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

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

-       An Illustrated Weekly

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-Author: Various

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

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

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-Produced by Annie R. McGuire

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-[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE

-AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]

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

-CENTS.

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

-per Year, in Advance.

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-[Illustration: THE FIRST LESSON.]

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

-

-TOBY TYLER;

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-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.]

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-

-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.

-

-

-

-

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-

-

-  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.

-

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-

-  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.

-

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-

-  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.

-

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-

-  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.

-

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-

-  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.

-

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-

-  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.

-

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-

-  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.

-

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-

-  _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.

-

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-

-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.

-

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-

-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.

-

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-

-     Postage stamps, for stamps, minerals or coins.

-

-  RALPH L. EMERSON,

-  P. O. Box 105, Brookline, Mass.

-

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-

-     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.

-

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-

-     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.

-

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-

-     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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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45152 ***
+
+[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.
+
+
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+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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-<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" />

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-<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>

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-<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>

-

-

-

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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45152 ***</div>
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+<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>
+
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+
+<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>
+
+<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 45152 ***</div>
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-Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, March 15, 1881, by Various

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

-       An Illustrated Weekly

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

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-Produced by Annie R. McGuire

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-[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE

-AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]

-

-       *       *       *       *       *

-

-VOL. II.--NO. 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.

-

-       *       *       *       *       *

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-

-

-

-[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.

-

-

-

-

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-

-  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.

-

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-

-  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.

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-  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.

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-  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.

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-  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."

-

-

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-

-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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