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ANNUALETTE 
 
 CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S GIFT. 
 
 EDITED BY A LADY. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 PUBLISHED BY T. H. CARTER AND CO. 
 
 II85 WASHINGTON STREET. 
 
 1844, 
 
. Entered according: to act of Congress, in the year 1843, 
 
 By T. H. Carter & Company, 
 
 In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachu- 
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CONTENTS 
 
 The Deaf and Dumb Boy. — Translated from 
 
 the Italian, for the Annualette ... 13 
 
 Charade, No. 1 21 
 
 The Little Boat Builder. With an Engraving 22 
 The Nightingale and Bulfinch, or the Travel- 
 ling Birds 30 
 
 Social Games, No. I. The Bunch .of Fagots 34 
 
 The Dutch Sailors and the Bears ... 36 
 
 Cowardice magnifies Danger ... 44 
 
 Charade, No. II 45 
 
 The Linnet's Nest ...... 46 
 
 Charade, No. Ill 48 
 
 The Shepherd's Dog. With a Cut . • 51 
 
 ";>- Charade, No. IV 58 
 
 • * Franklin Place, Boston. With a wood Cut . 59 
 
 *-» The Juvenile Court Room .... 65 
 
 f\ Charade, No. V 84 
 
Xll CONTENTS. 
 
 The Travelled Mouse 85 
 
 Perdita, or the Chinese Foundling. With a Cut 87 
 
 Charade, No. VI 98 
 
 Ice Palace 99 
 
 The Two Squirrels, or Division of Labor. With 
 
 a Cut 105 
 
 The Laughing Princess, and the Princess who 
 
 never Laughed 109 
 
 Izaac Walton. With a Cut .... 128 
 
 Social Games, No. II. The Glove . . 131 
 
 Bunker Hill Monument. With a Cut . . 132 
 
 The Good Aunt. With a Cut ... 137 
 Answers to the Charades in the Annualette 
 
 for 1843 .... ... 143 
 
THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY. 
 
 ^TRAKSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN FOR THE AK>-UALETTE. 
 
 France will long hold dear the memory of the 
 Abbe de L'Epee, who was the first founder in 
 Paris of the school for the deaf and dumb ; 
 where those unhappy beings are awakened to 
 a new existence, open their intellects to new 
 ideas of the true and beautiful, to the know- 
 ledge of their religious and social duties, and 
 even succeed in acquainting themselves per- 
 fectly with science and literature. 
 
 It is related of this benevolent man, that one 
 evening there was presented to him an un- 
 known child, about eight years of age, deaf 
 and dumb from his birth, found by the police 
 guard sitting alone and weeping on the Pont 
 Neuf, one of the bridges over the river Seine. 
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14 THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY. 
 
 Although the child was meanly dressed, yet his 
 refined physiognomy, and a certain noble ex- 
 pression of anger manifested in his looks and 
 motions at seeing himself covered with rags, 
 excited in the mind of de L'Epee a suspicion 
 that he might belong to some wealthy family. 
 The public papers announced the incident, but 
 the child was claimed by no one, and continued 
 to live in the school, under the name of Theo- 
 dore. 
 
 It is observed that nature, as if to render 
 compensation to these unhappy beings for the 
 wrongs which she has done them, has been 
 pleased almost always to endow them with an 
 exquisite penetration of intellect ; and Theo- 
 dore, in fact, having hardly passed two years 
 in study, was capable of understanding every- 
 thing, and of communicating to others with ex- 
 actness his own thoughts, by means of ges- 
 tures, and in writing. It was then that his im- 
 agination began to be strongly occupied with 
 the remembrance of past things. 
 
 In company with his master, he was walking 
 one day before the Palace of Justice at the mo- 
 ment when the President of the Tribunal was 
 descending from his carriage. The boy was 
 strongly affected at the sight of him, and made 
 
THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY. 15 
 
 his master understand that a man, clothed in a 
 similar manner in a purple dress, and with long 
 curling hair, had in forixier times often held 
 him in his arms, and kissed him tenderly. The 
 Abbe L'Epee judged, therefore, that he was 
 either the son or a near relation of a magis- 
 trate of superior rank, and therefore a native 
 of one of the principal cities of the State. 
 
 Another day, in a church in the Faubourg 
 Saint Germain, Theodore saw the funeral of a 
 rich man ; at this sight, his eyes filled with 
 tears, and turning to his master, who demanded 
 of him why he wept, he replied with signs as 
 follows : " Four months before my departure 
 for Paris, there was a similar funeral pomp at 
 the death of that person who used to caress me 
 so much ; and now such a pageant awakens 
 anew in me my grief for his loss." 
 
 This second indication made the Abbe be- 
 hove that the boy was an orphan, the sole heir 
 of great wealth, and that probably his grasping 
 relations, abusing his infirmity, had transported 
 him to a distant country, and even tried to de- 
 stroy him, in order to take possession of his 
 property. 
 
 Such indications excited in the highest de- 
 gree the courage and zeal of the Abbe, who 
 
16 THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY. 
 
 from this time conceived the generous project 
 of leaving no means untried to discover the. 
 origin of the treachery, to reconduct his pupil 
 to his country, and reinstate him in his rights. 
 But the name of his father and the place of 
 his birth were things excessively difficult to dis- 
 cover. Being certain, however, that Theodore 
 would recognise the gate by which he had en- 
 tered Paris, he took him the next morning 
 round to all the gates of the city. When they 
 arrived at the Porte de L'Enfer, Theodore 
 showed in fact that he recognised it, and mo- 
 tioned that there precisely he had been made 
 to descend from the coach with the person who 
 accompanied him to take care of the equipage ; 
 and that he had arrived there after four days 
 and four nights of continual travelling, and 
 stopping from time to time to change horses. 
 It was now evident that the country of Theo- 
 dore was some city situated towards the south, 
 probably about three hundred miles distant ; 
 and that in order to discover it, instead of re- 
 sorting to the uncertain medium of letters, it 
 was best to undertake a journey on foot, and 
 to visit all the principal southern cities. 
 
 Therefore the good old Abbe, animated by 
 the sweet hope of seeing fulfilled the generous 
 
THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY. 17 
 
 'desire of his heart, invoked the aid of God, the 
 father and protector of oppressed innocence, 
 and determined to undertake the journey in 
 company with Theodore. Thirty days of trav- 
 elling did not weary the constancy of the boy, 
 who was strongly flattered and excited by the 
 hope of again seeing the threshold of his pa- 
 ternal home ; nor did it exhaust the firmness 
 of the Abbe, who experienced the inexpressible, 
 anticipated dehght which is ever the reward of 
 virtue. Finally, they arrived at the gates of 
 the city of Toulouse, entered, and at the sight 
 of the ancient palace of the family of d'Ha- 
 rancour, Theodore, intoxicated with joy, knelt 
 down, raised his hands to Heaven, and with 
 broken sobs made signs, that those walls were 
 precisely the ones within which he was born, 
 and where he had passed the first years of his 
 childhood. 
 
 L'Epee checked the first transports of The- 
 odore, took pains to make all the necessary in- 
 quiries, and learned that a certain Monsieur 
 d'Arlemont possessed the vast property of 
 d'Harancour, in place of his nephew and 
 ward, Julius, whom an act apparently legal 
 had declared to have died three years before 
 in Paris. Behold in what manner eternal jus- 
 
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18 THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY. 
 
 tice watched over the punishment of the wick- 
 ed, and discovered to the fortunate de L'Epee 
 a crime which d'Arlemont judged to be buried 
 in darkness, and concealed forever from the 
 eyes of men. 
 
 The cause of the betrayed orphan was trust- 
 ed to the defence of Franval, one of the most 
 able advocates of Toulouse ; and in company 
 with him, the Abbe betook himself next morn- 
 ing to the Palace of d'Harancour, with the in- 
 tention of giving a sudden shock to the heart 
 of the traitor, and of prevailing upon him, if 
 possible, to restore the property, promising, in 
 that case, to spare him the infamy of a public 
 trial. 
 
 Arrived in the presence of Monsieur d'Arle- 
 mont, de L'Epee addressed him as follows ; 
 " I come to execute the will of Providence, 
 which has directed my steps to Toulouse, and 
 even to you, to announce to you that your 
 nephew and ward, Julius, the heir of d'Ha- 
 rancour, still lives, and that I am his guardian, 
 to protect him, and to assist him to resume the 
 name and property so cruelly taken from him." 
 The perfidious d'Arlemont, astounded by these 
 words, was taken with a sudden trembling in all 
 his limbs ; in vain he tried to conceal the ex- 
 
THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY. 19 
 
 cessive fright and rage painted on his brow ; 
 but finally, forcing a smile, he exclaimed, 
 " How ! my nephew yet lives ? when I was a 
 witness three years ago of his death — when it 
 has been announced to the tribunals by an au- 
 thentic act — Oh ! you must be jesting ; this is 
 some fable." 
 
 " No," replied the venerable old man ; the 
 disturbance which appeared on your counte- 
 nance reveals to me sufficiently your heart. 
 That act of death was false,' the tribunals were 
 deceived, or seduced. Julius d'Harancour 
 lives, and behold him before you ! " pointing 
 to the boy, who had accompanied him. 
 
 At that moment, Albert, the son of d'Arle- 
 mont, entered the apartment, and having heard 
 the last words of the Abbe, cried, "Ah yes! 
 it is the same ; he lives; I see him — my dear 
 Julius, my infant playmate ; " and the two boys 
 ran into each other's arm.s, embraced each 
 other, and wept for joy. Even Dominick and 
 Marianna, two old servants of the family of 
 d'Harancour, recognised the physiognomy of 
 the youth whom they had so often caressed in 
 infancy, and exclaimed, " A prodigy ! a mira- 
 cle ! little Julius is living ! the son of our dead 
 lord ! " 
 
20 THE DEAF AND DUMB BOY. 
 
 Deprived now of all means of defence, 
 threatened with the vengeance of the laws, and 
 tormented with his severe remorse, d'Arle- 
 mont stood for a long time motionless, his eyes 
 sparkling with fury, without uttering a word. 
 " Great Heaven ! " at length he broke forth, 
 with a deep sigh, " how terrible thou art in thy 
 justice ! yes, let all know it, this is my nephew, 
 and I am the most wicked of all living beings ! 
 To him 1 restore all his possessions, and for 
 myself, I only demand death, which will take 
 me from my insupportable shame ! " 
 
 At this moment, Julius, to whom de L'Epee 
 signified the confession just obtained from his 
 uncle, after an instant of consideration, turned 
 an affectionate glance on Albert, approached a 
 writing table, and wrote as follows : "I forget 
 all past offences ; and I desire that my amiable 
 cousin should have the half of the property 
 which has just been restored to me ; we were 
 accustomed from our earliest infancy to divide 
 everything as brothers ; let us still be so for the 
 future." 
 
 " Ah," cried the Abbe de L' Epee, " behold 
 a mind really virtuous ! this is the dearest re- 
 ward that Julius could give me, in exchange 
 for all that 1 have done for him ! " 
 
CHARADE. 21 
 
 It is needless to say that the property of 
 d'Harancour was divided as Julius had pro- 
 posed. D'Arlemont retired to a monastery, 
 and soon after died ; while the excellent Abbe 
 continued through life the dearest and most re- 
 vered friend of his amiable young pupil. 
 
 CHARADE. 
 
 A noisy fellow is my F-irst, 
 
 On wboni you never can depend, 
 
 Sometimes his deeds are of the worst, 
 Sometimes he proves your kindest friend. 
 
 My SECO>fD, of the female race, 
 Is young or old, is dull or witty, 
 
 Is found in almost every place, 
 In rural shade or crowded city. 
 
 My Whole exerts a mighty power. 
 
 Lifts monstrous weights of wood or stone. 
 
 By land or sea can raise or lower. 
 But never goes a step alone. 
 
THE LITTLE BOAT BUILDER. 
 
 Henry lived near the sea shore — and he often 
 went to the beach and watched the tide as it 
 rolled in, wave after wave, or ebbed out, leav- 
 ing a broad margin of smooth sand, which was 
 hard and pleasant to walk upon. 
 
 The view of the ocean, and of the ships and 
 boats which sailed and floated upon it, gave 
 Henry a great fancy for ship building. Ahnost 
 the first use he made of his knife was to shape 
 out a piece of wood in imitation of a ship, and 
 smooth and fashion it all in order. His mother 
 would cut and hem the sails according to his 
 directions, and he was but too happy if after 
 all his labors his little vessel would hold itself 
 upright in the tub in which he first made trial 
 of its power. His little brother would watch 
 beside him while he was at his work, and not 
 seldom would try his patience by the questions 
 
THE LITTLE BOAT BUILDER. 2S 
 
 he would ask, as to why he was doing thus and 
 so. But Henry was a very kind and patient 
 boy, and generally answered his little brother 
 very gently, and explained everything to him 
 as well as he could. 
 
 To be sure Willie on his part was often very 
 useful to Henry. He was always ready to trot 
 off to the house and get for his brother anything 
 he might happen to want, and even felt proud 
 of being sent of an errand and made useful. 
 
 When Henry became older, he went as an 
 apprentice to one of the dock yards to learn the 
 art of ship building, which he had been so fond 
 of as a boy. While thus employed, he would 
 often in his leisure hours make little model 
 ships to send home to his brother Willie. How 
 much the little fellow used to admire them, 
 and how completely they were all rigged. 
 How even and straight they bore themselves 
 upon the water, and what pleasure the broth- 
 ers used to take when Henry would sometimes 
 come home to visit his parents, in fitting out 
 little fleets from the snug cove, where in their 
 childhood they had loved to whittle and rig 
 boats. 
 
 Henry had often wished he could take a voy- 
 age in one of the vessels which he had helped 
 
24 THE LITTLE BOAT BUILDER. 
 
 to build, but he knew it was best for him to 
 remain steady to the trade he had chosen until 
 he had finished the time of his apprenticeship, 
 and then he hoped he might some time or other 
 have an opportunity to go to sea. 
 
 Just before Henry had reached the end of 
 his apprenticeship, Mr. Stronghand, the ship 
 builder with whom he was employed, received 
 a proposal from the Sultan of Turkey to come 
 out to Constantinople and build him a steam- 
 boat. He had seen the English and American 
 ships and steamboats, and he thought they were 
 better than any he had in his service, and 
 he should like to have some of the same kind. 
 He offered Mr. Stronghand a very handsome 
 sum of money for the service, and desired him 
 to bring several hands with him, as the Turkish 
 ship carpenters would not understand how to 
 work under him. 
 
 Mr. Stronghand thought the offer a good one, 
 so he concluded to go. He left his business 
 in America under the care of his partner, who 
 was a very careful man, and he selected from 
 among his workmen, several young men whom 
 he considered as the most steady and skilful, 
 to go with him. Among them was Henry. 
 
 Henry was delighted that the wish of his 
 
THE LITTLE BOAT BUILDER. 25 
 
 heart was about to be accomplished. He went 
 home to acquaint his parents and make his 
 preparations for the voyage. Willie was very 
 sorry to part with his brother, but he had now 
 grown a stout lad, and was also just about 
 going away to school. He had proved to be a 
 very studious boy, and his parents had resolved 
 to give him the best education they could. 
 Henry promised to write to Willie and tell him 
 all the strange things he met with in Turkey. 
 
 After having his chest carefully packed, and 
 taken leave of his parents and Willie, Henry 
 returned to his master in New York, and in a 
 few days they sailed for Constantinople, Mr, 
 Stronghand taking with him a number of hands 
 and all the tools necessary for ship-building. 
 
