used in
teaching quite young children, especially in schools.

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Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York.

_Sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on
receipt of the price._

[Illustration: Fig. 1.]

[Illustration: Fig. 2.]

WALTZING FAIRY.

A very pretty toy, and easily made, is this Waltzing Fairy. It may be
familiar to some of our readers, but will be new to a great many more.

Cut a doll out of a good-sized cork--one from a Champagne bottle is
best, because broader at the base; into this base insert a number of
stout bristles, as in Fig. 1. If you can not procure bristles, fine
broom-corn will answer the purpose.

Dress this cork body (Fig. 2), taking care to make the dress just so
long that it will not touch the ground. Place this doll on the top or
sounding-board of the piano when any one is playing, and it will dance
about in a very graceful manner.

If placed on a smooth tea-tray, and the tray tilted a little at one end,
the doll will waltz across the tray in lady-like style.

CHARADE.

I.

A gentleman once, with his children and wife,
Fled away from a town that was burning,
By command of a friend, who added that life
Must depend on their never back turning.
The lady, alas! like her grandmother Eve,
With a longing for knowledge is curst:
She turns to behold--it is hard to believe--
And is pillared straightway in my _first_.

II.

An elderly female in gorgeous array
Promenades in the streets of Verona;
She is seeking a heart, which has wandered astray,
To the serious loss of its owner.
_Her_ heart is all safe; but her sense of her charms
Is still great--for what woman e'er lost it?--
So my _second_ precedes her t'allay her alarms,
And to speak in her stead if accosted.

III.

The battle's done; the chieftain's in his tent,
And glories in the victory he has won.
He dreams of plaudits by his sovereign sent--
When, lo! appears a curled perfumed one,
Who claims to be the herald from the King;
Who prates of war, though ne'er a squadron led;
And says but for my _whole_--the villainous thing--
He too had worn a helmet on his head.

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=How Salt was formerly Made.=--The art of making salt was known in very
early times to the Gauls and the Germans. The process was very simple,
for they did nothing