APRIL 43 
O. it was dreadful to think of afterwards, 
I might have saved her but for that tooth¬ 
ache! So you see, children, how very im¬ 
portant it is to have your aching teeth 
pulled out! 
Nellie M. F., gives us a very nice recipo 
for ice-cream; but she simply says, “then 
freeze,” without giving any particulars 
about the freezing, which is I he most im¬ 
portant part. James H., has given us a 
very good letter for the first one—a great 
(leal hotter than tlm first one 1 ever wrote, 
about which L shall be obliged, for want of 
space, to tell you another time. 
down there to work, and then, I’ll not like, 
it, you know, and I’ll come back here to be 
married.” 
Down to Lewiston went the girl; at work 
for a week was she, When she then conclud¬ 
ed she did not like to do housework, and re¬ 
turned home. 
Next week the parson drove up in his two- 
wheeled chaise, and the twain were made 
one. 
The Scotchman and bis young wife are 
now settled happily in Iowa, whore the old 
folks, who have finally agreed that truth is 
stranger than Action, now comfortably pass 
their declining years. 
EATING BREAD AND MILK 
ONLY A DREAM 
BY FLEDA, 
BY I). M. JORDAN 
The daintiest, prettiest picture 
’Twas ever my lot to see 
Was one of tour beautiful children, 
On a door-stum; rie~a~>iis ; 
With eye* as bright as diamonds. 
And hair iua soft as silk, 
Out of an old-fashioned porringer, 
Eating bread and milk. 
To-N'innT, beside the firelight's glow 
And 'nenth the lamplight’s cheerful beam 
While rocking idly to and fro 
i fell upon a pleasant dream, 
A kind of sweet forgetfulness 
Of all the Jarring sounds of life. 
A vague and shadowy consciousness 
Of living far above the strife*. 
With tender feet 1 brushed the dew 
In grassy lanes of early May. 
With tender heart 1 wept Tor joy 
Or laughed amid my happy play. 
The skies bent down and touched the earth, 
My world lay all beneath my gaze, 
And the bright beacon star of hope 
Sped o'er my path her cheering rays. 
I started from my happy dream, 
The lire lmd waned to ashes gray. 
The falling lamp shed fitful gleams, 
l.lke lights that search for one astray. 
The vision of a vision bright. 
The happy dream within a dream 
Fled, as the shining stars or night. 
Fade out before the morning’s beam. 
In the background, near the door, 
Sit the father and the mother; 
And when the laugh goes 'round, 
They glance at one another. 
What need Is there for speech. 
The eye so much bath said, 
As they watch the little children 
Eating milk and bread. 
A BIT OF A LESSON IN NATURAL IIIS 
TORY. 
THE BABY 
Who knows not the beautiful group of 
babe and. mother, sacred in nature, now 
sacred also in the religious associations of 
half tile globe? Welcome to the parents is 
the puny straggler, strong in his weakness, 
his little arms more irresistible than the 
soldier’s, liis lips touched with persuasion 
which Chatham and Perlolcs 111 manhood 
had not. The small despot asks so little 
that all nature and reason are on his side. 
His ignorance is more charming than all 
knowledge, and his little sins more bewitch¬ 
ing than any virtue. All day, between his 
four or live sleeps, lm cooes like a pigeon- 
house, sputters ami spurns, and puts on liis 
faces of importance; and when he fusts, 
the little Pharisee fails not to sound his 
trumpet before him. Out of blocks, thread- 
spools, cards, and checkers, he will build 
his pyramid with tho gravity of Puhulio. 
With an acoustic apparatus of whistle and 
rattle ho explores the laws of sound. But 
chiefly, like his senior countrymen, the 
young American studies now and speedier 
modes of transportation. Mistrusting the 
cunning of his small legs, he wishes to ride 
on the nocks and shoulders of all flesh. 
The small enohnnter nothing can withstand 
—no seniority of age, no gravity of charac¬ 
ter; uncles, aunts, cousins, graudsires, 
grundams—all fall an easy prey; lie con¬ 
forms to nobody, all conform to him; all 
caper and make mouths, and babble and 
chirrup to him. 0)1 tin* strongest shoulders 
he rides, and pulls the hair of laureled 
heads.— Emerson. 
BY AUNT PHEBE, 
A few weeks ago (In the Rubai. New- 
YORKEIt of Feb. 24th) 1 told you something 
about tho grand divisions of the Animal 
Kingdom. And perhaps you will remember 
that the fourth and most, numerous division 
of tho Mammals was Quad nopals (four- 
footed Mammals). Quadrupeds are Uv- 
gnicuUUa , or clawed, and Ungulata , or 
hoofed. The llnguieulalu have five orders: 
1. Carnivora (flesh-devouring). 2. luseo- 
tivora (insect enters). B» Rodentia (gnaw¬ 
ers). 4. Fidentata. (toothless), 5. Marsupiala 
(pouched). The Ungulata has two orders: 
1, Pachydcrmnta (thick skinned). 2. Rumi- 
uantia (cud-chewing). 
