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on the work are now better than ever. We have in preparation for coming
numbers some admirable designs, illustrative of the choicest
reading-matter in prose and verse. None but the best will find a place
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THE NURSERY PUBLISHING CO.,

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ROSA BONHEUR.

About forty years ago, at an exhibition of paintings in Paris, two small
pictures attracted great attention. One was called "Goats and Sheep;"
the other, "Two Rabbits."

They were wonderfully true to life; and what made them still more
remarkable was, that they were the production of a girl only nineteen
years old. That young French girl, Rosalie Bonheur, is now the famous
artist known the world over as "Rosa Bonheur."

She was born in Bordeaux in 1822. Her father, Raymond Bonheur, was an
artist of much merit, and he was her first teacher. From earliest youth
she had a great fondness for animals, and delighted in studying their