Oh, I'd forgotten that," said Ella, thoughtfully; "I suppose you can

+take him; but he'll be awfully in the way, won't he?"

+

+"No," said Toby, anxious to say a good word for his pet; "he always does

+just as I want him to, an' when I tell him what I'm tryin' to do, he'll

+be as good as anything. But I can't take your dollars."

+

+"Why not?"

+

+"'Cause that wouldn't be right for a boy to let a girl littler than

+himself help him; I'll wait till I get money enough of my own, an' then

+I'll go."

+

+"But I want you to take my money too; I want you to have it."

+

+"No, I can't take it," said Toby, shaking his head resolutely, as he put

+the golden temptation from him, and then, as a happy thought occurred to

+him, he said, quickly: "I tell you what to do with your dollars: you

+keep them till you grow up to be a woman, an' when I'm a man I'll come,

+an' then we'll buy a circus of our own. I think, perhaps, I'd like to

+be with a circus if I owned one myself. We'll have lots of money then,

+an' we can do just what we want to."

+

+This idea seemed to please the little girl, and the two began to lay all

+sorts of plans for that time when they should be man and woman, have

+lots of money, and be able to do just as they wanted to.

+

+They had been sitting on the edge of the newly made ring while they were

+talking, and before they had half finished making plans for the future

+one of the attendants came in to put things to order, and they were

+obliged to leave their seats, she going to the hotel to get ready for

+the afternoon's performance, and Toby to try to do such work as Mr. Job

+Lord had laid out for him.

+

+Just ten weeks from the time Toby had first joined the circus, Mr.

+Castle informed him and Ella that they were to appear in public on the

+following day. They had been practicing daily, and Toby had become so

+skillful that both Mr. Castle and Mr. Lord saw that the time had come

+when he could be made to earn some money for them.

+

+[TO BE CONTINUED.]

+

+

+

+

+THE YOUNG VIOLINIST.

+

+BY GUSTAVE KOBBÉ.

+

+

+[Illustration: EUGENIO MAURICIO DENGREMONT.]

+

+Mauricio Dengremont, whose portrait is here given, is only fourteen

+years old; but he has been playing the violin for eight years or more,

+and is now one of the best violinists living. He knew the A B C of music

+at an age when most boys have hardly had a glimpse at the A B C in their

+spelling-book. His musical talent, like that of many famous musicians,

+showed itself early in his life. Mozart, we are told, struck correct

+chords on the clavichord--as they called the pianos used in his

+days--when he was two years old, and when he was four, he wrote little

+melodies which sound very prettily. Mauricio Dengremont's fondness for

+music was observed at the same early age. His father led an orchestra in

+Rio de Janeiro, and played the violin, and when he was playing at home,

+little Mauricio, who was four years old, would sit at his feet and

+listen, and he could not be induced to join in the sports of other

+children as long as his father was practicing. Then already he asked to

+be taught, but he was laughed at, and told he was too young to learn.

+But he would not be put off, and kept coming to his father and asking

+for lessons on the violin. At last, when he was six years old--the same

+age at which Mendelssohn began to learn the piano--his father bought him

+a toy violin for twenty cents, and thought he would give him a lesson,

+just to see if he was in earnest. Before that, however, he told him how

+hard he would have to work if he wanted to be a musician. But Mauricio

+said he didn't mind working, he wanted to learn the violin just as soon

+as he could. Fancy the father's surprise when he found during the first

+lesson that Mauricio played his notes correctly and clearly.

+

+The boy made such wonderful progress that after a few lessons a larger

+violin was bought for him. In a few weeks he could play the scales, and

+in ten months he was practicing difficult pieces, one of which he

+performed in public fourteen months after his first lesson. Soon

+afterward he travelled with his father in South America, giving

+concerts. In Montevideo and Buenos Ayres he played so well that the

+orchestras there presented him each with a gold medal. These youthful

+triumphs were very much like those of Mozart; and in the midst of them,

+Mauricio, like Mozart, remained a child in his feelings and behavior.

+Mozart was so innocent that after one of his performances at court, when

+he slipped on the polished floor, and was lifted up by the Empress Maria

+Theresa of Austria, he said that he would marry her as soon as he was

+old enough. In the same way Mauricio's manners remained unchanged,

+though he was brought before the public when so young. Off the concert

+stage he remained a child, playing with children, and sharing in their

+pastime when he was not practicing. Only a short time ago, immediately

+after his arrival here, his first appearance had to be postponed because

+he had caught cold playing with snow-balls; and again he was prevented

+from being at a concert because he had been eating too much candy.

+

+The success of Mauricio's concerts in South America attracted the notice

+of Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, and he was asked to play before his

+Imperial Highness. Dom Pedro was so pleased with the boy's performance

+that he gave him a beautiful medal, and promised to give him a good sum

+of money every year, so that he could go to Paris and take lessons of

+the famous violin-player Léonard. Dengremont's father accepted the

+offer, and soon afterward he took the boy to Europe. Mauricio staid in

+Paris until two or three years ago, when he began to travel and give

+concerts. Everywhere he played he met with great success. People came to

+his concerts in great crowds, and applauded him loudly; for he won their

+hearts with his beautiful playing and modest behavior. In one of the

+German cities he played a piece by Spohr when the composer's widow was

+one of the listeners. Spohr himself was a very famous violinist, but the

+widow said that Dengremont played the piece better than her husband

+could have done, and gave him a piece of music in her husband's

+handwriting.

+

+Dengremont has been in this country only a short time, but he has

+already made a good name for himself. Almost every one who has heard him

+admires the rapidity and delicacy of his playing, and the grace with

+which he handles the bow. All this he does in a manner which would be

+remarkable for a man of great talent, who had been studying the violin

+ever since he was able to hold the instrument, and yet he is not at all

+conceited. He does not think he has nothing more to learn. On the

+contrary, he will go to Paris in the spring, and study again with

+Léonard for six months. After that he will give concerts in Russia.

+

+To young people Mauricio Dengremont's career is a fine example. Of

+course he has greater talent for music than hundreds of others. But it

+is not his talent only to which he owes his early fame. It is owing as

+well to his devotion to his art, his willingness to work, and his

+modesty, which makes him feel that there is still room for him to

+improve.

+

+

+

+

+[Illustration: THE POOR LITTLE FROG ESCAPES FROM HIS ENEMIES.--DRAWN BY

+W. F. BEARD.]

+

+WHAT ONE POOR LITTLE FROG FOUND OUT.

+

+

+A very young frog--very young indeed, scarcely out of tails (that is to

+say, out of tadpolehood)--with a very great ambition and ordinary

+ability, set out one morning with the purpose of seeing the world, and

+by night-fall bringing back something to astonish the pool. "For," said

+he to himself, "I am such a close observer, that I shall be sure to

+observe and bring back correct reports of many strange things passed by

+in stupid indifference by these commonplace old speckle-backs, who, no

+doubt, neglect daily golden opportunities for storing their minds with

+useful information, but who see nothing and know nothing but worms,

+ants, beetles, and other insects and small animals to put in their ample

+stomachs."

+

+So saying, he leaped away gayly, but with eyes open and on the sharp

+look-out, almost at the very start. "For," said he, "the most common

+things possess a new interest when shown in a new light by the hand of

+genius, and the ordinary things of one locality become objects of

+curiosity in another where they are not found. Thus I could astonish

+vain man, could I speak his jargon, with accounts of many things

+familiar to my sight by daily contact in the bottom of the pool, but

+which seldom or never meet his eyes."

+

+So he journeyed on, well pleased with himself and what he thought his

+life's mission, carefully eying every object in his way, lest some one

+of interest should escape his notice. At length a great thistle came

+within his gaze. "There," said he, "is something worth investigating."

+After looking at it attentively at a little distance, that he might fix

+all its _points_ in his mind, he approached for a closer study. Said he,

+"I must not forget to ascertain if this strange plant--for plant it

+undoubtedly is--has any peculiar odor; for that is very important." Thus

+saying, he thrust his inquisitive nose against the prickers, which

+brought him to the conclusion that he had carried the investigation

+quite far enough; and storing this experience away in his memory for

+future use, he went on his way, a little wiser, but no happier, for it

+does not add to happiness to have our conceit pricked out, as it were,

+by sharp experience.

+

+Now a half-brick partly buried in the mud caught his curious eye.

+"That's a singular rock," said he. "What a remarkable color it has! so

+regular, too, in its form; it has also a peculiar texture"--as he put

+his hand-like forepaw upon it.

+

+Just at this moment he thought he heard something behind him, and

+turning to see what, his terrified eye caught the dread form of an idle,

+barefooted boy, also in search of adventure, though not for the

+instruction of others, or even himself, as was the little frog's grand

+motive, but merely for the amusement of the moment.

+

+Young as his frogship was, he knew well enough what boys were, and made

+off for his life with all possible speed.

+

+It would, perhaps, have been wiser if he had remained perfectly quiet,

+as in all probability the careless boy would not have observed him; but

+as the boy seemed bearing right down upon him, the sight was too

+dreadful for his nerves, and he sprang forward with desperate leaps,

+which, of course, attracted the urchin's attention, and with a shout of

+delight he bounded off in pursuit. Hastily clutching the "curious

+rock"--half-brick--he aimed to give the frog's head an external

+application of this object of interest, and, I must say, with almost

+fatal precision. With great nicety of calculation, he threw the brick

+where he felt the frog would be when the brick got there. His estimate

+was uncomfortably close, the little frog thought, as the brick just

+grazed his protruding eye. He winked, dodged back, and started in

+another direction with wild leaps.

+

+As the boy went for the rolling brick for another throw the frog hid

+himself in a tuft of clover, and though terribly nervous when the urchin

+came very near his hiding-place--at length actually kicked the bunch of

+clover in his search for him--he summoned all his fortitude, and

+remained perfectly quiet, knowing that to be his only safety.

+

+Soon, to his unspeakable relief, the cruel boy gave it up, and went

+whistling on his careless way in search of other adventures.

+

+The thoroughly frightened frog prudently waited, nor ventured out until

+the boy had quite vanished in the distance. While he still lay in his

+hiding-place a curious creature wriggled past, in beautiful sheeny coat

+that glistened in the sunlight, and quite delighted him. He made no

+motion, however, though he did not much fear this harmless-looking

+creature; still, as the supple thing constantly darted out a double

+tongue, he felt it more prudent to observe in silence.

+

+When this creature had also gone quite out of sight, he again moved on

+his journey, it must be confessed, with less self-confidence and more

+caution.

+

+But a little while of safe travelling was, however, enough to cause the

+two sentiments to change places again--prudence lessened, and confidence

+grew: and this would have cost him his life had it not been his good

+fortune to be on the land side of a beautiful white crane, which he very

+much admired, as he stood fixedly gazing into the waters of a sluggish

+stream. He hopped very near, in his ignorant delight, wondering what the

+magnificent creature was, and what could be his reflections as he fixed

+his gaze so intently in the amber water. "Something grand, no doubt!" He

+did not feel called upon to address him, however, which was lucky again,

+since this "splendid bird" was looking for just such fellows as he, but

+never suspected one of being so near him in the field.

+

+At length our leaping student of nature tired even of his admiration of

+this beautiful bird, and leaped on his journey again in search of other

+objects of scientific interest, one of which he soon found in the person

+of another curious bird, also with long legs, and not very unlike in

+form the one he had just seen, though not near so beautiful.

+

+His general color was a dull brown, varied and mottled with several

+shades of the same, from light yellowish to dark spots, and in parts,

+such as the crest, back of the neck, etc., deepening to a jetty black.

+His neck, though, did not appear long, like that of the white bird, but

+his head seemed as near the body as a chicken's; when some noise or

+motion in the water, however, attracted his attention, it shot out like

+a telescope, as long in proportion as the other's, though the comparison

+of the telescope was not froggie's. He knew nothing of such a thing; the

+figure suggested to his mind was a snail's eye.

+

+He also bestowed some admiration upon this fellow, and passed on, still

+unconscious that he was in dangerous proximity to a mortal foe.

+

+Now as he ascended quite a little hillock, high enough for him to

+overlook the fields, he was surprised to see that the very stream upon

+the margin of which the two strange birds had stood was the one near

+which was his native pool; in fact, upon this stream the inhabitants of

+his pond depended for fresh supplies of water to replenish the waste by

+evaporation, when it occasionally overflowed its banks in times of

+freshets.

+

+He knew the locality by a great rock, which he knew to be near his pond,

+and found, too, with some satisfaction, that he was much nearer home

+than he would have thought from the distance travelled. He had taken a

+circuitous route, as did the stream, before reaching the great rock.

+Using this stone as a landmark, he saw that a straight line to it would

+be comparatively a short-cut back again.

+

+This discovery was not unpleasant either, for not only his journey, but

+his researches as well, began to grow wearisome. Now as he remembered

+the events of the day, his adventures, and the strange sights he had

+seen, and the discoveries he had made, his heart swelled with pride when

+he thought what astonishment it would create when he brought them all

+back, as it were, to the banks of the pool.

+

+Settling this comfortably in his mind, he glanced about again, as a

+traveller takes a farewell look at a strange land he is about leaving.

+But now he made the additional discovery that a grove just before him

+was the "forest," as he believed it, he had seen many times in the

+distance while sitting on the banks of the pool.

+

+Gazing into its dark recesses, he became suddenly aware of two great

+yellow-rimmed eyes peering out of its sombre depths. Cold chills ran

+over him. His thirst for knowledge, which his mother, in her croaking

+way, called idle curiosity, got the better of his fears, however, as he

+became satisfied that he himself was not the object of those eyes'

+attention, if indeed anything in particular was, and he began again his

+usual wise speculations. "What an eye!" said he. "I remember once, while

+lying at the bottom of the pool, to have seen the full moon rising,

+while a round leaf upon the brink intervening, darkened the centre,

+leaving a yellowish rim; that eye reminds me of it. To whom or what can

+it belong, I wonder? Let me see: surrounded by feathers?--yes, feathers!

+Well, feathers are only worn by birds, therefore the owner of that eye

+_must_ be a bird, that's clear; and that's pretty good logic, too, I

+flatter myself."

+

+He was right; the owner of the eye was a bird--an owl; and scarcely had

+he "flattered" himself, when he became conscious that now he was the

+object of attention by those terrible eyes. Losing no time, he turned

+toward the rock, made several desperate leaps in quick succession before

+he felt the shadow of the great wings, though he heard no sound, for the

+flight of owls is as noiseless almost as that of thistle-down.

+

+Fortunately, again (he was a lucky frog), it was a sunny afternoon, and

+the light rather strong for the owls' eyes (by this time another had

+joined her mate); so, dodging here and there, he managed to elude them,

+always making toward home, however, followed blindly by the owls. Nor

+was this all: the tall birds, attracted by the commotion, seeing him

+dodging through the grass, joined in the pursuit. The snake he had seen

+also made bold to follow with wide-open jaws to devour him, and

+creatures of every kind--ducks, more cranes, even a pelican--came from

+all quarters, and pursued him to the very brink of the pool.

+

+So numerous were they, indeed, that they obstructed each other's way.

+Meantime the little frog was making the best use of the time, lessening

+the distance at every bound. But even a race for life must have an end,

+either in disaster to the pursued or disappointment to the pursuers, and

+just at the moment when the wide-open beak of the admired white crane

+was about to close upon him, with all the other eager open jaws close

+following, our adventurous student splashed into the waters of the pond.

+

+As he settled, exhausted, in the soft mud at the bottom of the pond,

+stirring up a cloud, as it were, his little brothers and sisters, still

+in the polliwig state, wriggled around him with anxious inquiry, and

+staid old croakers, in coats of green and brown, and mottled trousers,

+looked with amazement from him to the bank, where still lingered the

+excited throng of his hungry pursuers.

+

+Not a word to the many questions asked could he reply, but stared out

+from his muddy security in dazed speechlessness upon the horrid throng

+of snapping beaks and jaws he had just escaped. He experienced a feeling

+of pleasure upon seeing a disappointed owl pick up a disappointed snake,

+and wing his noiseless way back toward the copse, followed by his mate.

+Then the disappointed crane fastened upon another snake, and arose like

+a white cloud, with his squirming victim in his strong beak. After

+considerable quacking, snapping, and hissing, one after another of his

+ferocious foes rose upon the wing, and went his way; the bank was

+cleared, peace and quiet reigned again.

+

+Our traveller was again asked for an account of his adventures. When he

+came to speak of the "strange plant," a laugh from under the yellow vest

+of "Old Spots" greeted his ear. And "Old Spots" (they called him "Spots"

+on account of his strongly mottled green coat) curtly observed that a

+little sharp experience seemed to simplify matters much, and a prick in

+the nose to help an inquiring mind to a speedy conclusion. "But," said

+he, more seriously, "a closer scrutiny would hardly have failed to

+reveal to the eye so important a feature as prickers on a thistle,

+without the necessity of thrusting them into one's very nose."

+

+The story of the boy and the brick was allowed to pass without remark

+from the older inhabitants of the pool, probably because the little

+frog, in this instance, had managed the case as well as any one could

+have done.

+

+When he spoke of the tall bird in plumage of shining white, the comment

+was, "The white crane! one of the deadliest foes of our race!" The brown

+bird, he was informed, was the bittern, commonly called "stake-driver,"

+"fly-up-the-creek," etc., also a mortal foe.

+

+When he made rather careless mention of the glistening snake, the old

+frogs shuddered as they informed him that of all their enemies this was

+most to be dreaded, because of its stealthy way of creeping upon its

+victim unawares through the grass, fastening its fangs upon him, and

+sometimes taking hours to swallow its prey, which all the while remained

+alive, in painful and agonized certainty of his slow-approaching death.

+

+The owls, they said, were less to be dreaded than any of his pursuers;

+they were not particularly fond of frogs, would as soon have a snake,

+and much preferred mice.

+

+In short, every bird, reptile, and object of peculiar interest, as well

+as localities, with all their characteristics, seemed so familiar to

+these recently despised "old croakers," that the little frog hardly knew

+whether to be most astonished or humiliated at the discovery of this

+unboasted knowledge in the possession of his elders, and could but admit

+to himself that it was the only discovery of any importance he had made

+through the day, since all the others, it seemed, were no discoveries at

+all.

+

+

+

+

+A FOOLISH RABBIT.

+

+BY R. K. MUNKITTRICK.

+

+

+  A meditative rabbit once

+    Within a brake sat thinking

+  Why he and all his timid kind

+    Are always sadly winking.

+

+  He told his story to a wren,

+    There in the fragrant grasses.

+  The wren replied, "Your eyes are weak;

+    Pray try a pair of glasses."

+

+  The rabbit smiled, and took the hint,

+    And early in the morning

+  The wren observed a dainty pair

+    His pleasant face adorning.

+

+  To show the animals the change,

+    He went into a clearing;

+  But when they saw the wild effect,

+    They all set up a jeering.

+

+  His reasoning was long and loud

+    And eloquent. Thereafter

+  The animals with one accord

+    Fell down and rolled with laughter.

+

+  And now he ever hides from view

+    Within the woodland passes,

+  And winks the more for having tried

+    To wear a pair of glasses.

+

+

+

+

+LOUIS XVII. IN THE TEMPLE PRISON.

+

+

+On the 29th of March, 1785, was born at the palace of Versailles, near

+Paris, the most unfortunate of children. Louis Charles was the second

+son of Louis XVI., King of France, and Marie Antoinette, his Queen, and

+the royal infant seemed destined to know in life only the greatest

+luxury and ease. He grew up a fair, graceful boy, his hair light, and

+falling in curls upon his shoulders, his eyes blue, his form and

+features regular, and he very soon began to show a quick, sensitive,

+intelligent mind. When he was about four years old his elder brother

+died, leaving him a little dog named Moufflet. He left him, too, heir to

+the throne of France, the Dauphin, as the eldest son of the French Kings

+was called, and Louis Charles was to be master of all the wide dominions

+of his ancestors. He was marked by a strong love for his parents, and

+particularly his mother, the graceful Marie Antoinette. The royal family

+consisted of the King and Queen, the King's sister, Madame Élisabeth,

+and two children--the Princess Marie Thérèse, who was some years older

+than Louis, and the Dauphin. They seemed very happy together in the

+splendid palace at Versailles. Louis cultivated a small plot of ground,

+or a garden, where he raised flowers, and presented them to his mother.

+Every morning, in their season, the child would bring a bouquet to the

+fair Queen, who fully returned his tender love. His aunt, Madame

+Élisabeth, was always kind and good, and his sister, the Princess,

+watched over him with affectionate care.

+

+But suddenly the whole family were overwhelmed by a succession of

+misfortunes. The French Revolution began; the foreign kings invaded

+France; and the French people looked upon their own royal rulers with

+suspicion, and even hatred, because they thought they had called in the

+foreign armies. Marie Antoinette was the most unpopular of all. Paris

+was filled with terrible disorders. One day a great crowd of savage men

+and women came out to the palace of Versailles, and insisted that the

+King and his family should come to Paris. He was obliged to yield. The

+great coach was ordered, the whole royal family were led almost as

+captives to the city, and were lodged in the midst of the enraged

+people, in the palace of the Tuileries. At first they were not badly

+treated. Louis had brought his dog Moufflet with him, and was even

+allowed to cultivate a small garden, where he still raised flowers, and

+gave them to his sad, terrified mother. Dreadful scenes and massacres

+now took place in Paris. Louis was shown by his mother to the people,

+wearing a red bonnet and the tricolor; but every moment seemed to

+increase their danger. At last the King (June, 1791) resolved to make

+his escape out of France; and one night Louis was called up, half

+asleep, and dressed in disguise as a little girl. The poor child was too

+young to understand his danger; and when his sister asked him what he

+thought they were going to do, said it must be "to act a comedy." They

+opened a gate in the palace, went down into the silent street at

+midnight, wandered in the darkness over the Pont Royal, at last found

+the carriage prepared for them, and escaped from the city. Had they made

+haste they might have reached the frontier and safety; but they were

+overtaken, seized, and brought back to Paris the prisoners of a savage

+mob.

+

+[Illustration: THE ROYAL PRISONERS IN THE TEMPLE.]

+

+Soon after, amidst scenes of massacre and horror, they were all taken to

+the Temple (an ancient prison), and shut up in a tower. Here they

+remained many months, exposed to the most terrible insults, scantily

+fed, and looking for death every moment. But the King employed his time

+in teaching his son Louis to read Racine and Corneille, and endeavoring

+to prepare him for a useful life. At last he was himself taken out,

+tried before a revolutionary tribunal, sentenced to die (January, 1793),

+and his head was cut off. Next, Marie Antoinette was taken away from her

+family to a solitary prison, and at last was brought to the guillotine.

+Her hair had turned white, and her face was rigid with suffering. But as

+she mounted the scaffold she showed no sign of fear. Madame Élisabeth,

+the most innocent and amiable of her race, was also executed.

+

+The young Prince, now King of France by descent, was left alone, shut up

+in his prison at the Temple, and guarded by the horrible men who had

+tormented his mother and father. It was the custom of these wretches to

+terrify their prisoners by threats, insults, and every malicious art.

+Louis Charles was placed under the care of the infamous Simon, a monster

+of cruelty. He was left entirely alone. No kind friend came to soften

+the sorrows of his lot. Night and day passed over him in his miserable

+cell without a joy or hope. His mind had become prematurely active

+amidst his sorrows; he knew, no doubt, the fate of his parents and

+relations. Simon endeavored to teach him to hate his mother, and the

+young Prince would never afterward speak to his horrible jailer. He

+would rather be alone in the darkest night in the fearful cell than see

+the countenance of his foe. For a long time before his death he remained

+utterly silent, refusing to speak, and living in dumb misery. The Reign

+of Terror prevailed in Paris; Robespierre and his murderers filled it

+with horror, and the Dauphin was left to perish in his solitary cell. He

+was now nearly ten years old, but he still preserved his strange

+silence, and seemed like a dumb and idiotic child.

+

+Next Robespierre perished, and Louis might have been better treated. But

+his long confinement and the filth and horrors of his prison had brought

+on a severe illness. He wasted away. Dr. Desault, a famous physician,

+was sent to attend him, but died a short time afterward. Louis, it is

+said, still remained silent and speechless. He died on the 8th of June,

+1795, in his solitary cell, alone, without a friend.

+

+Such was the sad doom of Louis XVII., King of France. The annals of the

+poor offer no fate so miserable as that of this descendant of the

+proudest and most powerful of European monarchs. By some writers it is

+asserted that Louis escaped from his imprisonment, that a child deaf and

+dumb was substituted for him, and that the King, or Dauphin, died in

+obscurity in some part of Europe or America. But the legend is

+improbable, and Louis XVII. sleeps, no doubt, in the cemetery where he

+was laid at Paris.

+

+

+

+

+BEATA'S LOCKET.

+

+BY LILLIAS C. DAVIDSON.

+

+

+Twenty-one pearls!--no, twenty-two; thirteen in the B, and nine in the V

+of the monogram, besides the six little nails with heads of real

+diamonds! Beata had never seen such a locket, no, not even in a shop

+window, and to have had it for her very own for four whole days, and not

+be able so much as to wear it!

+

+It had come on Christmas-day--come in a little case all packed with

+cotton-wool, and lined with silver paper--a case which Beata's fingers

+could hardly open, they shook so with excitement and eagerness; and it

+came all the way from Germany and her German godmother, Madame Von

+Thausandmal.

+

+"A beautiful locket, certainly, my dear," said Mrs. Vyner, Beata's

+mamma, in confidence, to Beata's papa, when locket and case, and

+Beata--rosy and joyful and proud--had all vanished with a rush out of

+mamma's pretty blue morning-room. "But so utterly unsuitable to a child!

+What can Helga von Thausandmal have been thinking of to send her such a

+thing? Of course it was exceedingly kind of her, but I'm afraid it will

+turn Beata's head, and it won't be the least use to her for years to

+come."

+

+"Why not, eh?" asked the Squire, who was deep in the morning paper, and

+perhaps wasn't attending as he might have been. "I thought it pretty

+enough."

+

+"It's lovely; that's just it. It's too bad to tantalize her with a thing

+she can't wear, and no properly brought up little girls wear such

+jewelry; even if they did, I should not let Beata do anything so silly

+and improper. No; it must be put away for her till she is eighteen, and

+'comes out.' Poor child! I won't take it away for a week or two; it

+would be cruel; but go it must. Why couldn't Helga have sent her some

+books, or a doll, or anything sensible?"

+

+But of all this Beata heard not a word, and her cup of bliss seemed as

+if it would run over. Such a locket! as grand as a grown-up young

+lady's, and for her very own! She had shown it at least three times over

+to every servant in the house, down to Elizabeth Jane, the kitchen-maid,

+who had won Beata's genuine respect by her "Law, miss, if it ain't fit

+for a duchess at the very least!" and she only sighed to think her

+governess had gone home for the holidays, and could not see it for a

+whole fortnight.

+

+But now a little shadow, like a small cloud, had come over the sunshine.

+What was the good of a locket, and such a locket as Beata's, if other

+people didn't see and admire? And how could they see it, if it were not

+worn? And what chance had she to wear it?

+

+To be sure, the house was full of visitors, who had come the very day

+after Christmas, and Rex and she went down to dessert every night, and

+into the drawing-room for half an hour afterward; but somehow Beata

+never quite ventured to suggest "Locket," as nurse dressed her in her

+well-worn little frock of black velvet, and tied her plain red silk

+sash; indeed, she rather fancied she could see nurse's face if she did;

+and as to wearing it to church on Sunday--well, even Beata's little head

+could dimly understand somehow that God's house wasn't the place for

+finery and display; and so--

+

+"But now, to-day, there _is_ a chance," she thought, with a gasp which

+was half exultation and half pure fright at her own daring; for Rex and

+she were going skating.

+

+Down in the park at Dene Hall there is a beautiful little lake, where

+the wild fowl swim in summer, and where Beata and Rex were wont to

+paddle about in a flat-bottomed boat, a "tub," Rex called it. But now

+the water was covered with firm smooth ice, and the ladies and gentlemen

+staying at the Hall had gone down there to skate, and Cousin Cecil had

+promised to look after the children if they might come too; and Beata

+was tempted.

+

+Rex was shouting from the hall. Without another pause the locket was out

+of its case, slipped on a ribbon, and the ribbon tied round Beata's

+neck. Was it dread of Rex's scorn or of mamma's observation that made

+Beata slip it under her little fur boa as she ran down the old oaken

+stairs?

+

+"Rex, you've no overcoat," she said, as they hurried together through

+the snow, which lay like a soft white blanket over garden and park. That

+hidden locket filled her mind so full that she must speak about it, and

+she artfully began to talk about dress, to work the conversation round

+to that beloved topic. But all in vain.

+

+"Overcoat!" echoed Rex, in high disdain, swinging Beata's dainty little

+skates and his own together. "Who wants an overcoat? The Spartans never

+wore 'em."

+

+"But then you're not a Spartan."

+

+"Wish I was." Rex was beginning ancient history, and had a Grecian craze

+just now. "Never mind, I mean to harden just as if I was;" but he

+couldn't help a shiver all the same.

+

+Beata tried again. "Doesn't the snow look like pearls, Rex?"

+

+"Can't say I see it. Oh, you're thinking about that swell locket of

+yours. Now in Sparta they never allowed them to wear bosh like that."

+

+"Then Sparta was a stupid place," began Beata, hotly; but they came

+round the corner by the lake, and the sight there put everything else

+out of both their minds.

+

+Such a pretty sight! Ice as smooth and clear as sweeping could make it;

+white banks of snow gleaming like a wreath about it; crowds of gayly

+dressed ladies and knickerbockered gentlemen skimming about, or being

+pushed in chairs; the ring of a hundred skates keeping time to the band

+that was playing in the rustic boat-house; and another crowd of people,

+but not gayly dressed, standing and looking on at it all.

+

+"What a rabble!" said Beata. "These aren't only village people and

+servants; some of them look like gypsies. Look at that woman in the red

+shawl--she's a tramp."

+

+But here, skating down to them with a pretty grace, her sweet face

+glowing above her warm furs, came Cousin Cecil, and just behind her the

+fair mustache of Captain Strangways, the children's firm friend; and

+after that there could be nothing but delight.

+

+To skate between Cousin Cecil and Captain Strangways, holding a hand of

+each, seemed to Beata the summit of human felicity. Rex, still Spartan

+even in his pleasures, preferred to stagger about alone. Beata forgot to

+try and pretend she was grown up.

+

+All at once she remembered, with a shock of remorse, that Captain

+Strangways had never seen the wonderful locket. What an omission! Her

+hand went up under her fur boa to bring that neglected ornament into its

+proper position; then stopped short. The thin little bit of blue ribbon

+dangled aimless there, to be sure, but there was no locket.

+

+I don't think Beata will ever forget that moment, if she lives to be an

+old woman. Her face looked almost gray as she turned it up speechlessly

+to Cousin Cecil's wondering gaze.

+

+"My locket! oh, my locket!" she managed to gasp.

+

+"Your locket, dear? Why, what's the matter? Oh, Beata, you don't mean to

+say you wore it?"

+

+"Oh yes, I did, I did; and now it's gone."

+

+Cousin Cecil looked very grave indeed. "Oh, Beata!" was all she said,

+but it was worse than any words almost.