Now, you are thinking, 1 dare say, that 
this is a pretty good place to stop—that we 
have ail the animals in this wide world pret¬ 
ty well divided oft’. But a Lit lie patience, if 
you please, anil wo will divide the Car¬ 
nivora into five families: — 1. Felidie (cat 
tribe). 2. Canid® (dogs). 3. Mustolidre 
(weasels). 4. Uisidte (bear). 5. Phocidas 
(seal). 
Who among our young Ituralists can furn¬ 
ish some examples of t he Felidie? “ Thcro 
is Miss Lilly Snow Hake and Mr. Thomas 
Grimalkin; Mrs. Tabitha Velvet Paws and 
her family.” Yes. I know; but you must 
remember that although the FcUda-. is tho 
Cat tribe, it Includes a great many other 
animals, of which the cat, is taken as Urn 
type. I will mention a few of them. If 
you like puzzles as well as wo do, you will 
rather have the Anagrams, as follows: 
Animals oe the family Feu o/K. 1. e.rite. 
2. Nilo. 3. Hod leap. 4. V cone. w. Agu jar. 
0 . Pat Berm 7. Cy, lad, aim ax. 8. I munch one. 
You will find these very easy, and I hope 
you will study t hem out. It may help you 
to remember the names of Borne of the 
Feline animals. 
[Answers to the above Anagrams will be 
given in two weeks.—E ds.] 
The household'! pet. old Bounce, 
Is Bleeping ill the clover, 
And in his dreams, again 
The hunt lie's living over; 
\Vhen’ere the spoons click on the dish 
He lifts his shaggy head, 
And seems to say, I envy you 
Your sweet now inlllc and bread. 
Through the trees, the low sun-sliadows 
Were shifting here and there, 
Lighting up eueli winsome face 
With a beaut y almost rare; 
While the tired birds came trooping 
To their leaf cots over head, 
Softly twittering, good night, 
To the girls with milk and bread. 
Without. I beard the wailing wind 
That blew the chill November rain, 
Like stormy sobs of passionate woe 
In tears against my window pane. 
The skies, that In my happy dream 
Bent down to kiss tho smiling land, 
8tarless and moonless frowned at me— 
Gloom met iny gaze at every hand. 
And hut for one swnet star of hope 
Tlmt shone out through the stormy night, 
I might have doubted that the gloom 
Would fade away by morning's light. 
Thus ever, when some bitter doubt. 
With poison chalice drugs the soul, 
I see the glorious star shine out 
That points mi* to a heavenly goal. 
What artist-hand eun catch 
Tho smUu-llght coming, going: 
Or tint tho reatless tresses 
On the dimpled shoulders flowing; 
Or give the arching lip 
So lino a shade Of red, 
As it takes a sip of milk 
And then u bite of bread ? 
O, happy little dreamers! 
Upon that doorstouo step. 
No shade of cure has crossed 
Their sunny paths as yet.— 
O, would their lives might ever be 
So free from care and dread 
As now, while twilight gathers, 
Eating milk uml bread. 
Indus-Wild, Warren Co., Ill. 
ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE 
The fallowing interesting and l-omantic 
story is related by tho Lewiston (Maine.) 
Journal: 
About fifteen years ago, a young Scotch¬ 
man hud as neighbors, in tho mountain re¬ 
gions of Scotland, a family in whloh there 
was a little girl of four years. One day, he 
took tho little girl on his knee, and playfully 
told her father:—“Oue day I will make her 
my wife." Not long after, the father, moth¬ 
er, and girl resolved to emigrate to Amer¬ 
ica, which they accordingly did, landing in 
Portland, in the year IK,77. In a few years, 
tho family removed to Mexico, Oxford Co., 
living there till last year. Not many years 
after this family came to this country, the 
young man who had t rotted I tie little girl on 
liis knee resolved to emigrate to America, 
which ho did. Arriving in this country, he 
proceeded to Montana Territory, where, by 
good luck and industry, he managed to 
amass a large fortune. Having richly filled 
his coffers, ids mind reverted tenderly to 
thoughts of love, and he recalled his early 
vow, to some day wed tho little yellow- 
haired girl housed to trot on his knee to 
“Banbury Cross." He kuew her parents 
LETTERS TO YOUNG RURALISTS.-IV 
FROM COUSIN .JOHNNIE. 
I haven’t seen any answers so far to tho 
questions I.asked you in my first letter. 
Now, will you not all try and see if you 
cannot give some kind of answers? Never 
mind If you should make mistakes; the 
way to improve, you know, is to have our 
mistakes corrected. 
I am glad Eva M.’s Black Spanish t hick¬ 
ens have such a brave defender from tin; 
minks as her mother seems t o be. 1 wonder 
if they are as tame as a chicken 1 used to 
have? My “Turney ” would come running 
up to mo whenever 1 called her by name, 
and then sit. down and wait for DUO to take 
her up In my arms or put, her up on my 
shoulders; and often, if r happened to take 
no notice of her, she would lly up herself. 
