The Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad, by VariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Our Young Folks at Home and AbroadAuthor: VariousEditor: Daphne DaleRelease Date: July 8, 2009 [EBook #29357]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR YOUNG FOLKS AT HOME AND ABROAD ***Produced by Alicia Williams, Chrome, the dedicatedlibrarians who helped on this project, Sam W. and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netTranscriber's noteThe original book was printed in three different coloured inks. The transcriber has tried to match this colour schemeas closely as possible here. If you find it difficult to read the coloured sections, you may prefer to read the single-colour version of this book, which has black text throughout. Go to the single-colour version.Front cover - Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad, showing aboy and two girlsOUR YOUNG FOLKSAT ...HOME AND ABROAD:Illustrated Sketches and Poemsfor Young People.BYANNIE D. BELL, CLARA J. DENTON, AMANDA M. DOUGLAS,FRANK H. SELDEN, CHAS. T. JEROME, LAURAE. RICHARDS, MRS. L. A. CURTIS,OLIVER OPTIC, ETC.ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS.BYF. S. CHURCH, E. H. GARRETT, A. S. COX, CULMER BARNES,PARKER HAYDEN, H. MOSER, H. PRUETT ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad, by Various
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad
Author: Various
Editor: Daphne Dale
Release Date: July 8, 2009 [EBook #29357]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR YOUNG FOLKS AT HOME AND ABROAD ***
Produced by Alicia Williams, Chrome, the dedicated
librarians who helped on this project, Sam W. and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Transcriber's note
The original book was printed in three different coloured inks. The transcriber has tried to match this colour scheme
as closely as possible here. If you find it difficult to read the coloured sections, you may prefer to read the single-
colour version of this book, which has black text throughout. Go to the single-colour version.
Front cover - Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad, showing a
boy and two girls
OUR YOUNG FOLKS
AT ...
HOME AND ABROAD:
Illustrated Sketches and Poems
for Young People.
BY
ANNIE D. BELL, CLARA J. DENTON, AMANDA M. DOUGLAS,
FRANK H. SELDEN, CHAS. T. JEROME, LAURA
E. RICHARDS, MRS. L. A. CURTIS,
OLIVER OPTIC, ETC.
ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS.BY
F. S. CHURCH, E. H. GARRETT, A. S. COX, CULMER BARNES,
PARKER HAYDEN, H. MOSER, H. PRUETT SHARE,
MISS L. B. HUMPHREY, ETC., ETC.
——————
EDITED BY
DAPHNE DALE.
——————
LONDON—NEW YORK—CHICAGO:
W. B. CONKEY COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS.
——————
Copyright 1894,
W. B. Conkey Company.
——————
ANIMAL LIFE FROM EVERY ZONE.
THE KITTENS’ STEPMOTHER
HOW SOME SEEDS ARE PLANTED
OLD SCORES REPAID, OR TRAGEDY REVERSED
TIPPY, THE FIREMEN’S DOG
NINE LITTLE FOXES
WHAT AILED THE BELL
THE HOOK AND LADDER
LITTLE JOE’S RIDE
GYPSY AND HIS TRICKS
A LITTLE GIRL’S WEDDING GIFT
DO RIGHT
DOG PRINCE
WHERE THE PRETTY PATH LED
A LETTER TO MOTHER NATURE
OUR MAY-DAY AT THE SOUTH
BERTIE’S STORY AND MINE
THE PORCUPINE’S QUILLS
LOVE YOUR ENEMIES
THE MERCIFUL PRINCE
THE OPOSSUM IN THE HEN-HOUSE
HOW ROY WENT A FISHING
A BEAR-STORY
HEAR US SING, SEE US SWING, UP IN THE OLD OAK TREE
SAILOR BABIES
PRETTY POLLY PRIMROSE
LOOK AT THE BABY
AN UNLUCKY SAIL
TO STRAWBERRY TOWNFLOSSIE AND HER SHOE-BOAT
NELLIE’S LUNCH
DIME AND THE BABY
WIDE-AWAKE LAND
LULU’S FIRST THANKSGIVING
THE SUN-KISS
THE COUNTRY WEEK
THE ROAD TO SCHOOL
WHAT SAMMY’S MONKEY DID
BESSIE IN THE MOUNTAINS
PAULINE’S STRANGE PETS
“GO HALVES!”
