“If you want to go out, good people,” he said, 
“ I will open the gates and go with you; but do not 
pull down the book walls.” 
And they obeyed Gentil, because they loved him, 
and Gentil led them out of the city. When they 
had crossed the first green valley, they found the 
city of Pastime empty —not a creature in it! — and 
broken toys in the streets. At sight of the toys, the 
poor book-people cried for joy, and wanted to stop 
and play. So Gentil left them in the city, and went 
on alone across the next green valley. But the city 
of Confection was crammed so full with sick child- 
people belonging to Bonbon, and with Joujou’s 
hungry ones, that, Gentil could not get iu at the 
gate. So he wandered about in the green valleys, 
very unhappy, until he came to his old father’s 
palace. There he found the fool, sitting on the 
banks ol the river. 
“ O, fool,” said Gentil, “ I wish I knew what my 
father meant us to do!” 
And the fool tried to comfort Gentil; and they 
walked together by the river where the fool had 
made the boat of the will without knowing w-hat it 
was. They walked a long way, Gentil crying and 
the fool trying to comfort him, when suddenly the 
fool saw the boat, he had made lying among some 
green rushes. And the fool ran to fetch it, and 
brought it to show Gentil. And Gentil saw some 
writing on the boat, and knew it was his father’s 
writing. Then Gentil was glad indeed; he unfolded 
the paper, and thereon he read these words.—for a 
good king’s words are not washed away by water: 
« My will and pleasure is, that my dearly beloved 
sons, Prince Gentil, Prince Joujou. and Prince Bon¬ 
bon, should all reign together over the three cities 
which I have bunt. But there are only enough 
child-people to fill one city; for I know that the 
child-people cannot live always in oneeity. There¬ 
fore let the three princes, with Gentil, the eldest, 
wearing the crown, lead all the child-people to the 
city of Lessonland in the morning, that the bright 
sun may Ehine upon their lessons and make them 
pleasant: and Genii! to set the tasks. And in the 
afternoon let the three princes, with Joujou weariug 
the crown, lead all the child-people to the city of 
Pastime, to play until the evening; and Joujou to 
lead the games. And in the evening let the three 
princes, with Bonbon wearing the crown, lead all 
the child-people to the city of Confection, to drink 
sweet wine and pluck fruit, off the Christmas trees 
until time for bed; and little Bonbon to cut the 
cake. And at time for bed let the child-people go 
forth into the green valleys and sleep upon the 
beds of flowers; for in Child Country it is always 
spring.” 
This was the king’s will, found at last; and Gen¬ 
til, whose great long lessons had made him wise, 
(though they had tired him, too.) thought the will 
the cleverest that was ever made. And he hastened 
to the city of Confection, and knocked at the gate 
till they opened it; and he found all the people sick 
by this time, and very pleased to see him, for they 
thought him very wise. And Gentil read the will 
in a loud voice, and the people clapped their hands 
and began to get better directly, and Bonbon called 
to them to lift him down out of the tree where be 
had stuck, and Joujou danced for joy. 
So the king’s will was obeyed. And in the morn¬ 
ing the people learned their lessons, and afterward 
they played, and afterward they enjoyed their leasts. 
And at bed-time they slept, upon the beds of flowers 
in the green valleys; for in Child Country it is 
always spring .—Atlantic Monthly . 
kites flew up the blue sky, and there was laughter, 
laughter, in all the streets of Pastime. 
And now for little Bondon, how is he getting on? 
He was a dear little fat fellow,— but, oh, so fond of 
sweets! as you may believe, from his choosing the 
city of Confection. And there were no books in 
Confection, and no toys; but, the walls were built, of 
gingerbread, and the houses were built of ginger¬ 
bread, and the bridges of barley-sugar, that glittered 
in the sun. And rivers ran with wine through the 
streets, sweet wine, such as child-people love: and 
Christmas trees grew along the banks ot the rivers, 
with candy, and almonds, and golden nuts on the 
branches; and in every house the tables were made 
of sweet brown chocolate, and there was great 
plum cakes on the tables, and little cakes, and all 
sorts of cakes. And when Bonbon began to reign, 
he did not think much about it. but began to eat 
directly, and called out,, with his mouth full: 
“ Child-people, eat- always! for in all the city of 
Confection there is nothing but cakes and sweets.” 
