Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music by Linda Cantoni. THE NURSERY _A Monthly Magazine_ FOR YOUNGEST READERS. VOLUME XXII.--No. 2. BOSTON: JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET, 1877. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by JOHN L. SHOREY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. FRANKLIN PRESS: RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY, 117 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON. [Illustration: Contents.] IN PROSE. PAGE A Day at the Beach 33 Buttercup and Daisy 37 Aunt Mary's Bullfinch 38 The poor Man's Well 43 Spitfire 45 Drawing-Lesson 49 "Great I and little you" 50 Our Dog Tasso 53 My Pets 56 Drilling the Troops 59 The Picture-Book 60 IN VERSE. PAGE Bumble-Bee 36 King Drake 40 The Cosset-Calf 48 Primer and Slate 48 Making Cheeses 54 A Blacksmith's Song 62 Madam Quack (_with music_) 64 [Illustration: Birds] [Illustration: VOL. XXII.--NO. 2.] A DAY AT THE BEACH. [Illustration: T]HERE are few of the little readers of "The Nursery" who could not tell of pleasant days spent among green fields and woods, or on the seashore. But in almost every large city, there are many children who have never been out of sight of brick walls. Their homes are in close rooms in narrow streets, and there they live from one year's end to the other. In winter they are often pinched with cold. In summer they suffer even more from the heat. You may see them at windows and doors, or on hot sidewalks, trying to get a breath of fresh air. It is not pure air, but the best they can get. What I am going to tell you is about two of those poor children. One is a little girl, nine years old, whom we will call Jane. The other, who is only eight years old, is her brother George. Both children go to a Sunday school, and have for their teacher a kind lady, who takes great interest in them. One warm summer day, to their great delight, this lady, whom we will name Miss White, called for them to go with her on a trip to the seashore.