THE JUVENILE SCRAP BOOK.

FOR MDCCCXLIX.

EDITED BY,
GRANDFATHER MERRYMAN.

New York. D. Appleton & Company 200 Broadway

THE
JUVENILE SCRAP-BOOK
FOR
1849;
A
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR’S PRESENT
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

EDITED BY
GRANDFATHER MERRYMAN.

WITH TWENTY-EIGHT ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL.

NEW-YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO., 200 BROADWAY.
PHILADELPHIA:
GEO. S. APPLETON, 143 CHESNUT-STREET.
MDCCCXLIX.

Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1848, by
D. Appleton & Co.,

In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

PREFACE.

One day while sitting in my garden at my country-seat in New York State, from which, by looking at the title, you will see I have a fine view of the high bridge across the Harlem River, one of my favorite little granddaughters came running to me, just as I had seated myself in my old garden-seat, and earnestly begged me to again read her book to her. But, as I thought she had heard those stories so often, I supposed she would like to hear some new ones much better, so I related to her two or three. With these, and with others that I told her during the holydays which she was spending with me, she was so much pleased, that I thought my numerous juvenile friends throughout the country would also like to possess them. I have accordingly collected them into a volume, which my publishers have made very attractive by the addition of twenty-eight beautiful engravings; and it is now offered as a Christmas and New Year’s Present, to amuse and instruct you, by your friend,

Grandfather Merryman.

Philadelphia, December, 1848.

CONTENTS

PAGE
The Proud Girl[9]
The Use of Punishments[17]
Julian and his Rabbit[20]
Queen Anne’s Physicians[25]
Lizzie Carson[29]
Cruelty to Animals[37]
Deception Punished[40]
Brothers and Sisters[43]
The Geraldines[45]
Faithful Fido[51]
Generosity Rewarded[54]
Danger of Coquetry[61]
Pussy-hood[67]
Harry and his Rabbits[69]
The Shipwrecked on an Uninhabited Island[72]
Hints on Reading[80]
Scenes in the Life of a Roach[82]
The Carter’s Helpmates[85]
The Folly of being Vain[89]
Orphan Wanderers[95]
Anticipations and Realities[99]
A Fox’s Tale of his Adventures[104]
New Charades[119]
Mary and her Little Goat[122]
Confidence in an Indian[125]
“The Spell of a Gentle Word”[129]
Indian Children[133]
The Boyhood of Washington[141]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE.
Grandfather Merryman[Frontispiece.]
The Proud Girl (2 plates)[9]
The Use of Punishments[17]
Julian and his Rabbit[20]
Queen Anne’s Physicians[25]
Lizzie Carson (2 plates)[29]
Cruelty to Animals[37]
Deception Punished[40]
Brothers and Sisters[43]
The Geraldines[45]
Faithful Fido[51]
Generosity Rewarded (2 plates)[54]
Dangers of Coquetry[61]
Harry and his Rabbits[69]
The Shipwrecked (2 plates)[72]
Hints on Reading[80]
The Carter’s Helpmates[85]
The Folly of being Vain (2 plates)[89]
Orphan Wanderers[95]
Anticipations and Realities[99]
A Fox’s Adventures (2 plates)[104]
Mary and her Goat[122]