Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net No. 106. OCTOBER, 1875 Vol. XVIII. THE NURSERY _A Monthly Magazine_ FOR YOUNGEST READERS. BOSTON: JOHN L. SHOREY, 36 BROMFIELD STREET. AMERICAN NEWS Co., 119 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK. NEW-ENGLAND NEWS Co., 41 COURT ST., BOSTON. CENTRAL NEWS Co., PHILADELPHIA. WESTERN NEWS Co., Chicago. $1.60 a Year, in advance, Postage included. A single copy, 15 cts. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by JOHN L. SHOREY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. CONTENTS OF NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND SIX. PAGE. THE DELIGHTS OF THE SEASIDE By _Emily Carter_ 97 MABEL AND HER FRIEND CARLO By _Ned_ 99 PLAYING KING By _Alfred Selwyn_ 100 A TRUE ANTELOPE STORY By _Lloyd Wyman_ 102 THE APPLE TREE By _Clara Doty Bates_ 105 A COUNCIL OF HORSES By _Uncle Charles_ 106 THE PET OF THE SHIP By _C.E.C._ 108 THE UNMOTHERLY HEN By _C.R.W._ 111 A DRAWING LESSON 113 THE CHILDREN'S VISIT TO THE LIGHTHOUSE By _Charlie's Mamma_ 114 GOING AFTER COWS By _W.T.O._ 116 ROLY-POLY By _Olive A. Wadsworth_ 119 ELSIE'S DUCKS By _Ida Fay_ 120 FISHING FOR TROUT By _Alfred Selwyn_ 122 WE THREE By _Bella_ 124 PET, THE CANARY By _Mamma_ 125 THE CAT SHOW By _Sallie's Mamma_ 126 GOING THROUGH THE CORN (_Music by T. Crompton_) 128 EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO. With this number we begin on the last quarter of the year 1875; and we have the pleasure of informing our host of readers, young and old, that the prospects of "The Nursery" were never so encouraging as now. It has not only held its own during these hard times, but gone on increasing. Canvassers may take hold of it with the assurance that future numbers will be improvements even on the past. "Playing the King," in our present number, will be a good piece for humorous declamation at school. Both the artist and the poet have done their work well. For the coming holidays, there will be no juvenile work equal in attraction to the "NURSERY PRIMER," which will now soon be ready. It will be the best book for beginners ever got up. Already we have received numerous orders for it, to which we shall soon respond. "The Easy Book" and "The Beautiful Book" ought to be remembered by dealers ordering for the holidays. These books have only to be seen to be appreciated. The Nursery series of books is allowed to be the best for the purpose designed, namely, the teaching of children to read, _chiefly by their own efforts_, that has ever appeared.