THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
children rushed out onto the sand, which had been 
pounded so long by the waves that it was nearly 
as hard as stone. 
Katie and the other girls stopped to gather 
pretty stones and shells, and to watch the jump¬ 
ing waves that were ever trying to leap onto the 
shore, and of which Katie said they must be tired 
tor their laces were white. While we bovs rushed 
great saving of fruitless toll. The book Is fully 
Indexed, and publisher and editor have done all in 
their power to produce an excellent work-and 
they have succeeded. 
Lindsay’s Lock and .Tart’s Daughter are two 
blight, attractive books by that deltghtful author, 
jMi's. F. li. Burnett. Every story that this lady 
writes (or ever did write) Is Interesting, and the 
books under uotlcft are quite as entertaining as 
any that have preceded them. The publishers, 
Messrs, Peterson Bros, of Philadelphia, are dolim 
the rending public a good service by reprinting 
Mrs. Burnett's stories, and the low price at which 
they are offered (2&c. and 60c.) must insure for them 
HOW THE TIGERS ARE CAUGHT 
IIavk you ever visited a place where wild ani¬ 
mals are kept for exhibition and trained, or as it 
is commonly called, a menagerie? if so, you have 
no doubt wondered at the ferocious tigers and 
lions that are kept in great, strong', iron cages to 
prevent them trout jumping out upon the other ani¬ 
mals and upon people rhat come «to see the show.” 
1 ou mu it have not iced the tierce expression in 
their tyes as they gaze out. over the crowd ol’ 
curious visitors and Impatiently walk to and fro 
In their c iges, now and then uttering a suppressed 
growl that made your very boots tremble. You 
wondered perhaps that anybody would dare to 
catch and cage such animals, compared with whose 
strength and ferocity, the strength oi a man Is but 
feeble indeed. But your astonishment readied Its 
topmost bight when you saw the keeper enter the 
cage, open the jaws of one of the beasts,and put Jds 
head in between Its teeth. It would be certain de¬ 
struction ror anybody but the man who constantly 
trains them, to dot his daring deed: but for him 
they form in some cases a certain attachment, or 
otherwise get so afraid of Ids whip, that they per¬ 
mit him to take liberties with them wlUcil It would 
be folly lor anybody else to Imitate. And even 
keepers tire sometimes taught that nature is 
stronger than train big, ror occasionally wo read of 
some bdngkilled by the animals in tJieir charge. 
The Ilona anil tigers we see in shows are either 
born in some menagerie, and as they In that ease 
have never known what It is to beat liberty to roam 
over the plains and t hrough the woods, they have 
become •■domesticated ' to some degree: or they 
have been caught tu their native Wilds while they 
were still young. The natives of Bengal, and other 
portions of Asia and Africa, Where i iic.se animals 
the reader. There are exquisite illustrations or 
Air. Beard’s article, The Treasures of the Deep, 
ami tho letter-press is as entertaining as the pict¬ 
ure.. Mr. Benjamin’s second paper on Southern 
France presents some very novel illustrations. 
I’hebe Earle Gibbous writes about French Farm¬ 
ers. The Illustrations of the Brazilian article, At 
the MolithOf t in*. Amazon, and of Mr. F. u. Math¬ 
er’s winter sports in Canada, are very line. Mr. 
Horace E. Reudder’s admirable paper, Education 
by Hand, Is chiefly valuable for Its comprehensive 
treatment of the whole subject of manual educa¬ 
tion. 
A very interesting biographical sketch of the late 
Rear-Admiral Paulding, is contributed by Com¬ 
mander It w. Meade, t r . S. N. 
Probably the most popular thing In the Number 
is Will Carlctoh’s humorous and pathetic noem 
I may toll you another time yvhat we 
hid, Bertie. 
i thought of Nebuchadnezzar and ills fiery furnace. 
Fortunately, the cook would not allow me to be 
put in the oven and I was again taken to the royal 
table. 
The happy mid glorious moment at length ur- 
lived. The upper crust was removed—l started 
up to the sound or trumpet and clarion, it was 
then, that with my buckler on my arm ami my 
bilbo m my liaml, l executed a warlike danec. I 
was almost deafened with the applause pf those 
around me.” 
Haw* you any curiosity regarding the name of 
the “ knight of the pic ?’’ 