LITTLE GAMES
WHAT WE FOUND IN OUR STOVE
THE JOHN AND LINCOLN FLEET
THE YACHT STARLIGHT
THE NEW PARASOL
THE MAN WHO WAS SHAKEN BY A LION
THE LAUGHING JACKASS
THE TRICK THEY PLAYED ON JOCKO
SOME OTHER THINGS BOBBY SAW AT SEA
THE MOSQUITO
THE LAUGHING GIRL
ANNIE’S DUCKS
VICK IN TROUBLE
IN GRANDMA’S ATTIC
LITTLE GIRL GRACIE
A MAGPIE AND HER NEST
AT THE BEACH
FARMER GRAY AND HIS APPLES
AH KEE
DICK AND GRAY
THE RETURN OF THE BIRDS
FIRST REWARD OF MERIT
FOUR LITTLE MICE
FINNETTE
ABOUT THE DEER
EVERYBODY’S DOG
A BIRD’S NEST
A RAINY DAY
THE STORY OF A CANE
MISS LOLLIPOP’S FANCIES
TOMMY’S TEMPTATION
A BEAR STORY
ANNA’S BIRTHDAY GIFT
RALPH AND THE BUTTERFLIES
A POEM
TOM’S LETTER
JANEY’S PRESENT
GOOD OLD ROSE
AUNT PATTY’S PETS
TOMMY AND THE GANDER
A NIGHT VISITOR
THE NIGHT MONKEY
BABY’S NAP
HURRAH! HURRAH!
MOSES GOES TO A CANDY PARTY
FAN’S CARDS:—A CHRISTMAS HINT
KITTY’S TRAMP
THREE ROYAL CHILDREN
AN OSTRICH PLUME
WHO KILLED THE GOOSE?
A TEMPERANCE HORSE
HOW THE WIND BLOWS
DIME AND BETTY
SAVED FROM FREEZING TO DEATH
LILY’S GARDEN
WHERE?
A GOAT IN TROUBLEA NEGRO MELODIST
TIME ENOUGH
THE MOUSE WEDDING
SHE HAD NEVER SEEN A TREE
A FUNNY HORSE
MRS. GIMSON’S SUMMER BOARDERS
AS NIGHT CAME DARKLY DOWN
GRANDMOTHER’S CLOCK
A STUFFED JUMBO
THE TREES IN SILVER LAND
SMALL BEGINNINGS
GARDEN OF THE GODS
YOUNG ARTIST
A CHANCE WORD
A LITTLE DANCE
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE
WOODCROFT
IN THE WOODS
AUTUMN LEAVES, AND WHAT KATIE DID
THE SPINNING LESSON
FOSTER PARENTS
HAYMAKING
WINDOW GARDENING
“CHEER UP.”
WAIF’S ROMANCE
“MAY I GO WITH YOU?”
A SUMMER AT WILLOW-SPRING
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
“WHERE’S SOPHIE?”
“IF I CAN, I WILL.”
WINDSOR CASTLE
THE LITTLE PRINCES
THE TOWER OF LONDON
MARY AND HER LAMB
JAMIE’S GARDEN
CAMP TRIO
THE SENTIMENTAL FOX
EARTHEN VESSELS
BIRDIE’S BREAKFAST
A BATTLE
GRACE DARLING, THE HEROINE
ADAM AND EVE
SWINGING SONG
HOW THE DAYS WENT AT SEA-GULL BEACH
MAX AND BEPPO
PANSIES
“COME, LITTLE BIRD!”
SIRENA’S TROUBLE
LADY VIOLET
ON TRIAL
TWO LITTLE GIRLS
HELPFUL WORDS
FALSE SHAME
CLARA AND THE ANIMAL BOOK
AN ANECDOTE
THE UNSOCIABLE DUCKS
PUTTING OUT THE CANDLE
SULKY ARCHIE
A WISH FOR WINGS
CONSEQUENCES: A PARABLE
COMFORTABLE MRS. CROOK
AN EVENING SONG
“BUT THEN.”
AN ANECDOTE
WHAT THE SNAIL SAID
ONLY NOW AND THEN
A SERPENT AMONG THE BOOKS
“LITTLE MOTHER.”
LITTLE SCATTERWHAT CHICKY THINKS
STOP-A-WHILE
THE BIRDS’ CONCERT
ONLY A BOY
BIRD NEEDLEWORK
HE WAS A GENTLEMAN
TIME FOR BED
THE VALUE OF A GOOD NAME
DINGFORD’S BABY
A BED-TIME STORY
THE LESSON AFTER RECESS
THE LION AT THE “ZOO”
DISOBEYING MOTHER
PLANTS THAT EAT
THE CUCKOO CLOCK
DAVY’S GIRL
EARLY TEA
BONEY
CATCHING SNOW FLAKES
A MISCHIEVOUS MONKEY
THE AFRICAN SLAVE BOY
CLIMBING
LITTLE ELSIE
KITTY STRIKER
MAYING
GRACIE’S TEMPER
AN ANECDOTE
THE SWEET-GRASS HOUSE
JOHNNY’S GARDEN
BOY BILLY AND THE RABBIT
A FISH STORY
Title - Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad
Three orphans, one mournerTHE KITTENS’ STEPMOTHER.
