The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII.

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Various. The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII.

MABEL'S COW

HARRY AND THE BIG "POP-CORNER."

WHAT DEMPSEY IS PROUD OF

JENNY AND TIMOTHY WREN

WHAT MAMIE DID

SNIP'S STORY

BABY IN HER HIGH CHAIR

THE BRINDLED COW

NAMING THE KITTEN

LITTLE GILBERT

A TRUE STORY

WHAT BIRDIE SAW IN TOWN

GUESS

PRINCE AND TIP

MISTRESS MOUSE

THE NAPOLEON VIOLETS

THE LIFE OF A SPARROW

LITTLE MISCHIEF

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THE KITTEN

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Little Harold was delighted, one winter morning, to hear that he could go to his grandpapa's with his mother, for a few days. He had often been there in summer, when the grass was green, and flowers were blooming around the old homestead; but this was his first winter visit.

A pleasant ride of forty miles by the railway, then a short ride in an old-fashioned stage-sleigh, and the sober old horses, with their jingling bells, stopped before grandpa's pleasant home.

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"So, on the coldest nights of winter, grandma would have this pan filled with hot coals, and the beds all nicely warmed. Sometimes the boys would have great frolics; for dear grandmamma would have their bed so very warm, that, as soon as they had jumped in, out they would come, saying they were burned.

"But they would spring back again, and cuddle down, and laugh, and tell stories, and sing, until grandpapa would have to come to the foot of the stairs, and call out, 'Boys, boys, I must have less noise!'"

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