 They had a pleasant, and tolerably rapid 
 voyage, and in lime reached the City of the 
 Sultans, as it is sometimes called. Constanti- 
 nople is situated on the Bosphorus, at the point 
 where it communicates with the Propontis, or 
 Sea of Marmora, and is connected both with 
 the Mediterranean and the Black Sea by a 
 succession of straits, which can easily be de- 
 fended against an enemy, though the largest 
 kind of vessels can sail through them. They 
 found the city had a spacious port. A conve- 
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26 THE LITTLE BOAT BUILDER. 
 
 nient place near the city was given to Mr. 
 Stronghand to begin to build his steam-ship, 
 and orders were given by the Sultan to his offi- 
 cers, to provide him with all the materials 
 necessary. 
 
 Henry was very much amused with a great 
 deal he saw here. The dresses of the people 
 were very different from those worn in Amer- 
 ica. The men wore large turbans, or colored 
 woollen caps upon their heads, and long loose 
 robes hanging down to their feet. He would 
 hardly have been able to tell a man from a 
 woman, but that the men wore long beards, 
 and the women did not appear in the streets 
 without their veils. 
 
 One night, soon after they arrived at Con- 
 stantinople, the Americans were awakened by 
 the cries of fire, and they soon perceived by 
 the light that a great many houses were in 
 flames. They dressed themselves and hastened 
 to the spot. The scene was terrible ! whole 
 streets were in a blaze, and the drums were 
 beating, from the tops of the minarets or 
 steeples of the Turkish places of worship, and 
 immense numbers of people were assembled. 
 
 They saw even the Sultan himself there. 
 As most of the houses in the quarter where the 
 
THE LITTLE BOAT BUILDEK. 27 
 
 fire was, were of wood, they were soon burned 
 down, and the people dispersed. The streets 
 were immediately after built up in just the same 
 way they were before, and of just as combusti- 
 ble materials, and nobody seemed to think 
 much about it. Henry found they had these 
 great fires very often, and the people did not 
 seem to mind them very much. 
 
 The Sultan came very often to see how his 
 ship came on, and seemed very much pleased 
 with the way the Americans went to work. 
 One day he brought with him his son, about 
 twelve years old. The little fellow was looking 
 round as children are apt to do, and he espied 
 a little ship, which Henry had amused himself 
 in making in his leisure hours. He showed it 
 to his father, and Mr. Stronghand explained 
 that it was the work of his apprentice, who bid 
 fair to make an excellent ship builder. 
 
 The Sultan desired Mr. Stronghand to allow 
 Henry, to finish the ship, and said he should 
 like to purchase it when completed, for his son. 
 Mr. Stronghand and Henry readily consented, 
 and the Sultan desired that when it was finished 
 Henry should be allowed to bring the little 
 vessel to the palace, and explain to his son the 
 best method of working it. 
 
28 THE LITTLE BOAT BUILDER. 
 
 It may well be supposed that Henry spared 
 no trouble to fiaish off his little vessel in the 
 nicest manner. When it was done, Mr. Strong- 
 hand acquainted the Sultan with the fact, and 
 some slaves were sent by him to accompany 
 the young apprentice in his visit to the palace. 
 
 The Sultan was then passing a few days at 
 one of his houses of pleasure, situated near the 
 Sweet Waters. It was a most delightful spot, 
 and on one of the clear basins with which the 
 grounds were ornamented, the little boy sailed 
 his miniature frigate with the greatest delight. 
 
 The Sultan treated Henry with great kind- 
 ness, ordered him to be conducted to every 
 part of the grounds and rooms of this beautiful 
 palace, feasted him with the greatest delicacies, 
 and when he dismissed him made him a most 
 valuable present, in return for the little vessel. 
 
 Henry afterwards went to visit all the most 
 celebrated places in Constantinople. He ex- 
 amined the mosque of St. Sophia, which was 
 first built for a christian church, but since the 
 city has been in the hands of the Turks, it is 
 used as a mosque, or Mahometan place of 
 worship. 
 
 He also visited the Turkish burying grounds, 
 which are laid out in a somewhat different 
 
THE LITTLE BOAT BUILDER. 29 
 
 manner from ours. They ai'e shaded by 
 cypress trees, and the monuments are generally 
 a column of marble, with a turban on the top. 
 
 He saw the slave market, where slaves of 
 all races, complexions, sexes and ages, are 
 brought in from different parts of the world, 
 and offered for sale. These slaves have gen- 
 erally received some education- The young 
 girls have been taught to dance, sing, or play 
 on some instrument, and to embroider. The 
 boys are educated with still more care. They 
 sometimes rise to become great personages in 
 the state, for the prejudice against people who 
 have once been slaves, does not exist among 
 the Mahomedans as strongly as it does among 
 some other people. The son-in-law of the Sultan 
 Mahmoud, was formerly a slave. In due time 
 Mr. Stronghand finished his steam-ship, and 
 delivered it over, all in good order to the Sul- 
 tan, who was very much pleased with it. He 
 wished very much to induce Mr. Stronghand 
 and his workmen to remain in Turkey, and 
 promised them constant employment and good 
 wages, but they loved their own country, and 
 did not wish to pass their days among Turks 
 and Mahometans. 
 
 So they excused themselves as well as they 
 
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30 THE NIGHTINGALE AND BULFINCH. 
 
 could to the Sultan, who paid Mr. Stronghand 
 handsomely for the job. The Americans then 
 took passage in a ship sailing for Boston, where 
 they arrived safely. And Henry had a great 
 deal to tell in the long winter evenings to his 
 parents, and to Willie, of the wonders he had 
 seen in Constantinople. After he finished his 
 apprenticeship, Mr. Stronghand received Hen- 
 ry as a partner, and he became in time one of 
 the most skilful and wealthy ship builders in 
 the country. 
 
 THE NIGHTINGALE AND BULFINCH, 
 
 OR THE TRAVELLING BIRDS. 
 [See Frontispiece.] 
 
 A Bulfinch and Nightingale lately resolved 
 
 To take an Atlantic excursion, 
 To cross over from Europe, America see, 
 
 In search both of health and diversion. 
 
 Fanny Kemble they knew went some time ago, 
 Since then, ladies and men quite a score ; 
 
 And Boz and his wife, last year made a trip, 
 And America tried to explore. 
 
THE NIGHTINGALE AND BULFTNCH. 31 
 
 So the Bulfinch and Nightingale soon were prepared, 
 They thought not of Steam Ship or Packet ; 
 
 Their own wings would bear them, for nothing they 
 cared, 
 But flew high above all noise and racket. 
 
 They flew and they flew till they came to the isles 
 Named after their friends the Canaries ; 
 
 They were pleased with the climate, here all nature 
 smiles, 
 Though elsewhere she has her vagaries. 
 
 Having rested their wings, again they took flight, 
 
 And westward directed their way, 
 And at last reached the land ; on a tree they alight 
 
 In a wood, just at breaking of day. 
 
 Here numbers of birds were seen flying about, 
 
 No appearance of trouble or dangers. 
 But presently came some confusion and rout 
 
 As to how they should welcome the strangers. 
 
 They escorted them first to the pleasantest tree, 
 
 They prepared a most delicate nest ; 
 There was nought left undone, and no cost the birds 
 spared 
 
 To give them of all things the best. 
 
 There was calling, inviting, in motion were all 
 
 The birds both below and above — 
 And after due warning, the strangers appeared 
 
 At a musical fete in the grove. 
 
■32 THE NIGHTINGALE AND EULFINCH. 
 
 The dress of the Bulfinch at once struck all eyes ; 
 
 What a glorious red on his breast, 
 What a glossy black head, what a handsome gay 
 back, 
 
 Of the two he must sure sing the best. 
 
 At the Nightingale's dress in a whisper they scoffed, 
 
 *' What a dowdy detestable thing." 
 But they welcomed them both, and due compliments 
 over, 
 
 They asked Mr. Bulfinch to sing. 
 
 He whistled and piped his monotonous note, 
 
 A duller one never was heard. 
 You really might think him just clearing his throat ; 
 
 They 'd have laughed if they could, every bird. 
 
 The sweet modest Nightingale silent sat by, 
 While the Bulfinch piped loudly and long. 
 
 For civility's sake they then asked her to try. 
 Perhaps she would give them a song. 
 
 Mrs. Nightingale blushed, but she just cleared her 
 throat. 
 And then such a strain she poured out. 
 That all whispers were silenced, and charmed with 
 each note, 
 All the birds clustered thickly about. 
 
 Little Mary who lay on the grass in the grove,. 
 
 Raised her eyes from her book at the sound. 
 With delight how she listened, and not a bird moved 
 
 Though they filled all the branches around. 
 
THE NIGHTINGALE AND BULFINCH. 33 
 
 When the Nightingale brought her sweet song to a 
 close, 
 
 How eager in praise were the birds. 
 What beautiful notes ! how delicious the strain ! 
 
 For their transports they long to find words. 
 
 " I give you my counsel," said grave Madam Owl, 
 " And would gladly my lesson impress, 
 
 " Your judgment don't form without time to inquire, 
 " And don't place too much value on dress." 
 
 Fine feathers I 've found don't make always fine 
 birds ; 
 
 Dress is not the principal thing. 
 Better judge of a man by his actions and words, 
 
 And a bird by the notes she can sing. 
 
SOCIAL GAMES. — No. I. 
 
 THE BUNCH OF FAGOTS. 
 
 For this game there should be an even number 
 of ladies and gentlemen. Each gentleman 
 places a lady before him and each couple 
 forms a bunch of fagots. These fagots ar- 
 range themselves in a circle, which must be so 
 large that it is easy to pass about in it. One 
 lady, designated by lot, is the wood-cutter, and 
 a gentleman, drawn in the same manner, is the 
 keeper of the forest. The wood-cutter, pur- 
 sued by the keeper, has a right to go across 
 the circle of fagots, in any direction ; while 
 the pursuer can only go round — she generally 
 however does not remain long in this confined 
 place, but runs before the keeper. 
 
 If the lady wood -cutter allows herself to be 
 caught by her pursuer, she takes his place, 
 and is obliged to pursue in her turn another 
 person ; and this person is the first who finds 
 
SO'CIAL GAMES. 35 
 
 herself on the outside of the bunch of fagots 
 before which the keeper, who is no longer one, 
 has placed himself; for there must never be 
 three in one row. Thus, the lady who is pur- 
 sued, to avoid being caught, has only to place 
 herself before one of the bunches of fagots 
 within the circle, anywhere she may please, 
 and immediately the person who finds herself 
 last, must make her escape and become the 
 wood-cutter. This change of places is con- 
 stantly renewed, and makes the game animated 
 and lively. It is to be observed, that a lady 
 can only be replaced by a lady, and a gentle- 
 man by a gentleman, every bunch of fagots 
 being com.posed of two persons of different 
 sexes. If the new runner is caught, he must 
 pursue the person by whom he has been taken, 
 but, as has been explained, the latter has the 
 resource of placing herself behind one of the 
 fagots, which gives a new supernumerary, who 
 is obliged to fly precipitately like the first, and 
 so on. 
 
 It is sometimes practised to make those who 
 are caught pay forfeits, but this causes the 
 game to go on more slowly. 
 
THE DUTCH SAILORS AND THE 
 BEARS. 
 
 In the month of May, in the year 1596, two 
 Dutch vessels left the port of Vlie, in the north 
 of Holland, to seek a north-east passage to the 
 East Indies, under the command of two expe- 
 rienced mariners, William Barenz, and John 
 Cornelius Rip. 
 
 On the first of July the two ships parted 
 company, each to go a different way in order 
 to make discoveries. That commanded by Ba- 
 renz, after two months of highly dangerous 
 navigation, in the midst of the ice, having been 
 carried beyond New Zealand without finding 
 an open passage, the crew lost all hope of pen- 
 etrating farther, and thought of nothing but 
 going back to Holland. 
 
 One night, however, the vessel was surprised 
 by an ice port, and was so enclosed on all 
 
DUTCH SAILOHS AND THE BEARS. 37 
 
 sides, that no human efforts could liberate 
 them. Barenz was then reduced to the sad 
 prospect of passing the winter in this region of 
 horror. 
 
 The first part of September, the vessel being 
 besieged and pressed on all sides by the move- 
 ments of the icebei'gs, cracked in several 
 places, and was no longer a secure residence 
 for the crew. It was resolved to drag the boat 
 on shore, and they carried there in succession 
 the casks of bread and wine, an old foresail, 
 some powder, shot, guns, muskets and other 
 arms, in order to make a tent near the boat. 
 
 On the seventh some sailors having gone a 
 considerable distance into the country, discov- 
 ered a fresh water river, and some drift wood 
 which had been floated down upon it. They 
 came also to traces of Reindeer. This infor- 
 mation was the more agreeable to the crew 
 from the fact that their fresh water was almost 
 exhausted, and they had began to dread that 
 they should suffer terribly in being shut into a 
 place where they saw neither trees nor water. 
 They began to build a sledge to bring down 
 the wood which the sailors had seen, and which 
 had apparently descended from Tartary or 
 Moscow. 
 
 3 
 
38 DUTCH SAILOKS AND THE BEARS.' 
 
 On the fifteenth, while they were hard at 
 work, a sailor saw three bears of different 
 sizes, the smallest of which remained behind a 
 block of ice, the others continued to advance. 
 The crew fired, and one of the large bears fell 
 down dead. The second seemed to show sur- 
 prise ; he looked proudly at his companion, he 
 smelted of him, and, as if he perceived the 
 danger, he retraced his steps. 
 
 By direction of Barenz they opened the dead 
 bear, removed the entrails, and placed him on 
 his four legs that he might freeze in this posi- 
 tion, intending to carry him to Holland if they 
 could succeed in disengaging their vessel from 
 the ice. On the twenty-fifth they had the mis- 
 fortune to lose their carpenter, who was buried 
 in a cleft in the mountain ; they were not able 
 to open the hard frozen earth to dig a grave 
 for him. 
 
 The whole crew consiste,d of only sixteen 
 men, several of whom were sick. On the 
 twenty-seventh it froze so hard that if one put 
 a nail in his mouth he could not draw it out 
 without bringing the skin along with it. On the 
 second of October they had the satisfaction of 
 seeing their hut finished. Until the twenty- 
 fifth of October they were employed in getting 
 
DUTCH SAILORS AND THE BEARS. 39 
 
 from the ship the remainder of their provisions. 
 The next day as they were employed in trans- 
 porting their rigging on the sledges, Barenz 
 raised his eyes and saw behind the ship three 
 bears, who were advancing toward the sailors. 
 He gave a loud shout in which the sailors join- 
 ed him, but the three animals did not appear to 
 be alarmed. 
 
 The sailors then all thought of how they 
 should defend themselves. They had two hal- 
 berds, Barenz took one, and Girard Veer the 
 other. The sailors ran to the vessel, but in 
 passing over the ice one of them fell into a 
 crack. This accident made them tremble for 
 him ; they did not doubt he would be the first 
 devoured. The bears meantime followed those 
 who were running to the ship. On the other 
 side Barenz and Veer made the circuit of it to 
 enter behind. On reaching it they had the joy 
 to see all their people there with the exception 
 of the man who had fallen in the crack. 
 
 The furious animals now presented them- 
 selves to board the vessel after them, and could 
 only be stopped at first by the pieces of wood 
 and different utensils that they hastened to 
 throw at their heads, and at which they sprung 
 each time as a dog runs after a stone that is 
 
40 DUTCH SAILORS AND THE BEARS. 
 
 thrown him. They had nothing on board but 
 the two halberds ; they wished to fire a gun, 
 light a fire, attempt to burn some handsful of 
 powder, but in the confusion and terror they 
 could accomplish nothing which they under- 
 took. 
 
 Meantime the bears kept returning to the as- 
 sault with the same fury, and utensils and wood 
 to throw at them began to fail. The Dutch- 
 men finally owed their preservation only to a 
 fortunate chance, or, we should say, a kind 
 Providence. Barenz in his extremity consult- 
 ing his despair rather than his prudence, threw 
 his halberd, which struck violently on the muz- 
 zle of the largest bear. The animal was ap- 
 parently so wounded that he retreated with a 
 loud cry, and the two others, who were much 
 smaller, followed him immediately, though 
 with a slow pace. 
 
