Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by S. G. Goodrich, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

INDEX

TO THE

FIRST VOLUME.

FROM FEBRUARY TO JULY 1841, INCLUSIVE.

Address to the Reader,page [1]
About Labor and Property,[3]
Anecdote,[102]
Absence of Mind,[126]
Antiquities of Egypt,[149]
A Drunkard’s Home,[152]
Architecture of Birds,[158]
A Philosophical Tea-pot[171]
Astonishing Powers of the Horse[172]
A Good Reply,[187]
Chinese Spectacles,[18]
Contentment,[50]
Curious way of Keeping Accounts,[189]
Death of the President,[127]
Fanny Gossip and Susan Lazy; a Dialogue,[145]
Hogg’s Father,[102]
Hunting Wild Animals in Africa,[111]
Hymn,[159]
Importance of Attention; a Dialogue[174]
Instinct,[190]
John Steady and Peter Sly, a Dialogue[38]
My First Whistle,[4]
My own Life and Adventures; by Robert Merry,[9], [33], [65], [129], [161]
Music—Jack Frost, a Song,[32]
Madagascar,[168]
Napoleon’s last Obsequies[51]
Night,[101]
Owls and Eagles,[5]
Origin of ‘The House that Jack Built,’[7]
Origin of Words and Phrases,[35]
Our Ancestry,[53]
Plain Dealing,[26]
Peach Seeds,[37]
Professions and Trades,[94]
Peter Pilgrim’s account of his Schoolmates, No. 1,[107]
Pet Oysters,[187]
Poetry and Music,[192]
Queen Elizabeth of England,[103]
Swallows,[15]
Story of Philip Brusque[19], [47], [73], [97]
Spring is Coming; a Song,[64]
Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and History of the Indians of America,[116], [140], [141], [181]
Something Wonderful,[141]
The Sociable Weavers,[2]
The Human Frame likened to a House[18]
The Sailor’s Family,[21]
The Groom and the Horse,[23]
The Druids,[24]
The Re-entombment of Napoleon[27]
The Pelican,[36]
The Three Friends,[41]
The Fox and the Tortoise,[43]
The Travels, Adventures and Experiences of Thomas Trotter,[44], [81], [120], [138]
The Month of March,[60]
The Child and the Violets,[62]
The Great Northern Diver, or Loon[71]
The Spectre of the Brocken[79]
Trifles,[80]
The New Custom House, Boston,[86]
The New Patent Office, Washington[89]
The River; a Song,[96]
The Sun, [101]
The Kingfisher and the Nightingale[125]
The April Shower,—a Song, [128]
The Artist’s Cruise,[133]
The Boastful Ass,[157]
Travelling Beehives,[158]
The Secret,[158]
The Logue Family,[159]
The Humming Birds,[167]
The Moon,[173]
The Horse and the Bells,[178]
The Crane Family,[179]
The Shetland Pony,[188]
Varieties,[30], [62], [127], [190]
What is Truth?[28]
What sort of Heart have you got?[90]
What is Poetry?[95]