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“ There was a most unusual sound of wheels and voices, and in the same moment the little dressmaker, golden bower of hair and all, was caught up in the arms of Lizzie—Lizzie, in a wonderful silk dress, with shining pearls around her neck, and lace to drive a little dolls' dressmaker wild. Behind Lizzie stood a handsome gentleman, thin and pale yet, but with the happiest look Jenny had ever seen in a man's face in all her little watchful life. ”

“ And suddenly Rita found herself wide awake, and all the rest of her dream was lost to her.
Ni-ha-be too was awake.
"What is the matter, Rita?"
"Oh, a dream!"
"Ugh! I never dream. That's the talking leaves. Dreams are big lies like them. What was it?"
"The fight in the picture."
"Miners? Pale-faces? Look, Rita, the braves are mounting. It is hardly sunrise, but they are going. Did your dream say there was any danger coming to us?"
"No, it did not say."
"I don't care. The Apaches are warriors, and Many Bears is a great chief. He will not let an enemy come near his camp." ”

“ When they had been riding into the city for a little while, the horses stopped in front of a beautiful house, and Lizzie's "him" carried Jenny up the wide stairs, by tall stands of lovely flowers, to a little room. And oh, what a little room it was! The paper on the walls was a tea-rose color; there was a pretty moss-rose carpet, and a little inlaid working bench with little scissors, and a dainty basket with silks and ribbons and velvets pouring out of it, all fit for a dressmaker to the fairies ”

“ She is very smart, and can do a great many tricks. She can lie down as if she were dead; can stand on her hind-legs; says her prayers, gives her paw to shake hands, sits upon the piano-stool with her paws on the keys, and her head thrown back, as if she were singing a song. ”

“ If you can not untangle every enigma and arrange every word square, never mind, but send us the answers of those which you can puzzle out, and do not be discouraged by a little trouble at the outset. The fun of making out a puzzle is in conquering it. ”

“ To enjoy a toboggan ride it is necessary to be well skilled in the art of guiding the sleigh, or to have great confidence in the person who is to do the steering. By the time the toboggan has reached the level, it has acquired velocity sufficient to carry it a very long distance.
In Canada, where some people who are not fond of cold weather assert that the winters are "thirteen months long," tobogganing is a most popular sport. ”

“ And what is more, there is not, as I believe, another man even in all China who can match old Man Lok in serving it. This is the famous bird's-nest soup, about as much a peculiarity and a glory of China as the Great Wall, and I was determined that you should make your acquaintance with it under the auspices of Man Lok, the great high-priest, the Soyer, of bird's nest."
"But what is it, Jack? What are you talking about? How can you eat grass, and sticks, and feathers, and leaves, to say nothing of mud? for those make up birds' nests in general. ”

“ A lady writes to us that she has found great satisfaction in reading Harper's Young People to a number of boys, whom she invites to meet at her house every Wednesday evening. She says she finds the stories and articles excellent and charming. Besides reading aloud to the boys, she lends them books, and, we presume, assists them in other womanly and Christian ways to grow up to a useful and intelligent manhood. ”

“ Lay it in a deep hot plate; a soup plate will do. Boil a tea-cupful of milk, which you must thicken with a tea-spoonful of corn starch mixed with a pinch of salt in a little cold water. Pour this over your toast.
In serving sick people with food please be sure not to offer them too much at a time. Do not bother them by saying, "Would you like this?" and "Will you have that?" They do not know what they wish, and they think they want nothing. They have to be coaxed to eat, not in words, but by offering them dainty things daintily and prettily prepared. ”

“ We can easily construct other electrical apparatus. Take a lacquered tea-tray about a foot long, and cut out a sheet of thick wrapping paper so that it will lie over all the level portion of the tray. At each side of this sheet of paper fix two bands of paper, as in Fig. 2, so as to serve as handles. The tea-tray should be placed upon two tumblers to support it and to insulate it, glass being a "non-conductor." By a non-conductor is meant a substance that will not convey electricity, or allow it to pass away. ”

“ In some places in Canada there are courses of wood erected, and during the long winters the sport can be frequently enjoyed.
There is just danger enough in tobogganing to make it exciting. An incautious guide may upset his passengers or run into another toboggan. The pace being from thirty to sixty miles an hour, a collision may result in some serious bruises. In most places the course chosen is some natural declivity where the undulations may be smoothed down so that the incline is even. ”

“ And if you'll keep the secret, and never whisper it to anybody, we'll tell you that we love just as dearly, and perhaps a wee, tiny morsel more dearly, the boys and girls whose words we do not print, than those whose letters are published in Our Post-office Box. ”

“ Ralph Watson tells us of the curious "Collocalia," whose nests supply the Chinese with the principal ingredient of one of their most highly esteemed soups; Mr. Charles Barnard gives us full information how to while away our leisure hours with the interesting and inexpensive and at the same time instructive pastime of taking photographs; and Mr. B. Hardwicke tells the boys and girls how to supersede the pleasures of coasting by the more exciting sport to be had with the toboggan. ”

“ An inexperienced pilot, finding his toboggan careering toward the right, is apt to put too much force into his efforts to change its course, and so upset both himself and his passengers. The toboggan responds to the slightest touch. A stick of wood is sometimes used in the guiding, but it can be readily done by the hand. ”

