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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Harper's Young People, November 29, 1881 - An Illustrated Weekly - -Author: Various - -Release Date: October 8, 2015 [EBook #50163] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, NOV 29, 1881 *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE] - - * * * * * - -VOL. III.--NO. 109. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR -CENTS. - -Tuesday, November 29, 1881. Copyright, 1881, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50 -per Year, in Advance. - - * * * * * - - - - -[Illustration: "SEE, THEY'RE GETTING AWAY!' HE CRIED."] - -HOW TOM PRIMROSE PROTECTED HIS FATHER. - -BY SYDNEY DAYRE. - - -Mr. Primrose arrived at home one morning just as his family were -gathering for breakfast. He had been for two days at a small town about -thirty miles distant, to which he had been summoned to assist in the -trial of a pair of noted criminals. - -"You look tired out," said Mrs. Primrose. - -"Tired enough," he said. "I have been up nearly all night." - -"How did that happen?" - -"Well, it was partly my own fault. I met my old friend Philip Sanford up -there; he was on the defense in the case I was prosecuting. We had a -grand tilt over it--fought each other vigorously all the way through. -The chief criminal shook his fist at me when I was making the closing -speech. I began to see that the case was going against me, and I pressed -the rascals pretty hard." - -"Dear me!" said Mrs. Primrose, with an anxious face. "I am always in -fear of some of those desperate characters doing you some injury out of -revenge." - -The gentleman laughed. "Don't worry yourself, dear," he said. "There is -much more to be feared from the rogues who go uncaught than from those -who feel the strong grasp of the law. But, as I was telling, the case -went to the jury about nine last night, and then Sanford and I got down -to a game of chess. If I didn't beat him at law, I beat him well at the -game, and it was one o'clock before we took heed of the time. Then, as -my train was due at three, it was not worth while to go to bed, so we -played and talked on. When I got to the station, I found the train was -behind time, so I lay on a bench till it came, at five, and here I am." - -"You will take a rest now?" - -"Not a bit," he said, opening some letters he had found waiting for him. -"Business is pressing just now. Ha! ha!" he exclaimed, "this is good -news. We'll have those rogues in the penitentiary yet." - -"What is it?" asked Mrs. Primrose. - -"Why, I told you just now that I feared the jury would not convict on -the evidence, although it was convincing to me. Here is a letter from -the sheriff of Hancock County, who wishes that these same fellows be -held to answer to a charge of complicity in a bank robbery which took -place in that county some months since. If the jury fails to convict, -the prisoners must be re-arrested the moment they are discharged." - -"Rather a damper on them, I should say," said Frank, with a chuckle. - -"You'd be astonished to see what decent-looking men they are," continued -his father. "The chief criminal would impress you as having been trained -for a gentleman, and his accomplice is not much more than a boy; both -are well dressed. The daintiest little pearl-mounted revolver I ever saw -was displayed in court as the instrument used in their last scrape; -Frank, you must take a run up to Homer on the nine train." - -"He can not," said Mrs. Primrose. "I'm sorry, but he sprained his foot -yesterday, and must keep quiet for a few days." - -"That's bad--for the boy and for me. I must hurry down town and send -some one else." - -"Oh, papa, let _me_ go!" said Tom. "Please do, sir. I've been up there -twice with you, you know, and I'd know just where to go, and you could -tell me just what to do." - -"Ho! ho!" laughed Frank. "'Heedless Tom' on important business! Why, he -would be sure to have the judge and sheriff under arrest, and the -burglars at large. He can't help doing everything backward, you know." - -"Come, Frank, don't be so sharp," said his mother. "Tom is trying to be -more careful lately, I think." - -"Yes," said Mr. Primrose, in a teasing tone, "he is not at all like the -boy I sent from the office last week to buy a pamphlet called 'Westward -Ho!' and who brought me instead a garden hoe." - -There was a laugh at Tom's expense, but he persisted, coaxingly: - -"Do let me go, papa. You know I wouldn't be careless about your -business." - -"I guess you may go, Tom. Now listen. Find Sheriff Carroll either at his -house or at the court-house, and give him this letter. Take the twelve -train home, and be sure you are on time. There is money for your fare." - -So Mr. Primrose departed, while Tom, highly delighted at the prospect of -such an unexpected little jaunt, went to get ready. He meant to act -through the whole matter with such caution and judgment as to fully -convince his father of the propriety of intrusting him with the -weightiest concerns. And his first care was to leave for the station in -such good time as to put all fear of his missing the train out of the -question. - -Alas, poor Tom! - -"Now, where's my hat?" - -This inquiry was a sound of dismay in the Primrose household. Tom's hat -was always missing. There was no spot in the house, yard, barn, or -garden where it might not be hopefully searched for. - -"Where did you have it last?" some one asked. Some one was always sure -to ask that. - -"I don't know--yes, I remember putting it on Rover's head, and he ran -away with it. No, I found it after that behind the coal-house. I had it -when we were playing hide-and-seek last evening." - -Tom was usually left to do his own hunting, but in such an emergency as -this all the family energy was aroused. Uneasiness gathered in every -face as time went on. - -"Let me see your old hat," said his mother at last. But the old hat -proved to be too shabby to be thought of. Then his brother's hat was -tried, but Frank was three years older, and it would not do. - -"Wear it down to Mr. Ramsay, the hatter's," said his mother. "Tell him -of your difficulty, and he will lend you a hat for a few hours." But Tom -did not like to do this, and he continued his hunt longer than was -prudent. At length his little sister came from the barn with a note of -triumph and the missing hat. It had been lying in a corner of the -hay-loft, where he had hidden the evening before. He seized it -gratefully, and was off like the wind. - -The locomotive was hissing in the station as Tom, hot and out of breath, -asked for a ticket to Homer. Then he felt for his pocket-book in one -pocket and then another, growing hotter as he failed to find it. After -thorough search he concluded, with intense dismay, that his run must -have shaken it from his pocket. He knew he had no time for thought. At -the distance of about half a block was situated the office of one of his -father's friends. He rushed over to it and told his trouble in a few -words. - -"Hurry, Tom, hurry," said the gentleman, as already the premonitory puff -of the engine sounded. "Don't stop for a ticket, but board the train--if -you can; but--_Stop, boy!_ Hallo, there!" he shouted; "don't let that -boy jump on that train!" - -He ran after Tom as he flew toward the now-moving train, which the boy -was fully resolved to board. But he was seized by friendly hands. - -"You can't do that, my boy--no, _sir_," as Tom struggled. "Have you no -concern for your life or limbs?" - -"I _must_ go on that train; I _will_," cried poor Tom, in utter despair. -But it moved pitilessly on, while a few men gathered near to inquire -into his trouble. - -"It was about some business for my father," he explained, hardly able to -force back his tears, as he realized what a terrible failure he had made -at the very outset. "It was very important, and what shall I do?" - -"There's a freight train going up," said a brakeman. - -"When?" asked Tom, eagerly. - -"In about half an hour. It'll be slow, though. You'll get to Homer about -eleven, if that'll do you." - -Tom could only hope it might. - -After a ride made long by anxiety he stood at last before Sheriff -Carroll, and presented his letter, waiting breathlessly to hear what he -might say. - -"Too bad! too bad! I discharged those scamps not more than an hour ago. -Tell your father, though, that we may stand a chance of nabbing them -yet. I'll have all the trains watched, and send out on the country -roads. That sort are very apt to strike across country." He bustled away -to set things moving, while Tom, full of bitter mortification, slowly -walked back to the station. - -He watched eagerly as the return train came in, in hope of seeing some -kind of a "scrimmage," as he mentally expressed it, which might look -like an arrest. But nothing of the sort occurred. He did not even see a -force of policemen drawn up with threatening aspect, as he had expected, -and made up his mind that Carroll was not up to his duty in this matter. -His inexperienced gaze failed to take note of two or three keen-eyed men -standing carelessly around in plain clothes, who would certainly have -pressed the hospitalities of the village of Homer upon any stray -criminals so warmly as to enable them to arrive at a speedy decision to -travel no further at present. - -As Tom rode along, he felt too much depressed at first by the very bad -result of his undertaking to pay much heed to what was going on around -him. But he suddenly jerked himself from the corner into which he had -settled, and sat up with every sense on the alert. - -"I told Primrose--revenged on him--jury agreed--got off--that I would go -down--have it out with him--" - -This was what came to his ears, mingled with the rattle of the cars. The -words were spoken by one of two men who occupied the seat behind him. -Tom ventured a peep over the back of his seat. They certainly did not -look like desperate characters; but what was he to think of what he had -heard? His father had made special mention of the very respectable -appearance of the two men he had been prosecuting. - -The older man had such a pleasant face that Tom was beginning to feel -ashamed of his suspicions, when he suddenly bobbed down in his seat, -with a cold chill at his heart. The man was examining something he held -in his hand--a thing so small and delicate that at first glance Tom had -taken it for a pocket-knife, but it was a pearl-mounted revolver. The -full gravity of the situation now forced itself upon his excited mind. -This was the Chief Criminal spoken of by his father, the younger man -being, of course, the Accomplice. They were handling the very revolver -which had been shown during the trial. This man's fierce anger had been -excited by his father's vigorous attempt to consign him to merited -punishment, and his words fully indicated that he was now on his way to -seek revenge. How? Poor Tom fairly writhed in his seat as all the -fearful possibilities of the case came before him, and he was obliged to -own to himself that but for his petty acts of carelessness these men -would now be safe under lock and key. - -He left the car, full of the one idea of using any and every means of -insuring his father's safety. Hastening to his office, he learned that -he had been absent from it most of the day. It was supposed that he had -been called out of town again. Reaching home, hoping to find him there, -Tom learned that he had not been up to dinner, but was still expected, -though it was long after the usual hour. Hot, tired, and anxious, Tom -made but a poor attempt at the dinner urged upon him, and took his way -to the front part of the house to watch for his father. He established -himself on a sofa near a bay-window in the parlor, with a very heavy -pressure of care on his heart. He knew it would not do to tell his -nervous mother: even poor, heedless Tom was thoughtful of her comfort. -And he did not want Frank to know anything about it if he could help it. -It might all come out right yet, and then only his father need know. - - * * * * * - -"Tell him not to hurry--we can wait," said a voice in the room. Tom -rubbed his eyes and stared about, as the maid showed in two strangers. -He was wide awake in a moment, and drew himself into a corner of the -sofa where he was nearly concealed by a curtain which divided the -bay-window from the room. The maid drew aside the curtains of another -window, and threw it open. And there, in the bright sunlight, Tom saw, -with fright and horror, which at first took from him the power to move -or speak, the Chief Criminal and the Accomplice seat themselves -comfortably in his father's house. - -What now? With a desperate effort at self-control he tried to think what -it was best to do. It rested on him now not only to insure his father's -safety, but to prevent the escape of these men. - -He presently got up, and going quietly to a door which led into another -room, locked it, and put the key in his pocket. Then he turned to the -window near which the men sat. The older one addressed him pleasantly. - -"You are a son of Mr. Primrose?" he said, offering his hand. - -Tom bowed slightly, but took no notice of the extended hand. He lowered -the window and fastened it, hoping that the burglars, if they tried to -open it, might not at first understand the catch, thus giving more time. -He then passed into the hall, noiselessly locking that door also. - -Frank was nursing his sprained foot on the back piazza. In answer to -Tom's excited inquiries he told him their father had returned home a -short time since, had dined, and gone to his room. His mother was in the -kitchen canning fruit. Glad not to meet her, Tom sprang up the stairs, -and knocking at his father's door, begged to be let in. - -"I am bathing, Tom," was the answer; "wait a little." - -"Oh, father," pleaded Tom, "_do_ let me speak to you just one minute." - -Tom's claims to be heard were usually urgent, so his father only said, -"Have a little patience, my boy; in ten minutes I'll hear all you have -to say." - -Ten minutes! What might not happen in ten minutes! If he waited up -there, the criminals might, finding themselves shut in, guess that they -were under suspicion, and make good their escape. If he went to call -help, his father might, in his absence, run into the very danger he was -seeking to save him from. - -A bright thought came to him. So long as his father remained in his room -he must be safe. Tom turned the key in the door, and locked him in. -Then, with all the speed which terror could lend to a boy's nimble feet, -he ran to the police station, a few blocks distant, reaching it in a -condition which only left him able to convey a general idea that -something dreadful was going on at Mr. Primrose's. Two policemen were -there. First sending a message to head-quarters for further force, they -followed Tom in all haste, a small crowd of by-standers falling into -line, and gathering strength as they neared the Primrose domicile. As -they came to the gate Tom saw the Accomplice trying to open the window. - -"See! they're getting away!" he cried. And the policemen bounded into -the house and seized the two men. At this moment a heavy pounding was -heard overhead. Tom turned paler than before. - -"There must be more of them up stairs," he shrieked; "they are getting -after my father." - -He tore up the stairs, and found the room still locked; but the pounding -kept on. He turned the key with a trembling hand. - -"Who locked me in?" exclaimed his father. "Such foolery--" He stopped -in surprise as half a dozen men tramped hastily up stairs. - -"Are you hurt, Mr. Primrose? Are the rascals in there?" - -"Hurt? No. What's the matter? what is all this fuss about?" He stared in -amazement at the crowd pressing into the hall. "Is the house on fire?" - -"Not a bit, sir; but we've got two of the men in there." - -He pushed his way down stairs, and was met by several policemen, who had -made their way through the crowd outside. As the principal excitement -seemed in the parlor, he turned that way. The eyes of all there were -fixed upon two quiet-looking men, who stood with a policeman's hand on a -shoulder of each. - -"Philip Sanford! What does all this mean?" - -"I must ask you that," was the answer. "I came to your house on a -friendly visit, and to introduce my nephew, who is desirous of becoming -a law student in your office"--motioning toward the younger man--"and I -find myself under arrest." - -The policemen dropped their hands and looked toward Mr. Primrose. Mr. -Primrose looked at them. - -"Why are you here, men?" he asked. - -"The little chap wanted us pretty badly," said one of them, turning to -Tom with a laugh. - -"I--thought they were the criminals, papa--had come to hurt you, and I -couldn't speak to you, and I locked you up. I didn't know what to -do--and you said the burglars were such nice-looking men." A laugh arose -at this. - -"Go on," said his father; "I don't understand yet." - -"The burglars were gone when I got to Homer; they sat behind me on the -cars, and talked about being revenged on you, papa; and one of them had -that revolver." Tom's voice broke, and he seized his father's hand. - -The two criminals laughed heartily. - -"I believe I see into it now," said Mr. Sanford. "I said I was coming -here to get revenge for the beating you gave me at chess. This -revolver"--he took it from his pocket--"was given me this morning by the -burglar I have been defending, as a token of his gratitude, as he -expressed it, for the able manner in which I had conducted his case. And -this poor little fellow"--looking kindly at Tom--"has been suffering -agonies of fear for his father's safety ever since I showed it in the -cars." - -"So, friends," said Mr. Primrose, looking around, "I thank you all for -coming to my protection, but you see I do not need it." - -The police led the way out, and others followed, with increasing -merriment at the mistake which had been made. A shout arose also from -the crowd outside as it left the premises. - -"I beg your pardon, sir; and yours," faltered poor Tom, with his -strongest effort to keep back the tears of mortification at the terrible -blunder he had committed. - -"No pardon is necessary," said Mr. Sanford. "If my own small boy lives -to your age, the best I can wish for him is that he may be as brave and -energetic as you have been to-day, and as faithful in watching for his -father's safety, even if it sometimes leads him into a mistake. You'll -take my hand now, my boy, won't you?" - -Tom grasped it, and then escaped to his room. There lay his pocket-book, -just where he had left it when he changed his clothes in the morning. He -threw himself on the bed and cried till sleep came to relieve his -troubles. - -When he awoke it was twilight, and his mother was beside him. - -"Come, dear," she said, "they are all waiting for you. Yes, you must go -down," as Tom shook his head: "they will not go to tea till you go down. -And look at this--your father received it about an hour ago." - -It was a telegram from Homer, and read thus: - - "Have caught the men, and shipped to Hancock County. - - "CARROLL." - - - - -[Illustration: "THE HUNT IS UP, THE MORN IS BRIGHT AND -GRAY."--SHAKSPEARE.] - -THE HUNTING SEASON. - -BY W. A. LINN. - - -The boy whose fortune it is to live in the country looks forward to the -advent of autumn with eagerness, if happily he belongs to that large -class of boys who have a passion for hunting. There are some people who -object to this trait in the character of boys, as indicative of cruelty, -but I doubt if they fully understand the trait. Very few hunters, old or -young, take pleasure in the mere act of killing birds and animals. If -this was the chief end in view, they could secure it without days of -toilsome tramping. A hunter's pleasure is made up of a great deal more -than success in filling his bag. If he is to be really an expert in his -work, he must study carefully the habits of the game which he pursues, -become acquainted with the country over which he is to hunt, and submit -to long practice with his gun or rifle. - -The most common object of pursuit with boy hunters in our New England -and Middle States is the rabbit. The more mature sportsman may look with -scorn on the "cotton-tail" if he pleases, and rejoice more over one -dead quail than the capture of a dozen rabbits. Not so the boy. With -boys, _size_ counts in a good many ways. Then, too, in rabbit-hunting, -boys get a variety of sport. They can find time after school to set a -few snares or dead-falls in the nearest thicket. Or on a Saturday, -taking such dogs as they own or can borrow (most dogs, like most boys, -seem to be ready to hunt rabbits), they can set out for the brush lots -and stubble fields, and revel in excitement as the sharp bark of the -dogs lets them know that a fresh track has been struck. - -When cold weather and snow come, the rabbit is apt to desert his -snuggery in the fields for a home in some well-built stone wall. Then -the boy hunter lets the rabbit betray himself, and very plainly he does -it; for no boy who is once shown a rabbit track in newly fallen snow can -ever mistake for it the track of any other animal: two dots before, and -two behind, like this, · · :, are the rabbit's handwriting, and a little -skill soon traces him to his hiding-place. - -To secure game birds requires more skill with the gun, and a more -intimate knowledge of their habits. Our principal game birds in the -Eastern States are the woodcock, the quail, and the ruffled grouse, or, -as it is called in some States, the partridge. Of these the woodcock is -the most mysterious, and by epicures the most highly prized. It is the -only one of the group that seeks a warmer climate in winter. - -With the first advent of spring weather the woodcock returns, often -nesting so early that the spring floods destroy its eggs. By the first -of July the young birds are almost grown, and in too many States the law -allows them to be killed after that date. The summer woodcock is, -however, no such bird as it will become if allowed to moult, and then to -grow fat in the corn fields and brakes. October finds it strong of wing, -ready for a night flight of many miles; then it may be sought not only -in the low grounds, but on the alder-covered hill-sides. - -The quail is the best known of all our game birds, because of its -remaining with us all the year round, because of its easily recognized -note, "Bob White," and because, timid as it is, it loves civilization, -and lives on cultivated lands. - -The ruffled grouse may be called the king of our Northern game birds. -Delighting in mountains and thick swamps, wild, and strong of wing, the -hunter who brings one down when under full headway must be of steady -nerve, quick sight, and skillful with long practice. - -If a modern artist were to draw a sketch to illustrate an article on our -hunting season, it would have to differ very much from the pretty -picture on the preceding page. The spear and cross-bow are weapons -unknown to modern American hunters, and instead of the winding of the -horn, there is only the shrill note of the dog whistle. And we may say, -Alas the change! The spear was not always thrown aright; it and the -arrow hit but one object at a time, and had a limit to their flight. But -nowadays, with our highly trained dogs, and our ever-loaded -breech-loading guns, able to mow down a whole flock at once, what chance -has bird or animal, however well provided by nature with means of -safety? - -Little is the wonder that our game grows scarcer year by year. With no -vast landed estates, as in England, to be kept stocked and preserved, it -will not be very long before woodcock, quail, and grouse will be -curiosities even to the farmers' boys, who will have to invent some new -pleasure to take the place of the hunting sports of which their -grandfathers will tell them. - - - - -[Illustration: CLAVICHORD.] - -THE PIANO-FORTE. - -BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE. - - -I wonder how many young people who sit down to practice or take a lesson -at the piano-forte know the story of the instrument now familiar in -every household of the civilized world. Look at it as we have it to-day, -almost perfect in size and quality and tone. It is capable of producing -the fullest and the softest sounds, just as its name indicates, for -_piano_ means soft, and _forte_ means loud. Can you realize that little -more than a hundred years ago pianos were a rarity? Only one or two -makers produced any instruments worthy of the name, and few households -possessed one. "But," I can hear my young readers exclaim, "the music we -play on our pianos--Bach and Haydn, as well as old English airs--were -certainly played on some horizontal instrument." Of course they were, -but not on our kind of piano-fortes; and the story I am going to tell -will take you back far into the sixteenth century, when ladies of rank, -and monks and nuns, and some troubadours, had the instruments from which -our piano is descended. These were known as the clavichord and the -virginal. - -The clavichord was perfected about 1500, and the name was derived from -"clavi" (a key) and "chorda" (a string); so you see at once that it -contained the two principal elements of our piano-forte. Although it -went out of use in Bach's day, yet that dear old master, whose -_gavottes_ all our young people are playing now, loved to use it. The -piano-forte had been invented, but Bach loved his old clavichord. As he -sat thrumming it, I think he liked to fancy himself away in the early -sixteenth-century days, when Henry the Seventh's court enjoyed madrigals -and queer little bits of music on the same sort of an instrument. -Following the clavichord, we have that graceful, romantic instrument -called the virginal. This was an improvement on the clavichord, and -toward the close of the sixteenth century we find its name in poetry, -romance, biography--indeed, in history. - -[Illustration: VIRGINAL.] - -The virginal produced a low, tinkling sort of sound not unlike that of -the German zither. Only ladies of quality, musicians, or nuns or monks -in convents, performed upon the virginal, and so I think we associate it -with all the grace and beauty and the slow stateliness of that romantic -epoch. When I think of a virginal, it seems to me to bring many -suggestions of rich colors, softly fading lights, the flash of jewels, -or the movement of white hands, oak wainscoting, and tapestried -walls--perhaps some very sad and sorrowing heart, perhaps some young and -hopeful one, but always something that is picturesque and dreamy. - -Perhaps we would not think it so sweet an instrument to-day, but -assuredly in the sixteenth century it moved people to very tender, -elevated thoughts. Shakspeare wrote of it with deep feeling, and there -are some quaint lines of Spenser's about it. "My love doth sit ... -playing alone, careless, on her heavenlie virginals." - -In 1583, Sir James Melvil was sent by Mary Stuart to England as -Ambassador, and in his memoirs he relates how he heard Queen Elizabeth -play. He says that Lord Hunsden took him up into a "quiet gallery," -where, unknown to the Queen, he might hear her play. The two gentlemen -stood outside a tapestried doorway, from within which came the soft -tinkle-tinkle of the virginal. I wish he had told us what the Queen was -playing. Presently, it appears, his curiosity to see her Majesty -overcame his prudence, and he softly raised the curtain, and went into -the room. The Queen played on, "a melody which ravished him," he says, -but for some moments did not see that any one was listening. Is it not a -pretty picture? - -At that time the Queen had not lost the charm of youth, and in her -splendid dress, with her head down-bent, her figure at the quaint -virginal against the rich and sombre colors of the room, must have -looked charming, and the silent Scotch gentleman just inside the doorway -listening in rapt attention: it is so poetic a picture of the time that -we can almost hear her music, and if we read on a little further, we see -that the Queen, suddenly seeing Sir James, came forward, remonstrating -with him for having come in, for, she said, she was not used to play -before people, but only to "shun melancholy." Then she sat down upon a -low cushion, and honest Sir James, according to the custom of the time, -fell upon his knees before her. The Queen, with a truly feminine spirit, -inquired whether he thought she or Mary Queen of Scots played the best. -Sir James said that his sovereign played "_reasonably, for a queen_." -This answer would not serve to-day, as the Queen of England is one of -the most perfect of amateur musicians. - -[Illustration: ITALIAN SPINET, ORNAMENTED WITH PRECIOUS STONES.] - -The virginal and spinet belong to the same period. From them, as need of -a more elaborate performance grew, we have the harpsichord. A very fine -harpsichord looked something like a grand piano, but it had two rows of -keys, one upper and one lower. I shall not here go into a description of -the harpsichord. It is only needful to say that it was the outgrowth of -clavichord and virginal and spinet, and had some of the defects as well -as the good points of all three. - -[Illustration: HANDEL'S FAVORITE HARPISCHORD.] - -Our great-grandmothers played upon harpsichords. They were tinkling -little affairs, yet I fancy that Mozart's and Haydn's music must have -sounded very quaint and pleasing upon them. Where have they all vanished -to, I wonder?