Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Music by Linda Cantoni. THE NURSERY _A Monthly Magazine_ FOR YOUNGEST READERS. VOLUME XIV. BOSTON: JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36, BROMFIELD STREET. 1873. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by JOHN L. SHOREY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. BOSTON: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY RAND, AVERY, & CO. [Illustration: CONTENTS.] IN PROSE. PAGE. Look out for the Engine 1 How Willy coaxed Edith 3 Works of Art for Children 4 Kit Midge 8 Hettie's Chickens 10 A Schoolboy's Story 12 Clarence at the Menagerie 14 Touch my Chicks if you dare 16 The Catcher caught 18 Edwin's Doves 22 The Little Fortune-Seekers 24 The Little Stepmother 30 The Mother's Prayer 33 Coosie and Carrie 36 The Fourth of July Cake 38 How our School came to have the Nursery 42 Where the Dandelions went 43 The Bird's Nest 44 Meditations of a Shut-out One 46 Dreaming and Doing 48 Prairie Dogs 51 A Journey to California 55 A Letter to George 58 The Blackberry Frolic 60 The Queer Things that happened to Nelly 65 The Six Ducks 69 The Bunch of Grapes 71 A True Story about a Dog 73 Pitcher-Plants and Monkey-Pots 76 Under the Cherry-Tree 77 Rambles in the Woods 80 What I Saw at the Seashore 82 Blossom and I 85 How Norman became an Artist 87 A Boot-Race under Difficulties 89 Pictures for Walter 90 The Fisherman's Children 92 Threading the Needle 97 The Butter Song 100 Our Pony 103