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Title: Happy Days for Boys and Girls

Author: Various

Release Date: December 20, 2009 [EBook #30720]

Language: English

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HAPPY DAYS
FOR
BOYS AND GIRLS.

[Illustration: {Three children playing}]

136 ILLUSTRATIONS

CONTRIBUTIONS BY

LOUISA M. ALCOTT, ALICE AND PHOEBE CAREY, C. A. STEPHENS,
MARY N. PRESCOTT, WILLIAM M. THAYER, F. CHESEBORO,
J. G. WOOD, S. W. LANDER, and others.

PHILADELPHIA:
PORTER & COATES,
822 CHESTNUT STREET.

Copyright, 1877,
BY HORACE B. FULLER AND PORTER & COATES.

PRESS OF
HENRY B. ASHMEAD.
PHILADELPHIA.

[Illustration: YOUNG FISHERS.]

[Illustration: {A bird and nestlings}]

CONTENTS.

PROSE.

PAGE
Accident, The _Louisa M. Alcott_ 280

Adventure in the Life of Salvator
Rosa _L. D. L._ 84

African Elephant, The _J. G. Wood_ 319

Animal in Armor, The 75

Aunt Thankful _M. H._ 253

Barn Swallows _W. Wander_ 194

Birds _F. F. E._ 25

"Bitters" 203

Books and Reading 36

Bruin at a Maple-Sugar Party _C. A. Stephens_ 313

Camels _J. G. Wood_ 339