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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 56741 ***
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+[Illustration: HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE]
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+VOL. III.--NO. 128. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
+CENTS.
+
+Tuesday, April 11, 1882. Copyright, 1882, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
+per Year, in Advance.
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+"FOR LO! HE HATH ARISEN."
+
+BY S. S. CONANT.
+
+  The sun in heaven was darkened when Christ the Lord was slain,
+  And in the holy Temple the veil was rent in twain;
+  And all His sad disciples in sorrow bowed the head;
+  They thought His reign was ended; was not the Master dead?
+
+  Within the tomb they laid Him; the Roman watch was set,
+  And there were moans and weeping where'er His followers met;
+  All hope was dead within them; the Star of Bethlehem
+  Had set in utter darkness, and what was left for them?
+
+  In sorrow and in mourning the Sabbath passed away;
+  But early on the morrow, just at the break of day,
+  To seek His tomb the Marys went silently and slow,
+  Who by the cross had waited, and were the last to go.
+
+  They carried precious ointment and spices rich and rare,
+  The body of the Master for burial to prepare;
+  Their hearts were sad and heavy, their weeping eyes downcast,
+  And not a word was spoken as toward the tomb they passed.
+
+  But when they stood beside it, what wonder struck their sight?
+  Behold, a glorious angel, in robes of shining white;
+  They heard with joy and wonder the gracious words he said:
+  "Why seek ye here the Master, the living with the dead?
+
+  "For lo! He hath arisen--behold where He hath lain--
+  From death He hath arisen for evermore to reign;
+  Go, tell His sad disciples, that they may weep no more;
+  In Galilee then seek Him, where He hath gone before."
+
+  'Twas in the early morning, just at the break of day,
+  He rose to drive the darkness, the night of sin, away;
+  And on this dawn there follows no darkness and no night;
+  He lives and reigns forever, the Lord of life and light.
+
+
+
+
+EASTER IN JERUSALEM.
+
+BY LYDIA M. FINKELSTEIN.
+
+
+Nearly nineteen hundred years ago there dawned in Jerusalem, that
+once-favored city, the glorious morning of the Resurrection. This Holy
+City has not vanished from the face of the earth, but still stands a
+silent witness of the scene so dear to humanity that was once enacted
+there.
+
+All over the Christian world, wherever it is celebrated, Easter brings
+its wondrous tide of joy and gladness, but in Jerusalem it is observed
+with great rejoicings. That city is now, even as it was of old, the
+resort of thousands of pilgrims from every quarter of the globe, who
+come to spend Easter within its ancient walls. These visitors differ
+from one another in ideas, manners, language, and costume, and yet have
+a certain unity in the purpose for which they have assembled.
+
+Every pilgrim wends his way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which
+is, according to tradition, the tomb of our Saviour. This church is a
+large building, with beautiful belfries, its front is richly sculptured,
+and though time-worn and gray, it presents a magnificent appearance. It
+is now always crowded with pilgrims from every clime, of every race and
+color, worshipping at the various shrines.
+
+Six different denominations--Roman Catholic, Greek, Armenians, Syrians,
+Copts, and Maronites--perform their services in their own rites and
+language in this church, so that a spectator can see almost every
+nationality represented there in its own peculiar costume.
+
+Jerusalem is a little world in itself at this time of the year. The
+streets are very gay and crowded. Merchants from Damascus and other
+places come hither, bringing wares of various kinds, which they display
+in the stores. Life and activity are the characteristics of this season.
+
+The Mohammedans, also, celebrate the death of Moses at this time, and
+the streets are filled with their pilgrim processions, consisting of men
+and boys with drums, tabors, cymbals, and tambourines, which combine to
+produce a peculiarly barbarous sound. Then come dervishes, with long
+dishevelled hair, carrying spears and hatchets, dancing, leaping, and
+feigning to cut themselves with swords. Following all these is a mixed
+crowd of men, women, and children shouting, singing, and clapping their
+hands. Thus they proceed to the supposed tomb of Moses, which the
+Mohammedans have located on the western side of the Jordan.
+
+Eggs beautifully colored are seen in almost every store, and hundreds of
+children crowd round them, buying as many as they can. Then they get
+together, and see who can win the most eggs by breaking both ends with
+one strong egg. These eggs are hard boiled, and when broken are eaten by
+the children, or sold to each other for a mere nothing.
+
+On Good-Friday the Protestant residents (German, English, and American)
+go out to the Garden of Gethsemane, and hold a short religious service
+under the ancient olive-trees, singing favorite old hymns.
+Easter-morning services are held in the quaint Gothic English church,
+which is then often crowded with American and English tourists. The hymn
+"Jesus Christ is risen to-day, Hallelujah!" is sung with fervor; and
+when the clergyman reads the lesson for the day, one can almost picture
+to himself how Christ, nineteen hundred years ago, walked through this
+very city, blessing just such little children as those who now throng
+the streets selling bright flowers.
+
+In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre services are conducted all Saturday
+night until Sunday at dawn, when hundreds of bells ring out their chimes
+that the Saviour is risen. The church is so crowded as to leave barely
+standing room, and the vast multitude, led by the priests and
+accompanied by the rich peals of the organ, sing the hymn of the
+Resurrection. After the blessing is pronounced, the congregation salute
+each other with "Christ is risen!--may we live to celebrate this feast
+another year!"
+
+Easter-tide in Jerusalem is the children's great festival, more so than
+Christmas, because they receive more presents at this "Great Feast," as
+it is there called. Every child, rich and poor, has a new outfit made
+for this day, and cakes and candies in abundance. Besides the gorgeously
+tinted eggs there are bright-colored cards and other tokens suitable to
+the day, and amusements of every description are arranged.
+
+Easter picnics continue during the two following weeks. The fields are
+at this time of the year all green with half-ripe grain, and bright
+flowers are seen everywhere. Nature is clothed in her gayest robes of
+beauty. In order to make these picnics more enjoyable for the children,
+many families and schools have a fashion of hiding brilliant eggs,
+colored in red, blue, yellow, pink, purple, and gold, among the mossy
+rocks and in the green grass amongst the flowers. The children are then
+sent to hunt for them, and a great deal of merriment is excited as they
+eagerly rush about, each one trying to find the most.
+
+So to a Jerusalem child Easter is always associated with a crowded city
+of strangers from all parts of the world, clear blue skies, and bright
+green fields filled with beautiful flowers. Everybody rejoices and
+commemorates the glorious resurrection of the Son of Man, who, like
+themselves, was once a child in this very city, and witnessed similar
+scenes, when strangers came from afar to celebrate the Feast of the
+Passover at Jerusalem.
+
+
+
+
+MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER.[1]
+
+[1] Begun in No. 127, HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+BY JAMES OTIS,
+
+AUTHOR OR "TOBY TYLER," "TIM AND TIP," ETC.
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+THE BLIND HORSE.
+
+
+Reddy had laid his plans so well that all the intending partners were
+where they could easily be found on this evening when Toby's consent was
+to be won, and Ben Cushing was no exception. On the hard, uneven floor
+of his father's barn, with all his clothes discarded save his trousers
+and shirt, he was making such heroic efforts in the way of practice,
+that while the boys were yet some distance from the building they could
+hear the thud of Ben's head or heels as he unexpectedly came in contact
+with the floor.
+
+[Illustration: BEN PRACTICING IN HIS FATHER'S BARN.]
+
+When the three visitors stood at the door and looked in, Ben professed
+to be unaware of their presence, and began a series of hand-springs that
+might have been wonderful if he had not miscalculated the distance, and
+struck the side of the barn just as he was getting well into the work.
+
+Then, having lost his opportunity of dazzling them by showing that even
+when he was alone he could turn any number of hand-springs simply in
+the way of exercise, he suddenly became aware of their presence, and
+greeted his friends with the anxiously asked question as to what Toby
+had decided to do about entering the circus business.
+
+Bob and Reddy, instead of answering, waited for Toby to speak; it was a
+good opportunity to have the important matter settled definitely, and
+they listened anxiously for his decision.
+
+"I'm goin' into it," said Toby, after a pause, during which it appeared
+as if he were trying to make up his mind, "'cause it seems as if you had
+it almost done now. You know, when I got home last summer, I didn't ever
+want to hear of a circus or see one, for I'd had about enough of them;
+an' then I'd think of poor Mr. Stubbs, an' that would make me feel awful
+bad. I didn't think, either, that we could get up such a good show; but
+now you fellers have got so much done toward it, I think we'd better go
+ahead--though I do wish Mr. Stubbs was alive, an' we had a skeleton an'
+a fat woman."
+
+Reddy Grant cheered very loudly as a means of showing how delighted he
+was at thus having finally enlisted Toby in the scheme, and Bob, as
+proof of the high esteem in which all the projectors of the enterprise
+held this famous circus-rider, said:
+
+"Now you know all about circuses, Toby, an' you shall be the chief boss
+of this one, an' we'll do just what you say."
+
+Toby almost blushed as this great honor was actually thrust upon him,
+and he hardly knew what reply to make, when Ben ceased his acrobatic
+exercises, and with Bobby and Reddy stood waiting for him to give his
+orders.
+
+"I s'pose the first thing to do," he said at length, "is to see if Jack
+Douglass is willin' for us to have his hoss, an' then find out what
+Uncle Dan'l says about it. If we don't get the hoss, it won't be any use
+to say anything to Uncle Dan'l."
+
+Reddy was so anxious to have matters settled at once that he offered to
+go up to Mr. Douglass's house then, if the others would wait there for
+his return, which proposition was at once accepted.
+
+Mr. Douglass was an old colored man who lived fully half a mile from the
+village; but Reddy's eagerness caused quick travelling, and in a
+surprisingly short time he was back, breathless and happy. The coveted
+horse was to be theirs for as long a time as they wanted him, provided
+they fed him well, and did not attempt to harness him into a wagon.
+
+The owner of the sightless animal had expressed his doubts as to whether
+he would ever make much of a circus horse, owing to his lack of sight
+and his extreme age; but he argued that if, as was very probable, the
+animal fell while being ridden, he would hurt his rider quite as much as
+himself, and therefore the experiment would not be tried so often as
+seriously to injure the steed.
