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Title: The Pansy, November 1886, Vol. 14

Author: Various

Editor: Pansy
Isabella Alden

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Language: English

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THE

PANSY

EDITED

BY "PANSY"

MRS. G. R. ALDEN.

Transcriber's Note: Many of the advertising images are linked to larger copies to enable

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Independent, England.

SERIAL STORIES AND SERIES OF ARTICLES:

The Story of Keedon Bluffs. By Charles Egbert Craddock, author of “The Prophet of the Great
Smoky Mountains,” “Down the Ravine,” etc. A dramatic serial of boy life in the Great Smokies, with new scenes and
new characters, among the latter a jolly young mountaineer who sings original dialect songs full of wild humor.
Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett.
Romulus and Remus. By Charles Remington Talbot. This story is not a tale of ancient Rome; instead, it
is modern high comedy. Full of mirthful surprises. So far as known, the first strictly humorous serial prepared for a
young folks’ magazine. Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.
Montezuma’s Gold Mines. By Fred A. Ober, author of “The Silver City.” This serial of romantic

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adventure is based on Mr. Ober’s own search for the lost gold mines of Montezuma, which are firmly believed in
Mexico to be still in existence, their precise locality a guarded secret among one or two tribes of mountain Indians, who
inherit the precious knowledge, handing it down in turn to their children. The hero of the story is “John North,” the hero
of “The Silver City,” and the serial opens on the mysterious island of Cozumel. The story has been written to satisfy the
incessant demand and unappeasable desire of the readers, old as well as young, of “The Silver City.” Illustrations by
Hy. Sandham.
The Secrets at Roseladies. By Mary Hartwell Catherwood, author of “Rocky Fork,” and “Old
Caravan Days.” It is enough, perhaps, to reveal here, of Pen Bidgood, and Willie Bidgood, and “Sister” Bidgood, and
little Honora Jones, and Aquilla Jones, and beautiful Sarah Roseladies, and Dan Marsh of the house-boat, that one of
their secrets concerned the secrets of the Indian Mounds on the Lower Wabash. Illustrations by W. A. Rogers.
Howling Wolf and His Trick-Pony. By Mrs. Lizzie W. Champney. The hair-breadth adventures of
a bright little Indian boy in search of the lost “medicine” of the Utes. An enchanting serial for Little Folks, which the big
folks will equally enjoy. Illustrations by H. F. Farny, and from photographs.
Bird-Talk. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. For some time Mrs. Whitney has been making a study of our wild birds
and their individual song expression; and from that study comes now a delicious group of poems, each descriptive of a
bird and its haunts, and each including a metrical rendering of that bird’s song, based on the true vowel sounds in the
notes of its melody. This dainty and amusing series will be as follows:

Jan. In the Evergreens.
Chickadee.

Feb. In the Thorn-Thicket.
Blue Jay.

Mar. On the Bare Bough.
Song-Sparrow.

Apr. In Open Fields.
Crow, Robin.

May Hid in the Lilac.

On a Grass-Head.
Cat-bird.
Bobolink.

June In the Ash-Tree.

Under the Laurel Bush.
Vireo.
Oven-bird.

July In the Cherry-Trees.

In the Birch Hollow.
Tanager.
Savanna Sparrow.

Aug. In Deep Woods.
Small Fly-Catcher.
Hermit Thrush.

Sept. In the Stubble.
Quail.

Oct. Among Falling Leaves.
Tree-Sparrow.

Nov. In Early Snow.
Goldfinch.

Dec. From the Old Barn Gable. Screech Owl.