--along with the flowery brocaded gowns, the slender fans, -the powder and patches and paint, of that dear old time? - -In an old house I once visited, a harpsichord of seventeen hundred and -something used to stand neglected and disused in an upper hall. -Sometimes we children thrummed waltzes upon it; sometimes I remember our -getting out a faded old music-book with the picture of a shepherdess on -it, and picking out the funny little songs that were printed there a -hundred years ago. On the fly-leaf of the book was written in a very -flourishy hand, "To Isabel, from J----." Who was Isabel, and who was J., -we used to wonder. - -I can fancy that the music she played to please her mamma and papa, and -perhaps her uncles and aunts, was of a very primitive order, for when -harpsichords were used, young ladies were not at all proficient. Music -was then considered a "genteel" sort of accomplishment, and good masters -were very rare, and never tried to make their pupils do more than strike -the notes correctly and in good "dum-dum" sort of time. Consider our -advantages now, and yet I fancy those young people of "Isabel's" day -valued their musical instruction much more than we do ours. - -[Illustration: PIANO OF ABOUT 1777.] - -Well, then, from this pretty, picturesque harpsichord period, we find -ourselves by slow degrees in that of the piano, and I suppose the first -thing you will wish to know is how a piano-forte differs from these -other instruments of which I have been writing. The principal difference -is that the strings are struck with a hammer. About the beginning of the -eighteenth century this idea had originated with three men at once--an -Italian named Cristofali, a Frenchman named Marius, and a German named -Schröter; but all investigators seem convinced that Cristofali was the -real originator. His ideas were the best. So, later in the century, -when harpsichords began to be thought incomplete, different makers tried -to produce something better, and the result was the primitive -piano-forte. - -At this time the composer Sebastian Bach was in Berlin. Frederick the -Great was eager to hear him play, and as that famous sovereign possessed -several of the new piano-fortes (or forte-pianos, as they then were -called), Bach came one evening to the palace, where a crowd of gay -ladies and gentlemen were assembled. - -The composer had to go from room to room, trying first one of the new -pianos, then another. These instruments were manufactured in Germany, -but, later, English and French pianos took the palm, and about the -beginning of this century American ladies were growing proficient in the -art of piano-playing--proficient at least for that day. Have you not all -seen your grandmammas' music-books, in which "The Battle of Prague" is -an honored "piece"? True, there were hundreds of nobler works, but only -public performers seem to have attempted them. - -As time went on, and the interest in the instrument grew, the mechanism -of the piano-forte was improved, and at this date (1881), it is -considered perfect. Here and there as you play, as you listen to the -sounds of the little hammer falling on the strings, let your thoughts -wander back to Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth of England, with their -virginals and spinets--indeed, farther into the' realm of poetic, dreamy -sound, for beyond these were clavicytheriums, citoles and citherns, -dulcimers and psalteries, and in the East, among the people whom we see -now in sculpture, a whole line of lyres and harps and lutes. - -It may not seem that so far away as early Egyptian days was the first -idea of our piano, yet certainly such is the case. In some far Eastern -country you might see, graven in stone of centuries gone by, a figure -holding an instrument dimly shadowing that on which you now may play all -written music. - - - - -PERILS AND PRIVATIONS. - -BY JAMES PAYN. - -THE WRECK OF THE "GROSVENOR."--(_Continued._) - - -The wanderers still occasionally came across the natives. Once, on -arriving at a village, they obtained a young bullock in exchange for -buttons, a few of which the savages had left on their coats; and that -the distribution of this godsend might be equal, the whole was cut in -pieces, and, just as I have seen done with a cake at school, one of the -party, standing with his back to it, named the person who should have -the piece held up. But generally the natives denied them everything. -Once they strove to barter some poor relic of their property for a calf, -which the others appeared to agree to, "but no sooner had they got the -price than the calf was driven away." - -On one occasion only did they exhibit the slightest pity. On the party -coming upon another dead whale, a band of natives surrounded them, but -on perceiving their sad condition, and that there was really nothing -more to steal, they forbore to molest them, and one of them even lent -his lance, with which some chunks of blubber were cut out. - -A little afterward they found two planks on a sandy bank, in each of -which was a nail. "Elated," as we are told, "with this valuable -discovery," they set fire to the planks, and getting out the nails, -"flattened them between two stones into something like knives." A few -yards further on, by turning up the sand, they found water, of which -they had been much in want; and here, with much thankfulness, they -rested. This was the last day of what seemed to these poor souls good -fortune. - -They did indeed fall in with a dead shark, but it was in such an -advanced stage of decay that "the liver only could be eaten." Nay, -driven by the extremity of hunger, the carpenter ate of some deadly -berries, and was poisoned. Now this man it was who from the first, until -the hour of his death, had taken care of the little boy; who had striven -to relieve those fatigues which his tender limbs could so little endure; -"who had heard his complaints with pity; who had fed him when he could -obtain wherewithal to do it," and who had lulled his weary little body -to rest. - -No human work more commends itself to our admiration than that of this -poor carpenter, who reminds us, indeed, of the Carpenter's Son with his -"Suffer little children to come unto me." Even at this distant time, -when that poor boy has been a hundred years "where the wicked cease from -troubling, and the weary are at rest," the tears rise to our eyes when -we think of his forlorn condition, deprived of his noble protector. - -"I will take him," said the steward, however, who had now succeeded to -the command, and that good man kept his word. The natives never gave -them so much as a drink of water, though "now and then the women gave a -draught of milk to the little boy," and the little party began to break -down from sheer fatigue and privation. When this took place, from hard -necessity there was no chance but for the rest to leave them. - -[Illustration: "THEY CARRIED HIM BY TURNS."] - -Only they never dreamed of leaving the boy. "It was marvellous," we are -told, how he supported the journey (and, alas! how much more marvellous, -since he was fated not to survive it after all). "Where the path was -even and good," says John Hynes, in his simple fashion, "the child -walked, and was able to keep pace with the party; when they came to deep -sand or long grass, the people carried him by turns." His only duty was -to keep their fire alight while they explored the sand for food. - -It will be remembered that, having no flint and steel, they always -carried torches; and once, in rounding a bluff to shorten the way, the -surf put them out; they came, however, upon the remains of a fire which -some Caffre women had lighted, "and joyfully rekindled them." In -crossing the rivers where there was a ford, they tied their rags in a -bundle, fastened it round their heads, and in it they stuck their -brands, and thus kept them dry. Sometimes great storms would come on, -and the rain fall so heavily that the men had to hold their canvas -frocks over their fire to prevent its being extinguished. Without fire, -they would have been lost indeed. - -Many times, from causes over which they had no control, the little party -separated, but they never forgot one another. Those before used to write -upon the sand whatever direction could be of benefit to those behind; -such as, "Turn in here, and you will find wood and water." It makes the -heart bleed to think that so much tenderness and good-fellowship, -maintained under such trying circumstances, should have failed in the -end, and have been shown, as it were, for nothing. And yet it was not -for nothing. It is impossible to believe that those brave men have not -gained their reward, and some great reward for their terrible -sufferings. And as to "use," it should be of great and good use to us -all to have such an example set before us. - -Sometimes those left behind would turn up again, having proceeded, when -a little refreshed, by some shorter way; but they had always the same -tale of ill-usage and privation to tell. Hynes himself, having been -wounded by the natives, was left for dead on one occasion, but -recollecting the way his companions intended to pursue by great -exertions he overtook them. "I shall bear the scar of that lance wound -to my grave," he says. - -One day the cooper died, and was buried in the sand. This happened in -Hynes's absence, and as he had an affection for the man, he asked to be -shown the spot; but on arriving at it, the body had already been dug up -and carried away by some wild animal, as could be perceived by its -foot-prints. The steward and his charge were now taken ill, and since -the rest could not find it in their hearts to leave the child, they -staid with him. "Having prepared early in the morning whatever could be -obtained for breakfast, and willing to treat his tender frame with all -the indulgence in their power, they meant to call him when everything -was ready. He still rested near the fire, where all had slept during the -night before; but on going to wake him, they found his soul had taken -flight to another world." These are the words in which John Hynes -describes the misfortune which he evidently considers the worst that had -hitherto befallen them. As for the steward, "the loss," we are told, -"of one who had been so long the object of his care nearly overcame him. -It was with the utmost difficulty his companions got him along." - -Presently Robert Fitzgerald asks for a shell of water; Hynes supplies -him with one, which he drinks with great avidity. He then asks for -another, which, "having received, he swallows with equal relish, and -laying himself down, instantly expires." They all thought this a very -happy death, and were envious of it. Then William Fruel sinks exhausted -on the sand; his companions from necessity go on to seek wood and water, -but promise to return to him. Turning their eyes back, they see him -crawling after them; but on returning for him after a few hours, they -find some wild beast has carried him away. - -It would be painful to describe in detail what they now suffered; -"former distresses were not to be compared to it." One after another -drops from exhaustion; the rest "shake hands with him, and recommending -him to Heaven for that assistance which they themselves can not afford, -leave him to expire." The party of forty-three are at length reduced to -three, John Hynes, Evans, and Wormington, and the senses of even these -are so impaired that they can hardly hear or see. One morning the -torments of thirst become so intolerable that Wormington begs the two -others to cast lots with him as to who shall die for the rest, that by -drinking his blood the other two may survive. To which Hynes replies -that if he (Hynes) drops, they may do what they will with him, but as -long as he can walk he will consent to no such thing. The idea is then -abandoned by common consent, nor is it renewed when Wormington falls, -and "with one feeble effort to rise, stretches himself on the shore, -burying his right hand in the sand." - -The next morning the two survivors perceive some objects which to their -failing powers look like "large birds." They turn out to be four of -their own party, who had been left behind, now nearly blind, and almost -reduced to idiocy. It was a most ghastly meeting. Since they could no -longer search narrowly for food, they would certainly have now starved -to death but for watching the motions of certain sea-birds, which, after -scratching in the sand, they perceived let something drop out of their -beaks. On searching for themselves, the poor men found that the birds -were catching shell-fish which had burrowed in the sand. - -On the one hundred and seventeenth day of their journey, (though they -knew nothing themselves of dates) these six unfortunates at last met -with a European--a Dutch settler. "Their joy was such that, combined -with their weak condition, it could only be expressed by convulsive -movements." But "after gaining some composure," they learned they were -within the limits of the settlements, and not above three hundred miles -from the Cape of Good Hope. - -They were received with the utmost hospitality, which it seemed was -offered with some imprudence, since on being supplied with bread and -milk, "their voracity was such as to have almost proved their -destruction." After being carefully nursed, and in some degree -recovered, they were forwarded in carts to the nearest town, which was -two hundred miles distant. "During the whole way, wherever they passed -the night, the farmers assembling to hear their sad story, and -supplying them with all of which they stood in need." - -Nay, notwithstanding that England and Holland were then at war, the -Dutch Governor of the Cape of Good Hope dispatched a very strong -expedition through the country in quest of the other castaways, should -any still remain. They met William Hubberly, servant of the second mate, -staggering on alone, "melancholy and forlorn." On other parts of the -road they met seven Lascars and two of the black female servants. From -these they learned that five days after the ship's company had separated -another division of the party took place, but what had become of the -others they knew not. They had seen the Captain's coat, however, on one -of the natives, from which they gathered that he was dead. No further -information could be obtained, and so violent was the opposition of the -Caffres that the expedition was compelled to return. - -Seven years afterward Colonel Gordon, while travelling in Caffraria, was -informed by a native that there was a white woman among his countrymen, -with a child whom she frequently embraced, and over whom she wept -bitterly. Bad health compelled the Colonel to return home, but he sent -her a letter in French, Dutch, and English, begging that some sign, such -as a burned stick, or other token, might be returned in answer to it, -when every exertion should be made for her recovery; but nothing more -was ever heard of her. Nevertheless, for years there was a general -belief at the Cape that some of the unfortunate ladies still survived, -who had it in their power to return, but that having been compelled to -marry Caffre chieftains, and "apprehending that their place in society -was lost, and that they should be degraded in the eyes of their equals," -they resolved to abide where they were. - - - - -[Illustration: THE DOLLS' RECEPTION AT REPUBLICAN HALL, THIRTY-THIRD -STREET, NEW YORK.--DRAWN BY MRS. JESSIE SHEPHERD.] - -THE DOLLS' RECEPTION. - - -This beautiful engraving will give our little readers an idea of an -entertainment which is now being held in Republican Hall, Thirty-third -Street, New York city, where, instead of grown people or children being -the important personages, three hundred dollies are dressed up in -magnificent toilets, waiting to receive the visits and admiration of -their friends. - -The dollies do not talk, with the exception of a few who say "Papa" and -"Mamma"; but they are all arranged in groups representing beautiful -pictures. Some of these have backgrounds of painted scenery, and all -have appropriate surroundings to perfect the tableaux. - -There are a "model school," with dormitory, school-room, and -play-ground; a christening, with the minister and baby and a party of -friends; a kitchen, with a whole family of darkies; a dozen children -"coasting"; a real log-cabin, to be used as a baby-house; and last, and -prettiest of all, the heroes and heroines of every nursery: Mother Goose -and her children, dressed in costumes which the modern picture-books -have made popular; Red Riding-hood, Polly Flinders, Bobby Shaftoe and -the little lady he left behind him, Little Bopeep, Mistress Mary, Tom -Tucker, Willy Boz, Tom, Tom, the Piper's son, and his audience, and a -great many others. - -Among such a vast number of dollies there are of course a great many -babies. These are all placed in the "Nursery," where they are waited -upon and attended by full-grown dolls, dressed neatly, and with pretty -little nurses' caps. Everything is provided in the way of cradles, -rattles, and baby-jumpers for these very little folks, and they are so -well cared for and amused that their papas and mammas, who are busy -taking part in the tableaux, need have no concern about them. - -Taking it altogether, the exhibition is a pleasant place to visit. The -dolls are all well dressed, and will be sold at prices which, by -comparison, are not unreasonable; but they will not be removed from -their places in the tableaux until after the exhibition is concluded. - -And now for the object. Several years ago a half-dozen young ladies set -to work to raise three thousand dollars to build a little cottage -somewhere on the sea-shore, which might afford a comfortable summer home -to such of the children as were able to bear removal from the Children's -Hospital, on Thirty-fourth Street and Ninth Avenue. This institution is -managed by the Sisters of St. Mary, an Episcopal sisterhood, and so well -managed that the ladies wished to place the little summer home also in -their care. - -The three thousand dollars was raised long ago; but the project grew, as -such things will, and the house which was built last spring cost, with -the land, about nine thousand dollars. It is situated on Rockaway Beach, -between the large new hotel and Far Rockaway, and will accommodate about -forty children. Some of those who are taken from the hospital will -remain all summer; others will go for ten days or two weeks. In this way -the ladies hope to give health and pleasure to a great many poor little -children, who must otherwise suffer in tenement-houses all summer. - -The home will be called "St. Mary's by the Sea." It will be opened early -next summer, and the inmates will be very glad to receive a visit from -any of their friends who are interested in the work. - - - - -PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT. - -WILLIAM S. GILBERT. - - -If the name of the author of _Pinafore_ were as widely known as is his -work, William S. Gilbert would be one of the most celebrated of living -persons. This gentleman, to whom we owe that delightful comic opera, is -forty-five years of age, and a lawyer by profession, though he does not -now practice law. Unlike "Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.," Mr. Gilbert does -not "stick close to his desk," but does "go to sea." In fact, he wrote a -great deal of _Pinafore_ on board the yacht _Pleione_, of which he is -the owner and captain, and doubtless "a right good captain, too." He has -a companion who never leaves him, whose name is Roy. Roy, of course, is -a dog, and besides being a dog he is also a capital sailor, for his -master never goes to sea without him. - -It must not be supposed that when Mr. Gilbert and his friend Arthur -Sullivan have finished their opera, and placed it in the theatre -manager's hands, their work is done. If you were to call at Mr. -Gilbert's house while an opera is in preparation at the theatre, you -might find him in his library, with two or three other persons, having a -private performance on their own account. - -These are actors who have proved themselves so dull in learning the -business of their parts that, rather than have the performance injured -by poor acting, the author is giving them private instruction. For -besides being the inventor and author of _Pinafore_, the _Pirates_, and -_Patience_, Mr. Gilbert designs all the costumes and scenery, drills the -actors, and is as particular about everything on the stage being -ship-shape as if he were really the captain of a man-of-war. - -In addition to the operas named above, Mr. Gilbert has written _The -Sorcerer_, and _Trial by Jury_, several plays, and _The Bab Ballads_, a -book of most delightful nonsense. It may seem an easy thing to make -people laugh, but the author of _Pinafore_ really works very hard. It is -pleasant to think, however, that hard work agrees with him, for it -certainly does not spoil his good-humor. - - - - -A LITTLE FAIRY. - -BY MRS. M. E. SANGSTER. - - - We have a little fairy, - Who flits about the house, - As gleeful as a cricket, - As quiet as a mouse. - She brings papa his slippers, - She runs up stairs and down, - The dearest little fairy - In all the busy town. - - - - -THE TALKING LEAVES.