+
+It only remained to consult Uncle Daniel on the matter, and of course
+that was to be attended to by Toby. He would have waited until a fitting
+opportunity presented itself, but his companions were so impatient, that
+he went home at once to have the case decided.
+
+Uncle Daniel was seated by the window as usual, looking out over the
+distant hills as if he were trying to peer in at the gates of that city
+where so many loved ones awaited him, and it was some moments before
+Toby could make him understand what it was he was trying to say.
+
+"So ye didn't get circusin' enough last summer?" asked the old
+gentleman, when at last he realized what it was the boy was talking
+about.
+
+"Oh yes, I did," replied Toby, quickly; "but you see that was a real
+one, an' this of ours is only a little make-believe for three cents. We
+want to get you to let us have the lot between the barn an' the road to
+put our tent on, an' then lend us old Whitey. We're goin' to have Jack
+Douglass's hoss that's blind, an' we've got a three-legged cat, an' one
+without any tail, an' lots of things."
+
+"It's a kind of a cripples' circus, eh? Well, Toby boy, you can do as
+you want to, an' you shall have old Whitey; but it seems to me you'd
+better tie her lame leg on, or she'll shake it off when you get to
+makin' her cut up antics."
+
+Then Uncle Daniel returned to his reverie, and the show was thus decided
+upon, the projectors going again to view the triangular piece of land so
+soon to be decorated with their tents and circus belongings.
+
+Each hour that passed after Toby had decided, with Uncle Daniel's
+consent, to go into the circus business, made him more eager to carry
+out the brilliant plan that had been unfolded by Bob Atwood and Reddy
+Grant, until his brain was in a perfect whirl when he went to bed that
+night.
+
+He was sure he could ride as well as when he was under Mr. Castle's
+rather severe training, and he thought over and over again how he would
+surprise every one who knew him; but he did not stop to think that there
+might be a difference between the horse he had ridden in the circus and
+the lame one of Uncle Daniel's, or the blind one belonging to Mr.
+Douglass. He had an idea that it all depended upon himself, with very
+little reference to the animal, and he was sure he had his lesson
+perfectly.
+
+Early as he got up the next morning, his partners in the enterprise were
+waiting for him just around the corner of the barn, where he found them
+as he went for the cows, and they walked to the pasture with him in
+order to discuss the matter.
+
+Ben Cushing was in light marching and acrobatic costume, worn for the
+occasion, in order to give a full exhibition of his skill; and Reddy had
+been up so long that he had had time to procure Mr. Douglass's wonderful
+steed, which he had already led to the pasture, so that he could be
+experimented upon.
+
+"I thought I'd get him up there," he said to Toby, "so's you could try
+him; 'cause if we don't get money enough to hire one of Rube Rowe,
+you'll have to ride the blind one or the lame one, an' you'd better find
+out which you want. If you try him in the pasture, the fellers won't see
+you; but if you did it down by your house, every one of 'em would huddle
+'round."
+
+It was a warm job Bob had undertaken, this leading the blind animal
+along the ill-defined line that marked the limits of the ring, for the
+sun shone brightly, and there were no friendly trees to lend a shelter;
+but he paid no attention to his discomfort, because of the fact that he
+was doing something toward the enterprise which was to bring them in
+both honor and money.
+
+The poor old horse was the least interested of the party, and he
+stumbled around the circle in an abused sort of way, as if he considered
+it a piece of gross injustice to force him on the weary round when the
+grass was so plentiful and tender just under his feet.
+
+Ben was busily engaged in lengthening Mr. Douglass's rather weak and
+aged bridle with a small piece of rope, and from time to time he
+encouraged the ambitious clown in his labor.
+
+"Keep it up, if it is hot!" he shouted, "an' when we get him so's he can
+do it alone, he'll be jest as good a circus hoss as anybody would want,
+for we can stuff him with hay an' grass till he's fat," and Ben looked
+at the clearly defined ribs in a critical way, as if trying to decide
+how much food would be necessary to cover them with flesh.
+
+"Oh, I can keep on as long as the hoss can," said Bob, as he wiped the
+perspiration from his face with one hand, and clung firmly to the
+forelock of the animal with the other; "but we've been round here as
+many as six times already, an' he don't seem to know the way any better
+than when we started!"
+
+"Oh yes, he does," cried Reddy, who was practicing for his duties as
+ring-master, anxious that his education should advance as fast as the
+horse's did; "he's got so he knows enough to turn out for that second
+knoll, though he does stumble a little over the first one."
+
+By this time Ben had the bridle adjusted to suit him, Toby was ready to
+make his first attempt at riding since he left the circus, and the more
+serious work was begun.
+
+Ben bridled the horse after some difficulty, Reddy drew out from its
+hiding-place a whip made by tying a piece of cod line to an alder
+branch, and Toby was about to mount, when Joe Robinson came in sight.
+
+He had been running at full speed, and was nearly breathless; but he
+managed to cry out so that he could be understood after considerable
+difficulty:
+
+"Hold on! don't go to ridin' till after we get some hoops for you to
+jump through."
+
+"I guess I won't try any jumpin' till after I see how he goes," said
+Toby, as he looked rather doubtfully, first at the horse's weak legs,
+and then at his sharp back; "besides, we can't use the hoops till he
+gets more used to the ring."
+
+Joe threw himself on the ground as if he felt quite as much aggrieved
+because he was thus left out of the programme as the horse apparently
+did because he was in it, and Bob consoled him by explaining that he had
+no reason to feel slighted, since he, who, as the clown, was to be the
+life of the entertainment, could take no other part in these preparatory
+steps than to lead a blind horse round a still blinder ring.
+
+"Hold him while I get on," said Toby, as he clutched the mane and a
+portion of the prominent backbone, drawing himself up at some risk of
+upsetting the rather shaky steed.
+
+But there was no necessity of his giving this order, for, although four
+boys sprang to do his bidding, the weary horse remained as motionless as
+a statue, save for his hard breathing, which proclaimed the fact that
+the "heaves" had long since singled him out as a victim.
+
+Toby succeeded in getting on the animal's back after some exertion; but
+he found standing there an entirely different matter from standing on
+the broad saddles that were used in the circus, and the boy and the
+horse made a shaky-looking pair.
+
+"Shall I start him?" asked Bob, while Reddy stood as near the centre of
+the ring as he could get, prepared to snap his cod-line whip at the
+first signal.
+
+Toby hesitated a moment; he knew that to attempt to stand up on, or on
+either side of, that prominent backbone, after its owner was in motion,
+would be simply to invite his own downfall; and he said, as he seated
+himself carefully astride the bone:
+
+"Let him walk around once till I see how he goes."
+
+Reddy cracked his whip without producing any effect upon the patient
+steed, but, after much coaxing, Bob succeeded in starting him again,
+while Toby bounced up and down much like a kernel of corn on a griddle,
+such a decided motion did the horse have.
+
+"He won't ever do for a ridin' hoss," said Toby, with much difficulty,
+when he was half-way around the circle, "'cause you see his bones is so
+sharp that he feels as if he was comin' to pieces every time he steps."
+
+"Jest get him to trottin' once, an' then you can tell what he's good
+for," suggested Reddy, anxious to try the effect of his whip; and
+without waiting for the rider's permission, he lashed the unfortunate
+animal with the cod line until he succeeded in rousing him thoroughly.
+
+It was in vain Toby begged him to stop, and Bob shouted that such a
+course was not the proper one for a ring-master to pursue. Reddy was
+determined the rider should have an opportunity of trying the horse
+under full speed, and the result was that the animal broke loose from
+Bob's guiding hand, rushing out of the imaginary ring into the centre of
+the pasture at a rate of speed that would have surprised and frightened
+Mr. Douglass had he been there to see it.
+
+Shaken first up, then down, and from one side to the other, Toby
+stretched himself out at full length, clasping the horse around the neck
+as the patched bridle broke, and shouting "Whoa!" at the full strength
+of his lungs.
+
+After running fully fifty yards, until it seemed to Toby that his head
+and his body had been pounded into one, the horse stopped, leaned one
+heel up against the other, and stood as if dreamily asking whether they
+wanted any more circus out of him.
+
+"Couldn't anybody ride him, he jolts so," said Toby to his partners, as
+they came running up to where he stood. "You see, in the circus they had
+big, wide saddles, an' the hosses didn't go anything like him."
+
+"Well, we can fix a saddle," said Bob, thoughtfully; "but I don't know
+as we could do anything to the hoss."
+
+"Perhaps old Whitey'll go better, 'cause she's lame," suggested Reddy,
+feeling that considerable credit was due him for having made it possible
+to test the animal's qualities in so short a time.
+
+"I wouldn't wonder if this one would be all right when he gets a saddle
+on an' is trained," said Joe; and then he added, quickly, "I hain't got
+anything more to do to-day, an' I'll stay up here an' train him."
+
+The partners were only too glad to accept this offer; and while Joe led
+the horse back to the supposed ring, Ben gave a partial exhibition of
+his acrobatic feats, omitting the most difficult, owing to the uneven
+surface of the land.
+
+Then the partners retired to the shade of some alder bushes, where they
+could fight mosquitoes and talk over their plans at the same time, while
+Joe was perspiring in his self-imposed task of educating the blind
+horse.
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+JUMBO.
+
+BY MRS. ZADEL B. GUSTAFSON.
+
+
+Just at the present moment there is not, I think, in all Europe or
+America a personage more talked about than Jumbo. Even the Queen, who
+was shot at a few weeks ago by a poor crazy man, but not hurt; even the
+Czar, who is shut up in one of his Russian palaces for fear of being
+shot at, are having less said about them.
+
+Jumbo, as I am perfectly sure you all know as well as I do, is an
+elephant, the biggest elephant in captivity, as gentle as he is big, and
+the English people, young and old, are very fond of him.
