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Title: The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3
A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

Author: Various

Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28131]

Language: English

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THE

NURSERY

_A Monthly Magazine_

FOR YOUNGEST READERS.

VOLUME XXI.--No. 3.

BOSTON:
JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET,
1877.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by

JOHN L. SHOREY,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

FRANKLIN PRESS: RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY, 117 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON.

[Illustration: Contents]

IN PROSE.

An Old-Time Scene 65
Nelly's First Lesson in Dancing 69
Old Jim 71
Second Lesson in Astronomy 73
How a Rat was once Caught 74
To Sea in a Tub 76
Drawing-Lesson 81
A Woodchuck Hunt 82
The Schoolmistress 85
Peter and Polly 88
Tommy and the Blacksmith 89
In the Country 91
Dodger 93
The Mother-Hen 94

IN VERSE.

Tom-Tit 68
A Lenten-Song 79
A Mew from Pussy 86
Down on the Sandy Beach 90
Song of the Cat (_with music_) 96

[Illustration]

[Illustration: VOL. XXI. No. 3.]

AN OLD-TIME SCENE.

[Illustration: L]OOK at the picture, and see if you can tell what has
roused all those children up so early in the morning. There is Mary in
her stocking-feet. There is Ann in her night-dress. There is Tom, bare
armed and bare legged.

Why have they all left their beds, a