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JULY

Vol. V. No. 9.

1885.

OUR LITTLE ONES

AND

THE

NURSERY

THE RUSSELL PUBLISHING CO.

36 BROMFIELD ST BOSTON

THOS. NELSON AND SONS, LONDON.

Copyright, 1885, by RUSSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY.] [Entered at the P. O.
at Boston as second-class matter.




CONTENTS.


                                                                      PAGE

  A PICTURE                                   JACK BARLOW              259
       (Illustrated by R. W. Vonnoh.)

  NAUGHTY NASNA                               LAURA E. RICHARDS        260
       (Illustrated by Culmer Barnes.)

  "CHOW-CHOW"                                 BESSIE PEDDER            263
       (Illustrated by Arthur Douglas.)

  POLLY'S BABY                                M. D. BRINE              266
       (Illustrated by Jessie C. Shepherd.)

  HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK!                     PENN SHIRLEY             268
       (Illustrated by Jessie C. Shepherd.)

  A MEADOW SONG                               ELIZABETH A. DAVIS       270
       (Illustrated by E. P. Hayden.)

  OUR MOCKING BIRD                            VAN BUREN                273
       (Illustrated by A. S. Cox.)

  TROTTIE'S DOINGS                            JENNIE JUDSON            274
       (Illustrated by F. T. Merrill.)

  "SEVENTEEN, EIGHTEEN, MAIDS IN WAITING"     MARGARET JOHNSON         276
       (Illustrated by Jessie McDermott.)

  THE PIGS' CHOWDER PARTY                     FRANCES P. CHAPLIN       278
       (Illustrated by A. Buhler.)

  PUSSY'S ADOPTED CHILDREN                    S. D. L. H.              280
       (Illustrated by Ellen Oakford.)

  SEVEN TIMES ONE                             DAY NOBLE                282
       (Illustrated by Miss C. A. Northam.)

  WHAT KATY DID                               AUNT FANNY               284
       (Illustrated by Miss M. Humphrey.)

  PULL THE WEEDS                              M. E. MCKEE              286
       (Illustrated by Miss E. S. Tucker.)

  THISTLEDOWN                                 JENNIE JOY               288
       (Music by T. Crampton.)


  The Illustrative Department under the direction of Mr. GEORGE T. ANDREW.




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[Illustration: Button's

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