+
+He is an African elephant, and Sir Samuel Baker, a Fellow of the
+Zoological Society, who knows a great deal about elephants, says that he
+knew Jumbo when he was a baby about four and a half feet high, and had
+just been captured by Arabs on the shore of the Settite River, in
+Abyssinia, in 1861. Now Jumbo, the pride of the English Zoo, is
+twenty-one years old, and measures eleven feet in height to his withers,
+which is the high ridge between the shoulder-blades just at the end of
+the neck. He is very skillful in catching buns and apples which are
+thrown to him by his young admirers.
+
+[Illustration: A FAREWELL RIDE ON JUMBO.]
+
+Our picture of this enormous but gentle creature represents him in the
+act of giving a farewell ride to a party of his little friends. From
+this picture you will see that Jumbo's head and ears differ from those
+of the Indian species. His forehead is not so high and prominent; his
+ears are much larger, of a different and handsomer shape, while the
+brows are very large and full over the eyes, and the eyes themselves,
+when you can see them through the thick long lashes, have a really
+wonderful expression of intelligence and dignity. He has a long trunk,
+very powerful and graceful; but his tusks seem to be only roots, just
+showing through the skin at the sides of the face, and it is said that
+he has kept them worn down by rubbing them against the walls of his den.
+
+As soon as it was known that our great American showman, Mr. Barnum, had
+bought Jumbo for his travelling show, Jumbo, big as he is, was in
+everybody's mouth, and a very great fuss was made about his own
+unwillingness to go. The newspapers took up the matter, and gave whole
+columns of talk to Jumbo. It seemed to be taken for granted that nothing
+more dreadful could happen to the poor beast than to fall into Mr.
+Barnum's hands.
+
+The newspapers printed a great many letters from children, who offered
+their pocket-money, in sums from sixpence to three or five shillings, to
+buy Jumbo back again. They all wrote with the same idea, that Jumbo
+would be cruelly used, and would surely die, if he were taken away; but
+still it was quite clear that the little writers of these letters were
+not entirely unselfish in their grief, for they had a great deal to say
+about the nice rides they had already had, and still wished to have, on
+Jumbo's enormous back.
+
+Older people went so far as to propose to raise money to pay back to Mr.
+Barnum the £2000 he had given for Jumbo, and perhaps £400 or £500
+besides for his disappointment, but nothing more was said of this plan
+after Mr. Barnum telegraphed that £100,000 would not buy Jumbo back. As
+Mr. Scott, Jumbo's keeper, said to me, "Mr. Barnum understands his
+business," and it began to appear that the Zoo Society Council had _not_
+understood theirs. Every one who knows Mr. Barnum knows that he is
+exceedingly kind to animals, and that they thrive, are happy, and live
+long under his care.
+
+But the English people are not so well acquainted with Mr. Barnum as
+they will be, perhaps, when Jumbo comes back to the English "Zoo"--as
+Mr. Barnum very kindly says that he may--and tells his own story. And,
+after all, it is only fair that Jumbo should try for himself the flavor
+of American buns, and find that the boys and girls of America are as
+pleasant to carry and as kind as their English cousins.
+
+People old and young flocked daily to the "Zoo." They carried bags and
+baskets of buns, crackers, and sweetmeats, and everybody went straight
+to the elephant-house. Parrots, monkeys, pelicans, and lions were
+nowhere. On Ash-Wednesday (February 22), I went myself, and when I first
+entered the elephant-house I thought it must be all going to tumble
+down, I heard such a loud, startling noise. But it was only Alice, the
+elephant that they call Jumbo's wife, calling for food. The sound she
+made by gathering her breath in her cheeks, and blowing it forcibly
+through her long trunk, was much like that made by crashing both hands
+strongly down on the bass keys of a church organ when all the loud stops
+are on.
+
+The greatest crowd was in front of Jumbo's cell. He did not call for
+food, but stretched his long and elastic trunk out in front of us just
+like a plate for pennies in church. When let out of the garden, he
+walked quietly with an even and slow step--which took him along so fast,
+though, that Scott had to run to keep up with him--until he came to the
+ladder where the children climb to mount him. The saddle, or howdah, as
+it is called, was put on his back, and more than a dozen boys and girls
+mounted, and away went Jumbo, stepping so slowly, but going fifteen feet
+at a step. Five times I saw him go down the promenade with his laughing
+load, and come back again to the ladder for a new supply, and each time
+he looked larger to me than ever. Then he went back with his keeper to
+his house, and I came away.
+
+After Jumbo was sold, and the problem of moving him came to be
+considered, an effort was made to get him out of the Gardens and to the
+Millwall Docks on foot. He went along willingly enough, Scott leading
+him, until they reached the end of the "Zoo" grounds, but before going
+out into the road he tried it cautiously with his feet, and perceiving
+at once that it did not feel like the shingle paths in the "Zoo," he was
+afraid, and would go no farther.
+
+Then a great box was made, which stood open at both ends. This was
+mounted on strong wheels, and was so placed in the garden gateway that
+when the elephants passed out from their own garden into the main
+grounds they had to walk through it. The wheels were sunk into the
+ground on a track, and the floor of the box was on a level with the
+ground. Alice walked through the box back and forth quite willingly, but
+for some days it was impossible to coax Jumbo to go into it.
+
+Scott was asked to try whipping Jumbo, but he answered that he had never
+yet struck his favorite a blow, and he never should. In all other
+respects Jumbo was perfectly obedient and gentle, but he seemed to think
+that the box was a trap, and to know almost as well as everybody else
+that if he once went in, he might not come out. It was the intention to
+let him get used to the box by going through it, and then it was thought
+that when at last it was closed upon him he would not mind so much about
+it.
+
+He was also put in chains, in order to accustom him to being fastened
+during the voyage. At first they were only put on in the mornings, but
+he made so much fuss and trouble about having them put on the last time,
+it was thought unwise to remove them again. They are cased in leather,
+so as not to fret him in the least. They were spread in loops, all over
+the floor of his cell, and men stood ready at different points to draw
+them up around him the moment he should place his feet within any of the
+loops; but the intelligent fellow managed to avoid them for some time.
+
+But he grew tired at last, and began to thrash about with his trunk and
+ears, and Scott, who was in his cell with him, trying to persuade him,
+got suddenly pushed up against the wall by a backward movement of
+Jumbo's huge body. In a moment more he would have been crushed to death,
+but he had the presence of mind to call kindly to Jumbo, who understood,
+turned instantly, and released him. Jumbo then became quiet, and the
+chains were placed.
+
+Kind treatment finally set Jumbo's suspicions at rest, and he was
+persuaded to walk through the strong box and back again. When this had
+been done a number of times the box was fastened at both ends, and the
+poor fellow was a prisoner. He was then, without further delay, shipped
+on board the _Assyrian Monarch_, and on the 22d of March started on his
+voyage across the Atlantic.
+
+It is claimed that Jumbo was sold because he had now become liable to
+have the "must," a disease peculiar to most full-grown elephants, in
+which they become very dangerous. Jumbo has had only one attack, and was
+well behaved during it when let out of his cell. Scott does not feel
+afraid of him, and Mr. Barnum has so long had the care of elephants that
+we think Jumbo's best friend need not worry about him.
+
+
+
+
+THE COBBLER WHO KEPT SCHOOL IN A WORKSHOP.
+
+
+Did you ever hear of John Pounds? Probably not, and yet he was one of
+the world's benefactors. He was born in 1766, in Portsmouth, England.
+
+In early life he learned the trade of a shipwright, but was so injured
+by a fall that he had to abandon this. He then mastered the art of
+mending shoes, and hired a little room in a weather-beaten tenement,
+where for a while he lived alone, except for his birds. He loved birds
+dearly, and always had a number of them flying about his room, perching
+on his shoulder, or feeding from his hand.
+
+In the course of time, a little cripple boy, his nephew, came to live
+with Uncle John and the linnets and sparrows. The poor child had not the
+use of his feet, which overlapped each other, and turned inward. The
+kind uncle did not rest until he had gradually untwisted the feet,
+strengthening them by an apparatus of old shoes and leather, and finally
+taught them to walk.
+
+Then he thought how much more pleasantly the time would pass for the boy
+if he knew how to read and write, and so he began to instruct him.
+Presently it occurred to him that he could teach a class as easily as he
+could manage one pupil. So he invited some of the neighboring children
+in, and, as the years went on, this singular picture might be seen:
+
+In the centre of the little shop, six feet wide and about eighteen feet
+long, the lame cobbler, with his jolly face and twinkling eyes, would be
+seated, his last or lapstone on his knee, and his hands busily plying
+the needle and thread. All around him would be faces. Dark eyes, blue
+eyes, brown eyes, would shine from every corner, and the hum of young
+voices and the tapping of slate-pencils were mingled with the singing of
+the birds which enjoyed the buzz of the school.
+
+Some of the pupils sat on the steps of the narrow stairway which led up
+to the loft which was John's bedroom. Others were on boxes or blocks of
+wood, and some sat contentedly on the floor. They learned to read,
+write, and cipher as far as the Rule of Three, and besides they learned
+good morals, for much homely wisdom fell from the cobbler's lips.
+
+Hundreds of boys who had no other chance--for he gathered his scholars
+from the poorest of the poor--learned all they ever knew of books from
+this humble teacher. His happiest days were when some sunburned sailor
+or soldier would stop in his doorway, perhaps with a parrot or a monkey
+in his arms, saying, "Why, master dear, you surely have not forgotten
+_me_, I hope?"
+
+John Pounds taught his little school for more than forty years, never
+asking nor accepting a cent of payment from any one.
+
+At the age of seventy-two, on January 1, 1839, he suddenly died, while
+looking with delight at a sketch of his school which had just been made
+by an artist. For many days the children of the place were inconsolable,
+and by twos and threes they came and stood by the closed door which in
+John Pounds's time had always been open to the needy.
+
+A life like this, so lowly yet so useful, contains lessons for us all.
+
+
+
+
+THE TALKING LEAVES.[2]
+
+[2] Begun in No. 101, HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE.
+
+An Indian Story.
+
+BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
+
+CHAPTER XXVII.