And did not the child-peoplefnllio and eat direct¬ 
ly, and eat, on, and eat, always? 
Now by this time what has happened to Gentil?— 
for we left him in the city of Lessonland. All the 
first day he learned the lessons he had set himself, 
and the people learned theirs too, and they all came 
to Gentil in the evening to say them to the Prince. 
But by the time Gentil bad heard all the lessons, he 
was very, very tired,—so tired that he tumbled 
asleep on the throne; and when the child-people 
saw their prince was asleep, they thought they 
might as well go to sleep too. And when Gentil 
awoke the next morning, behold! there were all his 
people asleep on the floor. And he looked at his 
watch and found it was very late, and he woke up 
the people, crying, with a very loud voice: 
“ It is very late, good people!” 
And the people jumped up and rubbed their eyes, 
and cried: 
“ We have been learning always, and we can no 
longer see to read,—the letters dance before our 
eyes.” 
And all the child-people groaned and cried very 
bitterly behind their books. Then Gentil said: 
“ I will read to you, my people, and that will rest 
your eyes.” 
And heread them a delightful story about animals; 
but when he stopped to Bhow them a picture of a 
lion, the people were all asleep. Then Gentil grew 
angry, and cried in a loud voice: 
“ Wake up, idle people, and listen 1” 
But when the people woke up, they were stupid, 
and sat like cats and sulked. So Gentil put the 
book away, and sent them home, giving them each 
a long task for their rudeness. The child-people 
went away; but, as they found only books out-of- 
doors, and only books at home, they went to sleep 
without learning their tasks. And all the fifth day 
they slept. But on the sixth day Gentil went out 
to see what they were doing; and they began to 
throw their books about, and a book knocked Prince 
Gentil on the head, and hurt him so much that he 
was obliged to go to bed. And while he was in bed, 
the people began to fight, and to throw the books at 
; one another. 
Now, as for Joujou and his people, they began to 
play, and went on playing, and did nothing else but 
play. And, would (teu believe it?— they got tired 
too. The first day and the second day nobody 
thought he ever could be tired among the rockiDg- 
horses, and whips, and marbles, and kites, and 
dolls, and carriages. But the third day everybody 
' wanted to ride at once, and the carriages were so 
full that they broke down, and the rocking-horses 
rocked over, and wounded some little men; and the 
little women snatched their dolls from one another, 
and the dolls were broken. And on the fourth day 
the Prince Joujou cut a hole in the very largest 
drum, and made the drummer angry; and the drum¬ 
mer threw a drumstick at Joujou. and Prince Jou¬ 
jou told the drummer he should go to prison. Then 
the drummer got on the top of the painted wall and 
shot arrows at the Prince, which did not hurt him 
much, because they were toy-arrows, but which 
made Joujou very much afraid, for he did not wish 
his people to hate him. 
“ What do you want?” he cried to the drummer. 
“ Tell me what I can do to please you. Shall we 
play at marbles, or balls, or knock down the golden 
? Or shall we have Punch and Judy in 
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So Joujou, the second prince, chose the city of 
Pastime; and Bonbon, the youngest priuce, chose 
the city of Confection; and the city ot Lessonland 
was left for Prince Gentil, who took possession of it 
directly. 
And first let us see how the good Gentil got on iD 
his city. 
The city of Lessonland was built of books, all 
books, and only books. The walls were books, set 
close like bricks, and the bridges over the rivers 
(which were very blue,) were built of books in 
arches, and there were books to pave the. roads and 
paths, ami. the doors ol' the houses were books, with 
golden letters on the outside. Tho palace of Prince 
Gentil was built of the largest books, all bound in 
scarlet, and green, and purple, and blue, and yel¬ 
low. Aud inside the palace all the loveliest pictures 
werehungupon the walls, and the handsomest maps; 
and in his library were ail the lesson-books and all 
the story-books in the world. Directly Gentil began 
to reign, he said to himself: 
“ What are all these books for? They must mean 
that we are to learn, and to become very clever, in 
order to be good. 1 wish to be very clever, and to 
make my people so; so I must set them a good 
example.” 
