[Illustration: frontis-squirrel] ROBERT MERRY’S MUSEUM: VOLUMES I. II. [Illustration] Boston: PUBLISHED BY BRADBURY & SODEN, 10, SCHOOL STREET. 1842. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by S. G. Goodrich, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME. FROM FEBRUARY TO JULY 1841, INCLUSIVE. Address to the Reader, page 1 About Labor and Property, 3 Anecdote, 102 Absence of Mind, 126 Antiquities of Egypt, 149 A Drunkard’s Home, 152 Architecture of Birds, 158 A Philosophical Tea-pot 171 Astonishing Powers of the Horse 172 A Good Reply, 187 Chinese Spectacles, 18 Contentment, 50 Curious way of Keeping Accounts, 189 Death of the President, 127 Fanny Gossip and Susan Lazy; a Dialogue, 145 Hogg’s Father, 102 Hunting Wild Animals in Africa, 111 Hymn, 159 Importance of Attention; a Dialogue 174 Instinct, 190 John Steady and Peter Sly, a Dialogue 38 My First Whistle, 4 My own Life and Adventures; by Robert Merry, 9, 33, 65, 129, 161 Music--Jack Frost, a Song, 32 Madagascar, 168 Napoleon’s last Obsequies 51 Night, 101 Owls and Eagles, 5 Origin of ‘The House that Jack Built,’ 7 Origin of Words and Phrases, 35 Our Ancestry, 53 Plain Dealing, 26 Peach Seeds, 37 Professions and Trades, 94 Peter Pilgrim’s account of his Schoolmates, No. 1, 107