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Title: The Nursery, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2

Author: Various

Release Date: March 29, 2008 [EBook #24939]

Language: English

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THE

NURSERY

_A Monthly Magazine_

FOR YOUNGEST READERS.

VOLUME XIV.--No. 2

BOSTON:
JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36, BROMFIELD STREET.
1873.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by

JOHN L. SHOREY,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

BOSTON:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY RAND, AVERY, & CO.

[Illustration: CONTENTS.]

IN PROSE.

PAGE.

The Mother's Prayer 33

Coosie and Carrie 36

The Fourth of July Cake 38

How our School came to have the Nursery 42

Where the Dandelions went 43

The Bird's Nest 44

Meditations of a Shut-out One 46

Dreaming and Doing 48

Prairie Dogs 51

A Journey to California 55

A Letter to George 58

The Blackberry Frolic 60

IN VERSE.

PAGE.

Charley's Opinion 35

Song of the Brook 41

Bobolink 50

Dear Little Mary 53

Little Jack Homer (_with music_) 64

[Illustration]

[Illustration: THE MOTHER'S PRAYER.]

THE MOTHER'S PRAYER.

[Illustration: O]NCE the