And he called all his child-people together, who 
would do anything for the love of him, and he said: 
“ If we mean to be of any use iu the world, we 
must learn, learn, learn, and read, read, read, and 
always be doing lessons.” 
And they said they would, to please him; and 
they all gathered together in (he palace council- 
chamber, and Gentil set them tasks, the same as he 
set himself, and they all went home to learn them, 
while he learned his in the palace. 
Now let us see how Joujou is getting on. He 
was a good prince, Joujou,—oh, so fond of fun! as 
you may believe, from Ills choosing the city of 
Oh, that: city of Pastime! how unlike the 
THE CHILDREN’S CITIES 
CHARLES ACCUESTEK, 
BY THE AUTHOR OF 
There was a certain king who had three sons, 
and who, loving them all alike, desired to leave 
them to reign over his kingdom as brothers, and not 
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His kingdom consisted of three beautiful cities, 
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The king, feeling himself very old and feeble, 
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behave after he was dead. So the lawyers came to 
the palace and went into the king’s bed room, where 
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as he desired. 
One day, not long after the will was made, the 
king’s fool was trying to make a boat of a leaf to 
sail it upon the silver river. And the fool thought 
the paper on which the will was written would 
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the court of the palace?” 
“ Yes! yes!” cried the people, and the drummer 
jumped down from the wall. “Yes! yes! Punch 
and Judy! We are tired of marbles, and balls, and 
ninepins. But we shan't be tired of Punch and 
Judy!” 
So the people gathered together in the court of 
the palace, and saw Punch and Judy over and over 
again, all day long on the fifth day. And they hail 
it so often that, when the sixth day came, they pulled 
down the stage, and broke Punch to pieces, and 
burned Judy, and screamed out that they were so 
hungry they did not know what to do. And the 
drummer called out: 
“Let us eat Prince Joujou!”. 
But the people loved him still: so they answered: 
“ No! but we will go out of tbe city and invade 
the. city ol Confection, and fight them, if they won’t 
give us anything to eat!” 
So out they went, with Joujou at their head; for 
Joujou, too, was dreadfully hungry. And they 
crossed the green valley to the city of Confection, 
and began to try and eat the gingerbread walls. 
But the gingerbread was hard, because the walls 
had been built in ancient days; and the people tried 
to get on the top of the walls, and when they had 
eaten a few holes in the gingerbread, they climbed 
up by them to the top. And there they saw a dread¬ 
ful sight All the people had eaten so much that 
| they were ill, or eke so fat that they could not 
And the people were lying about in the 
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make a better boat, 
written; so he ran to the palace quickly, and know¬ 
ing where it was laid, he got the will and made a 
boat of it, and set it sailing upon the river, and 
away it floated out of sight. And the worst of all 
was, that the king took such a fright when the will 
blew away that he could speak no more when the 
lawyers came back with the golden ink. And he 
never made another will, but died without telling 
bis sons what he wished them to do. 
However, the king’s sons, though they had little 
bodies, because they were princes of the Kingdom 
at least 
I am composed of 19 letters. 
My 8, 2, 7, 12 is a city in Maine 
My 15. 10, 19- 18, 2, 4, 7 is a county in Georgia. 
My 11,17, 8, 6 is a desert in Asiu. 
My 18, 6. 15, 9, 3 is a river in Germany. 
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Pastime, 
city of dear, dull Lessonland! The walls of the 
city of Pastime were beautiful toy-brick, painted all 
the colors of tbe rainbow; and the streets of the 
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child-people to drive in, and little gigs, and music- 
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and such rocking-horses! And there was not to be 
found a book in the whole city, but the houses were 
crammed with toys from the top to the bottom.— 
tops, hoops, balls, battle-doors, bows and arrows, 
guns, peep-shows, drums and trumpets, marbles, 
ninepins, tumblers, kites, and hundreds upon hun¬ 
dreds more, for there you found every toy that ever 
was made in the world, besides thousands of large 
wax dolls, all in different court dresses. And 
directly Joujou began to reign, be said to himself: 
“ What are all these toys for? They must mean 
that we are to play always, that we may be always 
happy. 1 wish to be very happy, and that my peo¬ 
ple should be happy always. Won’t I set them an 
example?” 