There are two little girls living nearly a hundred rods apart, Mamie and Fannie. Each had a nice pet cat.
Mamie’s cat had three little kittens. When they were about three weeks old their poor mother was killed by a useless dog.
For two days Mamie fed her kittens with a spoon, and did all she could to comfort them; but they would cry for their
mother.
Fannie’s cat had only one kitten, and it died at once. Then Mamie took her three motherless kittens down to Fannie’s cat
to see if she would adopt them. She took them at once, and made a great fuss over them. Then she was allowed to raise
them.
When Mamie thought her kittens were old enough she took all three of them home again. But their stepmother would
neither eat nor drink. She cried and looked for the kittens. At last Fannie carried her cat up to Mamie’s house to see the
kittens. Then mother and kittens were all happy again, and played together as if they had never been separated.
When the girls saw how much the cat and kittens were attached to each other they concluded to take Fannie’s cat home
again with only two of the kittens; in a short time bring back one of them, and later the last one. In this way they thought
they could separate them without any trouble.
Fannie’s cat was not pleased with this plan. She began to look for and call the third kitten. The next morning, when
Mamie went to feed her one kitten, she could not find it anywhere about the barn or woodshed. She went down to
Fannie’s house, and there she found her kitten. Sometime in the night Fannie’s cat went to Mamie’s house, found the
kitten, and carried it home. Since that time the girls have not tried to part the cat and kittens, and they are a happy family.
MAMIE A. AND FANNIE H.
A kitten in a basket
A country scene, with a boy flying a kiteHOW SOME SEEDS ARE PLANTED.
Many noble oak-trees are planted by the little squirrel. Running up the branches, this little animal strips off the acorns, and
buries them in the ground for food in the cold weather; and when he goes to hunt them up he does not find all of them.
Those he leaves behind often grow up into great and beautiful trees.
The nuthatch, too, among the birds, is a great planter. After twisting off a cluster of beech-nuts this queer little bird carries
them to some favorite tree, and pegs them into the crevices of the bark in a curious way. How, we cannot tell. After a
while they fall to the ground, and there grow into large trees.
Trees on the bank of a stream
Some larger animals are good seed-planters, and have sometimes covered barren countries with trees. It is very
singular that animals and birds can do so much farm-work, isn’t it?
MRS. G. HALL.
A cat catches a mouseOLD SCORES REPAID, OR TRAGEDY REVERSED.
I met a tearful little lass;
She sobbed so hard I could not pass,
I wondered so thereat;
“Oh, dry your tears, my pretty child,
Pray tell me why you grieve so wild.”
“A—mouse—ate—up—my—cat!”
A mouse looks at a candy cat
A mouse eating a candy cat
“A mouse ate up your cat!” I cried,
To think she’d fib quite horrified;
“Why, how can you say that?”
Her tears afresh began to run,
She sobbed the words out, one by one:
“It—was—a—candy—cat!”
S. ISADORE MINER.
Three mice examining a mousetrapTIPPY, THE FIREMEN’S DOG.
IPPY was a little, black dog, and he lived at the engine-house, where the great engines, which put out the fires, were kept.
He was a poor, miserable, little dog, without a home until the firemen took pity on
Tippy barkinghim and gave him one.
Dick was one of the horses that helped to pull the engine. He was very large and
black, with a white spot on his forehead. He and Tippy were fine friends.
When it was cold the little dog would curl close down by Dick’s back, and sleep all night, as warm as could be.
One day, when it was Dick’s dinner-time, and he was very hungry, Tippy kept running into his stall and barking and biting
at his heels.
Dick did not like it, and he wanted his dinner so much that it made him cross. So he put down his head, took Tippy by the
back of the neck, and lifted him over the side of the low stall, as much as to say:—
“If you won’t go out I will put you out!”
Tippy carrying a bucket
Tippy soon grew to know what the engines were for, and when the fire-bells rang, and the great horses came from their
stalls ready to be harnessed to the engine, he would bark and jump up and down, and beg to go too.
Dick lifts Tippy over the stable door
TIPPY, THE FIREMEN’S DOG.
One day he hid under the driver’s seat, and the firemen did not see him, so he went to the fir