[1] - -An Indian Story. - -BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD. - -CHAPTER IX. - -[1] Begun in No. 101, HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. - - -There had been a very good reason why neither Steve Harrison nor Murray -came back with the Lipan braves who were sent to bring home the game. -They had been preparing to do so, when they were summoned into the -presence of To-la-go-to-de. - -"No Tongue is a great hunter," said the dark-browed leader as they came -forward. "Cougar, big-horn, deer all good. Apache heap better." - -"That's what I came for." - -"Go find them. Eat a heap. Take Yellow Head. Go all night." - -"Any warriors go with me?" - -"No. Maybe Apache dog see you. See pale-faces, and not think of Lipans. -Dress Yellow Head. Wash off paint." - -It was a genuine stroke of Indian war cunning. The two pale-faces were -to act as scouts in the advance. If the Apaches should happen to see -them, their presence would not suggest the dangerous nearness of a band -of hostile Indians. - -It may be the wise old chief added to himself that if both of them were -killed on their perilous errand, the loss to his tribe would be of less -consequence than that of two full-blooded Lipans. His pride of race -would prevent his admitting that he had no brave in his band who was as -well fitted to follow and find Apaches as was No Tongue. - -"Now, Steve, we must eat all we know how, and then I'll fix you." - -It had not harmed the young hunter in the opinion of his red friends -that he had been unable to conceal his delight at the prospect before -him. - -"Young brave," they said, with approving nods. "Glad all over. Make good -warrior some day." - -He was indeed "glad all over"; but Murray cautioned him by a look, and -he said nothing. - -He was almost too glad to eat, but his appetite came back to him while -he and Murray were cooking. He had eaten nothing since morning, and -mountain air is a very hungry sort of air. - -"That's right, my boy. There's no saying when you may get your next -square meal. There's hard work before you and me, and plenty of it." - -The next thing that came to Steve was a surprise. - -Murray had never worn paint or adopted any more of Indian ways than he -could help, but it was a wonder how soon he made himself look like a -white man. There was more in the pack on his spare pony than Steve had -imagined. - -A few minutes' work with a pair of small scissors made a remarkable -change in his hair and beard, and then the long locks of Yellow Head -himself had to suffer. - -"Go and scrub off every spot of paint, while I'm rigging my hunting -shirt and leggings. You won't know me when you come back." - -That was saying a little too much, but To-la-go-to-de himself expressed -his admiration. He had seen wilder-looking white men by the hundred -among the border settlements. No eyes in the world would suspect No -Tongue of being a Lipan. - -The transformation in Steve's appearance was shortly even greater, for -Murray was able to furnish him with a "check" shirt and a black silk -neckkerchief. - -"Buckskin trousers'll have to do, my boy. No boots in camp; but I can -knock the wrinkles out of this headpiece for you." - -It was a black felt hat, and not very badly worn. Murray himself always -wore one, but the supply had not been good enough for a long time to -allow Steve to do the same. - -"Now, Steve, I'm going to make old Two Knives give you the best mount in -camp. Good as mine." - -Such a war party never carries any slow horses with it, but there were -some better than others, and the chief was as anxious as Steve that his -scouts should be well mounted. Otherwise they might not be able to get -back to him with any information they might pick up. - -"Plenty of ammunition, Steve. Never mind any other kind of baggage, -except some jerked meat. We may have to live on that." - -There was no need for To-la-go-to-de to urge them. Not a minute was -thrown away in their rapid preparations, and then the whole band turned -out to see them ride away. - -"I tell you what, Steve," said Murray, "we're not dressed in the latest -fashion, but I haven't felt so much like a white man for years. I'll act -like one too." - -There was a flash of pain in his eyes as he said that. Could it be he -had ever done anything unworthy of his race and training? - -Perhaps, for he had ridden on a great many war-paths with the fierce and -merciless Lipans. - -The latter would not follow till morning, and would move less rapidly -than their two scouts, but their progress was not likely to be at all -slow. - -Steve Harrison rode on by the side of his friend for some distance -without saying a word. - -"What's the matter, Steve?" - -"Murray, I don't mean ever to go back to the Lipans." - -"Not unless it's necessary." - -"It won't be necessary." - -"Can't say, Steve. All this country's full of Apaches. We may get a -sight of 'em any minute. I don't much care how soon we do, either." - -"I'm not Indian enough for some things, Murray." - -"Couldn't you fight Apaches?" - -"I suppose I could, if they came to fight me. But I don't want to kill -anybody. I thought you said you were feeling more like a white man." - -"Steve, I don't know how I'd feel if I had a white shirt on, and a suit -of civilized clothes. I'm a good deal of a savage yet, as it is." - -"I never saw anything very savage about you." - -"I'm on the war-path now, Steve, after my old enemies. Let's make as -good time as we can before dark. After that, we'll have to go carefully -till the moon's up." - -They were advancing a good deal more rapidly than the Apaches had been -able to do over that same pass, hindered by their long train of tired -pack-ponies, and their women and children. - -It was not a difficult trail to follow, for the lodge-pole ends, -dragging on the ground, had so deeply marked it that a man like Murray -could have found it in the dark. - -That was precisely what he did, after the sun sank behind the western -mountains, and the deep shadows crept up from the ravines and covered -everything. - -After the moon rose it was easier work, and Steve thought he had never -seen anything more beautiful than was the moonlight on the quartz -cliffs, and the forest, and the little lakes in the deep valleys, and on -the foaming streams which came tumbling down the mountain-sides from the -regions of perpetual snow above. - -Perhaps he was right, for hardly anybody has ever seen anything more -beautiful in its way than such a moonlight view as that. - -There was no time to stop and gaze, for Murray pushed on as fast as -possible without using up their tough and wiry mustangs. - -"We may need all the legs they've got to-morrow, Steve. We must find -grass and water for them before daybreak." - -It was a good three hours before sunrise, and the moon had again left -them in darkness, when they almost groped their way down a steep -declivity into a small hollow. - -"Can't say how much there is of it, Steve, but this'll do. The Apache -ponies have been cropping this very grass within twenty-four hours. Look -at that." - -"I can't see it very well." - -"Feel of it, then. Don't you understand such a sign as that?" - -"It's only a tuft of grass." - -"Yes, but I found it ready pulled off, and it hasn't had time to more -than wilt a little. The man that pulled it was here yesterday." - -Murray did not know it, but no man had pulled that grass. It was a bunch -Ni-ha-be had gathered for her pony, and then had thrown at Rita. Still, -the guess about the time of it was nearly right, and that was a good -enough place to rest in until daylight. - -"No cooking this morning, I suppose?" remarked Steve, when Murray shook -him out of the nice nap he had snatched, wrapped in his "serape," or -Mexican blanket. "No breakfast, eh?" - -"You don't know what tales a smoke might tell, or to whom it might tell -'em. Cold meat'll have to do for this time, and glad to get it. After -that, Steve, you'll do the most dangerous riding ever you did." - -"Why, are they so near?" - -"Can't be many miles. Our first hunt, though, will be for a place to -hide our horses in." - -"Why not leave 'em here?" - -"I thought of that, but we may need 'em." - -Their morning ride was a longer one than Murray imagined, but before -noon he was able to say, - -"The backbone of the pass is miles behind us, Steve. All the rest of the -way'll be down hill, or kind of up and down." - -"Up and down" it was; but they had barely advanced another half-mile -before Steve exclaimed, - -"There they are, Murray!" - -"There they are. What a valley it is, too! But, Steve, they don't mean -to stay there--" - -[Illustration: "'A SPY-GLASS! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD ONE.'"] - -"A spy-glass! I didn't know you had one. How do you tell that they won't -stay?" - -"The glass? It's a double one. Some army officer owned it once, I -suppose. I got it of old Two Knives himself. Nobody knows how it came to -him. Look through it." - -Steve had seen such things before, but had known very little about them. -He did not even know how very good a glass that was with which he was -now peering down upon the camp of the Apaches. - -"See the lodge-poles lying there? In a dozen places?" - -"They've put up some lodges." - -"If they meant to stay, they'd put up the others. No use for us to go -back. The Lipans are coming along." - -"But how can we get any further? We can't ride right through them." - -"I should say not. Nor over them, either. But if we can get into that -pine forest over there on the north slope, without being seen, we can -ride around them." - -"I'll risk it, Murray." - -"So will I, Steve. I'd never let you try a thing like that alone." - -"I could do it." - -"Perhaps. And you'll have a good many things of that kind to do before -you reach the settlements; but I guess I'll go with you this time." - -"You'd better go with me all the way." - -Murray said nothing, but he sprang from his horse, and Steve imitated -him. - -Men on foot were not so likely to be seen from the Apache camp. - -There was nothing in or about the camp which Murray did not carefully -study through his glass, and it showed him what was going on more -clearly and perfectly than even the wonderfully keen black eyes of -Ni-ha-be had seen it from almost the same spot the day before. - -"It's a hunting camp, Steve, but it's a very strong party." - -"Too strong for our Lipans?" - -"I don't know about that. If we could surprise them, by night, we might -do something with them." - -"I'm no Lipan, Murray. None of those people down there ever did me any -harm. Did they ever do you any? I don't mean any other Apaches; I'm just -speaking of that camp." - -"Well, no, I'm not sure about that. I don't know that I've any special -grudge against this lot." - -"Seems to me it's a good deal like an Indian to kill one man for what -another man did. I'm only a boy, and I've been among the Lipans three -years, but I've made up my mind to stay white." - -Steve spoke with a good deal of energy, and his robust form seemed to -stand up straighter. - -"You're right, Steve--don't you do a thing that isn't fit for your -color. I won't say anything more about myself just now." - -If anybody had been listening to those two that morning, or indeed at -any other time, he might have noticed something curious about the way -Steve Harrison talked. It was not to be wondered at that a veteran like -Murray should be slow of speech, and it suited well with his white hair -and his wrinkles. - -There was a good reason for it. Except when talking with Murray, Steve -had not heard a word of English for three years. - -Yes, there had been one other exception. Whenever he had found himself -all alone, he had talked to himself, asking and answering questions, and -listening to his own pronunciation of the words. - -"I shall get among white men some day," he thought, "and it would be a -dreadful thing to be white myself and not to talk white. Anyhow, I've -learned Mexican Spanish since I've been out here, and I'll be glad -enough to forget all I know of Indian talk." - -He did not know it, but some things he said sounded ten years older and -wiser just for his manner of saying them. Besides, he had had to think a -great deal, and to keep most of his thoughts to himself. Not a great -many boys do that. - -"Come on, Steve. That ledge isn't badly broken. Horses can follow it, -and it heads away right into the pine forest. We must try it." - -"We can get almost down into the valley without being seen." - -"Yes, and we can find out if any good gap opens out of the valley to the -northward." - -[TO BE CONTINUED.] - - - - -CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS. - - -[Illustration: FIG. 1.--KNITTED AND CROCHET MITTEN.] - -Now that Thanksgiving is over, the little folks are of course beginning -to think about Christmas. And how many presents there are to make! And -what are they to be? - -The question is so bewildering that we know some of our girl readers -will be glad to receive a suggestion. Who will make a warm pair of -mittens for some cold pair of little hands? If the following directions -are only followed, there will be no trouble: - -[Illustration: FIG. 2.--DETAIL OF MITTEN.] - -These mittens are worked with white zephyr worsted and steel -knitting-needles of suitable size. The knitted part is all plain, with -the exception of a round of holes, through which is run a cord finished -with balls. The cuff is crocheted in Afghan stitch, and is set on the -mitten. For the mitten make a foundation of 36 stitches; close these in -a ring, and knit, always forward, as follows: 1st and 2d rounds--all -knit plain. 3d round--all purled. 4th round.--Always alternately throw -the thread over, knit two stitches together. 5th round--like the 3d -round. 6th to 50th rounds--all knit plain. But for the thumb gore in the -7th round widen 1 stitch on each side of the first stitch, working 1 -knit, 1 purled, on each stitch before and after this stitch. In the -10th, 13th, 16th, 19th, and 21st rounds work one widening in a straight -direction above the widening in the preceding round, the number of -stitches between the widenings increasing by 2 in each round. In the 22d -round take up the stitch of the gore and the stitches on both sides on -separate needles, and finish the thumb in 12 rounds, working always -forward. In the last 4 rounds close the thumb, narrowing three times, -one above another, in a straight direction, at regular intervals, and -work off the remaining 3 stitches together. Lay on the thread anew at -the main part, and finish the mitten, narrowing in the last 8 of the 50 -rounds four times at regular intervals, one above another, in a straight -direction, so that in the last round all the stitches are used up. For -the cuff, worked crosswise, make a foundation of 9 stitches, and on -these work 3 pattern rows in Afghan stitch. The 4th pattern row is -worked on the lower vertical veins of the pattern row before the last, -and thus becomes raised. The 6th pattern row is worked on the third, and -the 6th on the 5th pattern row. Repeat always the 4th to 6th pattern -rows until the cuff is of suitable width. Join the stitches of the last -pattern row with the foundation stitches, and edge the cuff with 1 round -as follows: * 1 single crochet on the first edge stitch between the next -2 pattern rows, 4 chain stitches, 1 single crochet on the fifth -following vein below, 4 chain stitches, 1 slip stitch on the first of -the 4 chain stitches before the last, 4 chain stitches, and repeat from -*; finally, 1 slip on the first single crochet in this round. - - - - -[Illustration] - -BUBBLE BUBBLE BUBBLE - -BY MARY A. BARR. - - - Bubble, bubble, bubble, - For the little babies; - Good oatmeal and milk, - Fit for lords and ladies. - Jenny, set the table - With the spoons and dishes: - Soon my bonnie bairnies - Shall have all their wishes. - - Take your places, children; - Keep the table steady. - Are your aprons fastened? - Are your dishes ready? - And such hungry children - No doubt will want double; - So, good pot, keep boiling, - Bubble, bubble, bubble. - - - - -[Illustration: OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.] - - -Some of our little friends seem to have the impression that there is a -charge made for publishing letters in this Post-office Box, and that -theirs will be published if they send the money to pay for them. This is -a mistake which we wish to correct. No charge is made for either the -letters or exchanges we publish in this department. But even with the -enlarged space now devoted to our young correspondents, we can print -only a selection from the thousands of letters we receive. If we were to -leave out all the bright stories and droll rhymes and all the -instructive articles, and make up HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE of letters only, -we are sure our boys and girls would protest against such a proceeding. -We want them to understand that we are trying to make the very best -Post-office Box that we can, and if the first little letter they send -does not find a niche, they must wait awhile, and then write a second, -and a third. - -Scholars in the Latin class must adopt "Dum spiro, spero" as their -motto, and pupils who have not yet begun Latin may take four little -letters, H O P E, for theirs. - -Please, when you write to us on business, be careful to sign your names -in full, and give also your full post-office address. Do this in every -case. - -Continue to be patient, even if your exchanges do not appear. If only -you knew how fast the exchanges come crowding in, you would understand -why it is that we must keep some of them lying in a pigeon-hole when we -desire very much indeed to have them translated into type. - - * * * * * - - FORT CUSTER, MONTANA. - - I am a boy thirteen years of age, and live on the Little Horn - River, about ten miles from Custer's battle-field. We have quite a - number of cattle and a few horses. There are a great many elk, - deer, bears, buffaloes, wolves, and coyotes around here, though not - so many as there were a few years ago. There were a great many - Indians here in the spring. Two years ago the Crow scouts were - encamping about five hundred yards from our house, and one morning - about one o'clock the Sioux Indians came and stole all their - ponies. They exchanged about one hundred shots, but no one was - killed. The Crows all came over to our house, and were afraid to go - back to their tents until daylight. Next morning several soldiers - started in pursuit of the Sioux, and followed them for nearly three - weeks before they overtook them. They then had a fight; the - sergeant was killed, and they captured five Indians, and secured - the stolen ponies. I have never been out of Montana. I have never - seen a railroad car in my life. - - I have two brothers and one sister, and a number of pets. My - brothers hunt antelopes in the winter. - - N. H. D. - - * * * * * - - WISSAHICKON, PENNSYLVANIA. - - I want to tell you about our bird Hensie. He is very cunning. He is - a young canary-bird, and likes soaked cracker. One morning my aunt - put a dry cracker in his cage. He took a piece of it in his bill, - hopped upon his bath-tub, and dropped the cracker in the water. He - watched it, and when it was soft, took it out and put it on the - floor of his cage, and began eating it. He has done this several - times since then. He tries very hard to sing, and imitates the - notes of the other canary-bird. - - ROBBIE S. S. - - * * * * * - - BOUND BROOK, NEW JERSEY. - - I live on the bank of the Raritan River. Am eight years old, and - have a nephew fifteen years old, who shot six wild-ducks the other - day. I had nine pigeons, but they all went away except two. We had - a dog named Duke, and a man shot him. This is the first time I have - written to HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. A friend of mamma's in Brooklyn - has sent it to us ever since it was published. There are lots of - robins around here. Give my respects to Jimmy Brown. - - PAUL Q. O. - - * * * * * - - CHIMACUM, WASHINGTON TERRITORY. - - I live in a lovely valley surrounded by high hills and mountains. - It is a very pleasant place in summer, but very dreary in winter, - as nothing can then be seen except snow in every direction. The - nearest town is called Port Townsend; it is about ten miles from - here. The Coast Range of mountains looms up in the west, and they - are really magnificent when the sun shines on them. There is quite - a large creek flowing through my father's farm, from which we get - large speckled trout. Many people come from the towns to fish in - the summer. There is a smelting furnace at the "Beach," two miles - from here, where iron ore is melted. The place is called Irondale, - and is the nearest post-office to this valley. There is a great - amount of bog ore in this valley, and as it is only a foot below - the surface of the ground, it is easily mined. - - BARTON R. - - * * * * * - - DEAR SANTA CLAUS,--Will you please give me a drum for a Christmas - present? I won't drum with it in the house, and I'll let my - brothers drum too. Papa said if I wrote to HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, - maybe you would see it, and send me one. I am seven years old, and - my name is Hammond W. I live in Monticello, Sullivan Co., N. Y. - - Papa has taken YOUNG PEOPLE for us for two years, and this year it - is mine. Please put this in, so I can get the drum. - - HAMMOND W. - - * * * * * - - My brother and myself have a little pony that is real cunning. I - was riding the other day, and a boy threw a snow-ball at her, and - she ran after him just as fast as she could go, and he had to jump - over a fence. The pony throws me off every time she gets a chance. - I put my arm out of joint a few months ago, and it is not strong - yet. I have a trapeze and some parallel rings. I can perform a - great many tricks. The water is nearly as high now as it was in the - spring. I was in Milwaukee a few weeks ago, and I saw the place - where Matthew Carpenter was buried, but did not go near it. I tried - to ride the bicycle that my brother rides, and I don't want to try - again. I have a collection of 950 stamps, and I will exchange rare - stamps, such as New Zealand, Servia, etc., for rare stamps and - coins. - - C. B. BIRD, Jefferson, Wis. - - * * * * * - - APOLLO, PENNSYLVANIA. - - I am a boy just twelve years old. My brother takes YOUNG PEOPLE for - Blanche and me, on condition that we shall not read novels. We are - having a new iron bridge, which will be free, built across the - river at this place. They have four piers built, and still have one - more, besides the two abutments, to finish. We used to pay toll - across the old bridge, which was carried away when the ice came - down the river last spring. - - We have good coasting here in winter, as this is only a little - country town of about fifteen hundred inhabitants. Our school - re-opened in September, and will be in session six months. - - I have three sisters and four brothers. Paul, the youngest, is a - chubby little fellow of two. - - A. LINCOLN C. - - * * * * * - - COLFAX, CALIFORNIA. - - In YOUNG PEOPLE No. 103 I saw a letter from Augusta C., South - Glastenbury, Connecticut. This young lady says she hates cats. I - should judge that she never had any. I disagree with her entirely. - Almost any cat, if fed well and petted, will make as affectionate a - little pet as one can desire. I have had a great many cats. When I - was a little girl, about five or six years old, I had a very nice - pussy, which I named Rose. She was exceedingly good and gentle, and - would allow me to dress her in my doll's clothes, and rock her in - my toy cradle. I have a very pretty kitten now. She is black, with - dainty white paws, and great sleepy yellow eyes. She is very gentle - and loving, and purrs loudly whenever I fondle her. I have named - her Niketa. I hope Miss Augusta will see that she is mistaken in - saying that _all_ cats are treacherous, and "care for nothing but - their own comfort." I know of many cases where cats have displayed - their love for human beings. - - JEANNIE K. P. - - * * * * * - - EMMETSBURG, IOWA. - - My little brother is off with papa in the country, and I hope you - will publish my letter so that I can surprise him, as I am going to - keep it secret. I am almost seven, and can ride nicely. We have a - pony named Bonny, and I have been riding all day; three of us - little ones ride at the same time, and sometimes four, but not far. - I had a cat named Fannie, and we had to have her killed this - morning, for she had an awful spasm. We had three pet lambs, Gypsy, - Topsy, and Flirt, but we have sent them to the farm for the winter. - Mamma is writing for me. "Good-night, and pleasant dreams." - - DAISY O. - - * * * * * - - NEENAH, WISCONSIN. - - I am a little boy seven years old. I have a dog named Rover. I go - to school to my auntie. I have no sister nor brother here, but I - have two little sisters in heaven. My mamma gave me an express - wagon. I am going to take YOUNG PEOPLE until I am a big man. - - ALLIE HARWOOD L. - - * * * * * - - NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. - - I go to the public school, and take advantage of all that my - teacher tells us. We have a very good teacher; her name is Miss H. - The boys and girls saved their pennies and bought pictures, etc., - to decorate our room. Do you not think that it is nice to see that - your room is the nicest room in the school? When we are through our - lessons we can go to a table, which is called the reading-table. - Here you can find story-books of all kinds, and among these is - HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. On the same table you can also find cubes, - scales, measures, weights, etc. We are all the time saying, If we - only could see something about our school! and I hope that you will - print this in the Post-office Box. We will visit HARPER'S YOUNG - PEOPLE one of these days. - - Is this written plain enough? - - C. F. K. - -Written so plainly that tired eyes were rested when they read it. It is -a splendid idea to have that reading-table in your class-room. - - * * * * * - - ATHENS, GEORGIA. - - I am nine years of age. I have a pet cat, and her name is Beauty, - and I have a dog whose name is Rex. I have a sister older than - myself; she is ten years of age. I go to school to Miss Fannie A. I - like her very well, although she sometimes scolds. I have an uncle - who sends us the YOUNG PEOPLE. I liked "All-Hallow-eve" very much. - My sister Hallie has a pet dog, whose name is Flirt. She is so - timid that if you go in the yard with a stick, and make believe - that you are going to whip her, she will get down on her stomach, - and keep right still until you go away. I think this is long - enough, so good-by. - - Your friend, - - ANNIE H. - - * * * * * - - WOODSIDE, NEAR LINCOLNTON, NORTH CAROLINA. - - I wish again, my dear young friends, to thank you for the books, - papers, and the box of things for the Christmas tree that have come - since I wrote to you last. I am so glad you keep sending them, for - I find so many who need them, and to whom they will do so much - good. We have some money, and will begin having the lumber for the - school-house hauled to the mill to be sawed very soon now--as soon - as the men sow their wheat and get in their corn. The parcels I - have received have been from Miss Emma Joiner, Easton, Md.; Miss - Julia Langden, Elmira, N. Y.; Rev. David Strang, Lincoln, Tenn.; - Mrs. E. A. Clark, Battle Creek, Mich.; Miss Maria McRene Suydam, - Newark, N. J.; Miss Mary O'Neil, Miss Clara Copeland, Miss Harper, - Miss Millie Glover, Miss Hattie Burgess, Miss Cora Cote, Miss Livia - Mandeville, Miss Grace Webb, Miss Etta Coulter, and Miss Hattie - Plinney, Rochester, N. Y.; Miss Mary Harkell, Weathersfield, Vt.; - Master Charles Graff, Harlem, New York City; Miss Carrie Yardley, - Lockhaven, Penn.; Mrs. Harrison, Walnut Creek, Col.; Mrs. P. A. - Harrison, Dewbury, Barry County, Mich.; Miss McFarland and Mrs. - Snyder, Paxton, Ill.; Miss Miriam Oliver, Milwaukee, Wis.; Master - Paul Krughoff, Nashville, Ill.; Master N. B. Blunt, Lexington - Avenue, New York City; Miss Annie