tion: If afflicted with SORE EYES USE Dr. ISAAC THOMPSON'S EYE
WATER]

BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER

=Little Knights and Ladies.= Verses for Young People.

Illustrated. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1.25.

A volume of poems which are wholly suitable for children's reading, and
which will be quite as welcome to the children's mothers. There is a
womanly touch which will win for Mrs. Sangster hundreds of
admirers.--_N. Y. Times._

A volume of ballads and lyrical pieces for young people by an author who
never tires her readers.... All are of high quality.--_Philadelphia
Bulletin._

The verses in this collection are excellent; all of them are sweet and
rhythmical.... Poetry like this is delightful; it pleases and educates,
charms and inspires. "Little Knights and Ladies" will meet with a hearty
welcome.--_Brooklyn Standard-Union._

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Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York

[Illustration: HOP LEE AND HIS FAITHFUL MULE--AN EXCITING SCENE AT THE
HOANG-HO FERRY.]

JOHNNY'S IDEA OF A JOKE.

"Pa," said Johnny, as he watched his father filling cartridges for his
shot-gun, "wouldn't it be a joke to load one of those cartridges with
quinine pills and shoot a bear with 'em."

AN ERROR SOMEWHERE.

My pa says if I don't keep still
Some time, I won't get strong;
But when I watch the moving sea,
And think how strong the waters be,
I sort of think he's wrong.

EXPLAINED.

"Why, Howard, child, how did you cut your lip that way?" cried Mrs. B.

"Playing," said Howard. "I was playing I was a goat, an' I tried to eat
a tomatter can."

BOBBIE'S COMPLIMENT.

My sister screws her face up
At all times when she cries;
But she can't make it ugly
However hard she tries.

BOBBY. "If you fell overboard while on an ocean steamer, what would you
do?"

JACK (_four years old_). "I'd go to sleep on one of the ocean's
pillows."

NOT A QUESTION OF POVERTY.

"Speaking about little folks," remarked the B shop, after the dry-goods
man had gotten through with his story of the bright thing which his
little four-year-old daughter had said at dinner that day--"speaking of
smart little folks, I had an experience with one quite a good many years
ago. It was when I was candidating for my first parish that I preached
at a little village down in Pennsylvania. I was entertained at the home
of one of the wardens. As