+

+"Oh, do let's find it; do look--do, do!"

+

+"We'll look; but as to finding it--" But Cousin Cecil broke off short.

+There was a scream from the other end of the lake, where the village

+boys and girls had made a slide--a shrill, sharp cry--and a little tiny

+boy, such a ragged, wretched mite, lay flat upon the hard cold ice.

+Captain Strangways started to go, but Cecil was there first. She was

+down upon her knees, and had the wee dirty face on her arm, before he

+could reach her side, for he was heavier and slower than she. She looked

+up with a serious face as he bent down to her.

+

+"Poor little mite! I am afraid he's hurt. He was too small to slide. I

+must get him home this minute. Where does he live?"

+

+"Please, miss, down to Bill Green's; they're a-lodgin'. Please, miss,

+they're tramps; that was his ma that's just gone, her in the red shawl

+there," rose in a hubbub of voices.

+

+"Oh, poor wee man! I'll take him home."

+

+"Pray, Miss Vyner, let me," said Captain Strangways, struggling with his

+skates.

+

+"Oh no, please don't: I'd rather. It's only a step. He isn't heavy. No,

+please. If you'll take the children home for me, I won't be long."

+

+"But you must not go alone, and it's almost dusk."

+

+"Jim shall go with me," and she beckoned to a stable-boy in the crowd.

+"Indeed, Captain Strangways, I would much rather you did not come,

+really;" and reluctantly he stooped and unfastened her skates, and stood

+watching her as she passed quickly down toward the village, with Jim in

+attendance, and the little child in her arms.

+

+"It's all right, really," said Rex, trying to cut a double S, and

+failing signally. "Don't you know Cousin Cecil is doctor to half the

+village?"

+

+"And oh!" said a tearful voice, "could you help me to look for my

+locket?"

+

+"By all means," said the kind young soldier, and they set to work with a

+will, but without success; no locket was to be seen.

+

+"I'll tell you what, Beata," said Rex, as the fading light warned them

+to join the group starting homeward, "it's no go. We'll tell Adams, and

+get him to set the gardeners and stablemen to work early in the morning,

+but you can't see your own nose now. I believe the woman in the red

+shawl boned it. Don't cry; you know the Spartans--"

+

+But there was a sob as they turned away, and even Captain Strangways's

+comforting hand-clasp could not quite console poor Beata.

+

+Everybody was having afternoon tea when they reached home. The great

+square hall, with its polished walls and rafters, was all aglow with the

+light from the great wood fire on the old stone hearth. There was a

+pleasant clatter of tea-spoons, and a most appetizing aroma of hot tea

+and muffins, and a great deal of chattering and soft laughter from the

+ladies in their low easy-chairs, and the gentlemen who were handing

+tea-cups. Captain Strangways secured a very big carved chair on the

+outside of the circle, and the children nestled down close to him on the

+tiger-skin rug. It was only the holiday-time that gained them this

+distinguished honor of taking tea down stairs, instead of in the

+school-room. But Beata did not feel grown up at all; she was far too

+busy mourning over the lost locket, and thinking of the confession that

+would have to be made to mamma by-and-by. Rex was very silent too, but

+he was busy with the muffins. I don't know whether they had muffins in

+Sparta, but on that subject he said not a word.

+

+The laughter and the tea-drinking went on, but no Cousin Cecil appeared.

+Captain Strangways had twice gone over to look out at the deepening

+darkness, and each time he came back looking graver, when all at once

+the great hall door opened softly, there was a sudden rush of cold air,

+and in came Cecil, very gently and quietly.

+

+Captain Strangways was on his feet, had unfastened her fur cloak, placed

+her in the big chair, and brought her a cup of tea, before Rex had

+swallowed the mouthful of muffin upon which he was engaged. When his

+speech returned to him, however, he asked, with un-Spartanlike

+eagerness,

+

+"Well, and how's the little chap?"

+

+"Better now, dear, but he was really hurt." Then, leaning forward, "Look

+here, Beata," she said, very seriously, and dropped something into her

+lap.

+

+Beata started up with a little cry, "My locket! oh, my locket!"

+

+"Then I do believe that old red shawl stole it, after all. Has she gone

+to prison?"

+

+"Oh, hush, Rex! Listen, children: what sort of a home do you think I

+took that poor little man to? Nothing but the shed behind Green's

+smithy; no fire, no bed but straw, no food. He had cut his head, but I

+soon bound that up, and then--oh, how can I tell you?--his mother, that

+poor pale creature in the red shawl, came up to me, just as I was coming

+away, and with tears and sobs she gave me this. She said she saw it

+fall, and picked it up in hopes of a reward, and then--and then she

+thought of the food it would buy for her miserable little starving

+babies (there were two more in the shed), and oh, children, _she meant

+to keep it_!"

+

+There was a moment's silence.

+

+"Then why--why did she give it to you?" said a somewhat husky voice:

+perhaps the hardening process had given Rex cold.

+

+"She said, when I brought the little boy home, she couldn't do it. She

+said--and I believe it is true--that it is the first time in her life

+she took what wasn't hers, and it was only the starving babies, and the

+sight of the glittering locket, that tempted her. Oh, Beata dear, don't

+you see now what it is to wear things that may put temptation in other

+people's way?"

+

+Something as bright as the diamond nails glistened on the locket on

+Beata's lap.

+

+"I'll tell mamma every bit about it," she murmured, with drooping head,

+"and ask her to take it away, and never let me even see it till I'm

+grown up."

+

+"Yes; and, Beata"--and Cousin Cecil's voice sank so low that no one else

+could hear--"when you say, 'Lead us not into temptation,' to-night, ask

+to be kept from ever tempting anybody else, and think of poor little

+Tom's mother, won't you?"

+

+"But, I say, cousin"--Rex was a little husky still--"are they all

+starving and shivering down there now?"

+

+"Oh no; Mrs. Green has taken them in for the night, and Jim has just

+gone back with some hot soup and other things for them, and to-morrow we

+must settle more. I'm sure Uncle George will help."

+

+"And Beata's and my pocket-money--at least what's left after Christmas

+and all those chocolates we bought the other day. Now, Beata, I hope

+you'll give up wearing lockets and tomfoolery like that. In Sparta--"

+

+"Have another muffin, Rex, my boy?" said Captain Strangways; and Rex's

+valuable items of information respecting that classic land were lost to

+the general public--at least as far as that occasion was concerned.

+

+

+

+

+GUESS.

+

+

+  If all the wealth on earth could be

+  To one man given, still would not he

+  Be rich as I. O'er land and sea

+  I scatter gold. I fill the air

+  With precious specks. Ay! everywhere

+  I of my treasure give a share,

+  And yet have countless stores to spare.

+

+

+

+

+[Begun in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 66, February 1.]

+

+PHIL'S FAIRIES.

+

+BY MRS. W. J. HAYS,

+

+AUTHOR OF "PRINCESS IDLEWAYS," ETC.

+

+CHAPTER VII.

+

+FAREWELL TO THE CITY.

+

+

+A day or two later, Phil, wrapped in shawls, was carried by Joe to a

+carriage, and the carriage rolled away to a wharf where puffed numerous

+steamboats; and here he was taken on board one of the river-steamers,

+and safely placed in the midst of a heap of pillows on deck, where he

+could see all the busy life about him--see the newspaper boys and the

+orange women, and the hurrying hacks and the great teams, and all the

+stir and tumult of the city's busiest hours. Miss Schuyler, in her cool

+gray suit, was on one side of him, and Lisa, looking tranquil and

+thoroughly glad and grateful, on the other, and Joe, just the happiest

+darky in the world, sat at his feet ready to take charge of all and

+everything.

+

+They sailed and they sailed, away from the city and its many roofs, from

+the factory chimneys and the steeples, from the cloud of smoke which

+hung between the sky and house-tops, until they came to the hills and

+dales of pasture-lands and villages. Then they landed, and were whirled

+away in the cars, and Phil enjoyed it all, even the fatigue which made

+him sleep; and Joe carried him about as if he were a baby.

+

+It was quite dark when, after a drive over a rather rough road, they

+reached the lake-side cottage which was Miss Schuyler's summer home, and

+Phil was glad to be put in bed, for the old pain had begun again.

+

+When he opened his eyes the next morning, it was with a strange feeling

+of wonder at his new surroundings. Birds were twittering out-of-doors,

+and there was a soft lapping of water on the shore. The green boughs of

+a cherry-tree almost brushed against the window-panes. He was no longer

+in his old garret room, but in a pretty apartment, with bunches of

+rose-buds on the walls, and scent-bottles on the toilet table, and

+muslin curtains, and a bright carpet, and pretty book-shelves, and

+brackets, and lovely child-faces in the engravings; and on a broad table

+was a little easel, and a paint-box, and drawing-paper; and here too was

+his old box with the violin strings.

+

+"Oh," said Phil, softly, "I wonder if heaven is any better than this!"

+

+He had closed his eyes as he said it, and went over his usual morning

+prayer of thankfulness; and when he opened his eyes, there was Lisa with

+his breakfast tray--poached eggs and toast and a goblet of milk.

+

+"Lisa, Lisa, is not this too nice for anything?" asked Phil.

+

+"Yes, indeed, dear, it is nice. Miss Schuyler says you must hurry and

+get strong, so that you can make the acquaintance of the hens that laid

+these eggs for you, and the cow whose milk is to do you so much good."

+

+"What is the cow's name, Lisa?"

+

+"I don't know," said Lisa.

+

+"It is Daisy," said Miss Schuyler, coming in to say good-morning. "She's

+a lovely little Alderney, and her milk is like cream. Oh, you will soon

+be strong enough to row my boat for me."

+

+"A boat!--have you a boat?"

+

+"Yes, and you are going out on the lake in her this very morning."

+

+"It is just too much happiness, Miss Schuyler."

+

+"Well, we will not overpower you. For a day or two you must rest, and do

+nothing but breathe the sweet air. I have to be busy getting things in

+order and looking after my garden. Lisa will take her work on the

+piazza, and you can lie in one of the easy-chairs. Joe is to wait on

+you, and do a little weeding, and keep the paths in order, and bail out

+the boat; and the old man seems to be very much at home already. So that

+is the order of the day. Now good-by, and don't do too much thinking."

+

+[Illustration: ON THE LAKE.]

+

+"One moment, Miss Schuyler; do you believe in fairies?"

+

+"Just a little," said Miss Schuyler, with a quizzical smile.

+

+"Well, I believe in them," said Phil, "and I think you are one of the

+best of them."

+

+"Oh no, I am very human, dear Phil, as you will find out. And now I must

+go look after my strawberry beds. Good-by."

+

+"Good-by," said Phil, waving her a kiss. "Only think, Lisa, we will

+actually see strawberries growing! It is quite fairy-land for me."

+

+After that he was carried down to the easy-chair on the piazza, where he

+could see the lawn sloping down to the lake, and watch the birds

+lighting on the rim of a vase full of daisies and running vines. He

+could see that the cottage was low and broad, and painted in two shades

+of brown; that there were arbors covered with grapevines on one side,

+and on the other he knew there were flower beds and fruit trees, for

+every once in a while Miss Rachel was to be seen emerging from there in

+a broad straw flat, and with buckskin gloves, trailing long bits of

+string or boughs of green stuff, with scissors and trowel and

+watering-can.

+

+Lisa had her work-basket, and with deft fingers and a little under-tone

+of psalmody was fashioning a pretty summer garment. Then Miss Rachel

+came and tossed a basketful of early roses and syringa down beside Phil,

+and put a little table beside him, with some slender glass vases and a

+pitcher of water, and asked him to arrange the flowers for her. This he

+was glad to do, and made the bunches up as prettily as his nice taste

+suggested. But he was really wearied with great happiness. It was all so

+new, so charming, every sense was so satisfied, that at last he closed

+his eyes and slept.

+

+It seemed to him only a little while, but when he opened his eyes again,

+Lisa was beside him with his dinner; and after dinner he slept again,

+and when he wakened the lawn was in shadow, and the sun low in the sky,

+and the birds were twittering and seeking their nests, and Miss Rachel

+was telling Joe to put cushions in the boat, the _Flyaway_; and

+presently Phil found himself floating gently on the lovely water of the

+lake, and the cottage and lawn and arbors were looking like a pretty bit

+of landscape he had seen in books.

+

+He dipped his fingers in the clear water, and looked down at the pebbly

+bottom, and listened to the even dip of the oars, as old Joe rowed

+farther out from shore.

+

+"It must be fairy-land," thought Phil, but he said nothing; he was too

+happy to talk. And so the day ended, the first day in the country.

+

+[TO BE CONTINUED.]

+

+

+

+

+PINAFORE RHYMES.--(_Continued._)

+

+

+[Illustration]

+

+  Bow! wow! wow! You'd better run;

+  I'm just the dog to spoil your fun;

+  I'll tear your dresses, and bite your heels,

+  Till every one of you shrieks and squeals.

+  So, there! I've scared them well, I must say;

+  But I'm very glad that they ran away;

+  It wouldn't have been such jolly fun,

+  If they had made me turn tail and run.

+

+[Illustration]

+

+

+[Illustration]

+

+  Six chimney-sweeps, each black as a crow,

+  Had a big fight with a man of snow.

+  They beat him to pieces because he was white,

+  And had a triumphant feast that night.

+  Their dishes were blackbirds and crows, 'tis said,

+  Chimney-soot pudding and charcoal bread.

+  And they swallowed a dozen bottles of ink,

+  Being very choice in their meat and drink.

+

+

+[Illustration]

+

+  Here, you little monkey, you,

+  I want to see you play with Lu;

+  She's such a pretty little miss,

+  Shake hands with her, and give a kiss.

+            _Won't!_

+

+  Why not, when Lulu wants to play,

+  And asks in such a pretty way?

+            _Can't!_

+  Why not, you little sauce-box, say?

+            _Sha'n't!_

+

+

+[Illustration]

+

+  Here's a dainty little tree,

+  With its spreading leaves so free;

+  It's so pretty, that I will

+  Keep it on my window-sill.

+

+

+

+

+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX]

+

+

+  RATON, NEW MEXICO.

+

+     My brother and sisters and myself live at Chicorica Park. It is a

+     very pretty place, situated in the Raton Mountains. We have had

+     parties of as many as three hundred Indians hunting in our cañon at

+     once, but it is a year and a half now since we have seen any. We

+     have a good many deer here. Seven have been killed since Christmas,

+     but one was carried off by a mountain lion.

+

+      We like HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE very much, especially the Jimmy

+      Brown stories, and "Toby Tyler." We are all English children, and

+      have never lived anywhere in America except in New Mexico. Our

+      pets are dogs and cats and a colt. We like the colt best of all.

+

+      We have had some very heavy snow-storms, and the cañon has been

+      impassable several times this winter, so we have not received

+      YOUNG PEOPLE very regularly. I am twelve years old.

+

+  G. KERCHEVAL M.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  CLIFTON HEIGHTS, PENNSYLVANIA.

+

+     I like the life of Lafayette which was published in YOUNG PEOPLE so

+     much! I have the lives of generals in my history, but the way they

+     are written in YOUNG PEOPLE is so much more interesting! I wish the

+     paper was published twice a week, it seems so long to wait to hear

+     how Toby Tyler gets along. On Wednesday morning it is "Hallo! has

+     YOUNG PEOPLE come?" all over our house. Mamma says it is a great

+     blessing. We think the little girl with her first muff in the

+     picture in No. 68 is so sweet and chubby and baby-like, that if she

+     was alive we should just love her to death.

+

+      I have a dog named Major, who sits up on his hind-legs and hangs

+      down his fore-paws pitifully, as if they were broken, and some

+      people think they really are; but Major only does it to beg for

+      candy. He has many friends, and sometimes they bring him sticks of

+      candy all the way from Philadelphia.

+

+      It has been so cold here this winter that some of our sparrows

+      fell to the ground half frozen. We brought them into the house,

+      and when they got warm we opened the window and let them fly away.

+

+  GEORGY H.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO.

+

+     I am six years old. I began to take YOUNG PEOPLE on the first of

+     January, and I like it ever so much. I learned the little poem in

+     No. 66 about the strawberry vines, and how the snowy blanket

+     covered their saucy little heads. I speak it for grandma, and she

+     says it is beautiful.

+

+      Christmas papa gave me a beautiful little stove, all

+      nickel-plated. I bake pies and cake and other nice things for my

+      little friends and myself to eat.

+

+      My uncle brought me a doll from New York city, and my other uncle

+      gave me a little trunk to put her clothes in.

+

+  ETHEL B.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  DENISON, IOWA.

+

+     I wish YOUNG PEOPLE came every day instead of once a week. I was so

+     sorry when "Mildred's Bargain" was finished! but I like the other

+     stories ever so much, especially "Toby Tyler." I read all the

+     letters in the Post-office Box, and wish I could see all the boys

+     and girls who write them. The little girl away down in Texas who

+     wrote about the first snow has no idea how much fun we Northern

+     children have coasting on the snow crust, sometimes over drifts

+     eight and ten feet deep.

+

+      Last Friday I spoke "Lily's Ball," the poem in No. 67 of YOUNG

+      PEOPLE, at my school, and next week I am going to speak "My First

+      Muff," in No. 68.

+

+  MABEL.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  NEW YORK CITY.

+

+     I think Toby Tyler is a great boy. We used to have a monkey named

+     Jack. Every night he would put a shawl over his head and go to

+     sleep. Sometimes he would hold the kitten in his arms and try to

+     put her to sleep. He would get on our pig's back, and hold on to

+     his ears, and ride all around, and he would ride horseback to the

+     village. When any one went out, he would watch to see if any candy

+     were brought home, and if it was, he would stand on his hind-legs

+     and put out his paw until the paper was opened. I am almost eight

+     years old.

+

+  WILLIE K. T.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  HOUSTON, TEXAS, _February_ 22, 1881.

+

+     I wish to notify correspondents that I have exchanged to the full

+     extent of my collection, and I beg them not to write to me any

+     more.

+

+  H. C. YANCEY.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  FOREST LAKE, PENNSYLVANIA.

+

+     My papa promised me YOUNG PEOPLE as soon as I could read it myself.

+     I tried very hard after that, and last November, on my seventh

+     birthday, sure enough it came. I don't believe any little boy

+     enjoys it more than I do. I must tell you of one thing it has done

+     for me. I was always afraid to be left alone, especially after

+     dark. After reading the story in No. 55 about the little girl who

+     broke herself of being so timid, I went every night from garret to

+     cellar all alone after dark, and now I am not afraid to go anywhere

+     in the house, even if it is very dark.

+

+      I have a little brother named Harry. I love him very much. He

+      likes the pictures in YOUNG PEOPLE as much as I do. I think Jimmy

+      Brown is jolly.

+

+  WRIGHTIE G.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

+

+     I have two mocking-birds for pets. They whistle so pretty! I am

+     going to have a pretty flower garden this summer. Spring is here

+     (February 16), and the peach-trees are budding, and everybody is

+     making gardens.

+

+      I like all the stories in YOUNG PEOPLE. I always laugh so hard

+      when mamma reads Jimmy Brown to me! I wish he would send another

+      story.

+

+  MAY K.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  _February_ 24, 1881.

+

+     I have no more pure white coral left, but I have a piece with a

+     little red in it which I will send to a boy who sent me a specimen

+     of ore, if he will kindly send me his address again.

+

+      I would like to send "Wee Tot" a piece of red coral from the Red

+      Sea, if she will send me some ocean curiosities and her address.

+

+  SALLIE KELLEY,

+  Kleine St., East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+Fred Glasier, of Adams, Massachusetts, regrets being unable to make a

+return for some favors he has received, as the addresses, although

+given, were so illegible that he could not decipher them. Addresses

+should always be written distinctly. The Post-office Box is often

+compelled to neglect exchanges which are pretty and suitable, because

+the address is as mysterious as the hieroglyphics on our Egyptian

+obelisk.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Last year my father gave me a Columbia bicycle. We have a bicycle

+     club here, with about twenty members, of which I am one. Our suit

+     is brown corduroy, with red stockings. The cap is like the suit.

+

+      I would like to exchange some of the first American pennies and

+      halfpennies, for foreign coins.

+

+  ARTHUR C. KETCHAM,

+  Care of William P. Ketcham. P. O. Box 10,

+  Yonkers, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     I will exchange bayberry-tallow, for peacock coal, or postage

+     stamps from Cape of Good Hope or Barbadoes.

+

+  A. M. FORMAN,

+  116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

+

+Bayberry-tallow is greenish in color, and is obtained by boiling the

+berries of the bayberry, or wax myrtle (_Myrica cerifera_). This shrub,

+which is very aromatic, grows in great abundance all along the Atlantic

+coast. It is found in such quantities in some localities of Long Island

+that the gathering of the berries and the manufacture of tallow for

+candles amount to an extensive local industry.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE since the first copy. My brother has

+     bound it with strings, and it makes a very pretty volume.

+

+      I have often answered correspondents, always receiving, in

+      exchange for foreign stamps, articles of equal value.

+

+      I have nearly two thousand duplicates of foreign stamps, which I

+      will exchange for other foreign stamps, or for stamps of United

+      States departments. I will also exchange postmarks for anything

+      interesting.

+

+  JOHN THOMAS,

+  3420 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     My mamma says she will make a pretty flower out of any little

+     girl's hair, or her mamma's, in exchange for curious shells,

+     minerals, or a genuine Indian bow and arrow. A bunch of hair from

+     one to two feet long and as thick as a goose quill will make a

+     pretty flower.

+

+  ADELLA P. LIPPINCOTT,

+  New Hope, Bucks County, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     I have four Chilian stamps, which I would like to exchange for

+     other South American stamps. I have made a man with a basket on his

+     back from Wiggle 17, which I send.

+

+  EDWARD H. PALMER,

+  44 Schiffleutstaden, Strasburg, Germany.

+

+Your Wiggle is excellent, and we are very sorry it arrived too late to

+be printed with others.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     I have noticed in the exchanges there are many who want birds'

+     eggs. It does not seem quite right to me, because if we take all

+     the eggs, we destroy all the birds. I will exchange shells and

+     pebbles from Lake Erie, for any curiosity except birds' eggs.

+

+  JESSIE G. SMITH,

+  327 West Fourth Street, Erie, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:

+

+     Postmarks and stamps of all kinds.

+

+  GEORGE LINSCOTT,

+  Holton, Jackson County, Kansas.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Twenty-five postmarks, for five stamps from any country except

+     Europe, Canada, and the United States.

+

+  F. S. and B. S.,

+  P. O. Box 582, Lansing, Mich.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Dried ferns from the highest peaks of the Alleghanies, for pieces

+     of silk for a quilt.

+

+  LUCY SHARP, P. O. Box 73, Bridgeton, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stamps.

+

+  SAMMY BEANS,

+  103 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks or stamps, for stamps.

+

+  JEROME G. EDDY, Lock Box 111, Geneva, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A piece of Irish peat, for soil and seed from the far West or

+     South, especially cotton seed, or for a piece of lava.

+

+  D. ALLAN WEBER,

+  Searsport, Waldo County, Maine.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stamps.

+

+  N. S. SCHWARZ,

+  105 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postage stamps and postmarks, for stamps.

+

+  WILLIAM M. BEAMAN,

+  U. S. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A Canadian coin, for five Montenegro stamps.

+

+  CHARLIE HUBBARD,

+  30 Pearl Street, New Haven, Conn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Shells, for Indian relics.

+

+  AARON KING,

+  80 Ellison Street, Paterson, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Texas moss, flints, insects, woods, pressed flowers, and other

+     natural curiosities, for foreign postage stamps, woods, Indian

+     arrow-heads, and all kinds of minerals.

+

+  J. S. and WILLIE G. DAVIS,

+  Care of J. T. Davis, P. O. Box 122,

+  Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks, for stamps, curiosities, or minerals. Ten postmarks, for

+     one rare stamp; or twenty, for a good curiosity.

+

+  CHARLIE NICHOLS,

+  288 Lafayette Street, Bridgeport, Conn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postage stamps, for stamps, minerals or coins.

+

+  RALPH L. EMERSON,

+  P. O. Box 105, Brookline, Mass.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postage stamps, for the same, or pressed wild flowers.

+

+  FRED CHENEY,

+  41 Fort Avenue, Boston, Mass.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Foreign postage stamps.

+

+  HENRY PAYNE,

+  Mankato, Minn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stamps, for coins.

+

+  A SUBSCRIBER OF "YOUNG PEOPLE,"

+  First National Bank, Bay City, Mich.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A small piece of sulphate of iron, for foreign postage stamps.

+

+  HARRY W. TOWNLEY,

+  Sayreville, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stamps, for coins.

+

+  W. T. CRANE,

+  124 Washington Street, Hoboken, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stamps, for anything suitable for a museum.

+

+  D. G. BARNETT,

+  406 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     German postage stamps, for other foreign stamps.

+

+  ARTHUR E. CAMPBELL,

+  222 Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Five postmarks, for one foreign stamp.

+

+  GUY F. BARKER,

+  St Albans, Franklin County, Vt.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Rare postmarks (Illinois especially) and postage stamps, for

+     foreign and old issues of United States stamps.

+

+  MANNING A. LOGAN,

+  812 Twelfth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Three varieties of internal revenue stamps, for foreign stamps,

+     minerals, or curiosities.

+

+  EDWIN E. SLOSSON,

+  Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     United States and foreign postage stamps, for stamps from Hamburg,

+     Mexico, and Japan.

+

+  HARRY C. BREARLEY,

+  180 Charlotte Avenue, Detroit, Mich.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postage stamps, for specimens of gold, silver, copper, or tin ore.

+

+  ALLY B. HALLIDAY,

+  406 West Forty-third Street, New York City.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Minerals, fossils, shells, and Indian relics (a large collection of

+     the latter), for minerals, shells, and seaweed. Only good specimens

+     desired.

+

+  ED GOHL, 7 South Third Street, Harrisburg, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stones from Connecticut, Texas, and Mississippi, also cotton as it

+     comes from the field, for foreign postage stamps.

+

+  JAMES MCKENNA,

+  4 West Street, Bridgeport, Conn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A Norwegian halfpenny, date 1867, two Cape of Good Hope stamps,

+     and a flint an inch long, for Indian arrow-heads and petrified

+     wood.

+

+  GEORGE E. PRINGLE, Hastings, Minn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Shells from the Indian and Pacific oceans, for fossils of animals

+     or plants.

+

+  HENRY W. HAND,

+  Green Creek, Cape May County, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Foreign postage stamps, for Indian relics and curiosities.

+

+  FLAVEL S. MINES, Kirkwood Hotel,

+  Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Mo.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks, postage and revenue stamps, and monograms, for postage

+     and revenue stamps.

+

+  K. G. EASTON, West Berkeley, Cal.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Thirty foreign stamps, for five stamps of the following countries:

+     Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Cape of Good Hope, Hong-Kong.

+

+  H. L. J.,

+  Lock Box 721, Granville, Licking County, Ohio.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks, for stamps.

+

+  JAMES G. BARBOUR,

+  25 Fulton Street, Pittsburgh, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Twenty-eight old coins, for any curiosity or Indian relics. A good

+     Indian bow and a few arrows especially desired.

+

+  A SUBSCRIBER OF "YOUNG PEOPLE,"

+  P. O. Box 930, Rushford, Fillmore Co., Minn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A few shells from Calcutta, India, for ocean curiosities, or any

+     pretty thing for a collection. Mosses and pressed ferns especially

+     desired. Flower seeds also exchanged.

+

+  ELLA STULL,

+  Greenville, Darke County, Ohio.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Ten foreign postage stamps, for an Indian arrow-head, or two stamps

+     from the Cape of Good Hope.

+

+  FREEMAN WOODBRIDGE,

+  Care of Dr. J. Woodbridge,

+  New Brunswick. N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks and Canadian postage stamps, for shells from the Pacific

+     and Southern coasts, or other curiosities. Correspondents will

+     please label specimens.

+

+  MISS M. FRANK LE COUNT,

+  South Norwalk, Conn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stones from the Arkansas River, cotton as it comes from the field,

+     cotton seed, postmarks, and scales of the alligator gar-fish, for

+     United States or foreign coins. Correspondents will please label

+     coins.

+

+  COLLECTOR, care of Postmaster,

+  Heckatoo, Lincoln County, Ark.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Old United States and foreign postage stamps, for coins and

+     minerals.

+

+  GUSTAVUS SCHAEMBER,

+  159 Prince Street, New York City.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Ten Pennsylvania postmarks, for the same number of any other State

+     or Territory, or Canada.

+

+  CLIFF C. GARRISON,

+  Brookville, Jefferson County, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Twenty-five postmarks, for five rare postage stamps.

+

+  R. C. WILLIAMS, JUN.,

+  240 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A stone from Pennsylvania, for one from any other State; or

+     postmarks, for foreign stamps--Chinese especially desired.

+

+  WALTER J. WELLS,

+  Oswayo, Potter County, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     An ounce of the soil of New York, for the same from any other

+     State. Western soil particularly desired.

+

+  ERNEST S. GREEN,

+  123 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Sea-shells, for foreign postage stamps.

+

+  C. H. TUCKER,

+  63 Cass Avenue, Corner of Adams,

+  Detroit, Mich.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Fragments of figured pottery from sites of ancient Mohawk Indian

+     villages, for Indian relics from other localities.

+

+  R. C. HALL,

+  Canajoharie, Montgomery County, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stones from the shore of Lake Erie, for stones or ores from other

+     localities, or foreign postage stamps.

+

+  FRANK W. FULLKERSON,

+  78 Sawtell Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     European, Chinese, and Japanese postage stamps, for minerals.

+

+  CLARENCE HENNE,

+  39 Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Latest issues of German, French, and Italian postage stamps, and

+     curiosities, for curiosities.

+

+  L. H. TROTTER,

+  22 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks, for fossils and minerals.

+

+  FLETCHER M. NOE,

+  165 North Alabama Street, Indianapolis, Ind.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Foreign postage stamps, for foreign stamps, minerals, or fossils.

+

+  HARRY S. JEANES,

+  521 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postage stamps, postmarks, minerals, shells, wood, feathers, or any

+     Texas curiosity, for copper or zinc ore, ocean curiosities, or

+     anything suitable for a museum.

+

+  FRANK D. DAVIS, Groesbeck, Texas.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     United States War Department stamps, for foreign stamps.

+

+  MONTGOMERY M. TAYLOR,

+  Newport Barracks, Newport, Ky.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Coins, for an Indian tomahawk or pipe, shells, minerals, coins, or

+     other curiosities.

