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.--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: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY RAND, AVERY, & CO. [Illustration: CONTENTS.] IN PROSE. PAGE. 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 IN VERSE. PAGE. Rose's Song 68 A Little Tease 75 Sleeping in the Sunshine 78 Young Lazy-Bones (_with music_) 96 [Illustration: THE QUEER THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO NELLY.] THE QUEER THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO NELLY. [Illustration: N]ELLY BURTON had been weeding in the garden nearly all the summer forenoon; and she was quite tired out. "Oh, if I could only be dressed up in fine clothes, and not have to work!" thought she. No sooner had the thought passed through her mind, than, as she looked down on the closely-mown grass by the edge of the pond, she saw the queerest sight that child ever beheld. A carriage, the body of which was made of the half of a large walnut-shell, brightly gilt, was moving along, dragged by six beetles with backs glistening with all the colors of the rainbow. Seated in the carriage, and carrying a wand, was a young lady not larger than a child's little finger, but so beautiful that no humming-bird could equal her in beauty. She had the bluest of blue eyes, and yellow crinkled hair that shone like gold.