 We cannot tell all the dangers with which 
 they were threatened, the most terrible of 
 which was the want of food. They took 
 an account of the bread which remained. 
 The stock of dried fish and meat were still 
 abundant, but their wine began to fail, and 
 what beer remained had lost its strength. 
 They took some foxes, which now showed 
 
DUTCH SAILORS AND THE BEARS. 41 
 
 themselves, instead of the bears, who retired 
 with the sun and did not reappear until his 
 return. 
 
 The months of February and March, and the 
 fifteen first days of April, were alternately fair 
 and foul weather, mists and frosts, terror at 
 sight of the bears, and pleasure after they had 
 killed them. The sixth of April, a bear came 
 down to the door of the hut ; it was open, but 
 they succeeded in closing it and holding it fast. 
 But he came back in about two hours, and climb- 
 ed up on the roof, where he made a noise, at 
 which they were all alarmed ; his efforts to 
 break down the chimney were so great, that 
 more than once they thought he was master of 
 the passage. He tore the sail with which the 
 roof was covered, and finally went away, after 
 having done considerable damage. 
 
 The rigor of the weather having ceased on 
 the fifteenth of April, all the Dutchmen went 
 to visit their ship, and their joy was extreme to 
 find it in the state in which they had left it. 
 The next day they observed, in the distance, 
 that the ice was breaking up ; some of the men 
 had the boldness to get upon the blocks of ice, 
 and to pass from one to the other, until they 
 reached the water, which they had not seen for 
 
42 DUTCH SAILORS AND THE BEARS. 
 
 six months. On reaching it, they saw a little 
 bird, which immediately plunged into the water, 
 which led them to believe that the sea was 
 more open than it had been since their abode 
 in Nova Zembla. 
 
 In May, the ice having been moved by a 
 north-east wind, they employed themselves in 
 putting the vessel and the little fishing-boat in 
 a state to take their departure. While they 
 were at work, a frightful bear made his appear- 
 ance. The poor sailors immediately entered 
 their hut, and the most skilful marksmen distri- 
 buted themselves at the three doors, awaiting 
 him with their guns ; another, also armed, 
 mounted the chimney. ^he bear marched 
 proudly toward the hut ; a musket-shot knocked 
 him over, and they soon succeeded in killing 
 him. 
 
 On the thirtieth, all those who were able to 
 work on the boats were employed upon them 
 diligently, and the others were mending the 
 sails or making in the hut such preparations as 
 were necessary before their departure. The 
 sailors on the outside were busily engaged, 
 when a bear came boldly up to them. All 
 took flight toward the hut ; the bear followed 
 them, but a salute of three guns, which all hit, 
 stretched him dead on the snow. 
 
DUTCH SAILORS AND THE BEARS. 43 
 
 This meat cost them dear, however, for hav- 
 ing cut up the, animal, and cooked the liver, 
 which they ate, they were all made sick by it. 
 
 After a few days, all of them having recov- 
 ered their health, they continued their labor, 
 and on the fourteenth of June the two vessels 
 were in a state to set sail. But before leaving 
 the ice, they had still great suffering to endure. 
 One day, they came from the fishing-boat to 
 the larger vessel, to inform Barenz that one of 
 the men was dying. My dying hour, said Ba- 
 renz, is not far off. His people, who saw him 
 looking attentively at a chart, could not sup- 
 pose he was ill. But soon, laying down the 
 map, he said that his strength failed him, after 
 which he rolled his eyes, and without adding a 
 word expired. This loss and that pf the sailor 
 plunged the survivors in consternation. There 
 were now only thirteen in the two vessels. 
 
 On the first of November, after a series of 
 misfortunes, these poor people reached Hol- 
 land. Their arrival at Amsterdam created 
 great astonishment, as it had been supposed 
 they were lost. They were received with 
 transport by their friends, and their courage 
 and the singularity of their adventures was 
 everywhere praised and admired. 
 
COWARDICE MAGNIFIES DANGER. 
 
 A wolf came prowling down the hill. 
 
 " Up shepherd, rouse tbe sleeping hound, 
 Your master's flock the beast will kill, 
 
 The timid sheep all cluster round.'' 
 
 The coward shepherd leaves the flock, 
 And to a place of safety creeps. 
 
 The trembling dogs, a dastard stock, 
 Not one his watchful station keeps. 
 
 The wolf appeared, death dealing round, 
 And many a sheep that day expired, 
 
 The living, wounded lay around. 
 
 With plunder gorged the wolf retired. 
 
 "When the dire slaughter all was done, 
 The coward shepherd came again. 
 
 "How could you leave us thus," cries one 
 Of the few sheep which still remain ! 
 
CHARADE. 45 
 
 The shepherd said, "I wished to stay, 
 But then the wolf, I know not how. 
 
 Looked large," " Indeed how large ? Pray say," 
 Said a young lamb. " Big as a cow." 
 
 The wounded animals cried " Fie, 
 What trifles cowards can alarm ye." 
 
 How fears our foes may magnify, 
 A wolf a cow, ten men an army. 
 
 CHARADE. 
 
 When moved by terror or by cold, 
 You sometimes do my First, 
 
 And oftener when to western climes 
 Your health and hopes you trust. 
 
 When ancient heroes met for war, 
 They used my sturdy Second ; 
 
 But now for taking harmless fish 
 More useful it is reckoned. 
 
 My Whole no longer lives and breathes. 
 But still his words have power 
 
 To wake the deepest springs of grief, 
 Or cheer the saddest hour. 
 
THE LINNET'S NEST. 
 
 BUILD NEITHER TOO HIGH NOR TOO LOW. 
 
 A Linnet trained with care and love, 
 
 The parent birds' delight, 
 His youthful wings had dared to prove, 
 
 And taken his first liight. 
 
 His wings were strong, his eye was clear, 
 
 Mature he had become ; 
 He looked about, a spot to find, 
 
 Where he should place his home. 
 
 A lofty oak he first espied, 
 
 And mid its noble shade 
 A well formed nest he built with pride, 
 
 And there his dwelling made. 
 
THE linnet's nest. 47 
 
 But soon the storms and rains come on, 
 
 The furious tempests blow, 
 The lightnings blast the sturdy oak, 
 
 The Linnet's nest lies low. 
 
 But luckily indeed for him 
 
 On that eventful day, 
 Young Linnet had a visit made. 
 
 And lingered on the way. 
 
 When he returned the ruined oak 
 
 All shattered met his eye, 
 And his poor nest, all torn and broke. 
 
 Proved he had built too high. 
 
 He next time chose a humble spot, 
 And in the grass built low — 
 
 Yet here he found both dust and worms. 
 And feared the scythe's dread blow. 
 
 Linnet removed and placed his nest 
 
 In a thick hedge's shade, 
 Not proudly mounting to the clouds 
 
 Nor at the bottom laid. 
 
 And in this quiet shady spot 
 Contentedly he lives, 
 A mate and young ones cheer his lot, 
 And he for nothing grieves. 
 
48, CHARADE. 
 
 And happy days and peaceful nights 
 Young man wouldst thou secure, 
 
 Shun lowest depths and loftiest heights, 
 The middle is most sure. 
 
 CHARADE. 
 
 When Nancy more refined had grown, 
 My First she called her name. 
 
 And such a simple change as this, 
 No one could surely blame. 
 
 But " Give an inch, they take an ell," 
 A truth was always reckoned, 
 
 And Nancy proves the maxim well, 
 Her name is now my Second. 
 
 My Whole, a juicy pleasant fruit. 
 Near the warm tropic grows. 
 
 By this time you have guessed its name, 
 Which every body knows. 
 
THE SHEPHERD'S DOG. 
 
 In countries where large flocks of sheep are 
 kept, dogs are of very great vakie. They give 
 great help to the shepherds, and often lend 
 them more assistance than many men or boys 
 could do. They soon come to know all the 
 sheep belonging to the flock to which they be- 
 long, and in case of the absence of the shep- 
 herd, will collect and house them with great 
 care. Many stories are told of the sagacity of 
 dogs ; we collect a few of them for the readers 
 of the Annualette, and present them with a 
 picture of a fine animal of the breed used by 
 shepherds to assist them in the care of their 
 sheep. 
 
 A gentleman who occupied a farm in a remote 
 
 district of Scotland, had a dog of the genuine 
 
 colly, or shepherd's breed, named Gashkan, 
 
 which means a hero, or my hero. This dog 
 
 4 
 
52 THE shepherd's dog. 
 
 attached himself to one of the men employed 
 about the farm, who was married and lived in 
 a house by himself, not boarding regularly in 
 the farmer's family, though he often dined 
 with his work-people by invitation, and when 
 that was the case his dog Gashkan always ac- 
 companied his master. 
 
 Gashkan was an observing dog, and he soon 
 found out when dinner was ahnost ready. 
 When it was nearly time to call in the people, 
 a large pot of broth was set down on the hearth, 
 and a long table was laid. Then the dairy- 
 maid gave a loud call at the door, which was 
 answered by the men from the fields, and while 
 they were on their way in, she made every- 
 thing ready for them. 
 
 The men knew by the shadows on the moun- 
 tains, and perhaps too by their own appetites, 
 when the time drew near, and if one of them 
 grew impatient, he would say, "Go, Gashkan, 
 see if the dinner be ready." Gashkan would 
 set off in a minute, ii', on looking in at the 
 door, he saw the pot on the hearth and the ta- 
 ble spread, he ran back very fast, licked his 
 lips, wagged his tail, and frisked about his 
 master ; but if he saw no preparation in the 
 kitchen, he went slowly back with his tail and 
 
THE shepherd's DOG. 53 
 
 ears drooping, and when asked if dinner was 
 ready, slunk sheepishly behind his master. 
 
 A little dog, Mho was much attached to a 
 young lady in the family in wliich she lived, 
 and who was no great favorite with any other 
 member of the household, when her young 
 protector was absent for a day or more, left 
 the house and went to make a visit to a domes- 
 tic in the family of an elder sister of the young 
 lady, where she was always kindly received, 
 and where she would pass the day and return 
 quietly home at night. This method of passing 
 the time during the absence of her friend she 
 repeated several times. 
 
 A poor w^oman in one of the towns near 
 Boston, lived, some years since, in a small 
 house situated at a distance from any public 
 road. She had a sick husband and several 
 small children, and was not always very well 
 provided with the necessaries of life. A very 
 violent snow storm, which continued for seve- 
 ral days, banked up the poor woman's house, 
 and made it impossible for her to go herself or 
 send one of her children to the nearest neigh- 
 bor, which was about a quarter of a mile across 
 the fields, to ask for some supplies of food. At 
 last she wrote a note to her neighbor, telling 
 
54 THE shepherd's DOG. 
 
 her wants, and, tying it round the neck of a 
 large dog who made one of her httle house- 
 hold, she took him to the door, opened it, and 
 pointed to the house where she wished him to 
 go. Her faithful friend plunged through the 
 snow and reached the house, and did not cease 
 from his exertions until he had attracted the at- 
 tention of some of the family, who untied the 
 note from his neck. On learning the wants of 
 the poor woman, they filled a basket with such 
 articles as she needed, and the dog trotted gaily 
 along by the side of the man who went through 
 the snow to take this welcome supply to the 
 suffering family. 
 
 Sir Walter Scott, in his beautiful poem of 
 Hellvellyn, celebrates the faithfulness of a dog 
 whose body was found stretched by the side of 
 his dead master, a young man, who had been 
 seen travelling in the mountain country, ac- 
 companied by a little dog. It was supposed 
 the young man had perished in the mountain 
 region from fatigue or some accident, as, some 
 time after he had been seen with the dog, his 
 body was found, and the skeleton of his faithful 
 friend, the dog, close beside him. 
 
 A Newfoundland dog, one of that race who 
 are fond of the water, belonged, some years 
 
THE SnEPIIERD's DOG. 55 
 
 since, to the captain of a ship which was lest 
 near Yarmoalh, England. The dog escaped 
 from the wreck, and brought in his mouth the 
 captain's pocket-book. He landed amid a 
 number of persons, several of whom in vain 
 endeavored to take it from him. The saga- 
 cious animal seemed as if he knew that what 
 he had was very valuable — it had probably 
 been given him by his dying master. At 
 length he leaped fawningly against the breast of 
 a man who had attracted his notice among the 
 crowd, and delivered the pocket-book to him. 
 The dog immediately returned to the place 
 where he had landed, and watched whh great 
 attention for everything that came from the 
 wrecked vessel, seizing hold of the articles 
 and trying to bring them to land. 
 
 It is said that, some years ago, when the 
 church of St. Paul's in London was undergoing 
 some repairs, a favorite dog followed its mas- 
 ter up the dark stairs to the dome of the build- 
 ing. Here, all at once, it w^as missing, and 
 calling and whistling did no good. Nine weeks 
 after this, some glaziers were at work in the 
 cathedral, and heard among the timbers, which 
 support the dome, a faint noise. Thinking it 
 mij^ht be some unfortunate human being, they 
 4* 
 
56 THE shepherd's dog. 
 
 tied a rope round a boy, and let him down near 
 the place whence the sound came. At the 
 bottom he found a dog lying on its side, and an 
 old shoe half eaten. The humanity of the boy 
 led him to rescue the dog from its miserable 
 situation, and it was accordingly drawn up, 
 much emaciated and hardly able to stand. The 
 workmen placed it in the porch of the church, 
 to die or live, as it might happen. This was 
 about ten o'clock in the morning. Some time 
 after, the dog was seen endeavoring to cross 
 over the street, but its weakness was so great, 
 that as there was no wall to support it, it could 
 not succeed. The miserable appearance of the 
 dog again excited the compassion of a boy, who 
 carried it over. By the help of the houses, 
 against which it could lean, it proceeded along 
 the street and over two narrow crossings, and 
 at about eight o'clock in the evening it reached 
 its master's house in Red Lion street, and laid 
 itself down on the steps, having been ten hours 
 on its journey from St. Paul's to that place. 
 The dog was so much altered, the eyes being 
 sunk in the head so as to be scarcely discerni- 
 ble, that his master did not at first suppose him 
 to be his faithful companion. The first indica- 
 tion it gave of knowing its master was by wag- 
 
THE shepherd's DOG. 57 
 
 ging its tail at the name of Phillis. For a long 
 time it was unable to eat and drink, and it was 
 kept alive by the food it received from its mis- 
 tress, who used to feed it with a teaspoon ; and 
 by her care it finally recovered. 
 
 Men and women, and boys and girls may 
 take pattern by the patience and faithful attach- 
 ment of dogs, and they should always take care 
 to treat kindly these animals, and never teaze 
 and torment them, as is sometimes done by 
 cruel or thoughtless persons. 
 
CHARADE. 
 
 M'y Ffrst is attendant on Kings and on Queens, 
 
 And figures in splendor and yoiitli ; 
 It also speaks wisdom, and tells poets' dreams, 
 
 Tlie doctrines of falsehood or truth. 
 
 My Second, though small, teaches lessons to man, 
 
 And in scripture is used as a text. 
 It minds its own business, works steadily on, 
 
 With tlie cares of the world unperplexed. 
 
 My Whole may be bright, though it often is sad. 
 True or false, loud or still, grave or gay. 
 
 The great love its splendor, but plain people still 
 Prefer to keep out of its way. 
 
FRANKLIN PLACE — BOSTON. 
 
 Little Agnes sat at the window of one of the 
 houses which look out upon the pleasant green 
 spot, which is fenced in and shaded by trees, 
 in the middle of Franklin Place, in Boston. 
 To those who are i;:.Licquainted with the spot, 
 the wood-cut, which accompanies this story, 
 will give a very good idea of the place. 
 
 There are many flowering shrubs in this lit- 
 tle enclosure, and as it was the season of blos- 
 soms, the air came in at the window where 
 Agnes was sitting, perfumed with the flowers, 
 and she enjoyed her view of the little garden 
 very much. 
 
