1. What joy it is from day to day, To skip and sing, and dance and play; To breathe the air, to feel the sun, And o’er the spangled meadows run. To breathe the air, and feel the sun, And o’er the spangled meadows run, And o’er the spangled meadows run. What joy to move my limbs about, To whoop and halloo, call and shout, Among the woods and feel as free As any bird upon a tree. What joy, when hungry, ’tis to eat, What pleasure in our daily meat; How sweet, when sleep the eyelids close, To sink in calm and soft repose. But who bestows the constant joy On every little girl and boy? ’Tis God, our Father, great and wise, Whose goodness every joy supplies. Then let me love and praise the Lord, And strive to know his holy word,-- To do no wrong, and think no ill, And evermore perform his will. Transcriber’s Note This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless indicated below. Obsolete words, jargon, and alternative spellings were not changed. Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Obvious printing errors, such as letters that were backwards, upside down, partially printed, or in reverse order, were corrected. Unprinted punctuation, final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Duplicate letters at line endings or page breaks were removed. One footnote was moved to the end of the story in which the anchor occurs. Captions provided in the book are in italics. Descriptions, not in italics, were added to illustrations without captions. Lyrics to musical scores are presented as poetry following the illustration of the music. Noted: There may be a number missing from the puzzle at the end of the October issue: My 2, 8, 10 and is numbered. The illustration on page 186 shows the year 1835 coming to its end while the text referring to the illustration speaks of the year 1844 coming to an end. Text likely missing at a page break: I now found letters from ... well, and enjoying as much happiness as their humble condition would permit. There is no Chapter numbered XIII in the Dick Boldhero story. The following items were changed: fond and [axious] anxious hope one hundred [rix] six dollars [sackened] slackened his pace [acession] accession of a single rivulet opposite side of the [rixer] river [but-end] butt-end upon the head [may] many people do not wish [Sarcely] Scarcely had we Missing word added: be [a] matter of surprise