There she would sit and talk to me in her 
fashion for any length of time. By-and- 
by Turaey grew to be a hen, but she was 
I used to think her 
CLIMATE AND CHARACTER 
Perhaps the infinenco of tho four great 
winds on character is only a fancied one; 
but it is evident, on temperament, which is 
not altogether a matter of temperature, a£? 
though the good old deacon used to say iu 
his humble, simple way, that t Ills t hird wife 
“ tempera- 
was a very good woman, but her 
ture was very different from that of the 
other two." The north wind is full of cour¬ 
age, and puts the stamina of endurance into 
a man, and it probably would Into a woman 
too if there were a series of resolutions 
passed to that effect. The west wind is 
hopeful: it has promise and adventure in it, 
and is, except to Atlantic voyagers Ameri¬ 
ca-bound, the best wind that ever blew. The 
east wind is peevishness; it, is mental rheu¬ 
matism and grumbling, and curls one up in 
the chimney-corner like a oat. And if the 
ohimney ever smokos, it smokes when the 
wind sits iu that quarter. The south wiud 
is full of longing and unrest, of effeminate 
suggestions, of luxurious ease, and perhaps 
we might say of modem poetry—at any rate, 
modern poetry needs a change of air. 1 am 
not sure but the south is tho most powerful 
of tho winds, because of its sweet persua¬ 
siveness. Nothing so stirs the blood in 
Spring, when it comes up out of the tropical 
latitude; it makes men “lougen to gon on 
pilgrimages.”— Scribner’’$ Magazine. 
ILLUSTRATED REBUS. No. 15 
just as tame as ever 
eggs were something quite superior to those 
of any other hen, and always kept, them in 
wine glasses entirely separate from thereat. 
Sometimes while Tamey was on her nest, 1 
would go in and talk to her a little, and she 
would raise, up her head and say—well, per¬ 
haps 1 shan’t spell it just right, as I don’t 
know how to spell the hen language, but it 
sounded like, “ric.kotty caw —rioketty 
caw!” After a while Tamey expressed her 
wish to sot, and some eggs were provided 
for her in a barrel at- tho barn. But Tamey, 
notwithstanding l used to spend a great, 
part of each day leaning over the barrel, 
found it rather duller music than she ex¬ 
pected—so whenever she came off she spent 
so much time iu her own enjoyment that 
somo of the eggs got cold; some of them 
3 he ate up, and finally, when she did suc¬ 
ceed in bringing out two or three miserable 
little chicks, so selfish hud she become from 
being so petted and spoiled (like some peo¬ 
ple I have known), that after afewdayB she 
entirely deserted them and went round 
singing as merrily as possible. Whenever 
Tamev was missing, 1 was pretty sure of 
finding her in the coop, where the poultry 
intended for t he table was fattened. The 
servant girl used to put her up, just to tease 
me, and enjoyed seeing me march straight 
to the coop and let her out. Many, and 
many a time I saved her (to me) precious 
life; hut at, last, when 1 was shut up in one 
room crying with the toot hache, and neither 
thinking of nor caring for anything else, an 
order was given for the execution of all the 
poultry, aa we were going to the city to 
spend the Winter, and iu the general 
slaughter poor Tamey was slain! And f— 
DAILY BENEVOLENCE 
Answer in two weeks 
When you rise in the morning, form a 
resolution to make the day a happy oue to 
a fellow-creature. It is easily done; a left- 
off garment to the man who needs it, a kind 
word to the sorrowful, an encouraging ex¬ 
pression to the striving, trifles in themselves 
light as air, will do it at least for the twen¬ 
ty-four hours. And if you are young, de¬ 
pend upon it, it will tell when you are old; 
and if you are old, rest assured it will send 
you gently and happily down the stream of 
time to eternity. By the most simple ar¬ 
ithmetical sum, look at the result. If you 
send one person, only one. happily through 
each day, that is 305 in the course of a year. 
And supposing you live forty years only, 
after you commence that course, you have 
made 11,600 persons happy, at all events, 
for a time. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA-No. 5 
I am composed of eight letters. 
My 4,1, 8, 3 is a boy’s nickname. 
My 8, 6, 3 is an article. 
My 2, 0, 8,1 is what I never like to be at school 
My 2, 6, 4 is a kind of dog. 
My 7, 1, 8 is something worn upon the head. 
My 4,2, 0, 7, 8 i» what farmers do. 
My 5,1, 3, 2 is n part of the foot. 
My 5, 3, 7 is a fowl. 
My 4, «, 2,7 is wind, sick folks generally are. 
My 6. 8 is a preposition. 
My whole Is an animal. H. A. C. 
fc3?~ Answer in two weeks. 
PUZZLER ANSWERS-March 30, 
Iii.USTRATED Rebus No. 13.—It is a long lane that 
has no turn. 
Cross-word enigma No. 4.—Albany. 
Hidden Cities No. 3.—1. Erie. 2. Rome. 3. Lou¬ 
don. 4. Salem. 5. Havana. 
Curious Queries No. L— 1 The marriage state. 
Great powers and natural gifts do not 
bring privileges to their possessors so much 
as they impose duties. 