In War-Times at La Rose Blanche. By Mrs. M. E. M. Davis. Twelve stories, written by a
prominent New Orleans lady, the wife of a Confederate cavalry officer. They relate the adventures of a great Southern
sugar-plantation household, whose men were in the army from the beginning to the end of the Civil War. The author
was a little girl at the time—the “Miss Ma’y” of the stories—and was concerned in many little dramas, some humorous
and some pathetic, in which both “Blue-coats” and “Gray-coats” were actors. “The Letter from the Front,” describing
the Battle of the Wilderness, in which her brother of fifteen was a color-bearer in Hood’s Brigade, is said by both
Union and Confederate officers to be one of the best descriptions ever written of what one soldier sees and feels in a
battle. Some hundreds of “house and field hands” belonged to La Rose Blanche plantation, and the “dialect” is not one
of the least of the charms of these stories. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble.
Ballads about Old-Time Authors. By Harriet Prescott Spofford. In twelve picturesque ballads
Mrs. Spofford will relate some tender stories from the lives of the masters of the earlier English literature—that one of
“Goldsmith’s Whistle,” and that one of Johnson doing penance in Uttoxeter Market, and of Milton blind, and of Lamb
and his sister—and many another beautiful literary story with which young people ought to be made familiar. These
ballads will be richly and authentically illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett.
Famous Pets. By Eleanor Lewis. A series of papers which have been in preparation at home and abroad for
several years, comprising among their treasures rich contributions of facts, anecdotes, descriptions, engravings and
photographs from many noted people who have owned interesting pets: for instance, the first paper, “Some Scotch
Celebrities,” narrates an interesting talk with the old keeper of Grayfriar’s Churchyard, where the famous “Grayfriar’s
Bobby” lived and died, and another chat with the sister of Dr. John Brown, author of “Rab and his Friends,” with an
engraving from a charming photographed group of Dr. Brown, Dr. Peddie and “Dandie,” and half a dozen pictures from
paintings, statues and photographs.
“Fairy Folk All.” By Louise Imogen Guiney. Twelve Papers. Researches in fairy-land, giving the natural
history of brownies and bogles, of fays and elves, of necks, nixies and puckwudjies, of kelpies and kobolds—in short,
of all the known races of “the little vanishing folk,” with accounts of their dress, haunts, habits, manners, customs and

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usages. Full of delicious anecdote and legend, and with bewitching pictures.

NEW FEATURES, SPECIALTIES, SINGLE NUMBER ARTICLES:

A New Department, called The Contributors and the Children, is to be the fireside and round-table
corner of the magazine. There the famous Wide Awake writers will meet the young folks face to face as it were, and in
social chats with them say a thousand bright and important little things which naturally cannot come into their stories and
articles. It will be a cosey and notable spot—this Contributors’ Corner. Charming plans for it have already been carried
out: at the Christmas (Dec.) gathering the young folks are to meet Mrs. James T. Fields, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney,
Margaret Sidney, Susan Coolidge and Sarah Orne Jewett. The New Year’s reception will be no less delightful.
Concord: Its Ways and By-Ways. By Margaret Sidney. A series of papers about this historic and
literary Mecca, its picturesque waters, lanes and spots, its famous people and their famous homes and haunts—full of
fresh anecdote and reminiscence. Mr. A. W. Hosmer, the accomplished amateur photographer, is now making
negatives in and about Concord town, for the liberal illustration of these papers.
Christmas-Tide Stories. A Pretty Scarecrow, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Taffy and Buster Tied to a
Christmas Tree, and Taffy and Buster at Niblo’s, two stories by Jessie Benton Frémont. A Christmas Masquerade,
by Mary E. Wilkins. A Christmas Guest, by Sarah Orne Jewett. A Wee Wedding, by Sophie May. Why the Doll’s
Name was never Changed, by Katherine McDowell. These stories will all appear in the Christmas and New Year’s
numbers.
Some Educational Extremes. A Yankee Schoolmistress, by Mrs. H. G. Rowe; a Maine village school
of 1800, and how Aunt Polly Shedd taught history and civics. “Cap’n Bos’ard’s Wife’s School,” by Mrs. Frances A.
Humphrey; an amusing record of an Old Colony dame-school. A New England Summit, by Frona M. Brooks; how
the Harvard Annex girls live and study.
The Quest of the Whipping-Boy. By Georgiana Washington. An extravaganza chronicling the
suppositious adventures of an American school-girl, who, inspired by the “happy thought” of the early English kings in
providing a Whipping-Boy to be punished for the sins of their young princes, set out on a journey to find a victim willing
to bear all the consequences of the shortcomings of a seminary-full of modern school-girls.
Longfellow’s Boyhood. Also, Longfellow and the Children. Two articles by Rev. Samuel Longfellow.
Reminiscences of the beloved “children’s poet,” as a child himself, and his relations with his own children and with other
children through life. This beautiful paper for all children will appear in the Christmas number.
An Old House. By H. L. Bradley. Another Longfellow article, to appear in the New Year’s number. It
describes the quaint old Longfellow house in Portland, where the poet wrote his first poems, and to which American
boys and girls make pilgrimages. Many illustrations from photographs and drawings.
A “Lend-a-Hand” Group. A Helping Hand, by Mrs. James T. Fields. A Livelihood for Girls, by
Margaret Sidney. The Boston Girls’ Friendly Society, by Mrs. Henry Whitman. From the Annals of the S. P. C. C.,
by Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells. Associated Charities Story: Kitty’s Gingerbread Store, and Jack’s Animals, by Mrs.
Margaret Storer Warner.
Flowers I have Met. By Grant Allen. An interesting record of observations upon plants and flowers along
New England and Canadian roadsides and fields, made by the eminent English scientist during his recent visit to
America. Also animal papers.
Child Life in London. From Hyde Park to Whitehall. By Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Pennell, with many
drawings by Joseph Pennell, the distinguished etcher. Both author and artist are now in London making special studies
for this article.
The True Story of William Tell. By Sarah Loring Bailey. An historical and mythological research
made at Altorf, Switzerland. Several interesting illustrations from photographs of localities, statues, etc.
Washington and his Playmates. By Wm. F. Carne, author of “Washington as a Burgher.” Interesting
new material gathered from Virginia records, letters and recollections. Important illustrations.
The Luck of Edenhall. By Amanda B. Harris. The literary history of that famous fairy glass, so celebrated
in ballad and story, together with the authentic family traditions and a correct description, kindly furnished to Wide
Awake by the present family owners of this goblet of romance—the Musgraves of Edenhall, Cumberland, England.
A Day with Hans Andersen. By Jessie Benton Frémont. A delightful account of a visit in Copenhagen
with the dear old Fairy-storyteller of the North. Another beautiful “Souvenir,” as faithful as a photograph.