+
+
+Captain Skinner and his miners were well mounted, and they were tough,
+seasoned horsemen. They were in a great hurry, too, for their minds were
+full of dreams of the good times they meant to have.
+
+They made an astonishingly long day's march, and did not meet with the
+slightest sign of danger. That night they slept soundly on their
+blankets in the open air, and perhaps some of them dreamed that in a few
+nights more they would have roofs over their heads, and wake up in the
+morning to find hot coffee on the breakfast table. No bell rang for
+them, however, when breakfast-time came; but when they had nearly
+completed their simple meal of broiled beef and cold water, their ears
+were saluted by a very different sound.
+
+"Horses! Rifles! Mount! Boys," shouted the little Captain, "that's a
+cavalry bugle."
+
+Cavalry!
+
+They sprang for their arms, and mounted in hot haste. But before the
+last man was in the saddle, the music of that bugle was close upon them.
+
+"No use to fight, boys, even if they were enemies. There's more'n three
+hundred of 'em; Regulars, too. What on earth brings 'em away up here?
+Can't be there's any revolution going on?"
+
+"It isn't too late for us to run, Cap," suggested Bill.
+
+"Yes, it is. They'd catch us in no time. Besides, we haven't done
+anything to run for."
+
+"Not to them, we haven't."
+
+In a few minutes more it was too late, if it had not been just then, for
+the gleaming lances of a full company of the Mexicans began to shine
+above the grass and bushes behind the miners.
+
+"Trapped, boys. I wonder what they're going to do?"
+
+The Mexican commander was nearly ready to tell them. His really
+splendid-looking horsemen closed steadily in upon the silent squad of
+wild-looking desperadoes, and he himself rode forward toward them,
+accompanied by two officers in brilliant uniforms.
+
+Captain Skinner rode out as if to meet him, but was greeted by an
+imperative, loud-voiced, "Halt! Dismount."
+
+The fire flashed from the eyes of the little Captain.
+
+[Illustration: "DISMOUNT BEHIND YOUR HOSSES, AND TAKE AIM ACROSS THE
+SADDLE."]
+
+"Close up, boys. Dismount behind your hosses, and take aim across the
+saddle."
+
+He was obeyed like clock-work, and it was the Colonel's turn to "halt,"
+for no less than three of those deadly dark tubes were pointing straight
+at him, and he saw with what sort of men he was dealing. Had they been
+six dozen instead of only less than two, they would not have hesitated a
+second about charging in upon his gay lancers, and would probably have
+scattered them right and left.
+
+"What are you doing here?" he demanded of Captain Skinner.
+
+"Travelling."
+
+"Where are you going?"
+
+"Going to try and mind our own business."
+
+"Where did you come from?"
+
+"Across the border. Driven out of the mines by Apaches. Didn't expect to
+find Mexican regular cavalry worse than the red-skins."
+
+"We will see about that, señor. You are our prisoners."
+
+"All right, so long as none of you come too near. It won't be healthy
+for any of you to try."
+
+"No harm is intended you, señor. We are sent to guard this frontier
+against the Apaches, and to put down a small pronunciamento."
+
+Captain Skinner knew what that meant. There had been some sort of a
+little revolution in that part of Mexico, and he and his men were
+suspected of having crossed the border to take part in it.
+
+"All right, Colonel. All we want is to march right along. We can pay our
+own way."
+
+That was the first blunder the wily Captain had made.
+
+A half-scornful smile shot across the dark face of the Colonel, as he
+looked at those ragged men, and wondered how much they would be likely
+to pay for anything.
+
+A young officer at his side was more sagacious, and suggested: "I beg a
+thousand pardons, Colonel, but they are miners."
+
+"Ah! They may have been successful."
+
+The expression of his face underwent a rapid change, and there was
+nothing scornful in it when he remarked to Captain Skinner that the
+price of a written "safe-conduct" for him and his men would be a hundred
+dollars each.
+
+"All right, Señor Colonel," said the Captain. "We will pay you in gold
+as soon as it's written."
+
+One of the young officers at once dismounted and produced a supply of
+writing materials. The "safe-conduct" was a curious document, and
+nothing exactly like it could have been had or bought of any cavalry
+officer in the United States. It was written in Spanish, of course, and
+it appeared to vouch for the peaceable and honest character and
+intentions of the entire company of miners.
+
+The latter stood sternly behind their horses, in a dangerous-looking
+circle, while the bargain was making, and the Captain himself had coin
+enough to pay for them all, without calling for contributions.
+
+The Colonel was very polite now, and gave very accurate advice and
+instructions as to the route the miners would do well to follow.
+
+Captain Skinner's second blunder was that he determined to go by the
+road laid out for him by the Colonel.
+
+Perhaps he might not have done so if he had read one other piece of
+paper that the young officer wrote for his Colonel to sign; or if he had
+seen it handed to a lancer, who rode away with it at full speed along
+the precise path the Colonel was describing.
+
+It was addressed, with many titles and formalities, to "General
+Vincente Garcia," and it was delivered by the lancer-postman within
+three hours.
+
+Captain Skinner and his men knew nothing about that, and when noon came
+they found a capital camping place precisely as it had been described to
+them.
+
+"Cap, do you hear that? If it ain't another bugle, you can shoot me."
+
+More than one was heard within the next half-hour, and three consecutive
+squadrons of lancers rode within sight.
+
+As soon as they saw the miners a halt was ordered and a consultation
+held. In a few moments a couple of officers approached.
+
+It was their duty, they said, with many apologies. General Garcia
+desired to know who were his neighbors, and so forth.
+
+The Colonel's "safe-conduct" was shown them, and they actually touched
+their hats when they read it.
+
+It was entirely satisfactory. The General would be glad to sign the
+safe-conduct himself, as the officer in supreme command of the
+district.
+
+That was precisely what the Captain thought he wanted, and he consented
+at once. The Mexicans were as good as their word, and the miners were
+astonished at the cordial hospitality of their welcome in the cavalry
+camp. Every "mess" came forward to claim a guest, and they were speedily
+distributed in a way which left no two of them together.
+
+Captain Skinner found General Garcia as polite as any of the others. Not
+a word would he speak about business until after dinner, and so the
+Captain did not know until then how great a mistake he had made in
+permitting his men to be scattered.
+
+"You will permit us to go on with our journey, will you not, General?"
+said he at last, over the coffee.
+
+"Certainly. Without doubt. We shall not detain you an hour. But the
+señor is a caballero of experience and knowledge; he will understand
+that I can not permit so strong a body of foreigners to march through my
+district armed."
+
+"Armed? We always go armed."
+
+"At home. Of course. You have your own laws and customs. I must enforce
+those of Mexico, and this district is under martial law."
+
+So smiling and so polite was the General that Captain Skinner could
+almost believe he was sorry to be compelled to enforce that law. He
+tried, therefore, to argue the point, and was still trying, when one of
+his men came rushing up, knocking over a Mexican as he came, and
+shouting: "Cap, they've took every weapon I had. Did it while I was
+eatin'. And they won't give them up."
+
+"Will Señor Skinner do me the favor to tell his friend that this is by
+my orders?"
+
+The General smiled as he said it.
+
+It was another half-hour before the different "messes" in all parts of
+the camp brought up to "head-quarters" each its angry and disarmed
+guest.
+
+"It's no use, boys," said Captain Skinner to his crest-fallen band.
+"It's martial law, and we may as well submit. We'd best mount and ride
+now."
+
+Again General Garcia felt called upon to smile and be very polite. His
+command was greatly in need of horses. Those of the American caballeros
+were just suited to cavalry use. He had given orders to supply their
+places with ponies good enough for ordinary travel.
+
+"Oh, if we only had our rifles, Cap!" exclaimed Bill. "Anyhow, we'll get
+our saddles back."
+
+More than one bearded face grew a little pale at the thought of those
+saddles.
+
+The General's own chief of staff had attended to their transfer from the
+backs of the splendid American horses to those of the wretched little
+Mexican ponies, and he had noticed how heavy they all were. It was his
+duty, therefore, to search them, and not a saddle among them all was now
+any heavier than a saddle of that size ought to be.
+
+"The ponies," remarked the polite Mexican, "are not strong enough to
+carry all that gold bullion as well as those heavy Gringo miners."
+
+It was a sad dinner party for Captain Skinner and his miners. It had
+been planned for them by their friend the Colonel of lancers, and
+General Garcia had carried it out to perfection. He even gave them a
+good supply of coffee and other matters when they departed, and added,
+politely: "My dear Captain, I have not been so unkind as to search you.
+You will no doubt have that happiness also in due time."
+
+"Not a doubt of it," growled the Captain, "now we're unarmed."
+
+And it turned out as he feared, for not an ounce of stolen gold was to
+be found in the pockets of that ragged band within ten days of their
+"first good dinner."
+
+[TO BE CONTINUED.]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "DON'T WANT TO BE WASHED."]
+
+
+
+
+OFF CAPE HORN.
+
+BY FRANK H. CONVERSE.
+
+
+A dilapidated pocket diary for 1860 lies on my writing-desk. There is a
+faint suggestiveness of bilge-water and tar and damp woollen shirts
+about it. The pencilled leaves are soaked and stained with salt-water.
+Only now and then do I find a legible word or sentence until I reach the
+middle of the book, where my eyes fall upon the following badly blotted
+record:
+
+"_Fri_..., _July_ 2.--Blowi.. grea. gun. ..om S.S.W. ..... close reef
+........ iced up ..... overboard .... Mr. Burn. secon. mate .....
+_Wayland_, .....ard bound."
+
+Do I dream it, or does some one mention to-morrow as my thirty-eighth
+birthday? Nonsense! I am only sixteen--making my first sea-voyage "round
+the Horn" in the ship _Sandwich_--Drew, master--fifty-eight days out
+from New York.
+
+I have not found a sailor's life all that my fancy painted it; rather
+the reverse. I am disappointed with the life for which I once longed so
+eagerly--disgusted, I may say. Which is not so surprising. Like other
+home boys, I have been accustomed to wear dry clothing, to sleep all
+night, to have father and mother-- But never mind; those last words make
+me feel more homesick than ever.