 Soon the sky became clouded over, a gust of 
 wind swept by, the little shrubs and branches 
 bent as if they would break off, the flower 
 leaves fell fast ; presently the sharp lightning 
 appeared, theii the distant rumbling thunder. 
 
60 FRANKLIN PLACE. 
 
 Again and again came the sharp bright light- 
 ning, and between the shocks it was so dark 
 that Agnes could hardly see to thread her nee- 
 dle. The rain came pouring down, and spat- 
 tered in at the window in such a manner that 
 Agnes was obliged to draw down the glass. 
 
 " How I hate thunder showers," cried she ; 
 " they compel one to shut the window, and put 
 an end to all one's enjoyment in the blossoms. 
 I do not see what good they ever do." 
 
 " They certainly do good, by making the 
 air pure and clear," said her mother ; " and I 
 believe if the old story is true, if it had not been 
 for a thunder storm, we might never have had 
 this pretty green spot in front of our house." 
 
 " Why, what had a thunder shower to do 
 with the glass plat there," asked Agnes ; " pray 
 tell me, mother, for next to smelling the blos- 
 soms, I think hearing an old story is one of the 
 most agreeable things." 
 
 " I recollect," replied her mother, " hearing 
 an old lady, who was pretty accurate in her 
 facts, say, that, some sixty or seventy years 
 ago, when Boston was not nearly as large as it 
 is now, there was a house standing in Summer 
 street, about where the new buildings are now 
 going up, which had a garden running quite 
 
FRANKLIN PLACE. 61 
 
 back into the Place which is now occupied by 
 the houses in Franklin street. 
 
 " It was a very pretty garden; and, at the 
 lower part of it, where this grass-plat now is, 
 was a fish-pond, filled with gold and silver 
 fishes. All the banks of the pond were orna- 
 mented with flowering shrubs, and it was a 
 pleasant sight to see the little gold and silver 
 fish jump up to catch the crumbs of bread 
 which the children would throw into the pond. 
 
 " One night there came a' very severe storm 
 of rain, with thunder and lightning ; the light- 
 ning was very sharp, and struck the pond. 
 The next morning all the little fishes were 
 found dead, and the springs which supplied the 
 pond with water were so affected by the shock, 
 that the water ran away and the pond never 
 filled again, but remained a disagreeable, 
 marshy spot. 
 
 " As this part of the garden was so much 
 injured, the owner resolved not to attempt to 
 restore it to its former state ; but he sold it to 
 some gentlemen, who formed an association, 
 and built, in a sort of partnership, all the build- 
 ings on the south side, from what is now Haw- 
 ley street, to the Catholic church. These were 
 called the Tontine Buildings. 
 
63 FRANKLIN PLACE. 
 
 " To make these houses pleasant, they laid 
 out this little garden in the middle, planted 
 trees, and placed in the centre a monument in 
 memory of Benjamin Franklin, who was a very 
 wise man, you know, and who had done a 
 great deal to benefit his native town. In time, 
 the houses on the opposite side were built, and 
 it has always remained a very pleasant street." 
 
 " I dare say," said Agnes, " that when it first 
 happened the people thought it was a sad thing, 
 and that nothing could ever take the place of 
 the fish pond, which would be half so pretty." 
 
 " Very likely, my dear ; and perhaps this 
 little account of the fish pond and thunder 
 storm, may make you not only more reconcil- 
 ed to a shower which sometimes compels you 
 to shut the window, but may lead you to think, 
 that even the things, which, at the time, seem 
 most disagreeable and unfortunate, may in the 
 end turn out pleasant and useful. You must 
 always bear in mind, that nothing happens by 
 chance, but that the same good God who sup- 
 plies you with everything you enjoy, also or- 
 ders and permits, for some wise purpose, which 
 you cannot, to be sure, always see clearly, all 
 you suffer." 
 
THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM, 
 
 After the investigation respecting the break- 
 ing of the receiver of Dr. Johnson's air pump, 
 some account of which was given in the annals 
 of the Juvenile Court Room contained in the 
 Annualette for eighteen hundred and forty- 
 three, the school at X, both in the male and 
 female department, remained very quiet. Miss 
 Bridge and Master Pelham, who it will be 
 recollected were convicted, on strong circum- 
 stantial evidence, and finally on their own con- 
 fession of the offence, had fulfilled the sentence 
 of the court, a new receiver to the air pump 
 had been procured, the parrot had recovered 
 her equanimity, and things all went on for 
 some time in a very satisfactory manner both 
 to teachers and pupils. 
 
 It was therefore not without astonishment 
 5 
 
66 THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 
 
 that the boys one day heard Dr. Johnson an- 
 nounce, at the end of the regular school exer- 
 cises, that an occurrence had happened which 
 would render it necessary that a sitting of the 
 Juvenile Court should be held. He appointed 
 the next Wednesday afternoon for the session, 
 and requested the young men to select the 
 judges and other officers of the court, and also 
 to choose a committee of six to wait on Mrs. 
 Meredith, the head of the female department 
 of the school, and to request her with her pu- 
 pils and assistant teachers to be present at the 
 trial. 
 
 Great consultation took place among the 
 boys respecting the cause of this proceedinv;. 
 Nothing remarkable had taken place in the 
 school, at least nothing that was generally 
 known, and as to those who had been con- 
 cerned in any secret mischief, their con- 
 sciences probably accused them, but they took 
 care to give no intimations of what they really 
 knew. 
 
 Wednesday afternoon came, — the hall 
 of justice was arranged in the usual order. 
 Seats were placed for Dr. Johnson and the 
 other teachers, with the pupils of the boys' 
 school on one side, and for Mrs. Meredith with 
 
THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 67 
 
 her assistants and pupils on the other. Master 
 John Marshall, William Parsons and James 
 Sedgwick were placed in the judge's seat, and 
 a number of young gentlemen stood ready to 
 act as counsel to defend any one who should 
 be accused. 
 
 Master Erskine, the School Attorney, then 
 stepped forward and said that an unpleasant af- 
 fair had happened in the neighborhood of their 
 institution, and that some of the sufferers from it 
 felt disposed to attribute the blame to members 
 of the school at X. Though in all institutions 
 as large as this was, and made up as all schools 
 were, of young people of various ages, the 
 moral education of some of whom seemed some- 
 times to have been neglected, yet he was very 
 unwilling to believe that any one who had en- 
 joyed, if only for a short time, the advantages 
 of the excellent instruction which was given at 
 X, should be guilty of the terrible crime with 
 which they were charged, which was nothing 
 else than burglary in the night time in the 
 house of Mr. Theodosius Androscoggin ! 
 
 At the declaration of such a horrible offence 
 a shudder passed through the whole circle of 
 young people, and an involuntary murmur of 
 " Oh, no," passed round the court room. The 
 
68 THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 
 
 judge desired the sheriff to keep order in the 
 court, and the sight of his long white pole, im- 
 mediately checked this involuntary ebullition 
 of feeling. 
 
 The Attorney then called his principal wit- 
 ness. 
 
 Attorney. What is your name ? 
 
 Witness. Theodosius Androscoggin. 
 
 Attorney. What is your business ? 
 
 Here the witness hesitated, but at last ex- 
 plained that he did not now carry on any very 
 active business ; he had formerly been em- 
 ployed as a travelling merchant, but he had of 
 late years retired from that occupation, and 
 lived in a small house, an end of which and 
 the garden belonging to it stretched along by 
 the side of the principal building of Dr. John- 
 son's school. 
 
 Attorney. Please to state, Mr. Androscoggin, 
 what happened at your house on the evening 
 of August olst, that is the Wednesday of last 
 week. 
 
 Witness. May it please your honor and this 
 very honorable court, I had just retired to rest 
 at about the hour of nine o'clock. I generally 
 retire early, having been taught in my youth 
 by a worthy aunt of mine, who was a pattern 
 
THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 69 
 
 of vigilance and industry, that little couplet, 
 beginning " early to bed " — 
 
 Attorney. The witness will please to confine 
 himself to a simple relation of the events which 
 took place on the evening of the 31st, any allu- 
 sion to his own domestic habhs or those even of 
 a revered relation are uncalled for on this oc- 
 casion. 
 
 Witness. Well sir, then, as I w^as saying, 
 I had gone to bed about nine o'clock. Perhaps 
 it may not be out of the way for me to men- 
 tion that my sleeping apartment is in a quarter 
 of the house which extends in the form of a 
 bow out into the garden. That directly in front 
 of the window which forms the part of the 
 room extending farthest into the garden, stands 
 a fine peach tree, which on that evening was 
 full of ripe peaches. [Here the witness hand- 
 ed in a plan of the garden, the bow window 
 and the peach tree. This plan also exhibited 
 a wing of Dr. Johnson's school, which ran 
 along beside the garden, and some windows of 
 which overlooked it very closely.] 
 
 The plan here passed round the judges' 
 bench, and from them into other parts of the 
 room. The witness resumed his testimony. 
 
 Well, gentlemen and ladies, as I observed, I 
 
70 THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 
 
 went to bed about nine o'clock and had just 
 fallen into my first sleep, which, as my aunt 
 used to say, is always the soundest, " Theodo, 
 my dear," she used to say to me, " be sure ^''ou 
 do not walk over my head hard just as I get 
 into my first sleep, for if one gets waked up 
 from their first sleep it seems as if — 
 
 Attorney. The witness must confine him- 
 self to the relation of the events of the 31st — 
 it is an insult to this respectable court to detain 
 it with such reminiscences. 
 
 Witness. I again beg the pardon of the 
 court, but if you had only known my aunt. 
 But, as I was saying, I had just got into my 
 first sleep, when crash, I was awaked by a most 
 terrible noise, the upper part of the window 
 fell in, and after it came tumbling a great stout 
 boy — man I might call him — I immediately 
 began to cry " fire, murder, thieves, help," and 
 make all sorts of noise, when another boy 
 jumped in at the window, and both of them 
 seized me with the most terrific gripe and told 
 me to lie down on my bed and not speak 
 a word till I had counted three hundred, for if 
 I moved or stirred before that time there were 
 six stout men on the balcony outside the win- 
 dow with guns loaded with four bullets each. 
 
THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 71 
 
 who would immediately all let loose their 
 pieces upon me. 
 
 They then quietly opened the door of the 
 bed room, walked down the stairs, opened the 
 front door and went out of the house closing 
 the door after them. I lay trembling in my 
 bed until I had first reckoned how many bullets 
 would enter my poor body if all the six men 
 fired each his four bullets. This, as your 
 honor will perceive, would have been twenty- 
 four bullets ; I then counted my three hundred, 
 and then rising from my bed went to the win- 
 dow. It was so broken that I could step directly 
 out on the balcony ; there was no one there ; 
 the six gunners, if they had been there, were 
 gone, and I began to suspect that the lads had 
 not spoken the truth when they stated that they 
 were there. 
 
 Attorney. Were there any unusual appear- 
 ances about the balcony } 
 
 Witness. Yes your honor, the peach tree 
 was broken down, a great many of the peaches 
 scattered on the balcony, and a large sheet lay 
 spread over the branches which had the ap- 
 pearance of having been gathered up and tied 
 by the four corners. 
 
72 THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 
 
 Attorney. Do you know who the lads were 
 who entered your apartment in this unceremoni- 
 ous way ? 
 
 Witness. No sir, I do not, I had an im- 
 pression at the time that they were young men 
 belonging to this school, and I think so now, 
 but when I look round upon the vast number of 
 young gentlemen here I find it utterly impossi- 
 ble to identify either as the ci^iminal. 
 
 Attorney. What are your reasons for fixing 
 such an imputation on the young men of the 
 seminary, and what reasons could they have 
 for entering your room in such an unceremoni- 
 ous way ? 
 
 Wit7iess. Why your honor, I am a poor 
 man as your honor knows, but people will insist 
 on calling me rich, and for these reasons they 
 declare a few boxes which I have piled in my 
 room and which only contain some trifling 
 articles, they declare that these boxes are filled 
 with gold pieces, absurd as is the idea of a poor 
 man like me hoarding gold, yet knowing that 
 some people believe I do, I imagined these 
 young men might be of the number, and have 
 some idea of getting a little pocket money ; my 
 house too is so near the school that the young 
 men there were the first people I thought of. 
 
THE JUVENILE COURT ROOxH. 73 
 
 Attorney. Did you preserve the sheet that 
 you found hanging on the tree ? 
 
 Witness. I did sir. 
 
 Attorney. Let it be produced in the court. 
 A messenger was immediately despatched who 
 returned with the sheet, which proved to be 
 one of stout Russia linen ; on examination a 
 mark was discovered in the corner bearing the 
 letters X School, No. 44. 
 
 When this fact was announced a murmur of 
 surprise, with expressions of mortification and 
 regret, passed round the assembly. 
 
 The attorney then asked permission to sum- 
 mon as a witness the chambermaid who had 
 charge of the sheets of the establishment. 
 
 Amy Linden appeared. She had the charge 
 of the bed linen of the establishment at X. 
 
 Attorney. Do you remember hearing of a 
 sheet having been missed from the establish- 
 ment lately ? 
 
 Amy. On the morning of the first of Sep- 
 tember the chambermaid came to me for a 
 sheet saying that one had disappeared from 
 one of the rooms in the north wing, as it was 
 not the regular day for giving out sheets and as 
 I thought it might have been mislaid by her 
 own carelessness (or that of the lads) I declined 
 
74 THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 
 
 giving her one, but told her she must find out 
 what had become of the other. 
 
 Ansiess Plumer^ the chambermaid, was called 
 and asked from what room in the north wing 
 the sheet had disappeared on the morning of 
 the 1st. She gave the number as 28. The list 
 of the bed rooms, on which was recorded the 
 numbers of the rooms and the names of the 
 young m.en who occupied them was handed 
 into the court and read, and the occupants of 
 the room, No. 28, which contained two beds, 
 proved to be James Williams, John Dobbin, 
 Henry Overlook, and Horatio Nelson. These 
 four young men were then summoned and 
 asked if they could give any reason why a 
 sheet from their apartment should have been 
 found on Mr. Androscoggin's peach tree, and 
 if they heard any commotion under their win- 
 dow on the evening of the 31st. 
 
 James Williams^ the largest of the boys, un- 
 dertook to speak for the rest. He could not 
 undertake to account for the circumstance of 
 the sheet being found in such an unsuitable 
 place. He retired to bed very early, and being 
 greatly fatigued with his exertions bodily and 
 intellectual during the day, and overcome with 
 the heat of the weather, he had thrown himself 
 
THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 75 
 
 upon the mattress without noticing whether 
 there was two sheets or none upon it. It was 
 not at all unlikely, he thought, that the chamber- 
 maid herself had placed it, in the moiTiing, at 
 the window to air, had forgotten it, and that it 
 had blown out of the window, and lodged, in 
 its fall, on the peach tree which overhung Mr. 
 Androscoggins''s balcony and shaded his bed- 
 room window. 
 
 James Dobbin proved by the evidence of the 
 nurse to the establishment, that being that night 
 afflicted with a severe earache, he had passed 
 the night in question under her kind care in the 
 hospital of the establishment. 
 
 Henry Oyer/oo/; denied altogether any knowl- 
 edge of the reason of the absence of the sheet, 
 or of the disturbance at Mr. Androscoggin's 
 window. 
 
 Horatio Nelson^ a small pale boy, next ap- 
 peared on the stand. He said, though he came 
 there under somewhat suspicious circumstances, 
 and was willing to admit that he was not free 
 from blame, yet he was heartily sorry for the 
 part he had taken in the transaction, and he 
 thought he should be able to make it appear to 
 the court that he was not guilty of an intention 
 to commit the serious crime with which Mr. 
 
76 THE JUVENILE COURT EOOM. 
 
 Androscoggin had charged the persons who 
 entered his room so unceremoniously on the 
 morning of the thirty-first. As he was not 
 much used to speaking in public, he had pro- 
 cured the assistance of his friend, Master Hen- 
 derson, as counsel, who would state the facts of 
 the case, as far as he was concerned in them, 
 and he would then throw himself on the mercy 
 of the court. 
 
