Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879

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Various. Harper's Young People, November 25, 1879

THE BRAVE SWISS BOY

III.—THE CHAMOIS-HUNTERS

SEA-CUCUMBERS

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

MR. AND MRS. MOUSE

Good-Night and Good-Morning

LETTER FROM A LITTLE GIRL ABOUT "HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE."

THE STORY OF A PARROT

WIGGLES

A NEW SERIAL

A LIBERAL OFFER FOR 1880 ONLY

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Early the next morning the door of the little mountain cottage grated on its hinges, and Mr. Seymour entered the small apartment, eagerly welcomed by Walter, who ran forward to meet him.

"What! you are up already, my boy, and as fresh and lively as if nothing had happened!" said he. "I fully expected to find you knocked up and ill after all the exertion and fatigue of yesterday; but I am glad to see that you are so much stronger than I gave you credit for. How is your back, though, Walter? Don't the wounds made by the vulture's claws pain you very much?"

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WATTY AND HIS FATHER HUNTING.

"It is time for us to be off now," said the hunter one morning to his boy; and day after day, whenever the weather was favorable, they might have been seen climbing the lofty mountain ranges in search of game, sometimes not returning to their little cottage for several days. At other times, however, after unspeakable trouble and danger, they would return home in great glee, the father bearing a large chamois slung across his shoulders, to be sold for a good price to the landlord of the inn.

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