Happy Days for Boys and Girls
136 ILLUSTRATIONS
CONTRIBUTIONS BY
LOUISA M. ALCOTT, ALICE AND PHŒBE CAREY, C. A. STEPHENS, MARY N. PRESCOTT, WILLIAM M. THAYER, F. CHESEBORO, J. G. WOOD, S. W. LANDER, and others.
PHILADELPHIA: PORTER & COATES, 822 CHESTNUT STREET.
———— Copyright, 1877, By Horace B. Fuller and Porter & Coates. ————
———— PRESS OF HENRY B. ASHMEAD. PHILADELPHIA. ————
YOUNG FISHERS.
I MUST ask you to go back more than two hundred years, and watch two people in a quiet old English garden.
One is an old lady reading. In her young days she was a famous beauty. That was very long ago, to be sure; but I think she is a beauty still—do not you?
She has such a lovely face, and her eyes are so sweet and bright! and better than that, they are the kind which see pleasant things in everybody, and something to like and be interested in. I hope with all my heart yours are that kind, too.
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CONTENTS.
HAPPY DAYS.
THE ORCHARD’S GRANDMOTHER.
THE MUSIC LESSON.
MY PICTURE.
WHY?
BIRDS.
A DREAM OF SUMMER.
EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING.
BOOKS AND READING.
LION THE FIRE DOG.
THE SONG OF THE ROSE.
RICH AND POOR.
LACE-MAKING.
HELP YOURSELVES.
THE STORY OF JOHNNY DAWDLE.
THE ST. BERNARD DOG.
FOR THE CHILDREN.
REASON AND INSTINCT.
CHILDREN.
WORKING IS BETTER THAN WISHING.
THAT CALF!
LITTLE HELPERS.
THE ANIMAL IN ARMOR.
THE IRON RING.
CHARLIE’S CHRISTMAS.
MARCELLIN.
MY LITTLE HERO.
ROBIN REDBREAST.
HOW SWEETIE’S “SHIP CAME IN.”
NOTHING TO DO.
TWO “GENTLEMEN IN FUR CLOAKS.”
CHARLIE’S ESCAPE.
DAISY’S TEMPTATION.
WHAT NELLY GAVE AWAY.
A STRANGE COMBAT.
NEDDY’S HALF HOLIDAY.
MRS. PIKE’S PRISONERS.
CHERRY-TIME.
THE DAVY BOYS’ FISHING-POND.
STORIES ABOUT DOGS.
JOHN STOCKS AND “THE BISON.”
PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS.
QUE.
THE SNOW-FALL.
STITCHING AND TEACHING.
WILLIE’S PRAYER.
SQUIRRELS.
PUPPET.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
ANNIE.
IF; OR, BESSIE GREEN’S HOLIDAY.
THE FORCED RABBIT.
A DARING FEAT.
C—A—T.
THE GIRAFFE.
THE LION ON THE THRESHOLD.
BARN SWALLOWS.
GRATITUDE OF A COW.
MINUTES.
GOING FOR THE LETTERS.
ABOUT “BITTERS.”
FRED AND DOG STEPHEN.
NOW THE SUN IS SINKING.
THE FAIRY BIRD.
SAVED BY A FIDDLE.
THE YOUNG ARTIST.
THE RUSTIC MIRROR.
LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD.
HOW MAGGIE PAID THE RENT.
DECLAMATION—FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH;
VACATION.
UNCLE JOHN’S SCHOOL-DAYS.
FAITHFUL FRIENDS.
THE ERL KING.
THE SILLY YOUNG RABBIT.
NINO.
SALLY SUNBEAM.
AUNT THANKFUL.
HOW A GOOD DINNER WAS LOST.
LAME SUSIE.
THE SECRET.
TIM, THE MATCH BOY.
WINGS.
SQUANKO.
“THE SWEET ONE FOR POLLY.”
THE ACCIDENT.
POLLY ARRIVES.
KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.
ALL AMONG THE HAY.
THE TWO FRIENDS.
HOLIDAY LUCK.
MONKEYS.
SAILING THE BOATS.
IT TAKES TWO TO MAKE A QUARREL.
A GOOD WORD NOT LOST.
PONTO.
THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT.
THE SONG OF THE BIRD.
FROM BAD TO WORSE.
MY STORY.
CAMELS.
WHAT SO SWEET?
THORNS.
UNDER THE PEAR TREES.
THE CAVE OF BENTON’S RIDGE.
THE HAUNTS OF WILD BEASTS.
A HUNTING ADVENTURE.
NEARLY LOST.
CHARLEY.
THE PARSEES.
THE CRIPPLED BOY.
A DINNER AND A KISS.
MY MOTHER.
REGINALD’S FIRST SCHOOL-DAYS.
CLEOPATRA.
DECLAMATION.
SMILES AND TEARS.
THE TRUANT.