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Pictures of American Pastimes. By F. Childe Hassam. Stirring full-page pictures of American
games, each depicting a picturesque crisis in the sport, and of a sort to make the boys toss their caps and shout
“hurrah!” (and the girls long to do the same!) These pictures will include Lawn Tennis, Hockey, Bowling, Quoits,
Archery, Foot Ball, Croquet, Polo, Lacrosse, and other popular plays that call for healthful exercise.
Little Classics of English Prose, Illustrated. With the purpose of interesting young people in
English prose literature which is not all “story,” it is proposed to give occasional selections of brief masterpieces,
accompanied by numerous illustrations.

FOR THE C. Y. F. R. U., AND FOR EVERYBODY:

Some Successful American Women. By Sarah K. Bolton. During the publication in the Readings
for 1883-4 of Mrs. Bolton’s “little biographies” of successful American men, under the title “How Success is Won,”
many parents requested that a series about successful women be prepared for their daughters; in accordance are given
now the examples of a dozen bright, strong, and prosperous women who have succeeded in their chosen work.
Twelve papers, with portraits.
Wonder-Wings, Mellangongs, Colossii, and Others. By C. F. Holder, of the N. Y.
Central Park Museum of Natural History. Twelve marvel-chapters of animal life, as true as strange. Illustrations by J.
Carter Beard.
A Young Prince of Commerce. By Selden R. Hopkins, Commercial Counsel. A well-known
authority and writer on business practice and commercial usages has written for the young folks a serial story of a boy’s
career, from a penniless youth to a young millionaire, as valuable as it is exciting and inspiring, showing that ledgers,
stocks and bonds are as romantic and potent weapons in the hands of a young man with a knightly soul as ever were
lance and shield in the days of old. The girls too come in for a good share of the young “prince’s” honor, and the story
shows how many business ventures are made successful by the tender “power behind the throne.” Twelve chapters,
with forms, laws and usages.
Our Asiatic Cousins. By Mrs. A. H. Lenowens, the Eastern traveller. Entertaining and instructive. Studies
of our kindred in the far fatherland of the race, tracing the relationships and delineating the great family traits. With many
illustrations.
Ways to Do Things. By various authors. Practical handiwork for young folks. The new series of these
popular papers will open with a delightful needlework article, “Baby’s Shoe,” by Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont, to be
followed by Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs’ and Amanda B. Harris’ instructions (two articles), “How to Write a
Composition.”
Search-Questions in Greek History. With Monthly Prizes. By Oscar Fay Adams. The value
everywhere set upon the past two years’ work with Search-Questions in Literature, and the cordial help afforded to the
young “searchers” by librarians, professors, editors, and literarians throughout the country, have led to a broad and
careful plan for Historical Search-Questions which shall extend through several years’ Readings, thus giving “searchers”
a systematic survey of the great Historical Periods. Each year’s work comprises Answers to twelve sets of questions, of
twenty questions each. Standard books are given as prizes, particulars of which will be given in the C. Y. F. R. U.
department.

