THE NURSERY _A Monthly Magazine_ FOR YOUNGEST READERS. VOLUME XXX.--No. 5. 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 Where Jimmy Lives 323 Jessie and her Kitten 324 Fanchette 329 Old Jack 333 A Day in the Woods 338 Milly and Jip 342 Lawn-Tennis 344 The Kitten's Necktie 345 A Basket from Home 348 A Letter from Honolulu 350 IN VERSE. Hush-a-by 322 Two Sides 326 Sweet Good-day 331 My Garden 332 Off for the Winter 335 Baby Bobby 341 A Thrifty Family 346 When will the Snow come 347 Christmas-Time (_with music_) 352 [Illustration] [Illustration: HUSH-A-BY. VOL. XXX.--NO. 5.] HUSH-A-BY. HUSH-A-BY baby: as the birds fly, We are off to the island of Lullaby: I am the captain, and you are the crew, And the cradle, I guess, is our birch-bark canoe; We'll drift away from this work-day shore, Forty thousand long leagues or more, Till we reach the strand where happy dreams wait, Whether we're early, or whether we're late. Hush-a-by baby: as the birds fly, Let us make the snug harbor of Lullaby: Some little folks are far on the way; Some have put in at Wide-awake Bay; Others, I fear, are long overdue; Don't let this happen, my darling, to you: Let us steer for the coast where happy dreams wait, Whether we're early, or whether we're late. MARY N. PRESCOTT. [Illustration] WHERE JIMMY LIVES. JIMMY MASON lives on a ranche in Colorado. Do you know what a ranche is? It is a kind of farm,--not a farm for raising wheat and potatoes and oats and corn, but for rearing horses and cattle and sheep. Jimmy's papa has about a hundred horses, as many cows, and a great many hundred sheep. He does not keep them in barns, or feed them with hay, but they roam over the hills, and feed on grass both in winter and summer.