+

+  ALFRED W. KERR,

+  22 Crescent Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+G. H.--"The Story of George Washington" ran through ten numbers of

+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, Vol. I., beginning in No. 24, April 13, and

+ending in No. 33, June 15.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+CLEMENT L. AND VIRGINIA H. P.--In 1872, Captain Lawson, an Englishman,

+accompanied by a band of natives, explored the island of Papua, or New

+Guinea. In the published account of his travels mention is made of Mount

+Hercules, which, according to his measurements, is 32,783 feet above the

+sea-level, or over 3000 feet higher than Mount Everest. Captain Lawson's

+statement has not yet been verified by farther scientific investigation,

+and the latest geographies and encyclopædias continue to name Mount

+Everest as the highest known peak on the earth's surface.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+MINNIE G.--A Brazilian silver milreis, or one thousand reis, is worth

+about fifty-one cents, United States currency. The face value of a

+ten-reis postage stamp is about half a cent.--Cancelled stamps are

+commonly used in exchange by our correspondents, as new ones are

+difficult to obtain, especially those of foreign countries.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+A. A. Y. C.--The cost of material for sail-boat described in YOUNG

+PEOPLE No. 66 is about fifteen dollars. For the other information you

+require, go to the foot of Court Street, Brooklyn, in which city you

+live, and talk with the boatmen and boat-builders there.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+J. M.--A new boat like the one you describe will cost from seventy-five

+to one hundred dollars. You may be able to obtain one second-hand in

+good condition for half that sum. The expense of starting a club would

+depend entirely upon the outlay to which the members mutually agree. It

+might be confined to the price of your boat and rowing suits, and the

+rent of some place to store your boat.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+JOHN T.--A note from Mr. Casey, containing his address and a kind offer

+to reply to correspondents, was printed in the Post-office Box of

+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 61.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+WILLIE B. S.--When the Colonial Congress was in session in Philadelphia

+in 1774 a motion was made to open the proceedings with prayer. It was

+opposed on the ground that as the members belonged to different

+denominations, they would be unable to join in the same act of worship.

+But Mr. Samuel Adams, who was a strict Presbyterian, said he could

+listen to a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue who was at the

+same time a friend to his country, and named Mr. Jacob Duché, an

+Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, as such a person. The motion was

+then passed, and Mr. Duché appeared the next morning, and officiated

+with great fervor. He subsequently became a traitor to his country, and

+even attempted to persuade Washington to desert to the British.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+WALTER S. D.--The two New York firms that carry and distribute mail

+matter within the limits of the city of New York are Boyd's Dispatch and

+Hussey's Dispatch. They claim this right in virtue of a special

+privilege given them many years ago by the city government. Whatever

+this right may be in theory, it certainly holds good in practice, for

+the general government has tried time and time again to break up these

+concerns, but without avail.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.

+

+No. 1.

+

+ENIGMA.

+

+  My first in quill, not in pen.

+  My second in duck, not in hen.

+  My third in river, not in lake.

+  My fourth in biscuit, not in cake.

+  My fifth in soon, not in late.

+  The capital I of a foreign state,

+  Upon whose shore by night and day

+  The Pacific dashes in foam and spray.

+

+  DAME DURDEN.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+No. 2.

+

+WORD CHANGES.

+

+1. Rain to snow. 2. Rags to silk. 3. Mill to cent. 4. Sin to woe. 5.

+Sold to lost. 6. Line to cord. 7. Nay to yea. 8. Glue to mend.

+

+  FRANK L. L.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+No. 3.

+

+EASY CONCEALMENTS.

+

+Cities and Countries.--1. Here is a new portfolio for Carrie. 2. Ponto

+led Oliver to the stream. 3. I shall see Charles to-night. 4. Helen and

+Anna may go to the fair.

+

+  M. L. H.

+

+5. He is no liar, men; I am the culprit. 6. Madam, as custodian of the

+library, I must forbid you to remove books. 7. I gave orders that he be

+set to work immediately. 8. Her picture was set in diamonds.

+

+  BELL.

+

+Trees.--9. Did you know that Will owns a horse? 10. This pin equals an

+iron bar in strength. 11. We heard the croak of a raven. 12.

+Steam-engines propel many boats. 13. It appeared to me that he was

+false. 14. Philip, each one of your sums is wrong. 15. The plumes of

+Crécy round him waved.

+

+  ED.

+

+Birds and Beasts.--16. His rib is broken. 17. How did that occur, Lewis?

+18. He muttered words none could understand. 19. Jim and Caspar rowed us

+over the river.

+

+  MARGARET.

+

+20. I abhor seeing you in that dress. 21. Behind them came Lucy, all in

+white. 22. Would you like to be a Russian? 23. Dover is the capital of

+Delaware. 24. The medicine is more bitter now than it was at first. 25.

+The fairy's wand is broken.

+

+  EMILY and CLARA.

+

+26. Isaac, row faster! 27. The lobsters nip Essie's fingers. 28. Seth

+rushed in and told them.

+

+  MILLIE.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+No. 4.

+

+CHARADE.

+

+  My first is a troublesome insect.

+  My second might be applied to every boy and girl during dinner-time.

+  My whole consumes my first.

+

+  NORMAN.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+No. 5.

+

+ENIGMA.

+

+  In cold, not in heat.

+  In shoe, not in feet.

+  In flutter, not in flaunt.

+  In wish, not in want.

+  In stone, not in brick.

+  In hen, not in chick.

+  In rough, not in kind.

+  In thought, not in mind.

+  To gather my whole on an autumn day

+  For country boys is sport and play.

+

+  LENA S. F.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 69.

+

+No. 1.

+

+  S P A I N

+  P A R T

+  A R T

+  I T

+  N

+

+No. 2.

+

+Tiger.

+

+No. 3.

+

+Across.--1. Stork. 2. Sport. 3. Heron. 4. Civil. 5. Drain. 6. Dregs. 7.

+Refer. 8. Flint. 9. Oasis. 10. Sword. 11. Freak. 12. Spare. 13. Dross.

+Zigzags--Spring flowers.

+

+No. 4.

+

+          M

+        P A R

+      F A C E T

+    P A N A C E A

+  M A C A R O N I C

+    R E C O V E R

+      T E N E T

+        A I R

+          C

+

+No. 5.

+

+Lifetime.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Jessie A. Allen,

+H. V. B., Bessie Bolton, Laura Brick, Charles H. Cole, Alice Cantine,

+Lulu C., W. Chase, R. O. Chester, "Dawley Boys," Harry H. Dickinson, L.

+Jay E., Lena S. Fox, "L. U. Stral," William A. Lewis, Howard B. Lent,

+Adella R. Lippincott, C. H. McBride, "Philo S. Opher," Willy Rochester,

+D. J. Reinhart, Frank W. Smith, Gilbert P. Salters, "Starry Flag," Dora

+N. Taylor, W. I. Trotter, "Ed. I. Torial," Willie F. Woolard, Edith M.

+Wetmore, Annie Wheeler, "Young Solver."

+

+

+

+

+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.

+

+

+SINGLE COPIES, 4 cents; ONE SUBSCRIPTION, one year, $1.50; FIVE

+SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00--_payable in advance, postage free_.

+

+The Volumes of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE commence with the first Number in

+November of each year.

+

+Subscriptions may begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it

+will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the

+Number issued after the receipt of the order.

+

+Remittances should be made by POST-OFFICE MONEY-ORDER OR DRAFT, to avoid

+risk of loss.

+

+  HARPER & BROTHERS,

+  Franklin Square, N. Y.

+

+

+

+

+STRING TRICKS.

+

+BY HELEN P. STRONG.

+

+

+Every boy and girl knows the mysteries of the "cat's-cradle"--of course

+you do, as well as you know your "Aina, maina, mona, mite"--but do you

+know that the "cat's-cradle" does not begin to exhaust the possibilities

+of a piece of string? "Indian-box" mysteries and "inexhaustible hats"

+are not to be compared with it for simplicity of contrivance. Given a

+piece of string a yard long, and ten nimble fingers (counting thumbs),

+and you have all the apparatus needed to astonish your friends for a

+whole evening. I hope the accompanying illustrations and description

+will be sufficient to give you the secret of one of these wonderful

+string tricks. And now you shall be enlightened as to the

+

+BUTTON-HOLE MYSTERY.

+

+[Illustration: FIG. 1.]

+

+Secure a piece of strong cord a yard in length, and having tied the ends

+firmly together, pass the double end through your button-hole, and a

+thumb through each loop, as in Fig. 1. Now slip the little finger of

+your _left_ hand under the lower string of the loop which passes over

+the _right_ thumb, and the little finger of the _right_ hand under the

+lower string of the loop which passes over the _left_ thumb, separating

+the hands as in Fig. 2. Now comes the mystery. A quick movement of both

+hands, without releasing the string from either thumbs or little

+fingers, will give the effect of a tangle which can only be extricated

+by cutting the string or the button-hole. You add to the illusion by

+sawing a little on the button-hole to direct the attention to the

+impossibility of loosening the string at that point; then suddenly,

+without letting go either hand, you present the string-free from the

+button-hole though still securely tied.

+

+[Illustration: FIG. 2.]

+

+The secret lies in this: if you look carefully at Fig. 2, you will

+discover that the little finger of one hand and the thumb of the other

+are really holding the same loop; so you have only to retain your hold

+at these points, letting the rest go, to draw the string out of the

+button-hole with freedom.

+

+But you may find it rather difficult at first to make the proper thumb

+and finger act quickly and in unison, apart from the twin brother of

+each; for thumbs, and also little fingers, are like twin children, and,

+unless well trained, one always wants to do what the other does. But you

+will succeed if you think very hard for a moment, for that is the way

+the mind makes naughty hands and feet obey her commands.

+

+

+

+

+THE LOSING BAG.

+

+

+  Little Harry Careless

+    Was always losing things--

+  Shoes and hats, and slates and books,

+    Pencils, marbles, strings--

+  Till at last his mother

+    Took a faded flag

+  (A great, enormous one it was)

+    And made of it a bag.

+

+  "Now, my careless Harry,"

+    Said she, with a kiss,

+  "When you feel like losing things,

+    Pop them into this."

+  "That I will," cried Harry,

+    Happy as a king;

+  And since he's had the losing bag

+    He's never lost a thing.

+

+

+

+

+[Illustration: "HOLD YOUR GIRAFFE, SIR?"]

+

+[Illustration: THE GIRAFFE IS HELD.]

+

+

+

+

+

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+</pre>

+

+

+<div class="center">

+<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="">

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#TOBY_TYLER">TOBY TYLER.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_YOUNG_VIOLINIST">THE YOUNG VIOLINIST.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#WHAT_ONE_POOR_LITTLE_FROG_FOUND_OUT">WHAT ONE POOR LITTLE FROG FOUND OUT.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_FOOLISH_RABBIT">A FOOLISH RABBIT.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#LOUIS_XVII_IN_THE_TEMPLE_PRISON">LOUIS XVII. IN THE TEMPLE PRISON.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BEATAS_LOCKET">BEATA'S LOCKET.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#GUESS">GUESS.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#PHILS_FAIRIES">PHIL'S FAIRIES.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#PINAFORE_RHYMES">PINAFORE RHYMES.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX">OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#STRING_TRICKS">STRING TRICKS.</a></td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_LOSING_BAG">THE LOSING BAG.</a></td></tr>

+</table></div>

+

+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[Pg 305]</a></span></p>

+

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 1000px;">

+<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="1000" height="382" alt="Banner: Harper's Young People" />

+</div>

+

+<hr class="full" />

+

+<div class="center">

+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" summary="">

+<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vol</span>. II.&mdash;<span class="smcap">No</span>. 72.</td><td align="center"><span class="smcap">Published by</span> HARPER &amp; BROTHERS, <span class="smcap">New York</span>.</td><td align="right"><span class="smcap">Price Four Cents</span>.</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left">Tuesday, March 15, 1881.</td><td align="center">Copyright, 1881, by <span class="smcap">Harper &amp; Brothers</span>.</td><td align="right">$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr>

+</table></div>

+

+<hr class="full" />

+

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 688px;"><a name="TOBY_TYLER" id="TOBY_TYLER"></a>

+<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="688" height="700" alt="" />

+<span class="caption">THE FIRST LESSON.</span>

+</div>

+

+<h4>[Begun in No. 58 of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, December 7.]</h4>

+

+<h2>TOBY TYLER;</h2>

+

+<h3>OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.</h3>

+

+<h3>BY JAMES OTIS.</h3>

+

+<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter XIV</span>.</h3>

+

+<h3>MR. CASTLE TEACHES TOBY TO RIDE.</h3>

+

+<p>When Toby got within sight of the ring, he was astonished at what he

+saw. A horse with a broad wooden saddle was being led slowly around the

+ring; Mr. Castle was standing on one side, with a long whip in his hand,

+and on the tent pole, which stood in the centre of the ring, was a long<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[Pg 306]</a></span>

+arm, from which dangled a leathern belt on a long rope that was carried

+through the end of the arm, and run down to the base of the pole.</p>

+

+<p>Toby knew well enough why the horse, the whip, and the man were there,

+but this wooden projection from the tent pole, which looked so much like

+a gallows, he could not understand at all.</p>

+

+<p>"Come, now," said Mr. Castle, cracking his whip ominously as Toby came

+in sight, "why weren't you here before?"</p>

+

+<p>"Mr. Lord just sent me in," said Toby, not expecting that his excuse

+would be received, for they never had been since he had arrived at the

+height of his ambition by joining the circus.</p>

+

+<p>"Then I'll make Mr. Job understand that I am to have my full hour of

+your time, and if I don't get it, there'll be trouble between us."</p>

+

+<p>It would have pleased Toby very well to have had Mr. Castle go out with

+his long whip just then and make trouble for Mr. Lord; but Mr. Castle

+had not the time to spare, because of the trouble which he was about to

+make for Toby, and that he commenced on at once.</p>

+

+<p>"Well, get in here, and don't waste any more time," he said, sharply.</p>

+

+<p>Toby looked around curiously for a moment, and not understanding exactly

+what he was expected to get in and do, asked, "What shall I do?"</p>

+

+<p>"Pull off your boots, coat, and vest."</p>

+

+<p>Since there was no other course than to learn to ride, Toby wisely

+concluded that the best thing he could do would be to obey this new

+master without question; and he began to take his clothes off with as

+much alacrity as if learning to ride was the one thing upon which he had

+long set his heart.</p>

+

+<p>Mr. Castle was evidently accustomed to prompt obedience, for he not only

+took it as a matter of course, but endeavored to hurry Toby in his work

+of undressing.</p>

+

+<p>With his desire to please, and urged by Mr. Castle's words and the

+ominous shaking of his whip, Toby's preparations were soon made, and he

+stood before his instructor clad only in his shirt, trousers, and

+stockings.</p>

+

+<p>The horse was led around to where he stood, and when Mr. Castle held out

+his hand to help him to mount, Toby jumped up quickly without aid,

+thereby making a good impression at the start as a willing lad.</p>

+

+<p>"Now," said the instructor, as he pulled down the leathern belt which

+hung from the rope, and fastened it around Toby's waist, "stand up in

+the saddle, and try to stand there. You can't fall, because the rope

+will keep you up, even if the horse goes out from under you; but it

+isn't hard work to keep on if you mind what you are about, and if you

+don't, this whip will help you. Now stand up."</p>

+

+<p>Toby did as he was bidden, and as the horse was led at a walk, and as he

+had the long bridle to aid him in keeping his footing, he had no

+difficulty in standing during the time that the horse went once around

+the ring; but that was all.</p>

+

+<p>Mr. Castle seemed to think that this was preparation enough for the boy

+to be able to understand how to ride, and he started the horse into a

+canter. As might have been expected, Toby lost his balance, the horse

+went on ahead, and he was left dangling at the end of the rope, very

+much like a crab that has just been caught by the means of a pole and

+line.</p>

+

+<p>Toby kicked, waved his hands, and floundered about generally, but all to

+no purpose, until the horse came round again, and then he made frantic

+efforts to regain his footing, which efforts were aided&mdash;or perhaps it

+would be more proper to say retarded&mdash;by the long lash of Mr. Castle's

+whip, that played around his legs with merciless severity.</p>

+

+<p>"Stand up! stand up!" cried his instructor, as Toby reeled first to one

+side and then to the other, now standing erect in the saddle, and now

+dangling at the end of the rope, with the horse almost out from under

+him.</p>

+

+<p>This command seemed almost needless, as it was exactly what Toby was

+trying to do; but as it was given, he struggled all the harder, until it

+seemed to him that the more he tried, the less did he succeed.</p>

+

+<p>And this first lesson progressed in about the same way until the hour

+was over, save that now and then Mr. Castle would give him some good

+advice, but oftener he would twist the long lash of that whip around the

+boy's legs with such force that Toby believed the skin had been taken

+entirely off.</p>

+

+<p>It may have been a relief to Mr. Castle when that first lesson was

+concluded, and it certainly was to Toby, for he had had all the teaching

+in horsemanship that he wanted, and he thought, with deepest sorrow,

+that this would be of daily occurrence during all the time he remained

+with the circus.</p>

+

+<p>As he went out of the tent he stopped to speak with his friend the old

+monkey, and his troubles seemed to have increased when he stood in front

+of the cage calling "Mr. Stubbs! Mr. Stubbs!" and the old fellow would

+not even come down from off the lofty perch where he was engaged in

+monkey gymnastics with several younger companions. It seemed to him, as

+he afterward told Ben, "as if Mr. Stubbs had gone back on him because he

+knew that he was in trouble."</p>

+

+<p>When he went toward the booth, Mr. Lord looked at him around the corner

+of the canvas&mdash;for it seemed to Toby that his employer could look around

+a square corner with much greater ease than he could straight

+ahead&mdash;with a disagreeable leer in his eye, as though he enjoyed the

+misery which he knew his little clerk had just undergone.</p>

+

+<p>"Can you ride yet?" he asked, mockingly, as Toby stepped behind the

+counter to attend to his regular line of business.</p>

+

+<p>Toby made no reply, for he knew that the question was only asked

+sarcastically, and not through any desire for information. In a few

+moments Mr. Lord left him to attend to the booth alone, and went into

+the tent, where Toby rightly conjectured he had gone to question Mr.

+Castle upon the result of the lesson just given.</p>

+

+<p>That night old Ben asked him how he had got on while under the teaching

+of Mr. Castle, and Toby, knowing that the question was asked because of

+the real interest which Ben had in his welfare, replied,</p>

+

+<p>"If I was tryin' to learn how to swing round the ring, strapped to a

+rope, I should say that I got along first-rate; but I don't know much

+about the horse, for I was only on his back a little while at a time."</p>

+

+<p>"You'll get over that soon," said old Ben, patronizingly, as he patted

+him on the back. "You remember my words, now; I say that you've got it

+in you, an' if you've a mind to take hold an' try to learn, you'll come

+out on the top of the heap yet, an' be one of the smartest riders

+they've got in this show."</p>

+

+<p>"I don't want to be a rider," said Toby, sadly: "I only want to get back

+home once more, an' then you'll see how much it'll take to get me away

+again."</p>

+

+<p>"Well," said Ben, quietly, "be that as it may, while you're here the

+best thing you can do is to take hold an' get ahead just as fast as you

+can; it'll make it a mighty sight easier for you while you're with the

+show, and it won't spoil any of your chances for runnin' away whenever

+the time comes."</p>

+

+<p>Toby fully appreciated the truth of that remark, and he assured Ben that

+he should do all in his power to profit by the instruction given, and to

+please this new master who had been placed over him.</p>

+

+<p>And with this promise, he lay back on the seat and went to sleep, not to

+awaken until the preparations were being made for the entrée into the

+next town, and Mr. Lord's<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[Pg 307]</a></span> harsh voice had cried out his name, with no

+gentle tone, several times.</p>

+

+<p>Toby's first lesson with Mr. Castle was the most pleasant one he had;

+for after the boy had once been into the ring, his master seemed to

+expect that he could do everything which he was told to do, and when he

+failed in any little particular, the long lash of the whip would go

+curling around his legs or arms, until the little fellow's body and

+limbs were nearly covered with the blue and black stripes.</p>

+

+<p>For three lessons only was the wooden upright used to keep him from

+falling; after that he was forced to ride standing erect on the broad

+wooden saddle, or pad, as it is properly called, and whenever he lost

+his balance and fell, there was no question asked as to whether or not

+he had hurt himself, but he was mercilessly cut with the whip.</p>

+

+<p>Messrs. Lord and Jacobs gained very much by comparison with Mr. Castle

+in Toby's mind. He had thought that his lot could not be harder than it

+was with them; but when he had experienced the pains of two or three of

+Mr. Castle's lessons in horsemanship, he thought that he would stay with

+the candy venders all the season cheerfully rather than take six more

+lessons of Mr. Castle.</p>

+

+<p>Night after night he fell asleep from the sheer exhaustion of crying, as

+he had been pouring out his woes in the old monkey's ears, and laying

+his plans to run away. Now, more than ever, was he anxious to get away,

+and yet each day was taking him farther from home, and consequently

+necessitating a larger amount of money with which to start. As old Ben

+did not give him as much sympathy as Toby thought he ought to give&mdash;for

+the old man, while he would not allow Mr. Job Lord to strike the boy if

+he was near, thought it a necessary portion of the education for Mr.

+Castle to lash him all he had a mind to&mdash;he poured out all his troubles

+in the old monkey's ears, and kept him with him from the time he ceased

+work at night until he was obliged to commence again in the morning.</p>

+

+<p>The skeleton and his wife thought Toby's lot a hard one, and tried by

+every means in their power to cheer the poor boy. Neither one of them

+could say to Mr. Castle what they had said to Mr. Lord, for the rider

+was a far different sort of a person, and one whom they would not be

+allowed to interfere with in any way. Therefore poor Toby was obliged to

+bear his troubles and his whippings as best he might, with only the

+thought to cheer him of the time when he could leave them all by running

+away.</p>

+

+<p>But despite all his troubles, Toby learned to ride faster than his

+teacher had expected he would, and in three weeks he found little or no

+difficulty in standing erect while his horse went around the ring at his

+fastest gait. After that had been accomplished, his progress was more

+rapid, and he gave promise of becoming a very good rider&mdash;a fact which

+pleased both Mr. Castle and Mr. Lord very much, as they fancied that in

+another year Toby would be the source of a very good income to them.</p>

+

+<p>The proprietor of the circus took considerable interest in Toby's

+instruction, and promised Mr. Castle that Mademoiselle Jeannette and

+Toby should do an act together in the performance just as soon as the

+latter was sufficiently advanced. The boy's costume had been changed

+after he could ride without falling off, and now while he was in the

+ring he wore the same as that used by the regular performers.</p>

+

+<p>The little girl had, after it was announced that she and Toby were to

+perform together, been an attentive observer during the hour that Toby

+was under Mr. Castle's direction, and she gave him many suggestions that

+were far more valuable, and quicker to be acted upon, than those given

+by the teacher himself.</p>

+

+<p>"To-morrow you two will go through the exercise together," said Mr.

+Castle to Toby and Ella, at the close of one of Toby's lessons, after he

+had become so skillful that he could stand with ease on the pad, and

+even advanced so far that he could jump through a hoop without falling

+more than twice out of three times.</p>

+

+<p>The little girl appeared highly delighted by this information, and

+expressed her joy.</p>

+

+<p>"It will be real nice," she said to Toby, after Mr. Castle had left them

+alone. "I can help you lots, and it won't be very long before we can do

+an act all by ourselves in the performance, and then won't the people

+clap their hands when we come in?"</p>

+

+<p>"It'll be better for you to-morrow than it will for me," said Toby,

+rubbing his legs sorrowfully, still feeling the sting of the whip. "You

+see, Mr. Castle won't dare to whip you, an' he'll make it all count on

+me, 'cause he knows Mr. Lord likes to have him whip me."</p>

+

+<p>"But I sha'n't make any mistake," said Ella, confidently, "and so you

+won't have to be whipped on my account, and while I am on the horse you

+can't be whipped, for he couldn't do it without whipping me, so you see

+you won't get only half as much."</p>

+

+<p>Toby brightened up a little under the influence of this argument; but

+his countenance fell again, as he thought that his chances for getting

+away from the circus were growing less each day.</p>

+

+<p>"You see, I want to get back to Uncle Dan'l an' Guilford," he said,

+confidentially; "I don't want to stay here a single minute."</p>

+

+<p>Ella opened her eyes wide in astonishment, as she cried: "Don't want to

+stay here? Why don't you go home, then?"</p>

+

+<p>"'Cause Job Lord won't let me," said Toby, wondering if it was possible

+that his little companion did not know exactly what sort of a man his

+master was.</p>

+

+<p>Then he told her, after making her give him all kinds of promises,

+including the ceremony of crossing her throat, that she would never tell

+a single soul, that he had had many thoughts, and had formed all kinds

+of plans for running away. He told her about losing his money, about his

+friendship for the skeleton and the fat lady, and at last he confided in

+her that he was intending to take the old monkey with him when he should

+make the attempt.</p>

+

+<p>She listened with the closest attention, and when he told her that his

+little hoard had now reached the sum of seven dollars and ten cents,

+almost as much as he had before, she said, eagerly: "I've got three

+little gold dollars in my trunk, an' you shall have them all; they're my

+very own, for mamma gave them to me to do just what I wanted to with

+them. But I don't see how you can take Mr. Stubbs with you, for that

+would be stealing."</p>

+

+<p>"No, it wouldn't, neither," said Toby, stoutly. "Wasn't he give to me to

+do just as I wanted to with? an' didn't the boss say he was all mine?"</p>

+

+<p>"Oh, I'd forgotten that," said Ella, thoughtfully; "I suppose you can

+take him; but he'll be awfully in the way, won't he?"</p>

+

+<p>"No," said Toby, anxious to say a good word for his pet; "he always does

+just as I want him to, an' when I tell him what I'm tryin' to do, he'll

+be as good as anything. But I can't take your dollars."</p>

+

+<p>"Why not?"</p>

+

+<p>"'Cause that wouldn't be right for a boy to let a girl littler than

+himself help him; I'll wait till I get money enough of my own, an' then

+I'll go."</p>

+

+<p>"But I want you to take my money too; I want you to have it."</p>

+

+<p>"No, I can't take it," said Toby, shaking his head resolutely, as he put

+the golden temptation from him, and then, as a happy thought occurred to

+him, he said, quickly: "I tell you what to do with your dollars: you

+keep them till you grow up to be a woman, an' when I'm a man I'll come,

+an' then we'll buy a circus of our own. I think, perhaps,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[Pg 308]</a></span> I'd like to

+be with a circus if I owned one myself. We'll have lots of money then,

+an' we can do just what we want to."</p>

+

+<p>This idea seemed to please the little girl, and the two began to lay all

+sorts of plans for that time when they should be man and woman, have

+lots of money, and be able to do just as they wanted to.</p>

+

+<p>They had been sitting on the edge of the newly made ring while they were

+talking, and before they had half finished making plans for the future

+one of the attendants came in to put things to order, and they were

+obliged to leave their seats, she going to the hotel to get ready for

+the afternoon's performance, and Toby to try to do such work as Mr. Job

+Lord had laid out for him.</p>

+

+<p>Just ten weeks from the time Toby had first joined the circus, Mr.

+Castle informed him and Ella that they were to appear in public on the

+following day. They had been practicing daily, and Toby had become so

+skillful that both Mr. Castle and Mr. Lord saw that the time had come

+when he could be made to earn some money for them.</p>

+

+<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+<h2><a name="THE_YOUNG_VIOLINIST" id="THE_YOUNG_VIOLINIST">THE YOUNG VIOLINIST.</a></h2>

+

+<h3>BY GUSTAVE KOBBÉ.</h3>

+

+<div class="figright" style="width: 232px;">

+<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="232" height="400" alt="" />

+<span class="caption">EUGENIO MAURICIO DENGREMONT.</span>

+</div>

+

+<p>Mauricio Dengremont, whose portrait is here given, is only fourteen

+years old; but he has been playing the violin for eight years or more,

+and is now one of the best violinists living. He knew the A&nbsp;B&nbsp;C of music

+at an age when most boys have hardly had a glimpse at the A&nbsp;B&nbsp;C

+in their spelling-book. His musical talent, like that of many famous

+musicians, showed itself early in his life. Mozart, we are told, struck

+correct chords on the clavichord&mdash;as they called the pianos used in his

+days&mdash;when he was two years old, and when he was four, he wrote little

+melodies which sound very prettily. Mauricio Dengremont's fondness for

+music was observed at the same early age. His father led an orchestra in

+Rio de Janeiro, and played the violin, and when he was playing at home,

+little Mauricio, who was four years old, would sit at his feet and

+listen, and he could not be induced to join in the sports of other

+children as long as his father was practicing. Then already he asked to

+be taught, but he was laughed at, and told he was too young to learn.

+But he would not be put off, and kept coming to his father and asking

+for lessons on the violin. At last, when he was six years old&mdash;the same

+age at which Mendelssohn began to learn the piano&mdash;his father bought him

+a toy violin for twenty cents, and thought he would give him a lesson,

+just to see if he was in earnest. Before that, however, he told him how

+hard he would have to work if he wanted to be a musician. But Mauricio

+said he didn't mind working, he wanted to learn the violin just as soon

+as he could. Fancy the father's surprise when he found during the first

+lesson that Mauricio played his notes correctly and clearly.</p>

+

+<p>The boy made such wonderful progress that after a few lessons a larger

+violin was bought for him. In a few weeks he could play the scales, and

+in ten months he was practicing difficult pieces, one of which he

+performed in public fourteen months after his first lesson. Soon

+afterward he travelled with his father in South America, giving

+concerts. In Montevideo and Buenos Ayres he played so well that the

+orchestras there presented him each with a gold medal. These youthful

+triumphs were very much like those of Mozart; and in the midst of them,

+Mauricio, like Mozart, remained a child in his feelings and behavior.

+Mozart was so innocent that after one of his performances at court, when

+he slipped on the polished floor, and was lifted up by the Empress Maria

+Theresa of Austria, he said that he would marry her as soon as he was

+old enough. In the same way Mauricio's manners remained unchanged,

+though he was brought before the public when so young. Off the concert

+stage he remained a child, playing with children, and sharing in their

+pastime when he was not practicing. Only a short time ago, immediately

+after his arrival here, his first appearance had to be postponed because

+he had caught cold playing with snow-balls; and again he was prevented

+from being at a concert because he had been eating too much candy.</p>

+

+<p>The success of Mauricio's concerts in South America attracted the notice

+of Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, and he was asked to play before his

+Imperial Highness. Dom Pedro was so pleased with the boy's performance

+that he gave him a beautiful medal, and promised to give him a good sum

+of money every year, so that he could go to Paris and take lessons of

+the famous violin-player Léonard. Dengremont's father accepted the

+offer, and soon afterward he took the boy to Europe. Mauricio staid in

+Paris until two or three years ago, when he began to travel and give

+concerts. Everywhere he played he met with great success. People came to

+his concerts in great crowds, and applauded him loudly; for he won their

+hearts with his beautiful playing and modest behavior. In one of the

+German cities he played a piece by Spohr when the composer's widow was

+one of the listeners. Spohr himself was a very famous violinist, but the

+widow said that Dengremont played the piece better than her husband

+could have done, and gave him a piece of music in her husband's

+handwriting.</p>

+

+<p>Dengremont has been in this country only a short time, but he has

+already made a good name for himself. Almost every one who has heard him

+admires the rapidity<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[Pg 309]</a></span> and delicacy of his playing, and the grace with

+which he handles the bow. All this he does in a manner which would be

+remarkable for a man of great talent, who had been studying the violin

+ever since he was able to hold the instrument, and yet he is not at all

+conceited. He does not think he has nothing more to learn. On the

+contrary, he will go to Paris in the spring, and study again with

+Léonard for six months. After that he will give concerts in Russia.</p>

+

+<p>To young people Mauricio Dengremont's career is a fine example. Of

+course he has greater talent for music than hundreds of others. But it

+is not his talent only to which he owes his early fame. It is owing as

+well to his devotion to his art, his willingness to work, and his

+modesty, which makes him feel that there is still room for him to

+improve.</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="WHAT_ONE_POOR_LITTLE_FROG_FOUND_OUT" id="WHAT_ONE_POOR_LITTLE_FROG_FOUND_OUT"></a>

+<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="600" height="480" alt="" />

+<span class="caption">THE POOR LITTLE FROG ESCAPES FROM HIS ENEMIES.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Drawn by

+W. F. Beard</span>.</span>

+</div>

+

+<h2>WHAT ONE POOR LITTLE FROG FOUND OUT.</h2>

+

+<p>A very young frog&mdash;very young indeed, scarcely out of tails (that is to

+say, out of tadpolehood)&mdash;with a very great ambition and ordinary

+ability, set out one morning with the purpose of seeing the world, and

+by night-fall bringing back something to astonish the pool. "For," said

+he to himself, "I am such a close observer, that I shall be sure to

+observe and bring back correct reports of many strange things passed by

+in stupid indifference by these commonplace old speckle-backs, who, no

+doubt, neglect daily golden opportunities for storing their minds with

+useful information, but who see nothing and know nothing but worms,

+ants, beetles, and other insects and small animals to put in their ample

+stomachs."</p>

+

+<p>So saying, he leaped away gayly, but with eyes open and on the sharp

+look-out, almost at the very start. "For," said he, "the most common

+things possess a new interest when shown in a new light by the hand of

+genius, and the ordinary things of one locality become objects of

+curiosity in another where they are not found. Thus I could astonish

+vain man, could I speak his jargon, with accounts of many things

+familiar to my sight by daily contact in the bottom of the pool, but

+which seldom or never meet his eyes."</p>

+

+<p>So he journeyed on, well pleased with himself and what he thought his

+life's mission, carefully eying every object in his way, lest some one

+of interest should escape his notice. At length a great thistle came

+within his gaze. "There," said he, "is something worth investigating."