Wetzell, Grand Rapids, Mich.; - Master George R. Hitchcock, Champlain, N. Y.; Miss Helen Woodworth, - 268 Ryerson Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Master Walter Anderson, - Nashville, Ill.; Mrs. S. B. Bortwick, South Amboy, N. J.; Miss - Ethel and Master Vivian Ketchum, Augusta, Ill.; Miss Minna - Mandeville, Kinderhook, N. Y.: Miss M. D. L., Madison, N. J.; Miss - Corinne Redden, Master Bertie Ellis, and Miss Winnie Needles, - Nashville, Ill.; Miss Slack, Bristol, Penn. - - Our school keeps growing, and now numbers fifty-six. They are - learning very well indeed. They are now learning on Saturday - afternoons a carol to sing at Christmas! Not many can read; they - have to learn the words orally. They catch the tune very quickly. - They are looking forward with so much pleasure to the expected tree - at Christmas. I wish I could tell you what a happy time it will be - for them all, and how often I wish that you could all spend a - Sunday with us, and see how pleased they are to be learning. We - do--all of us who teach them--thank you so much for your kind and - generous help! I will write you all about the tree after Christmas. - Truly your grateful friend, - - MRS. RICHARDSON. - - * * * * * - - JACKSONVILLE, ILLINOIS. - - The Editor said that we little girls must write about our dolls, so - I thought I would. I have not seen any letters from this place. I - must begin to write about my dolls. I have seven baby dolls--Lillie - (a wax one), Daisy, Phoebe (she is wax too), Mattie, Ludie, - Boneby, and last a little doll, not an inch long, called Neil. I - had four birds, and they all died; three doves and five cats, and - they all ran away or were killed. I now have a white and black cat. - Mamma drives a spirited horse, and we all make a great pet of him. - - GRACE A. M. - - * * * * * - - NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. - - I am a little girl six years old. My brother takes HARPER'S YOUNG - PEOPLE, but I love to read it, and I read it all myself. I like to - read the letters best. I have been reading since I was four years - old, and we have had YOUNG PEOPLE from the first, and on rainy days - we get the numbers out and look them all over. We have two dogs - named Beaut and Snooze. Snooze has a "bobtail." I have a black cat, - with a few white spots, named Harry, and when I take him up he puts - his two paws around my neck, as though he wanted to love me. He - never scratches or acts ugly to me. I have three dolls, named - Fannie, Bessie, and Nellie. I have a cousin Anna, just my size, and - we play together often. I go to Sunday-school every Sunday, and - learn the Golden Text; then I get a pink ticket for saying it, and - when I have four pink tickets, I get a pretty floral card for - them. I study at home with mamma. I can read, spell, and cipher, - and now I am learning to write. I hope to see my letter in YOUNG - PEOPLE. Mamma is writing this letter for me, but I told her what to - write. Your friend, - - HATTIE C. - - * * * * * - - WEYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS. - - I have a hen-house of my own, and I am going to keep hens this - winter. I have fifteen brown Leghorns and a rooster. I have made a - silo, and filled it with sorrel for them to eat in the winter. If - any of the boys who read YOUNG PEOPLE keep hens, I would like to - hear from them. I have a cat that weighs thirteen pounds. I am - eleven years old. - - H. EVERETT C. - - * * * * * - - FAIRVIEW, LOUISIANA. - - I am a little Southern girl nine years old. My grandpa has taken - Harper's publications as long as my mamma can remember, and has - taken YOUNG PEOPLE for me ever since it came out. I have never been - to a school, as there is none near us. I said my lessons to a - Northern lady who was visiting her sister last year for four - months, and she taught me all I know about writing. I say my - lessons to mamma now. I think YOUNG PEOPLE is splendid. I live on a - plantation about a mile from the Mississippi River. When it is - high, we can read the names of the boats. It seems so strange to - read about snow up North, when we have not had a frost. We have - geraniums growing in the yard, and plenty of roses in bloom. We - have nine pecan-trees; they are full of pecans. I have four dolls, - and lots of play-things. Bob, Buddy, and I have a play-house under - the grape-vine. I like to play with dolls very much. - - H. M. S. - - * * * * * - - BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. - - I have three tame turtles. I put them all in a row to see which one - can go the fastest. But the two big ones have now made their way - into the ground, and left the little one behind, and so I have - helped the little one to make its way into the ground with the - others. I have a lot of pigeons, and I have some chickens. We were - going out to the woods to-day to get some autumn leaves and moss, - but it rained, so I thought I would write a letter to you. - - JESSE W. P. - - * * * * * - -MODIE G.--Your friend who thinks the Editor of YOUNG PEOPLE writes the -letters in Our Post-office Box is mistaken. If she could only see what a -budget awaits the Editor every morning, she would open her eyes quite -wide with amazement. We are glad you learn to recite the pretty poems -which are printed in YOUNG PEOPLE. - - * * * * * - -Some of you are now and then puzzled and disappointed because your paper -suddenly ceases to come to you on its usual day; you wonder what has -happened to it. Let us tell you how to make such a provoking experience -impossible. On the left-hand corner of the cover, just after the number -of the volume, you will observe the number of the paper for the current -week. Now look at the little printed label which bears your name, and on -the right of your name you will perceive certain figures; they tell you -the number of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE with which your subscription will -expire. Within a few weeks of that number's arrival, ask papa to please -renew the paper for you, and it will then go on without an interruption. - - * * * * * - -WILLIE AND OTHERS.--Mud-turtles are managed during the winter just as -land-turtles are; that is, given a tub of wet sand, and allowed to -burrow there and go to sleep, as they do in the marshes where they live -in freedom. You will find paragraphs about turtles in the Post-office -Box of Nos. 5, 28, and 51, Vol. I. - - * * * * * - -C. Y. P. R. U. - -So far as she can, the Postmistress answers questions and publishes -letters in the order of their reception. Nobody need feel slighted if -attention to him or her is deferred. The turn of each will come in time. - -And now to reply to some of the inquiries which are winking their -inquisitive eyes like animated interrogation points while the -Postmistress puts on her thinking-cap: - -What were the original Seven Wonders of the World? They were these: 1. -The Pyramids of Egypt. 2. The Mausoleum built for Mausolus, King of -Caria, by his queen Artemisia. 3. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus. 4. The -Walls and Hanging Gardens of Babylon. 5. The vast brazen image of the -sun at Rhodes, called the Colossus. 6. The ivory and gold statue of -Jupiter Olympus, at Olympia. 7. The Pharos, or Watch-tower, built by -Ptolemy Philadelphus at Alexandria. You will find it an interesting and -profitable pursuit for the long winter evenings to read something about -these Wonders in the pages of ancient history. These Wonders were given -in the Post-Office Box of No. 61, Vol. II., but we repeat them for the -benefit of the C. Y. P. R. U. - - * * * * * - -I am asked why the capital of France was called Paris. It derives its -name from the Parish, a tribe of aborigines whom Cæsar met and defeated -in his conquest of Gaul. This tribe occupied the island in the Seine on -which the famous Cathedral of Notre Dame stands. - - * * * * * - - DEAR POSTMISTRESS,--Can I do anything toward beautifying our ugly, - old-fashioned parlor? It is covered with a horrid red and green - Brussels carpet, an abomination to artistic eyes. The family - photographs, in lozenge-shaped frames, adorn the walls, and the - furniture is hopelessly hideous. Can you suggest anything? Don't - mention Japanese fans or banners; mother wouldn't tolerate them. - Don't speak of unbleached muslin curtains; they wouldn't be given - house room. But do tell me how I can make the room look _livable_, - for that is just what it does not look at present. An old - school-mate is coming to visit me next month, and I blush to own - it, but I am ashamed to have her see our dreadful parlor. - - HARRIET L. - -The carpet and pictures, as you describe them, are discouraging. But -people must do the best they can under the circumstances which are -theirs. One of the pleasantest parlors I ever saw had a rag-carpet on -the floor, and a map of the United States, bordered by the heads of the -successive Presidents, on the wall. In the first place, keep your parlor -resplendently clean; don't permit the suspicion of dust or the trail of -stray shreds and thread on the too brilliant carpet. Admit the sunshine -and air every day. Fill the windows with plants--blooming plants, if -possible, but green, growing ones at all events. Fill a glass globe with -sprays of tradiscanthia, which grows rapidly in water, and set that on -the middle of the table. Bring your choicest books, and put them where -visitors can read them. "Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, -sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book, and the family must -be poor indeed which, once in their lives, can not for such multipliable -barley loaves pay their baker's bill." I do not know why I think so, but -I am very sure that you have some books in your house; and believe me, -nothing furnishes a room more beautifully than a few books. I do not -admire fans and screens very much myself, and I am no friend to curtains -and tidies and such things, unless one has plenty of time to care for -them. But you have doubtless a large, old-fashioned sofa. Make a -generous-looking pillow to invite the weary head, and put it at one end -of the sofa, and at the other lay a gay patchwork quilt. Study harmony, -and even in an ugly room harmony will evolve a certain degree of beauty. -Every parlor should aim at some high effect. The key-note of your aim -should be comfort, and comfort carried to its ultimate superlative is -luxury. - -The only way I know of to make a room look _livable_ is to live in it. -Sit in your parlor every day. Gather the household there every evening. -Don't be ashamed of the friendly, familiar faces on the walls, nor, -indeed, suffer in yourself any shame of any honest thing that belongs to -you or yours, your home or your environment. So advises the -Postmistress. - - * * * * * - -We are indebted to the Rev. A. B. Russell, of Cumberland Furnace, -Dickson County, Tennessee, for the following interesting item -illustrating the reasoning power of animals. Necessity is the parent of -invention, and even a hog, it seems, can do something which resembles -thinking: - - We passed a full-grown hog with a cob usually in its mouth, - especially when lying down, to enable it to breathe well, it having - had its nose torn off at the extremity, some months ago, by a - ferocious dog, to which I was witness. An instance of the reasoning - of animal mind. - - * * * * * - -TO BRONZE PLASTER OR SOAPSTONE FIGURES.--Give them a sizing of glue; rub -them down with a piece of flannel. Take equal parts of Prussian blue, -spruce ochre, and verditer, and mix with water, oil, or turpentine, each -separately; then mix together so as to produce the shade desired. Apply -with a small brush. - - * * * * * - -L. M. E.--There are several excellent agricultural colleges in the -Eastern States. Among them are the State College of Agriculture and the -Mechanic Arts, at Orono, Maine; the Massachusetts Agricultural College, -at Amherst; New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, -at Hanover; College of Agriculture, in connection with Cornell -University, at Ithaca, New York; Pennsylvania State College, Centre -County, Pennsylvania; and State Agricultural College, at Burlington, -Vermont. At any of these a student may be sure of the conditions which -you mention. - - * * * * * - -The members of the C. Y. P. R. U. will find in this number the -conclusion of "The Wreck of the _Grosvenor_" to which we called their -attention last week, and an article of great interest on the -"Piano-forte," by Mrs. John Lillie. - - * * * * * - -PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS. - -No. 1. - -DOUBLE ENIGMA. - - In barter, not in sale. - In liquor, not in juice. - In umbrella, not in veil. - In either, not in choose. - In binding, not in wedge. - In island, not in ledge. - In rosy, not in pale. - In drooping, not in frail. - My whole are two favorite song-birds. - - ELSIE FAY. - - * * * * * - -No. 2. - -A GEOGRAPHICAL PUZZLE. - - My first is the initial letter of a river in England. - My second is that of a city in Pennsylvania. - My third is that of a river in South America. - My fourth, of an island off the coast of Labrador. - My fifth is that of one of the States. - My sixth, that of a noted summer resort. - My seventh, that of a lake in Switzerland. - My eighth, of a lake in Minnesota. - My ninth, of a city in Austria. - My tenth, of one of the British isles. - My eleventh, of a branch of the Amazon. - My twelfth, of a city in Italy. - My whole is something you have lately enjoyed. - - KATIE. - - * * * * * - -No. 3. - -AN EASY ENIGMA. - - My first is in mouse, but not in rat. - My second in kitten, but not in cat. - My third in stag, but not in deer. - My fourth is in milk, but not in beer. - My fifth is in stone, but not in sand. - And my whole is something that can not stand. - - KATIE M. - - * * * * * - -No. 4. - -EASY WORD SQUARE. - -1. A girl's name. 2. Death. 3. A token. 4. A mountain. - - PHIL I. PENE. - - * * * * * - -No. 5. - -BEHEADINGS. - -Behead a story, and leave a beverage. A boy's nickname, and leave a -verb. Behead to annoy, and leave metal in its rough state. Behead a part -of a tree, and leave the edge of a wall. Behead an animal, and leave a -personal pronoun. The first letters of the beheaded words spell an -indispensable article of furniture. - - MAUD B. - - * * * * * - -ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 106. - -No. 1. - -Burlington. Gentian. - -No. 2. - -Fox-hound. - -No. 3. - - A M E N D - M A N O R - E N S U E - N O U N S - D R E S S - -No. 4. - - C H A R D - H I D E R - I R E N E - M E L T S - B R A S S - - * * * * * - -Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Jonas D. Cooper, -Bertie Wheeler, Arthur Zinn, Nathan Glucksman, Belle Walrath, Maggie -Cushing, William A. Lewis, "Lodestar." - - * * * * * - -The following are the names of the little folks who have succeeded in -reproducing our artist's idea of Wiggle No. 22. We shall be glad if each -will send us his or her address: - -W. M. Duff, George Strauss, "Scamp," H. Hull, Sadie E. Lyon, Bessie S. -Brown, L. H. Gibbs, "Tip," J. R., Peter B. Havenagh, J. A. H., Wilfred -Hostetter, E. S. C. (aged six years), Arthur Beames, Carl Woodruff, and -Gertie Davis. - - * * * * * - -[_For Exchanges, see third page of cover._] - - - - -[Illustration: THE LAST OF THE THANKSGIVING FEAST.] - - - - -WHAT AM I? - - -I am brown or gray. I may be painted any color. Under some -circumstances, I am very annoying to sensitive ears. As I make no sound, -and am a fixture, so I can not annoy any one. My swift motion may give -uneasiness to those unaccustomed to me, but as I am an act of mutilation -performed by a person, which I am not, of course I can not stir. When in -rapid motion, with all my equipments, I am a very pretty sight. To some, -seeing me only suggests sickness and bitterness. I can't be seen, for I -am intangible, and can only be heard. I can't be heard, for when I am -done, no sound is heard, because I am an act, not a thing. I make no -sound when in motion. Poems have been written in my honor. Many -anathemas also have I excited, particularly from the sleepless. Yet I -don't see how it is possible for _me_--colorless, brown, soundless, -sharp, rasping, tasteless, bitter, motionless, vibrating, quiescent, -gliding--to excite either pleasurable or the contrary emotions in any -one. Absolutely valueless, save to my owner, I play an important part in -commerce. I am an article of merchandise, and very expensive. A little -of me goes a great way, and costs a great deal. I take up very little -space. In spacious quarters I require a large amount of leeway. Large -revenues are derived from me. I can be had for the taking, and generally -am regarded as a nuisance. No one can like me, I am so disagreeable; yet -to many I am the dearest thing they own. No owner would willingly part -with me. I am a protection, a home, and, to crown all, I am vegetable, -mineral, and medicinal. - - - - -ENIGMA. - - - The lady treads her lofty halls, - Her robes are long and fine, - And because of my first their velvet folds - With softest, lustre shine. - - And when the revel and rout are done, - And the robes are laid away, - Again my first the lady takes - Through half the livelong day. - - Through every land beneath the sun - Where Nature's touch we find, - It's never my last that's "more than kin." - Though always "less than kind." - - The sweetest lips that e'er were kissed - Have to my whole been pressed: - It rests on the knees of feeble age, - On the infant's tender breast. - - - - -[Illustration] - - - He did not read his book, but ate a deal of cake. - And so, although he tried, he could not keep awake; - Thus fast asleep he fell, and very, very soon - He had a horrid nightmare, in the afternoon-- - The table grew an elephant, the cake changed to a tiger, - And gobbled up his little self, who turned into a ni'ger. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Harper's Young People, November 29, -1881, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, NOV 29, 1881 *** - -***** This file should be named 50163-8.txt or 50163-8.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/1/6/50163/ - -Produced by Annie R. 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McGuire - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#HOW_TOM_PRIMROSE_PROTECTED_HIS_FATHER">HOW TOM PRIMROSE PROTECTED HIS FATHER.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_HUNTING_SEASON">THE HUNTING SEASON.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_PIANO-FORTE">THE PIANO-FORTE.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#PERILS_AND_PRIVATIONS">PERILS AND PRIVATIONS.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_DOLLS_RECEPTION">THE DOLLS' RECEPTION.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#PEOPLE_WE_HEAR_ABOUT">PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#A_LITTLE_FAIRY">A LITTLE FAIRY.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#THE_TALKING_LEAVES">THE TALKING LEAVES.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#CHRISTMAS_PREPARATIONS">CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#BUBBLE_BUBBLE_BUBBLE">BUBBLE BUBBLE BUBBLE.</a></td></tr> -<tr><td align="left"><a href="#OUR_POST_OFFICE_BOX">OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.</a></td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 800px;"> -<img src="images/ill_001.jpg" width="800" height="312" alt="HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE" /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left"><span class="smcap">Vol</span>. III.—<span class="smcap">No</span>. 109.</td><td align="center"><span class="smcap">Published by</span> HARPER & 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, November 29, 1881.</td><td align="center">Copyright, 1881, by <span class="smcap">Harper & Brothers</span>.</td><td align="right">$1.50 per Year, in Advance.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 685px;"><a name="HOW_TOM_PRIMROSE_PROTECTED_HIS_FATHER" id="HOW_TOM_PRIMROSE_PROTECTED_HIS_FATHER"></a> -<img src="images/ill_002.jpg" width="685" height="700" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"SEE, THEY'RE GETTING AWAY!' HE CRIED."</span> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p> - -<h2>HOW TOM PRIMROSE PROTECTED HIS FATHER.</h2> - -<h3>BY SYDNEY DAYRE.</h3> - -<p>Mr. Primrose arrived at home one morning just as his family were -gathering for breakfast. He had been for two days at a small town about -thirty miles distant, to which he had been summoned to assist in the -trial of a pair of noted criminals.</p> - -<p>"You look tired out," said Mrs. Primrose.</p> - -<p>"Tired enough," he said. "I have been up nearly all night."</p> - -<p>"How did that happen?"</p> - -<p>"Well, it was partly my own fault. I met my old friend Philip Sanford up -there; he was on the defense in the case I was prosecuting. We had a -grand tilt over it—fought each other vigorously all the way through. -The chief criminal shook his fist at me when I was making the closing -speech. I began to see that the case was going against me, and I pressed -the rascals pretty hard."</p> - -<p>"Dear me!" said Mrs. Primrose, with an anxious face. "I am always in -fear of some of those desperate characters doing you some injury out of -revenge."</p> - -<p>The gentleman laughed. "Don't worry yourself, dear," he said. "There is -much more to be feared from the rogues who go uncaught than from those -who feel the strong grasp of the law. But, as I was telling, the case -went to the jury about nine last night, and then Sanford and I got down -to a game of chess. If I didn't beat him at law, I beat him well at the -game, and it was one o'clock before we took heed of the time. Then, as -my train was due at three, it was not worth while to go to bed, so we -played and talked on. When I got to the station, I found the train was -behind time, so I lay on a bench till it came, at five, and here I am."</p> - -<p>"You will take a rest now?"</p> - -<p>"Not a bit," he said, opening some letters he had found waiting for him. -"Business is pressing just now. Ha! ha!" he exclaimed, "this is good -news. We'll have those rogues in the penitentiary yet."</p> - -<p>"What is it?" asked Mrs. Primrose.</p> - -<p>"Why, I told you just now that I feared the jury would not convict on -the evidence, although it was convincing to me. Here is a letter from -the sheriff of Hancock County, who wishes that these same fellows be -held to answer to a charge of complicity in a bank robbery which took -place in that county some months since. If the jury fails to convict, -the prisoners must be re-arrested the moment they are discharged."</p> - -<p>"Rather a damper on them, I should say," said Frank, with a chuckle.</p> - -<p>"You'd be astonished to see what decent-looking men they are," continued -his father. "The chief criminal would impress you as having been trained -for a gentleman, and his accomplice is not much more than a boy; both -are well dressed. The daintiest little pearl-mounted revolver I ever saw -was displayed in court as the instrument used in their last scrape; -Frank, you must take a run up to Homer on the nine train."</p> - -<p>"He can not," said Mrs. Primrose. "I'm sorry, but he sprained his foot -yesterday, and must keep quiet for a few days."</p> - -<p>"That's bad—for the boy and for me. I must hurry down town and send -some one else."</p> - -<p>"Oh, papa, let <i>me</i> go!" said Tom. "Please do, sir. I've been up there -twice with you, you know, and I'd know just where to go, and you could -tell me just what to do."</p> - -<p>"Ho! ho!" laughed Frank. "'Heedless Tom' on important business! Why, he -would be sure to have the judge and sheriff under arrest, and the -burglars at large. He can't help doing everything backward, you know."</p> - -<p>"Come, Frank, don't be so sharp," said his mother. "Tom is trying to be -more careful lately, I think."</p> - -<p>"Yes," said Mr. Primrose, in a teasing tone, "he is not at all like the -boy I sent from the office last week to buy a pamphlet called 'Westward -Ho!' and who brought me instead a garden hoe."</p> - -<p>There was a laugh at Tom's expense, but he persisted, coaxingly:</p> - -<p>"Do let me go, papa. You know I wouldn't be careless about your -business."</p> - -<p>"I guess you may go, Tom. Now listen. Find Sheriff Carroll either at his -house or at the court-house, and give him this letter. Take the twelve -train home, and be sure you are on time. There is money for your fare."</p> - -<p>So Mr. Primrose departed, while Tom, highly delighted at the prospect of -such an unexpected little jaunt, went to get ready. He meant to act -through the whole matter with such caution and judgment as to fully -convince his father of the propriety of intrusting him with the -weightiest concerns. And his first care was to leave for the station in -such good time as to put all fear of his missing the train out of the -question.</p> - -<p>Alas, poor Tom!</p> - -<p>"Now, where's my hat?"</p> - -<p>This inquiry was a sound of dismay in the Primrose household. Tom's hat -was always missing. There was no spot in the house, yard, barn, or -garden where it might not be hopefully searched for.</p> - -<p>"Where did you have it last?" some one asked. Some one was always sure -to ask that.</p> - -<p>"I don't know—yes, I remember putting it on Rover's head, and he ran -away with it. No, I found it after that behind the coal-house. I had it -when we were playing hide-and-seek last evening."</p> - -<p>Tom was usually left to do his own hunting, but in such an emergency as -this all the family energy was aroused. Uneasiness gathered in every -face as time went on.</p> - -<p>"Let me see your old hat," said his mother at last. But the old hat -proved to be too shabby to be thought of. Then his brother's hat was -tried, but Frank was three years older, and it would not do.</p> - -<p>"Wear it down to Mr. Ramsay, the hatter's," said his mother. "Tell him -of your difficulty, and he will lend you a hat for a few hours." But Tom -did not like to do this, and he continued his hunt longer than was -prudent. At length his little sister came from the barn with a note of -triumph and the missing hat. It had been lying in a corner of the -hay-loft, where he had hidden the evening before. He seized it -gratefully, and was off like the wind.