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THE

NURSERY

_A Monthly Magazine_

FOR YOUNGEST READERS.

VOLUME XXIX.--No. 3.

    BOSTON:
    THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY,
    NO. 36 BROMFIELD STREET.
    1881.




    Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1881, by
    THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY,
    In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.



[Illustration: JOHN WILSON

& SON.

UNIVERSITY PRESS.]



[Illustration: Contents.]

IN PROSE.


                                                 PAGE
    Telling a Story                                65
    Turtles                                        71
    Feeding the Swans in Winter                    72
    Two Friends                                    74
    The Swallows' Nest                             76
    Drawing-Lesson                                 81
    The Faithful Sentinel                          86
    Bruce and Old Sheepy                           88
    Elfrida's Present                              92
    "Parley-voo"                                   93


IN VERSE.

                                                 PAGE
    To the Snowdrop                                69
    Rather Bashful                                 72
    Bird, Lamb, Baby                               75
    The Gentleman in Gray                          78
    The Little Scholars                            80
    The Three Dolls                                82
    "Right of Way"                                 91
    Winter (_with music_)                          96



    [Illustration: VOL. XXIX.--NO. 3.]




    TELLING A STORY.


    DREAR and cold is the winter outside; but within
    there is a bright fire on the hearth. Jane and
    Susie, and Charles and John, and their elder