Rare Stories and Poems and beautiful Pictures are on hand, really “too numerous to mention”: “My First

Voyage,” a singular story, by Maurice Thompson, author of “The Witchery of Archery”; “How Ned Scaled Mt.
Washington,” by Mary Rebecca Hart; “Besieged by Wolves,” by John Willis Hays; “The Shipwreck of the
Cologne Bottle,” by Susan Coolidge; “Ph[oe]be Stout, Sculptor,” by M. B. Ryerson; “Jeremicky’s Sacrifice,”
by Mrs. Katherine B. Foote; “A Manorial Pigeon Tower,” with a full-page picture by Henry Bacon, the painter-
author, of Paris, etc., etc.

!!!A WORD ABOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS.... $2.40 PROM THIS DATE!!!

D. Lothrop and Company announce that, leading in the great literary movement toward lower prices, and large

sales, they have made, without reducing quantity or quality, an extraordinary reduction in the price of Wide Awake, the
best illustrated young folks’ magazine, 1000 quarto pages and 500 original pictures yearly, and will now receive
subscriptions at the former wholesale price of only $2.40 a year.

D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY, Publishers, Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

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BABYLAND

PROSPECTUS

FOR 1887.

Babyland will have two enticing new features for the babies and their mammas, in addition to the perennial

pleasures of the countless little two-minute stories and verses with which the magazine always has abounded.

Especially calculated to merrily occupy the eyes and ears of the little ones are the monthly pictorial pages called

PUZZLES ABOUT PETER AND PATTY,

text and pictures by Margaret Johnson; and especially calculated to sweetly teach and charm are the home
kindergarten delights called

NURSERY FINGER-PLAYS,

by Emilie Poulsson, with dozens and dozens and dozens of bewitching picture-instructions by L. J. Bridgman. Every
one who has the care of little nursery toddlers will bless Babyland for these two features.

Big bright pictures, large print, strong paper, and dainty gay cover. 50 cts. a year.

OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN PROSPECTUS

FOR 1887.

The Serial Story for the year, by that charming writer for children, Mrs. M. F. Butts, will be entitled,

WANDERERS IN BO-PEEP’S WORLD.

It will be accompanied with twelve full-page drawings by Miss E. S. Tucker. The author of “Little Talks about

Plants” and “Little Talks about Insects,” has prepared an amusing series about

TINY FOLK IN RED AND BLACK,

in which she tells about ants and their wise and curious ways—how they work, how they harvest their grain, how they
milk their cows, etc.

TEN LITTLE INDIANS,

by Mrs. Helen E. Sweet, tells many interesting things about Indian boys and girls, their sports and their strange ways of
living, so unlike the life of our little men and women. The History Chapters for the year will consist of

ADVENTURES OF THE EARLY DISCOVERERS,

by Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey, following on from the voyages of Columbus, given last year, and relating the story of
Ponce de Leon and his search in America for the Fountain of Youth, the romantic tale of De Soto and his burial in the
Mississippi River, the exploits of Capt. John Smith in Virginia, etc., such incidents being chosen from the life of each as
shall most interest little readers.

All these will be profusely illustrated, as also will be the verses and short stories by Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, Sara E.

