Produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE NURSERY _A Monthly Magazine_ FOR YOUNGEST READERS. VOLUME XIII.--No. 3 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: RAND, AVERY, & CO., STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS. [Illustration: Contents] IN PROSE. PAGE. The Pigeons and their Friend 65 The Obedient Chickens 69 John Ray's Performing Dogs 71 Ellen's Cure for Sadness 75 Kitty and the Bee 78 Little Mischief 82 How the Wind fills the Sails 85 Ida's Mouse 88 Almost Lost 91 Little May 93 An Important Disclosure 95 IN VERSE. Rowdy-Dowdy 67 The Sliders 74 Mr. Prim 77 Minding Baby 80 Deeds, not Words 84 Molly to her Dolly 87 Timothy Tippens (_with music_) 96 [Illustration: Decoration] [Illustration: THE PIGEONS AND THEIR FRIEND.] THE PIGEONS AND THEIR FRIEND. A TRUE STORY. [Illustration: W]HEN I was in Boston about a year ago, I stopped one day at the corner of Washington Street and Franklin Street to witness a pretty sight. Here, just as you turn into Franklin Street, on the right, a poor peddler used to stand with a few baskets of oranges or apples or peanuts, which he offered for sale to the passers-by. The street-pigeons had found in him a good friend; for he used to feed them with bits of peanuts, crumbs of bread, and seed: and every day, at a certain hour, they would fly down to get their food. On the day when I stopped to see them, the sun shone, and the street was crowded; and many people stopped, like myself, to see the pretty sight. The pigeons did not seem to be at all disturbed or frightened by the noise of carriages or the press of people; but would fly down, and light on the peddler's wrist, and peck the food from the palm of his hand. He had made them so tame, that they would often light on his shoulders or on his head; and, if he put food in his mouth, they would try to get it even from between his teeth.