, by Frances C. Sparhawk.

THE ORIOLE.

BY CLINTON SCOLLARD.

Oriole, sitting asway
High on an emerald spray,
Why that melodious zest,
Bird of the beautiful breast,
Bright as the dawn of the day?

What are the words that you say?--
"Sing and be merry with May,
Since to be merry is best,"
Oriole?

Winter has wasted away;
Gone are the skies that were gray:
Hear the glad bird near its nest!
Come let us join in its jest,--
Join in the joy of the gay
Oriole!

A TRIP AROUND CAPE ANN.

BY ELIZABETH PORTER GOULD.

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon allowed no summer to pass without going with their
family to some place noted for its beautiful or historical attractions.
Their ten days' stay in Nantucket, in July, 1883, as well as their
intelligent sojourn in Concord the following summer, had been to them a
fruitful source of many an hour's conversation and pleasure.

And now the summer of 1885 was approaching, and where should they go? To
be sure they could not have the delightful company of Miss Ray, the
young lady who had been with them for several seasons, for she had
married, and gone to reside in Colorado. But their daughter Bessie was
still with them, and also their son Tom. He was now a student in the
Institute of Technology. This constituted the Gordon family.

After a little discussion, it was decided to yield to Mrs. Gordon's
desire to visit the home of her childhood, Manchester, Mass., and take
what she had not taken for twenty years, a ride round the Cape. Bessie
and Tom had never taken this trip, and Manchester was a good place to
start from. These were two important considerations which finally
decided the matter.

As they finished talking, Mrs. Gordon, in her zeal for historical truth,
begged that whenever they thought of or wrote the name of the Cape, they
would spell it with an _e_. She could not imagine Queen Anne spelling
her name Ann.

"Indeed," she added, "your Uncle Tenney in his 'Coronation' spells it
with an _e_, and so does Smith's 'Narrative,' the first document which
tells of it. That should be authority, surely."

When the middle of July came, the Gordons started, as they had planned
to do, to go to the home of Mrs. Gordon's mother in Manchester (now so
well known as Manchester-by-the-Sea), on old High Street. The town had
changed the name of this street to Washington, but the ol