+
+It is seven o'clock A.M.--or six bells, if you like it better. The
+starboard watch, to which I belong, is on deck, but as all hands have
+spent rather more time on deck than below for about two weeks, it don't
+matter much, only for the prospect of hot coffee sweetened with molasses
+at breakfast-time. And when a fellow has not had a dry thread on him for
+days, something hot to drink, even if it's only dried peas and chiccory,
+is a great luxury.
+
+Of course it is blowing a gale of wind--it has done nothing else for a
+month, but for a wonder the gale comes from the right direction. That is
+why Captain Drew is carrying sail so, for, taking advantage of the fair
+wind, the old ship is running like mad through the straits of Le Maire,
+which is a passage about fourteen miles wide, between Staten Land and
+Terra del Fuego.
+
+Yesterday the decks were all awash with water, and the rigging dripped
+like a sponge. To-day everything from the royal truck down is covered
+with ice. This is very hard upon one's fingers, especially as it don't
+do to wear mittens aloft--even if you have them.
+
+If you want to know how it seems to reef or stow a sail at such times,
+just try and roll up a yard or two of sheet-iron, out-of-doors, with
+bare hands, when the thermometer is at zero or a little lower. But it is
+not hard to get round deck in icy weather. Oh no. All you have to do is
+to sit down and wait for the ship to roll the right way--you won't have
+long to wait, either.
+
+It blows harder than ever. I should like to see a picture of the old
+ship now, as with everything set but the royals, she goes tearing and
+plunging through the long gray seas, with a gray sky overhead, and a
+gray fog-bank all around the horizon. How I _should_ enjoy seeing such a
+picture--especially if it was hanging against the sitting-room wall, and
+I was standing directly in front of it!
+
+"Look!" exclaims old Martin, who is standing beside me at the rail. And
+all at once on the starboard bow I see breaking through the gray mist a
+bleak, barren, rocky promontory, pointing like a great index finger to
+the place where the waters of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet. At
+least so I try to express it in a poetical kind of way, but old Martin
+only grinned.
+
+"That's Cape 'Orn," he replies, "an' before we get round t'other side of
+it, if we don't ketch it, call me a Dutchman."
+
+I had thought there was nothing left in the way of bad weather to catch.
+But I am mistaken. By six o'clock in the afternoon the ship is under
+lower topsails, with yards braced against the backstays, buffeting the
+longest seas and the fiercest southwest gales of rain, sleet, snow, and
+hail that we have seen yet.
+
+It is all the work of a moment. I have just lashed the starboard
+side-light in the fore-rigging in obedience to the second mate's orders,
+and before I can swing myself inboard, the _Sandwich_ buries herself
+bodily in a tremendous sea. My numb fingers relax their hold on the icy
+ratlines, and I feel myself swept away in the grasp of a mighty wave.
+
+It seems that I am not alone. As I dash the water from my eyes, I see
+some one swimming, or rather treading water, within arm's-length. It is
+Mr. Burns, the second mate.
+
+"Keep cool, boy," he shouts, "and kick your boots off first of all."
+
+Fortunately I am not encumbered with a coat, and encouraged by his
+presence, I rid myself of my boots without much trouble. But I am at
+best an indifferent swimmer, while Mr. Burns, who was born on Cape Cod,
+seems perfectly at home even in the long topping seas against which I
+beat with frantic arms.
+
+"Rest your two hands on my shoulders," he says, "and give over
+struggling. There'll be a boat out after us directly." But as I too
+readily obey, I note in the gathering darkness that on his usually
+cheery face is a look of anxiety. He does not expend his strength in
+swimming, but merely moves his legs and arms in such a way as to keep us
+both afloat.
+
+I am chilled and numbed with the terrible cold. I can not speak, can
+hardly think. Down we sink into a deep black valley of water, to rise on
+the cresting summit of an awful wave, again and again, but still no
+welcome sound of oars rattling in rowlocks. An hour passes, which seems
+an age, and I despairingly see that Mr. Burns shows signs of growing
+weakness.
+
+This fact, together with the growing darkness, benumbing cold, and
+shrieking gale, does away with the last remnant of my courage.
+
+"It's no use, Mr. Burns," I gasp through my chattering teeth; "I'm going
+to let go. Good-by, sir."
+
+Life is very dear to the young second mate. He has a wife and babe in
+his far-off home; no wonder that he makes no reply. Life is dear to me
+too, for that matter, only I have lost hope, and he has not. With a
+whispered prayer, I take my hands from his shoulders, and in another
+moment am swept unresistingly away in the darkness.
+
+But all at once my outstretched hands touch some floating object, which
+at the same time strikes against my chest. Mechanically I throw both
+arms over it, and am vaguely conscious of being easily buoyed up, but by
+what I can not conceive. I dimly know that it is smooth, soft, round,
+and somewhat slimy to the touch. For aught I know or care, it may be the
+sea-serpent himself; but I am past conjecture. A drowsy, numbing, and by
+no means unpleasant stupor is creeping over me, while, as the roaring of
+wind and sea is strangely blended with an increasing singing in my ears,
+I dreamily drift into oblivion, my last conscious thought being that
+dying is not so very disagreeable after all.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"We was running afore it for the straits of Le Maire, and Jim Coffin on
+the lookout at daybreak sings out that he see the sea-sarpint ahead,
+with what looked like a mermaid alongside. We brought the schooner to
+the wind, lowered the boat, and picked you up; and though you was the
+deadest live man ever _I_ see, it was all Dan and me could do to unhook
+your arms from round the big kelp--sea-weed stuff, you know, large round
+some of it as a t'gallan'-yard--that you was hanging to. But we got you
+aboard all right, and I hope you ain't feeling none the worse for coming
+to life again."
+
+Such is the explanation to which I listen as one in a strange dream,
+while I stare vacantly about me from among the blankets of a narrow
+berth in a snug little cabin. The speaker is Captain Samuel Dole, of the
+sailing schooner _Wayland_, from Desolation Island, bound to New London,
+Connecticut, with a full fare of skins and seal oil. Captain Dole
+administers divers restoratives with such good effect that by night I am
+clothed and in my right mind again.
+
+A swift-sailing schooner is the _Wayland_, and forty-one days later I am
+literally received with open arms and open-mouthed astonishment by those
+who had seen me set sail for San Francisco. My story makes me a nine
+days' hero, and a little later I have the pleasure of seeing in the
+paper the arrival of the ship _Sandwich_--Drew, master--at San
+Francisco, one hundred and twenty-three days from New York; "Harry
+Franks, ordinary seaman, lost on the passage."
+
+I have no chance of personally contradicting this statement until, three
+years afterward, I ship as second mate on board the bark _Doris_, whose
+captain proves to be Mr. Thatcher K. Burns, formerly second officer of
+the _Sandwich_. He does not welcome me as one from the dead. Captain
+Burns has seen too many strange things in his sea-faring life to be
+surprised at anything. He looks sharply at me for a moment, as I rather
+effusively greet him.
+
+"Ah, yes," he says, in his sharp, business-like way; "thought I'd seen
+you somewhere, Mr.--er--Franks. Picked up, were you? So was I. Hadn't
+swum twenty strokes before the _Sandwich_'s boat reached me, and a sweet
+job we had getting back to the ship. Well, get the decks cleared up as
+soon as possible. I want to get away on morning tide. Some of the men
+will be down directly," and with a nod Captain Burns hurries off to the
+Custom-house for his clearance papers.
+
+And this is what the blotted entry in my old pocket diary refers to.
+
+
+
+
+KITES, AND HOW TO FLY THEM.
+
+BY JAMES OTIS.
+
+
+To tell a boy that it is great sport to fly kites is to tell him
+something he already knows very well. He understands perfectly what
+these winds that blow in the early part of spring were intended for.
+
+To make a kite of the ordinary pattern, one needs only a lath, a piece
+of flat, pliable wood, and plenty of string, paper, and paste.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The lath is for the upright, B and D in the illustration, and the thin
+piece of wood, which should be three-fourths of the length of the lath,
+and half an inch wide, must be securely fastened by its exact middle to
+the upper end of the lath, as at E, and brought down to a bow by the
+cord at C. This cord should be passed with a double turn round the
+upright at F, to keep it from slipping, and care must be taken to
+balance the two sides of the kite most accurately, to prevent the kite
+from being lopsided. Now carry a string, as in the figure, from E to C,
+thence to G, to A, and back to E, fastening it securely at each point.
+Next paste sheets of paper together until you have one large enough to
+cover the whole framework, with a margin of at least two inches to lap
+over. Lay the skeleton upon this, cut away the superfluous paper all
+round, then lap the margin over the edges, and paste it firmly down.
+Having firmly secured this, cut some slips of paper about three inches
+wide, and paste them along and over the cross strings so as to secure
+them firmly to the main sheet, and treat the upright in the same manner,
+though, of course, with a wider strip.
+
+For the wings or tassels to be attached at the points A and C, take two
+strips of paper of a length and width proportioned to the size of the
+tassel required, snip these across like a comb, roll them up, and bind
+the uncut ends tightly with a string; the tassel for the tail is to be
+made in the same manner. The ordinary way of making the tail is by
+fastening slips of paper at intervals of about six inches along a piece
+of string. Now these bits of paper serve no purpose whatever save to
+become entangled with each other. A good long piece of string with a
+tassel at the end answers all purposes, and is much more graceful! The
+tail should be from fifteen to twenty times as long as the kite.
+
+In selecting the string for the kite, get it as light and strong as
+possible; if it is too heavy, the kite will not be able to carry so much
+weight very high, and if it is not strong, the kite will very likely
+break away. The string is not fastened directly to the kite, but to
+another string, which, doubled, is attached to the upright in the
+following way: If the kite be four feet long, one end of this band is
+fastened about ten inches from the top, and the other about twenty
+inches from the bottom, and should be slack enough to hang in a loop
+about twelve or eighteen inches in length. As to where the string should
+be fastened to the band, that can only be told by experimenting until
+one finds out at just what point the kite will balance.