 Master Henderson then said, that he did not 
 rise with the hope of proving his client to be an 
 innocent man or boy. From his own confes- 
 sion, which he begged leave to inform the court 
 was voluntarily made, he had been to blame. 
 But he hoped to convince them, that the offence 
 was a boyish frolic and not a premeditated crime 
 of the heinous nature of burglary in a dwelling- 
 house in the night-time. 
 
 As Mr. Androscoggin had remarked, the 
 peach-tree, near his window, was filled, at this 
 time, with very fine fruit. A number of the 
 young men, having assembled in the room of 
 his client on the afternoon of the thirty-first, 
 which was a holiday, they had seen the peach- 
 es, and the love of fine fruit, so natural to boys, 
 had so far prevailed over their moral sense of 
 what was right, that they had devised various 
 
THE GOOD AUNT. See page 137. 
 
THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 77 
 
 schemes by which they might procure some of 
 those dehcious peaches. 
 
 The top of the tree was about six feet below 
 the window of the room, and after various plans 
 had been talked of, it was suggested that one 
 of the boys might be tied in a sheet and let 
 down by a strong rope from the window, into 
 the peach-tree, that he should gather some 
 peaches, and that he then could be drawn back 
 again with the fruit and no one would know any- 
 thing about it. 
 
 This was a very good plan, but the question 
 next arose, who should be the fortunate indivi- 
 dual to be tied up in the sheet, and launched 
 out upon this somewhat perilous expedition. 
 All the boys were afraid, until my client, who, 
 though small in stature, is a most courageous 
 fellow, and who had before taken no part in the 
 consultation, came forward and said, he did not 
 care for the peaches, but that he was not afraid 
 to be let down. 
 
 The offer of his services was immediately 
 accepted ; a sheet was taken from one of the 
 beds, he was tied up in it, a strong rope was 
 attached to it, he was swung out of the window, 
 and reached the balcony beneath the peach-tree 
 6 
 
78 THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 
 
 in safety ; there he emerged from his sack and 
 began to pick some of the peaches. 
 
 The success of the attempt emboldened some 
 of the other boys, and a young man, who I 
 suppose I am not bound to name, of a much 
 larger size than my client, was so tempted with 
 the peaches, that he wished the sheet to be 
 drawn up, that he might go down and pick for 
 himself 
 
 It was accordingly drawn up, but either from 
 the greater weight or more careless tying, just 
 before he reached the balcony, the sheet un- 
 tied, the boy fell, and was precipitated with such 
 force against the window, that he broke in the 
 glass, sashes and all, and came tumbling down 
 exactly in the manner described by the com- 
 plainant. 
 
 This accident, and the noise of breaking in 
 the window had alarmed the boys above so that 
 they had put out the lights and run away, and 
 the lads soon perceived that there was no hope 
 of getting back in the way they came. As 
 thev had heard that Mr. Androscoggin was a 
 somewhat timid man, they thought by a little 
 blustering they could alarm him so he would 
 not cry out. Their plan succeeded ; that gen- 
 tleman, after the first outcry, which they soon 
 
THE JUVENILE COURT EOOM. 7 9 
 
 checked, remained perfectly still until they 
 could go down the stairs and leave the house. 
 They entered at the front door of Dr. Johnson's 
 house, which, fortunately for them, was not 
 locked, the Doctor having some friends passing 
 the evening with him, and they succeeded in 
 reachino; their room without beino; discovered. 
 
 His client was truly sorry for the part he had 
 taken in the transaction. He did not, in the 
 first place, care for the peaches, but he was 
 urged by a foolish vanity to do a thing which 
 all the other boys were afraid to do. He was 
 willing to submit to any penalty the court might 
 see fit to inflict, and he should be happy to 
 make any reparation in his power to the com- 
 plainant for the alarm he had inflicted on him 
 and the injury his peach-tree and bow-window 
 had suffered. This was a plain statement of 
 the case, and his client threw himself on the 
 mercy of the court. 
 
 The judge rose and said, that he was happy 
 to have this matter, which had at first seemed 
 so dark, explained, and that though the attempt 
 to rob the peach-tree was by no means to be 
 justified, yet it was a less heinous crime than 
 that of breakino; into a dwelling-house in the 
 night-time. In consequence of the general 
 
80 THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 
 
 good character, and high standing of Master 
 Nelson, the motives he had given for this ac- 
 tion, and the penitence he expressed for it, he 
 thought he might venture to say, even before 
 consulting his brother judges, that the penalty- 
 would be light. But another young man had 
 been mentioned, though not by name, and he 
 now called on him, whoever he might be, to 
 come forward and confess his guilt, as he 
 might be assured, that measures were in a 
 train, which would certainly bring it to light, 
 and that his punishment would be much more 
 gentle, and his character much more respected, 
 if he acted in this manner, than if he attempted 
 any further concealment. 
 
 James Williams now arose, and in a very 
 humble tone confessed that he was the boy, 
 who was let down after Master Nelson, and 
 who actually had done all the mischief. If he 
 had possessed the moral courage of that young 
 man, he should have at once confessed his 
 fault, but he felt afraid of the consequences, 
 and hoped to be able to prevent the thing being 
 found out. He had added to his fault greatly 
 by telling a falsehood when he was before on 
 the stand ; but he had been so touched at the 
 manner in which the counsel of Master Nelson 
 
THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 81 
 
 had told the story, without attempting to throw 
 the blame on any one else, that he resolved, 
 the moment he had opportunity, to confess the 
 part he had taken in the afTair, and humbly to 
 ask the pardon of the Honorable Court, Dr. 
 Johnson, Mr. Androscoggin, and all the respect- 
 ed assembly who had been called together to 
 investigate the affair. 
 
 Mr. Androscoggin again addressed the as- 
 sembly. He had been much pleased with the 
 proceedings of the morning. The handsome 
 behavior of Mr. Nelson had given him great 
 pleasure, and he was also touched by the peni- 
 tence of Master Williams. He begged that all 
 further proceedings against these two young 
 men might be stopped — no farther inquiry 
 made into the affair, and no punishment inflict- 
 ed upon him. He thought they had already 
 suffered so much, particularly Master Williams, 
 from his fall and the other inconveniences 
 which had attended this affair, that they would 
 be warned never to engage in such an unlawful 
 business again. And he begged Dr. Johnson 
 would allow him to present the 5^oung gentle- 
 men with a bushel of his finest peaches, to be 
 eaten by them after supper, and he hoped the 
 affair would henceforth be entirely forgotten. 
 
82 THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 
 
 The judges, after a few moments consulta- 
 tion, gave their sentence, that Master Nelson 
 should be discharged without delay, free from 
 all penalty ; and that Master Williams should 
 be fined half of his pocket-money for the next 
 four weeks, the sum so taken to be applied to 
 paying the glazier for repairing the bow win- 
 dow. 
 
 3Ir, Androscoggin begged that this penalty 
 might not be imposed on the young man ; but 
 Master Williams declared that he should not 
 feel easy without he were allowed to make this 
 restitution. He also thanked Mr. Androscog- 
 gin in a very feeling manner for the tender- 
 ness he had exhibited towards him. 
 
 The court then adjourned. Dr. Johnson in- 
 vited the young ladies to pass the evening, on 
 that occasion, with the young gentlemen, and 
 he also begged Mrs. Merideth and Mr. Andros- 
 coggin to honor him with their company at the 
 same time. 
 
 These invitations were accepted, and the 
 whole party met in the large hall, — not with 
 the formality of a court, but full of good humor 
 and cheerfulness. Mr. Androscoggin sent in a 
 large supply of his best peaches, and felt him- 
 self amply repaid for all the inconvenience he 
 
THE JUVENILE COURT ROOM. 83 
 
 had suffered, by the smiling faces and happy 
 looks which met him everywhere. No one 
 ever thought of such a thing as stealing a peach 
 from the kind old gentleman again. 
 
 Note. — It is related in Southey's Life of Lord 
 Nelson, that he was once at a boarding-school, where 
 a plan like the one described in the trial above was 
 made. Nelson was let down in the sheet, picked the 
 peaches, carried them back, and distributed them 
 among his companions. He said he cared nothing 
 for the fruit, but all the rest of the boys were afraid 
 of falling, and he wished to show them that he was 
 not. He need not have felt ashamed to confess that 
 lie was afraid to do anything so wicked as to steal. 
 
CHARADE. 
 
 Whktm the broad river onward poi.irs, 
 And over everything wonhl burst, 
 
 What is it can restrain its force ? 
 
 When you reply, you name my first. 
 
 And when yon this or that woukl learn, 
 And wiser friends perchance ate near, 
 
 My SECOND with your eye or lip 
 You often do witliout a fear. 
 
 A humble worm, man, with his skill, 
 My brilliant whole to form unite. 
 
 Which church and palace oft adorns. 
 And lends its charms to beauty bright. 
 
THE TRAVELLED MOUSE. 
 
 A PAKTY of Mice 
 
 Once assembled, to hear 
 What one, who had travelled 
 
 For more than a year, 
 
 Could tell, of the wonders 
 Abroad he had seen, 
 
 And the marvellous places 
 In which he had been. 
 
 He told of dark crannies, 
 Where visits he'd made ; 
 
 Of cellars and shelves, 
 
 And the food there arrayed. 
 
 But, wonder of wonders ! 
 
 He vowed he had seen 
 In more than one country, 
 
 Where roving he'd been, 
 
THE TRAVELLED MOUSE. 
 
 A wonderful creature — 
 Like a mouse it appears, 
 
 Just such hair, voice, and whiskers, 
 Such eyes, and such ears. 
 
 But he begged they'd believe him, 
 
 He told them no lie, 
 These mice wore broad cloaks, 
 
 And like birds they could fly ! 
 
 The young Mice gazed in wonder, 
 But the old cry, " What's that ? 
 
 This very strange thing 
 Is nought else but a bat. 
 
 If you look up, at evening. 
 Toward chimney or tree, 
 
 These wonderful creatures 
 In numbers you see." 
 
 It is not worth one's while 
 A long journey to go, 
 
 To find out what at home 
 Everybody may know. 
 
P E R D I T A , 
 
 OR THE CHINESE FOUNDLING. 
 
 Mr. Goldsmith was a gentleman who had been 
 for many years engaged in the China trade — 
 and being compelled to remain abroad, he at 
 last sent for his wife to join him in China ; as 
 she had no children, she readily consented to 
 make the voyage, and after a pleasant, though 
 rather tedious passage, she safely reached Ma- 
 cao, the Chinese town where foreigners were 
 then allowed to trade, and was warmly wel- 
 comed by her husband, from whom she had 
 been separated for many months. 
 
 She established her resijence at Macao, 
 about eighty miles from Canton, where her 
 husband was obliged to go to carry on his busi- 
 ness. The Chinese at that time would not al- 
 low the wives of foreigners to live at Canton. 
 Their customs were then and still continue very 
 
88 PERDITA. 
 
 peculiar to themselves, and they are very un- 
 willing to allow foreigners to have much inter- 
 course with them. Mr. Goldsmith was obliged 
 frequently to be separated from his wife during 
 his visits to Canton, and during these absences 
 she sometimes diverted herself by exploring the 
 neighborhood of her residence. 
 
 She went out one day, attended by her ser- 
 vant, and wandered to some distance from the 
 city of Macao, and came to a spot where a 
 large cross upon a stone pediment has been 
 erected. It was surrounded by a tall close 
 bamboo hedge, while above it on the opposite 
 shore rose the ornamented roofs of the Chinese 
 pagoda, from which ascended the smoke of the 
 sacrifices. 
 
 While Mrs. Goldsmith was looking around, 
 admiring the singular appearance of the spot, 
 and meditating upon the still more singular 
 people who resided there, she was startled by 
 the cry of a young child, and on looking round 
 she discovered, partly concealed in the hedge 
 which surrounded the cross, a Chinese basket, 
 which, on examination, she found contained a 
 female infant. She knew that the Chinese 
 sometimes destroy or expose their female child- 
 ren to avoid the trouble and expense of bring- 
 
^o/' 
 
PERDITA. 91 
 
 ing them up, and she immediately supposed 
 this was one of those little unfortunates. 
 
 She fancied as she opened the basket, the 
 little creature smiled upon her, it certainly 
 ceased its wailing. She could not bear to leave 
 it there to perish ; perhaps she thought of the 
 comfort and pleasure it might afford her. She 
 asked her servant if it were possible that any 
 one had placed it there who would return for 
 it. He thought not, but had no doubt that the 
 parents had sent it there, hoping some kind- 
 hearted Christian who visited the cross might 
 take pity on the poor baby. 
 
 While Mrs. Goldsmith was hesitating whether 
 she should take possession of the child, she 
 saw, slowly creeping round from the other side 
 of the cross, a Chinese woman of the lower 
 class, who seemed attempting to conceal her- 
 self behind the shrubbery of the hedge. She 
 directed her servant, who understood the lan- 
 guage of the Chinese, to speak to her and ask 
 her if she knew anything of the baby. 
 
 At first she hesitated, but on being addressed 
 with kind words, and desired to tell all she 
 knew, she confessed that the poor little child 
 belonged to her sister. She said her sister's 
 husband was a cruel, cross fellow, that he had 
 7 
 
92 PERDITA. 
 
 a large family of children, and that on the 
 birth of this poor little girl, he had vowed he 
 would not provide for it, but that it should be 
 exposed on the river, as many female children 
 were every year. 
 
 His wife and her sister had begged and 
 prayed him to allow them to keep the child ; 
 he was inexorable, and threatened to carry it to 
 the river the very day after it was born. All 
 that the poor woman could do was to persuade 
 him to let the sister carry it away. She had 
 heard of Mrs. Goldsmith, and knew she was 
 kind and good to the people who were about 
 her, and as she frequently saw her walking to 
 the great cross behind Macao, she thought she 
 went there to worship God, and the idea oc- 
 curred to her, that, perhaps, if she saw the 
 dear little child there, she might take pity upon 
 it, and provide for it. The sister had remained 
 near to see the success of her experiment. 
 
 Mrs. Goldsmith now hesitated no longer. 
 She told the woman she would provide for the 
 child. The woman wept with gratitude, but as 
 she still lingered, the lady asked her if she had 
 any farther request to make. She asked if she 
 might sometimes come to see the little crea- 
 ture, to which request Mrs, Goldsmith willingly 
 
PERDITA. 93 
 
 gave her consent. When she grows up, added 
 the woman, " you will tell her the story of this 
 day ; she will only love you the more for it, 
 and she will, perhaps, feel pity for her poor 
 mother and aunt, who were compelled to give 
 up their darling." 
 
 Mrs. Goldsmith consented to the poor wo- 
 man's requests, and telling her where she lived, 
 the woman went away, with many thanks, and 
 the servant carried the child to Mrs. Gold- 
 smith's house. 
 
 The husband of the good lady was somewhat 
 surprized, when he returned from Canton, to 
 find this addition to his family, but he willingly 
 consented to what his wife thought would add 
 to her happiness. They hesitated for a name 
 to bestow on the little bright-eyed creature. 
 Mr. Goldsmith said, that if it had been a boy, 
 they might perhaps have felt bound to call it 
 Moses, after the prophet of the Jews, who we 
 read, in the Book of Genesis, was found under 
 somewhat similar circumstances. But as this 
 could not be done, they concluded to call her 
 Perdita. 
 
 The infant, thanks to Mrs. Goldsmith's good 
 judgment and kind treatment, flourished finely, 
 and became really one of the prettiest little 
 
u 
 
 PEHDITA. 
 
 things in the world. Her complexion was 
 rather yellowish, but her little bright black eyes 
 and long soft black hair, and the sweet expres- 
 sion of her face made her altogether charming. 
 She was also of a very sweet, docile temper, 
 and the child, which at first was adopted by 
 Mr. and Mrs. Goldsmith from motives of com- 
 passion, became to them, soon, as dear almost 
 as if it were their own. Its education formed 
 a very pleasant occupation for the lady, and 
 served to occupy many hours which would, 
 perhaps, have proved tedious to her while her 
 husband was absent from home and engaged in 
 his business. The mother and aunt occasionally 
 came to see the child, and expressed, as well 
 as they were able, to Mrs. Goldsmith, the grati- 
 tude they felt for the kindness she bestowed 
 upon it. 
 
