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 BLOWING BUBBLES. 
 
 Ah, this is rare sport. 
 Here we can see young 
 John Brown, and his 
 friend Tom King, both 
 with their long pipes, 
 and ^ear them a bowl 
 of stirong soap suds, of 
 which they make these 
 gay play things. See 
 Tom ! what a fine large 
 one he has made ! How 
 he puffs and blows! 
 
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4 WTTLE KEEPSAKE. 
 
 Just look at his cheeks ! 
 And John, too ; see ! he 
 has made one, two 
 three. This is fine fun 
 for chaps of his age, 
 and much they seem to 
 like it. 
 
 Do you not wish to 
 join them in this sport, 
 my young friend ] If 
 so, these boys will give 
 you leave with all their 
 hearts, for they both are 
 kind and good. Come, 
 take a pipe and dip it 
 in the bowl. There, 
 now put the small eni 
 
 
LITTLE KEEPSAKE. 5 
 
 in jour mouth and blow. 
 Do not blow too hard, 
 or you will break it. 
 Ah, it is gone ! Try 
 once more. Now yon 
 have made a fine large 
 one ; do not touch it ; 
 there, now toss it off 
 the pip 3. See! the 
 wind tckes it, and it 
 goes up, up, up. Now 
 the sun shines on it. 
 How bright and gay it 
 looks ! Now the breeze 
 takes it once more, up 
 to the clear blue sky* 
 Ah, this is gone too I 
 
THE BAD GIRL* 
 
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 LITTLE KEEPSAKE 
 
 THE BAD GIRL. 
 
 Take care, man! or 
 that poor child will be 
 dead ere you can stop 
 your horse. Stop him ! 
 do not let that great 
 wheel hit her; if it 
 does it will crush her 
 to death. Poor girl 1 
 she has just got clear, 
 and that is all. Now 
 let her run home as fast 
 as her feet can carry 
 her. How should such 
 a small child get in the 
 street, with no one to 
 take care of her ! Why 
 
8 LITTLE KEEPSAKE. 
 
 1 will tell you. Her 
 aunt took her to the 
 door of her house, and 
 let her sit down on the 
 sill, that she might see 
 the carts, and men, and 
 boys, and girls, as they 
 went by; but she told 
 her not to go off the 
 steps. Well, just as 
 her kind aunt had left 
 her and gone back into 
 the house, up jumps 
 Jane and off she runs 
 to play in the street. 
 The cart was in the 
 street, near her ; but in 
 
LITTLE KEEPSAKE. 9 
 
 her haste she did not 
 see it at all. Her foot 
 struck a large stone that 
 lay in her way, and 
 down the poor thing 
 fell, just as you see her 
 in the picture. She 
 did not get hurt much ; 
 but she was quite a bad 
 girl, not to mind her 
 good aunt, who is so 
 kind to her. She must 
 now be shut up in a 
 dark room, to make hei 
 learn to do as she is bid. 
 All girls and boys must 
 mind what they are told. 
 
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 A GAME AT BALL, 
 
 
LITTLE KEEPSAKE. 1 1 
 
 A GAME AT BALL. 
 
 Here is a game at 
 ball. We can see foui 
 of the boys who are at 
 play ; but there are a 
 few more in the game 
 that we can not see. 
 One stands with a club 
 to knock the ball when 
 it is thrown to him. — 
 One is back of him that 
 strikes, to catch the ball 
 if he does not hit it with 
 the club ; and two stand 
 some ways off, to catch 
 it when he knocks it 
 near them. Fine sport 
 
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 THE RIDE 
 
 
LITTLE KEEPSAKE. 13 
 
 THE RIDE. 
 
 See this young lad! 
 What a fine horse he 
 has got, and how he 
 cracks his whip as he 
 rides the cane round the 
 room! What a noise 
 he makes ! Well, the 
 . poor boy has a bad 
 cold and can not play 
 out of doors. So he 
 must try to pass the 
 time in the house as 
 well as he can. When 
 he has had one good 
 ride, he will stop, and 
 then take up his books. 
 
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 THE SWING. 
 
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LITTLE KEEPSAKE. 15 
 
 THE SWING. 
 
 Here is a nice swing. 
 It is made of a grape 
 vine, which hangs from 
 two large oak trees. 
 What a fine place for a 
 swing is the shade of 
 these old trees in a hot 
 day! 
 
 Here are John, and 
 Charles, and Ann, and 
 Jane, all come to try 
 the grape vine swing. 
 That one now on the 
 swing is Jane. What 
 sport they all have, and 
 how they laugh and 
 
16 LITTLE KEEPSAKE. 
 
 shout. They have just 
 come out of school, and 
 they enjoy their play all 
 the better for having 
 spent a good part of the 
 day at their books. 
 
 Just back of one of 
 the trees we can see 
 two or three black boys 
 and girls. They wait 
 for their turn to swing. 
 Soon our white young 
 friends will go home, 
 and then these will take 
 their turn. Which do 
 you think will have the 
 most sport ? 
 
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