He was called Sir OeoIFrey Hudson, and Is often 
mentioned In anecdotes of Charles the First’s time, 
ills llret appearance at court was IBs being pre- 
sOhU'd In a pie. Our knight was but a diminutive 
HOW BOYS CAN MAKE MONEY 
, Thinking perhaps to encourage the boys who do 
not altogether like father’s ways, and wliu often' 
wonder whether he used to pick stones, or pull 
weeds, or hoe potatoes all day in the hot sun. while 
lie was a boy, yvlteti there was so much fun, and 
perhaps mischief, waiting forjust such boys. Now 
boys, although you may be looking anxiously 
towards your cousin who clerks in the city, who 
has line clothes and apparently an easy time; but 
don't be deceived, it is too often a delusion. 1 will 
tell you how i managed to go through w ith such a 
life and yel managed to driven trade an my own 
account. Before I was twelve years old, 1 had 
saved seven dolla rs a ml a hall by cutting and sawing 
wood, and by making flresln a neighboring church. 
In the month oi February 1 obtained the consent 
ormy parents to go lo a neighbor who had lately 
brought, a flock of sheep on his place, and buy as 
many sheep as 1 euuld with my seven dollars and 
a naif. The man was a kind, honest farmer, amt 
picked out three ewes that suited my faucy. We 
put them in the sleigh and I drove home the 
proudest f have ever been in my life. Father told 
me before f bought them that It 1 would take care 
of them lie would give me the feed. We had 
never kept Keep, and I did not know iiow to care 
for them; but we had a clever lured man vvbo 
helped me the best he could, ami with our com¬ 
bined efforts they grew Quely. in March I was 
wonderfully pleased one morning to lind a nice 
little lamb running around with it s mother. Soon 
1 greeted the advent of another, and Dually two 
more. 1 was now a proud boy. the happy owner 
of seven head all told They grew iluely, and In 
July l sold them all for twenty-one dollars, and 
the wool for live more, making in alia return of 
twenty-six dollnre for my nrst business venture. 
W. Goodrich. 
“• mawu uy vvyatt Eaton anti engraved by T. 
Com. There is also a paper on the Homes and 
Haunts of Emerson, in The TUe Club at Flay, is 
detailed the excursion of the Club to Easthainp- 
toii. The paper Is mude attractive by some ex¬ 
quisite engravings and uu account of the life or 
•loll 11 Howard Payne. The Fortunes and Misfor¬ 
tune!-, uf Co. ” 0,” contains a description of the 
actual experiences of a company m the Confeder¬ 
ate army. Jno. Leech, the English caricaturist, la 
the subject of a paper by Russell Sturgis, In Ac¬ 
tion, there are installments of Mrs, Burnett's Ha¬ 
worth’s and Mr. Boyesen's Falconberg; Pott’s rain¬ 
less Cure, a capital little story by Edw. Bellamy, 
and a peculiar romance by Maurice Thompson. To 
the Clergy, by Rev. Edw. Eggleston, l.s full of bright 
suggestions and amusing anecdotes. A sympoalum 
on the Chinese (’uestlon, by a. a. Hayes, Jr., con¬ 
tains the opinions of “distinguished representa¬ 
tive men." Including All Lee, Hon. Phellm Me Fin 
negan. Mons. Alphonse de la Fontaine, Herr Isaac 
Rosenthal, and others. The cover or this, number 
is a marvel of beauty. 
Aiti.Eton's Journal contains among Its numer¬ 
ous articles a su lking paper by Appleton Morgan, 
entitled The Shakespearean Myth, In which the 
authorship of the Shakespearean plays is studied 
fIInil a fresh point of view, going to show that 
Shakespeare could not have been the author or 
those plays. In bis article on Toleration, W. II. 
Mallncjc attempts to show that persecution 13 the 
inevitable consequence of profound and general 
belief, w. it. ( frog’s Verify your compass is must 
11| ’-' 1 ■’iHe and valuable. Deau .Stanley’s paper on 
the Historical Aspect of the United states is ex¬ 
tremely interesting, proving as it does, that we 
are not so defleient in historical aspects as some 
suppose. The Editor's Table Is more of a feature 
than ever under the new arrangement. The dis¬ 
cussion this month la upon Amending the Consti¬ 
tution, l he Nude In Ail, Novel Reading, each 
topic being Illustrated with fresh ldea-saud marked 
by close analysis. Some Modern Artists is uu ex¬ 
cellent criticism on Fortuny, Meliota, Leslie, Leigh¬ 
ton, Alma Tudema and other English artists. 
St. Nicholas contains the first Installment or 
Eyebrigbt. Susan cooledge’s new serial story. 