Farman, Mrs. Olive Howard, Charles E. Skinner, Bessie Chandler, H. R. Hudson, Anna R. Henderson, Henrietta
K. Elliot, Emilie Poulsson, and other favorite writers.

The yearly numbers, as heretofore, will have seventy-five full-page pictures. $1.00 a year.

THE PANSY

PROSPECTUS

FOR 1887.

This illustrated monthly contains thirty-two to forty pages each number, of enjoyable and helpful literature and

pictures, equally suited to Sundays and week days. The editor, “Pansy,” will furnish a new serial to run through the year,

MONTEAGLE.

The Golden Text Stories will be continued under the title of “A Dozen of Us.” Margaret Sidney will contribute a

serial story called

THE LITTLE RED SHOP,

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telling how Jack and Cornelius and Rosalie earned money to help mother take care of the baby. There will be more
“Great Men” and more “Remarkable Women.” Faye Huntington will write of flowers and plants in

MRS. BROWN’S BOTANY CLASS.

Rev. C. M. Livingston will furnish stories of Great Events, People, Discoveries, Inventions, etc. A novel feature will be
a story by eleven different authors. R. M. Alden will direct a new department of Church, Sabbath School and
Missionary News. The present departments will continue, and new ones be opened. $1.00 a year.

Address all orders to

D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY, Publishers, Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

SPECIAL HOLIDAY BOOKS.

The special Holiday Book list of Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co. and their general Booklist for the season embrace

volumes of fresh beauty, and also sterling works fully abreast with the growing demand for attractive books of some
educational value. Their array of costly illustrated volumes includes seven Fine-Art issues. Foremost is the magnificent
folio, Idyls and Pastorals, comprising twenty-four poems by Celia Thaxter written expressly for this work,
accompanied by twenty-four superb fac-simile photogravures from paintings, water colors and line drawings by eminent
American and foreign artists, including Kate Greenaway, Howard Pyle, Wm. T. Smedley, Edmund H. Garrett, F.
Childe Hassam, Jessie Curtis Shepherd, Miss L. B. Humphrey, W. L. Taylor, Joseph Pennell, Thomas Hovenden, F.
H. Lungren, T. W. Wood, N. A., Charles Volkmar, Hy. Sandham, F. T. Merrill and Henry Bacon. These
photogravures are printed by hand, in colors, on the finest imported India paper. The book is bound in vellum cloth with
designs in two metals, also in white calf embossed in imitation of antique carved ivory. A Popular Edition, octavo, with a
selection, and fine wood engravings is bound both in cloth and embossed leather. Youth in Twelve Centuries is another
de luxe folio, holding twenty-four bold picturesque drawings by Hassam of youthful race-types of both sexes, ranging
from Egyptian, 1500 B. C., down through Chinese, Greek, Roman, Scandinavian, Gaul, to the Renaissance of the
Medici and the American Colonial. These drawings are in hand-printed photogravures in twelve tones, and are
accompanied by twenty-four poems by “M. E. B.” The book is in two styles of binding: in rich silk canvas from the
New York Associated Artists’ art-fabrics with emerald calf corners and back, and in linen fabric overprinted in
photogravure with a rich and mystic design. A Popular Edition of the same, with wood engravings, is bound in fine
cloth. The Minute Man, by Margaret Sidney, is a Ballad of “the shot heard round the world;” it has drawings by
Sandham printed with the text, also a strong water-color and three historic Concord views in toned photogravures.
Beautiful binding. In Bye-o-Baby Ballads, the “color-book” of the House, the little folks have a volume as perfect in
taste as the costly adult gift-books; the ballads are by Charles Stuart Pratt (editor of Wide Awake and Babyland), and
the pictures, by Hassam, the popular water-color painter, include many strong charming full-pages and hundreds
smaller, reproduced in exquisite colors by Buek & Co.; withal, the book is distinctively fresh and American. Sonnets
from the Portuguese. The immortal love-sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are so richly printed and bound as to
become a standard presentation volume. New editions of recent favorite gift-books group with these new ones, notably
Ideal Poems, Heroines of the Poets and Stabat Mater.