+After looking at it attentively at a little distance, that he might fix

+all its <i>points</i> in his mind, he approached for a closer study. Said he,

+"I must not forget to ascertain if this strange plant&mdash;for plant it

+undoubtedly is&mdash;has any peculiar odor; for that is very important." Thus

+saying, he thrust his inquisitive nose against the prickers, which

+brought him to the conclusion that he had carried the investigation

+quite far enough; and storing this experience away in his memory for

+future use, he went on his way, a little wiser, but no happier, for it

+does not add to happiness to have our conceit pricked out, as it were,

+by sharp experience.</p>

+

+<p>Now a half-brick partly buried in the mud caught his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[Pg 310]</a></span> curious eye.

+"That's a singular rock," said he. "What a remarkable color it has! so

+regular, too, in its form; it has also a peculiar texture"&mdash;as he put

+his hand-like forepaw upon it.</p>

+

+<p>Just at this moment he thought he heard something behind him, and

+turning to see what, his terrified eye caught the dread form of an idle,

+barefooted boy, also in search of adventure, though not for the

+instruction of others, or even himself, as was the little frog's grand

+motive, but merely for the amusement of the moment.</p>

+

+<p>Young as his frogship was, he knew well enough what boys were, and made

+off for his life with all possible speed.</p>

+

+<p>It would, perhaps, have been wiser if he had remained perfectly quiet,

+as in all probability the careless boy would not have observed him; but

+as the boy seemed bearing right down upon him, the sight was too

+dreadful for his nerves, and he sprang forward with desperate leaps,

+which, of course, attracted the urchin's attention, and with a shout of

+delight he bounded off in pursuit. Hastily clutching the "curious

+rock"&mdash;half-brick&mdash;he aimed to give the frog's head an external

+application of this object of interest, and, I must say, with almost

+fatal precision. With great nicety of calculation, he threw the brick

+where he felt the frog would be when the brick got there. His estimate

+was uncomfortably close, the little frog thought, as the brick just

+grazed his protruding eye. He winked, dodged back, and started in

+another direction with wild leaps.</p>

+

+<p>As the boy went for the rolling brick for another throw the frog hid

+himself in a tuft of clover, and though terribly nervous when the urchin

+came very near his hiding-place&mdash;at length actually kicked the bunch of

+clover in his search for him&mdash;he summoned all his fortitude, and

+remained perfectly quiet, knowing that to be his only safety.</p>

+

+<p>Soon, to his unspeakable relief, the cruel boy gave it up, and went

+whistling on his careless way in search of other adventures.</p>

+

+<p>The thoroughly frightened frog prudently waited, nor ventured out until

+the boy had quite vanished in the distance. While he still lay in his

+hiding-place a curious creature wriggled past, in beautiful sheeny coat

+that glistened in the sunlight, and quite delighted him. He made no

+motion, however, though he did not much fear this harmless-looking

+creature; still, as the supple thing constantly darted out a double

+tongue, he felt it more prudent to observe in silence.</p>

+

+<p>When this creature had also gone quite out of sight, he again moved on

+his journey, it must be confessed, with less self-confidence and more

+caution.</p>

+

+<p>But a little while of safe travelling was, however, enough to cause the

+two sentiments to change places again&mdash;prudence lessened, and confidence

+grew: and this would have cost him his life had it not been his good

+fortune to be on the land side of a beautiful white crane, which he very

+much admired, as he stood fixedly gazing into the waters of a sluggish

+stream. He hopped very near, in his ignorant delight, wondering what the

+magnificent creature was, and what could be his reflections as he fixed

+his gaze so intently in the amber water. "Something grand, no doubt!" He

+did not feel called upon to address him, however, which was lucky again,

+since this "splendid bird" was looking for just such fellows as he, but

+never suspected one of being so near him in the field.</p>

+

+<p>At length our leaping student of nature tired even of his admiration of

+this beautiful bird, and leaped on his journey again in search of other

+objects of scientific interest, one of which he soon found in the person

+of another curious bird, also with long legs, and not very unlike in

+form the one he had just seen, though not near so beautiful.</p>

+

+<p>His general color was a dull brown, varied and mottled with several

+shades of the same, from light yellowish to dark spots, and in parts,

+such as the crest, back of the neck, etc., deepening to a jetty black.

+His neck, though, did not appear long, like that of the white bird, but

+his head seemed as near the body as a chicken's; when some noise or

+motion in the water, however, attracted his attention, it shot out like

+a telescope, as long in proportion as the other's, though the comparison

+of the telescope was not froggie's. He knew nothing of such a thing; the

+figure suggested to his mind was a snail's eye.</p>

+

+<p>He also bestowed some admiration upon this fellow, and passed on, still

+unconscious that he was in dangerous proximity to a mortal foe.</p>

+

+<p>Now as he ascended quite a little hillock, high enough for him to

+overlook the fields, he was surprised to see that the very stream upon

+the margin of which the two strange birds had stood was the one near

+which was his native pool; in fact, upon this stream the inhabitants of

+his pond depended for fresh supplies of water to replenish the waste by

+evaporation, when it occasionally overflowed its banks in times of

+freshets.</p>

+

+<p>He knew the locality by a great rock, which he knew to be near his pond,

+and found, too, with some satisfaction, that he was much nearer home

+than he would have thought from the distance travelled. He had taken a

+circuitous route, as did the stream, before reaching the great rock.

+Using this stone as a landmark, he saw that a straight line to it would

+be comparatively a short-cut back again.</p>

+

+<p>This discovery was not unpleasant either, for not only his journey, but

+his researches as well, began to grow wearisome. Now as he remembered

+the events of the day, his adventures, and the strange sights he had

+seen, and the discoveries he had made, his heart swelled with pride when

+he thought what astonishment it would create when he brought them all

+back, as it were, to the banks of the pool.</p>

+

+<p>Settling this comfortably in his mind, he glanced about again, as a

+traveller takes a farewell look at a strange land he is about leaving.

+But now he made the additional discovery that a grove just before him

+was the "forest," as he believed it, he had seen many times in the

+distance while sitting on the banks of the pool.</p>

+

+<p>Gazing into its dark recesses, he became suddenly aware of two great

+yellow-rimmed eyes peering out of its sombre depths. Cold chills ran

+over him. His thirst for knowledge, which his mother, in her croaking

+way, called idle curiosity, got the better of his fears, however, as he

+became satisfied that he himself was not the object of those eyes'

+attention, if indeed anything in particular was, and he began again his

+usual wise speculations. "What an eye!" said he. "I remember once, while

+lying at the bottom of the pool, to have seen the full moon rising,

+while a round leaf upon the brink intervening, darkened the centre,

+leaving a yellowish rim; that eye reminds me of it. To whom or what can

+it belong, I wonder? Let me see: surrounded by feathers?&mdash;yes, feathers!

+Well, feathers are only worn by birds, therefore the owner of that eye

+<i>must</i> be a bird, that's clear; and that's pretty good logic, too, I

+flatter myself."</p>

+

+<p>He was right; the owner of the eye was a bird&mdash;an owl; and scarcely had

+he "flattered" himself, when he became conscious that now he was the

+object of attention by those terrible eyes. Losing no time, he turned

+toward the rock, made several desperate leaps in quick succession before

+he felt the shadow of the great wings, though he heard no sound, for the

+flight of owls is as noiseless almost as that of thistle-down.</p>

+

+<p>Fortunately, again (he was a lucky frog), it was a sunny afternoon, and

+the light rather strong for the owls' eyes (by this time another had

+joined her mate); so, dodging here and there, he managed to elude them,

+always making toward home, however, followed blindly by the owls. Nor

+was this all: the tall birds, attracted by the commotion, seeing him

+dodging through the grass, joined in the pursuit. The snake he had seen

+also made bold to follow with wide-open<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[Pg 311]</a></span> jaws to devour him, and

+creatures of every kind&mdash;ducks, more cranes, even a pelican&mdash;came from

+all quarters, and pursued him to the very brink of the pool.</p>

+

+<p>So numerous were they, indeed, that they obstructed each other's way.

+Meantime the little frog was making the best use of the time, lessening

+the distance at every bound. But even a race for life must have an end,

+either in disaster to the pursued or disappointment to the pursuers, and

+just at the moment when the wide-open beak of the admired white crane

+was about to close upon him, with all the other eager open jaws close

+following, our adventurous student splashed into the waters of the pond.</p>

+

+<p>As he settled, exhausted, in the soft mud at the bottom of the pond,

+stirring up a cloud, as it were, his little brothers and sisters, still

+in the polliwig state, wriggled around him with anxious inquiry, and

+staid old croakers, in coats of green and brown, and mottled trousers,

+looked with amazement from him to the bank, where still lingered the

+excited throng of his hungry pursuers.</p>

+

+<p>Not a word to the many questions asked could he reply, but stared out

+from his muddy security in dazed speechlessness upon the horrid throng

+of snapping beaks and jaws he had just escaped. He experienced a feeling

+of pleasure upon seeing a disappointed owl pick up a disappointed snake,

+and wing his noiseless way back toward the copse, followed by his mate.

+Then the disappointed crane fastened upon another snake, and arose like

+a white cloud, with his squirming victim in his strong beak. After

+considerable quacking, snapping, and hissing, one after another of his

+ferocious foes rose upon the wing, and went his way; the bank was

+cleared, peace and quiet reigned again.</p>

+

+<p>Our traveller was again asked for an account of his adventures. When he

+came to speak of the "strange plant," a laugh from under the yellow vest

+of "Old Spots" greeted his ear. And "Old Spots" (they called him "Spots"

+on account of his strongly mottled green coat) curtly observed that a

+little sharp experience seemed to simplify matters much, and a prick in

+the nose to help an inquiring mind to a speedy conclusion. "But," said

+he, more seriously, "a closer scrutiny would hardly have failed to

+reveal to the eye so important a feature as prickers on a thistle,

+without the necessity of thrusting them into one's very nose."</p>

+

+<p>The story of the boy and the brick was allowed to pass without remark

+from the older inhabitants of the pool, probably because the little

+frog, in this instance, had managed the case as well as any one could

+have done.</p>

+

+<p>When he spoke of the tall bird in plumage of shining white, the comment

+was, "The white crane! one of the deadliest foes of our race!" The brown

+bird, he was informed, was the bittern, commonly called "stake-driver,"

+"fly-up-the-creek," etc., also a mortal foe.</p>

+

+<p>When he made rather careless mention of the glistening snake, the old

+frogs shuddered as they informed him that of all their enemies this was

+most to be dreaded, because of its stealthy way of creeping upon its

+victim unawares through the grass, fastening its fangs upon him, and

+sometimes taking hours to swallow its prey, which all the while remained

+alive, in painful and agonized certainty of his slow-approaching death.</p>

+

+<p>The owls, they said, were less to be dreaded than any of his pursuers;

+they were not particularly fond of frogs, would as soon have a snake,

+and much preferred mice.</p>

+

+<p>In short, every bird, reptile, and object of peculiar interest, as well

+as localities, with all their characteristics, seemed so familiar to

+these recently despised "old croakers," that the little frog hardly knew

+whether to be most astonished or humiliated at the discovery of this

+unboasted knowledge in the possession of his elders, and could but admit

+to himself that it was the only discovery of any importance he had made

+through the day, since all the others, it seemed, were no discoveries at

+all.</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+<h2><a name="A_FOOLISH_RABBIT" id="A_FOOLISH_RABBIT">A FOOLISH RABBIT.</a></h2>

+

+<h3>BY R. K. MUNKITTRICK.</h3>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">A meditative rabbit once</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Within a brake sat thinking</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">Why he and all his timid kind</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Are always sadly winking.</span><br />

+<br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">He told his story to a wren,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">There in the fragrant grasses.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">The wren replied, "Your eyes are weak;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Pray try a pair of glasses."</span><br />

+<br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">The rabbit smiled, and took the hint,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And early in the morning</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">The wren observed a dainty pair</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">His pleasant face adorning.</span><br />

+<br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">To show the animals the change,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">He went into a clearing;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">But when they saw the wild effect,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">They all set up a jeering.</span><br />

+<br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">His reasoning was long and loud</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">And eloquent. Thereafter</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">The animals with one accord</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Fell down and rolled with laughter.</span><br />

+<br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And now he ever hides from view</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">Within the woodland passes,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">And winks the more for having tried</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;">To wear a pair of glasses.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+<h2><a name="LOUIS_XVII_IN_THE_TEMPLE_PRISON" id="LOUIS_XVII_IN_THE_TEMPLE_PRISON">LOUIS XVII. IN THE TEMPLE PRISON.</a></h2>

+

+<p>On the 29th of March, 1785, was born at the palace of Versailles, near

+Paris, the most unfortunate of children. Louis Charles was the second

+son of Louis XVI., King of France, and Marie Antoinette, his Queen, and

+the royal infant seemed destined to know in life only the greatest

+luxury and ease. He grew up a fair, graceful boy, his hair light, and

+falling in curls upon his shoulders, his eyes blue, his form and

+features regular, and he very soon began to show a quick, sensitive,

+intelligent mind. When he was about four years old his elder brother

+died, leaving him a little dog named Moufflet. He left him, too, heir to

+the throne of France, the Dauphin, as the eldest son of the French Kings

+was called, and Louis Charles was to be master of all the wide dominions

+of his ancestors. He was marked by a strong love for his parents, and

+particularly his mother, the graceful Marie Antoinette. The royal family

+consisted of the King and Queen, the King's sister, Madame Élisabeth,

+and two children&mdash;the Princess Marie Thérèse, who was some years older

+than Louis, and the Dauphin. They seemed very happy together in the

+splendid palace at Versailles. Louis cultivated a small plot of ground,

+or a garden, where he raised flowers, and presented them to his mother.

+Every morning, in their season, the child would bring a bouquet to the

+fair Queen, who fully returned his tender love. His aunt, Madame

+Élisabeth, was always kind and good, and his sister, the Princess,

+watched over him with affectionate care.</p>

+

+<p>But suddenly the whole family were overwhelmed by a succession of

+misfortunes. The French Revolution began; the foreign kings invaded

+France; and the French people looked upon their own royal rulers with

+suspicion, and even hatred, because they thought they had called in the

+foreign armies. Marie Antoinette was the most unpopular of all. Paris

+was filled with terrible disorders. One day a great crowd of savage men

+and women came out to the palace of Versailles, and insisted that the

+King and his family should come to Paris. He was obliged to yield. The

+great coach was ordered, the whole royal family were led almost as

+captives to the city, and were lodged in the midst of the enraged

+people, in the palace of the Tuileries. At first they were not badly

+treated. Louis had brought his dog Moufflet with him, and was even

+allowed to cultivate a small garden, where he still raised flowers, and

+gave them to his sad, terrified mother.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[Pg 312]</a></span> Dreadful scenes and massacres

+now took place in Paris. Louis was shown by his mother to the people,

+wearing a red bonnet and the tricolor; but every moment seemed to

+increase their danger. At last the King (June, 1791) resolved to make

+his escape out of France; and one night Louis was called up, half

+asleep, and dressed in disguise as a little girl. The poor child was too

+young to understand his danger; and when his sister asked him what he

+thought they were going to do, said it must be "to act a comedy." They

+opened a gate in the palace, went down into the silent street at

+midnight, wandered in the darkness over the Pont Royal, at last found

+the carriage prepared for them, and escaped from the city. Had they made

+haste they might have reached the frontier and safety; but they were

+overtaken, seized, and brought back to Paris the prisoners of a savage

+mob.</p>

+

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 964px;">

+<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="964" height="700" alt="" />

+<span class="caption">THE ROYAL PRISONERS IN THE TEMPLE.</span>

+</div>

+

+<p>Soon after, amidst scenes of massacre and horror, they were all taken to

+the Temple (an ancient prison), and shut up in a tower. Here they

+remained many months, exposed to the most terrible insults, scantily

+fed, and looking for death every moment. But the King employed his time

+in teaching his son Louis to read Racine and Corneille, and endeavoring

+to prepare him for a useful life. At last he was himself taken out,

+tried before a revolutionary tribunal, sentenced to die (January, 1793),

+and his head was cut off. Next, Marie Antoinette was taken away from her

+family to a solitary prison, and at last was brought to the guillotine.

+Her hair had turned white, and her face was rigid with suffering. But as

+she mounted the scaffold she showed no sign of fear. Madame Élisabeth,

+the most innocent and amiable of her race, was also executed.</p>

+

+<p>The young Prince, now King of France by descent, was left alone, shut up

+in his prison at the Temple, and guarded by the horrible men who had

+tormented his mother and father. It was the custom of these wretches to

+terrify their prisoners by threats, insults, and every malicious art.

+Louis Charles was placed under the care of the infamous Simon, a monster

+of cruelty. He was left entirely alone. No kind friend came to soften

+the sorrows of his lot. Night and day passed over him in his miserable

+cell without a joy or hope. His mind had become<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[Pg 313]</a></span> prematurely active

+amidst his sorrows; he knew, no doubt, the fate of his parents and

+relations. Simon endeavored to teach him to hate his mother, and the

+young Prince would never afterward speak to his horrible jailer. He

+would rather be alone in the darkest night in the fearful cell than see

+the countenance of his foe. For a long time before his death he remained

+utterly silent, refusing to speak, and living in dumb misery. The Reign

+of Terror prevailed in Paris; Robespierre and his murderers filled it

+with horror, and the Dauphin was left to perish in his solitary cell. He

+was now nearly ten years old, but he still preserved his strange

+silence, and seemed like a dumb and idiotic child.</p>

+

+<p>Next Robespierre perished, and Louis might have been better treated. But

+his long confinement and the filth and horrors of his prison had brought

+on a severe illness. He wasted away. Dr. Desault, a famous physician,

+was sent to attend him, but died a short time afterward. Louis, it is

+said, still remained silent and speechless. He died on the 8th of June,

+1795, in his solitary cell, alone, without a friend.</p>

+

+<p>Such was the sad doom of Louis XVII., King of France. The annals of the

+poor offer no fate so miserable as that of this descendant of the

+proudest and most powerful of European monarchs. By some writers it is

+asserted that Louis escaped from his imprisonment, that a child deaf and

+dumb was substituted for him, and that the King, or Dauphin, died in

+obscurity in some part of Europe or America. But the legend is

+improbable, and Louis XVII. sleeps, no doubt, in the cemetery where he

+was laid at Paris.</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+<h2><a name="BEATAS_LOCKET" id="BEATAS_LOCKET">BEATA'S LOCKET.</a></h2>

+

+<h3>BY LILLIAS C. DAVIDSON.</h3>

+

+<p>Twenty-one pearls!&mdash;no, twenty-two; thirteen in the B, and nine in the V

+of the monogram, besides the six little nails with heads of real

+diamonds! Beata had never seen such a locket, no, not even in a shop

+window, and to have had it for her very own for four whole days, and not

+be able so much as to wear it!</p>

+

+<p>It had come on Christmas-day&mdash;come in a little case all packed with

+cotton-wool, and lined with silver paper&mdash;a case which Beata's fingers

+could hardly open, they shook so with excitement and eagerness; and it

+came all the way from Germany<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[Pg 314]</a></span> and her German godmother, Madame Von

+Thausandmal.</p>

+

+<p>"A beautiful locket, certainly, my dear," said Mrs. Vyner, Beata's

+mamma, in confidence, to Beata's papa, when locket and case, and

+Beata&mdash;rosy and joyful and proud&mdash;had all vanished with a rush out of

+mamma's pretty blue morning-room. "But so utterly unsuitable to a child!

+What can Helga von Thausandmal have been thinking of to send her such a

+thing? Of course it was exceedingly kind of her, but I'm afraid it will

+turn Beata's head, and it won't be the least use to her for years to

+come."</p>

+

+<p>"Why not, eh?" asked the Squire, who was deep in the morning paper, and

+perhaps wasn't attending as he might have been. "I thought it pretty

+enough."</p>

+

+<p>"It's lovely; that's just it. It's too bad to tantalize her with a thing

+she can't wear, and no properly brought up little girls wear such

+jewelry; even if they did, I should not let Beata do anything so silly

+and improper. No; it must be put away for her till she is eighteen, and

+'comes out.' Poor child! I won't take it away for a week or two; it

+would be cruel; but go it must. Why couldn't Helga have sent her some

+books, or a doll, or anything sensible?"</p>

+

+<p>But of all this Beata heard not a word, and her cup of bliss seemed as

+if it would run over. Such a locket! as grand as a grown-up young

+lady's, and for her very own! She had shown it at least three times over

+to every servant in the house, down to Elizabeth Jane, the kitchen-maid,

+who had won Beata's genuine respect by her "Law, miss, if it ain't fit

+for a duchess at the very least!" and she only sighed to think her

+governess had gone home for the holidays, and could not see it for a

+whole fortnight.</p>

+

+<p>But now a little shadow, like a small cloud, had come over the sunshine.

+What was the good of a locket, and such a locket as Beata's, if other

+people didn't see and admire? And how could they see it, if it were not

+worn? And what chance had she to wear it?</p>

+

+<p>To be sure, the house was full of visitors, who had come the very day

+after Christmas, and Rex and she went down to dessert every night, and

+into the drawing-room for half an hour afterward; but somehow Beata

+never quite ventured to suggest "Locket," as nurse dressed her in her

+well-worn little frock of black velvet, and tied her plain red silk

+sash; indeed, she rather fancied she could see nurse's face if she did;

+and as to wearing it to church on Sunday&mdash;well, even Beata's little head

+could dimly understand somehow that God's house wasn't the place for

+finery and display; and so&mdash;</p>

+

+<p>"But now, to-day, there <i>is</i> a chance," she thought, with a gasp which

+was half exultation and half pure fright at her own daring; for Rex and

+she were going skating.</p>

+

+<p>Down in the park at Dene Hall there is a beautiful little lake, where

+the wild fowl swim in summer, and where Beata and Rex were wont to

+paddle about in a flat-bottomed boat, a "tub," Rex called it. But now

+the water was covered with firm smooth ice, and the ladies and gentlemen

+staying at the Hall had gone down there to skate, and Cousin Cecil had

+promised to look after the children if they might come too; and Beata

+was tempted.</p>

+

+<p>Rex was shouting from the hall. Without another pause the locket was out

+of its case, slipped on a ribbon, and the ribbon tied round Beata's

+neck. Was it dread of Rex's scorn or of mamma's observation that made

+Beata slip it under her little fur boa as she ran down the old oaken

+stairs?</p>

+

+<p>"Rex, you've no overcoat," she said, as they hurried together through

+the snow, which lay like a soft white blanket over garden and park. That

+hidden locket filled her mind so full that she must speak about it, and

+she artfully began to talk about dress, to work the conversation round

+to that beloved topic. But all in vain.</p>

+

+<p>"Overcoat!" echoed Rex, in high disdain, swinging Beata's dainty little

+skates and his own together. "Who wants an overcoat? The Spartans never

+wore 'em."</p>

+

+<p>"But then you're not a Spartan."</p>

+

+<p>"Wish I was." Rex was beginning ancient history, and had a Grecian craze

+just now. "Never mind, I mean to harden just as if I was;" but he

+couldn't help a shiver all the same.</p>

+

+<p>Beata tried again. "Doesn't the snow look like pearls, Rex?"</p>

+

+<p>"Can't say I see it. Oh, you're thinking about that swell locket of

+yours. Now in Sparta they never allowed them to wear bosh like that."</p>

+

+<p>"Then Sparta was a stupid place," began Beata, hotly; but they came

+round the corner by the lake, and the sight there put everything else

+out of both their minds.</p>

+

+<p>Such a pretty sight! Ice as smooth and clear as sweeping could make it;

+white banks of snow gleaming like a wreath about it; crowds of gayly

+dressed ladies and knickerbockered gentlemen skimming about, or being

+pushed in chairs; the ring of a hundred skates keeping time to the band

+that was playing in the rustic boat-house; and another crowd of people,

+but not gayly dressed, standing and looking on at it all.</p>

+

+<p>"What a rabble!" said Beata. "These aren't only village people and

+servants; some of them look like gypsies. Look at that woman in the red

+shawl&mdash;she's a tramp."</p>

+

+<p>But here, skating down to them with a pretty grace, her sweet face

+glowing above her warm furs, came Cousin Cecil, and just behind her the

+fair mustache of Captain Strangways, the children's firm friend; and

+after that there could be nothing but delight.</p>

+

+<p>To skate between Cousin Cecil and Captain Strangways, holding a hand of

+each, seemed to Beata the summit of human felicity. Rex, still Spartan

+even in his pleasures, preferred to stagger about alone. Beata forgot to

+try and pretend she was grown up.</p>

+

+<p>All at once she remembered, with a shock of remorse, that Captain

+Strangways had never seen the wonderful locket. What an omission! Her

+hand went up under her fur boa to bring that neglected ornament into its

+proper position; then stopped short. The thin little bit of blue ribbon

+dangled aimless there, to be sure, but there was no locket.</p>

+

+<p>I don't think Beata will ever forget that moment, if she lives to be an

+old woman. Her face looked almost gray as she turned it up speechlessly

+to Cousin Cecil's wondering gaze.</p>

+

+<p>"My locket! oh, my locket!" she managed to gasp.</p>

+

+<p>"Your locket, dear? Why, what's the matter? Oh, Beata, you don't mean to

+say you wore it?"</p>

+

+<p>"Oh yes, I did, I did; and now it's gone."</p>

+

+<p>Cousin Cecil looked very grave indeed. "Oh, Beata!" was all she said,

+but it was worse than any words almost.</p>

+

+<p>"Oh, do let's find it; do look&mdash;do, do!"</p>

+

+<p>"We'll look; but as to finding it&mdash;" But Cousin Cecil broke off short.

+There was a scream from the other end of the lake, where the village

+boys and girls had made a slide&mdash;a shrill, sharp cry&mdash;and a little tiny

+boy, such a ragged, wretched mite, lay flat upon the hard cold ice.

+Captain Strangways started to go, but Cecil was there first. She was

+down upon her knees, and had the wee dirty face on her arm, before he

+could reach her side, for he was heavier and slower than she. She looked

+up with a serious face as he bent down to her.</p>

+

+<p>"Poor little mite! I am afraid he's hurt. He was too small to slide. I

+must get him home this minute. Where does he live?"</p>

+

+<p>"Please, miss, down to Bill Green's; they're a-lodgin'. Please, miss,

+they're tramps; that was his ma that's just gone, her in the red shawl

+there," rose in a hubbub of voices.</p>

+

+<p>"Oh, poor wee man! I'll take him home."</p>

+

+<p>"Pray, Miss Vyner, let me," said Captain Strangways, struggling with his

+skates.</p>

+

+<p>"Oh no, please don't: I'd rather. It's only a step.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[Pg 315]</a></span> He isn't heavy. No,

+please. If you'll take the children home for me, I won't be long."</p>

+

+<p>"But you must not go alone, and it's almost dusk."</p>

+

+<p>"Jim shall go with me," and she beckoned to a stable-boy in the crowd.

+"Indeed, Captain Strangways, I would much rather you did not come,

+really;" and reluctantly he stooped and unfastened her skates, and stood

+watching her as she passed quickly down toward the village, with Jim in

+attendance, and the little child in her arms.</p>

+

+<p>"It's all right, really," said Rex, trying to cut a double S, and

+failing signally. "Don't you know Cousin Cecil is doctor to half the

+village?"</p>

+

+<p>"And oh!" said a tearful voice, "could you help me to look for my

+locket?"</p>

+

+<p>"By all means," said the kind young soldier, and they set to work with a

+will, but without success; no locket was to be seen.</p>

+

+<p>"I'll tell you what, Beata," said Rex, as the fading light warned them

+to join the group starting homeward, "it's no go. We'll tell Adams, and

+get him to set the gardeners and stablemen to work early in the morning,

+but you can't see your own nose now. I believe the woman in the red

+shawl boned it. Don't cry; you know the Spartans&mdash;"</p>

+

+<p>But there was a sob as they turned away, and even Captain Strangways's

+comforting hand-clasp could not quite console poor Beata.</p>

+

+<p>Everybody was having afternoon tea when they reached home. The great

+square hall, with its polished walls and rafters, was all aglow with the

+light from the great wood fire on the old stone hearth. There was a

+pleasant clatter of tea-spoons, and a most appetizing aroma of hot tea

+and muffins, and a great deal of chattering and soft laughter from the

+ladies in their low easy-chairs, and the gentlemen who were handing

+tea-cups. Captain Strangways secured a very big carved chair on the

+outside of the circle, and the children nestled down close to him on the

+tiger-skin rug. It was only the holiday-time that gained them this

+distinguished honor of taking tea down stairs, instead of in the

+school-room. But Beata did not feel grown up at all; she was far too

+busy mourning over the lost locket, and thinking of the confession that

+would have to be made to mamma by-and-by. Rex was very silent too, but

+he was busy with the muffins. I don't know whether they had muffins in

+Sparta, but on that subject he said not a word.</p>

+

+<p>The laughter and the tea-drinking went on, but no Cousin Cecil appeared.

