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Title: The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1

Author: Various

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THE

NURSERY

_A Monthly Magazine_

FOR YOUNGEST READERS.

VOLUME XIV.

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.

Look out for the Engine 1

How Willy coaxed Edith 3

Works of Art for Children 4

Kit Midge 8

Hettie's Chickens 10

A Schoolboy's Story 12

Clarence at the Menagerie 14

Touch my Chicks if you dare 16

The Catcher caught 18

Edwin's Doves 22

The Little Fortune-Seekers 24

The Little Stepmother 30

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 D