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THE NURSERY

_A Monthly Magazine_

FOR YOUNGEST READERS.

VOLUME XIII.--No. 3

        BOSTON:
        JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET.
        1873.




        Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,

        BY JOHN L. SHOREY,

        In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.





        BOSTON:
        RAND, AVERY, & CO., STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.


[Illustration: Contents]


IN PROSE.

                                                    PAGE.
   The Pigeons and their Friend                       65

   The Obedient Chickens                              69

   John Ray's Performing Dogs                         71

   Ellen's Cure for Sadness                           75

   Kitty and the Bee                                  78

   Little Mischief                                    82

   How the Wind fills the Sails                       85

   Ida's Mouse                                        88

   Almost Lost                                        91

   Little May                                         93

   An Important Disclosure                            95


IN VERSE.

   Rowdy-Dowdy                                        67

   The Sliders                                        74

   Mr. Prim                                           77

   Minding Baby                                       80

   Deeds, not Words                                   84

   Molly to her Dolly                                 87

   Timothy Tippens (_with music_)                     96

[Illustration: Decoration]

[Illustration: THE PIGEONS AND THEIR FRIEND.]




THE PIGEONS AND THEIR FRIEND.

A TRUE STORY.


[Illustration: W]HEN I was in Boston about a year ago, I stopped one day
at the corner of Washington Street and Franklin Street to witness a
pretty sight.

Here, just as you turn into Franklin Street, on the right, a poor
peddler used to stand with a few baskets of oranges or apples or
pe