+Captain Strangways had twice gone over to look out at the deepening

+darkness, and each time he came back looking graver, when all at once

+the great hall door opened softly, there was a sudden rush of cold air,

+and in came Cecil, very gently and quietly.</p>

+

+<p>Captain Strangways was on his feet, had unfastened her fur cloak, placed

+her in the big chair, and brought her a cup of tea, before Rex had

+swallowed the mouthful of muffin upon which he was engaged. When his

+speech returned to him, however, he asked, with un-Spartanlike

+eagerness,</p>

+

+<p>"Well, and how's the little chap?"</p>

+

+<p>"Better now, dear, but he was really hurt." Then, leaning forward, "Look

+here, Beata," she said, very seriously, and dropped something into her

+lap.</p>

+

+<p>Beata started up with a little cry, "My locket! oh, my locket!"</p>

+

+<p>"Then I do believe that old red shawl stole it, after all. Has she gone

+to prison?"</p>

+

+<p>"Oh, hush, Rex! Listen, children: what sort of a home do you think I

+took that poor little man to? Nothing but the shed behind Green's

+smithy; no fire, no bed but straw, no food. He had cut his head, but I

+soon bound that up, and then&mdash;oh, how can I tell you?&mdash;his mother, that

+poor pale creature in the red shawl, came up to me, just as I was coming

+away, and with tears and sobs she gave me this. She said she saw it

+fall, and picked it up in hopes of a reward, and then&mdash;and then she

+thought of the food it would buy for her miserable little starving

+babies (there were two more in the shed), and oh, children, <i>she meant

+to keep it</i>!"</p>

+

+<p>There was a moment's silence.</p>

+

+<p>"Then why&mdash;why did she give it to you?" said a somewhat husky voice:

+perhaps the hardening process had given Rex cold.</p>

+

+<p>"She said, when I brought the little boy home, she couldn't do it. She

+said&mdash;and I believe it is true&mdash;that it is the first time in her life

+she took what wasn't hers, and it was only the starving babies, and the

+sight of the glittering locket, that tempted her. Oh, Beata dear, don't

+you see now what it is to wear things that may put temptation in other

+people's way?"</p>

+

+<p>Something as bright as the diamond nails glistened on the locket on

+Beata's lap.</p>

+

+<p>"I'll tell mamma every bit about it," she murmured, with drooping head,

+"and ask her to take it away, and never let me even see it till I'm

+grown up."</p>

+

+<p>"Yes; and, Beata"&mdash;and Cousin Cecil's voice sank so low that no one else

+could hear&mdash;"when you say, 'Lead us not into temptation,' to-night, ask

+to be kept from ever tempting anybody else, and think of poor little

+Tom's mother, won't you?"</p>

+

+<p>"But, I say, cousin"&mdash;Rex was a little husky still&mdash;"are they all

+starving and shivering down there now?"</p>

+

+<p>"Oh no; Mrs. Green has taken them in for the night, and Jim has just

+gone back with some hot soup and other things for them, and to-morrow we

+must settle more. I'm sure Uncle George will help."</p>

+

+<p>"And Beata's and my pocket-money&mdash;at least what's left after Christmas

+and all those chocolates we bought the other day. Now, Beata, I hope

+you'll give up wearing lockets and tomfoolery like that. In Sparta&mdash;"</p>

+

+<p>"Have another muffin, Rex, my boy?" said Captain Strangways; and Rex's

+valuable items of information respecting that classic land were lost to

+the general public&mdash;at least as far as that occasion was concerned.</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+<h2><a name="GUESS" id="GUESS">GUESS.</a></h2>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">If all the wealth on earth could be</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">To one man given, still would not he</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Be rich as I. O'er land and sea</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I scatter gold. I fill the air</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">With precious specks. Ay! everywhere</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I of my treasure give a share,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And yet have countless stores to spare.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+<h4><a name="PHILS_FAIRIES" id="PHILS_FAIRIES">[Begun in <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> No. 66, February 1.]</a></h4>

+

+<h2>PHIL'S FAIRIES.</h2>

+

+<h3>BY MRS. W. J. HAYS,</h3>

+

+<h3><span class="smcap">Author of "Princess Idleways," etc</span>.</h3>

+

+<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter VII</span>.</h3>

+

+<h3>FAREWELL TO THE CITY.</h3>

+

+<p>A day or two later, Phil, wrapped in shawls, was carried by Joe to a

+carriage, and the carriage rolled away to a wharf where puffed numerous

+steamboats; and here he was taken on board one of the river-steamers,

+and safely placed in the midst of a heap of pillows on deck, where he

+could see all the busy life about him&mdash;see the newspaper boys and the

+orange women, and the hurrying hacks and the great teams, and all the

+stir and tumult of the city's busiest hours. Miss Schuyler, in her cool

+gray suit, was on one side of him, and Lisa, looking tranquil and

+thoroughly glad and grateful, on the other,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[Pg 316]</a></span> and Joe, just the happiest

+darky in the world, sat at his feet ready to take charge of all and

+everything.</p>

+

+<p>They sailed and they sailed, away from the city and its many roofs, from

+the factory chimneys and the steeples, from the cloud of smoke which

+hung between the sky and house-tops, until they came to the hills and

+dales of pasture-lands and villages. Then they landed, and were whirled

+away in the cars, and Phil enjoyed it all, even the fatigue which made

+him sleep; and Joe carried him about as if he were a baby.</p>

+

+<p>It was quite dark when, after a drive over a rather rough road, they

+reached the lake-side cottage which was Miss Schuyler's summer home, and

+Phil was glad to be put in bed, for the old pain had begun again.</p>

+

+<p>When he opened his eyes the next morning, it was with a strange feeling

+of wonder at his new surroundings. Birds were twittering out-of-doors,

+and there was a soft lapping of water on the shore. The green boughs of

+a cherry-tree almost brushed against the window-panes. He was no longer

+in his old garret room, but in a pretty apartment, with bunches of

+rose-buds on the walls, and scent-bottles on the toilet table, and

+muslin curtains, and a bright carpet, and pretty book-shelves, and

+brackets, and lovely child-faces in the engravings; and on a broad table

+was a little easel, and a paint-box, and drawing-paper; and here too was

+his old box with the violin strings.</p>

+

+<p>"Oh," said Phil, softly, "I wonder if heaven is any better than this!"</p>

+

+<p>He had closed his eyes as he said it, and went over his usual morning

+prayer of thankfulness; and when he opened his eyes, there was Lisa with

+his breakfast tray&mdash;poached eggs and toast and a goblet of milk.</p>

+

+<p>"Lisa, Lisa, is not this too nice for anything?" asked Phil.</p>

+

+<p>"Yes, indeed, dear, it is nice. Miss Schuyler says you must hurry and

+get strong, so that you can make the acquaintance of the hens that laid

+these eggs for you, and the cow whose milk is to do you so much good."</p>

+

+<p>"What is the cow's name, Lisa?"</p>

+

+<p>"I don't know," said Lisa.</p>

+

+<p>"It is Daisy," said Miss Schuyler, coming in to say good-morning. "She's

+a lovely little Alderney, and her milk is like cream. Oh, you will soon

+be strong enough to row my boat for me."</p>

+

+<p>"A boat!&mdash;have you a boat?"</p>

+

+<p>"Yes, and you are going out on the lake in her this very morning."</p>

+

+<p>"It is just too much happiness, Miss Schuyler."</p>

+

+<p>"Well, we will not overpower you. For a day or two you must rest, and do

+nothing but breathe the sweet air. I have to be busy getting things in

+order and looking after my garden. Lisa will take her work on the

+piazza, and you can lie in one of the easy-chairs. Joe is to wait on

+you, and do a little weeding, and keep the paths in order, and bail out

+the boat; and the old man seems to be very much at home already. So that

+is the order of the day. Now good-by, and don't do too much thinking."</p>

+

+<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;">

+<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="400" height="353" alt="" />

+<span class="caption">ON THE LAKE.</span>

+</div>

+

+<p>"One moment, Miss Schuyler; do you believe in fairies?"</p>

+

+<p>"Just a little," said Miss Schuyler, with a quizzical smile.</p>

+

+<p>"Well, I believe in them," said Phil, "and I think you are one of the

+best of them."</p>

+

+<p>"Oh no, I am very human, dear Phil, as you will find out. And now I must

+go look after my strawberry beds. Good-by."</p>

+

+<p>"Good-by," said Phil, waving her a kiss. "Only think, Lisa, we will

+actually see strawberries growing! It is quite fairy-land for me."</p>

+

+<p>After that he was carried down to the easy-chair on the piazza, where he

+could see the lawn sloping down to the lake, and watch the birds

+lighting on the rim of a vase full of daisies and running vines. He

+could see that the cottage was low and broad, and painted in two shades

+of brown; that there were arbors covered with grapevines on one side,

+and on the other he knew there were flower beds and fruit trees, for

+every once in a while Miss Rachel was to be seen emerging from there in

+a broad straw flat, and with buckskin gloves, trailing long bits of

+string or boughs of green stuff, with scissors and trowel and

+watering-can.</p>

+

+<p>Lisa had her work-basket, and with deft fingers and a little under-tone

+of psalmody was fashioning a pretty summer garment. Then Miss Rachel

+came and tossed a basketful of early roses and syringa down beside Phil,

+and put a little table beside him, with some slender glass vases and a

+pitcher of water, and asked him to arrange the flowers for her. This he

+was glad to do, and made the bunches up as prettily as his nice taste

+suggested. But he was really wearied with great happiness. It was all so

+new, so charming, every sense was so satisfied, that at last he closed

+his eyes and slept.</p>

+

+<p>It seemed to him only a little while, but when he opened his eyes again,

+Lisa was beside him with his dinner; and after dinner he slept again,

+and when he wakened the lawn was in shadow, and the sun low in the sky,

+and the birds were twittering and seeking their nests, and Miss Rachel

+was telling Joe to put cushions in the boat, the <i>Flyaway</i>; and

+presently Phil found himself floating gently on the lovely water of the

+lake, and the cottage and lawn and arbors were looking like a pretty bit

+of landscape he had seen in books.</p>

+

+<p>He dipped his fingers in the clear water, and looked down at the pebbly

+bottom, and listened to the even dip of the oars, as old Joe rowed

+farther out from shore.</p>

+

+<p>"It must be fairy-land," thought Phil, but he said nothing; he was too

+happy to talk. And so the day ended, the first day in the country.</p>

+

+<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+

+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[Pg 317]</a></span></p>

+

+<h2><a name="PINAFORE_RHYMES" id="PINAFORE_RHYMES">PINAFORE RHYMES.&mdash;(<i>Continued</i>.)</a></h2>

+

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">

+<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="500" height="171" alt="" />

+</div>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Bow! wow! wow! You'd better run;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I'm just the dog to spoil your fun;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I'll tear your dresses, and bite your heels,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Till every one of you shrieks and squeals.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">So, there! I've scared them well, I must say;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">But I'm very glad that they ran away;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">It wouldn't have been such jolly fun,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">If they had made me turn tail and run.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">

+<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="500" height="317" alt="" />

+</div>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">

+<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="500" height="457" alt="" />

+</div>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Six chimney-sweeps, each black as a crow,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Had a big fight with a man of snow.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">They beat him to pieces because he was white,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And had a triumphant feast that night.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Their dishes were blackbirds and crows, 'tis said,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Chimney-soot pudding and charcoal bread.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And they swallowed a dozen bottles of ink,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Being very choice in their meat and drink.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">

+<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="500" height="387" alt="" />

+</div>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Here, you little monkey, you,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">I want to see you play with Lu;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">She's such a pretty little miss,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Shake hands with her, and give a kiss.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;"><i>Won't!</i></span><br />

+<br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Why not, when Lulu wants to play,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And asks in such a pretty way?</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;"><i>Can't!</i></span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Why not, you little sauce-box, say?</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 26em;"><i>Sha'n't!</i></span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 192px;">

+<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="192" height="400" alt="" />

+</div>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Here's a dainty little tree,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">With its spreading leaves so free;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">It's so pretty, that I will</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Keep it on my window-sill.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+

+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[Pg 318]</a></span></p>

+

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX" id="OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX"></a>

+<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="600" height="264" alt="" />

+</div>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Raton, New Mexico</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>My brother and sisters and myself live at Chicorica Park. It is a

+very pretty place, situated in the Raton Mountains. We have had

+parties of as many as three hundred Indians hunting in our cañon at

+once, but it is a year and a half now since we have seen any. We

+have a good many deer here. Seven have been killed since Christmas,

+but one was carried off by a mountain lion.</p>

+

+<p>We like <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> very much, especially the Jimmy

+Brown stories, and "Toby Tyler." We are all English children, and

+have never lived anywhere in America except in New Mexico. Our

+pets are dogs and cats and a colt. We like the colt best of all.</p>

+

+<p>We have had some very heavy snow-storms, and the cañon has been

+impassable several times this winter, so we have not received

+<span class="smcap">Young People</span> very regularly. I am twelve years old.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">G. Kercheval M</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I like the life of Lafayette which was published in <span class="smcap">Young People</span> so

+much! I have the lives of generals in my history, but the way they

+are written in <span class="smcap">Young People</span> is so much more interesting! I wish the

+paper was published twice a week, it seems so long to wait to hear

+how Toby Tyler gets along. On Wednesday morning it is "Hallo! has

+<span class="smcap">Young People</span> come?" all over our house. Mamma says it is a great

+blessing. We think the little girl with her first muff in the

+picture in No. 68 is so sweet and chubby and baby-like, that if she

+was alive we should just love her to death.</p>

+

+<p>I have a dog named Major, who sits up on his hind-legs and hangs

+down his fore-paws pitifully, as if they were broken, and some

+people think they really are; but Major only does it to beg for

+candy. He has many friends, and sometimes they bring him sticks of

+candy all the way from Philadelphia.</p>

+

+<p>It has been so cold here this winter that some of our sparrows

+fell to the ground half frozen. We brought them into the house,

+and when they got warm we opened the window and let them fly away.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Georgy H</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bellefontaine, Ohio</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I am six years old. I began to take <span class="smcap">Young People</span> on the first of

+January, and I like it ever so much. I learned the little poem in

+No. 66 about the strawberry vines, and how the snowy blanket

+covered their saucy little heads. I speak it for grandma, and she

+says it is beautiful.</p>

+

+<p>Christmas papa gave me a beautiful little stove, all

+nickel-plated. I bake pies and cake and other nice things for my

+little friends and myself to eat.</p>

+

+<p>My uncle brought me a doll from New York city, and my other uncle

+gave me a little trunk to put her clothes in.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ethel B</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Denison, Iowa</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I wish <span class="smcap">Young People</span> came every day instead of once a week. I was so

+sorry when "Mildred's Bargain" was finished! but I like the other

+stories ever so much, especially "Toby Tyler." I read all the

+letters in the Post-office Box, and wish I could see all the boys

+and girls who write them. The little girl away down in Texas who

+wrote about the first snow has no idea how much fun we Northern

+children have coasting on the snow crust, sometimes over drifts

+eight and ten feet deep.</p>

+

+<p>Last Friday I spoke "Lily's Ball," the poem in No. 67 of <span class="smcap">Young

+People</span>, at my school, and next week I am going to speak "My First

+Muff," in No. 68.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Mabel</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">New York City</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I think Toby Tyler is a great boy. We used to have a monkey named

+Jack. Every night he would put a shawl over his head and go to

+sleep. Sometimes he would hold the kitten in his arms and try to

+put her to sleep. He would get on our pig's back, and hold on to

+his ears, and ride all around, and he would ride horseback to the

+village. When any one went out, he would watch to see if any candy

+were brought home, and if it was, he would stand on his hind-legs

+and put out his paw until the paper was opened. I am almost eight

+years old.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Willie K. T</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Houston, Texas</span>, <i>February</i> 22, 1881.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I wish to notify correspondents that I have exchanged to the full

+extent of my collection, and I beg them not to write to me any

+more.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">H. C. Yancey</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Forest Lake, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>My papa promised me <span class="smcap">Young People</span> as soon as I could read it myself.

+I tried very hard after that, and last November, on my seventh

+birthday, sure enough it came. I don't believe any little boy

+enjoys it more than I do. I must tell you of one thing it has done

+for me. I was always afraid to be left alone, especially after

+dark. After reading the story in No. 55 about the little girl who

+broke herself of being so timid, I went every night from garret to

+cellar all alone after dark, and now I am not afraid to go anywhere

+in the house, even if it is very dark.</p>

+

+<p>I have a little brother named Harry. I love him very much. He

+likes the pictures in <span class="smcap">Young People</span> as much as I do. I think Jimmy

+Brown is jolly.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Wrightie G</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">San Antonio, Texas</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I have two mocking-birds for pets. They whistle so pretty! I am

+going to have a pretty flower garden this summer. Spring is here

+(February 16), and the peach-trees are budding, and everybody is

+making gardens.</p>

+

+<p>I like all the stories in <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I always laugh so hard

+when mamma reads Jimmy Brown to me! I wish he would send another

+story.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">May K</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><i>February</i> 24, 1881.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I have no more pure white coral left, but I have a piece with a

+little red in it which I will send to a boy who sent me a specimen

+of ore, if he will kindly send me his address again.</p>

+

+<p>I would like to send "Wee Tot" a piece of red coral from the Red

+Sea, if she will send me some ocean curiosities and her address.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sallie Kelley</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Kleine St., East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>Fred Glasier, of Adams, Massachusetts, regrets being unable to make a

+return for some favors he has received, as the addresses, although

+given, were so illegible that he could not decipher them. Addresses

+should always be written distinctly. The Post-office Box is often

+compelled to neglect exchanges which are pretty and suitable, because

+the address is as mysterious as the hieroglyphics on our Egyptian

+obelisk.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Last year my father gave me a Columbia bicycle. We have a bicycle

+club here, with about twenty members, of which I am one. Our suit

+is brown corduroy, with red stockings. The cap is like the suit.</p>

+

+<p>I would like to exchange some of the first American pennies and

+halfpennies, for foreign coins.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Arthur C. Ketcham</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Care of William P. Ketcham. P. O. Box 10,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Yonkers, N. Y.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I will exchange bayberry-tallow, for peacock coal, or postage

+stamps from Cape of Good Hope or Barbadoes.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">A. M. Forman</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<p>Bayberry-tallow is greenish in color, and is obtained by boiling the

+berries of the bayberry, or wax myrtle (<i>Myrica cerifera</i>). This shrub,

+which is very aromatic, grows in great abundance all along the Atlantic

+coast. It is found in such quantities in some localities of Long Island

+that the gathering of the berries and the manufacture of tallow for

+candles amount to an extensive local industry.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I have taken <span class="smcap">Young People</span> since the first copy. My brother has

+bound it with strings, and it makes a very pretty volume.</p>

+

+<p>I have often answered correspondents, always receiving, in

+exchange for foreign stamps, articles of equal value.</p>

+

+<p>I have nearly two thousand duplicates of foreign stamps, which I

+will exchange for other foreign stamps, or for stamps of United

+States departments. I will also exchange postmarks for anything

+interesting.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">John Thomas</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">3420 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Penn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>My mamma says she will make a pretty flower out of any little

+girl's hair, or her mamma's, in exchange for curious shells,

+minerals, or a genuine Indian bow and arrow. A bunch of hair from

+one to two feet long and as thick as a goose quill will make a

+pretty flower.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Adella P. Lippincott</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">New Hope, Bucks County, Penn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I have four Chilian stamps, which I would like to exchange for

+other South American stamps. I have made a man with a basket on his

+back from Wiggle 17, which I send.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Edward H. Palmer</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">44 Schiffleutstaden, Strasburg, Germany.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<p>Your Wiggle is excellent, and we are very sorry it arrived too late to

+be printed with others.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>I have noticed in the exchanges there are many who want birds'

+eggs. It does not seem quite right to me, because if we take all

+the eggs, we destroy all the birds. I will exchange shells and

+pebbles from Lake Erie, for any curiosity except birds' eggs.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Jessie G. Smith</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">327 West Fourth Street, Erie, Penn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:</p>

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postmarks and stamps of all kinds.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">George Linscott</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Holton, Jackson County, Kansas.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Twenty-five postmarks, for five stamps from any country except

+Europe, Canada, and the United States.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">F. S</span>. and <span class="smcap">B. S</span>.,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 582, Lansing, Mich.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Dried ferns from the highest peaks of the Alleghanies, for pieces

+of silk for a quilt.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Lucy Sharp</span>, P. O. Box 73, Bridgeton, N. J.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Sammy Beans</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">103 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postmarks or stamps, for stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Jerome G. Eddy</span>, Lock Box 111, Geneva, N. Y.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>A piece of Irish peat, for soil and seed from the far West or

+South, especially cotton seed, or for a piece of lava.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">D. Allan Weber</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Searsport, Waldo County, Maine.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">N. S. Schwarz</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">105 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postage stamps and postmarks, for stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">William M. Beaman</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">U. S. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Penn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>A Canadian coin, for five Montenegro stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Charlie Hubbard</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">30 Pearl Street, New Haven, Conn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Shells, for Indian relics.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Aaron King</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">80 Ellison Street, Paterson, N. J.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Texas moss, flints, insects, woods, pressed flowers, and other

+natural curiosities, for foreign postage stamps, woods, Indian

+arrow-heads, and all kinds of minerals.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">J. S</span>. and <span class="smcap">Willie G. Davis</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Care of J. T. Davis, P. O. Box 122,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postmarks, for stamps, curiosities, or minerals. Ten postmarks, for

+one rare stamp; or twenty, for a good curiosity.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Charlie Nichols</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">288 Lafayette Street, Bridgeport, Conn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postage stamps, for stamps, minerals or coins.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ralph L. Emerson</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 105, Brookline, Mass.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postage stamps, for the same, or pressed wild flowers.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Fred Cheney</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">41 Fort Avenue, Boston, Mass.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Foreign postage stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Henry Payne</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Mankato, Minn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Stamps, for coins.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">A Subscriber of "Young People</span>,"</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">First National Bank, Bay City, Mich.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>A small piece of sulphate of iron, for foreign postage stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harry W. Townley</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Sayreville, N. J.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Stamps, for coins.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">W. T. Crane</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">124 Washington Street, Hoboken, N. J.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Stamps, for anything suitable for a museum.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">D. G. Barnett</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">406 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>German postage stamps, for other foreign stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Arthur E. Campbell</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">222 Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Five postmarks, for one foreign stamp.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Guy F. Barker</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">St Albans, Franklin County, Vt.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Rare postmarks (Illinois especially) and postage stamps, for

+foreign and old issues of United States stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Manning A. Logan</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">812 Twelfth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Three varieties of internal revenue stamps, for foreign stamps,

+minerals, or curiosities.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Edwin E. Slosson</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>United States and foreign postage stamps, for stamps from Hamburg,

+Mexico, and Japan.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harry C. Brearley</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">180 Charlotte Avenue, Detroit, Mich.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postage stamps, for specimens of gold, silver, copper, or tin ore.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ally B. Halliday</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">406 West Forty-third Street, New York City.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Minerals, fossils, shells, and Indian relics (a large collection of

+the latter), for minerals, shells, and seaweed. Only good specimens

+desired.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ed Gohl</span>, 7 South Third Street, Harrisburg, Penn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Stones from Connecticut, Texas, and Mississippi, also cotton as it

+comes from the field, for foreign postage stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">James McKenna</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">4 West Street, Bridgeport, Conn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[Pg 319]</a></span></p><blockquote>

+

+<p>A Norwegian halfpenny, date 1867, two Cape of Good Hope stamps,

+and a flint an inch long, for Indian arrow-heads and petrified

+wood.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">George E. Pringle</span>, Hastings, Minn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Shells from the Indian and Pacific oceans, for fossils of animals

+or plants.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Henry W. Hand</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Green Creek, Cape May County, N. J.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Foreign postage stamps, for Indian relics and curiosities.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Flavel S. Mines</span>, Kirkwood Hotel,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Mo.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postmarks, postage and revenue stamps, and monograms, for postage

+and revenue stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">K. G. Easton</span>, West Berkeley, Cal.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Thirty foreign stamps, for five stamps of the following countries:

+Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Cape of Good Hope, Hong-Kong.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">H. L. J</span>.,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Lock Box 721, Granville, Licking County, Ohio.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postmarks, for stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">James G. Barbour</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">25 Fulton Street, Pittsburgh, Penn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Twenty-eight old coins, for any curiosity or Indian relics. A good

+Indian bow and a few arrows especially desired.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">A Subscriber of "Young People</span>,"</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">P. O. Box 930, Rushford, Fillmore Co., Minn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>A few shells from Calcutta, India, for ocean curiosities, or any

+pretty thing for a collection. Mosses and pressed ferns especially

+desired. Flower seeds also exchanged.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ella Stull</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Greenville, Darke County, Ohio.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Ten foreign postage stamps, for an Indian arrow-head, or two stamps

+from the Cape of Good Hope.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Freeman Woodbridge</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Care of Dr. J. Woodbridge,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">New Brunswick. N. J.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postmarks and Canadian postage stamps, for shells from the Pacific

+and Southern coasts, or other curiosities. Correspondents will

+please label specimens.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Miss M. Frank Le Count</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">South Norwalk, Conn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Stones from the Arkansas River, cotton as it comes from the field,

+cotton seed, postmarks, and scales of the alligator gar-fish, for

+United States or foreign coins. Correspondents will please label

+coins.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Collector</span>, care of Postmaster,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Heckatoo, Lincoln County, Ark.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Old United States and foreign postage stamps, for coins and

+minerals.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Gustavus Schaember</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">159 Prince Street, New York City.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Ten Pennsylvania postmarks, for the same number of any other State

+or Territory, or Canada.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Cliff C. Garrison</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Brookville, Jefferson County, Penn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Twenty-five postmarks, for five rare postage stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">R. C. Williams, Jun</span>.,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">240 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>A stone from Pennsylvania, for one from any other State; or

+postmarks, for foreign stamps&mdash;Chinese especially desired.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Walter J. Wells</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Oswayo, Potter County, Penn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>An ounce of the soil of New York, for the same from any other

+State. Western soil particularly desired.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ernest S. Green</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">123 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Sea-shells, for foreign postage stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">C. H. Tucker</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">63 Cass Avenue, Corner of Adams,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Detroit, Mich.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Fragments of figured pottery from sites of ancient Mohawk Indian

+villages, for Indian relics from other localities.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">R. C. Hall</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Canajoharie, Montgomery County, N. Y.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Stones from the shore of Lake Erie, for stones or ores from other

+localities, or foreign postage stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Frank W. Fullkerson</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">78 Sawtell Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>European, Chinese, and Japanese postage stamps, for minerals.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Clarence Henne</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">39 Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, N. J.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Latest issues of German, French, and Italian postage stamps, and

+curiosities, for curiosities.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">L. H. Trotter</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">22 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Penn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postmarks, for fossils and minerals.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Fletcher M. Noe</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">165 North Alabama Street, Indianapolis, Ind.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Foreign postage stamps, for foreign stamps, minerals, or fossils.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Harry S. Jeanes</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">521 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Penn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Postage stamps, postmarks, minerals, shells, wood, feathers, or any

+Texas curiosity, for copper or zinc ore, ocean curiosities, or

+anything suitable for a museum.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Frank D. Davis</span>, Groesbeck, Texas.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>United States War Department stamps, for foreign stamps.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Montgomery M. Taylor</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">Newport Barracks, Newport, Ky.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<blockquote>

+

+<p>Coins, for an Indian tomahawk or pipe, shells, minerals, coins, or

+other curiosities.</p></blockquote>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Alfred W. Kerr</span>,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">22 Crescent Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p><span class="smcap">G. H</span>.&mdash;"The Story of George Washington" ran through ten numbers of

+<span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, Vol. I., beginning in No. 24, April 13, and

+ending in No. 33, June 15.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p><span class="smcap">Clement L. and Virginia H. P</span>.&mdash;In 1872, Captain Lawson, an Englishman,

+accompanied by a band of natives, explored the island of Papua, or New

+Guinea. In the published account of his travels mention is made of Mount

+Hercules, which, according to his measurements, is 32,783 feet above the

+sea-level, or over 3000 feet higher than Mount Everest. Captain Lawson's

+statement has not yet been verified by farther scientific investigation,

+and the latest geographies and encyclopædias continue to name Mount

+Everest as the highest known peak on the earth's surface.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p><span class="smcap">Minnie G</span>.&mdash;A Brazilian silver milreis, or one thousand reis, is worth

+about fifty-one cents, United States currency. The face value of a

+ten-reis postage stamp is about half a cent.&mdash;Cancelled stamps are

+commonly used in exchange by our correspondents, as new ones are

+difficult to obtain, especially those of foreign countries.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p><span class="smcap">A. A. Y. C</span>.&mdash;The cost of material for sail-boat described in <span class="smcap">Young

+People</span> No. 66 is about fifteen dollars. For the other information you

+require, go to the foot of Court Street, Brooklyn, in which city you

+live, and talk with the boatmen and boat-builders there.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p><span class="smcap">J. M</span>.&mdash;A new boat like the one you describe will cost from seventy-five

+to one hundred dollars. You may be able to obtain one second-hand in

+good condition for half that sum. The expense of starting a club would

+depend entirely upon the outlay to which the members mutually agree. It

+might be confined to the price of your boat and rowing suits, and the

+rent of some place to store your boat.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p><span class="smcap">John T</span>.&mdash;A note from Mr. Casey, containing his address and a kind offer

+to reply to correspondents, was printed in the Post-office Box of

+<span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> No. 61.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p><span class="smcap">Willie B. S</span>.&mdash;When the Colonial Congress was in session in Philadelphia

+in 1774 a motion was made to open the proceedings with prayer. It was

+opposed on the ground that as the members belonged to different

+denominations, they would be unable to join in the same act of worship.

+But Mr. Samuel Adams, who was a strict Presbyterian, said he could

+listen to a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue who was at the

+same time a friend to his country, and named Mr. Jacob Duché, an

+Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, as such a person. The motion was

+then passed, and Mr. Duché appeared the next morning, and officiated

+with great fervor. He subsequently became a traitor to his country, and

+even attempted to persuade Washington to desert to the British.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p><span class="smcap">Walter S. D</span>.&mdash;The two New York firms that carry and distribute mail

+matter within the limits of the city of New York are Boyd's Dispatch and

+Hussey's Dispatch. They claim this right in virtue of a special

+privilege given them many years ago by the city government. Whatever

+this right may be in theory, it certainly holds good in practice, for

+the general government has tried time and time again to break up these

+concerns, but without avail.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<h3>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h3>

+

+<h3>No. 1.</h3>

+

+<h3>ENIGMA.</h3>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My first in quill, not in pen.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My second in duck, not in hen.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My third in river, not in lake.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My fourth in biscuit, not in cake.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My fifth in soon, not in late.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The capital I of a foreign state,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Upon whose shore by night and day</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">The Pacific dashes in foam and spray.</span><br />

+<br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Dame Durden</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<h3>No. 2.</h3>

+

+<h3>WORD CHANGES.</h3>

+

+<p>1. Rain to snow. 2. Rags to silk. 3. Mill to cent. 4. Sin to woe. 5.

+Sold to lost. 6. Line to cord. 7. Nay to yea. 8. Glue to mend.</p>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Frank L. L</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<h3>No. 3.</h3>

+

+<h3>EASY CONCEALMENTS.</h3>

+

+<p>Cities and Countries.&mdash;1. Here is a new portfolio for Carrie. 2. Ponto

+led Oliver to the stream. 3. I shall see Charles to-night. 4. Helen and

+Anna may go to the fair.</p>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">M. L. H</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<p>5. He is no liar, men; I am the culprit. 6. Madam, as custodian of the

+library, I must forbid you to remove books. 7. I gave orders that he be

+set to work immediately. 8. Her picture was set in diamonds.</p>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Bell</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<p>Trees.&mdash;9. Did you know that Will owns a horse? 10. This pin equals an

+iron bar in strength. 11. We heard the croak of a raven. 12.