The Holiday Quartos in black-and-white for popular use are hardly less rich in their handsome bindings. First of

course, are the regular Annuals, Wide Awake “U” and “V,” Babyland, Our Little Men and Women and The Pansy.
Wide Awake “U” contains complete serials by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney and Margaret Sidney, “How the Middies Set up
Shop” and “A New Departure for Girls;” “V” has the beautiful complete story of “A Girl and a Jewel,” by Mrs. Harriet
Prescott Spofford. Our Little Men and Women has the delicious English serial written for it by L. T. Meade. Babyland
has that dainty dozen of “Crib-Curtain Stories,” by Mrs. Ella Farman Pratt. Pansy has Margaret Sidney’s “St. George
and the Dragon” and “Reaching Out,” by Pansy. A quarto volume of Children’s Ballads is particularly rich in historical
stories. The new edition of the great encyclopædia of poetry, The Young Folks’ Golden Treasury, has several hundred
illustrated original poems. Sights Worth Seeing is gorgeous with spectacles and carnivals, while the small quartos and
the tiny books for the Christmas Stocking People are countless in their rainbowy profusions. One choice volume of
short stories for adults is included in the Holiday List, Hester, and Other New England Stories, by Margaret Sidney.
This is beautifully gotten up, the artistic covers being designed by Mrs. Henry Whitman; one choice historical novel for
young folks, In Leisler’s Times, a story of Knickerbocker New York, by E. S. Brooks; and one beautiful Wonder
Story for the little folks, The Bubbling Teapot, by Mrs. Lizzie W. Champney.

Among the new issues for popular reading are The Land of the Czar and the Nihilist, by Rev. J. M. Buckley, LL.

D., an illustrated octavo of recent travel. All Among the Lighthouses, by Mrs. Crowninshield (the wife of Commander
Crowninshield U. S. N.,) finely illustrated and uniform in size, price and importance with the famous Family Flights; and
Souvenirs of My Time, by Mrs. Jessie Benton Frémont, a large book crowded with personal reminiscences of famous
people, at home and abroad, celebrated places and notable scenes and events.

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Volume 14, Number 1. Copyright, 1886, by D. Lothrop & Co. November 6, 1886.

THE PANSY.

Girl walking down steps

BETTIE.

A DOZEN OF THEM.

AND THOMAS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, MY LORD AND MY GOD.

HE SAITH UNTO HIM, FEED MY LAMBS.

IF WE WALK IN THE LIGHT, AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT, WE HAVE FELLOWSHIP ONE WITH ANOTHER, AND THE

BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON, CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN.

I AM HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD; AND BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE.

OUNG Joseph sat on the side of his bed, one boot on, the other still held by the strap, while he stared somewhat
crossly at a small green paper-covered book which lay open beside him.

“A dozen of them!” he said at last. “Just to think of a fellow making such a silly promise as that! A verse a month,

straight through a whole year. Got to pick ’em out, too. I’d rather have ’em picked out for me; less trouble.

“How did I happen to promise her I’d do it? I don’t know which verse to take. None of ’em fit me, nor have a

single thing to do with a boy! Well, that’ll make it all the easier for me, I s’pose. I’ve got to hurry, anyhow, so here
goes; I’ll take the shortest there is here.”

And while he drew on the other boot, and made haste to finish his toilet, he rattled off, many times over, the second

verse at the head of this story.

The easiest way to make you understand about Joseph, is to give you a very brief account of his life.

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He was twelve years old, and an orphan. The only near relative he had in the world was his sister Jean aged sixteen,

who was learning millinery in an establishment in the city. The little family though very poor, had kept together until
mother died in the early spring. Now it was November, and during the summer, Joseph had lived where he could;
working a few days for his bread, first at one house, then at another; never because he was really needed, but just out
of pity for his homelessness. Jean could earn her board where she was learning her trade, but not his; though she tried
hard to bring this about.

At last, a home for the winter opened to Joseph. The Fowlers who lived on a farm and had in the large old

farmhouse a private school for a dozen girls, spent a few weeks in the town where Joseph lived, and carried him away
with them, to be errand boy in general, and study between times.

Poor, anxious Jean drew a few breaths of relief over the thought of her boy. That, at least, meant pure air,

wholesome food, and a chance to learn something.