</p> - -<p>The locomotive was hissing in the station as Tom, hot and out of breath, -asked for a ticket to Homer. Then he felt for his pocket-book in one -pocket and then another, growing hotter as he failed to find it. After -thorough search he concluded, with intense dismay, that his run must -have shaken it from his pocket. He knew he had no time for thought. At -the distance of about half a block was situated the office of one of his -father's friends. He rushed over to it and told his trouble in a few -words.</p> - -<p>"Hurry, Tom, hurry," said the gentleman, as already the premonitory puff -of the engine sounded. "Don't stop for a ticket, but board the train—if -you can; but—<i>Stop, boy!</i> Hallo, there!" he shouted; "don't let that -boy jump on that train!"</p> - -<p>He ran after Tom as he flew toward the now-moving train, which the boy -was fully resolved to board. But he was seized by friendly hands.</p> - -<p>"You can't do that, my boy—no, <i>sir</i>," as Tom struggled. "Have you no -concern for your life or limbs?"</p> - -<p>"I <i>must</i> go on that train; I <i>will</i>," cried poor Tom, in utter despair. -But it moved pitilessly on, while a few men gathered near to inquire -into his trouble.</p> - -<p>"It was about some business for my father," he explained, hardly able to -force back his tears, as he realized what a terrible failure he had made -at the very outset. "It was very important, and what shall I do?"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p> - -<p>"There's a freight train going up," said a brakeman.</p> - -<p>"When?" asked Tom, eagerly.</p> - -<p>"In about half an hour. It'll be slow, though. You'll get to Homer about -eleven, if that'll do you."</p> - -<p>Tom could only hope it might.</p> - -<p>After a ride made long by anxiety he stood at last before Sheriff -Carroll, and presented his letter, waiting breathlessly to hear what he -might say.</p> - -<p>"Too bad! too bad! I discharged those scamps not more than an hour ago. -Tell your father, though, that we may stand a chance of nabbing them -yet. I'll have all the trains watched, and send out on the country -roads. That sort are very apt to strike across country." He bustled away -to set things moving, while Tom, full of bitter mortification, slowly -walked back to the station.</p> - -<p>He watched eagerly as the return train came in, in hope of seeing some -kind of a "scrimmage," as he mentally expressed it, which might look -like an arrest. But nothing of the sort occurred. He did not even see a -force of policemen drawn up with threatening aspect, as he had expected, -and made up his mind that Carroll was not up to his duty in this matter. -His inexperienced gaze failed to take note of two or three keen-eyed men -standing carelessly around in plain clothes, who would certainly have -pressed the hospitalities of the village of Homer upon any stray -criminals so warmly as to enable them to arrive at a speedy decision to -travel no further at present.</p> - -<p>As Tom rode along, he felt too much depressed at first by the very bad -result of his undertaking to pay much heed to what was going on around -him. But he suddenly jerked himself from the corner into which he had -settled, and sat up with every sense on the alert.</p> - -<p>"I told Primrose—revenged on him—jury agreed—got off—that I would go -down—have it out with him—"</p> - -<p>This was what came to his ears, mingled with the rattle of the cars. The -words were spoken by one of two men who occupied the seat behind him. -Tom ventured a peep over the back of his seat. They certainly did not -look like desperate characters; but what was he to think of what he had -heard? His father had made special mention of the very respectable -appearance of the two men he had been prosecuting.</p> - -<p>The older man had such a pleasant face that Tom was beginning to feel -ashamed of his suspicions, when he suddenly bobbed down in his seat, -with a cold chill at his heart. The man was examining something he held -in his hand—a thing so small and delicate that at first glance Tom had -taken it for a pocket-knife, but it was a pearl-mounted revolver. The -full gravity of the situation now forced itself upon his excited mind. -This was the Chief Criminal spoken of by his father, the younger man -being, of course, the Accomplice. They were handling the very revolver -which had been shown during the trial. This man's fierce anger had been -excited by his father's vigorous attempt to consign him to merited -punishment, and his words fully indicated that he was now on his way to -seek revenge. How? Poor Tom fairly writhed in his seat as all the -fearful possibilities of the case came before him, and he was obliged to -own to himself that but for his petty acts of carelessness these men -would now be safe under lock and key.</p> - -<p>He left the car, full of the one idea of using any and every means of -insuring his father's safety. Hastening to his office, he learned that -he had been absent from it most of the day. It was supposed that he had -been called out of town again. Reaching home, hoping to find him there, -Tom learned that he had not been up to dinner, but was still expected, -though it was long after the usual hour. Hot, tired, and anxious, Tom -made but a poor attempt at the dinner urged upon him, and took his way -to the front part of the house to watch for his father. He established -himself on a sofa near a bay-window in the parlor, with a very heavy -pressure of care on his heart. He knew it would not do to tell his -nervous mother: even poor, heedless Tom was thoughtful of her comfort. -And he did not want Frank to know anything about it if he could help it. -It might all come out right yet, and then only his father need know.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"Tell him not to hurry—we can wait," said a voice in the room. Tom -rubbed his eyes and stared about, as the maid showed in two strangers. -He was wide awake in a moment, and drew himself into a corner of the -sofa where he was nearly concealed by a curtain which divided the -bay-window from the room. The maid drew aside the curtains of another -window, and threw it open. And there, in the bright sunlight, Tom saw, -with fright and horror, which at first took from him the power to move -or speak, the Chief Criminal and the Accomplice seat themselves -comfortably in his father's house.</p> - -<p>What now? With a desperate effort at self-control he tried to think what -it was best to do. It rested on him now not only to insure his father's -safety, but to prevent the escape of these men.</p> - -<p>He presently got up, and going quietly to a door which led into another -room, locked it, and put the key in his pocket. Then he turned to the -window near which the men sat. The older one addressed him pleasantly.</p> - -<p>"You are a son of Mr. Primrose?" he said, offering his hand.</p> - -<p>Tom bowed slightly, but took no notice of the extended hand. He lowered -the window and fastened it, hoping that the burglars, if they tried to -open it, might not at first understand the catch, thus giving more time. -He then passed into the hall, noiselessly locking that door also.</p> - -<p>Frank was nursing his sprained foot on the back piazza. In answer to -Tom's excited inquiries he told him their father had returned home a -short time since, had dined, and gone to his room. His mother was in the -kitchen canning fruit. Glad not to meet her, Tom sprang up the stairs, -and knocking at his father's door, begged to be let in.</p> - -<p>"I am bathing, Tom," was the answer; "wait a little."</p> - -<p>"Oh, father," pleaded Tom, "<i>do</i> let me speak to you just one minute."</p> - -<p>Tom's claims to be heard were usually urgent, so his father only said, -"Have a little patience, my boy; in ten minutes I'll hear all you have -to say."</p> - -<p>Ten minutes! What might not happen in ten minutes! If he waited up -there, the criminals might, finding themselves shut in, guess that they -were under suspicion, and make good their escape. If he went to call -help, his father might, in his absence, run into the very danger he was -seeking to save him from.</p> - -<p>A bright thought came to him. So long as his father remained in his room -he must be safe. Tom turned the key in the door, and locked him in. -Then, with all the speed which terror could lend to a boy's nimble feet, -he ran to the police station, a few blocks distant, reaching it in a -condition which only left him able to convey a general idea that -something dreadful was going on at Mr. Primrose's. Two policemen were -there. First sending a message to head-quarters for further force, they -followed Tom in all haste, a small crowd of by-standers falling into -line, and gathering strength as they neared the Primrose domicile. As -they came to the gate Tom saw the Accomplice trying to open the window.</p> - -<p>"See! they're getting away!" he cried. And the policemen bounded into -the house and seized the two men. At this moment a heavy pounding was -heard overhead. Tom turned paler than before.</p> - -<p>"There must be more of them up stairs," he shrieked; "they are getting -after my father."</p> - -<p>He tore up the stairs, and found the room still locked; but the pounding -kept on. He turned the key with a trembling hand.</p> - -<p>"Who locked me in?" exclaimed his father. "Such<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> foolery—" He stopped -in surprise as half a dozen men tramped hastily up stairs.</p> - -<p>"Are you hurt, Mr. Primrose? Are the rascals in there?"</p> - -<p>"Hurt? No. What's the matter? what is all this fuss about?" He stared in -amazement at the crowd pressing into the hall. "Is the house on fire?"</p> - -<p>"Not a bit, sir; but we've got two of the men in there."</p> - -<p>He pushed his way down stairs, and was met by several policemen, who had -made their way through the crowd outside. As the principal excitement -seemed in the parlor, he turned that way. The eyes of all there were -fixed upon two quiet-looking men, who stood with a policeman's hand on a -shoulder of each.</p> - -<p>"Philip Sanford! What does all this mean?"</p> - -<p>"I must ask you that," was the answer. "I came to your house on a -friendly visit, and to introduce my nephew, who is desirous of becoming -a law student in your office"—motioning toward the younger man—"and I -find myself under arrest."</p> - -<p>The policemen dropped their hands and looked toward Mr. Primrose. Mr. -Primrose looked at them.</p> - -<p>"Why are you here, men?" he asked.</p> - -<p>"The little chap wanted us pretty badly," said one of them, turning to -Tom with a laugh.</p> - -<p>"I—thought they were the criminals, papa—had come to hurt you, and I -couldn't speak to you, and I locked you up. I didn't know what to -do—and you said the burglars were such nice-looking men." A laugh arose -at this.</p> - -<p>"Go on," said his father; "I don't understand yet."</p> - -<p>"The burglars were gone when I got to Homer; they sat behind me on the -cars, and talked about being revenged on you, papa; and one of them had -that revolver." Tom's voice broke, and he seized his father's hand.</p> - -<p>The two criminals laughed heartily.</p> - -<p>"I believe I see into it now," said Mr. Sanford. "I said I was coming -here to get revenge for the beating you gave me at chess. This -revolver"—he took it from his pocket—"was given me this morning by the -burglar I have been defending, as a token of his gratitude, as he -expressed it, for the able manner in which I had conducted his case. And -this poor little fellow"—looking kindly at Tom—"has been suffering -agonies of fear for his father's safety ever since I showed it in the -cars."</p> - -<p>"So, friends," said Mr. Primrose, looking around, "I thank you all for -coming to my protection, but you see I do not need it."</p> - -<p>The police led the way out, and others followed, with increasing -merriment at the mistake which had been made. A shout arose also from -the crowd outside as it left the premises.</p> - -<p>"I beg your pardon, sir; and yours," faltered poor Tom, with his -strongest effort to keep back the tears of mortification at the terrible -blunder he had committed.</p> - -<p>"No pardon is necessary," said Mr. Sanford. "If my own small boy lives -to your age, the best I can wish for him is that he may be as brave and -energetic as you have been to-day, and as faithful in watching for his -father's safety, even if it sometimes leads him into a mistake. You'll -take my hand now, my boy, won't you?"</p> - -<p>Tom grasped it, and then escaped to his room. There lay his pocket-book, -just where he had left it when he changed his clothes in the morning. He -threw himself on the bed and cried till sleep came to relieve his -troubles.</p> - -<p>When he awoke it was twilight, and his mother was beside him.</p> - -<p>"Come, dear," she said, "they are all waiting for you. Yes, you must go -down," as Tom shook his head: "they will not go to tea till you go down. -And look at this—your father received it about an hour ago."</p> - -<p>It was a telegram from Homer, and read thus:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>"Have caught the men, and shipped to Hancock County.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;">"<span class="smcap">Carroll</span>."</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"><a name="THE_HUNTING_SEASON" id="THE_HUNTING_SEASON"></a> -<img src="images/ill_003.jpg" width="400" height="301" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"THE HUNT IS UP, THE MORN IS BRIGHT AND GRAY."—<span class="smcap">Shakspeare</span>.</span> -</div> - -<h2>THE HUNTING SEASON.</h2> - -<h3>BY W. A. LINN.</h3> - -<p>The boy whose fortune it is to live in the country looks forward to the -advent of autumn with eagerness, if happily he belongs to that large -class of boys who have a passion for hunting. There are some people who -object to this trait in the character of boys, as indicative of cruelty, -but I doubt if they fully understand the trait. Very few hunters, old or -young, take pleasure in the mere act of killing birds and animals. If -this was the chief end in view, they could secure it without days of -toilsome tramping. A hunter's pleasure is made up of a great deal more -than success in filling his bag. If he is to be really an expert in his -work, he must study carefully the habits of the game which he pursues, -become acquainted with the country over which he is to hunt, and submit -to long practice with his gun or rifle.</p> - -<p>The most common object of pursuit with boy hunters in our New England -and Middle States is the rabbit. The more mature sportsman may look with -scorn<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> on the "cotton-tail" if he pleases, and rejoice more over one -dead quail than the capture of a dozen rabbits. Not so the boy. With -boys, <i>size</i> counts in a good many ways. Then, too, in rabbit-hunting, -boys get a variety of sport. They can find time after school to set a -few snares or dead-falls in the nearest thicket. Or on a Saturday, -taking such dogs as they own or can borrow (most dogs, like most boys, -seem to be ready to hunt rabbits), they can set out for the brush lots -and stubble fields, and revel in excitement as the sharp bark of the -dogs lets them know that a fresh track has been struck.</p> - -<p>When cold weather and snow come, the rabbit is apt to desert his -snuggery in the fields for a home in some well-built stone wall. Then -the boy hunter lets the rabbit betray himself, and very plainly he does -it; for no boy who is once shown a rabbit track in newly fallen snow can -ever mistake for it the track of any other animal: two dots before, and -two behind, like this, · · :, are the rabbit's handwriting, and a -little skill soon traces him to his hiding-place.</p> - -<p>To secure game birds requires more skill with the gun, and a more -intimate knowledge of their habits. Our principal game birds in the -Eastern States are the woodcock, the quail, and the ruffled grouse, or, -as it is called in some States, the partridge. Of these the woodcock is -the most mysterious, and by epicures the most highly prized. It is the -only one of the group that seeks a warmer climate in winter.</p> - -<p>With the first advent of spring weather the woodcock returns, often -nesting so early that the spring floods destroy its eggs. By the first -of July the young birds are almost grown, and in too many States the law -allows them to be killed after that date. The summer woodcock is, -however, no such bird as it will become if allowed to moult, and then to -grow fat in the corn fields and brakes. October finds it strong of wing, -ready for a night flight of many miles; then it may be sought not only -in the low grounds, but on the alder-covered hill-sides.</p> - -<p>The quail is the best known of all our game birds, because of its -remaining with us all the year round, because of its easily recognized -note, "Bob White," and because, timid as it is, it loves civilization, -and lives on cultivated lands.</p> - -<p>The ruffled grouse may be called the king of our Northern game birds. -Delighting in mountains and thick swamps, wild, and strong of wing, the -hunter who brings one down when under full headway must be of steady -nerve, quick sight, and skillful with long practice.</p> - -<p>If a modern artist were to draw a sketch to illustrate an article on our -hunting season, it would have to differ very much from the pretty -picture on the preceding page. The spear and cross-bow are weapons -unknown to modern American hunters, and instead of the winding of the -horn, there is only the shrill note of the dog whistle. And we may say, -Alas the change! The spear was not always thrown aright; it and the -arrow hit but one object at a time, and had a limit to their flight. But -nowadays, with our highly trained dogs, and our ever-loaded -breech-loading guns, able to mow down a whole flock at once, what chance -has bird or animal, however well provided by nature with means of -safety?</p> - -<p>Little is the wonder that our game grows scarcer year by year. With no -vast landed estates, as in England, to be kept stocked and preserved, it -will not be very long before woodcock, quail, and grouse will be -curiosities even to the farmers' boys, who will have to invent some new -pleasure to take the place of the hunting sports of which their -grandfathers will tell them.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"><a name="THE_PIANO-FORTE" id="THE_PIANO-FORTE"></a> -<img src="images/ill_004.jpg" width="400" height="218" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">CLAVICHORD.</span> -</div> - -<h2>THE PIANO-FORTE.</h2> - -<h3>BY MRS. JOHN LILLIE.</h3> - -<p>I wonder how many young people who sit down to practice or take a lesson -at the piano-forte know the story of the instrument now familiar in -every household of the civilized world. Look at it as we have it to-day, -almost perfect in size and quality and tone. It is capable of producing -the fullest and the softest sounds, just as its name indicates, for -<i>piano</i> means soft, and <i>forte</i> means loud. Can you realize that little -more than a hundred years ago pianos were a rarity? Only one or two -makers produced any instruments worthy of the name, and few households -possessed one. "But," I can hear my young readers exclaim, "the music we -play on our pianos—Bach and Haydn, as well as old English airs—were -certainly played on some horizontal instrument." Of course they were, -but not on our kind of piano-fortes; and the story I am going to tell -will take you back far into the sixteenth century, when ladies of rank, -and monks and nuns, and some troubadours, had the instruments from which -our piano is descended. These were known as the clavichord and the -virginal.</p> - -<p>The clavichord was perfected about 1500, and the name was derived from -"clavi" (a key) and "chorda" (a string); so you see at once that it -contained the two principal elements of our piano-forte. Although it -went out of use in Bach's day, yet that dear old master, whose -<i>gavottes</i> all our young people are playing now, loved to use it. The -piano-forte had been invented, but Bach loved his old clavichord. As he -sat thrumming it, I think he liked to fancy himself away in the early -sixteenth-century days, when Henry the Seventh's court enjoyed madrigals -and queer little bits of music on the same sort of an instrument. -Following<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> the clavichord, we have that graceful, romantic instrument -called the virginal. This was an improvement on the clavichord, and -toward the close of the sixteenth century we find its name in poetry, -romance, biography—indeed, in history.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 360px;"> -<img src="images/ill_005.jpg" width="360" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">VIRGINAL.</span> -</div> - -<p>The virginal produced a low, tinkling sort of sound not unlike that of -the German zither. Only ladies of quality, musicians, or nuns or monks -in convents, performed upon the virginal, and so I think we associate it -with all the grace and beauty and the slow stateliness of that romantic -epoch. When I think of a virginal, it seems to me to bring many -suggestions of rich colors, softly fading lights, the flash of jewels, -or the movement of white hands, oak wainscoting, and tapestried -walls—perhaps some very sad and sorrowing heart, perhaps some young and -hopeful one, but always something that is picturesque and dreamy.</p> - -<p>Perhaps we would not think it so sweet an instrument to-day, but -assuredly in the sixteenth century it moved people to very tender, -elevated thoughts. Shakspeare wrote of it with deep feeling, and there -are some quaint lines of Spenser's about it. "My love doth sit ... -playing alone, careless, on her heavenlie virginals."</p> - -<p>In 1583, Sir James Melvil was sent by Mary Stuart to England as -Ambassador, and in his memoirs he relates how he heard Queen Elizabeth -play. He says that Lord Hunsden took him up into a "quiet gallery," -where, unknown to the Queen, he might hear her play. The two gentlemen -stood outside a tapestried doorway, from within which came the soft -tinkle-tinkle of the virginal. I wish he had told us what the Queen was -playing. Presently, it appears, his curiosity to see her Majesty -overcame his prudence, and he softly raised the curtain, and went into -the room. The Queen played on, "a melody which ravished him," he says, -but for some moments did not see that any one was listening. Is it not a -pretty picture?</p> - -<p>At that time the Queen had not lost the charm of youth, and in her -splendid dress, with her head down-bent, her figure at the quaint -virginal against the rich and sombre colors of the room, must have -looked charming, and the silent Scotch gentleman just inside the doorway -listening in rapt attention: it is so poetic a picture of the time that -we can almost hear her music, and if we read on a little further, we see -that the Queen, suddenly seeing Sir James, came forward, remonstrating -with him for having come in, for, she said, she was not used to play -before people, but only to "shun melancholy." Then she sat down upon a -low cushion, and honest Sir James, according to the custom of the time, -fell upon his knees before her. The Queen, with a truly feminine spirit, -inquired whether he thought she or Mary Queen of Scots played the best. -Sir James said that his sovereign played "<i>reasonably, for a queen</i>." -This answer would not serve to-day, as the Queen of England is one of -the most perfect of amateur musicians.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_006.jpg" width="400" height="112" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">ITALIAN SPINET, ORNAMENTED WITH PRECIOUS STONES.</span> -</div> - -<p>The virginal and spinet belong to the same period. From them, as need of -a more elaborate performance grew, we have the harpsichord. A very fine -harpsichord looked something like a grand piano, but it had two rows of -keys, one upper and one lower. I shall not here go into a description of -the harpsichord. It is only needful to say that it was the outgrowth of -clavichord and virginal and spinet, and had some of the defects as well -as the good points of all three.</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_007.jpg" width="400" height="365" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">HANDEL'S FAVORITE HARPISCHORD.</span> -</div> - -<p>Our great-grandmothers played upon harpsichords. They were tinkling -little affairs, yet I fancy that Mozart's and Haydn's music must have -sounded very quaint and pleasing upon them. Where have they all vanished -to, I wonder?—along with the flowery brocaded gowns, the slender fans, -the powder and patches and paint, of that dear old time?</p> - -<p>In an old house I once visited, a harpsichord of seventeen hundred and -something used to stand neglected and disused in an upper hall. -Sometimes we children thrummed waltzes upon it; sometimes I remember our -getting out a faded old music-book with the picture of a shepherdess on -it, and picking out the funny little songs that were printed there a -hundred years ago. On the fly-leaf of the book was written in a very -flourishy hand, "To Isabel, from J——." Who was Isabel, and who was J., -we used to wonder.</p> - -<p>I can fancy that the music she played to please her mamma and papa, and -perhaps her uncles and aunts, was of a very primitive order, for when -harpsichords were used, young ladies were not at all proficient. Music -was then considered a "genteel" sort of accomplishment, and good masters -were very rare, and never tried to make their pupils do more than strike -the notes correctly and in good "dum-dum" sort of time. Consider our -advantages now, and yet I fancy those young people of "Isabel's" day -valued their musical instruction much more than we do ours.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_008.jpg" width="400" height="303" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">PIANO OF ABOUT 1777.