 At last Mr. Goldsmith had brought his affairs 
 to a close, and concluded to return to his native 
 land. Mrs. Goldsmith sent for the mother of 
 the child, and told her that she was about to 
 leave the country, never to return, and that she 
 would gladly take the child with her. The 
 mother gave her consent, knowing that she 
 could do nothing herself to provide for the 
 wants of the little creature. 
 
PERDITA. 95 
 
 Perdita was too young when she left China 
 to have any knowledge of her mother. The 
 voyage home was a prosperous one. On reach- 
 ing America, Mr. Goldsmith, who had made a 
 large fortune during his residence abroad, re- 
 solved to retire from business, and purchased a 
 very beautiful farm in the western part of New 
 England. 
 
 Here he soon established himself with his 
 family. The situation was delightful, and one 
 of the greatest sources of pleasure both to Mr. 
 Goldsmith and his wife, was the little China 
 girl, who grew very fast, became very intelli- 
 gent, and added greatly to the comfort of their 
 life. 
 
 Not far from the house of Mr. Goldsmith 
 was a forest, which, though cleared of the un- 
 derwood and made pleasant for walking in the 
 part near the house, extended back for several 
 miles into an uncultivated part of the country, 
 and was inhabited by deer and other untamed 
 animals. These would sometimes stray down 
 to the borders of the wood, and Perdita, in her 
 wanderings there, often caught sight of a deer, 
 with his long, slim legs and his high, branching 
 horns. 
 
 One day, when she was walking near the 
 
96 PERDITA. 
 
 edge of the cleared wood, she discovered a 
 little young roe, which had probably followed 
 the older ones, but from fatigue or some other 
 cause had got left behind. The poor little 
 thing had fallen down, and lay there alone, 
 panting with fatigue and terror. The little 
 girl took him up, and though he struggled with 
 fear, yet he was young and feeble, and she 
 succeeded in carrying him home. 
 
 She ran to Mrs. Goldsmith with her prize. 
 "Here, dear mother," said she, "here is a 
 poor little deer I have found in the grove, just 
 as you found me when I was a little helpless 
 baby. May I not take care of it, just as you 
 took care of me .^ " 
 
 The appeal was irresistible. Mrs. Gold- 
 smith gave her consent, and went with the little 
 girl to the pantry and gave her some milk, with 
 which, after a while, they succeeded in feeding 
 the little animal. The gardener then fixed a 
 box, which he lined with fresh grass, and in 
 which they placed the little tired animal, and it 
 was soon in a sound sleep. 
 
 Perdita attended so carefully upon her little 
 charge, that it soon became very much attach- 
 ed to her, accompanied her in all her walks, 
 sat by her when she was reading or working, 
 
PERDITA. 97 
 
 and afforded her a great deal of amusement. 
 An amateur painter was one day visiting Mrs, 
 Goldsmith, and was so pleased with the group 
 that he sketched a picture of the little girl sit- 
 ting in a rude garden-house, with the tame roe 
 beside her leaning his head on her lap. 
 
 To those of our readers who have taken an 
 interest in the little Chinese girl, we will just 
 remark, that she continued to improve in mind 
 and body, that she became a highly-educated 
 woman, and a most amiable and attractive one ; 
 that she was of great comfort and assistance to 
 Mrs. Goldsmith and her husband, and that lady 
 always felt that she had cause to remember 
 with joy and gratitude the day she went to 
 walk at the foot of the great Cross, behind the 
 town of Macao. 
 
CltAEADlB. 
 
 My first is unbroken, 
 
 Be it good or bad, 
 Of the truth is seldom spokeilj 
 
 Of our wishes rarely had. 
 
 My SECOND is a part 
 
 Of evil or of good, 
 Of pleasure or of pain, 
 
 Of clothing or of food. 
 
 When you look for your dinner, 
 Choose food that is my wholEj 
 
 Some preachers say that trouble 
 Is my whole to your souL 
 
ICE PALACE. 
 
 The annals of the reign of Catharine II. make 
 mention of one ephemeral palace, which, like 
 that of Pandsemonium, 
 
 " Out of tae earth, a fabric huge 
 Rose like an exhalation ;" 
 
 and like an exhalation vanished, not leaving a 
 wreck behind. From a true and particular ac- 
 count of this ice palace, drawn up by Kraft, an 
 imperial academician, and published at St. Pe- 
 tersburgh the year after its erection, it appears 
 that seven years before, an ice castle had been 
 built on the river Neva ; but the ice bent under 
 the weight of the edifice and of the soldiers 
 who garrisoned it. To avoid a similar defect 
 in the foundation, it was resolved, on the occa- 
 sion of the marriage of Prince Galitzin, in 1740, 
 to erect a palace of ice on terra firma ; and 
 
100 iCE PALACE. 
 
 a site was chosen between the imperial winter 
 palace and the admimlty, one of the lords of 
 the bedchamber being appointed to superintend 
 the works. The palace was constructed of 
 blocks of ice, from two to three feet thick, cut 
 out of the winter covering of the Neva ; these 
 being properly adjusted, water was poured be- 
 tween them, which acted as cement, consoli- 
 dating the whole into one immense mass of ice. 
 The length of the edifice was fifty-six feet, its 
 breadth seventeen feet and a half, and its 
 height twenty-one. It was constructed ac- 
 cording to the strictest rules oi art ; and was 
 adorned with a portico, columns, and statues. 
 It consisted of a single story, the front of which 
 was provided with a door and fourteen win- 
 dows ; the frames of the latter, as well as the 
 panes, being all formed of ice. The sides of 
 the doors and of the windows were painted in 
 imitation of green marble. On each side of 
 the door was a dolphin, from the mouths of 
 which, by means of naphtha, volumes of flame 
 were emitted in the evening. Next to them 
 were two mortars, equal to eighty pounders, 
 from which many bombs were thrown, a quar- 
 ter of a pound of powder being used for each 
 charge. On each side of the mortars stood 
 
ICE PALACE. 101 
 
 three cannons, equal to three pounders, mount- 
 ed upon carriages, and with wheels, which 
 were often used. In the presence of a number 
 of persons attached to the court, a bullet was 
 driven through a board two inches thick, at the 
 distance of sixty paces, by one of these cannons, 
 a quarter of a pound of powder being also used 
 for a charge. The interior of the edifice had 
 no ceiling, and consisted of a lobby and two 
 large apartments, one on each side, which were 
 well furnished, and painted in the most elegant 
 manner, though formed merely of ice. Tables, 
 chairs, statues, looking-glasses, candlesticks, 
 watches, and other ornaments, besides tea- 
 dishes, tumblers, wine-glasses, and even plates 
 with provisions in one apartment, also formed 
 of ice, and painted in their natural colors ; 
 while in the other were to be seen a state bed, 
 with curtains, bed, pillows, and bed clothes, 
 two pair of slippers, and two nightcaps of the 
 same cold material. Behind the cannon, the 
 mortars, and the dolphins, stretched a low bal- 
 ustrade. On each side of the building was a 
 small entrance. Here were pots with flowers 
 and orange trees, partly formed of ice, and 
 partly natural, on which birds sat. Beyond 
 these were erected two icy pyramids. On the 
 
102 ICE PALACE. 
 
 right of one of them stood an elephant, which 
 was hollow, and so contrived as to throw out 
 burning naphtha ; while a person within it, by 
 means of a tube, imitated the natural cries of 
 the animal. On the left to the other pyramid 
 was seen the never-failing concomitant of all 
 princely dwellings in Russia, a banya, or bath, 
 apparently formed of balks, which is said to 
 have been sometimes heated, and even to have 
 been appropriated to use. 
 
 The appearance of the ice palace, it is said, 
 was remarkably splendid when lighted up in 
 the evening with numerous candles. Amusing 
 transparencies were usually suspended in the 
 windows to increase the effect ; and the emis- 
 sion of flames by the dolphins and the elephant, 
 all tended to excite greater surprise, while the 
 people beheld the crystalline mass. Crowds of 
 visiters were continually seen around this fan- 
 tastic and unique construction, which remained 
 entire from the beginning of January almost to 
 the middle of March. The glassy fabric then 
 began to melt, and was soon afterwards broken 
 into pieces, and the ruins were conveyed to the 
 imperial ice-cellar. 
 
 On the wisdom displayed in the construction 
 of this costly emblem of worldly glory, the 
 yeader may make his own comment. 
 
THE TWO SQUIRRELS, 
 
 OR, DIVISION OF LABOR. 
 
 In front of an old-fashioned house in the coun- 
 try, stood an English walnut tree. The house 
 had been inhabited before the American Revo- 
 lution by an officer of the king, and he had 
 planted this and some other trees of the kind, 
 which are not native in America, in his grounds, 
 to remind him, probably, of his own old home 
 over the other side of the water. 
 
 But the days of the Revolution came on. 
 The American colonists had grown numerous, 
 and they thought they were able to manage 
 their own affairs. The English government 
 did not think so, and they were constantly mak- 
 ing laws which were considered by the colo- 
 nists as very oppressive ; and after a long 
 struggle, and much fighting and suffering, the 
 colonies separated from the parent state, and 
 became an independent nation. 
 
106 THE TWO SQUIRRELS. 
 
 In the beginning of these difficulties, the 
 owner of this house, of which I have been 
 speaking, who was a commissioner of the king, 
 left his pleasant house, the wahiut trees which 
 he had planted, and his nice garden, and went 
 back to England. He thought king George 
 was the right owner of these colonies, and he 
 did not care to stay in the midst of so much 
 fighting and confusion. What became of him 
 was never known to those who remained be- 
 hind ; the present story relates to his walnut 
 trees, and what befell them. 
 
 Many years after the war was over, and 
 when the house had become somewhat old and 
 out of repair, a family went to reside there 
 from the town. The trees had all grown up 
 large, and the house was beautifully shaded, 
 and the walnut trees especially were in a fine 
 thriving state, and yielded their fruit abun- 
 dantly. 
 
 Not only did the boys and girls enjoy these 
 nuts, but the squirrels revelled very joyfully 
 upon them. The English walnut is larger than 
 our native walnut, and the shell is thinner, so 
 that it was perhaps easier for the squirrels to 
 crack and eat these nuts than those of the other 
 variety. For this or some other reason, it was 
 
THE TWO SQUIRRELS. 107 
 
 perceived that the little Dimble fellows inhab- 
 ited the trees in great numbers, and they were 
 almost always to be seen running up and down 
 the trees. 
 
 One morning, as the lady of the house sat 
 sewing at her window, she was very often 
 moved to look up by hearing the sound of 
 something falling. She turned her eyes toward 
 the walnut tree, and saw every moment or two 
 a nut drop from the tree. This fruit does not 
 usually fall until after a frost has cracked the 
 outer green rind, and then the nuts drop out. 
 This was too early for that to have taken place, 
 and she was surprised to see the whole nuts, 
 with their green outer covering, fall, one after 
 another, to the ground. 
 
 Upon looking more attentively, she perceiv- 
 ed a squirrel sitting on a high branch of the 
 tree, and gnawing away with his teeth upon 
 the nuts, which, one after another, fell to the 
 ground, where one of his companions sat wait- 
 ing to receive them, took them in his mouth, 
 carried them away, and then reappeared in 
 time to take another. 
 
 The lady was much amused at the ingenuity 
 of the little animals and the plan they had con- 
 trived to save the trouble of running up and 
 
108 THE TWO SQUIRRELS, 
 
 down for every separate nut. She watched 
 them for some time. They occasionally chang- 
 ed places, the one who had been below would 
 run up, and the other would come down and 
 wait at the bottom of the tree It was during 
 one of these changes of position, that the lady 
 took her pencil and sketched the picture which 
 accompanies this article. 
 
 A month or two later, and just before the 
 winter set in, as some repairs were made to 
 the fence below the walnut tree, a large pile of 
 dry leaves were disturbed, and underneath 
 them, all covered up for a winter store, there 
 appeared more than a bushel of walnuts, which 
 the squirrels had gathered in this way and put 
 there for a winter supply. 
 
 What became of the poor little fellows after 
 their storehouse was so disturbed, was never 
 known ; but as they had shown so much inge- 
 nuity in collecting their provision for the win- 
 ter, the children of the family always hoped 
 that they would be able to provide for them- 
 selves some other way. At any rate, the next 
 summer a large number of squirrels appeared 
 on the trees ; whether these enterprising little 
 fellows were among them, was never found 
 out, as squirrels of the same species look sur- 
 prisingly like each other. 
 
THE LAUGHING PRINCESS, AND THE 
 
 PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED. 
 
 A FAIRY TALE. 
 ALTERED FROM THE FRENCH OF COUNT HAMILTON. 
 
 The King of Astracan, one of the most pow-* 
 erful monarchs of Asia, either in regard to the 
 extent of his dominions, for the mines of gold 
 and silver which they contained, or for the 
 manufactures of painted cotton for which they 
 were renowned, thought himself the most un- 
 fortunate of men, because he had no children 
 to inherit his wealth and dominions. The 
 queen his wife was beautiful, young, and finely 
 formed, and loved her husband tenderly. She 
 had but one fault, and that was being the great- 
 est laugher of her age. Everything made her 
 laugh, and nothing prevented it. 
 
 The king, her husband, had had several wars 
 
110 THE LAUGHING PRINCESS, AND 
 
 with neighboring princes on this subject ; for 
 as soon as they sent to announce any sad 
 news, such as the death of an only son, she 
 would only respond to the ambassadors, with 
 their trailing cloaks, by shouts of laughter, at 
 which they were so offended that they imme- 
 diately retired from the royal presence to send 
 despatches to their masters, filled with com- 
 plaints and indignation, that the rights of na- 
 tions and sovereigns were violated in their 
 persons. 
 
 As this malady only increased, the king re- 
 solved, with the advice and consent of his 
 counsel, that the queen should go on a pilgrim- 
 age to the famous oracle of the Cock, but that 
 she should set out, as is usual on such occa- 
 sions, with a very small suite of followers. And 
 because the temple of this oracle is situated at 
 the gates of Fourchime, the capital of the king- 
 dom of Bactriana, she went to it disguising 
 her name and her dignity, in order to avoid the 
 ceremony and magnificence of a formal recep- 
 tion. 
 
 The king, who followed, also disguised, wish- 
 ed himself to explain the cause of the journey 
 to the priestess of the temple. The queen 
 laughed till she held her sides all the time, and 
 
THE PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED, 111 
 
 this displeased the priestess very much. The 
 Cock, however, pronounced the following ora- 
 cle : — 
 
 The favoring powers 
 On the pilgrims have smiled, 
 
 No longer in vain 
 Shall they long for child. 
 
 But lucky is he, 
 And well chosen the hour, 
 
 Who, to make this child laugh, 
 Shall possess the strange power. 
 
 There was no obscurity about the beginning 
 of this answer, but the concluding part troubled 
 the spectators a little, and gave rise to some 
 embarrassment. Meantime the oracle kept its 
 word, and in due time the king had the plea- 
 sure of having born a son and a daughter, each 
 more beautiful than the other, and both more 
 beautiful than all the other children in the 
 world. But it was too much for the poor 
 queen, who died of laughing on the occasion. 
 