“ THE BOY COMMANDER OF THE CAMISARDS. BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON.
When Louis XIV. was King of France, that country was Catholic, as it is still, but in the mountainous region called the Cevennes more than half the people were Protestants. At first the King consented that these Protestant people should live in quiet, and worship as they pleased; but in those days men were not tolerant in matters of religion, as they are now, and so after a while King Louis made up his mind that he would compel all his people to believe alike. The Protestants of the Cevennes were required to become Catholics. ”

“ If we rub a stick of sealing-wax with a piece of cloth, we shall see that it will attract some small fragments of paper placed near it. Nothing is easier than to construct a small pendulum to show with perfect clearness the wonder of electric attraction. A piece of iron is fixed on a wooden pedestal, and holds a thread of silk, to the end of which is fastened a little ball cut out of a piece of cork. ”

“ Yes, Tom, these nests, which are such a peculiar delicacy to Chinese palates, are all made by swallows, and there are, as far as I can trace them, four species which build nests of this sort. They belong to a division of the swallows which are sometimes called swifts, our common chimney-swallow of the United States being included among the swifts. Those which build the edible nests are found only on the islands of this Asiatic region, and mostly on the coasts of the islands, though sometimes they go forty or fifty miles inland. ”

“ Before Nihilism had terrified a great part of the life and gayety out of the Russian court, it was a popular pastime even among members of the imperial family.
As soon as the Neva was frozen over sufficiently to bear the weight, two immense piers of solid ice were built at distances of about a quarter to half a mile apart. On one side there was a flight of steps to the top, and on the other a precipitous descent at about an angle of forty-five degrees. The sport consisted in descending this incline in a small sleigh, or toboggan. ”

“ We have in this tea-tray and its paper covering a real electric machine. How can we manage to provide a Leyden-jar (so named from its inventor, Muschenbrock, of Leyden) to contain our electricity? Nothing is more easy. Let us take a tumbler, and partly fill it with shot; insert into the glass a tea-spoon, and if all the articles are quite dry, we shall possess a Leyden-jar.
To charge the jar we must work our other machine. While one person lifts off the paper as directed, another must hold the glass to the edge of the tray, and touch the corner with the tea-spoon ”

“ He hates pale-faces. Glad his brother has come to be an Apache. Eat with him now. Show him foolish young squaw that ran away and got caught. Squaw know very little."
They had walked along for some distance when Red Wolf said that he was very near his own camp fire. He had not intended this remark for any ears but those of Steve Harrison, and his pride forbade his noticing the ripple of laughter which immediately followed it.
"Did you hear him, Rita?" said Ni-ha-be. "He was one of the braves who went to find the ford. They forgot to ask the squaws where to look for it." ”

“ Presently they left the park behind them, and now our hero was given to understand that his punishment was but just begun; for suddenly the man stopped, opened the camp-stool arrangement, motioned to Art to set the organ on top of it, and then intimated that he expected him to turn the crank.
"Never!" cried the boy, excitedly, and he attempted to shake himself free of the Frenchman's grasp. But the struggle that ensued only served to draw a gaping crowd around them, and Art speedily saw that the easiest thing for him to do was to submit. ”

“ At first Art was inclined to think that the boys were only in fun. But when he saw two of them catch hold of the organ and hurry away with it into the woods while the girl was running around the corner after her umbrella, all his American blood was up, and he started after "the young highwaymen." ”

“ When opened and set up, the camera is placed on top, and kept in place by a screw.
There is also a little cap for the tube of the camera, and two, or even more flat little wooden boxes, with openings at each end, closed by wooden slides. There is also a small pocket-lantern that gives a red light. Before we can do any work we must buy some sensitive plates. These come in packages of a dozen each, wrapped in black paper. They are called gelatine plates, and sometimes dry plates. They are so sensitive that the smallest ray of white light would ruin them at once. ”

“ When you have learned to sew so well that you can make Madam Martha Washington a dress and a hat with your own skillful fingers, you must write and tell us how much you enjoy working for the darling yourself. Little girls often learn to sew very beautifully by making clothes for their dolls, and we think it is a great accomplishment to sew neatly by hand as well as on the machine. ”

“ If any of our readers should have an opportunity of indulging in the sport, they will do well to bear in mind our advice, and if they undertake to act as pilots, must be very careful not to get excited. The fun which boys in [Pg 228] the United States call coasting is only tobogganing on a small scale; but the prepared course and the long run of the sleigh on the level make the pastime much more exciting. ”

“ It was afterward found to be a flat ledge of rock, with deep water above and below, but it was none the less a bitter pill for the pride of the warriors.
To think of squaws and children presuming to find, right there under their noses, the very thing they were hunting for up and down so anxiously! That, too, when any man's eyes, or any woman's, could now perceive a slight ripple in the water on the shallow place, such as ought to have made them suspect it at once.
The discovery of the ford made the spot safe for the camp. ”

“ We live in the country, and our home is called Cedar Hill because it has a great many cedar-trees in the yard, and is on a hill. We have six canaries; they sing very sweetly, and are very nice pets. We have a little black shepherd dog ”