</span> -</div> - -<p>Well, then, from this pretty, picturesque harpsichord period, we find -ourselves by slow degrees in that of the piano, and I suppose the first -thing you will wish to know is how a piano-forte differs from these -other instruments of which I have been writing. The principal difference -is that the strings are struck with a hammer. About the beginning of the -eighteenth century this idea had originated with three men at once—an -Italian named Cristofali, a Frenchman named Marius, and a German named -Schröter; but all investigators seem convinced that Cristofali was the -real originator. His ideas were the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> best. So, later in the century, -when harpsichords began to be thought incomplete, different makers tried -to produce something better, and the result was the primitive -piano-forte.</p> - -<p>At this time the composer Sebastian Bach was in Berlin. Frederick the -Great was eager to hear him play, and as that famous sovereign possessed -several of the new piano-fortes (or forte-pianos, as they then were -called), Bach came one evening to the palace, where a crowd of gay -ladies and gentlemen were assembled.</p> - -<p>The composer had to go from room to room, trying first one of the new -pianos, then another. These instruments were manufactured in Germany, -but, later, English and French pianos took the palm, and about the -beginning of this century American ladies were growing proficient in the -art of piano-playing—proficient at least for that day. Have you not all -seen your grandmammas' music-books, in which "The Battle of Prague" is -an honored "piece"? True, there were hundreds of nobler works, but only -public performers seem to have attempted them.</p> - -<p>As time went on, and the interest in the instrument grew, the mechanism -of the piano-forte was improved, and at this date (1881), it is -considered perfect. Here and there as you play, as you listen to the -sounds of the little hammer falling on the strings, let your thoughts -wander back to Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth of England, with their -virginals and spinets—indeed, farther into the' realm of poetic, dreamy -sound, for beyond these were clavicytheriums, citoles and citherns, -dulcimers and psalteries, and in the East, among the people whom we see -now in sculpture, a whole line of lyres and harps and lutes.</p> - -<p>It may not seem that so far away as early Egyptian days was the first -idea of our piano, yet certainly such is the case. In some far Eastern -country you might see, graven in stone of centuries gone by, a figure -holding an instrument dimly shadowing that on which you now may play all -written music.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="PERILS_AND_PRIVATIONS" id="PERILS_AND_PRIVATIONS">PERILS AND PRIVATIONS.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY JAMES PAYN.</h3> - -<h3>THE WRECK OF THE "GROSVENOR."—(<i>Continued.</i>)</h3> - -<p>The wanderers still occasionally came across the natives. Once, on -arriving at a village, they obtained a young bullock in exchange for -buttons, a few of which the savages had left on their coats; and that -the distribution of this godsend might be equal, the whole was cut in -pieces, and, just as I have seen done with a cake at school, one of the -party, standing with his back to it, named the person who should have -the piece held up. But generally the natives denied them everything. -Once they strove to barter some poor relic of their property for a calf, -which the others appeared to agree to, "but no sooner had they got the -price than the calf was driven away."</p> - -<p>On one occasion only did they exhibit the slightest pity. On the party -coming upon another dead whale, a band of natives surrounded them, but -on perceiving their sad condition, and that there was really nothing -more to steal, they forbore to molest them, and one of them even lent -his lance, with which some chunks of blubber were cut out.</p> - -<p>A little afterward they found two planks on a sandy bank, in each of -which was a nail. "Elated," as we are told, "with this valuable -discovery," they set fire to the planks, and getting out the nails, -"flattened them between two stones into something like knives." A few -yards further on, by turning up the sand, they found water, of which -they had been much in want; and here, with much thankfulness, they -rested. This was the last day of what seemed to these poor souls good -fortune.</p> - -<p>They did indeed fall in with a dead shark, but it was in such an -advanced stage of decay that "the liver only could be eaten." Nay, -driven by the extremity of hunger, the carpenter ate of some deadly -berries, and was poisoned. Now this man it was who from the first, until -the hour of his death, had taken care of the little boy; who had striven -to relieve those fatigues which his tender limbs could so little endure; -"who had heard his complaints with pity; who had fed him when he could -obtain wherewithal to do it," and who had lulled his weary little body -to rest.</p> - -<p>No human work more commends itself to our admiration than that of this -poor carpenter, who reminds us, indeed, of the Carpenter's Son with his -"Suffer little children to come unto me." Even at this distant time, -when that poor boy has been a hundred years "where the wicked cease from -troubling, and the weary are at rest," the tears rise to our eyes when -we think of his forlorn condition, deprived of his noble protector.</p> - -<p>"I will take him," said the steward, however, who had now succeeded to -the command, and that good man kept his word. The natives never gave -them so much as a drink of water, though "now and then the women gave a -draught of milk to the little boy," and the little party began to break -down from sheer fatigue and privation. When this took place, from hard -necessity there was no chance but for the rest to leave them.</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 315px;"> -<img src="images/ill_009.jpg" width="315" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"THEY CARRIED HIM BY TURNS."</span> -</div> - -<p>Only they never dreamed of leaving the boy. "It was marvellous," we are -told, how he supported the journey (and, alas! how much more marvellous, -since he was fated not to survive it after all). "Where the path was -even and good," says John Hynes, in his simple fashion, "the child -walked, and was able to keep pace with the party; when they came to deep -sand or long grass, the people carried him by turns." His only duty was -to keep their fire alight while they explored the sand for food.</p> - -<p>It will be remembered that, having no flint and steel, they always -carried torches; and once, in rounding a bluff to shorten the way, the -surf put them out; they came, however, upon the remains of a fire which -some Caffre women had lighted, "and joyfully rekindled them." In -crossing the rivers where there was a ford, they tied their rags in a -bundle, fastened it round their heads, and in it they stuck their -brands, and thus kept them dry. Sometimes great storms would come on, -and the rain fall so heavily that the men had to hold their canvas -frocks over their fire to prevent its being extinguished. Without fire, -they would have been lost indeed.</p> - -<p>Many times, from causes over which they had no control, the little party -separated, but they never forgot one another. Those before used to write -upon the sand whatever direction could be of benefit to those behind; -such as, "Turn in here, and you will find wood and water." It makes the -heart bleed to think that so much tenderness and good-fellowship, -maintained under such trying circumstances, should have failed in the -end, and have been shown, as it were, for nothing. And yet it was not -for nothing. It is impossible to believe that those brave men have not -gained their reward, and some great reward for their terrible -sufferings. And as to "use," it should be of great and good use to us -all to have such an example set before us.</p> - -<p>Sometimes those left behind would turn up again, having proceeded, when -a little refreshed, by some shorter way; but they had always the same -tale of ill-usage and privation to tell. Hynes himself, having been -wounded by the natives, was left for dead on one occasion, but -recollecting the way his companions intended to pursue by great -exertions he overtook them. "I shall bear the scar of that lance wound -to my grave," he says.</p> - -<p>One day the cooper died, and was buried in the sand. This happened in -Hynes's absence, and as he had an affection for the man, he asked to be -shown the spot; but on<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> arriving at it, the body had already been dug up -and carried away by some wild animal, as could be perceived by its -foot-prints. The steward and his charge were now taken ill, and since -the rest could not find it in their hearts to leave the child, they -staid with him. "Having prepared early in the morning whatever could be -obtained for breakfast, and willing to treat his tender frame with all -the indulgence in their power, they meant to call him when everything -was ready. He still rested near the fire, where all had slept during the -night before; but on going to wake him, they found his soul had taken -flight to another world." These are the words in which John Hynes -describes the misfortune which he evidently considers the worst that had -hitherto befallen them. As for the steward, "the loss," we are told, -"of one who had been so long the object of his care nearly overcame him. -It was with the utmost difficulty his companions got him along."</p> - -<p>Presently Robert Fitzgerald asks for a shell of water; Hynes supplies -him with one, which he drinks with great avidity. He then asks for -another, which, "having received, he swallows with equal relish, and -laying himself down, instantly expires." They all thought this a very -happy death, and were envious of it. Then William Fruel sinks exhausted -on the sand; his companions from necessity go on to seek wood and water, -but promise to return to him. Turning their eyes back, they see him -crawling after them; but on returning for him after a few hours, they -find some wild beast has carried him away.</p> - -<p>It would be painful to describe in detail what they now suffered; -"former distresses were not to be compared to it." One after another -drops from exhaustion; the rest "shake hands with him, and recommending -him to Heaven for that assistance which they themselves can not afford, -leave him to expire." The party of forty-three are at length reduced to -three, John Hynes, Evans, and Wormington, and the senses of even these -are so impaired that they can hardly hear or see. One morning the -torments of thirst become so intolerable that Wormington begs the two -others to cast lots with him as to who shall die for the rest, that by -drinking his blood the other two may survive. To which Hynes replies -that if he (Hynes) drops, they may do what they will with him, but as -long as he can walk he will consent to no such thing. The idea is then -abandoned by common consent, nor is it renewed when Wormington falls, -and "with one feeble effort to rise, stretches himself on the shore, -burying his right hand in the sand."</p> - -<p>The next morning the two survivors perceive some objects which to their -failing powers look like "large birds." They turn out to be four of -their own party, who had been left behind, now nearly blind, and almost -reduced to idiocy. It was a most ghastly meeting. Since they could no -longer search narrowly for food, they would certainly have now starved -to death but for watching the motions of certain sea-birds, which, after -scratching in the sand, they perceived let something drop out of their -beaks. On searching for themselves, the poor men found that the birds -were catching shell-fish which had burrowed in the sand.</p> - -<p>On the one hundred and seventeenth day of their journey, (though they -knew nothing themselves of dates) these six unfortunates at last met -with a European—a Dutch settler. "Their joy was such that, combined -with their weak condition, it could only be expressed by convulsive -movements." But "after gaining some composure," they learned they were -within the limits of the settlements, and not above three hundred miles -from the Cape of Good Hope.</p> - -<p>They were received with the utmost hospitality, which it seemed was -offered with some imprudence, since on being supplied with bread and -milk, "their voracity was such as to have almost proved their -destruction." After being carefully nursed, and in some degree -recovered, they were forwarded in carts to the nearest town, which was -two hundred miles distant. "During the whole way, wherever they passed -the night, the farmers assembling to hear their sad story, and -supplying them with all of which they stood in need."</p> - -<p>Nay, notwithstanding that England and Holland were then at war, the -Dutch Governor of the Cape of Good Hope dispatched a very strong -expedition through the country in quest of the other castaways, should -any still remain. They met William Hubberly, servant of the second mate, -staggering on alone, "melancholy and forlorn." On other parts of the -road they met seven Lascars and two of the black female servants. From -these they learned that five days after the ship's company had separated -another division of the party took place, but what had become of the -others they knew not. They had seen the Captain's coat, however, on one -of the natives, from which they gathered that he was dead. No further -information could be obtained, and so violent was the opposition of the -Caffres that the expedition was compelled to return.</p> - -<p>Seven years afterward Colonel Gordon, while travelling in Caffraria, was -informed by a native that there was a white woman among his countrymen, -with a child whom she frequently embraced, and over whom she wept -bitterly. Bad health compelled the Colonel to return home, but he sent -her a letter in French, Dutch, and English, begging that some sign, such -as a burned stick, or other token, might be returned in answer to it, -when every exertion should be made for her recovery; but nothing more -was ever heard of her. Nevertheless, for years there was a general -belief at the Cape that some of the unfortunate ladies still survived, -who had it in their power to return, but that having been compelled to -marry Caffre chieftains, and "apprehending that their place in society -was lost, and that they should be degraded in the eyes of their equals," -they resolved to abide where they were.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"><a name="THE_DOLLS_RECEPTION" id="THE_DOLLS_RECEPTION"></a> -<img src="images/ill_010.jpg" width="700" height="552" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE DOLLS' RECEPTION AT REPUBLICAN HALL, THIRTY-THIRD -STREET, NEW YORK.—<span class="smcap">Drawn by Mrs. Jessie Shepherd</span>.</span> -</div> - -<h2>THE DOLLS' RECEPTION.</h2> - -<p>This beautiful engraving will give our little readers an idea of an -entertainment which is now being held in Republican Hall, Thirty-third -Street, New York city, where, instead of grown people or children being -the important personages, three hundred dollies are dressed up in -magnificent toilets, waiting to receive the visits and admiration of -their friends.</p> - -<p>The dollies do not talk, with the exception of a few who say "Papa" and -"Mamma"; but they are all arranged in groups representing beautiful -pictures. Some of these have backgrounds of painted scenery, and all -have appropriate surroundings to perfect the tableaux.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p> - -<p>There are a "model school," with dormitory, school-room, and -play-ground; a christening, with the minister and baby and a party of -friends; a kitchen, with a whole family of darkies; a dozen children -"coasting"; a real log-cabin, to be used as a baby-house; and last, and -prettiest of all, the heroes and heroines of every nursery: Mother Goose -and her children, dressed in costumes which the modern picture-books -have made popular; Red Riding-hood, Polly Flinders, Bobby Shaftoe and -the little lady he left behind him, Little Bopeep, Mistress Mary, Tom -Tucker, Willy Boz, Tom, Tom, the Piper's son, and his audience, and a -great many others.</p> - -<p>Among such a vast number of dollies there are of course a great many -babies. These are all placed in the "Nursery," where they are waited -upon and attended by full-grown dolls, dressed neatly, and with pretty -little nurses' caps. Everything is provided in the way of cradles, -rattles, and baby-jumpers for these very little folks, and they are so -well cared for and amused that their papas and mammas, who are busy -taking part in the tableaux, need have no concern about them.</p> - -<p>Taking it altogether, the exhibition is a pleasant place to visit. The -dolls are all well dressed, and will be sold at prices which, by -comparison, are not unreasonable; but they will not be removed from -their places in the tableaux until after the exhibition is concluded.</p> - -<p>And now for the object. Several years ago a half-dozen young ladies set -to work to raise three thousand dollars to build a little cottage -somewhere on the sea-shore, which might afford a comfortable summer home -to such of the children as were able to bear removal from the Children's -Hospital, on Thirty-fourth Street and Ninth Avenue. This institution is -managed by the Sisters of St. Mary, an Episcopal sisterhood, and so well -managed that the ladies wished to place the little summer home also in -their care.</p> - -<p>The three thousand dollars was raised long ago; but the project grew, as -such things will, and the house which was built last spring cost, with -the land, about nine thousand dollars. It is situated on Rockaway Beach, -between the large new hotel and Far Rockaway, and will accommodate about -forty children. Some of those who are taken from the hospital will -remain all summer; others will go for ten days or two weeks. In this way -the ladies hope to give health and pleasure to a great many poor little -children, who must otherwise suffer in tenement-houses all summer.</p> - -<p>The home will be called "St. Mary's by the Sea." It will be opened early -next summer, and the inmates will be very glad to receive a visit from -any of their friends who are interested in the work.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="PEOPLE_WE_HEAR_ABOUT" id="PEOPLE_WE_HEAR_ABOUT">PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT.</a></h2> - -<h3>WILLIAM S. GILBERT.</h3> - -<p>If the name of the author of <i>Pinafore</i> were as widely known as is his -work, William S. Gilbert would be one of the most celebrated of living -persons. This gentleman, to whom we owe that delightful comic opera, is -forty-five years of age, and a lawyer by profession, though he does not -now practice law. Unlike "Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B.," Mr. Gilbert does -not "stick close to his desk," but does "go to sea." In fact, he wrote a -great deal of <i>Pinafore</i> on board the yacht <i>Pleione</i>, of which he is -the owner and captain, and doubtless "a right good captain, too." He has -a companion who never leaves him, whose name is Roy. Roy, of course, is -a dog, and besides being a dog he is also a capital sailor, for his -master never goes to sea without him.</p> - -<p>It must not be supposed that when Mr. Gilbert and his friend Arthur -Sullivan have finished their opera, and placed it in the theatre -manager's hands, their work is done. If you were to call at Mr. -Gilbert's house while an opera is in preparation at the theatre, you -might find him in his library, with two or three other persons, having a -private performance on their own account.</p> - -<p>These are actors who have proved themselves so dull in learning the -business of their parts that, rather than have the performance injured -by poor acting, the author is giving them private instruction. For -besides being the inventor and author of <i>Pinafore</i>, the <i>Pirates</i>, and -<i>Patience</i>, Mr. Gilbert designs all the costumes and scenery, drills the -actors, and is as particular about everything on the stage being -ship-shape as if he were really the captain of a man-of-war.</p> - -<p>In addition to the operas named above, Mr. Gilbert has written <i>The -Sorcerer</i>, and <i>Trial by Jury</i>, several plays, and <i>The Bab Ballads</i>, a -book of most delightful nonsense. It may seem an easy thing to make -people laugh, but the author of <i>Pinafore</i> really works very hard. It is -pleasant to think, however, that hard work agrees with him, for it -certainly does not spoil his good-humor.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="A_LITTLE_FAIRY" id="A_LITTLE_FAIRY">A LITTLE FAIRY.</a></h2> - -<h3>BY MRS. M. E. SANGSTER.</h3> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">We have a little fairy,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Who flits about the house,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">As gleeful as a cricket,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">As quiet as a mouse.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">She brings papa his slippers,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">She runs up stairs and down,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">The dearest little fairy</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">In all the busy town.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2><a name="THE_TALKING_LEAVES" id="THE_TALKING_LEAVES"></a>THE TALKING LEAVES.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></h2> - -<h4>An Indian Story.</h4> - -<h3>BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.</h3> - -<h3><span class="smcap">Chapter IX</span>.</h3> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 95px;"> -<img src="images/ill_011.jpg" width="95" height="200" alt="Drop Cap T" /> -</div> - -<p>here had been a very good reason why neither Steve Harrison nor Murray -came back with the Lipan braves who were sent to bring home the game. -They had been preparing to do so, when they were summoned into the -presence of To-la-go-to-de.</p> - -<p>"No Tongue is a great hunter," said the dark-browed leader as they came -forward. "Cougar, big-horn, deer all good. Apache heap better."</p> - -<p>"That's what I came for."</p> - -<p>"Go find them. Eat a heap. Take Yellow Head. Go all night."</p> - -<p>"Any warriors go with me?"</p> - -<p>"No. Maybe Apache dog see you. See pale-faces, and not think of Lipans. -Dress Yellow Head. Wash off paint."</p> - -<p>It was a genuine stroke of Indian war cunning. The two pale-faces were -to act as scouts in the advance. If the Apaches should happen to see -them, their presence would not suggest the dangerous nearness of a band -of hostile Indians.</p> - -<p>It may be the wise old chief added to himself that if both of them were -killed on their perilous errand, the loss to his tribe would be of less -consequence than that of two full-blooded Lipans. His pride of race -would prevent his admitting that he had no brave in his band who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> was as -well fitted to follow and find Apaches as was No Tongue.</p> - -<p>"Now, Steve, we must eat all we know how, and then I'll fix you."</p> - -<p>It had not harmed the young hunter in the opinion of his red friends -that he had been unable to conceal his delight at the prospect before -him.</p> - -<p>"Young brave," they said, with approving nods. "Glad all over. Make good -warrior some day."</p> - -<p>He was indeed "glad all over"; but Murray cautioned him by a look, and -he said nothing.</p> - -<p>He was almost too glad to eat, but his appetite came back to him while -he and Murray were cooking. He had eaten nothing since morning, and -mountain air is a very hungry sort of air.</p> - -<p>"That's right, my boy. There's no saying when you may get your next -square meal. There's hard work before you and me, and plenty of it."</p> - -<p>The next thing that came to Steve was a surprise.</p> - -<p>Murray had never worn paint or adopted any more of Indian ways than he -could help, but it was a wonder how soon he made himself look like a -white man. There was more in the pack on his spare pony than Steve had -imagined.</p> - -<p>A few minutes' work with a pair of small scissors made a remarkable -change in his hair and beard, and then the long locks of Yellow Head -himself had to suffer.</p> - -<p>"Go and scrub off every spot of paint, while I'm rigging my hunting -shirt and leggings. You won't know me when you come back."</p> - -<p>That was saying a little too much, but To-la-go-to-de himself expressed -his admiration. He had seen wilder-looking white men by the hundred -among the border settlements. No eyes in the world would suspect No -Tongue of being a Lipan.</p> - -<p>The transformation in Steve's appearance was shortly even greater, for -Murray was able to furnish him with a "check" shirt and a black silk -neckkerchief.</p> - -<p>"Buckskin trousers'll have to do, my boy. No boots in camp; but I can -knock the wrinkles out of this headpiece for you."</p> - -<p>It was a black felt hat, and not very badly worn. Murray himself always -wore one, but the supply had not been good enough for a long time to -allow Steve to do the same.</p> - -<p>"Now, Steve, I'm going to make old Two Knives give you the best mount in -camp. Good as mine."</p> - -<p>Such a war party never carries any slow horses with it, but there were -some better than others, and the chief was as anxious as Steve that his -scouts should be well mounted. Otherwise they might not be able to get -back to him with any information they might pick up.</p> - -<p>"Plenty of ammunition, Steve. Never mind any other kind of baggage, -except some jerked meat. We may have to live on that."</p> - -<p>There was no need for To-la-go-to-de to urge them. Not a minute was -thrown away in their rapid preparations, and then the whole band turned -out to see them ride away.</p> - -<p>"I tell you what, Steve," said Murray, "we're not dressed in the latest -fashion, but I haven't felt so much like a white man for years. I'll act -like one too."</p> - -<p>There was a flash of pain in his eyes as he said that. Could it be he -had ever done anything unworthy of his race and training?</p> - -<p>Perhaps, for he had ridden on a great many war-paths with the fierce and -merciless Lipans.