Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, by S. G. Goodrich, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

ROBERT MERRY’S
MUSEUM.

EDITED BY
S. G. GOODRICH,
AUTHOR OF PETER PARLEY’S TALES.

VOLUME V.

BOSTON:
BRADBURY, SODEN, & CO.,
No. 10, School Street.
1843.
Stereotyped by George A. Curtis, New England Type and Stereotype Foundry.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.

JANUARY TO JUNE, 1843.

A New Year’s Bow,[1]
The Two Travellers,[2]
Fidelity of a Negro Servant,[4]
Maple Tree at Matibo, in Italy,[5]
The Lost Found,[6]
The Snow-Man,[8]
An Intelligent Horse,[9]
True Stories,[10], [42], [112], [167]
Kindness and Sagacity of the Ass,[10]
A Test of Christianity,[11]
A Tahitian Christian,[”]
Sir Matthew Hale,[12]
David Saunders,[”]
An Indian’s Illustration of Scripture,[13]
The Force of Habit,[”]
The Narval or Sea Unicorn,[15]
Come and get it,[17]
The Effects of Music on Animals,[18]
Irishman’s Notion of Discount,[21]
Winter Evening, or Ghost Stories,[22]
The White Bear,[26]
The Story of Hercules,[27]
The Walk,[30]
Discontented Betty,[31]
Music—Hope,[”]
Sources of History,[33]
Something about Government,[36]
The Law is Everywhere,[”]
Equality,[37]
A Boy Lost,[38]
Arithmetic,[”]
Anecdotes of Storks,[39]
Conundrums,[”]
Artificial Ice for Skating,[41]
The Love of Nature,[45]
True Stories for the Young,[”]
Winter,[48]
Smiles,[”]
The Water-Spout,[49]
Eccentric Old Maid,[50]
Beauty,[”]
The Elephant and Fox,[”]
The Vain Search,[52]
Varieties,[54]
Imagination,[56]
Sister,[57]
Burning of the Tower of London,[59]
The Gleaner,[60]
Metals,[63]
The Prussian Exercise,[”]
Anecdotes of Bonaparte,[64]
Catching Rabbits,[”]
Amusements,[65]
Contradiction,[66]
Bull,[”]
All by Themselves,[67]
Profane Swearing,[68]
A Roman Story,[69]
The Rock of Gibraltar,[74]
Order and Disorder,[75]
The Little Mariner,[77]
The Old Lady and her Cat,[78]
Cornelia,[80]
A Sliding Party,[81]
A Roman Judge,[82]
Patrick Henry,[”]
The Old Owl,[83]
A Fisherman’s Widow,[84]
The Zebu, or Indian Ox,[86]
The Bison, or American Buffalo,[”]
Anecdote,[87]
A Pious Mother,[”]
The Medallion,[88]
Good and Evil,[”]
Little Leaves for Little Readers,[89], [121], [154], [185]
The Mourner Comforted,[91]
Inquisitive Jack,[92], [125], [155], [185]
The Snow Drift,[95], [124]
The Seasons,[96]
The Revolutions of the Earth,[99]
Alexander and his Mother,[”]
Constantinople,[100]
Wonderful Sagacity,[101]
Tsze Pun Zu,[102]
Language of Animals,[103]
Fighting Crickets,[”]
Lying,[”]
Signs of the Zodiac,[104]
Invention of Printing,[105]
Comparison between Good and Bad Housewifery,[107]
An Equinoctial Storm,[108]
Yellow Hair,[109]
April,[110]
Shops in London,[114]
Fishes Playing the Jewsharp,[115]
Tea,[116]
The Finland Mother,[118]
Comets,[119]
Things that have Happened,[121]
The Mother Counselled by her Daughter,[122]
Princess Anne,[”]
The Blind Beggar and his Dog,[”]
Mother’s Advice,[123]
The Moon,[127]
The Meadow Lark,[128]
The Bird’s Nest,[128]
Shrine of San Rosalia, at Palermo,[129]
English Conundrums,[130]
May,[131]
Country Pursuits,[”]
The Village of Economy,[133]
God sees everywhere,[135]
Mohammed,[136]
A Fourth of July Oration,[138]
Clean Clothes,[141]
Subserviency,[”]
Heathen Mythology,[142]
The Elephant,[147]
The Lion,[148]
The Gnoo,[149]
A Swedish Girl,[150]
The Story of Gander,[151]
The Dog of Montargis,[152]
Natural Lamps,[153]
The School Ma’am,[154]
Lucy and Ann,[157]
Truth Triumphant,[158]
The Little Flower-Girl,[159]
Dash won’t learn his Lesson,[160]
To Correspondents,[”]
Louisa Vinning,[161]
Importance of a Fly,[162]
June,[163]
A Chapter of English Kings,[165]
Geography,[170]
The Bob-o-link,[172]
The White or Polar Bear,[173]
The Boy and his Mittens,[174]
Idleness,[”]
The Unfaithful Servant,[175]
The Barber of Paris,[176]
The World within a Plant,[177]
The Kildeer Plover,[179]
Force of Truth,[”]
Early Impressions,[180]
About the Chickadees,[181]
The Two Travellers,[183]
To our Correspondents,[184]
Puzzle,[”]
The Hoop,[188]
Hay-Making,[189]
The Moth,[190]
Chapter on Spices,[”]
Idle Mary,[”]
The Balloon,[191]
Sleepy Harry,[”]
Mamma and Baby,[”]
The Harrow,[192]
Handsome is that Handsome does,[”]