+
+To start the kite in the first instance it is almost absolutely
+necessary to have some aid, two persons being required, one to hold the
+kite up and help it off, while the other, holding the string, runs a
+short distance against the wind to increase its pressure upon the kite,
+and thus help it to get its tail fairly off the ground, after which the
+kite will do very well by itself.
+
+
+
+
+THE CRUISE OF THE WALNUT SHELL.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Arthur and Elsie every day
+    Learned their geography,
+  And after lessons loved to play
+    At sending ships to sea.
+  They used, instead of little boats,
+    A thing that does as well,
+  A vessel that securely floats--
+    An empty walnut shell.
+
+  No wonder that this little pair
+    Would oft indulge the notion
+  That walnut shells real vessels were,
+    And washing-tubs the ocean.
+  And often when they were in bed
+    Their brains began to teem,
+  Until upon this wondrous voyage
+    They started in a dream.
+
+  For mast and sail to stand the gale
+    They chose a pretty feather;
+  The walnut shell rode monstrous well
+    Through very boisterous weather.
+
+  They had no meat or bread to eat,
+    And not a drop of tea;
+  They thought fried fish to meet their wish
+    Would follow in their lee.
+
+  Their ship flew fast before the blast;
+    They reached the arctic snow.
+    "Hurrah for ice!"
+    They cried; "it's nice,
+  Although the north wind blows.
+    For here a seal
+    Provides a meal,
+  Our coats, our hats, our hose."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  At last they thought they might arrange
+  A very comfortable change.
+  "Hurrah!" cried Arthur; "off we go;
+  We'll run down to the Hoang-Ho."
+
+  And on they went where might be seen
+  All sorts of tea, both black and green,
+  And figures like a Chinese screen,
+    Pagodas, chopsticks, tails,
+  Umbrellas, junks, and tiny shoes,
+  And they were carried on bamboos,
+  By men whose shoulders feel no bruise,
+    Across the hills and dales.
+
+  One day a condor seized the shell,
+  The little travellers as well,
+    And flew with speed terrific
+  Toward an island in the sea,
+  Which Arthur said was sure to be
+  (I said they knew geography)
+    Somewhere in the Pacific.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  A cheap excursion, was it not,
+  To such a very charming spot
+    That seemed quite free from dangers?
+  For there they lived a life of ease,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Whilst apes politely climbed the trees
+    For nuts to give the strangers.
+  Then sailing on some thousand miles,
+    Where spices scent the breeze,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  They passed among the coral isles
+    That crowd the Southern seas.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  They cross the calm of tropic heat,
+  In solitude the most complete,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Where the mirage in strange surprise
+  Makes Elsie open wondering eyes.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  And now they stand on India's strand,
+    This young and dauntless pair,
+  To beard the leopard, as they thought,
+    And tiger in his lair.
+
+  For Elsie said, "No beast can face
+    An opened parasol,
+  And Arthur in the surest place
+    Can make a bullet-hole."
+
+  But soon the children thought it best
+    To put to sea once more;
+  And Elsie steered still further west,
+    As she had steered before,
+  While Arthur opened out his chest
+    By tugging at the oar.
+
+  A sudden wind arose at last;
+  The walnut shell before the blast
+    Across the tropics flew;
+  But Arthur, till the simoom passed
+    (That wind of course he knew)
+  And daring Elsie held on fast,
+  When safe on Afric's coast were cast
+    The walnut shell and crew.
+
+  And when the little folks were bent
+  To cross the black man's continent,
+  "The ostriches shall find us legs,"
+    Cried Arthur; "they can run."
+  Said Elsie, "Yes; and lay us eggs;
+    I'll fry them in the sun."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  They travelled through the desert land,
+    And yet were brisk and merry,
+  Though Arthur's eyes were full of sand,
+  And Elsie's little face was tanned
+    As brown as autumn berry.
+
+  From crocodiles which had not dined
+    Bold Arthur never shrinks,
+  While Elsie tries to call to mind
+    Some riddles for the Sphinx.
+
+  And journeying onward safe and sound
+    With never pause nor hitch,
+  Their way through the Canal they found,
+    With wonderment so rich.
+  They saw big vessels outward-bound
+  (That only sometimes ran aground)
+    Go steaming through _the ditch_.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  Through foam and rapids safe they came.
+  And thought a whirlpool very tame.
+  Yet Arthur's strength was still the same,
+  And Elsie's face was all aflame
+    At ventures so romantic;
+  And Arthur never ceased to row
+  Till turtles took the shell in tow
+    Across the broad Atlantic.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+  At home once more; and all the town
+  Talks of the walnut shell's renown.
+  Arthur is pensioned by the crown,
+  And all his travels written down,
+    Their wonder and variety.
+  And little Elsie, too, is proud;
+  Her pluck and knowledge are allowed
+    By very wise society.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: AN EASTER CAROL.]
+
+
+
+
+OUR POST-OFFICE BOX.
+
+
+We are sure our young friends will feel satisfied with this beautiful
+Easter number, so crowded with good things. Do not let the rest of the
+paper make anybody forgetful of Our Post-office Box. You seldom see a
+more entertaining letter than this from our correspondent Georgie:
+
+  GALEYVILLE, ARIZONA TERRITORY.
+
+     This mining camp is ten miles from the New Mexico line, and forty
+     from Mexico. There are mountains all about, covered to the tops
+     with luxuriant grass, and juniper, pine, fir, cedar, and live-oak
+     trees. In the cañons, near the creeks, are sycamore, black-walnut,
+     white oak, madrone, and other varieties; also the lovely manganita,
+     and other shrubs. Many fruits and flowers are native here. Of the
+     former there are cherries, grapes, raspberries, strawberries, etc.;
+     among the latter, the geranium, morning-glory (all colors), poppy,
+     portulaca, and many more favorites that we used to cultivate in the
+     East. Potatoes also grow wild, and though very small, are good;
+     they are called "spuds" here.
+
+     Last summer we were encamped for two months in a cañon, six miles
+     from town, where are ever so many caves. We all went part of the
+     way through the largest--Coral Cave--one day. The entrance is on
+     the mountain-side, and so small that one person has to crawl or
+     "back" down at a time, looking out for bruises from projecting
+     rocks, and also he must have a care for his footing, for this
+     passage is very steep and winding; all at once it grows broad, and
+     very high. At this point all light their candles, as there are
+     other passages branching from the main one; and that we may not get
+     lost, we watch for the little "monuments" which have been built to
+     guide visitors to the main cavern.
+
+     It is a hard scramble of about 500 feet, past awful chasms, down
+     dizzy natural stairways, etc., then up a few steps, and--oh, it is
+     just like fairy-land, I am sure! The frost-like drapery and
+     festoons, sparkling and flashing at every movement of our lights,
+     the thousands of icicles and straight white columns, under our feet
+     the "snow," twinkling with innumerable diamonds, made me think we
+     were in Jack Frost's home beyond a doubt. But it was not snow nor
+     ice at all, but limestone formation; it was stalagmite on the
+     floors of all the chambers, and the crystals cut our boots
+     dreadfully.
+
+     As an offset to the pleasures of our happy camping ground in the
+     cañon, with its grand scenery, its woods, flowers, towering rocks,
+     rushing mountain stream, and springs of clear cold water, we had
+     scorpions, tarantulas, rattlesnakes, and loathsome centipeds. There
+     is also a very poisonous bug, called by a Spanish name which I have
+     forgotten; it means "babe of the wood." It is about two inches
+     long, of a rusty black color, and has claws something like a
+     lobster, as has the centiped, which is of a greenish color when
+     young, turning to yellow-brown when full grown. They (the
+     centipeds) are in sections or joints, each joint having one pair of
+     legs, which end in needlepoints, jet black, and charged with
+     poison. We killed _lots_. Many were ten inches in length; they can
+     run very fast. We never saw any of these creatures in our
+     sleeping-apartment; but about the rocks, in the small cave where we
+     cooked and took our meals, they, with lizards, chameleons, and
+     cunning little striped squirrels, were as much at home as we. Out
+     in the woods were wild animals to keep away from. Papa shot a big
+     brown bear one day, and a miner killed a very large panther. It is
+     a grand place to hunt in, as game is plentiful. We are interested
+     in "The Talking Leaves," here in the Apache country. I wish there
+     were no Apaches in the world! Sometimes the soldiers come through
+     here, and prospectors see squads of Indians in the mountains, and
+     we get scared. Last September papa sent mamma, brother, and me to
+     California to stay until the fright was over. We spent three months
+     at a bathing-place on the Pacific coast called Santa Monica, and
+     had fine times bathing, fishing, and playing on the beach. My mamma
+     gives us a "treat" Saturday afternoons by reading to us from back
+     numbers of YOUNG PEOPLE. All the children in camp who are old
+     enough to be interested are asked to come at three o'clock every
+     Saturday. We are now half through with "Toby Tyler." It is as good
+     as ever, and the boys all think it and YOUNG PEOPLE splendid.
+
+  GEORGIE B. C.
+
+We shall think of the group gathered to listen to mamma as she reads
+their favorite stories aloud on Saturday afternoons, and whenever there
+shall happen to be anything in the paper which we enjoy very much, we
+will say to ourselves, "Now, Georgie and his friends will be sure to
+like this too." The Postmistress says she never could summon up courage
+enough to scramble into Coral Cave; and as for the centipeds, she threw
+both hands out in the most horrified manner when she came to that part
+of the letter which mentioned them.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+     I am a little boy seven years old. My mamma gave me HARPER'S YOUNG
+     PEOPLE for my birthday present in December. I can not read yet, but
+     mamma reads the whole paper to me, except "Talking Leaves"--we have
+     not the first chapters of that. I hope I soon will be able to read;
+     I am learning to spell now.
+
+     I have a little sister named Bertie, and a cat named Topsy. My
+     sister is three years old. She talks all the time. Mamma kept her
+     out of the room when I was sick.
+
+     I am always glad when Tuesday comes. I wish we could have a
+     HARPER'S every day.
+
+     Mamma is writing this for me. When I learn to write, I will write
+     again.
+
+  EDDIE H. B.