</p> - -<p>The latter would not follow till morning, and would move less rapidly -than their two scouts, but their progress was not likely to be at all -slow.</p> - -<p>Steve Harrison rode on by the side of his friend for some distance -without saying a word.</p> - -<p>"What's the matter, Steve?"</p> - -<p>"Murray, I don't mean ever to go back to the Lipans."</p> - -<p>"Not unless it's necessary."</p> - -<p>"It won't be necessary."</p> - -<p>"Can't say, Steve. All this country's full of Apaches. We may get a -sight of 'em any minute. I don't much care how soon we do, either."</p> - -<p>"I'm not Indian enough for some things, Murray."</p> - -<p>"Couldn't you fight Apaches?"</p> - -<p>"I suppose I could, if they came to fight me. But I don't want to kill -anybody. I thought you said you were feeling more like a white man."</p> - -<p>"Steve, I don't know how I'd feel if I had a white shirt on, and a suit -of civilized clothes. I'm a good deal of a savage yet, as it is."</p> - -<p>"I never saw anything very savage about you."</p> - -<p>"I'm on the war-path now, Steve, after my old enemies. Let's make as -good time as we can before dark. After that, we'll have to go carefully -till the moon's up."</p> - -<p>They were advancing a good deal more rapidly than the Apaches had been -able to do over that same pass, hindered by their long train of tired -pack-ponies, and their women and children.</p> - -<p>It was not a difficult trail to follow, for the lodge-pole ends, -dragging on the ground, had so deeply marked it that a man like Murray -could have found it in the dark.</p> - -<p>That was precisely what he did, after the sun sank behind the western -mountains, and the deep shadows crept up from the ravines and covered -everything.</p> - -<p>After the moon rose it was easier work, and Steve thought he had never -seen anything more beautiful than was the moonlight on the quartz -cliffs, and the forest, and the little lakes in the deep valleys, and on -the foaming streams which came tumbling down the mountain-sides from the -regions of perpetual snow above.</p> - -<p>Perhaps he was right, for hardly anybody has ever seen anything more -beautiful in its way than such a moonlight view as that.</p> - -<p>There was no time to stop and gaze, for Murray pushed on as fast as -possible without using up their tough and wiry mustangs.</p> - -<p>"We may need all the legs they've got to-morrow, Steve. We must find -grass and water for them before daybreak."</p> - -<p>It was a good three hours before sunrise, and the moon had again left -them in darkness, when they almost groped their way down a steep -declivity into a small hollow.</p> - -<p>"Can't say how much there is of it, Steve, but this'll do. The Apache -ponies have been cropping this very grass within twenty-four hours. Look -at that."</p> - -<p>"I can't see it very well."</p> - -<p>"Feel of it, then. Don't you understand such a sign as that?"</p> - -<p>"It's only a tuft of grass."</p> - -<p>"Yes, but I found it ready pulled off, and it hasn't had time to more -than wilt a little. The man that pulled it was here yesterday."</p> - -<p>Murray did not know it, but no man had pulled that grass. It was a bunch -Ni-ha-be had gathered for her pony, and then had thrown at Rita. Still, -the guess about the time of it was nearly right, and that was a good -enough place to rest in until daylight.</p> - -<p>"No cooking this morning, I suppose?" remarked Steve, when Murray shook -him out of the nice nap he had snatched, wrapped in his "serape," or -Mexican blanket. "No breakfast, eh?"</p> - -<p>"You don't know what tales a smoke might tell, or to whom it might tell -'em. Cold meat'll have to do for this time, and glad to get it. After -that, Steve, you'll do the most dangerous riding ever you did."</p> - -<p>"Why, are they so near?"</p> - -<p>"Can't be many miles. Our first hunt, though, will be for a place to -hide our horses in."</p> - -<p>"Why not leave 'em here?"</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p> - -<p>"I thought of that, but we may need 'em."</p> - -<p>Their morning ride was a longer one than Murray imagined, but before -noon he was able to say,</p> - -<p>"The backbone of the pass is miles behind us, Steve. All the rest of the -way'll be down hill, or kind of up and down."</p> - -<p>"Up and down" it was; but they had barely advanced another half-mile -before Steve exclaimed,</p> - -<p>"There they are, Murray!"</p> - -<p>"There they are. What a valley it is, too! But, Steve, they don't mean -to stay there—"</p> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/ill_012.jpg" width="400" height="318" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">"'A SPY-GLASS! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD ONE.'"</span> -</div> - -<p>"A spy-glass! I didn't know you had one. How do you tell that they won't -stay?"</p> - -<p>"The glass? It's a double one. Some army officer owned it once, I -suppose. I got it of old Two Knives himself. Nobody knows how it came to -him. Look through it."</p> - -<p>Steve had seen such things before, but had known very little about them. -He did not even know how very good a glass that was with which he was -now peering down upon the camp of the Apaches.</p> - -<p>"See the lodge-poles lying there? In a dozen places?"</p> - -<p>"They've put up some lodges."</p> - -<p>"If they meant to stay, they'd put up the others. No use for us to go -back. The Lipans are coming along."</p> - -<p>"But how can we get any further? We can't ride right through them."</p> - -<p>"I should say not. Nor over them, either. But if we can get into that -pine forest over there on the north slope, without being seen, we can -ride around them."</p> - -<p>"I'll risk it, Murray."</p> - -<p>"So will I, Steve. I'd never let you try a thing like that alone."</p> - -<p>"I could do it."</p> - -<p>"Perhaps. And you'll have a good many things of that kind to do before -you reach the settlements; but I guess I'll go with you this time."</p> - -<p>"You'd better go with me all the way."</p> - -<p>Murray said nothing, but he sprang from his horse, and Steve imitated -him.</p> - -<p>Men on foot were not so likely to be seen from the Apache camp.</p> - -<p>There was nothing in or about the camp which Murray did not carefully -study through his glass, and it showed him what was going on more -clearly and perfectly than even the wonderfully keen black eyes of -Ni-ha-be had seen it from almost the same spot the day before.</p> - -<p>"It's a hunting camp, Steve, but it's a very strong party."</p> - -<p>"Too strong for our Lipans?"</p> - -<p>"I don't know about that. If we could surprise them, by night, we might -do something with them."</p> - -<p>"I'm no Lipan, Murray. None of those people down there ever did me any -harm. Did they ever do you any? I don't mean any other Apaches; I'm just -speaking of that camp."</p> - -<p>"Well, no, I'm not sure about that. I don't know that I've any special -grudge against this lot."</p> - -<p>"Seems to me it's a good deal like an Indian to kill one man for what -another man did. I'm only a boy, and I've been among the Lipans three -years, but I've made up my mind to stay white."</p> - -<p>Steve spoke with a good deal of energy, and his robust form seemed to -stand up straighter.</p> - -<p>"You're right, Steve—don't you do a thing that isn't fit for your -color. I won't say anything more about myself just now."</p> - -<p>If anybody had been listening to those two that morning, or indeed at -any other time, he might have noticed something curious about the way -Steve Harrison talked. It was not to be wondered at that a veteran like -Murray should be slow of speech, and it suited well with his white hair -and his wrinkles.</p> - -<p>There was a good reason for it. Except when talking with Murray, Steve -had not heard a word of English for three years.</p> - -<p>Yes, there had been one other exception. Whenever he had found himself -all alone, he had talked to himself, asking and answering questions, and -listening to his own pronunciation of the words.</p> - -<p>"I shall get among white men some day," he thought, "and it would be a -dreadful thing to be white myself and not to talk white. Anyhow, I've -learned Mexican Spanish since I've been out here, and I'll be glad -enough to forget all I know of Indian talk."</p> - -<p>He did not know it, but some things he said sounded ten years older and -wiser just for his manner of saying them. Besides, he had had to think a -great deal, and to keep most of his thoughts to himself. Not a great -many boys do that.</p> - -<p>"Come on, Steve. That ledge isn't badly broken. Horses can follow it, -and it heads away right into the pine forest. We must try it."</p> - -<p>"We can get almost down into the valley without being seen."</p> - -<p>"Yes, and we can find out if any good gap opens out of the valley to the -northward."</p> - -<h4>[<span class="smcap">to be continued</span>.]</h4> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span></p> - -<h2><a name="CHRISTMAS_PREPARATIONS" id="CHRISTMAS_PREPARATIONS">CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS.</a></h2> - -<div class="figright" style="width: 257px;"> -<img src="images/ill_013.jpg" width="257" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig</span>. 1.—KNITTED AND CROCHET MITTEN.</span> -</div> - -<p>Now that Thanksgiving is over, the little folks are of course beginning -to think about Christmas. And how many presents there are to make! And -what are they to be?</p> - -<p>The question is so bewildering that we know some of our girl readers -will be glad to receive a suggestion. Who will make a warm pair of -mittens for some cold pair of little hands? If the following directions -are only followed, there will be no trouble:</p> - -<div class="figleft" style="width: 337px;"> -<img src="images/ill_014.jpg" width="337" height="400" alt="" /> -<span class="caption"><span class="smcap">Fig</span>. 2.—DETAIL OF MITTEN.</span> -</div> - -<p>These mittens are worked with white zephyr worsted and steel -knitting-needles of suitable size. The knitted part is all plain, with -the exception of a round of holes, through which is run a cord finished -with balls. The cuff is crocheted in Afghan stitch, and is set on the -mitten. For the mitten make a foundation of 36 stitches; close these in -a ring, and knit, always forward, as follows: 1st and 2d rounds—all -knit plain. 3d round—all purled. 4th round.—Always alternately throw -the thread over, knit two stitches together. 5th round—like the 3d -round. 6th to 50th rounds—all knit plain. But for the thumb gore in the -7th round widen 1 stitch on each side of the first stitch, working 1 -knit, 1 purled, on each stitch before and after this stitch. In the -10th, 13th, 16th, 19th, and 21st rounds work one widening in a straight -direction above the widening in the preceding round, the number of -stitches between the widenings increasing by 2 in each round. In the 22d -round take up the stitch of the gore and the stitches on both sides on -separate needles, and finish the thumb in 12 rounds, working always -forward. In the last 4 rounds close the thumb, narrowing three times, -one above another, in a straight direction, at regular intervals, and -work off the remaining 3 stitches together. Lay on the thread anew at -the main part, and finish the mitten, narrowing in the last 8 of the 50 -rounds four times at regular intervals, one above another, in a straight -direction, so that in the last round all the stitches are used up. For -the cuff, worked crosswise, make a foundation of 9 stitches, and on -these work 3 pattern rows in Afghan stitch. The 4th pattern row is -worked on the lower vertical veins of the pattern row before the last, -and thus becomes raised. The 6th pattern row is worked on the third, and -the 6th on the 5th pattern row. Repeat always the 4th to 6th pattern -rows until the cuff is of suitable width. Join the stitches of the last -pattern row with the foundation stitches, and edge the cuff with 1 round -as follows: * 1 single crochet on the first edge stitch between the next -2 pattern rows, 4 chain stitches, 1 single crochet on the fifth -following vein below, 4 chain stitches, 1 slip stitch on the first of -the 4 chain stitches before the last, 4 chain stitches, and repeat from -*; finally, 1 slip on the first single crochet in this round.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 466px;"><a name="BUBBLE_BUBBLE_BUBBLE" id="BUBBLE_BUBBLE_BUBBLE"></a> -<img src="images/ill_015.jpg" width="466" height="600" alt="" /> -</div> - -<h3>BY MARY A. BARR.</h3> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Bubble, bubble, bubble,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">For the little babies;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Good oatmeal and milk,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Fit for lords and ladies.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Jenny, set the table</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">With the spoons and dishes:</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Soon my bonnie bairnies</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Shall have all their wishes.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Take your places, children;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Keep the table steady.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">Are your aprons fastened?</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Are your dishes ready?</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">And such hungry children</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">No doubt will want double;</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">So, good pot, keep boiling,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">Bubble, bubble, bubble.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</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_016.jpg" width="600" height="254" alt="OUR POST-OFFICE BOX" /> -</div> - -<p>Some of our little friends seem to have the impression that there is a -charge made for publishing letters in this Post-office Box, and that -theirs will be published if they send the money to pay for them. This is -a mistake which we wish to correct. No charge is made for either the -letters or exchanges we publish in this department. But even with the -enlarged space now devoted to our young correspondents, we can print -only a selection from the thousands of letters we receive. If we were to -leave out all the bright stories and droll rhymes and all the -instructive articles, and make up <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> of letters only, -we are sure our boys and girls would protest against such a proceeding. -We want them to understand that we are trying to make the very best -Post-office Box that we can, and if the first little letter they send -does not find a niche, they must wait awhile, and then write a second, -and a third.</p> - -<p>Scholars in the Latin class must adopt "Dum spiro, spero" as their -motto, and pupils who have not yet begun Latin may take four little -letters, H O P E, for theirs.</p> - -<p>Please, when you write to us on business, be careful to sign your names -in full, and give also your full post-office address. Do this in every -case.</p> - -<p>Continue to be patient, even if your exchanges do not appear. If only -you knew how fast the exchanges come crowding in, you would understand -why it is that we must keep some of them lying in a pigeon-hole when we -desire very much indeed to have them translated into type.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Fort Custer, Montana</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I am a boy thirteen years of age, and live on the Little Horn -River, about ten miles from Custer's battle-field. We have quite a -number of cattle and a few horses. There are a great many elk, -deer, bears, buffaloes, wolves, and coyotes around here, though not -so many as there were a few years ago. There were a great many -Indians here in the spring. Two years ago the Crow scouts were -encamping about five hundred yards from our house, and one morning -about one o'clock the Sioux Indians came and stole all their -ponies. They exchanged about one hundred shots, but no one was -killed. The Crows all came over to our house, and were afraid to go -back to their tents until daylight. Next morning several soldiers -started in pursuit of the Sioux, and followed them for nearly three -weeks before they overtook them. They then had a fight; the -sergeant was killed, and they captured five Indians, and secured -the stolen ponies. I have never been out of Montana. I have never -seen a railroad car in my life.</p> - -<p>I have two brothers and one sister, and a number of pets. My -brothers hunt antelopes in the winter.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;">N. H. D.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Wissahickon, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I want to tell you about our bird Hensie. He is very cunning. He is -a young canary-bird, and likes soaked cracker. One morning my aunt -put a dry cracker in his cage. He took a piece of it in his bill, -hopped upon his bath-tub, and dropped the cracker in the water. He -watched it, and when it was soft, took it out and put it on the -floor of his cage, and began eating it. He has done this several -times since then. He tries very hard to sing, and imitates the -notes of the other canary-bird.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Robbie S. S</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Bound Brook, New Jersey</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I live on the bank of the Raritan River. Am eight years old, and -have a nephew fifteen years old, who shot six wild-ducks the other -day. I had nine pigeons, but they all went away except two. We had -a dog named Duke, and a man shot him. This is the first time I have -written to <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>. A friend of mamma's in Brooklyn -has sent it to us ever since it was published. There are lots of -robins around here. Give my respects to Jimmy Brown.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Paul Q. O</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Chimacum, Washington Territory</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I live in a lovely valley surrounded by high hills and mountains. -It is a very pleasant place in summer, but very dreary in winter, -as nothing can then be seen except snow in every direction. The -nearest town is called Port Townsend; it is about ten miles from -here. The Coast Range of mountains looms up in the west, and they -are really magnificent when the sun shines on them. There is quite -a large creek flowing through my father's farm, from which we get -large speckled trout. Many people come from the towns to fish in -the summer. There is a smelting furnace at the "Beach," two miles -from here, where iron ore is melted. The place is called Irondale, -and is the nearest post-office to this valley. There is a great -amount of bog ore in this valley, and as it is only a foot below -the surface of the ground, it is easily mined.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Barton R</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dear Santa Claus</span>,—Will you please give me a drum for a Christmas -present? I won't drum with it in the house, and I'll let my -brothers drum too. Papa said if I wrote to <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>, -maybe you would see it, and send me one. I am seven years old, and -my name is Hammond W. I live in Monticello, Sullivan Co., N. Y.</p> - -<p>Papa has taken <span class="smcap">Young People</span> for us for two years, and this year it -is mine. Please put this in, so I can get the drum.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Hammond W</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<blockquote> - -<p>My brother and myself have a little pony that is real cunning. I -was riding the other day, and a boy threw a snow-ball at her, and -she ran after him just as fast as she could go, and he had to jump -over a fence. The pony throws me off every time she gets a chance. -I put my arm out of joint a few months ago, and it is not strong -yet. I have a trapeze and some parallel rings. I can perform a -great many tricks. The water is nearly as high now as it was in the -spring. I was in Milwaukee a few weeks ago, and I saw the place -where Matthew Carpenter was buried, but did not go near it. I tried -to ride the bicycle that my brother rides, and I don't want to try -again. I have a collection of 950 stamps, and I will exchange rare -stamps, such as New Zealand, Servia, etc., for rare stamps and -coins.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">C. B. Bird</span>, Jefferson, Wis.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Apollo, Pennsylvania</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I am a boy just twelve years old. My brother takes <span class="smcap">Young People</span> for -Blanche and me, on condition that we shall not read novels. We are -having a new iron bridge, which will be free, built across the -river at this place. They have four piers built, and still have one -more, besides the two abutments, to finish. We used to pay toll -across the old bridge, which was carried away when the ice came -down the river last spring.</p> - -<p>We have good coasting here in winter, as this is only a little -country town of about fifteen hundred inhabitants. Our school -re-opened in September, and will be in session six months.</p> - -<p>I have three sisters and four brothers. Paul, the youngest, is a -chubby little fellow of two.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">A. Lincoln C</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Colfax, California</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>In <span class="smcap">Young People</span> No. 103 I saw a letter from Augusta C., South -Glastenbury, Connecticut. This young lady says she hates cats. I -should judge that she never had any. I disagree with her entirely. -Almost any cat, if fed well and petted, will make as affectionate a -little pet as one can desire. I have had a great many cats. When I -was a little girl, about five or six years old, I had a very nice -pussy, which I named Rose. She was exceedingly good and gentle, and -would allow me to dress her in my doll's clothes, and rock her in -my toy cradle. I have a very pretty kitten now. She is black, with -dainty white paws, and great sleepy yellow eyes. She is very gentle -and loving, and purrs loudly whenever I fondle her. I have named -her Niketa. I hope Miss Augusta will see that she is mistaken in -saying that <i>all</i> cats are treacherous, and "care for nothing but -their own comfort." I know of many cases where cats have displayed -their love for human beings.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Jeannie K. P</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Emmetsburg, Iowa</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>My little brother is off with papa in the country, and I hope you -will publish my letter so that I can surprise him, as I am going to -keep it secret. I am almost seven, and can ride nicely. We have a -pony named Bonny, and I have been riding all day; three of us -little ones ride at the same time, and sometimes four, but not far. -I had a cat named Fannie, and we had to have her killed this -morning, for she had an awful spasm. We had three pet lambs, Gypsy, -Topsy, and Flirt, but we have sent them to the farm for the winter. -Mamma is writing for me. "Good-night, and pleasant dreams."</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Daisy O</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Neenah, Wisconsin</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I am a little boy seven years old. I have a dog named Rover. I go -to school to my auntie. I have no sister nor brother here, but I -have two little sisters in heaven. My mamma gave me an express -wagon. I am going to take <span class="smcap">Young People</span> until I am a big man.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Allie Harwood L</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Newark, New Jersey</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I go to the public school, and take advantage of all that my -teacher tells us. We have a very good teacher; her name is Miss H. -The boys and girls saved their pennies and bought pictures, etc., -to decorate our room. Do you not think that it is nice to see that -your room is the nicest room in the school? When we are through our -lessons we can go to a table, which is called the reading-table. -Here you can find story-books of all kinds, and among these is -<span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>. On the same table you can also find cubes, -scales, measures, weights, etc. We are all the time saying, If we -only could see something about our school! and I hope that you will -print this in the Post-office Box. We will visit <span class="smcap">Harper's Young -People</span> one of these days.</p> - -<p>Is this written plain enough?</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;">C. F. K.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>Written so plainly that tired eyes were rested when they read it. It is -a splendid idea to have that reading-table in your class-room.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Athens, Georgia</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I am nine years of age. I have a pet cat, and her name is Beauty, -and I have a dog whose name is Rex. I have a sister older than -myself; she is ten years of age. I go to school to Miss Fannie A. I -like her very well, although she sometimes scolds. I have an uncle -who sends us the <span class="smcap">Young People</span>. I liked "All-Hallow-eve" very much. -My sister Hallie has a pet dog, whose name is Flirt. She is so -timid that if you go in the yard with a stick, and make believe -that you are going to whip her, she will get down on her stomach, -and keep right still until you go away. I think this is long -enough, so good-by.