And Joujou blew a penny trumpet, and got on 
tbe back of the largest, rocking-horse and rocked 
with all his might, and cried: 
“ Child-people, you are to play always, for in all 
the city of Pastime you see nothing else but toys.” 
The child-people did not wait long: some jumped 
on rocking-horses, some drove off in carriages, and 
some in gigs and music-carts. Aud organs were 
played, and bells rang,* and shuttlecocks and 
A gkxtlemax two daughters had, 
And both were very fair, 
A purse of money, twas in gold. 
Between them he did share. 
Their shares just eighty thousand make, 
When multiplied together; 
Their squares two thousand are. 
When added to each other. 
The elder says she’ll give her hand 
To him who can declare 
What was the sum her father gave, 
And likewise each one’s share. 
Answer in two weeks. 
of Children, were very good little persons,- 
they had not yet been naughty, and had never 
quarreled,—so that the child-people loved them 
almost as well as they loved each other. The child- 
people were quite pleased that the princes should 
rule over them; but they did not know bow to 
arrange, because there was no king’s will, and by 
rights tbe eldest ought to have the whole kingdom. 
But the eldest, who name was Gentil, called his 
brothers to him and said: 
«I am quite sure, though there is no will, that our 
royal papa built the three cities that we might each 
have one to reign over, and not one reign over all. 
Therefore 1 will have you both, dear brothers, choose 
a city to govern over, and I will govern over the 
city you do not choose.” 
And his brothers danced for joy; and the people, 
too, were pleased, for they loved all the three 
princes. But there were not enough people in the 
kingdom to fill more than one city quite full. Was 
not this very odd? Gentil thought so; but, as be 
could not make out the reason, be said to the child- 
people: 
“I will count you. and divide you into three parts, 
and each part Bhall go to one city.” 
For, before the king had built the cities, the child- 
people had lived in the green valleys, and slept on 
beds of flowers. 
move, 
streets, and by tbe side ot the rivers of sweet wine, 
but, oh, so sick that they could eat no more! And 
Prince Bonbon, who had got into the largest Christ¬ 
mas tree, had eaten all the candy upon it, and 
grown so fat that he could not move, but stuck up 
there among the branches. When the people of 
Pastime got upon the walls, however, the people of 
Confection were very angry; and one or two of 
those who could eat the most, and who still kept on 
eating while they were sick, threw apples and cakes 
at the people of Pastime, and shot Joujou with 
gar-plums, which he picked up and ate, while his 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. 
If, in heating a cannon ball, its diameter increases uni 
formly at tbe rate of one-tenth of an inch per second, at whal 
rate is the solidity increasing the moment the diametei 
becomes ten inchest 
Westfield Academy, N. Y., 1862. J - c - L. 
EF” Answer in two weeks. 
sugar-plums, wmeu no piCKeu up miu me, Willie me 
people were eating down the plum cakes and drink¬ 
ing the. wine till they were tipsy. 
As soon as Gentil heard what a dreadful noise his 
people were making, he got up, though he still felt 
poorly, and went out into the streets. The people 
were lighting, alas! worse than ever; and they were 
tryiug to pull down the strong book walls, that they 
might get out of the city. A good many ot them 
were wounded in the head, as well as Prince Gentil, 
by the heavy books falling upon them; and Gentil 
was very sorry for the people. 
Answer to Geographical Enigma :-Remember the Sabbath 
day to keep it holy. 
Answer to Miscellaneous Enigma:—Whoso findeth a wife 
findeth a good thing. 
Answer to Charade;—Wind lass. 
Answer to Algebraical Problem:—5 and 9 years of age. 