+Steam-engines propel many boats. 13. It appeared to me that he was

+false. 14. Philip, each one of your sums is wrong. 15. The plumes of

+Crécy round him waved.</p>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Ed</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<p>Birds and Beasts.&mdash;16. His rib is broken. 17. How did that occur, Lewis?

+18. He muttered words none could understand. 19. Jim and Caspar rowed us

+over the river.</p>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Margaret</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<p>20. I abhor seeing you in that dress. 21. Behind them came Lucy, all in

+white. 22. Would you like to be a Russian? 23. Dover is the capital of

+Delaware. 24. The medicine is more bitter now than it was at first. 25.

+The fairy's wand is broken.</p>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Emily</span> and <span class="smcap">Clara</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<p>26. Isaac, row faster! 27. The lobsters nip Essie's fingers. 28. Seth

+rushed in and told them.</p>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Millie</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<h3>No. 4.</h3>

+

+<h3>CHARADE.</h3>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My first is a troublesome insect.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My second might be applied to every boy and girl during dinner-time.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">My whole consumes my first.</span><br />

+<br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Norman</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<h3>No. 5.</h3>

+

+<h3>ENIGMA.</h3>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In cold, not in heat.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In shoe, not in feet.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In flutter, not in flaunt.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In wish, not in want.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In stone, not in brick.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In hen, not in chick.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In rough, not in kind.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">In thought, not in mind.</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">To gather my whole on an autumn day</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">For country boys is sport and play.</span><br />

+<br />

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;"><span class="smcap">Lena S. F</span>.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<h3>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 69.</h3>

+

+<h3>No. 1.</h3>

+

+<div class="center">

+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">

+<tr><td align="left">S</td><td align="left">P</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">N</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left">P</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">R</td><td align="left">T</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">R</td><td align="left">T</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">T</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left">N</td></tr>

+</table></div>

+

+<h3>No. 2.</h3>

+

+<p class="center">Tiger.</p>

+

+<h3>No. 3.</h3>

+

+<p>Across.&mdash;1. Stork. 2. Sport. 3. Heron. 4. Civil. 5. Drain. 6. Dregs. 7.

+Refer. 8. Flint. 9. Oasis. 10. Sword. 11. Freak. 12. Spare. 13. Dross.

+Zigzags&mdash;Spring flowers.</p>

+

+<h3>No. 4.</h3>

+

+<div class="center">

+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="">

+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">M</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">P</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">R</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">F</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">T</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">P</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">A</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left">M</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">R</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">C</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left">R</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">C</td><td align="left">O</td><td align="left">V</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">R</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">T</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">N</td><td align="left">E</td><td align="left">T</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">A</td><td align="left">I</td><td align="left">R</td></tr>

+<tr><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left"></td><td align="left">C</td></tr>

+</table></div>

+

+<h3>No. 5.</h3>

+

+<p class="center">Lifetime.</p>

+

+<hr class="tb" />

+

+<p>Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Jessie A. Allen, H.

+V. B., Bessie Bolton, Laura Brick, Charles H. Cole, Alice Cantine, Lulu

+C., W. Chase, R. O. Chester, "Dawley Boys," Harry H. Dickinson, L. Jay

+E., Lena S. Fox, "L. U. Stral," William A. Lewis, Howard B. Lent, Adella

+R. Lippincott, C. H. McBride, "Philo S. Opher," Willy Rochester, D. J.

+Reinhart, Frank W. Smith, Gilbert P. Salters, "Starry Flag," Dora N.

+Taylor, W. I. Trotter, "Ed. I. Torial," Willie F. Woolard, Edith M.

+Wetmore, Annie Wheeler, "Young Solver."</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+<h2>HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.</h2>

+

+<p><span class="smcap">Single Copies</span>, 4 cents; <span class="smcap">One Subscription</span>, one year, $1.50; <span class="smcap">Five

+Subscriptions</span>, one year, $7.00&mdash;<i>payable in advance, postage free</i>.</p>

+

+<p>The Volumes of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> commence with the first Number in

+November of each year.</p>

+

+<p>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.</p>

+

+<p>Remittances should be made by <span class="smcap">Post-Office Money-Order or Draft</span>, to avoid

+risk of loss.</p>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 34em;">HARPER &amp; BROTHERS,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 36em;">Franklin Square, N. Y.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+

+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[Pg 320]</a></span></p>

+

+<h2><a name="STRING_TRICKS" id="STRING_TRICKS">STRING TRICKS.</a></h2>

+

+<h3>BY HELEN P. STRONG.</h3>

+

+<p>Every boy and girl knows the mysteries of the "cat's-cradle"&mdash;of course

+you do, as well as you know your "Aina, maina, mona, mite"&mdash;but do you

+know that the "cat's-cradle" does not begin to exhaust the possibilities

+of a piece of string? "Indian-box" mysteries and "inexhaustible hats"

+are not to be compared with it for simplicity of contrivance. Given a

+piece of string a yard long, and ten nimble fingers (counting thumbs),

+and you have all the apparatus needed to astonish your friends for a

+whole evening. I hope the accompanying illustrations and description

+will be sufficient to give you the secret of one of these wonderful

+string tricks. And now you shall be enlightened as to the</p>

+

+<h4>BUTTON-HOLE MYSTERY.</h4>

+

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">

+<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="400" height="222" alt="" />

+<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig</span>. 1.</span>

+</div>

+

+<p>Secure a piece of strong cord a yard in length, and having tied the ends

+firmly together, pass the double end through your button-hole, and a

+thumb through each loop, as in Fig. 1. Now slip the little finger of

+your <i>left</i> hand under the lower string of the loop which passes over

+the <i>right</i> thumb, and the little finger of the <i>right</i> hand under the

+lower string of the loop which passes over the <i>left</i> thumb, separating

+the hands as in Fig. 2. Now comes the mystery. A quick movement of both

+hands, without releasing the string from either thumbs or little

+fingers, will give the effect of a tangle which can only be extricated

+by cutting the string or the button-hole. You add to the illusion by

+sawing a little on the button-hole to direct the attention to the

+impossibility of loosening the string at that point; then suddenly,

+without letting go either hand, you present the string-free from the

+button-hole though still securely tied.</p>

+

+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">

+<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="400" height="215" alt="" />

+<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig</span>. 2.</span>

+</div>

+

+<p>The secret lies in this: if you look carefully at Fig. 2, you will

+discover that the little finger of one hand and the thumb of the other

+are really holding the same loop; so you have only to retain your hold

+at these points, letting the rest go, to draw the string out of the

+button-hole with freedom.</p>

+

+<p>But you may find it rather difficult at first to make the proper thumb

+and finger act quickly and in unison, apart from the twin brother of

+each; for thumbs, and also little fingers, are like twin children, and,

+unless well trained, one always wants to do what the other does. But you

+will succeed if you think very hard for a moment, for that is the way

+the mind makes naughty hands and feet obey her commands.</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+<h2><a name="THE_LOSING_BAG" id="THE_LOSING_BAG">THE LOSING BAG.</a></h2>

+

+<p>

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Little Harry Careless</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Was always losing things&mdash;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Shoes and hats, and slates and books,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Pencils, marbles, strings&mdash;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">Till at last his mother</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Took a faded flag</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">(A great, enormous one it was)</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">And made of it a bag.</span><br />

+<br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"Now, my careless Harry,"</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Said she, with a kiss,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"When you feel like losing things,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Pop them into this."</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">"That I will," cried Harry,</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">Happy as a king;</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 21em;">And since he's had the losing bag</span><br />

+<span style="margin-left: 22em;">He's never lost a thing.</span><br />

+</p>

+

+<hr class="chap" />

+<div class="figleft" style="width: 385px;">

+<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="385" height="400" alt="" />

+<span class="caption">"HOLD YOUR GIRAFFE, SIR?"</span>

+</div>

+

+<div class="figright" style="width: 317px;">

+<img src="images/ill_016.jpg" width="317" height="400" alt="" />

+<span class="caption">THE GIRAFFE IS HELD.</span>

+</div>

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+<pre>

+

+

+

+

+

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+Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, March 15, 1881, by Various

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+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

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+Title: Harper's Young People, March 15, 1881

+       An Illustrated Weekly

+

+Author: Various

+

+Release Date: March 16, 2014 [EBook #45152]

+

+Language: English

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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, MAR 15, 1881 ***

+

+

+

+

+Produced by Annie R. McGuire

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+

+[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE

+AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+VOL. II.--NO. 72. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR

+CENTS.

+

+Tuesday, March 15, 1881. Copyright, 1881, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50

+per Year, in Advance.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+

+

+

+[Illustration: THE FIRST LESSON.]

+

+[Begun in No. 58 of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, December 7.]

+

+TOBY TYLER;

+

+OR, TEN WEEKS WITH A CIRCUS.

+

+BY JAMES OTIS.

+

+CHAPTER XIV.

+

+MR. CASTLE TEACHES TOBY TO RIDE.

+

+

+When Toby got within sight of the ring, he was astonished at what he

+saw. A horse with a broad wooden saddle was being led slowly around the

+ring; Mr. Castle was standing on one side, with a long whip in his hand,

+and on the tent pole, which stood in the centre of the ring, was a long

+arm, from which dangled a leathern belt on a long rope that was carried

+through the end of the arm, and run down to the base of the pole.

+

+Toby knew well enough why the horse, the whip, and the man were there,

+but this wooden projection from the tent pole, which looked so much like

+a gallows, he could not understand at all.

+

+"Come, now," said Mr. Castle, cracking his whip ominously as Toby came

+in sight, "why weren't you here before?"

+

+"Mr. Lord just sent me in," said Toby, not expecting that his excuse

+would be received, for they never had been since he had arrived at the

+height of his ambition by joining the circus.

+

+"Then I'll make Mr. Job understand that I am to have my full hour of

+your time, and if I don't get it, there'll be trouble between us."

+

+It would have pleased Toby very well to have had Mr. Castle go out with

+his long whip just then and make trouble for Mr. Lord; but Mr. Castle

+had not the time to spare, because of the trouble which he was about to

+make for Toby, and that he commenced on at once.

+

+"Well, get in here, and don't waste any more time," he said, sharply.

+

+Toby looked around curiously for a moment, and not understanding exactly

+what he was expected to get in and do, asked, "What shall I do?"

+

+"Pull off your boots, coat, and vest."

+

+Since there was no other course than to learn to ride, Toby wisely

+concluded that the best thing he could do would be to obey this new

+master without question; and he began to take his clothes off with as

+much alacrity as if learning to ride was the one thing upon which he had

+long set his heart.

+

+Mr. Castle was evidently accustomed to prompt obedience, for he not only

+took it as a matter of course, but endeavored to hurry Toby in his work

+of undressing.

+

+With his desire to please, and urged by Mr. Castle's words and the

+ominous shaking of his whip, Toby's preparations were soon made, and he

+stood before his instructor clad only in his shirt, trousers, and

+stockings.

+

+The horse was led around to where he stood, and when Mr. Castle held out

+his hand to help him to mount, Toby jumped up quickly without aid,

+thereby making a good impression at the start as a willing lad.

+

+"Now," said the instructor, as he pulled down the leathern belt which

+hung from the rope, and fastened it around Toby's waist, "stand up in

+the saddle, and try to stand there. You can't fall, because the rope

+will keep you up, even if the horse goes out from under you; but it

+isn't hard work to keep on if you mind what you are about, and if you

+don't, this whip will help you. Now stand up."

+

+Toby did as he was bidden, and as the horse was led at a walk, and as he

+had the long bridle to aid him in keeping his footing, he had no

+difficulty in standing during the time that the horse went once around

+the ring; but that was all.

+

+Mr. Castle seemed to think that this was preparation enough for the boy

+to be able to understand how to ride, and he started the horse into a

+canter. As might have been expected, Toby lost his balance, the horse

+went on ahead, and he was left dangling at the end of the rope, very

+much like a crab that has just been caught by the means of a pole and

+line.

+

+Toby kicked, waved his hands, and floundered about generally, but all to

+no purpose, until the horse came round again, and then he made frantic

+efforts to regain his footing, which efforts were aided--or perhaps it

+would be more proper to say retarded--by the long lash of Mr. Castle's

+whip, that played around his legs with merciless severity.

+

+"Stand up! stand up!" cried his instructor, as Toby reeled first to one

+side and then to the other, now standing erect in the saddle, and now

+dangling at the end of the rope, with the horse almost out from under

+him.

+

+This command seemed almost needless, as it was exactly what Toby was

+trying to do; but as it was given, he struggled all the harder, until it

+seemed to him that the more he tried, the less did he succeed.

+

+And this first lesson progressed in about the same way until the hour

+was over, save that now and then Mr. Castle would give him some good

+advice, but oftener he would twist the long lash of that whip around the

+boy's legs with such force that Toby believed the skin had been taken

+entirely off.

+

+It may have been a relief to Mr. Castle when that first lesson was

+concluded, and it certainly was to Toby, for he had had all the teaching

+in horsemanship that he wanted, and he thought, with deepest sorrow,

+that this would be of daily occurrence during all the time he remained

+with the circus.

+

+As he went out of the tent he stopped to speak with his friend the old

+monkey, and his troubles seemed to have increased when he stood in front

+of the cage calling "Mr. Stubbs! Mr. Stubbs!" and the old fellow would

+not even come down from off the lofty perch where he was engaged in

+monkey gymnastics with several younger companions. It seemed to him, as

+he afterward told Ben, "as if Mr. Stubbs had gone back on him because he

+knew that he was in trouble."

+

+When he went toward the booth, Mr. Lord looked at him around the corner

+of the canvas--for it seemed to Toby that his employer could look around

+a square corner with much greater ease than he could straight

+ahead--with a disagreeable leer in his eye, as though he enjoyed the

+misery which he knew his little clerk had just undergone.

+

+"Can you ride yet?" he asked, mockingly, as Toby stepped behind the

+counter to attend to his regular line of business.

+

+Toby made no reply, for he knew that the question was only asked

+sarcastically, and not through any desire for information. In a few

+moments Mr. Lord left him to attend to the booth alone, and went into

+the tent, where Toby rightly conjectured he had gone to question Mr.

+Castle upon the result of the lesson just given.

+

+That night old Ben asked him how he had got on while under the teaching

+of Mr. Castle, and Toby, knowing that the question was asked because of

+the real interest which Ben had in his welfare, replied,

+

+"If I was tryin' to learn how to swing round the ring, strapped to a

+rope, I should say that I got along first-rate; but I don't know much

+about the horse, for I was only on his back a little while at a time."

+

+"You'll get over that soon," said old Ben, patronizingly, as he patted

+him on the back. "You remember my words, now; I say that you've got it

+in you, an' if you've a mind to take hold an' try to learn, you'll come

+out on the top of the heap yet, an' be one of the smartest riders

+they've got in this show."

+

+"I don't want to be a rider," said Toby, sadly: "I only want to get back

+home once more, an' then you'll see how much it'll take to get me away

+again."

+

+"Well," said Ben, quietly, "be that as it may, while you're here the

+best thing you can do is to take hold an' get ahead just as fast as you

+can; it'll make it a mighty sight easier for you while you're with the

+show, and it won't spoil any of your chances for runnin' away whenever

+the time comes."

+

+Toby fully appreciated the truth of that remark, and he assured Ben that

+he should do all in his power to profit by the instruction given, and to

+please this new master who had been placed over him.

+

+And with this promise, he lay back on the seat and went to sleep, not to

+awaken until the preparations were being made for the entree into the

+next town, and Mr. Lord's harsh voice had cried out his name, with no

+gentle tone, several times.

+

+Toby's first lesson with Mr. Castle was the most pleasant one he had;

+for after the boy had once been into the ring, his master seemed to

+expect that he could do everything which he was told to do, and when he

+failed in any little particular, the long lash of the whip would go

+curling around his legs or arms, until the little fellow's body and

+limbs were nearly covered with the blue and black stripes.

+

+For three lessons only was the wooden upright used to keep him from

+falling; after that he was forced to ride standing erect on the broad

+wooden saddle, or pad, as it is properly called, and whenever he lost

+his balance and fell, there was no question asked as to whether or not

+he had hurt himself, but he was mercilessly cut with the whip.

+

+Messrs. Lord and Jacobs gained very much by comparison with Mr. Castle

+in Toby's mind. He had thought that his lot could not be harder than it

+was with them; but when he had experienced the pains of two or three of

+Mr. Castle's lessons in horsemanship, he thought that he would stay with

+the candy venders all the season cheerfully rather than take six more

+lessons of Mr. Castle.

+

+Night after night he fell asleep from the sheer exhaustion of crying, as

+he had been pouring out his woes in the old monkey's ears, and laying

+his plans to run away. Now, more than ever, was he anxious to get away,

+and yet each day was taking him farther from home, and consequently

+necessitating a larger amount of money with which to start. As old Ben

+did not give him as much sympathy as Toby thought he ought to give--for

+the old man, while he would not allow Mr. Job Lord to strike the boy if

+he was near, thought it a necessary portion of the education for Mr.

+Castle to lash him all he had a mind to--he poured out all his troubles

+in the old monkey's ears, and kept him with him from the time he ceased

+work at night until he was obliged to commence again in the morning.

+

+The skeleton and his wife thought Toby's lot a hard one, and tried by

+every means in their power to cheer the poor boy. Neither one of them

+could say to Mr. Castle what they had said to Mr. Lord, for the rider

+was a far different sort of a person, and one whom they would not be

+allowed to interfere with in any way. Therefore poor Toby was obliged to

+bear his troubles and his whippings as best he might, with only the

+thought to cheer him of the time when he could leave them all by running

+away.

+

+But despite all his troubles, Toby learned to ride faster than his

+teacher had expected he would, and in three weeks he found little or no

+difficulty in standing erect while his horse went around the ring at his

+fastest gait. After that had been accomplished, his progress was more

+rapid, and he gave promise of becoming a very good rider--a fact which

+pleased both Mr. Castle and Mr. Lord very much, as they fancied that in

+another year Toby would be the source of a very good income to them.

+

+The proprietor of the circus took considerable interest in Toby's

+instruction, and promised Mr. Castle that Mademoiselle Jeannette and

+Toby should do an act together in the performance just as soon as the

+latter was sufficiently advanced. The boy's costume had been changed

+after he could ride without falling off, and now while he was in the

+ring he wore the same as that used by the regular performers.

+

+The little girl had, after it was announced that she and Toby were to

+perform together, been an attentive observer during the hour that Toby

+was under Mr. Castle's direction, and she gave him many suggestions that

+were far more valuable, and quicker to be acted upon, than those given

+by the teacher himself.

+

+"To-morrow you two will go through the exercise together," said Mr.

+Castle to Toby and Ella, at the close of one of Toby's lessons, after he

+had become so skillful that he could stand with ease on the pad, and

+even advanced so far that he could jump through a hoop without falling

+more than twice out of three times.

+

+The little girl appeared highly delighted by this information, and

+expressed her joy.

+

+"It will be real nice," she said to Toby, after Mr. Castle had left them

+alone. "I can help you lots, and it won't be very long before we can do

+an act all by ourselves in the performance, and then won't the people

+clap their hands when we come in?"

+

+"It'll be better for you to-morrow than it will for me," said Toby,

+rubbing his legs sorrowfully, still feeling the sting of the whip. "You

+see, Mr. Castle won't dare to whip you, an' he'll make it all count on

+me, 'cause he knows Mr. Lord likes to have him whip me."

+

+"But I sha'n't make any mistake," said Ella, confidently, "and so you

+won't have to be whipped on my account, and while I am on the horse you

+can't be whipped, for he couldn't do it without whipping me, so you see

+you won't get only half as much."

+

+Toby brightened up a little under the influence of this argument; but

+his countenance fell again, as he thought that his chances for getting

+away from the circus were growing less each day.

+

+"You see, I want to get back to Uncle Dan'l an' Guilford," he said,

+confidentially; "I don't want to stay here a single minute."

+

+Ella opened her eyes wide in astonishment, as she cried: "Don't want to

+stay here? Why don't you go home, then?"

+

+"'Cause Job Lord won't let me," said Toby, wondering if it was possible

+that his little companion did not know exactly what sort of a man his

+master was.

+

+Then he told her, after making her give him all kinds of promises,

+including the ceremony of crossing her throat, that she would never tell

+a single soul, that he had had many thoughts, and had formed all kinds

+of plans for running away. He told her about losing his money, about his

+friendship for the skeleton and the fat lady, and at last he confided in

+her that he was intending to take the old monkey with him when he should

+make the attempt.

+

+She listened with the closest attention, and when he told her that his

+little hoard had now reached the sum of seven dollars and ten cents,

+almost as much as he had before, she said, eagerly: "I've got three

+little gold dollars in my trunk, an' you shall have them all; they're my

+very own, for mamma gave them to me to do just what I wanted to with

+them. But I don't see how you can take Mr. Stubbs with you, for that

+would be stealing."

+

+"No, it wouldn't, neither," said Toby, stoutly. "Wasn't he give to me to

+do just as I wanted to with? an' didn't the boss say he was all mine?"

+

+"Oh, I'd forgotten that," said Ella, thoughtfully; "I suppose you can

+take him; but he'll be awfully in the way, won't he?"

+

+"No," said Toby, anxious to say a good word for his pet; "he always does

+just as I want him to, an' when I tell him what I'm tryin' to do, he'll

+be as good as anything. But I can't take your dollars."

+

+"Why not?"

+

+"'Cause that wouldn't be right for a boy to let a girl littler than

+himself help him; I'll wait till I get money enough of my own, an' then

+I'll go."

+

+"But I want you to take my money too; I want you to have it."

+

+"No, I can't take it," said Toby, shaking his head resolutely, as he put

+the golden temptation from him, and then, as a happy thought occurred to

+him, he said, quickly: "I tell you what to do with your dollars: you

+keep them till you grow up to be a woman, an' when I'm a man I'll come,

+an' then we'll buy a circus of our own. I think, perhaps, I'd like to

+be with a circus if I owned one myself. We'll have lots of money then,

+an' we can do just what we want to."

+

+This idea seemed to please the little girl, and the two began to lay all

+sorts of plans for that time when they should be man and woman, have

+lots of money, and be able to do just as they wanted to.

+

+They had been sitting on the edge of the newly made ring while they were

+talking, and before they had half finished making plans for the future

+one of the attendants came in to put things to order, and they were

+obliged to leave their seats, she going to the hotel to get ready for

+the afternoon's performance, and Toby to try to do such work as Mr. Job

+Lord had laid out for him.

+

+Just ten weeks from the time Toby had first joined the circus, Mr.

+Castle informed him and Ella that they were to appear in public on the

+following day. They had been practicing daily, and Toby had become so

+skillful that both Mr. Castle and Mr. Lord saw that the time had come

+when he could be made to earn some money for them.

+

+[TO BE CONTINUED.]

+

+

+

+

+THE YOUNG VIOLINIST.

+

+BY GUSTAVE KOBBE.

+

+

+[Illustration: EUGENIO MAURICIO DENGREMONT.]

+

+Mauricio Dengremont, whose portrait is here given, is only fourteen

+years old; but he has been playing the violin for eight years or more,

+and is now one of the best violinists living. He knew the A B C of music

+at an age when most boys have hardly had a glimpse at the A B C in their

+spelling-book. His musical talent, like that of many famous musicians,

+showed itself early in his life. Mozart, we are told, struck correct

+chords on the clavichord--as they called the pianos used in his

+days--when he was two years old, and when he was four, he wrote little

+melodies which sound very prettily. Mauricio Dengremont's fondness for

+music was observed at the same early age. His father led an orchestra in

+Rio de Janeiro, and played the violin, and when he was playing at home,

+little Mauricio, who was four years old, would sit at his feet and

+listen, and he could not be induced to join in the sports of other

+children as long as his father was practicing. Then already he asked to

+be taught, but he was laughed at, and told he was too young to learn.

+But he would not be put off, and kept coming to his father and asking

+for lessons on the violin. At last, when he was six years old--the same

+age at which Mendelssohn began to learn the piano--his father bought him

+a toy violin for twenty cents, and thought he would give him a lesson,

+just to see if he was in earnest. Before that, however, he told him how

+hard he would have to work if he wanted to be a musician. But Mauricio

+said he didn't mind working, he wanted to learn the violin just as soon

+as he could. Fancy the father's surprise when he found during the first

+lesson that Mauricio played his notes correctly and clearly.

+

+The boy made such wonderful progress that after a few lessons a larger

+violin was bought for him. In a few weeks he could play the scales, and

+in ten months he was practicing difficult pieces, one of which he

+performed in public fourteen months after his first lesson. Soon

+afterward he travelled with his father in South America, giving

+concerts. In Montevideo and Buenos Ayres he played so well that the

+orchestras there presented him each with a gold medal. These youthful

+triumphs were very much like those of Mozart; and in the midst of them,

+Mauricio, like Mozart, remained a child in his feelings and behavior.

+Mozart was so innocent that after one of his performances at court, when

+he slipped on the polished floor, and was lifted up by the Empress Maria

+Theresa of Austria, he said that he would marry her as soon as he was

+old enough. In the same way Mauricio's manners remained unchanged,

+though he was brought before the public when so young. Off the concert

+stage he remained a child, playing with children, and sharing in their

+pastime when he was not practicing. Only a short time ago, immediately

+after his arrival here, his first appearance had to be postponed because

+he had caught cold playing with snow-balls; and again he was prevented

+from being at a concert because he had been eating too much candy.

+

+The success of Mauricio's concerts in South America attracted the notice

+of Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, and he was asked to play before his

+Imperial Highness. Dom Pedro was so pleased with the boy's performance

+that he gave him a beautiful medal, and promised to give him a good sum

+of money every year, so that he could go to Paris and take lessons of

+the famous violin-player Leonard. Dengremont's father accepted the

+offer, and soon afterward he took the boy to Europe. Mauricio staid in

+Paris until two or three years ago, when he began to travel and give

+concerts. Everywhere he played he met with great success. People came to

+his concerts in great crowds, and applauded him loudly; for he won their

+hearts with his beautiful playing and modest behavior. In one of the

+German cities he played a piece by Spohr when the composer's widow was

+one of the listeners. Spohr himself was a very famous violinist, but the

+widow said that Dengremont played the piece better than her husband

+could have done, and gave him a piece of music in her husband's

+handwriting.

+

+Dengremont has been in this country only a short time, but he has

+already made a good name for himself. Almost every one who has heard him

+admires the rapidity and delicacy of his playing, and the grace with

+which he handles the bow. All this he does in a manner which would be

+remarkable for a man of great talent, who had been studying the violin

+ever since he was able to hold the instrument, and yet he is not at all

+conceited. He does not think he has nothing more to learn. On the

+contrary, he will go to Paris in the spring, and study again with

+Leonard for six months. After that he will give concerts in Russia.

+

+To young people Mauricio Dengremont's career is a fine example. Of

+course he has greater talent for music than hundreds of others. But it

+is not his talent only to which he owes his early fame. It is owing as

+well to his devotion to his art, his willingness to work, and his

+modesty, which makes him feel that there is still room for him to

+improve.

+

+

+

+

+[Illustration: THE POOR LITTLE FROG ESCAPES FROM HIS ENEMIES.--DRAWN BY

+W. F. BEARD.]

+

+WHAT ONE POOR LITTLE FROG FOUND OUT.

+

+

+A very young frog--very young indeed, scarcely out of tails (that is to

+say, out of tadpolehood)--with a very great ambition and ordinary

+ability, set out one morning with the purpose of seeing the world, and

+by night-fall bringing back something to astonish the pool. "For," said

+he to himself, "I am such a close observer, that I shall be sure to

+observe and bring back correct reports of many strange things passed by

+in stupid indifference by these commonplace old speckle-backs, who, no

+doubt, neglect daily golden opportunities for storing their minds with

+useful information, but who see nothing and know nothing but worms,

+ants, beetles, and other insects and small animals to put in their ample

+stomachs."

+

+So saying, he leaped away gayly, but with eyes open and on the sharp

+look-out, almost at the very start. "For," said he, "the most common

+things possess a new interest when shown in a new light by the hand of

+genius, and the ordinary things of one locality become objects of

+curiosity in another where they are not found. Thus I could astonish

+vain man, could I speak his jargon, with accounts of many things

+familiar to my sight by daily contact in the bottom of the pool, but

+which seldom or never meet his eyes."

+

+So he journeyed on, well pleased with himself and what he thought his

+life's mission, carefully eying every object in his way, lest some one

+of interest should escape his notice. At length a great thistle came

+within his gaze. "There," said he, "is something worth investigating."

+After looking at it attentively at a little distance, that he might fix

+all its _points_ in his mind, he approached for a closer study. Said he,

+"I must not forget to ascertain if this strange plant--for plant it

+undoubtedly is--has any peculiar odor; for that is very important." Thus

+saying, he thrust his inquisitive nose against the prickers, which

+brought him to the conclusion that he had carried the investigation

+quite far enough; and storing this experience away in his memory for

+future use, he went on his way, a little wiser, but no happier, for it

+does not add to happiness to have our conceit pricked out, as it were,

+by sharp experience.

+

+Now a half-brick partly buried in the mud caught his curious eye.

+"That's a singular rock," said he. "What a remarkable color it has! so

+regular, too, in its form; it has also a peculiar texture"--as he put

+his hand-like forepaw upon it.

+

+Just at this moment he thought he heard something behind him, and

+turning to see what, his terrified eye caught the dread form of an idle,

+barefooted boy, also in search of adventure, though not for the

+instruction of others, or even himself, as was the little frog's grand

+motive, but merely for the amusement of the moment.

+

+Young as his frogship was, he knew well enough what boys were, and made

+off for his life with all possible speed.

+

+It would, perhaps, have been wiser if he had remained perfectly quiet,

+as in all probability the careless boy would not have observed him; but

+as the boy seemed bearing right down upon him, the sight was too

+dreadful for his nerves, and he sprang forward with desperate leaps,

+which, of course, attracted the urchin's attention, and with a shout of

+delight he bounded off in pursuit. Hastily clutching the "curious

+rock"--half-brick--he aimed to give the frog's head an external

+application of this object of interest, and, I must say, with almost

+fatal precision. With great nicety of calculation, he threw the brick

+where he felt the frog would be when the brick got there. His estimate

+was uncomfortably close, the little frog thought, as the brick just

+grazed his protruding eye. He winked, dodged back, and started in

+another direction with wild leaps.

+

+As the boy went for the rolling brick for another throw the frog hid

+himself in a tuft of clover, and though terribly nervous when the urchin

+came very near his hiding-place--at length actually kicked the bunch of

+clover in his search for him--he summoned all his fortitude, and

+remained perfectly quiet, knowing that to be his only safety.

+

+Soon, to his unspeakable relief, the cruel boy gave it up, and went

+whistling on his careless way in search of other adventures.

