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قراءة كتاب The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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The Nursery, March 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
THE
NURSERY
A Monthly Magazine
For Youngest Readers.
BOSTON:
JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET.
1873.
By JOHN L. SHOREY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Boston:
Rand, Avery, & Co., Stereotypers and Printers.
| 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. |
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| PAGE. | |
| 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 |
THE PIGEONS AND THEIR FRIEND.THE PIGEONS AND THEIR FRIEND.
A TRUE STORY.
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 peanuts, which he offered for sale to the passers-by.
The street-pigeons had found in him a good friend; for he used to feed them with bits of peanuts, crumbs of bread, and seed: and every day, at a certain hour, they would fly down to get their food.
On the day when I stopped to see them, the sun shone, and the street was crowded; and many people stopped, like myself, to see the pretty sight.
The pigeons did not seem to be at all disturbed or frightened by the noise of carriages or the press of people; but would fly down, and light on the peddler's wrist, and peck the food from the palm of his hand.
He had made them so tame, that they would often light on his shoulders or on his head; and, if he put food in his mouth, they would try to get it even from between his teeth.
The children would flock round