THE NURSERY _A Monthly Magazine_ FOR YOUNGEST READERS. VOLUME XXX.--No. 1. 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 Hide and Seek 193 Flowers for Mamma 195 Outwitted 197 Zip Coon 199 The Fuss in the Poultry-Yard 201 Our Charley 206 Drawing-Lesson 209 More about "Parley-voo" 210 The old Pump 214 Winter on Lake Constance 215 Swan-upping 216 The Man in the Moon 219 The Boy and the Cat 220 IN VERSE. Hammock Song 196 Rosie and the Pigs 198 What's up 203 Minding Mother 204 Peet-Weet 207 Baby's Ride 212 Baby-Brother 222 Under Green Leaves (_with music_) 224 [Illustration] [Illustration: HIDE AND SEEK. VOL. XXX.--NO. 1.] HIDE-AND-SEEK. WHERE is Charley? Where can the boy have gone? Just now he was here by my side. Now he is out of my sight. I will call him. 'Charley, Charley, my boy! where are you?' "No answer. Hark! I hear a noise up in that tree. Can that be Charley? Oh, no! It is a bird. 'Little bird, have you seen a small boy with curly hair? Tell me where to look for him.' "The bird will not tell me. I must ask the squirrel. 'Squirrel, have you seen a boy with rosy cheeks?' Away goes the squirrel into a hole without saying a word. "Ah! there goes a butterfly. I will ask him. 'Butterfly, have you seen a boy, with black eyes, rosy cheeks, and curly hair?' The butterfly lights on a bush. Now he flies again. Now he is off without making any reply. "Dear me! what shall I do? Is my little boy lost in the woods? Must I go home without him? Oh, how can I live without my boy!" Out pops a laughing face from the bushes. "Here I am, mamma!" says Charley. "Don't cry. Here I am close by you." "Why, so you are. Come out here, you little rogue, and tell me where you have been all this time." "I have been right behind this tree, and I heard every word you said," says Charley. "What a joke that was! Why, Charley, you must have kept still for as much as three minutes. I never knew you to do that before."