+

+The thoroughly frightened frog prudently waited, nor ventured out until

+the boy had quite vanished in the distance. While he still lay in his

+hiding-place a curious creature wriggled past, in beautiful sheeny coat

+that glistened in the sunlight, and quite delighted him. He made no

+motion, however, though he did not much fear this harmless-looking

+creature; still, as the supple thing constantly darted out a double

+tongue, he felt it more prudent to observe in silence.

+

+When this creature had also gone quite out of sight, he again moved on

+his journey, it must be confessed, with less self-confidence and more

+caution.

+

+But a little while of safe travelling was, however, enough to cause the

+two sentiments to change places again--prudence lessened, and confidence

+grew: and this would have cost him his life had it not been his good

+fortune to be on the land side of a beautiful white crane, which he very

+much admired, as he stood fixedly gazing into the waters of a sluggish

+stream. He hopped very near, in his ignorant delight, wondering what the

+magnificent creature was, and what could be his reflections as he fixed

+his gaze so intently in the amber water. "Something grand, no doubt!" He

+did not feel called upon to address him, however, which was lucky again,

+since this "splendid bird" was looking for just such fellows as he, but

+never suspected one of being so near him in the field.

+

+At length our leaping student of nature tired even of his admiration of

+this beautiful bird, and leaped on his journey again in search of other

+objects of scientific interest, one of which he soon found in the person

+of another curious bird, also with long legs, and not very unlike in

+form the one he had just seen, though not near so beautiful.

+

+His general color was a dull brown, varied and mottled with several

+shades of the same, from light yellowish to dark spots, and in parts,

+such as the crest, back of the neck, etc., deepening to a jetty black.

+His neck, though, did not appear long, like that of the white bird, but

+his head seemed as near the body as a chicken's; when some noise or

+motion in the water, however, attracted his attention, it shot out like

+a telescope, as long in proportion as the other's, though the comparison

+of the telescope was not froggie's. He knew nothing of such a thing; the

+figure suggested to his mind was a snail's eye.

+

+He also bestowed some admiration upon this fellow, and passed on, still

+unconscious that he was in dangerous proximity to a mortal foe.

+

+Now as he ascended quite a little hillock, high enough for him to

+overlook the fields, he was surprised to see that the very stream upon

+the margin of which the two strange birds had stood was the one near

+which was his native pool; in fact, upon this stream the inhabitants of

+his pond depended for fresh supplies of water to replenish the waste by

+evaporation, when it occasionally overflowed its banks in times of

+freshets.

+

+He knew the locality by a great rock, which he knew to be near his pond,

+and found, too, with some satisfaction, that he was much nearer home

+than he would have thought from the distance travelled. He had taken a

+circuitous route, as did the stream, before reaching the great rock.

+Using this stone as a landmark, he saw that a straight line to it would

+be comparatively a short-cut back again.

+

+This discovery was not unpleasant either, for not only his journey, but

+his researches as well, began to grow wearisome. Now as he remembered

+the events of the day, his adventures, and the strange sights he had

+seen, and the discoveries he had made, his heart swelled with pride when

+he thought what astonishment it would create when he brought them all

+back, as it were, to the banks of the pool.

+

+Settling this comfortably in his mind, he glanced about again, as a

+traveller takes a farewell look at a strange land he is about leaving.

+But now he made the additional discovery that a grove just before him

+was the "forest," as he believed it, he had seen many times in the

+distance while sitting on the banks of the pool.

+

+Gazing into its dark recesses, he became suddenly aware of two great

+yellow-rimmed eyes peering out of its sombre depths. Cold chills ran

+over him. His thirst for knowledge, which his mother, in her croaking

+way, called idle curiosity, got the better of his fears, however, as he

+became satisfied that he himself was not the object of those eyes'

+attention, if indeed anything in particular was, and he began again his

+usual wise speculations. "What an eye!" said he. "I remember once, while

+lying at the bottom of the pool, to have seen the full moon rising,

+while a round leaf upon the brink intervening, darkened the centre,

+leaving a yellowish rim; that eye reminds me of it. To whom or what can

+it belong, I wonder? Let me see: surrounded by feathers?--yes, feathers!

+Well, feathers are only worn by birds, therefore the owner of that eye

+_must_ be a bird, that's clear; and that's pretty good logic, too, I

+flatter myself."

+

+He was right; the owner of the eye was a bird--an owl; and scarcely had

+he "flattered" himself, when he became conscious that now he was the

+object of attention by those terrible eyes. Losing no time, he turned

+toward the rock, made several desperate leaps in quick succession before

+he felt the shadow of the great wings, though he heard no sound, for the

+flight of owls is as noiseless almost as that of thistle-down.

+

+Fortunately, again (he was a lucky frog), it was a sunny afternoon, and

+the light rather strong for the owls' eyes (by this time another had

+joined her mate); so, dodging here and there, he managed to elude them,

+always making toward home, however, followed blindly by the owls. Nor

+was this all: the tall birds, attracted by the commotion, seeing him

+dodging through the grass, joined in the pursuit. The snake he had seen

+also made bold to follow with wide-open jaws to devour him, and

+creatures of every kind--ducks, more cranes, even a pelican--came from

+all quarters, and pursued him to the very brink of the pool.

+

+So numerous were they, indeed, that they obstructed each other's way.

+Meantime the little frog was making the best use of the time, lessening

+the distance at every bound. But even a race for life must have an end,

+either in disaster to the pursued or disappointment to the pursuers, and

+just at the moment when the wide-open beak of the admired white crane

+was about to close upon him, with all the other eager open jaws close

+following, our adventurous student splashed into the waters of the pond.

+

+As he settled, exhausted, in the soft mud at the bottom of the pond,

+stirring up a cloud, as it were, his little brothers and sisters, still

+in the polliwig state, wriggled around him with anxious inquiry, and

+staid old croakers, in coats of green and brown, and mottled trousers,

+looked with amazement from him to the bank, where still lingered the

+excited throng of his hungry pursuers.

+

+Not a word to the many questions asked could he reply, but stared out

+from his muddy security in dazed speechlessness upon the horrid throng

+of snapping beaks and jaws he had just escaped. He experienced a feeling

+of pleasure upon seeing a disappointed owl pick up a disappointed snake,

+and wing his noiseless way back toward the copse, followed by his mate.

+Then the disappointed crane fastened upon another snake, and arose like

+a white cloud, with his squirming victim in his strong beak. After

+considerable quacking, snapping, and hissing, one after another of his

+ferocious foes rose upon the wing, and went his way; the bank was

+cleared, peace and quiet reigned again.

+

+Our traveller was again asked for an account of his adventures. When he

+came to speak of the "strange plant," a laugh from under the yellow vest

+of "Old Spots" greeted his ear. And "Old Spots" (they called him "Spots"

+on account of his strongly mottled green coat) curtly observed that a

+little sharp experience seemed to simplify matters much, and a prick in

+the nose to help an inquiring mind to a speedy conclusion. "But," said

+he, more seriously, "a closer scrutiny would hardly have failed to

+reveal to the eye so important a feature as prickers on a thistle,

+without the necessity of thrusting them into one's very nose."

+

+The story of the boy and the brick was allowed to pass without remark

+from the older inhabitants of the pool, probably because the little

+frog, in this instance, had managed the case as well as any one could

+have done.

+

+When he spoke of the tall bird in plumage of shining white, the comment

+was, "The white crane! one of the deadliest foes of our race!" The brown

+bird, he was informed, was the bittern, commonly called "stake-driver,"

+"fly-up-the-creek," etc., also a mortal foe.

+

+When he made rather careless mention of the glistening snake, the old

+frogs shuddered as they informed him that of all their enemies this was

+most to be dreaded, because of its stealthy way of creeping upon its

+victim unawares through the grass, fastening its fangs upon him, and

+sometimes taking hours to swallow its prey, which all the while remained

+alive, in painful and agonized certainty of his slow-approaching death.

+

+The owls, they said, were less to be dreaded than any of his pursuers;

+they were not particularly fond of frogs, would as soon have a snake,

+and much preferred mice.

+

+In short, every bird, reptile, and object of peculiar interest, as well

+as localities, with all their characteristics, seemed so familiar to

+these recently despised "old croakers," that the little frog hardly knew

+whether to be most astonished or humiliated at the discovery of this

+unboasted knowledge in the possession of his elders, and could but admit

+to himself that it was the only discovery of any importance he had made

+through the day, since all the others, it seemed, were no discoveries at

+all.

+

+

+

+

+A FOOLISH RABBIT.

+

+BY R. K. MUNKITTRICK.

+

+

+  A meditative rabbit once

+    Within a brake sat thinking

+  Why he and all his timid kind

+    Are always sadly winking.

+

+  He told his story to a wren,

+    There in the fragrant grasses.

+  The wren replied, "Your eyes are weak;

+    Pray try a pair of glasses."

+

+  The rabbit smiled, and took the hint,

+    And early in the morning

+  The wren observed a dainty pair

+    His pleasant face adorning.

+

+  To show the animals the change,

+    He went into a clearing;

+  But when they saw the wild effect,

+    They all set up a jeering.

+

+  His reasoning was long and loud

+    And eloquent. Thereafter

+  The animals with one accord

+    Fell down and rolled with laughter.

+

+  And now he ever hides from view

+    Within the woodland passes,

+  And winks the more for having tried

+    To wear a pair of glasses.

+

+

+

+

+LOUIS XVII. IN THE TEMPLE PRISON.

+

+

+On the 29th of March, 1785, was born at the palace of Versailles, near

+Paris, the most unfortunate of children. Louis Charles was the second

+son of Louis XVI., King of France, and Marie Antoinette, his Queen, and

+the royal infant seemed destined to know in life only the greatest

+luxury and ease. He grew up a fair, graceful boy, his hair light, and

+falling in curls upon his shoulders, his eyes blue, his form and

+features regular, and he very soon began to show a quick, sensitive,

+intelligent mind. When he was about four years old his elder brother

+died, leaving him a little dog named Moufflet. He left him, too, heir to

+the throne of France, the Dauphin, as the eldest son of the French Kings

+was called, and Louis Charles was to be master of all the wide dominions

+of his ancestors. He was marked by a strong love for his parents, and

+particularly his mother, the graceful Marie Antoinette. The royal family

+consisted of the King and Queen, the King's sister, Madame Elisabeth,

+and two children--the Princess Marie Therese, who was some years older

+than Louis, and the Dauphin. They seemed very happy together in the

+splendid palace at Versailles. Louis cultivated a small plot of ground,

+or a garden, where he raised flowers, and presented them to his mother.

+Every morning, in their season, the child would bring a bouquet to the

+fair Queen, who fully returned his tender love. His aunt, Madame

+Elisabeth, was always kind and good, and his sister, the Princess,

+watched over him with affectionate care.

+

+But suddenly the whole family were overwhelmed by a succession of

+misfortunes. The French Revolution began; the foreign kings invaded

+France; and the French people looked upon their own royal rulers with

+suspicion, and even hatred, because they thought they had called in the

+foreign armies. Marie Antoinette was the most unpopular of all. Paris

+was filled with terrible disorders. One day a great crowd of savage men

+and women came out to the palace of Versailles, and insisted that the

+King and his family should come to Paris. He was obliged to yield. The

+great coach was ordered, the whole royal family were led almost as

+captives to the city, and were lodged in the midst of the enraged

+people, in the palace of the Tuileries. At first they were not badly

+treated. Louis had brought his dog Moufflet with him, and was even

+allowed to cultivate a small garden, where he still raised flowers, and

+gave them to his sad, terrified mother. Dreadful scenes and massacres

+now took place in Paris. Louis was shown by his mother to the people,

+wearing a red bonnet and the tricolor; but every moment seemed to

+increase their danger. At last the King (June, 1791) resolved to make

+his escape out of France; and one night Louis was called up, half

+asleep, and dressed in disguise as a little girl. The poor child was too

+young to understand his danger; and when his sister asked him what he

+thought they were going to do, said it must be "to act a comedy." They

+opened a gate in the palace, went down into the silent street at

+midnight, wandered in the darkness over the Pont Royal, at last found

+the carriage prepared for them, and escaped from the city. Had they made

+haste they might have reached the frontier and safety; but they were

+overtaken, seized, and brought back to Paris the prisoners of a savage

+mob.

+

+[Illustration: THE ROYAL PRISONERS IN THE TEMPLE.]

+

+Soon after, amidst scenes of massacre and horror, they were all taken to

+the Temple (an ancient prison), and shut up in a tower. Here they

+remained many months, exposed to the most terrible insults, scantily

+fed, and looking for death every moment. But the King employed his time

+in teaching his son Louis to read Racine and Corneille, and endeavoring

+to prepare him for a useful life. At last he was himself taken out,

+tried before a revolutionary tribunal, sentenced to die (January, 1793),

+and his head was cut off. Next, Marie Antoinette was taken away from her

+family to a solitary prison, and at last was brought to the guillotine.

+Her hair had turned white, and her face was rigid with suffering. But as

+she mounted the scaffold she showed no sign of fear. Madame Elisabeth,

+the most innocent and amiable of her race, was also executed.

+

+The young Prince, now King of France by descent, was left alone, shut up

+in his prison at the Temple, and guarded by the horrible men who had

+tormented his mother and father. It was the custom of these wretches to

+terrify their prisoners by threats, insults, and every malicious art.

+Louis Charles was placed under the care of the infamous Simon, a monster

+of cruelty. He was left entirely alone. No kind friend came to soften

+the sorrows of his lot. Night and day passed over him in his miserable

+cell without a joy or hope. His mind had become prematurely active

+amidst his sorrows; he knew, no doubt, the fate of his parents and

+relations. Simon endeavored to teach him to hate his mother, and the

+young Prince would never afterward speak to his horrible jailer. He

+would rather be alone in the darkest night in the fearful cell than see

+the countenance of his foe. For a long time before his death he remained

+utterly silent, refusing to speak, and living in dumb misery. The Reign

+of Terror prevailed in Paris; Robespierre and his murderers filled it

+with horror, and the Dauphin was left to perish in his solitary cell. He

+was now nearly ten years old, but he still preserved his strange

+silence, and seemed like a dumb and idiotic child.

+

+Next Robespierre perished, and Louis might have been better treated. But

+his long confinement and the filth and horrors of his prison had brought

+on a severe illness. He wasted away. Dr. Desault, a famous physician,

+was sent to attend him, but died a short time afterward. Louis, it is

+said, still remained silent and speechless. He died on the 8th of June,

+1795, in his solitary cell, alone, without a friend.

+

+Such was the sad doom of Louis XVII., King of France. The annals of the

+poor offer no fate so miserable as that of this descendant of the

+proudest and most powerful of European monarchs. By some writers it is

+asserted that Louis escaped from his imprisonment, that a child deaf and

+dumb was substituted for him, and that the King, or Dauphin, died in

+obscurity in some part of Europe or America. But the legend is

+improbable, and Louis XVII. sleeps, no doubt, in the cemetery where he

+was laid at Paris.

+

+

+

+

+BEATA'S LOCKET.

+

+BY LILLIAS C. DAVIDSON.

+

+

+Twenty-one pearls!--no, twenty-two; thirteen in the B, and nine in the V

+of the monogram, besides the six little nails with heads of real

+diamonds! Beata had never seen such a locket, no, not even in a shop

+window, and to have had it for her very own for four whole days, and not

+be able so much as to wear it!

+

+It had come on Christmas-day--come in a little case all packed with

+cotton-wool, and lined with silver paper--a case which Beata's fingers

+could hardly open, they shook so with excitement and eagerness; and it

+came all the way from Germany and her German godmother, Madame Von

+Thausandmal.

+

+"A beautiful locket, certainly, my dear," said Mrs. Vyner, Beata's

+mamma, in confidence, to Beata's papa, when locket and case, and

+Beata--rosy and joyful and proud--had all vanished with a rush out of

+mamma's pretty blue morning-room. "But so utterly unsuitable to a child!

+What can Helga von Thausandmal have been thinking of to send her such a

+thing? Of course it was exceedingly kind of her, but I'm afraid it will

+turn Beata's head, and it won't be the least use to her for years to

+come."

+

+"Why not, eh?" asked the Squire, who was deep in the morning paper, and

+perhaps wasn't attending as he might have been. "I thought it pretty

+enough."

+

+"It's lovely; that's just it. It's too bad to tantalize her with a thing

+she can't wear, and no properly brought up little girls wear such

+jewelry; even if they did, I should not let Beata do anything so silly

+and improper. No; it must be put away for her till she is eighteen, and

+'comes out.' Poor child! I won't take it away for a week or two; it

+would be cruel; but go it must. Why couldn't Helga have sent her some

+books, or a doll, or anything sensible?"

+

+But of all this Beata heard not a word, and her cup of bliss seemed as

+if it would run over. Such a locket! as grand as a grown-up young

+lady's, and for her very own! She had shown it at least three times over

+to every servant in the house, down to Elizabeth Jane, the kitchen-maid,

+who had won Beata's genuine respect by her "Law, miss, if it ain't fit

+for a duchess at the very least!" and she only sighed to think her

+governess had gone home for the holidays, and could not see it for a

+whole fortnight.

+

+But now a little shadow, like a small cloud, had come over the sunshine.

+What was the good of a locket, and such a locket as Beata's, if other

+people didn't see and admire? And how could they see it, if it were not

+worn? And what chance had she to wear it?

+

+To be sure, the house was full of visitors, who had come the very day

+after Christmas, and Rex and she went down to dessert every night, and

+into the drawing-room for half an hour afterward; but somehow Beata

+never quite ventured to suggest "Locket," as nurse dressed her in her

+well-worn little frock of black velvet, and tied her plain red silk

+sash; indeed, she rather fancied she could see nurse's face if she did;

+and as to wearing it to church on Sunday--well, even Beata's little head

+could dimly understand somehow that God's house wasn't the place for

+finery and display; and so--

+

+"But now, to-day, there _is_ a chance," she thought, with a gasp which

+was half exultation and half pure fright at her own daring; for Rex and

+she were going skating.

+

+Down in the park at Dene Hall there is a beautiful little lake, where

+the wild fowl swim in summer, and where Beata and Rex were wont to

+paddle about in a flat-bottomed boat, a "tub," Rex called it. But now

+the water was covered with firm smooth ice, and the ladies and gentlemen

+staying at the Hall had gone down there to skate, and Cousin Cecil had

+promised to look after the children if they might come too; and Beata

+was tempted.

+

+Rex was shouting from the hall. Without another pause the locket was out

+of its case, slipped on a ribbon, and the ribbon tied round Beata's

+neck. Was it dread of Rex's scorn or of mamma's observation that made

+Beata slip it under her little fur boa as she ran down the old oaken

+stairs?

+

+"Rex, you've no overcoat," she said, as they hurried together through

+the snow, which lay like a soft white blanket over garden and park. That

+hidden locket filled her mind so full that she must speak about it, and

+she artfully began to talk about dress, to work the conversation round

+to that beloved topic. But all in vain.

+

+"Overcoat!" echoed Rex, in high disdain, swinging Beata's dainty little

+skates and his own together. "Who wants an overcoat? The Spartans never

+wore 'em."

+

+"But then you're not a Spartan."

+

+"Wish I was." Rex was beginning ancient history, and had a Grecian craze

+just now. "Never mind, I mean to harden just as if I was;" but he

+couldn't help a shiver all the same.

+

+Beata tried again. "Doesn't the snow look like pearls, Rex?"

+

+"Can't say I see it. Oh, you're thinking about that swell locket of

+yours. Now in Sparta they never allowed them to wear bosh like that."

+

+"Then Sparta was a stupid place," began Beata, hotly; but they came

+round the corner by the lake, and the sight there put everything else

+out of both their minds.

+

+Such a pretty sight! Ice as smooth and clear as sweeping could make it;

+white banks of snow gleaming like a wreath about it; crowds of gayly

+dressed ladies and knickerbockered gentlemen skimming about, or being

+pushed in chairs; the ring of a hundred skates keeping time to the band

+that was playing in the rustic boat-house; and another crowd of people,

+but not gayly dressed, standing and looking on at it all.

+

+"What a rabble!" said Beata. "These aren't only village people and

+servants; some of them look like gypsies. Look at that woman in the red

+shawl--she's a tramp."

+

+But here, skating down to them with a pretty grace, her sweet face

+glowing above her warm furs, came Cousin Cecil, and just behind her the

+fair mustache of Captain Strangways, the children's firm friend; and

+after that there could be nothing but delight.

+

+To skate between Cousin Cecil and Captain Strangways, holding a hand of

+each, seemed to Beata the summit of human felicity. Rex, still Spartan

+even in his pleasures, preferred to stagger about alone. Beata forgot to

+try and pretend she was grown up.

+

+All at once she remembered, with a shock of remorse, that Captain

+Strangways had never seen the wonderful locket. What an omission! Her

+hand went up under her fur boa to bring that neglected ornament into its

+proper position; then stopped short. The thin little bit of blue ribbon

+dangled aimless there, to be sure, but there was no locket.

+

+I don't think Beata will ever forget that moment, if she lives to be an

+old woman. Her face looked almost gray as she turned it up speechlessly

+to Cousin Cecil's wondering gaze.

+

+"My locket! oh, my locket!" she managed to gasp.

+

+"Your locket, dear? Why, what's the matter? Oh, Beata, you don't mean to

+say you wore it?"

+

+"Oh yes, I did, I did; and now it's gone."

+

+Cousin Cecil looked very grave indeed. "Oh, Beata!" was all she said,

+but it was worse than any words almost.

+

+"Oh, do let's find it; do look--do, do!"

+

+"We'll look; but as to finding it--" But Cousin Cecil broke off short.

+There was a scream from the other end of the lake, where the village

+boys and girls had made a slide--a shrill, sharp cry--and a little tiny

+boy, such a ragged, wretched mite, lay flat upon the hard cold ice.

+Captain Strangways started to go, but Cecil was there first. She was

+down upon her knees, and had the wee dirty face on her arm, before he

+could reach her side, for he was heavier and slower than she. She looked

+up with a serious face as he bent down to her.

+

+"Poor little mite! I am afraid he's hurt. He was too small to slide. I

+must get him home this minute. Where does he live?"

+

+"Please, miss, down to Bill Green's; they're a-lodgin'. Please, miss,

+they're tramps; that was his ma that's just gone, her in the red shawl

+there," rose in a hubbub of voices.

+

+"Oh, poor wee man! I'll take him home."

+

+"Pray, Miss Vyner, let me," said Captain Strangways, struggling with his

+skates.

+

+"Oh no, please don't: I'd rather. It's only a step. He isn't heavy. No,

+please. If you'll take the children home for me, I won't be long."

+

+"But you must not go alone, and it's almost dusk."

+

+"Jim shall go with me," and she beckoned to a stable-boy in the crowd.

+"Indeed, Captain Strangways, I would much rather you did not come,

+really;" and reluctantly he stooped and unfastened her skates, and stood

+watching her as she passed quickly down toward the village, with Jim in

+attendance, and the little child in her arms.

+

+"It's all right, really," said Rex, trying to cut a double S, and

+failing signally. "Don't you know Cousin Cecil is doctor to half the

+village?"

+

+"And oh!" said a tearful voice, "could you help me to look for my

+locket?"

+

+"By all means," said the kind young soldier, and they set to work with a

+will, but without success; no locket was to be seen.

+

+"I'll tell you what, Beata," said Rex, as the fading light warned them

+to join the group starting homeward, "it's no go. We'll tell Adams, and

+get him to set the gardeners and stablemen to work early in the morning,

+but you can't see your own nose now. I believe the woman in the red

+shawl boned it. Don't cry; you know the Spartans--"

+

+But there was a sob as they turned away, and even Captain Strangways's

+comforting hand-clasp could not quite console poor Beata.

+

+Everybody was having afternoon tea when they reached home. The great

+square hall, with its polished walls and rafters, was all aglow with the

+light from the great wood fire on the old stone hearth. There was a

+pleasant clatter of tea-spoons, and a most appetizing aroma of hot tea

+and muffins, and a great deal of chattering and soft laughter from the

+ladies in their low easy-chairs, and the gentlemen who were handing

+tea-cups. Captain Strangways secured a very big carved chair on the

+outside of the circle, and the children nestled down close to him on the

+tiger-skin rug. It was only the holiday-time that gained them this

+distinguished honor of taking tea down stairs, instead of in the

+school-room. But Beata did not feel grown up at all; she was far too

+busy mourning over the lost locket, and thinking of the confession that

+would have to be made to mamma by-and-by. Rex was very silent too, but

+he was busy with the muffins. I don't know whether they had muffins in

+Sparta, but on that subject he said not a word.

+

+The laughter and the tea-drinking went on, but no Cousin Cecil appeared.

+Captain Strangways had twice gone over to look out at the deepening

+darkness, and each time he came back looking graver, when all at once

+the great hall door opened softly, there was a sudden rush of cold air,

+and in came Cecil, very gently and quietly.

+

+Captain Strangways was on his feet, had unfastened her fur cloak, placed

+her in the big chair, and brought her a cup of tea, before Rex had

+swallowed the mouthful of muffin upon which he was engaged. When his

+speech returned to him, however, he asked, with un-Spartanlike

+eagerness,

+

+"Well, and how's the little chap?"

+

+"Better now, dear, but he was really hurt." Then, leaning forward, "Look

+here, Beata," she said, very seriously, and dropped something into her

+lap.

+

+Beata started up with a little cry, "My locket! oh, my locket!"

+

+"Then I do believe that old red shawl stole it, after all. Has she gone

+to prison?"

+

+"Oh, hush, Rex! Listen, children: what sort of a home do you think I

+took that poor little man to? Nothing but the shed behind Green's

+smithy; no fire, no bed but straw, no food. He had cut his head, but I

+soon bound that up, and then--oh, how can I tell you?--his mother, that

+poor pale creature in the red shawl, came up to me, just as I was coming

+away, and with tears and sobs she gave me this. She said she saw it

+fall, and picked it up in hopes of a reward, and then--and then she

+thought of the food it would buy for her miserable little starving

+babies (there were two more in the shed), and oh, children, _she meant

+to keep it_!"

+

+There was a moment's silence.

+

+"Then why--why did she give it to you?" said a somewhat husky voice:

+perhaps the hardening process had given Rex cold.

+

+"She said, when I brought the little boy home, she couldn't do it. She

+said--and I believe it is true--that it is the first time in her life

+she took what wasn't hers, and it was only the starving babies, and the

+sight of the glittering locket, that tempted her. Oh, Beata dear, don't

+you see now what it is to wear things that may put temptation in other

+people's way?"

+

+Something as bright as the diamond nails glistened on the locket on

+Beata's lap.

+

+"I'll tell mamma every bit about it," she murmured, with drooping head,

+"and ask her to take it away, and never let me even see it till I'm

+grown up."

+

+"Yes; and, Beata"--and Cousin Cecil's voice sank so low that no one else

+could hear--"when you say, 'Lead us not into temptation,' to-night, ask

+to be kept from ever tempting anybody else, and think of poor little

+Tom's mother, won't you?"

+

+"But, I say, cousin"--Rex was a little husky still--"are they all

+starving and shivering down there now?"

+

+"Oh no; Mrs. Green has taken them in for the night, and Jim has just

+gone back with some hot soup and other things for them, and to-morrow we

+must settle more. I'm sure Uncle George will help."

+

+"And Beata's and my pocket-money--at least what's left after Christmas

+and all those chocolates we bought the other day. Now, Beata, I hope

+you'll give up wearing lockets and tomfoolery like that. In Sparta--"

+

+"Have another muffin, Rex, my boy?" said Captain Strangways; and Rex's

+valuable items of information respecting that classic land were lost to

+the general public--at least as far as that occasion was concerned.

+

+

+

+

+GUESS.

+

+

+  If all the wealth on earth could be

+  To one man given, still would not he

+  Be rich as I. O'er land and sea

+  I scatter gold. I fill the air

+  With precious specks. Ay! everywhere

+  I of my treasure give a share,

+  And yet have countless stores to spare.

+

+

+

+

+[Begun in HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 66, February 1.]

+

+PHIL'S FAIRIES.

+

+BY MRS. W. J. HAYS,

+

+AUTHOR OF "PRINCESS IDLEWAYS," ETC.

+

+CHAPTER VII.

+

+FAREWELL TO THE CITY.

+

+

+A day or two later, Phil, wrapped in shawls, was carried by Joe to a

+carriage, and the carriage rolled away to a wharf where puffed numerous

+steamboats; and here he was taken on board one of the river-steamers,

+and safely placed in the midst of a heap of pillows on deck, where he

+could see all the busy life about him--see the newspaper boys and the

+orange women, and the hurrying hacks and the great teams, and all the

+stir and tumult of the city's busiest hours. Miss Schuyler, in her cool

+gray suit, was on one side of him, and Lisa, looking tranquil and

+thoroughly glad and grateful, on the other, and Joe, just the happiest

+darky in the world, sat at his feet ready to take charge of all and

+everything.

+

+They sailed and they sailed, away from the city and its many roofs, from

+the factory chimneys and the steeples, from the cloud of smoke which

+hung between the sky and house-tops, until they came to the hills and

+dales of pasture-lands and villages. Then they landed, and were whirled

+away in the cars, and Phil enjoyed it all, even the fatigue which made

+him sleep; and Joe carried him about as if he were a baby.

+

+It was quite dark when, after a drive over a rather rough road, they

+reached the lake-side cottage which was Miss Schuyler's summer home, and

+Phil was glad to be put in bed, for the old pain had begun again.

+

+When he opened his eyes the next morning, it was with a strange feeling

+of wonder at his new surroundings. Birds were twittering out-of-doors,

+and there was a soft lapping of water on the shore. The green boughs of

+a cherry-tree almost brushed against the window-panes. He was no longer

+in his old garret room, but in a pretty apartment, with bunches of

+rose-buds on the walls, and scent-bottles on the toilet table, and

+muslin curtains, and a bright carpet, and pretty book-shelves, and

+brackets, and lovely child-faces in the engravings; and on a broad table

+was a little easel, and a paint-box, and drawing-paper; and here too was

+his old box with the violin strings.

+

+"Oh," said Phil, softly, "I wonder if heaven is any better than this!"

+

+He had closed his eyes as he said it, and went over his usual morning

+prayer of thankfulness; and when he opened his eyes, there was Lisa with

+his breakfast tray--poached eggs and toast and a goblet of milk.

+

+"Lisa, Lisa, is not this too nice for anything?" asked Phil.

+

+"Yes, indeed, dear, it is nice. Miss Schuyler says you must hurry and

+get strong, so that you can make the acquaintance of the hens that laid

+these eggs for you, and the cow whose milk is to do you so much good."

+

+"What is the cow's name, Lisa?"

+

+"I don't know," said Lisa.

+

+"It is Daisy," said Miss Schuyler, coming in to say good-morning. "She's

+a lovely little Alderney, and her milk is like cream. Oh, you will soon

+be strong enough to row my boat for me."

+

+"A boat!--have you a boat?"

+

+"Yes, and you are going out on the lake in her this very morning."

+

+"It is just too much happiness, Miss Schuyler."

+

+"Well, we will not overpower you. For a day or two you must rest, and do

+nothing but breathe the sweet air. I have to be busy getting things in

+order and looking after my garden. Lisa will take her work on the

+piazza, and you can lie in one of the easy-chairs. Joe is to wait on

+you, and do a little weeding, and keep the paths in order, and bail out

+the boat; and the old man seems to be very much at home already. So that

+is the order of the day. Now good-by, and don't do too much thinking."

