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قراءة كتاب The Nursery, February 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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The Nursery, February 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
THE
NURSERY
A Monthly Magazine
For Youngest Readers.
BOSTON:
THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY,
No. 36 Bromfield Street.
1881.
THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
IN PROSE.
| PAGE | |
| Almost ready for Launching | 33 |
| Louis's new Plant | 36 |
| "One-old-cat" | 39 |
| What is the Horse doing? | 40 |
| Why wouldn't the Kite fly? | 45 |
| Drawing-Lesson | 49 |
| Bertie at his Uncle's | 50 |
| Rich and Poor | 56 |
| Red Coral Beads | 58 |
IN VERSE.
| PAGE | |
| The Would-be Travellers | 37 |
| A Queer Kitten | 42 |
| How Blue-Eyes watched for the New Year | 43 |
| The New-laid Egg | 47 |
| The Good Ship "Rosa Lee" | 54 |
| The Snow-Fairies | 57 |
| His Royal Highness | 62 |
| Nursery Song (with music) | 64 |
ALMOST READY FOR LAUNCHING.VOL. XXIX.—NO. 2.
ALMOST READY FOR LAUNCHING.
ERE we have a picture of a ship on the stocks, with a gang of men hard at work giving her the finishing touches. There are full twenty-six men in sight.
What are they doing? Well, most of them, I think, are calkers. Do you know what that means? I will tell you.
After the frame of a ship is set up, the timbers firmly bolted and braced, and the planking put on and fastened, inside and out, the next thing to be done is to make the seams water-tight.
For this purpose, slivers of oakum, rolled up in the hand, are driven into the seams between the planks. When the seams are filled, they are covered with melted pitch or rosin to preserve the oakum from decay. This process is called calking.
Most of the men seen in the picture are doing this work, but not all of them. Some are driving in the oakum with a tool called a calking-iron. Some are putting on the pitch. I will leave it for you to find out what the others are doing.
If we could look on deck and on the other side of the ship, we should see men at