 The king comforted himself with the child- 
 ren she left him, and by the pleasure of being 
 able to breathe in his palace without being 
 stunned by everlasting bursts of laughter. But 
 his destiny did not permit him long to enjoy 
 quiet happiness. At the end of six months, in 
 the middle of the night, the room in which his 
 
112 THE LAUGHING PRINCESS, AND 
 
 children were sleeping took fire. He ran to it 
 at the first alarm, and though every one follow- 
 ed his example, and run through the flames to 
 save the children, the fire was so sudden and 
 terrible that his daughter only was got out. 
 Most of the officers of the household, to show 
 their zeal, stayed till the last moment in the 
 midst of the fire and smoke, and returned half 
 broiled without being able to save the little 
 prince. 
 
 This loss threw the whole kingdom into the 
 most extreme sorrow, and the king absolutely 
 refused to be comforted. But time, which is 
 the great consoler, insensibly wore away his 
 grief, while it increased the charms of the prin- 
 cess his daughter. She was the living image 
 of her mother, except that she was larger, a 
 finer figure, more white, and fairer ; that her 
 eyes were a thousand times brighter ; and she 
 is now, if we may believe those who have seen 
 her, a thousand times more beautiful than all 
 the beauties in the world. But, alas ! those 
 who say so much, have seen all the beauties in 
 the world, or they could not form a comparison. 
 
 The king, more dazzled with her charms 
 than all his people and all his court were, judg- 
 ed her worthy of all the crowns in the world, 
 
THE PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED. 113 
 
 and did not think of such a thing as marrying 
 again and giving his own crown to anybody 
 but this fair daughter. But as if his star did 
 not permit him to enjoy perfect happiness in 
 his family, this wonderful princess, whose looks 
 were armed with fire and darts, whose person 
 and all whose motions were accompanied by 
 the most winning grace, had never opened her 
 mouth, either to laugh or speak ; and it was 
 only when she opened it to gape, which to be 
 sure happened pretty often, that one was able 
 to perceive her vermilion gums and the whitest 
 teeth that were ever seen. 
 
 The good king, who, during the infancy of 
 his daughter, was incessantly expressing his 
 gratitude that she had not the fault of her mo- 
 ther, would have given half his kingdom, when 
 she had grown up, to see her laugh all day 
 and all night long, so tired had he become of a 
 seriousness which appeared to him more intol- 
 erable than anything else. Nothing was spared 
 to make her break a silence which distressed 
 every one, and to draw her from a gravity 
 which seemed to distress herself, for it was 
 easy to see, from her manner, that she w^as 
 amused at everything, although nothing could 
 make her laugh. All the philosophers, all the 
 
114 THE LAUGHING PRINCESS, AND 
 
 chemists, all the song-singers, all the teachers 
 of languages, and the tutors of all the parrots 
 who had ever been taught to speak, wasted 
 their time over her. All the buffoons and 
 jesters were collected, good as well as bad, 
 from every part of the kingdom. They even 
 brought the most excellent troop of comedians 
 from China, who are the best in the world for 
 farce, — but, all they could do, nothing could 
 produce upon her face the faintest smile. 
 
 The king, in the extremity of his anxiety, 
 thought he could do nothing better than to send 
 to the oracle of the Cock, which had formerly 
 been so favorable to him, and employ in this 
 mission the highest officers of the crown, who 
 should be furnished with the richest presents 
 for the priestess. 
 
 They were well received by her, and their 
 presents were exceedingly acceptable ; but she 
 lold them that it was some time since the Cock 
 went away to pay a visit to the Great Cara- 
 mousel ; and that it was only in the neighbor- 
 hood of Mount Atlas that they could get the 
 advice which they had come to seek at Four- 
 chime. 
 
 Though the king their master was afflicted 
 at this delay, he did not lose courage ; and. 
 
THE PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED. 115 
 
 only taking time to make new preparations, he 
 despatclied the same ambassadors, with three 
 hundred elephants laden with the most magni- 
 ficent painted cotton, and the finest monkeys 
 which were to be found in his kingdom ; and, 
 to render the affair more touching in the eyes 
 of the enchanter Caramousel, he added to the 
 procession his own band of music — though 
 this music, if we may believe those who have 
 had opportunity to hear it, is more fit to drive 
 one crazy than to amuse him, at least until he 
 becomes accustomed to it. 
 
 The satraps of Astracan set out on their 
 journey, with their painted cloth and their 
 monkeys, and after having passed along by the 
 side of Chersonese Tauride, and crossed both 
 the Armenias, they went finally to a forest, 
 where they came near losing a part of the pre- 
 sents of which they had the care. Each of the 
 three hundred elephants carried an immense 
 bale of the richest painted cotton which ever 
 was in the world, and at the top of each of 
 these bales was seated a monkey. I do not 
 know what the king their master expected the 
 wise Caramousel would do with three hundred 
 monkeys ; but, whatever it was, he had charg- 
 
116 THE LAUGHING PRINCESS, AND 
 
 ed the messengers, on no account to suffer one 
 of them to escape. 
 
 The forest through which they were obliged 
 to pass, was so infested with wild beasts that 
 they were obliged to make use of their music 
 to force a passage through it. But soon as the 
 sound of this was heard, the wild beasts were 
 seen making their escape in every direction, 
 and disappeared in a moment, quicker than if 
 all the hunters and hounds in the world had 
 been at their heels. Meantime, this success 
 had nearly been fatal to them, for they were 
 no sooner in the midst of this forest, which was 
 composed of apple, nut, and almond trees, than 
 all the monkeys, with the exception of one 
 alone, who from their high situation on the top 
 of their elephants, had only to make a single 
 leap in order to reach the tops of the trees, 
 took advantage of their situation to disperse 
 themselves. 
 
 The monkey who remained was the most 
 beautiful, the most noble in his manners, and 
 the most finely formed of all the monkeys ; 
 but he was so sad that the satraps wept more 
 than once, during the journey, at the grief with 
 which he seemed to be overpowered, for, far 
 

 See page 128. 
 
THE PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED. 117 
 
 from gambolling about and performing all those 
 buffooneries which were practised by his com- 
 panions, he passed the most of his time in read- 
 ing, and when he was interrupted by any acci- 
 dent, he was seen, sometimes his head support- 
 ed on one of his hands, buried in a profound 
 reverie, and sometimes with his arms crossed, 
 raising his eyes to heaven, heaving deep sighs, 
 and shedding tears in such great abundance, 
 that it was impossible for any one who saw 
 him not to keep him company. 
 
 He was sitting reading on his elephant while 
 the others were running about in the wood and 
 making noise and racket enough to drive one 
 crazy. The caravan of ambassadors was 
 obliged to stop three days in this forest, before 
 they could collect the monkeys, for they would 
 not leave the trees to join the company, until 
 they were surfeited with all the different kinds 
 of fruit ; and they did not all return at last, for 
 three of them died in consequence of the al- 
 monds, and three more of the green apples 
 they had eaten ; and all that the king's ambas- 
 sadors could do, was to take off their skins and 
 stuff them with straw, that the number might 
 not fall short when they had the honor to pre- 
 sent them to the celebrated Caramousel. 
 
118 THE LAUGHING PRINCESS, AND 
 
 As soon as they reached the foot of the 
 mountain, they sent to give the enchanter no- 
 tice of their arrival by a courier, and ordered 
 him to inquire if it was his pleasure that they 
 should set out, with all their equipage, to visit 
 his dwelling, or if he preferred that they should 
 encamp their caravan in the neighborhood and 
 await till he should direct the manner in which 
 he wished the presents to be brought to him. 
 
 The courier returned at the end of three 
 days, and reported that Caramousel was no 
 longer at the place that he usually inhabited ; 
 that he had retired to the summit of Mount At- 
 las, and that nothing but the monkeys could 
 climb up there. That he thought it proper to 
 give them this notice, and they might then do 
 as they pleased. 
 
 They decided, on hearing this intelligence, 
 to leave their presents and their suite under a 
 safeguard at the foot of the mountain, and to 
 reach, as well as they were able, the spot to 
 which he had retired. 
 
 They went for fifteen days, always going 
 up, up by the most tiresome road there ever 
 was, without finding any^ing but rocks and 
 precipices. They grew almost out of patience 
 with the king, the princess, and everything 
 
THE PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED. 119 
 
 which had sent them there. At last, the things 
 they saw, and even the road began to grow 
 less terrible, though they still kept mounting 
 up, up, up. They found some little valleys 
 watered by pleasant streams, the borders of 
 which were adorned with wild flowers ; they 
 saw birds of an entirely new kind, and, as 
 they ascended, little tents, placed here and 
 there. They had only to mount six hundred 
 stadia higher, when they saw only the heaven 
 above them, and came into the presence of the 
 famous Caramousel. 
 
 He came out of a tent larger than any they 
 had seen as they came up, which was shaded 
 on one side by a great number of orange trees, 
 and surrounded on the other by several ma- 
 chines supporting astrolabes, telescopes, and all 
 the instruments which are used in observing 
 the course of the stars. 
 
 On leaving the tent, he was accompanied 
 by a man who wore his arm in a scarf ; he ad- 
 vanced towards them, and inquired civilly 
 what the satraps of the great king of Astracan 
 would have of Caramousel. At these words 
 they prostrated themselves before him, as they 
 would have done before some divinity ; for his 
 presence inspired them with more respect than 
 
120 THE LAUGHING PRINCESS, AND 
 
 even his fame and the veneration which was 
 everywhere spread of him could have produc- 
 ed. They had expected to see the hideous 
 figure of an enchanter, or at least some old 
 man with a long beard, and all bent down by 
 decrepitude, — but they were astonished to see 
 a man of large stature, who, though advanced 
 in age, had an august air, a majestic manner, 
 and w^as dressed very richly. 
 
 He immediately raised them. They dis- 
 played their commissions, the circumstances of 
 the misfortune about which they had come to 
 consult him, and enumerated <;ver to him the 
 presents they had brought him.. 
 
 After having quietly listened to them, he led 
 them, before makirig any reply, towards a part 
 of the mountain from which they could see the 
 ocean, and from which the whole earth might 
 have been seen if the sight of man could have 
 embraced it. They were frightened at the 
 prodigious elevation at which they saw them- 
 selves ; the islands in the ocean appeared to 
 them like little black specks, and the largest 
 ships like floating atoms. 
 
 He then spoke to them and said, " I am no- 
 thing less than what most of those who know 
 me only by reputation believe me. It is true, 
 
THE PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED. 121 
 
 that a knowledge acquired by long meditation 
 and constant specuktion, and perhaps the 
 neighborhood to the celestial bodies, have given 
 me great understanding of all that there is most 
 infallible in astrology. I might say, perhaps, 
 that most of the oracles have less certainty in 
 their answers than there is in my conjectures 
 and predictions. As for the oracle of the Cock, 
 from which they have sent you to me, or rather 
 whom they have advised you to seek in this 
 place, I fancy you will never hear much more 
 about him, he is occupied elsewhere. 
 
 " As to the king your master, this is the ad- 
 vice I give him, that he may be able to bestow 
 upon the most beautiful princess in the world 
 all that is wanting to make her the most happy 
 and accomplished. Let him cause it to be 
 proclaimed through all the regions of the earth, 
 that whoever will make the princess laugh, 
 shall have his choice, as a reward, either this 
 adorable princess Mouseline, with all her fa- 
 ther's dominions, — or all the force and all the 
 power of the same king, to assist him in any 
 conquest he may meditate. Let the princess 
 be accessible to all who wish to see her, of 
 whatever form and condition they may be ; 
 
122 THE LAUGHING PRINCESS, AND 
 
 and, finally, do not let her fail to take a jour- 
 ney which shall occupy at least two months 
 every year, that her divine charms may be 
 exhibited in the different provinces which bor- 
 der on those of her father. 
 
 " Go, illustrious satraps, restore to the prince 
 who sends you, the magnificent presents he has 
 designed for me. Caramousel wishes no re- 
 ward, for any services he may render, but the 
 pleasure of having rendered them." 
 
 Having thus dismissed the gentlemen of the 
 embassy, they went to rejoin their caravan, in 
 less time and with less trouble than they had 
 had in ascending the mountain. 
 
 As they had been long absent, they made a 
 review of their elephants, their bales of painted 
 cloth, and their monkeys ; they found all right, 
 with the exception of the studious monkey, who 
 had disappeared eight days before, without 
 those who were left in charge of the caravan 
 being able to tell how or where, and they had 
 as yet been able to get no information respect- 
 ing him, though they had searched most dili- 
 gently through the whole neighborhood. 
 
 The satraps were greatly afflicted at this loss, 
 the more especially as they could not find his 
 body, to stuff it with straw, as they had done 
 
THE PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED. 123 
 
 the six others. They set out, however, on 
 their return to the king tlieir master. 
 
 On the sixth day of their journey, after a 
 long circuit, which they had made in order to 
 avoid the forest which had been so fatal to their 
 monkeys, they met with an adventure, which 
 troubled them at first, though they received 
 much joy from it at the end. They saw at a 
 distance a number of camels, escorted by a 
 troop of armed men. As the chiefs of this 
 troop appeared to be people of rank, and as the 
 camels which were so carefully guarded seem- 
 ed loaded with something rare or precious, the 
 ambassadors ordered their music to play as 
 soon as they were within hearing distance. 
 
 At the sound of this horrible concert, there 
 was not a man or beast among those whom they 
 had intended to honor who could resist it. The 
 camels, more than any of the I'est of the ani- 
 mals, were so excited, that they drove about, 
 kicked and carried disorder everywhere. In 
 their terror, they threw their burdens upon the 
 ground, and these burdens, in falling, opened 
 certain cages, from which issued tigers and 
 lions, who, not being pleased with the serenade, 
 fell upon the musicians, and some of them had 
 to run hard for their lives. 
 
124 THE LAUGHING PRINCESS, AND 
 
 Meantime the elephants made a good resist- 
 ance, and the monkeys a very bad one ; for 
 while the former kept the bloody animals at a 
 distance with their trunks, the monkeys filled 
 the air with horrible cries, and tore up all the 
 magnificent painted cloth on which they were 
 perched. At that moment the glory of all the 
 monkeys in the universe appeared, to the great 
 astonishment of the satraps, issuing from behind 
 a mass of rock. 
 
 He was armed with a bow and a quiver 
 filled with arrows. He selected one for each 
 tiger, and one for each of the lions, and with a 
 never-failing skill he pierced the hearts of them 
 all, one after another. When he saw them on 
 the ground, he went very coolly to draw his 
 arrows from their bodies, and having made a 
 profound bow to the satraps, he proceeded to 
 take his seat on the back of the largest of the 
 elephants. 
 
 When the ambassadors returned to the King 
 of Astracan, the whole court was assembled to 
 hear the result of their pilgrimage. The king 
 sat on a very magnificent throne, and the prin- 
 cess, his daughter, was placed beside him, the 
 beautiful face, as usual, as serious and grave as 
 if made of marble, and it was enough to check 
 
THE PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED. 125 
 
 the laughter of the gayest person in the world, 
 to look at her only for a moment. 
 
 The amhassadors made their appearance, 
 bringing with them the presents which had been 
 sent back by the wise Caramousel. In the 
 midst of all was placed the glorious monkey 
 with his bow and quiver, who had rendered the 
 party such essential service. The satraps began 
 to tell their story. When they related the diffi- 
 culties they had had with the monkeys in the 
 forest, those who were watching the princess 
 most narrowly, thought they perceived a little 
 motion about the muscles of her mouth ; when 
 they advanced to the part of their story which 
 related the adventure of the serenade, she al- 
 most smiled ; but when ihey described how the 
 camels kicked about, and their burdens tumbled 
 off, and how the cages fell open, and how the 
 glorious monkey appeared with his bow and 
 quiver, the charm was broken, and the fair 
 Mouseline laughed aloud. 
 
 " She has laughed," shouted the King, and 
 embraced her with unrestrained delight. " She 
 has laughed," cried the first maid of honor, and 
 the words were echoed down to the lowest 
 apartment, and the most hidden corner of the 
 palace. 
 