+

+[Illustration: ON THE LAKE.]

+

+"One moment, Miss Schuyler; do you believe in fairies?"

+

+"Just a little," said Miss Schuyler, with a quizzical smile.

+

+"Well, I believe in them," said Phil, "and I think you are one of the

+best of them."

+

+"Oh no, I am very human, dear Phil, as you will find out. And now I must

+go look after my strawberry beds. Good-by."

+

+"Good-by," said Phil, waving her a kiss. "Only think, Lisa, we will

+actually see strawberries growing! It is quite fairy-land for me."

+

+After that he was carried down to the easy-chair on the piazza, where he

+could see the lawn sloping down to the lake, and watch the birds

+lighting on the rim of a vase full of daisies and running vines. He

+could see that the cottage was low and broad, and painted in two shades

+of brown; that there were arbors covered with grapevines on one side,

+and on the other he knew there were flower beds and fruit trees, for

+every once in a while Miss Rachel was to be seen emerging from there in

+a broad straw flat, and with buckskin gloves, trailing long bits of

+string or boughs of green stuff, with scissors and trowel and

+watering-can.

+

+Lisa had her work-basket, and with deft fingers and a little under-tone

+of psalmody was fashioning a pretty summer garment. Then Miss Rachel

+came and tossed a basketful of early roses and syringa down beside Phil,

+and put a little table beside him, with some slender glass vases and a

+pitcher of water, and asked him to arrange the flowers for her. This he

+was glad to do, and made the bunches up as prettily as his nice taste

+suggested. But he was really wearied with great happiness. It was all so

+new, so charming, every sense was so satisfied, that at last he closed

+his eyes and slept.

+

+It seemed to him only a little while, but when he opened his eyes again,

+Lisa was beside him with his dinner; and after dinner he slept again,

+and when he wakened the lawn was in shadow, and the sun low in the sky,

+and the birds were twittering and seeking their nests, and Miss Rachel

+was telling Joe to put cushions in the boat, the _Flyaway_; and

+presently Phil found himself floating gently on the lovely water of the

+lake, and the cottage and lawn and arbors were looking like a pretty bit

+of landscape he had seen in books.

+

+He dipped his fingers in the clear water, and looked down at the pebbly

+bottom, and listened to the even dip of the oars, as old Joe rowed

+farther out from shore.

+

+"It must be fairy-land," thought Phil, but he said nothing; he was too

+happy to talk. And so the day ended, the first day in the country.

+

+[TO BE CONTINUED.]

+

+

+

+

+PINAFORE RHYMES.--(_Continued._)

+

+

+[Illustration]

+

+  Bow! wow! wow! You'd better run;

+  I'm just the dog to spoil your fun;

+  I'll tear your dresses, and bite your heels,

+  Till every one of you shrieks and squeals.

+  So, there! I've scared them well, I must say;

+  But I'm very glad that they ran away;

+  It wouldn't have been such jolly fun,

+  If they had made me turn tail and run.

+

+[Illustration]

+

+

+[Illustration]

+

+  Six chimney-sweeps, each black as a crow,

+  Had a big fight with a man of snow.

+  They beat him to pieces because he was white,

+  And had a triumphant feast that night.

+  Their dishes were blackbirds and crows, 'tis said,

+  Chimney-soot pudding and charcoal bread.

+  And they swallowed a dozen bottles of ink,

+  Being very choice in their meat and drink.

+

+

+[Illustration]

+

+  Here, you little monkey, you,

+  I want to see you play with Lu;

+  She's such a pretty little miss,

+  Shake hands with her, and give a kiss.

+            _Won't!_

+

+  Why not, when Lulu wants to play,

+  And asks in such a pretty way?

+            _Can't!_

+  Why not, you little sauce-box, say?

+            _Sha'n't!_

+

+

+[Illustration]

+

+  Here's a dainty little tree,

+  With its spreading leaves so free;

+  It's so pretty, that I will

+  Keep it on my window-sill.

+

+

+

+

+[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX]

+

+

+  RATON, NEW MEXICO.

+

+     My brother and sisters and myself live at Chicorica Park. It is a

+     very pretty place, situated in the Raton Mountains. We have had

+     parties of as many as three hundred Indians hunting in our canyon at

+     once, but it is a year and a half now since we have seen any. We

+     have a good many deer here. Seven have been killed since Christmas,

+     but one was carried off by a mountain lion.

+

+      We like HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE very much, especially the Jimmy

+      Brown stories, and "Toby Tyler." We are all English children, and

+      have never lived anywhere in America except in New Mexico. Our

+      pets are dogs and cats and a colt. We like the colt best of all.

+

+      We have had some very heavy snow-storms, and the canyon has been

+      impassable several times this winter, so we have not received

+      YOUNG PEOPLE very regularly. I am twelve years old.

+

+  G. KERCHEVAL M.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  CLIFTON HEIGHTS, PENNSYLVANIA.

+

+     I like the life of Lafayette which was published in YOUNG PEOPLE so

+     much! I have the lives of generals in my history, but the way they

+     are written in YOUNG PEOPLE is so much more interesting! I wish the

+     paper was published twice a week, it seems so long to wait to hear

+     how Toby Tyler gets along. On Wednesday morning it is "Hallo! has

+     YOUNG PEOPLE come?" all over our house. Mamma says it is a great

+     blessing. We think the little girl with her first muff in the

+     picture in No. 68 is so sweet and chubby and baby-like, that if she

+     was alive we should just love her to death.

+

+      I have a dog named Major, who sits up on his hind-legs and hangs

+      down his fore-paws pitifully, as if they were broken, and some

+      people think they really are; but Major only does it to beg for

+      candy. He has many friends, and sometimes they bring him sticks of

+      candy all the way from Philadelphia.

+

+      It has been so cold here this winter that some of our sparrows

+      fell to the ground half frozen. We brought them into the house,

+      and when they got warm we opened the window and let them fly away.

+

+  GEORGY H.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO.

+

+     I am six years old. I began to take YOUNG PEOPLE on the first of

+     January, and I like it ever so much. I learned the little poem in

+     No. 66 about the strawberry vines, and how the snowy blanket

+     covered their saucy little heads. I speak it for grandma, and she

+     says it is beautiful.

+

+      Christmas papa gave me a beautiful little stove, all

+      nickel-plated. I bake pies and cake and other nice things for my

+      little friends and myself to eat.

+

+      My uncle brought me a doll from New York city, and my other uncle

+      gave me a little trunk to put her clothes in.

+

+  ETHEL B.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  DENISON, IOWA.

+

+     I wish YOUNG PEOPLE came every day instead of once a week. I was so

+     sorry when "Mildred's Bargain" was finished! but I like the other

+     stories ever so much, especially "Toby Tyler." I read all the

+     letters in the Post-office Box, and wish I could see all the boys

+     and girls who write them. The little girl away down in Texas who

+     wrote about the first snow has no idea how much fun we Northern

+     children have coasting on the snow crust, sometimes over drifts

+     eight and ten feet deep.

+

+      Last Friday I spoke "Lily's Ball," the poem in No. 67 of YOUNG

+      PEOPLE, at my school, and next week I am going to speak "My First

+      Muff," in No. 68.

+

+  MABEL.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  NEW YORK CITY.

+

+     I think Toby Tyler is a great boy. We used to have a monkey named

+     Jack. Every night he would put a shawl over his head and go to

+     sleep. Sometimes he would hold the kitten in his arms and try to

+     put her to sleep. He would get on our pig's back, and hold on to

+     his ears, and ride all around, and he would ride horseback to the

+     village. When any one went out, he would watch to see if any candy

+     were brought home, and if it was, he would stand on his hind-legs

+     and put out his paw until the paper was opened. I am almost eight

+     years old.

+

+  WILLIE K. T.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  HOUSTON, TEXAS, _February_ 22, 1881.

+

+     I wish to notify correspondents that I have exchanged to the full

+     extent of my collection, and I beg them not to write to me any

+     more.

+

+  H. C. YANCEY.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  FOREST LAKE, PENNSYLVANIA.

+

+     My papa promised me YOUNG PEOPLE as soon as I could read it myself.

+     I tried very hard after that, and last November, on my seventh

+     birthday, sure enough it came. I don't believe any little boy

+     enjoys it more than I do. I must tell you of one thing it has done

+     for me. I was always afraid to be left alone, especially after

+     dark. After reading the story in No. 55 about the little girl who

+     broke herself of being so timid, I went every night from garret to

+     cellar all alone after dark, and now I am not afraid to go anywhere

+     in the house, even if it is very dark.

+

+      I have a little brother named Harry. I love him very much. He

+      likes the pictures in YOUNG PEOPLE as much as I do. I think Jimmy

+      Brown is jolly.

+

+  WRIGHTIE G.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

+

+     I have two mocking-birds for pets. They whistle so pretty! I am

+     going to have a pretty flower garden this summer. Spring is here

+     (February 16), and the peach-trees are budding, and everybody is

+     making gardens.

+

+      I like all the stories in YOUNG PEOPLE. I always laugh so hard

+      when mamma reads Jimmy Brown to me! I wish he would send another

+      story.

+

+  MAY K.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+  _February_ 24, 1881.

+

+     I have no more pure white coral left, but I have a piece with a

+     little red in it which I will send to a boy who sent me a specimen

+     of ore, if he will kindly send me his address again.

+

+      I would like to send "Wee Tot" a piece of red coral from the Red

+      Sea, if she will send me some ocean curiosities and her address.

+

+  SALLIE KELLEY,

+  Kleine St., East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+Fred Glasier, of Adams, Massachusetts, regrets being unable to make a

+return for some favors he has received, as the addresses, although

+given, were so illegible that he could not decipher them. Addresses

+should always be written distinctly. The Post-office Box is often

+compelled to neglect exchanges which are pretty and suitable, because

+the address is as mysterious as the hieroglyphics on our Egyptian

+obelisk.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Last year my father gave me a Columbia bicycle. We have a bicycle

+     club here, with about twenty members, of which I am one. Our suit

+     is brown corduroy, with red stockings. The cap is like the suit.

+

+      I would like to exchange some of the first American pennies and

+      halfpennies, for foreign coins.

+

+  ARTHUR C. KETCHAM,

+  Care of William P. Ketcham. P. O. Box 10,

+  Yonkers, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     I will exchange bayberry-tallow, for peacock coal, or postage

+     stamps from Cape of Good Hope or Barbadoes.

+

+  A. M. FORMAN,

+  116 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

+

+Bayberry-tallow is greenish in color, and is obtained by boiling the

+berries of the bayberry, or wax myrtle (_Myrica cerifera_). This shrub,

+which is very aromatic, grows in great abundance all along the Atlantic

+coast. It is found in such quantities in some localities of Long Island

+that the gathering of the berries and the manufacture of tallow for

+candles amount to an extensive local industry.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     I have taken YOUNG PEOPLE since the first copy. My brother has

+     bound it with strings, and it makes a very pretty volume.

+

+      I have often answered correspondents, always receiving, in

+      exchange for foreign stamps, articles of equal value.

+

+      I have nearly two thousand duplicates of foreign stamps, which I

+      will exchange for other foreign stamps, or for stamps of United

+      States departments. I will also exchange postmarks for anything

+      interesting.

+

+  JOHN THOMAS,

+  3420 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     My mamma says she will make a pretty flower out of any little

+     girl's hair, or her mamma's, in exchange for curious shells,

+     minerals, or a genuine Indian bow and arrow. A bunch of hair from

+     one to two feet long and as thick as a goose quill will make a

+     pretty flower.

+

+  ADELLA P. LIPPINCOTT,

+  New Hope, Bucks County, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     I have four Chilian stamps, which I would like to exchange for

+     other South American stamps. I have made a man with a basket on his

+     back from Wiggle 17, which I send.

+

+  EDWARD H. PALMER,

+  44 Schiffleutstaden, Strasburg, Germany.

+

+Your Wiggle is excellent, and we are very sorry it arrived too late to

+be printed with others.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     I have noticed in the exchanges there are many who want birds'

+     eggs. It does not seem quite right to me, because if we take all

+     the eggs, we destroy all the birds. I will exchange shells and

+     pebbles from Lake Erie, for any curiosity except birds' eggs.

+

+  JESSIE G. SMITH,

+  327 West Fourth Street, Erie, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+The following exchanges are also offered by correspondents:

+

+     Postmarks and stamps of all kinds.

+

+  GEORGE LINSCOTT,

+  Holton, Jackson County, Kansas.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Twenty-five postmarks, for five stamps from any country except

+     Europe, Canada, and the United States.

+

+  F. S. and B. S.,

+  P. O. Box 582, Lansing, Mich.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Dried ferns from the highest peaks of the Alleghanies, for pieces

+     of silk for a quilt.

+

+  LUCY SHARP, P. O. Box 73, Bridgeton, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stamps.

+

+  SAMMY BEANS,

+  103 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks or stamps, for stamps.

+

+  JEROME G. EDDY, Lock Box 111, Geneva, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A piece of Irish peat, for soil and seed from the far West or

+     South, especially cotton seed, or for a piece of lava.

+

+  D. ALLAN WEBER,

+  Searsport, Waldo County, Maine.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stamps.

+

+  N. S. SCHWARZ,

+  105 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York City.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postage stamps and postmarks, for stamps.

+

+  WILLIAM M. BEAMAN,

+  U. S. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A Canadian coin, for five Montenegro stamps.

+

+  CHARLIE HUBBARD,

+  30 Pearl Street, New Haven, Conn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Shells, for Indian relics.

+

+  AARON KING,

+  80 Ellison Street, Paterson, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Texas moss, flints, insects, woods, pressed flowers, and other

+     natural curiosities, for foreign postage stamps, woods, Indian

+     arrow-heads, and all kinds of minerals.

+

+  J. S. and WILLIE G. DAVIS,

+  Care of J. T. Davis, P. O. Box 122,

+  Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks, for stamps, curiosities, or minerals. Ten postmarks, for

+     one rare stamp; or twenty, for a good curiosity.

+

+  CHARLIE NICHOLS,

+  288 Lafayette Street, Bridgeport, Conn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postage stamps, for stamps, minerals or coins.

+

+  RALPH L. EMERSON,

+  P. O. Box 105, Brookline, Mass.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postage stamps, for the same, or pressed wild flowers.

+

+  FRED CHENEY,

+  41 Fort Avenue, Boston, Mass.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Foreign postage stamps.

+

+  HENRY PAYNE,

+  Mankato, Minn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stamps, for coins.

+

+  A SUBSCRIBER OF "YOUNG PEOPLE,"

+  First National Bank, Bay City, Mich.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A small piece of sulphate of iron, for foreign postage stamps.

+

+  HARRY W. TOWNLEY,

+  Sayreville, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stamps, for coins.

+

+  W. T. CRANE,

+  124 Washington Street, Hoboken, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stamps, for anything suitable for a museum.

+

+  D. G. BARNETT,

+  406 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     German postage stamps, for other foreign stamps.

+

+  ARTHUR E. CAMPBELL,

+  222 Prospect Avenue, Milwaukee, Wis.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Five postmarks, for one foreign stamp.

+

+  GUY F. BARKER,

+  St Albans, Franklin County, Vt.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Rare postmarks (Illinois especially) and postage stamps, for

+     foreign and old issues of United States stamps.

+

+  MANNING A. LOGAN,

+  812 Twelfth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Three varieties of internal revenue stamps, for foreign stamps,

+     minerals, or curiosities.

+

+  EDWIN E. SLOSSON,

+  Sabetha, Nemaha County, Kansas.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     United States and foreign postage stamps, for stamps from Hamburg,

+     Mexico, and Japan.

+

+  HARRY C. BREARLEY,

+  180 Charlotte Avenue, Detroit, Mich.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postage stamps, for specimens of gold, silver, copper, or tin ore.

+

+  ALLY B. HALLIDAY,

+  406 West Forty-third Street, New York City.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Minerals, fossils, shells, and Indian relics (a large collection of

+     the latter), for minerals, shells, and seaweed. Only good specimens

+     desired.

+

+  ED GOHL, 7 South Third Street, Harrisburg, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stones from Connecticut, Texas, and Mississippi, also cotton as it

+     comes from the field, for foreign postage stamps.

+

+  JAMES MCKENNA,

+  4 West Street, Bridgeport, Conn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A Norwegian halfpenny, date 1867, two Cape of Good Hope stamps,

+     and a flint an inch long, for Indian arrow-heads and petrified

+     wood.

+

+  GEORGE E. PRINGLE, Hastings, Minn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Shells from the Indian and Pacific oceans, for fossils of animals

+     or plants.

+

+  HENRY W. HAND,

+  Green Creek, Cape May County, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Foreign postage stamps, for Indian relics and curiosities.

+

+  FLAVEL S. MINES, Kirkwood Hotel,

+  Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Mo.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks, postage and revenue stamps, and monograms, for postage

+     and revenue stamps.

+

+  K. G. EASTON, West Berkeley, Cal.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Thirty foreign stamps, for five stamps of the following countries:

+     Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Cape of Good Hope, Hong-Kong.

+

+  H. L. J.,

+  Lock Box 721, Granville, Licking County, Ohio.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks, for stamps.

+

+  JAMES G. BARBOUR,

+  25 Fulton Street, Pittsburgh, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Twenty-eight old coins, for any curiosity or Indian relics. A good

+     Indian bow and a few arrows especially desired.

+

+  A SUBSCRIBER OF "YOUNG PEOPLE,"

+  P. O. Box 930, Rushford, Fillmore Co., Minn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A few shells from Calcutta, India, for ocean curiosities, or any

+     pretty thing for a collection. Mosses and pressed ferns especially

+     desired. Flower seeds also exchanged.

+

+  ELLA STULL,

+  Greenville, Darke County, Ohio.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Ten foreign postage stamps, for an Indian arrow-head, or two stamps

+     from the Cape of Good Hope.

+

+  FREEMAN WOODBRIDGE,

+  Care of Dr. J. Woodbridge,

+  New Brunswick. N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks and Canadian postage stamps, for shells from the Pacific

+     and Southern coasts, or other curiosities. Correspondents will

+     please label specimens.

+

+  MISS M. FRANK LE COUNT,

+  South Norwalk, Conn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stones from the Arkansas River, cotton as it comes from the field,

+     cotton seed, postmarks, and scales of the alligator gar-fish, for

+     United States or foreign coins. Correspondents will please label

+     coins.

+

+  COLLECTOR, care of Postmaster,

+  Heckatoo, Lincoln County, Ark.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Old United States and foreign postage stamps, for coins and

+     minerals.

+

+  GUSTAVUS SCHAEMBER,

+  159 Prince Street, New York City.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Ten Pennsylvania postmarks, for the same number of any other State

+     or Territory, or Canada.

+

+  CLIFF C. GARRISON,

+  Brookville, Jefferson County, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Twenty-five postmarks, for five rare postage stamps.

+

+  R. C. WILLIAMS, JUN.,

+  240 Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     A stone from Pennsylvania, for one from any other State; or

+     postmarks, for foreign stamps--Chinese especially desired.

+

+  WALTER J. WELLS,

+  Oswayo, Potter County, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     An ounce of the soil of New York, for the same from any other

+     State. Western soil particularly desired.

+

+  ERNEST S. GREEN,

+  123 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Sea-shells, for foreign postage stamps.

+

+  C. H. TUCKER,

+  63 Cass Avenue, Corner of Adams,

+  Detroit, Mich.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Fragments of figured pottery from sites of ancient Mohawk Indian

+     villages, for Indian relics from other localities.

+

+  R. C. HALL,

+  Canajoharie, Montgomery County, N. Y.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Stones from the shore of Lake Erie, for stones or ores from other

+     localities, or foreign postage stamps.

+

+  FRANK W. FULLKERSON,

+  78 Sawtell Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     European, Chinese, and Japanese postage stamps, for minerals.

+

+  CLARENCE HENNE,

+  39 Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, N. J.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Latest issues of German, French, and Italian postage stamps, and

+     curiosities, for curiosities.

+

+  L. H. TROTTER,

+  22 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postmarks, for fossils and minerals.

+

+  FLETCHER M. NOE,

+  165 North Alabama Street, Indianapolis, Ind.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Foreign postage stamps, for foreign stamps, minerals, or fossils.

+

+  HARRY S. JEANES,

+  521 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Penn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Postage stamps, postmarks, minerals, shells, wood, feathers, or any

+     Texas curiosity, for copper or zinc ore, ocean curiosities, or

+     anything suitable for a museum.

+

+  FRANK D. DAVIS, Groesbeck, Texas.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     United States War Department stamps, for foreign stamps.

+

+  MONTGOMERY M. TAYLOR,

+  Newport Barracks, Newport, Ky.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+     Coins, for an Indian tomahawk or pipe, shells, minerals, coins, or

+     other curiosities.

+

+  ALFRED W. KERR,

+  22 Crescent Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+G. H.--"The Story of George Washington" ran through ten numbers of

+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, Vol. I., beginning in No. 24, April 13, and

+ending in No. 33, June 15.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+CLEMENT L. AND VIRGINIA H. P.--In 1872, Captain Lawson, an Englishman,

+accompanied by a band of natives, explored the island of Papua, or New

+Guinea. In the published account of his travels mention is made of Mount

+Hercules, which, according to his measurements, is 32,783 feet above the

+sea-level, or over 3000 feet higher than Mount Everest. Captain Lawson's

+statement has not yet been verified by farther scientific investigation,

+and the latest geographies and encyclopaedias continue to name Mount

+Everest as the highest known peak on the earth's surface.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+MINNIE G.--A Brazilian silver milreis, or one thousand reis, is worth

+about fifty-one cents, United States currency. The face value of a

+ten-reis postage stamp is about half a cent.--Cancelled stamps are

+commonly used in exchange by our correspondents, as new ones are

+difficult to obtain, especially those of foreign countries.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+A. A. Y. C.--The cost of material for sail-boat described in YOUNG

+PEOPLE No. 66 is about fifteen dollars. For the other information you

+require, go to the foot of Court Street, Brooklyn, in which city you

+live, and talk with the boatmen and boat-builders there.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+J. M.--A new boat like the one you describe will cost from seventy-five

+to one hundred dollars. You may be able to obtain one second-hand in

+good condition for half that sum. The expense of starting a club would

+depend entirely upon the outlay to which the members mutually agree. It

+might be confined to the price of your boat and rowing suits, and the

+rent of some place to store your boat.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+JOHN T.--A note from Mr. Casey, containing his address and a kind offer

+to reply to correspondents, was printed in the Post-office Box of

+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE No. 61.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+WILLIE B. S.--When the Colonial Congress was in session in Philadelphia

+in 1774 a motion was made to open the proceedings with prayer. It was

+opposed on the ground that as the members belonged to different

+denominations, they would be unable to join in the same act of worship.

+But Mr. Samuel Adams, who was a strict Presbyterian, said he could

+listen to a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue who was at the

+same time a friend to his country, and named Mr. Jacob Duche, an

+Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, as such a person. The motion was

+then passed, and Mr. Duche appeared the next morning, and officiated

+with great fervor. He subsequently became a traitor to his country, and

+even attempted to persuade Washington to desert to the British.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+WALTER S. D.--The two New York firms that carry and distribute mail

+matter within the limits of the city of New York are Boyd's Dispatch and

+Hussey's Dispatch. They claim this right in virtue of a special

+privilege given them many years ago by the city government. Whatever

+this right may be in theory, it certainly holds good in practice, for

+the general government has tried time and time again to break up these

+concerns, but without avail.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.

+

+No. 1.

+

+ENIGMA.

+

+  My first in quill, not in pen.

+  My second in duck, not in hen.

+  My third in river, not in lake.

+  My fourth in biscuit, not in cake.

+  My fifth in soon, not in late.

+  The capital I of a foreign state,

+  Upon whose shore by night and day

+  The Pacific dashes in foam and spray.

+

+  DAME DURDEN.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+No. 2.

+

+WORD CHANGES.

+

+1. Rain to snow. 2. Rags to silk. 3. Mill to cent. 4. Sin to woe. 5.

+Sold to lost. 6. Line to cord. 7. Nay to yea. 8. Glue to mend.

+

+  FRANK L. L.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+No. 3.

+

+EASY CONCEALMENTS.

+

+Cities and Countries.--1. Here is a new portfolio for Carrie. 2. Ponto

+led Oliver to the stream. 3. I shall see Charles to-night. 4. Helen and

+Anna may go to the fair.

+

+  M. L. H.

+

+5. He is no liar, men; I am the culprit. 6. Madam, as custodian of the

+library, I must forbid you to remove books. 7. I gave orders that he be

+set to work immediately. 8. Her picture was set in diamonds.

+

+  BELL.

+

+Trees.--9. Did you know that Will owns a horse? 10. This pin equals an

+iron bar in strength. 11. We heard the croak of a raven. 12.

+Steam-engines propel many boats. 13. It appeared to me that he was

+false. 14. Philip, each one of your sums is wrong. 15. The plumes of

+Crecy round him waved.

+

+  ED.

+

+Birds and Beasts.--16. His rib is broken. 17. How did that occur, Lewis?

+18. He muttered words none could understand. 19. Jim and Caspar rowed us

+over the river.

+

+  MARGARET.

+

+20. I abhor seeing you in that dress. 21. Behind them came Lucy, all in

+white. 22. Would you like to be a Russian? 23. Dover is the capital of

+Delaware. 24. The medicine is more bitter now than it was at first. 25.

+The fairy's wand is broken.

+

+  EMILY and CLARA.

+

+26. Isaac, row faster! 27. The lobsters nip Essie's fingers. 28. Seth

+rushed in and told them.

+

+  MILLIE.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+No. 4.

+

+CHARADE.

+

+  My first is a troublesome insect.

+  My second might be applied to every boy and girl during dinner-time.

+  My whole consumes my first.

+

+  NORMAN.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+No. 5.

+

+ENIGMA.

+

+  In cold, not in heat.

+  In shoe, not in feet.

+  In flutter, not in flaunt.

+  In wish, not in want.

+  In stone, not in brick.

+  In hen, not in chick.

+  In rough, not in kind.

+  In thought, not in mind.

+  To gather my whole on an autumn day

+  For country boys is sport and play.

+

+  LENA S. F.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 69.

+

+No. 1.

+

+  S P A I N

+  P A R T

+  A R T

+  I T

+  N

+

+No. 2.

+

+Tiger.

+

+No. 3.

+

+Across.--1. Stork. 2. Sport. 3. Heron. 4. Civil. 5. Drain. 6. Dregs. 7.

+Refer. 8. Flint. 9. Oasis. 10. Sword. 11. Freak. 12. Spare. 13. Dross.

+Zigzags--Spring flowers.

+

+No. 4.

+

+          M

+        P A R

+      F A C E T

+    P A N A C E A

+  M A C A R O N I C

+    R E C O V E R

+      T E N E T

+        A I R

+          C

+

+No. 5.

+

+Lifetime.

+

+       *       *       *       *       *

+

+Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Jessie A. Allen,

+H. V. B., Bessie Bolton, Laura Brick, Charles H. Cole, Alice Cantine,

+Lulu C., W. Chase, R. O. Chester, "Dawley Boys," Harry H. Dickinson, L.

+Jay E., Lena S. Fox, "L. U. Stral," William A. Lewis, Howard B. Lent,

+Adella R. Lippincott, C. H. McBride, "Philo S. Opher," Willy Rochester,

+D. J. Reinhart, Frank W. Smith, Gilbert P. Salters, "Starry Flag," Dora

+N. Taylor, W. I. Trotter, "Ed. I. Torial," Willie F. Woolard, Edith M.

+Wetmore, Annie Wheeler, "Young Solver."

+

+

+

+

+HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.

+

+

+SINGLE COPIES, 4 cents; ONE SUBSCRIPTION, one year, $1.50; FIVE

+SUBSCRIPTIONS, one year, $7.00--_payable in advance, postage free_.

+

+The Volumes of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE commence with the first Number in

+November of each year.

+

+Subscriptions may begin with any Number. When no time is specified, it

+will be understood that the subscriber desires to commence with the

+Number issued after the receipt of the order.

+

+Remittances should be made by POST-OFFICE MONEY-ORDER OR DRAFT, to avoid

+risk of loss.

+

+  HARPER & BROTHERS,

+  Franklin Square, N. Y.

+

+

+

+

+STRING TRICKS.

+

+BY HELEN P. STRONG.

+

+

+Every boy and girl knows the mysteries of the "cat's-cradle"--of course

+you do, as well as you know your "Aina, maina, mona, mite"--but do you

+know that the "cat's-cradle" does not begin to exhaust the possibilities

+of a piece of string? "Indian-box" mysteries and "inexhaustible hats"

+are not to be compared with it for simplicity of contrivance. Given a

+piece of string a yard long, and ten nimble fingers (counting thumbs),

+and you have all the apparatus needed to astonish your friends for a

+whole evening. I hope the accompanying illustrations and description

+will be sufficient to give you the secret of one of these wonderful

+string tricks. And now you shall be enlightened as to the

+

+BUTTON-HOLE MYSTERY.

+

+[Illustration: FIG. 1.]

+

+Secure a piece of strong cord a yard in length, and having tied the ends

+firmly together, pass the double end through your button-hole, and a

+thumb through each loop, as in Fig. 1. Now slip the little finger of

+your _left_ hand under the lower string of the loop which passes over

+the _right_ thumb, and the little finger of the _right_ hand under the

+lower string of the loop which passes over the _left_ thumb, separating

+the hands as in Fig. 2. Now comes the mystery. A quick movement of both

+hands, without releasing the string from either thumbs or little

+fingers, will give the effect of a tangle which can only be extricated

+by cutting the string or the button-hole. You add to the illusion by

+sawing a little on the button-hole to direct the attention to the

+impossibility of loosening the string at that point; then suddenly,

+without letting go either hand, you present the string-free from the

+button-hole though still securely tied.

+

+[Illustration: FIG. 2.]

+

+The secret lies in this: if you look carefully at Fig. 2, you will

+discover that the little finger of one hand and the thumb of the other

+are really holding the same loop; so you have only to retain your hold

+at these points, letting the rest go, to draw the string out of the

+button-hole with freedom.

+

+But you may find it rather difficult at first to make the proper thumb

+and finger act quickly and in unison, apart from the twin brother of

+each; for thumbs, and also little fingers, are like twin children, and,

+unless well trained, one always wants to do what the other does. But you

+will succeed if you think very hard for a moment, for that is the way

+the mind makes naughty hands and feet obey her commands.

+

+

+

+

+THE LOSING BAG.

+

+

+  Little Harry Careless

+    Was always losing things--

+  Shoes and hats, and slates and books,

+    Pencils, marbles, strings--

+  Till at last his mother

+    Took a faded flag

+  (A great, enormous one it was)

+    And made of it a bag.

+

+  "Now, my careless Harry,"

+    Said she, with a kiss,

+  "When you feel like losing things,

+    Pop them into this."

+  "That I will," cried Harry,

+    Happy as a king;

+  And since he's had the losing bag

+    He's never lost a thing.

+

+

+

+

+[Illustration: "HOLD YOUR GIRAFFE, SIR?"]

+

+[Illustration: THE GIRAFFE IS HELD.]

+

+

+

+

+

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