THE NURSERY _A Monthly Magazine_ FOR YOUNGEST READERS. VOLUME XXIX.--No. 4. BOSTON: THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY, NO. 36 BROMFIELD STREET. 1881. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1881, by THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. [Illustration: JOHN WILSON & SON. UNIVERSITY PRESS.] [Illustration: Contents.] IN PROSE. PAGE Lucy 97 The Savoyard 100 A Bear's Story 102 Take Care 108 Letter from China 109 Drawing-Lesson 113 The Bird who has no Nest 114 A Shrine 115 Susie's Dancing-Lesson 117 The Deserted House 122 Dame Trott and her Son 124 Bossy's Fright 125 IN VERSE. PAGE A Merry Go-round 99 Secrets 105 Going to School 106 Kings and Queens 110 Good-Night 116 Five Little Sparrows 119 Dobbin's Complaint 121 Tommy Tucker 123 A Bluebird's Song 127 The Bird's Return (_with music_) 128 [Illustration: VOL. XXIX.--NO. 4.] LUCY. LUCY is three years old. She is one of the happiest little girls that I know, and one of the sweetest too. That is saying a good deal; for I know a great many very charming little girls. You would not suppose that such a little tot could be left to herself a great while. But often, when she is tired of running about, her mother seats her in the great arm-chair, and there, with her doll in her arms, she sits and amuses herself for hours. Jip the dog is very fond of Lucy, and very jealous of the doll. If he comes in and sees Lucy and her doll in the arm-chair, he begins to whine. Then Lucy says in her baby-way (for she cannot yet talk plain), "Come here, Jip!" Jip jumps up into the chair. Lucy puts her arm round him and pats him fondly. Jip looks up in her face, as much as to say, "Don't you love me, Lucy? Am I not as good as the doll? Why don't you pat me?" Lucy knows what he means just as well as if he said it in words. "Yes, Jip, you good little dog, I do love you," she says, "and Dolly loves you too. You will take good care of us; won't you, Jip?"