126 THE LAUGHING PRIINJCESS, AND 
 
 When the Court at last turned their eyes from 
 the fair MouseUne, who continued to laugh with 
 the most winning grace, towards the monkey 
 with his bow and quiver, he was no longer to 
 be seen, but in his place stood a young man 
 of noble form and countenance, majestic and 
 graceful as the Grecian Apollo. 
 
 He advanced slowly and respectfully towards 
 the throne, and having saluted the king and 
 the princess in the most graceful manner, he 
 related that he was the son of the monarch 
 who had been stolen from the palace at the 
 time of the fire, by the cruel fairy, Feubras. 
 That she had placed his sister and himself 
 under a charm — the princess was never to 
 smile, and he was to bear the form of a mon- 
 key, until he was able himself to break the 
 spell. 
 
 He had succeeded in making his escape 
 from the fairy, and was the studious monkey 
 who had made part of the caravan of the em- 
 bassy ; this figure of a monkey had never 
 prevented him from the enjoyment he took in 
 reading. He was one of the party who as- 
 cended the mountain. The wise CaramouseL 
 discovered who he was, notwithstanding the 
 disguise under which he appeared. He gave 
 
THE PRINCESS WHO NEVER LAUGHED. 127 
 
 him the charmed bow and arrows, by which he 
 was able to protect the caravan from the wild 
 beasts, and told him that if he could succeed 
 in conquering them, who were in fact only the 
 fairy and her followers in disguise, the charm 
 would be broken, he would be restored to his 
 natural form, and the princess, his sister, would 
 be relieved from her distressing situation. 
 
 The king was overjoyed at this intelligence. 
 He embraced his son again and again. The 
 palace ringing with the merry laughter of the 
 princess. The prince had acquired so much 
 wisdom by his long studies, that he was able 
 to be of great assistance to his father in the 
 government of the kingdom, and the princess 
 had been so long deprived of the power of 
 smiling, that now she had obtained it, she was 
 never known to look cross or serious, unless 
 upon the most suitable occasions. 
 
IZAAK WALTON. 
 
 Many years ago, there lived in England an old 
 gentleman, who was very fond of fishing, and 
 whose name was Izaak Walton. He loved the 
 sport so much that he not only passed much of 
 his time in the amusement, but he wrote a book 
 about catching trout. Jn this sport, a bait in 
 imitation of a fly is used. The picture shows 
 the old gentleman sitting on the bank of the 
 river preparing his fly. 
 
 After all, fishing is not a very good amuse- 
 ment, and it is hoped that the young readers of 
 the Annualette, by a careful perusal of its 
 pages from year to year, with the study of 
 other good books, will acquire a taste for some 
 better amusement, and be able to earn their 
 dinners in some more certain way than in sit- 
 ting to bob a hook and line in the water till 
 some fish is silly enough to take it into his 
 mouth, and compel the boy to dirty his hands 
 by taking it out again. 
 
SOCIAL GAMES. — No. II. 
 
 THE GLOVE. 
 
 The person who begins this game takes a glove 
 and throws it to the person who stands opposite 
 to her, saying, " I throw you a glove." The 
 latter asks, " Why do you throw this glove ? " 
 The answer to this question must always rhyme 
 with glove ; if this cannot be managed, the 
 player must pay a forfeit. The answer may 
 be, " Because it is you I love," — or " grove," 
 " rove," " stove," &c. This game produces 
 many forfeits, because the player who is to 
 furnish a rhyme must not hesitate, or give a 
 word which does not complete the rhyme. 
 The glove must be sent to the person directly 
 opposite ; he or she must throw it to the person 
 next on the right to the one who began the 
 game. This third player throws it to the next 
 neighbor on the right of the one who threw it 
 to him, and so on. These successive changes 
 of course cause many mistakes, which produce 
 forfeits. Moreover, the person who throws the 
 glove must not allow it to fall to the ground ; 
 she must catch it in her hand, or at least re- 
 ceive it in her lap, otherwise she pays a forfeit. 
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BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. 
 
 (For a Sketch see title-page.) 
 
 Letter from a Lad in Boston to his Cousin in the Country, 
 dated June 17, 1843. 
 
 My deae. cousin Jim: 
 
 When for Boston I started, 
 And left you behind, at my loss broken-hearted, 
 I promised, (to cheer you, I knew nothing better,) 
 About the great doings, to write you a letter. 
 So as good as my word, I now sit me down, 
 My first leisure moment in this noisy town. 
 
 You saw us all ready, and very well know, 
 How we rode in the buggy to reach the depot. 
 In our very great fear that the train might have passed, 
 Uncle whipped vip the horse and we rode pretty fast. 
 But this was quite needless, the train was belated, 
 And at the depot a good half hour we waited. 
 At last came the engine, the whistle and puffing. 
 The train made a stop, and then oh, what a stuffing ; 
 The cars were so full I could no corner see. 
 Where I thought they could put my good uncle and me, 
 But a pleasant young lad, near a window snug seated, 
 Kindly gave us his seat, to the next car retreated, 
 
BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. 133 
 
 And uncle sat down and took me in his lap, 
 And Boston we reached without any mishap ; 
 When I jumped from the carl was somewhat affright- 
 ed, 
 Such a crowd in the depot, although 'twas well lighted, 
 Such running and pushing, the horses and coaches, 
 The cabs and the men filling all the approaches ; 
 For the seventeenth of June all the world had come out, 
 From towns at a distance and towns near about. 
 We managed to get out our luggage quite well, 
 And soon were safe lodged in a famous hotel. 
 We ate a good supper and on a soft bed 
 I with real delight lay my poor weary head. 
 
 After breakfast next morning my uncle and I 
 Walked out with the hope something pleasant to spy ; 
 Wherever we went there were sights to be seen. 
 But prettiest of all was the Common, so green. 
 Where all nicely dressed and in order displayed, 
 The public school pupils a pleasant show made ; 
 A prettier pageant you rarely will meet 
 Than these children assembled the strangers to greet. 
 But alas, what I add will, I know, give you pain. 
 To destroy all this show came a drizzling rain. 
 And while Mr. Tyler was entering the town 
 The real big rain drops came pattering down. 
 But people stood gazing, umbrellas and all, 
 (In Boston they do not mind trifles at all.) 
 But uncle and I did not relish such fun, 
 And back to our lodgings in speed we soon run. 
 The next morning was pleasant, and I was dressed 
 
 soon, 
 To be ready to welcome the 17th of June. 
 
134 BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. 
 
 And now such fine music, such fifing and drumming, 
 Such bands of brave soldiers, now going, now coming 
 My eyes were so constantly turned to the street, 
 I hardly had leisure my breakfast to eat. 
 But this being over, my uncle and I 
 Made a call in the street when the pageant went by ; 
 Of men, women and children the streets were so rife, 
 That such crowding I never beheld in my life ; 
 And then the procession at last came in vie-w, 
 The marshals all mounted with ribbands of blue ; 
 The barouches with horses and show all befitting, 
 With President, Governors and Judges all sitting ; 
 The soldiers with uniforms varied and fine. 
 Societies, escort, — oh what a long line ! 
 We looked and we looked till oiir eyes were quite tired, 
 They had not passed by when an hour had expired ; 
 Then on through the streets the procession proceeded 
 Folks shouted and clapped where they thought it was . 
 
 needed. 
 Now and then from the houses which lined the broad 
 
 way 
 The ladies would throw a large fragrant bouquet ; 
 Through streets, over bridge, they proceeded until 
 They reached in due order far-famed Bunker Hill. 
 
 When the show had all passed, uncle William and I 
 Took leave of our friends, and to all said good bye. 
 And to Charlestown we over the bridge took our way; 
 A walk we preferred, as so fine was the day. 
 We at last reached the hill, and, dear Jim, I declare, 
 As I saw the grand pile rising up in the air, 
 And as at the magnificent structure I gazed 
 In the whole of my life 1 was ne'er so amazed. 
 
BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. 135 
 
 Below, on the hill, where of course not much shade is, 
 Were seats for the men and seats too for the ladies. 
 While the Monument viewing we heard distant 
 drumming, 
 And then came the shout, " the procession is com- 
 ing!" 
 Very soon we discovered the rumor was true, 
 For the brilliant procession appeared to our view. 
 Through the streets it passed slowly, and gracefully 
 
 wound 
 Till it reached in due order the famed battle-ground. 
 Now the voice of the priest was heard on the air, 
 And hushed was all noise w^hile each heart bowed in 
 
 prayer. 
 Next the grea't Mr. Webster stepped forward and 
 
 bowed, 
 And such shouting and cheering arose from the crowd 
 That I, who am used to the country and quiet 
 Thought my poor weary head would have burst with 
 
 the riot. 
 When the shouting was over, the speaker began, — 
 Mr. Webster, dear Coz., is a wonderful man, — 
 But I cannot attempt his oration to tell, 
 I '11 bring home the paper, you will read it as well. 
 When the speaking was over we came back to town, 
 And to dinner I was not averse to sit down. 
 For to those who dine early at one, not much more, 
 It is not a joke to be fasting till four. 
 
 When dinner was over the soldiers came back, 
 Of music and cheering there was little lack. 
 The troops all paraded, the President bowed. 
 And graciously smiled on the wondering crowd. 
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136 BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. 
 
 Next off in barouches they rode one and all, 
 
 To eat a good dinner in old Faneuil Hall. 
 
 And I to my letter sat down with good will, 
 
 And found little trouble my paper to fill — 
 
 A sketch of the Monument also I drew, 
 
 At the foot of it uncle and I, all for you. 
 
 And while musing and -wondering and thinking sat I, 
 
 As to how I should send it, (for postage is high,) 
 
 A friend of my uncle, whose na,me I forget, 
 
 Offered room for the whole in the Annualette ; 
 
 Such an offer you '11 think I v/ould not decline ; 
 
 To see it in print will, you know, be quite fine. 
 
 The plan may, perhaps, cause some little delay, 
 
 Yet you surely will get it at some future day. 
 
 And now, my dear Jim, I have finished my letter, 
 I wish for your sake it contained something better j 
 If the show you had seen with your own merry eye, 
 You 'd have told all about it much better than I. 
 And much more I can tell you, when safe I get home, 
 But must sign myself now your own cousin 
 
 Tom. 
 
THE GOOD AUNT. 
 
 Mary and Agnes, had been so unfortunate as 
 to lose their mother ; but her place had been 
 supplied to them as much as a mother's place 
 can ever be supplied by her sister, a maiden 
 lady who lived in the country and who took the 
 little girls home, and did everything in her 
 power to make them happy. 
 
 When they rose in the morning, she had 
 taught them to make up their bed very neatly, 
 to dust their chamber carefully, to put their 
 books and playthings all in order. They then 
 came to aunt Hester, and she read and ex- 
 plained to them a passage in the Holy Bible. 
 The little sketch at the beginning of this article 
 may give some idea of the appearance of the 
 little girls and their aunt. 
 
 After this first lesson of the morning, they 
 accompanied their aunt to the breakfast-room. 
 
13S THE GOOD AUNT. 
 
 They were very healthful children, and their 
 aunt did not restrict them in their diet, but she 
 was careful to teach them to behave with great 
 propriety at the table. To sit in an upright 
 position, not twisting and turning about and 
 playing with their hair, as many ill-bred child- 
 ren do. 
 
 They always waited till they saw others who 
 were seated at the table helped. They never 
 asked in a loud tone for some particular thing 
 which they particularly loved. But said in a 
 mild tone, and when they perceived that no one 
 else was speaking, " I will thank you to give 
 me such a thing, or please to give me a little 
 of that." 
 
 When the breakfast was over they assisted 
 aunt Hester to wash the breakfast cups ; al- 
 • though they were young, they had grown very 
 handy, and could put everything very neatly 
 away in its place. They would then run out 
 in aunt Hester's garden and gather some fresh 
 flowers, arranging them neatly in the glasses 
 or vases. 
 
 If aunt Hester had any little work to do 
 about the house, she would take the little girls 
 about with her, and allow them to assist her, 
 and instruct them in the way of managing the 
 household affairs. 
 
THE GOOD AUNT. 139 
 
 By the time they had got through with this, 
 the school hour had usually come ; Mary and 
 Agnes would then take off their large aprons, 
 which they had worn all the morning, and 
 carefully hang them up in their place. Some 
 little girls have a habit of tossing down their 
 aprons just where they happen to be at school- 
 time ; but Mary and Agnes had been taught 
 better, and were very particular not to forget. 
 
 They were careful to have their hands and 
 faces very clean, and their hair nicely brushed 
 before they went to school, and to put on 
 their school bonnets and shawls very neatly. 
 Some little girls seize their things in haste and 
 run out into the street with them half on, or in 
 their hand. This is a very careless habit, and 
 should be always avoided. Children should 
 begin to prepare for school in sufficient season, 
 to have quite time enough to dress properly, 
 and walk along moderately to school. If they 
 get into school hurried and heated, it will take 
 them half an hour to recover their breath so as 
 to be able to go to work. When they got to 
 school, Sarah and Agnes hung their bonnets 
 and whatever else they might wear in the place 
 provided for them, and were careful not to 
 throw their own clothes or those of any of the 
 
140 THE GOOD AUNT. 
 
 Other scholars on the floor. Many garments 
 are spoiled, and girls frequently look very 
 slovenly in their school dress, from the thought- 
 less way in which the outer garments are some- 
 times tossed about in school. 
 
 When they took their seats in school, they 
 began to study in good earnest. They did not 
 sit twisting and lounging over their books, think- 
 ing of everything but what is on the page be- 
 fore them, but they studied away most diligently, 
 taking the lesson, if it were one to be learned 
 by heart, one sentence at a time, and reading it 
 over and over, slowly and attenlively, till they 
 knew their lessons thoroughly. 
 
 When school was over, they dressed them- 
 selves in the same orderly way as before, and 
 returned home. They arranged their dress for 
 dinner, and were ready to go into the dining- 
 room when the bell rung. Though aunt Hester 
 was somewhat advanced in life, and had lost 
 most of her early friends, yet she was fond of 
 the society of the young and gifted, and gener- 
 ally had a few friends about her, so that the 
 little girls had an opportunity to observe good 
 manners in others. 
 
 They did not press hastily to the table, but 
 waited, if there were others than the usual 
 
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 THE GOOD AUNT. 141 
 
 family party, until the company were seated ; 
 they then took their places, exactly where it 
 was most convenient, and tried to assist in help- 
 ing at the table, and listened to the conver- 
 sation, without interrupting it by silly prattle of 
 their own. 
 
 After dinner they walked or exercised with 
 some active games for awhile, then they 
 worked, or read, or prepared their lessons for 
 the next day. In the evening they read or list- 
 ened to the conversation or music, and were so 
 amiable and pleasant, that the older part of the 
 company were never in a hurry to have them 
 leave the room. 
 
 They had a nice little garden of their own, 
 and their aunt's gardener gave them, in the 
 spring, roots and flowers to put in it, and 
 helped them to fix it nicely. Afterwards 
 they took care of it themselves, and kept it 
 free from weeds, so that they had almost al- 
 ways a bunch of fresh flowers from their own 
 garden. 
 
 This account of the good manners of these 
 two pleasant little girls, may serve as a hint 
 to others how they should behave to form quiet 
 and pleasant habits. They are a great com- 
 fort to their good aunt, and if their lives are 
 
142 
 
 THE GOOD AUNT. 
 
 spared, they give the promise of becoming, 
 when they grow up, very useful and agreeable 
 women. Some very good children are careless 
 and inattentive in their manners. It is really 
 important to form in early youth habits of 
 politeness and kindness. 
 
ANSWERS TO THE CHARADES IN THE 
 ANNUALETTE FOR 1843. 
 
 No. 1. — Handel. 
 
 2. — Magpie. 
 
 3. — Ribband. 
 
 4. — Button. 
 
 5. — Salt Cellar. 
 
 6. — Patchwork. 
 
 7. — Pitcher. 
 
 8. — Bargain. 
 
 9. — Peacock. 
 
 10. — Friendship. 
 
 11. — Log Book. 
 
 12. — Partridge. 
 
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