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    The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
    The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
    The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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    The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

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      The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers - Archive Classics

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      Title: The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3

      A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

      Author: Various

      Release Date: February 20, 2009 [EBook #28131]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY, MARCH 1877 ***

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      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music

      by Linda Cantoni.

      THE

      NURSERY

      A Monthly Magazine

      For Youngest Readers.

      VOLUME XXI.—No. 3.

      BOSTON:

      JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET,

      1877.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by

      JOHN L. SHOREY,

      In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

      FRANKLIN PRESS:

      RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY,

      117 FRANKLIN STREET,

      BOSTON.

      IN PROSE.

      IN VERSE.

      AN OLD-TIME SCENE.

      OOK at the picture, and see if you can tell what has roused all those children up so early in the morning. There is Mary in her stocking-feet. There is Ann in her night-dress. There is Tom, bare armed and bare legged.

      Why have they all left their beds, and run into the play-room in such haste? And why is little Ned, the baby, sitting up in the bed, as though he wanted to come too?

      It is plain enough that the children use that room for a play-room; for you can see playthings on the mantle-piece. But why are they all flocking about the fireplace? And why is mamma coming upstairs with a dust-brush in her hand? And why is that cloth hung over the fireplace? And whose are those bare feet peeping from under it?

      Oh! perhaps you will say, it is Santa Claus; and the children are trying to catch him. Oh, no! Santa Claus never allows himself to

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