+
+     P.S.--I almost forgot. Won't you please tell me what C. Y. P. R. U.
+     means?
+
+Chautauqua Young People's Reading Union.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  WA KERNEY, KANSAS.
+
+     I think that "The Little Dolls' Dressmaker" was very nice; but
+     little brother Roy likes to hear "Talking Leaves" first. I want to
+     tell you about my pets. I have two dolls. My china doll was nine
+     years old last Christmas; her name is Frankie. And then I have a
+     wax doll, and her name is Lulu. She has real hair, and bright blue
+     eyes. On her third birthday her grandma (that's my mamma) gave her
+     a real cute little watch and chain. I have two birds. The canary's
+     name is Major, and he is quite a little actor. George is my linnet,
+     and is a very fine singer. I have a nice little kitty, and her name
+     is Dot. I think if Miss Augusta C. could only see her, she would
+     say that she was very nice. I have a picture of the Princess of
+     Wales holding a large snow-white kitten in her arms. My little
+     brother has a white dog; his name is Prince. He has many cunning
+     tricks. We have taught him to chase the hawks, so they will not
+     catch our chickens. I want to tell you how we amuse ourselves some
+     of the time in winter. My papa bought us a box of paints, and we
+     get two of the florist's catalogues and paint the flowers. I send
+     you one or two that I have painted; don't you think they are nice?
+     I am a little girl eleven years old. I have not any sisters, and
+     only one little brother, seven years old.
+
+  JENNIE MAY M.
+
+Yes, Jennie, the flowers you sent were very nicely colored indeed, and
+your picture of your home and pets is very charmingly painted too.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  WELDON, NORTH CAROLINA.
+
+     We have three nice cats; their names are Judy, Jonah, and
+     Salamander. When we were real little boys we used to run under the
+     bed and hide when we heard papa coming in from the store. He would
+     pretend to be surprised, and say, "Why, where are my boys?" and
+     then Judy would run to the bed and look under at us, and then at
+     papa, as if to say, "Here they are." Then he would pull us out, and
+     what a frolic we would have climbing up into his arms! And Judy
+     seemed just as happy as we were. Jonah is very large--weighs
+     fifteen pounds. Salamander is our baby cat. She climbs up to
+     mother's bedroom window every morning, and when she comes in she
+     goes to mother first, and then to our room, and purrs and rubs
+     around us, and puts up her little mouth to kiss just as sweet as
+     anything. We are always glad when Wednesday comes, for then we get
+     HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE. We like Jimmy Brown's stories ever so much,
+     and think he must be related to Georgie Hacket, the bad boy, whose
+     Diary we have read.
+
+  JOHN and BERNARD S.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  OSWEGO, OREGON.
+
+     I have not taken YOUNG PEOPLE very long, but I like it very much. I
+     have a nice horse and saddle that my grandmother gave me for my
+     birthday present when I was eight years old. My horse is as white
+     as snow, and his name is Mazeppa. I take a ride almost every day.
+     My cousins Edgar and Frank have a horse, and we ride out very often
+     together, and have nice times.
+
+     Last summer I tamed two wild robins; they were very interesting
+     pets. They were fledglings when I took them from the nest. I had to
+     feed them by hand for four or five weeks. I did not keep them in a
+     cage in the daytime, but let them have their liberty in the yard. I
+     clipped their wings so that they could not fly away. When they were
+     hungry they would come to the house and cry, "Tiptop, Tiptop." I
+     named them Tiptop and Rob, and whenever I wanted to feed them, or
+     know where they were, I would call them by their names, and they
+     would always answer, and come to me. Then I would put out my hand,
+     and they would hop upon it, and let me carry them about in that
+     way. I would place a basin of water in the shade of a cherry-tree
+     for them to bathe in, and it was fun to see them bathe. We had
+     several cats, but they did not molest them. When the robins were
+     about two months old, Tiptop got into the well and was drowned. As
+     Rob grew older, and could find his own food, he would stay out all
+     day, but would come home at night, and if the doors were open, he
+     would fly straight to the room where his cage was. But one evening
+     he did not return, and I could neither see nor hear him anywhere.
+     Oh, how sorry I felt! I think that a strange cat caught him, for
+     one came to the house the next morning!
+
+     I am afraid you will think that my letter is very long, but I must
+     tell you about the pretty little cherry-birds that we have here. We
+     call them cherry-birds because they are so fond of cherries. They
+     are about the size of a canary. There are several kinds of them,
+     and some are prettier than any canary-bird I ever saw, and some
+     sing very sweetly. They come in large flocks in summer.
+
+     I am eleven and a half years old, and have never been a day at
+     school. I live on Tualamette Island. We call our place Irona Hill.
+     We can see three snow-covered mountains the year round from our
+     door--Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams. They are a
+     beautiful sight on a clear day.
+
+  ELVA D.
+
+You showed great patience in training your pretty pet robins, and it
+seems a great pity that one should have been drowned, and the other
+devoured by a cat. But it may be that Rob at last grew tired of his
+cage, and found a little mate, and helped her build a pretty nest in
+some greenwood tree. At least we will try to think so, as it is
+pleasanter than to suppose that he was eaten by Puss. You write very
+well indeed for a little girl who has never been at school. Does your
+mother teach you herself?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  STUTTGART, GERMANY.
+
+     I have never yet seen a letter from Stuttgart in the Post-office
+     Box, so I thought I might write and tell how much a little German
+     girl enjoys YOUNG PEOPLE. My papa is a German officer, but my mamma
+     is an American; so I can speak and read English as well as German,
+     though I can not write it as well. My grandmamma has taken your
+     paper for me ever since I could read English. I do not go to
+     school, but have private lessons at home. I learn German, French,
+     English, and music. I have a dear little sister, whose name is
+     Roberta. She is two years old, and can speak English, French, and a
+     little German. I have a canary-bird and two dogs. I have one very
+     pretty dolly, whose name is Lili. There was a good deal of skating
+     this winter. I skated every day. I like very much to read the
+     Post-office Box, and hope my letter is not too long to be printed.
+     I send you one dollar for Young People's Cot. I am in my tenth
+     year.
+
+  CARLA E. D.
+
+The dollar was forwarded to Miss Fanshawe, treasurer of the fund for
+Young People's Cot. We like to receive letters from our distant readers
+as well as from those whose homes are in America. Carla's letter was
+very beautifully written, and we shall be glad to hear from her again.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  GREENLEAF, KENTUCKY.
+
+     We are three brothers, all under nine years of age. Greenleaf is
+     the name of our home down in Southern Kentucky--a long way from
+     where dear YOUNG PEOPLE is published. We have a very lovely country
+     home, six acres in our front yard, with great oak-trees, in which
+     the little squirrels play as though they were tame. A little girl
+     was here, and saw them running about the yard, and up the trees,
+     and said, "Look at the pretty kittens up in the trees!" I wish
+     Birdie and Jennie could see our half-wild, half-tame squirrels. We
+     throw bread-crumbs under the cedars in the winter, and the
+     partridges get them. We never disturb them. They live in our
+     orchard that joins the yard. We watch them running through the
+     yard. The mocking-birds and thrushes build in the honeysuckles and
+     cedars. They have not left us this winter.
+
+     Last Saturday we went fishing, and caught twenty fish by ourselves
+     in a large pond. We wish so much that Horace P. F. could have some
+     of our fun.
+
+  EDWARD W., PHILLIP W., and
+  FREDERICK W., by Mother W.
+
+The picture of your home which we have in our mind is charming. We are
+glad you are so good to the little friends who live in your trees,
+frolicking in the branches, or giving you sweet concerts mornings and
+evenings. The three boys may give mother a kiss and a hug for sending us
+so pleasant a letter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.
+
+     I read YOUNG PEOPLE carefully every week. My teachers at school and
+     also my Sunday-school teachers think it just the best paper ever
+     published for children. Seven other little girls about my age are
+     going to take it, and we all live in West Street. Worcester is a
+     busy city. We have lots of factories and machine shops. We also
+     have good schools, and pretty streets, and a large number of fine
+     residences. Almost everybody is prosperous here, at least I think
+     so, because everybody has plenty to do, and no one needs be idle.
+     There is work for all who wish to work. We are going to have a fair
+     at our church to assist the people in the Southwest who have
+     suffered by the terrible floods, and I hope it will be successful.
+
+     The letters from the children which you are so kind as to publish
+     always please me very much. There was one from Florida, not long
+     ago, which was very interesting, and I hope there will be another
+     one from the same writer. There was a nice letter from Cohasset,
+     Massachusetts, about three months since, signed "Harry," which told
+     your readers about Minot's Ledge Light-house and the ocean, which
+     all my friends thought very nice and pleasant. My friends who read
+     that letter about the beach, and the bathing, and the ships, and
+     other things which Harry told us about, hope he will send another
+     letter.
+
+  MARY S. A.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FRED L. C.--Send your wiggles, exchanges, answers to puzzles, etc., to
+the Editor of HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, Franklin Square, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WILLIE A.--We can not insert an exchange in the number succeeding the
+week in which we receive it. It is placed on file for publication, and
+follows others which have been received before it. As the number sent us
+is very large, you must try to be patient until your turn comes.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+C. Y. P. R. U.
+
+YOUNG PEDESTRIAN.--Your Picnic Club is a capital idea. Of course the
+excursions will be principally on foot, although, as New York is such a
+large city, you will often want to travel out of it either by rail or
+boat. The elevated railroad will take you as far as the Harlem River,
+and there you can change cars and go by the New York City and Northern
+as far as Tarrytown. A pleasant excursion, and an easy one, is by train
+to One-hundred-and-fifty-fifth Street and Eighth Avenue, thence on foot
+to High Bridge, and thence to King's Bridge, about two and a half miles
+further on, returning by Washington Heights, which overhang the Hudson,
+and afford magnificent views. The road running along by the private
+houses is not private. At Fort Washington you will be almost opposite
+Fort Lee, which is on the Jersey shore, and which is reached by boat
+from foot of Canal Street. The country all along and back from the river
+is delightful, and the woods are rich in ferns and wild flowers. A
+little higher up the river the Palisades begin, and their steep sides
+need some climbing. Only pathways, however, should be attempted, as all
+the members of the club may not be expert mountaineers.