</p> - -<p>Your friend,</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Annie H</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Woodside, near Lincolnton, North Carolina</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I wish again, my dear young friends, to thank you for the books, -papers, and the box of things for the Christmas tree that have come -since I wrote to you last. I am so glad you keep sending them, for -I find so many who need them, and to whom they will do so much -good. We have some money, and will begin having the lumber for the -school-house hauled to the mill to be sawed very soon now—as soon -as the men sow their wheat and get in their corn. The parcels I -have received have been from Miss Emma Joiner, Easton, Md.; Miss -Julia Langden, Elmira, N. Y.; Rev. David Strang, Lincoln, Tenn.; -Mrs. E. A. Clark, Battle Creek, Mich.; Miss Maria McRene Suydam, -Newark, N. J.; Miss Mary O'Neil, Miss Clara Copeland, Miss Harper, -Miss Millie Glover, Miss Hattie Burgess, Miss Cora Cote, Miss Livia -Mandeville, Miss Grace Webb, Miss Etta Coulter, and Miss Hattie -Plinney, Rochester, N. Y.; Miss Mary Harkell, Weathersfield, Vt.; -Master Charles Graff, Harlem, New York City; Miss Carrie Yardley, -Lockhaven, Penn.; Mrs. Harrison, Walnut Creek, Col.; Mrs. P. A. -Harrison, Dewbury, Barry County, Mich.; Miss McFarland and Mrs. -Snyder, Paxton, Ill.; Miss Miriam Oliver, Milwaukee, Wis.; Master -Paul Krughoff, Nashville, Ill.; Master N. B. Blunt, Lexington -Avenue, New York City; Miss Annie Wetzell, Grand Rapids, Mich.; -Master George R. Hitchcock, Champlain, N. Y.; Miss Helen Woodworth, -268 Ryerson Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Master Walter Anderson, -Nashville, Ill.; Mrs. S. B. Bortwick, South Amboy, N. J.; Miss -Ethel and Master Vivian Ketchum, Augusta, Ill.; Miss Minna -Mandeville, Kinderhook, N. Y.: Miss M. D. L., Madison, N. J.; Miss -Corinne Redden, Master Bertie Ellis, and Miss Winnie Needles, -Nashville, Ill.; Miss Slack, Bristol, Penn.</p> - -<p>Our school keeps growing, and now numbers fifty-six. They are -learning very well indeed. They are now learning on Saturday -afternoons a carol to sing at Christmas! Not many can read; they -have to learn the words orally. They catch the tune very quickly. -They are looking forward with so much pleasure to the expected tree -at Christmas. I wish I could tell you what a happy time it will be -for them all, and how often I wish that you could all spend a -Sunday with us, and see how pleased they are to be learning. We -do—all of us who teach them—thank you so much for your kind and -generous help! I will write you all about the tree after Christmas. -Truly your grateful friend,</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Mrs. Richardson</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Jacksonville, Illinois</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>The Editor said that we little girls must write about our dolls, so -I thought I would. I have not seen any letters from this place. I -must begin to write about my dolls. I have seven baby dolls—Lillie -(a wax one), Daisy, Phœbe (she is wax too), Mattie, Ludie, -Boneby, and last a little doll, not an inch long, called Neil. I -had four birds, and they all died; three doves and five cats, and -they all ran away or were killed. I now have a white and black cat. -Mamma drives a spirited horse, and we all make a great pet of him.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Grace A. M</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Newark, New Jersey</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I am a little girl six years old. My brother takes <span class="smcap">Harper's Young -People</span>, but I love to read it, and I read it all myself. I like to -read the letters best. I have been reading since I was four years -old, and we have had <span class="smcap">Young People</span> from the first, and on rainy days -we get the numbers out and look them all over. We have two dogs -named Beaut and Snooze. Snooze has a "bobtail." I have a black cat, -with a few white spots, named Harry, and when I take him up he puts -his two paws around my neck, as though he wanted to love me. He -never scratches or acts ugly to me. I have three dolls, named -Fannie, Bessie, and Nellie. I have a cousin Anna, just my size, and -we play together often. I go to Sunday-school every Sunday, and -learn the Golden Text; then I get a pink ticket for saying it, and -when I have four pink tickets, I get a pretty floral card for -them.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span> I study at home with mamma. I can read, spell, and cipher, -and now I am learning to write. I hope to see my letter in <span class="smcap">Young -People</span>. Mamma is writing this letter for me, but I told her what to -write. Your friend,</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Hattie C</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Weymouth, Massachusetts</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I have a hen-house of my own, and I am going to keep hens this -winter. I have fifteen brown Leghorns and a rooster. I have made a -silo, and filled it with sorrel for them to eat in the winter. If -any of the boys who read <span class="smcap">Young People</span> keep hens, I would like to -hear from them. I have a cat that weighs thirteen pounds. I am -eleven years old.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">H. Everett C</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Fairview, Louisiana</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I am a little Southern girl nine years old. My grandpa has taken -Harper's publications as long as my mamma can remember, and has -taken <span class="smcap">Young People</span> for me ever since it came out. I have never been -to a school, as there is none near us. I said my lessons to a -Northern lady who was visiting her sister last year for four -months, and she taught me all I know about writing. I say my -lessons to mamma now. I think <span class="smcap">Young People</span> is splendid. I live on a -plantation about a mile from the Mississippi River. When it is -high, we can read the names of the boats. It seems so strange to -read about snow up North, when we have not had a frost. We have -geraniums growing in the yard, and plenty of roses in bloom. We -have nine pecan-trees; they are full of pecans. I have four dolls, -and lots of play-things. Bob, Buddy, and I have a play-house under -the grape-vine. I like to play with dolls very much.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;">H. M. S.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Brooklyn, New York</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>I have three tame turtles. I put them all in a row to see which one -can go the fastest. But the two big ones have now made their way -into the ground, and left the little one behind, and so I have -helped the little one to make its way into the ground with the -others. I have a lot of pigeons, and I have some chickens. We were -going out to the woods to-day to get some autumn leaves and moss, -but it rained, so I thought I would write a letter to you.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Jesse W. P</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Modie G</span>.—Your friend who thinks the Editor of <span class="smcap">Young People</span> writes the -letters in Our Post-office Box is mistaken. If she could only see what a -budget awaits the Editor every morning, she would open her eyes quite -wide with amazement. We are glad you learn to recite the pretty poems -which are printed in <span class="smcap">Young People</span>.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Some of you are now and then puzzled and disappointed because your paper -suddenly ceases to come to you on its usual day; you wonder what has -happened to it. Let us tell you how to make such a provoking experience -impossible. On the left-hand corner of the cover, just after the number -of the volume, you will observe the number of the paper for the current -week. Now look at the little printed label which bears your name, and on -the right of your name you will perceive certain figures; they tell you -the number of <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span> with which your subscription will -expire. Within a few weeks of that number's arrival, ask papa to please -renew the paper for you, and it will then go on without an interruption.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Willie and Others</span>.—Mud-turtles are managed during the winter just as -land-turtles are; that is, given a tub of wet sand, and allowed to -burrow there and go to sleep, as they do in the marshes where they live -in freedom. You will find paragraphs about turtles in the Post-office -Box of Nos. 5, 28, and 51, Vol. I.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>C. Y. P. R. U.</h3> - -<p>So far as she can, the Postmistress answers questions and publishes -letters in the order of their reception. Nobody need feel slighted if -attention to him or her is deferred. The turn of each will come in time.</p> - -<p>And now to reply to some of the inquiries which are winking their -inquisitive eyes like animated interrogation points while the -Postmistress puts on her thinking-cap:</p> - -<p>What were the original Seven Wonders of the World? They were these: 1. -The Pyramids of Egypt. 2. The Mausoleum built for Mausolus, King of -Caria, by his queen Artemisia. 3. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus. 4. The -Walls and Hanging Gardens of Babylon. 5. The vast brazen image of the -sun at Rhodes, called the Colossus. 6. The ivory and gold statue of -Jupiter Olympus, at Olympia. 7. The Pharos, or Watch-tower, built by -Ptolemy Philadelphus at Alexandria. You will find it an interesting and -profitable pursuit for the long winter evenings to read something about -these Wonders in the pages of ancient history. These Wonders were given -in the Post-Office Box of No. 61, Vol. II., but we repeat them for the -benefit of the C. Y. P. R. U.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I am asked why the capital of France was called Paris. It derives its -name from the Parish, a tribe of aborigines whom Cæsar met and defeated -in his conquest of Gaul. This tribe occupied the island in the Seine on -which the famous Cathedral of Notre Dame stands.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dear Postmistress</span>,—Can I do anything toward beautifying our ugly, -old-fashioned parlor? It is covered with a horrid red and green -Brussels carpet, an abomination to artistic eyes. The family -photographs, in lozenge-shaped frames, adorn the walls, and the -furniture is hopelessly hideous. Can you suggest anything? Don't -mention Japanese fans or banners; mother wouldn't tolerate them. -Don't speak of unbleached muslin curtains; they wouldn't be given -house room. But do tell me how I can make the room look <i>livable</i>, -for that is just what it does not look at present. An old -school-mate is coming to visit me next month, and I blush to own -it, but I am ashamed to have her see our dreadful parlor.</p></blockquote> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Harriet L</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>The carpet and pictures, as you describe them, are discouraging. But -people must do the best they can under the circumstances which are -theirs. One of the pleasantest parlors I ever saw had a rag-carpet on -the floor, and a map of the United States, bordered by the heads of the -successive Presidents, on the wall. In the first place, keep your parlor -resplendently clean; don't permit the suspicion of dust or the trail of -stray shreds and thread on the too brilliant carpet. Admit the sunshine -and air every day. Fill the windows with plants—blooming plants, if -possible, but green, growing ones at all events. Fill a glass globe with -sprays of tradiscanthia, which grows rapidly in water, and set that on -the middle of the table. Bring your choicest books, and put them where -visitors can read them. "Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, -sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book, and the family must -be poor indeed which, once in their lives, can not for such multipliable -barley loaves pay their baker's bill." I do not know why I think so, but -I am very sure that you have some books in your house; and believe me, -nothing furnishes a room more beautifully than a few books. I do not -admire fans and screens very much myself, and I am no friend to curtains -and tidies and such things, unless one has plenty of time to care for -them. But you have doubtless a large, old-fashioned sofa. Make a -generous-looking pillow to invite the weary head, and put it at one end -of the sofa, and at the other lay a gay patchwork quilt. Study harmony, -and even in an ugly room harmony will evolve a certain degree of beauty. -Every parlor should aim at some high effect. The key-note of your aim -should be comfort, and comfort carried to its ultimate superlative is -luxury.</p> - -<p>The only way I know of to make a room look <i>livable</i> is to live in it. -Sit in your parlor every day. Gather the household there every evening. -Don't be ashamed of the friendly, familiar faces on the walls, nor, -indeed, suffer in yourself any shame of any honest thing that belongs to -you or yours, your home or your environment. So advises the -Postmistress.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>We are indebted to the Rev. A. B. Russell, of Cumberland Furnace, -Dickson County, Tennessee, for the following interesting item -illustrating the reasoning power of animals. Necessity is the parent of -invention, and even a hog, it seems, can do something which resembles -thinking:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>We passed a full-grown hog with a cob usually in its mouth, -especially when lying down, to enable it to breathe well, it having -had its nose torn off at the extremity, some months ago, by a -ferocious dog, to which I was witness. An instance of the reasoning -of animal mind.</p></blockquote> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">To Bronze Plaster or Soapstone Figures</span>.—Give them a sizing of glue; rub -them down with a piece of flannel. Take equal parts of Prussian blue, -spruce ochre, and verditer, and mix with water, oil, or turpentine, each -separately; then mix together so as to produce the shade desired. Apply -with a small brush.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>L. M. E.—There are several excellent agricultural colleges in the -Eastern States. Among them are the State College of Agriculture and the -Mechanic Arts, at Orono, Maine; the Massachusetts Agricultural College, -at Amherst; New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, -at Hanover; College of Agriculture, in connection with Cornell -University, at Ithaca, New York; Pennsylvania State College, Centre -County, Pennsylvania; and State Agricultural College, at Burlington, -Vermont. At any of these a student may be sure of the conditions which -you mention.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The members of the C. Y. P. R. U. will find in this number the -conclusion of "The Wreck of the <i>Grosvenor</i>" to which we called their -attention last week, and an article of great interest on the -"Piano-forte," by Mrs. John Lillie.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h2>PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.</h2> - -<h3>No. 1.</h3> - -<h3>DOUBLE ENIGMA.</h3> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">In barter, not in sale.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">In liquor, not in juice.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">In umbrella, not in veil.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 20em;">In either, not in choose.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">In binding, not in wedge.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">In island, not in ledge.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">In rosy, not in pale.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 19em;">In drooping, not in frail.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">My whole are two favorite song-birds.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Elsie Fay</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>No. 2.</h3> - -<h3>A GEOGRAPHICAL PUZZLE.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">My first is the initial letter of a river in England.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My second is that of a city in Pennsylvania.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My third is that of a river in South America.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My fourth, of an island off the coast of Labrador.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My fifth is that of one of the States.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My sixth, that of a noted summer resort.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My seventh, that of a lake in Switzerland.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My eighth, of a lake in Minnesota.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My ninth, of a city in Austria.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My tenth, of one of the British isles.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My eleventh, of a branch of the Amazon.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My twelfth, of a city in Italy.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My whole is something you have lately enjoyed.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Katie</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>No. 3.</h3> - -<h3>AN EASY ENIGMA.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">My first is in mouse, but not in rat.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My second in kitten, but not in cat.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My third in stag, but not in deer.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My fourth is in milk, but not in beer.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">My fifth is in stone, but not in sand.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">And my whole is something that can not stand.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Katie M</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>No. 4.</h3> - -<h3>EASY WORD SQUARE.</h3> - -<p class="center">1. A girl's name. 2. Death. 3. A token. 4. A mountain.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Phil I. Pene</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h3>No. 5.</h3> - -<h3>BEHEADINGS.</h3> - -<p>Behead a story, and leave a beverage. A boy's nickname, and leave a -verb. Behead to annoy, and leave metal in its rough state. Behead a part -of a tree, and leave the edge of a wall. Behead an animal, and leave a -personal pronoun. The first letters of the beheaded words spell an -indispensable article of furniture.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 23em;"><span class="smcap">Maud B</span>.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h2>ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 106.</h2> - -<h3>No. 1.</h3> - -<p class="center">Burlington. Gentian.</p> - -<h3>No. 2.</h3> - -<p class="center">Fox-hound.</p> - -<h3>No. 3.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">M</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">N</td><td align="center">D</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">M</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">N</td><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">R</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">N</td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">U</td><td align="center">E</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">N</td><td align="center">O</td><td align="center">U</td><td align="center">N</td><td align="center">S</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">D</td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">S</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<h3>No. 4.</h3> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="center">C</td><td align="center">H</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">D</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">H</td><td align="center">I</td><td align="center">D</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">R</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">I</td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">N</td><td align="center">E</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">M</td><td align="center">E</td><td align="center">L</td><td align="center">T</td><td align="center">S</td></tr> -<tr><td align="center">B</td><td align="center">R</td><td align="center">A</td><td align="center">S</td><td align="center">S</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Correct answers to puzzles have been received from Jonas D. Cooper, -Bertie Wheeler, Arthur Zinn, Nathan Glucksman, Belle Walrath, Maggie -Cushing, William A. Lewis, "Lodestar."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The following are the names of the little folks who have succeeded in -reproducing our artist's idea of Wiggle No. 22. We shall be glad if each -will send us his or her address:</p> - -<p>W. M. Duff, George Strauss, "Scamp," H. Hull, Sadie E. Lyon, Bessie S. -Brown, L. H. Gibbs, "Tip," J. R., Peter B. Havenagh, J. A. H., Wilfred -Hostetter, E. S. C. (aged six years), Arthur Beames, Carl Woodruff, and -Gertie Davis.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center">[<i>For Exchanges, see third page of cover.</i>]</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 461px;"> -<img src="images/ill_017.jpg" width="461" height="500" alt="" /> -<span class="caption">THE LAST OF THE THANKSGIVING FEAST.</span> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h2>WHAT AM I?</h2> - -<p>I am brown or gray. I may be painted any color. Under some -circumstances, I am very annoying to sensitive ears. As I make no sound, -and am a fixture, so I can not annoy any one. My swift motion may give -uneasiness to those unaccustomed to me, but as I am an act of mutilation -performed by a person, which I am not, of course I can not stir. When in -rapid motion, with all my equipments, I am a very pretty sight. To some, -seeing me only suggests sickness and bitterness. I can't be seen, for I -am intangible, and can only be heard. I can't be heard, for when I am -done, no sound is heard, because I am an act, not a thing. I make no -sound when in motion. Poems have been written in my honor. Many -anathemas also have I excited, particularly from the sleepless. Yet I -don't see how it is possible for <i>me</i>—colorless, brown, soundless, -sharp, rasping, tasteless, bitter, motionless, vibrating, quiescent, -gliding—to excite either pleasurable or the contrary emotions in any -one. Absolutely valueless, save to my owner, I play an important part in -commerce. I am an article of merchandise, and very expensive. A little -of me goes a great way, and costs a great deal. I take up very little -space. In spacious quarters I require a large amount of leeway. Large -revenues are derived from me. I can be had for the taking, and generally -am regarded as a nuisance. No one can like me, I am so disagreeable; yet -to many I am the dearest thing they own. No owner would willingly part -with me. I am a protection, a home, and, to crown all, I am vegetable, -mineral, and medicinal.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -<h2>ENIGMA.</h2> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The lady treads her lofty halls,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Her robes are long and fine,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And because of my first their velvet folds</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">With softest, lustre shine.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">And when the revel and rout are done,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">And the robes are laid away,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Again my first the lady takes</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Through half the livelong day.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">Through every land beneath the sun</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Where Nature's touch we find,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">It's never my last that's "more than kin."</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Though always "less than kind."</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">The sweetest lips that e'er were kissed</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">Have to my whole been pressed:</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 17em;">It rests on the knees of feeble age,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 18em;">On the infant's tender breast.</span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 700px;"> -<img src="images/ill_018.jpg" width="700" height="453" alt="" /> -</div> - -<div class="center"> -<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary=""> -<tr><td align="left">He did not read his book, but ate a deal of cake.</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">And so, although he tried, he could not keep awake;</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">Thus fast asleep he fell, and very, very soon</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">He had a horrid nightmare, in the afternoon—</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">The table grew an elephant, the cake changed to a tiger,</td></tr> -<tr><td align="left">And gobbled up his little self, who turned into a ni'ger.</td></tr> -</table></div> - -<p style="clear:both;"> </p> - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Begun in No. 101, <span class="smcap">Harper's Young People</span>.</p></div></div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Harper's Young People, November 29, -1881, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, NOV 29, 1881 *** - -***** This file should be named 50163-h.htm or 50163-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/1/6/50163/ - -Produced by Annie R. 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