Now for his promise. Jean had studied over it a good deal before she claimed it. Should it be to read a few verses in

mother’s Bible every day? No; because a boy always forgot to do so, for a week at a time, and then on Sunday
afternoon rushed through three or four chapters as a salve to his conscience, not noticing a sentence in them. At last she
determined on this: the little green book of golden texts, small enough to carry in his jacket pocket! Would he promise
her to take—should she say each week’s text as a sort of rule to live by?

No; that wouldn’t do. Joseph would never make so close a promise as that. Well, how would a verse a month do,

chosen by himself from the Golden Texts?

On this last she decided; and this, with some hesitancy, Joseph promised. So here he was, on Thanksgiving morning,

picking out his first text. He had chosen the shortest, as you see; there was another reason for the choice. It pleased him
to remember that he had no lambs to feed, and there was hardly a possibility that the verse could fit him in any way
during the month. He was only bound by his promise to be guided by the verse if he happened to think of it, and if it
suggested any line of action to him.

“It’s the jolliest kind of a verse,” he said, giving his hair a rapid brushing. “When there are no lambs around, and

nothing to feed ’em, I’d as soon live by it for a month as not.”

Voices in the hall just outside his room: “I don’t know what to do with poor little Rettie to-day,” said Mrs. Calland,

the married daughter who lived at home with her fatherless Rettie.

“The poor child will want everything on the table, and it won’t do for her to eat anything but her milk and toast. I am

so sorry for her. You know she is weak from her long illness; and it is so hard for a child to exercise self control about
eating. If I had anyone to leave her with I would keep her away from the table; but every one is so busy.”

Then Miss Addie, one of the sisters: “How would it do to have our new Joseph stay with her?”

“Indeed!” said the new Joseph, puckering his lips into an indignant sniff and brushing his hair the wrong way, in his

excitement; “I guess I won’t, though. Wait for the second table on Thanksgiving Day, when every scholar in the school
is going to sit down to the first! That would be treating me exactly like one of the family with a caution! Just you try it,
Miss Addie, and see how quick I’ll cut and run.”

But Mrs. Calland’s soft voice was replying: “Oh! I wouldn’t like to do that. Joseph is sensitive, and a stranger, and

sitting down to the Thanksgiving feast in its glory, is a great event for him; it would hurt me to deprive him of it.”

“Better not,” muttered Joseph, but there was a curious lump in his throat, and a very tender feeling in his heart

toward Mrs. Calland.

It was very strange, in fact it was absurd, but all the time Joseph was pumping water, and filling pitchers, and

bringing wood and doing the hundred other things needing to be done this busy morning, that chosen verse sounded
itself in his brain: “He saith unto him, feed my lambs.” More than that, it connected itself with frail little Rettie and the
Thanksgiving feast.

In vain did Joseph say “Pho!” “Pshaw!” “Botheration!” or any of the other words with which boys express disgust.

In vain did he tell himself that the verse didn’t mean any such thing; he guessed he wasn’t a born idiot. He even tried to
make a joke out of it, and assure himself that this was exactly contrary to the verse; it was a plan by means of which the
“lamb” should not get fed. It was all of no use. The verse and his promise, kept by him the whole morning, actually sent
him at last to Mrs. Calland with the proposal that he should take little Rettie to the schoolroom and amuse her, while the
grand dinner was being eaten.

I will not say that he had not a lingering hope in his heart that Mrs. Calland would refuse his sacrifice. But his hope

was vain. Instant relief and gratitude showed in the mother’s eyes and voice. And Joseph carried out his part so well
that Rettie, gleeful and happy every minute of the long two hours, did not so much as think of the dinner.

“You are a good, kind boy,” said Mrs. Calland, heartily. “Now run right down to dinner; we saved some nice and

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Yes, it was warm: but the great fruit pudding was spoiled of its beauty, and the fruit pyramid had fallen, and the

workers were scraping dishes and hurrying away the remains of the feast, while he ate, and the girls were out on the
lawn playing tennis and croquet, double sets at both, and no room for him, and the glory of everything had departed.
The description of it all, which he had meant to write to Jean, would have to be so changed that there would be no
pleasure in writing it. What had been the use of spoiling his own day? No one would ever know it, he couldn’t even tell
Jean, because of course the verse didn’t mean any such thing.