H. 11 , contributes a charming poem, Tho shining 
Little House, and Augusta Lamed gives the-boys 
and girls a peep Into ancient Icelandic literature 
in a short poem entitled Hehudall. Rumpty- 
Dudget’s Yonicd, Julian Haw thorne s bewitching 
fairy tale, Is continued. A Story pi stone, la a live¬ 
ly sllort article, written by Prof. D. s. Jordan, on a 
curious scientific subject. Little Nicholas, and 
BERTIE’S AND KATIE’S PICNIC 
RECENT LITERATURE 
Dear i. ncle M,uik.—B o you remember Bertie 
a nd Katie ; and how the boy of us, that is I, olice 
poked straws through the hives at the bees.; and 
Jiow the bees poked back, and now you carried 
mo away, as you said bees did not like to be poked: 
.md how 1 was crying too hard to even thank 
you ? Well I am i hut same buy, wise)- now. and 
want to tell you of our picnic. 
It was at South Haven, 
the - Lake Shore Peach Bolt,’ 
unj leal belt, of peaches thcr 
saw would make a 
Main siitea uM’ity lAte. By r. Dk Witt Tai- 
m aoi- jj. ij... Chicago Fairbanks & Co. Price ate 
heufcmd ot 1. u. Evuiib .V Co., 7it I asi stb St , New 
l DFK - 
This ts a collection oi the sermons recently de¬ 
livered by the famous Dr. in the Brooklyn Taber¬ 
nacle. The subjects dismissed, taken in connection 
with t he w ell-known characteristics of the author, 
as u preacher and writer, must Insure for the book 
a ready sale. 
ft is popular in some quarters to characterize 
Tainfage’s style or preaching as •• sensational 
granted that It is, ir, however, by striking out into 
new and •• Sensational” paths, he can bring men to 
a saving knowledge of their sins, why should we 
quarrel with his methods? That he is a power for 
good, few, ll any, will deny. Have we then, so 
many good toil deuces at work in this world of ours, 
Unit we can afford to sneer at and belittle any who 
work tor the salvation of men and the glory of 
(iod ? 
These collated sermons are to be specially com- 
rigln in the middle oi 
not that there ts 
e; though all we 
Pretty long belt, and all we ate 
would have made a wide rent in such a belt It. 
Is so called because a narrow oelr hugging the 
eastern side of Lake Michigan grows the largest, 
juiciest, luselouseat, meitlngesi peaches ever Lasted 
by boy or girl. 1 wish all the cousins had been 
there, with Uncle Mark to keep us straight, we 
would have treated the whole family. The peach 
trees wele so green that hall.,- said God must- 
have just been painting them, j said inn v be they 
hud been Paris-greened for insects. 
M oll, our plciuc was to be up the shove a few 
miles, tit a place called Thunder Mountain, 
i wonty of us, of whom two half dozen were 
children, were to go cm a cunning little steamer 
mimed “Skipper ” Just after v.D walked onto 
“ Skipper.” she made us children skip, tor she bel¬ 
lowed till she was fairly hoarse. Katie said it 
iinidi her angry for us to walk on iter, lutt t think 
she did It just to scare its little folks. Soon she 
gave two ringing, roaring shouts, ua If angry at 
being tied up, which 1 guess was true, for some 
men fairly ran to Untie the ropes that, held her 
last, when u Skipper’ Just skipped out of the 
river into the lake puffing and blowing as though 
she had tile asthma or else a bad Cold. l guess 
n was the latter, tor she just kept blowing her 
iiu-.e ot cry minute. 
In a few Minutes we were union the lake, and 
the fresh breeze, the dancing waves, and the 
locking “ Shipper,” were just more than jolly, 
the children all got on “ Skipper's” head, and just 
“ hollered” the whole of Unit ten miles. •• Skipper 
would throw tier head away up into the air. and 
then as If thirsty drop u quickly down to the 
water's edge, Rome of the folks were nick. This 
was too bad. Tor It v. us Just a tip-top tune to be 
well. We saw on the water a great many beetles 
and other insects, which papa said were blown 
over the water and getting tired or flying- were 
trying to swim. 
Just as soon as the boat touched the land we 
A KNIGHT IN A PIE 
Yes, areal, live knight, in a real, crisp, nice pie. 
Did you ever, taste of that pie v No. l think not, 
for it was cut open about two hundred years ago. 
Wouldn't you like to have been at that table upon 
which that Uvqly pic was put v Me thinks 1 hear 
some onesuy —they would have liked pies better 
tilled with cherries or peaches. 
1 am going to let ,Sir Knight toll ids own story. 
As he told It to—me v Oh, no, fur the Knight has 
been dead about one hundred and seventy-live 
years, so he nev ei had .in upportuaRy of giving 
me an account of how It all happened; however, 
he told somebody who told some one else, who 
told some other body who told me. Now, I win 
let the knight speak torlilmselr • 
“ Yes, sir, there was not a tiling which m.v royal 
mistress, Henrietta .Marla, could have required of 
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