+
+A delightful mountain and woodland walk for a long day is from
+Montclair, New Jersey, along the Orange Mountain to South Orange, or
+beyond, as far as Millburn. From Eagle Rock, which overhangs Orange and
+Montclair, you will have a magnificent view in almost every direction.
+By following the ridge of the mountain you will come to South Orange,
+whence you can take train to New York. Millburn is three miles beyond.
+When walking through wooded country it is well for the party to keep
+together; otherwise some may lose their way, and cause delay and anxiety
+to the rest. Railroad fares for this trip will be about seventy cents
+each. Staten Island and Long Island (with Bay Ridge and Bath to the
+south, and Whitestone, Garden City, and Roslyn to the east) are within
+easy reach.
+
+It will be best to make the nearest excursions first, as on every trip
+you will gain experience in travelling, and so be enabled to save time
+and expense. Before starting study out the proposed trip with the aid of
+a map and a railway guide, and if you are going to take the train back
+at the same place where you leave it, be sure to buy excursion tickets.
+The more you know about the place you are visiting, the more you will
+enjoy it. If, therefore, you can consult a guide to the suburbs of New
+York, and "post" yourselves thereby, you will not be likely to overlook
+any object of interest. If the walking and the scenery are your only
+objects, and not flower-collecting, etc., it will not do for you to miss
+whatever there is to be seen.
+
+Be sure that your shoes are stout and yet comfortable, and your clothes
+warm enough--at least in this spring weather; in midsummer you need have
+no fear about "the cool of the evening." A good lunch is important, and
+this you should take with you, as suburban hotels are either very poor,
+or, if good, very expensive; and then walking is hungry work, and not
+pleasant work on a very empty stomach. As regards a name for your club,
+some of you or your friends ought to be able to think of a good one, and
+if you have a badge, it might represent the name. Such names as the
+"Grasshoppers," "Butterflies," "Woodchucks," etc., would do. Whatever
+your name, and wherever you go, the Postmistress envies you the good
+times you will have.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We would call the attention of the C. Y. P. R. U. this week to the
+article entitled "Easter in Jerusalem." Of all the joyous weeks of the
+year this should be the brightest and most radiant. Two days ago we
+celebrated an event more important than that which gives us the
+happiness of Christmas. The Christ-child, who came to us then all lovely
+in his helpless infancy, comes now from his open grave with his work
+accomplished. Death has been conquered; the promise is fulfilled; He is
+the Saviour of the World. While you are spending the bright hours of
+Easter-week in gladness and rejoicing, you will like to read how the
+same great festival is being celebrated by the little folks whose home
+is in the Holy City where our Lord himself once dwelt. From this article
+we would like to have you turn to Mrs. Sangster's sketch of "The Cobbler
+who kept School in a Workshop," learning from it, if you will, the sweet
+and noble lesson that such a life ought to teach each one of us. Then,
+boys and girls, for an imaginary ride on "Jumbo," and the biggest kind
+of a kite! The boys must whittle the sticks, while the girls mix paste
+and tie on tail. Then no quarrelling as to who shall hold the string
+when she's well up!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PUZZLES FROM YOUNG CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+No. 1.
+
+RHOMBOID.
+
+Across.--1. Way of life. 2. Kingly. 3. Pickled meat. 4. A city in Asia.
+5. A station.
+
+Down.--1. A letter. 2. A conjunction. 3. A boy's name. 4. A Hindoo
+servant. 5. Fastened. 6. Learning. 7. A siesta. 8. A preposition. 9. A
+letter.
+
+  LODESTAR.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 2.
+
+TWO WORD SQUARES.
+
+1.--1. An opaque body. 2. An adjective. 3. A musical term. 4. A verb. 5.
+Musical instruments.
+
+2.--1. To change. 2. To depart. 3. To be received. 4. An episode. 5.
+Schisms.
+
+  G. Q. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 3.
+
+DOUBLE ACROSTIC.
+
+1. Exaggerated pictures. 2. A musical term. 3. Part of a door. 4. Hot.
+5. A range of mountains. 6. Anger. 7. Opposite of distant. Primals--A
+commander. Finals--One who obeys orders.
+
+  E. D. H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+No. 4.
+
+HOUR-GLASS PUZZLE.
+
+Centrals--A small flag. Across--1. Musicians. 2. Wide awake. 3. An
+insect. 4. In nest. 5. A human being. 6. A seat. 7. A floor covering.
+
+  E. D. H.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN No. 125.
+
+No. 1.
+
+        C
+      T I M
+    T A M E S
+  C I M E T E R
+    M E T T A
+      S E A
+        R
+
+No. 2.
+
+  P O E   F I R   L A W
+  O R E   I R E   A G E
+  E E L   R E D   W E D
+
+No. 3.
+
+Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.
+
+Natatores. Pelican. Whippoorwill. Rhinoceros. Giraffe. Hedgehog.
+Panther. Radiates. Lobster. Honey-bee. Antennæ.
+
+No. 4.
+
+  D E F E A T
+  E D I L E
+  F I L M
+  E L M
+  A E
+  T
+
+No. 5.
+
+  C R A M P
+  R A T I O
+  A T O N E
+  M I N I M
+  P O E M S
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Answer to Enigma on page 352--A flag.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Correct answers to puzzles have been received from M. F. S., Wroton
+Kenney, Willie T. Blew, "Olivette," R. Lloyd, Nellie B. Hannah, Lulu,
+Kirtland, John S. Price, "Lodestar," Harry D. Loehman, G. Q. C., Palmer
+Harrison, Harold S. Chambers, "Icicle," Jesse S. Godine, "Don Quixote,"
+Eva Dayton, Fannie Darling, Elma Stoddard, Harry Draper.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[_For Exchanges, see 2d and 3d pages of cover._]
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+PUZZLED.
+
+
+  Am I a little snow-white lamb,
+    A robin, or a bluebird,
+  A cherry, peach, or strawberry?--
+    Pray tell me, folks, have _you_ heard?
+
+  They call me every sort of thing;
+    Now is it not a pity?--
+  Am I a flower, am I a star,
+    Or just a little kitty?
+
+  I thought I'd learned, the other day,
+    When brought by sister Carry
+  Down stairs into the sitting-room
+    To "smile for Uncle Harry."
+
+  I heard him, as they took me in,
+    Say, "Pshaw! she's not worth two cents."
+  And then, "Come, Carry, bring her here;
+    Let's see the little _nuisance_."
+
+  But all my aunts, and grandmamma,
+    They told him he was "horrid";
+  Then kissed my nose, my eyes, and toes,
+    My hands, my cheeks, my forehead.
+
+  Oh dear! I don't know _what_ I am
+    I feel so puzzled. Maybe
+  I'd best believe what mamma says--
+    I'm just her "precious baby."
+
+
+
+
+SILENT STORIES.
+
+
+Silent stories are acted in costume, but without words. They should
+always give the impression of moving _tableaux vivants_, if the story
+and the dresses are rather pretty; or they may burlesque--that is, make
+as comic as possible--a historical story. In either case the subject
+should be something well known, so that it may be guessed as the play
+proceeds.
+
+A part of the room should be divided off as a stage--perhaps by laying a
+thick heap or wreath of evergreens along the floor, and stretching a
+wreath above across the ceiling, while others are hung down close to
+each side, so as to form a frame. Dark-colored curtains should be hung
+across at the back of the stage; and as scenery could not be changed for
+five or six different stories played quickly after each other, the best
+way would be to hang out over the curtains, or show at each change of
+scene, the name of the next scene printed in large letters on
+card-board, such as "A Wood," "Interior of a Cottage," "A Garden," "A
+Cellar," or whatever it may be. This was the old way in England before
+there was painted scenery; and people were content with it even in
+Shakspeare's time.
+
+Here are a few examples of Silent Stories, only adding the hint that the
+acting should always go on quickly, the players moving their lips and
+expressing all they can by their faces and gestures.
+
+"Little Silver Hair and the Three Bears." Scene I., _a wood with a
+cottage in sight_. The cottage door is shown half open, at the side of
+the stage, and there are evergreen bushes. Enter a fair-haired little
+girl fancifully dressed. She pries about, peeps in at the door, and at
+last goes in. Scene II., _interior of the cottage_. Kitchen table and
+chairs; big chair, common-sized chair, and small baby's chair; in front
+of the chairs a big bowl, a middle-sized bowl, and a little bowl, all
+steaming on the table. In one corner the staircase appearing--that is,
+the lowest three steps of a step-ladder, with stair-carpet fastened on
+them, and a railing (easily made of laths) down one side. The little
+girl sits on the chairs, tastes the porridge, then goes cautiously up
+stairs. A table is placed at the side of the stage, out of sight behind
+the ladder, for the players to go and come by the steps. Enter from the
+other side three bears, the big bear, the little bear, and the wee bear
+(girls or boys wrapped in furs, creeping on hands and knees, the heads
+being represented in strong brown paper emerging from the fur), with
+parted jaws--a little management produces a wonderful bear; and the
+silence might be broken here with growling. They find the chairs moved
+and the porridge tasted, and go growling up the stairs out of sight.
+Then enter again the little girl, running frightened down the staircase,
+with her hat hanging off, and her hand stretched out before her; she
+crosses the stage, and runs out at the other side.--_Curtain falls._
+
+"Beauty and the Beast" makes another good story for acting rapidly in
+this way. It is very effective with a prettily dressed Beauty, a garden
+of paper roses, a terrible Beast, of the bear kind, muffled in fur
+cloak--or, better still, tiger-skin or goat-skin hearth-rug--and a quick
+change in throwing off the Bear disguise, and discovering the Prince.
+
+The stories should of course be prepared beforehand, and the necessary
+articles placed ready behind the curtains.
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: BRINGING HOME THE EASTER EGG.]
+
+
+
+
+
+End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Young People, April 11, 1882, by Various
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 56741 ***