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    The Nursery, March 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
    The Nursery, March 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
    The Nursery, March 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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    The Nursery, March 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

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      Title: The Nursery, March 1881, Vol. XXIX

             A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers

      Author: Various

      Release Date: September 14, 2012 [EBook #40754]

      Language: English

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      THE

      NURSERY

      A Monthly Magazine

      For Youngest Readers.

      VOLUME XXIX.—No. 3.

      BOSTON:

      THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY,

      No. 36 Bromfield Street.

      1881.

      Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1881, by

      THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY,

      In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

      IN PROSE.

      IN VERSE.

      VOL. XXIX.—NO. 3.

      TELLING A STORY.

      REAR and cold is the winter outside; but within there is a bright fire on the hearth. Jane and Susie, and Charles and John, and their elder sister Ann, are all seated comfortably in front of it. And now the children call on sister Ann to tell them a story; and this is what she tells them:—

      "When I was a girl, and wanted to hear a story, and the grown-up people didn't feel like telling me one, they would say,—

      "'I'll tell you a story about Jack O'Nory;

      And now my story's begun.

      I'll tell you another about Jack and his brother;

      And now my story's done.'

      "Now, every time this was said to me, I would think that I really should hear the story about Jack O'Nory, or the other one about Jack and his brother. But it was always the same; just as I thought the story was coming, I would hear, instead, 'And now my story's done.'

      "One day, when I begged for one of the stories, my aunt told me that

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