“But I don’t see why it pitched into a fellow so, if it didn’t belong,” he said, rising from the table just as Ann, the

dishwasher, snatched his plate, for which she had been waiting. “And, anyhow, I feel kind of glad I did it, whether it
belonged or not.”

“He is a kind-hearted, unselfish boy,” said Mrs. Calland to her little daughter, that evening, “and you and mamma

must see in how many ways we can be good to him.”

Pansy.

MOTHER’S FACE.

THREE little boys talked together

One sunny summer day,

And I leaned out of the window

To hear what they had to say.

“The prettiest thing I ever saw,”

One of the little boys said,

“Was a bird in grandpa’s garden,

All black and white and red.”

“The prettiest thing I ever saw,”

Said the second little lad,

“Was a pony at the circus—

I wanted him awful bad.”

“I think,” said the third little fellow,

With a grave and gentle grace,

“That the prettiest thing in all the world

Is just my mother’s face.”

—Eben E. Rexford, in Good

Cheer.

ONLY A BICYCLE.

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T was the day before Thanksgiving. Cold weather had come on early. The ground had been frozen solid for

several days, and the country roads were “smooth as glass”; so Grandpa Kirke said when he came home
from the post-office Tuesday afternoon. “But I shouldn’t wonder if we were to have snow before morning,”
he added. And at this the little granddaughter Lucy L. clapped her hands gleefully. The boy Whittier said

nothing, but presently a noise was heard up in the wood-house chamber, and Mrs. Kirke said in a startled tone,
“What’s that?”

Grandpa stepped to the door and called, “Whittier!”

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“GRANDMA KIRKE MIGHT GIVE YOU A BREAKFAST.”

“Sir?” responded the boy quickly.

“Oh! you are there.”

“Coming in a minute; do you want anything?” said Whittier, and in less than a minute the boy appeared below stairs

with his sled. “Looks pretty well to start on a second winter with!” he said, as he dusted and examined the treasure.
“Say, Lucy Larcom, how will you like to ride to school on the Flyaway to-morrow morning?”

Grandma laughed, and said, “You seem to be counting on snow, for sure.”

“But you know grandpa said maybe it would snow, and when grandpa says maybe, it most always comes so,” said

Lucy.

Sure enough snow lay on the ground, pure and white, to the depth of several inches when they looked out that

morning before Thanksgiving Day. The children could scarcely be prevailed upon to eat their breakfast, so eager were
they to get off to school with the Flyaway. Grandma said:

“This won’t last long; snow that falls upon frozen ground never stays. It is the snow that comes in the mud that

makes sleighing to last.” This somewhat chilled their expectations, but Lucy concluded that the snow would last until
recess, anyway. As the two started off grandma, watching them from the window, said with a sigh, “How much Whittier
looks like our John at his age!”

“God forbid that he should grow up to remind you of John!” replied Mr. Kirke, almost bitterly.

Mrs. Kirke washed the dishes and tidied the room in silence, then stepping to her husband’s side she laid her hand

upon his shoulder, and said softly, “Joseph, to-morrow is Thanksgiving Day!”

“Well?”

“I have made the pies and the pudding and the plum cake that John always liked so well, and now if John should

come home?”

“Well?” this time the monosyllable was spoken a trifle less impatiently.

“If he should come home you would receive him? Remember, Joseph, John is our first-born.”

“’Tain’t no ways likely he’ll come!”

“I don’t know; someway I’ve been thinking lik’sanyway he’ll be thinking about the old home when Thanksgiving

comes round. Anyway, I’ve made them things for him, but then,” she added, more to herself than to her husband, “I’m
always ready for him. The bed is always made up for him, and there is always something cooked that he likes.”

Meantime the children had gone on their way, Whittier drawing his sister upon the Flyaway, bending all his energies

to the task, for the sledding was not very good, so it happened that Lucy was the first to spy a strange sight for that part
of the country.

“Look, Whitty! what is that coming?” exclaimed his sister.

Then Whittier stopped, and Lucy in her excitement jumped off the sled and stood beside him, half-frightened.

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