Boston: D. Lothrop And Company
1885
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CONTENTS:
SOME-THING SWEET.
LIT-TLE ROS-A-BEL'S AD-VEN-TURE.
MORN-ING AT OUR HOUSE.
MOON FOLKS.
LIT-TLE CRUMBS, AND LIT-TLE DROPS.
IN THE DOVE COT—TWO KIND LIT-TLE GIRLS.
I-DA'S DOLL.
THE FAM-I-LY ROGUE IS CAUGHT AT LAST.
HOW DAN-NY SAID HE WAS SOR-RY.
MISS ROSE-BUD,
WHAT PA-PA AND MAM-MA SAW.
A FIN-GER SONG.—LIT-TLE KATE.
KATE FEEDS THE FISH-ES.
MEAS-UR-ING TOM-MY.
A LIT-TLE MAS-TER.
MA-DAME MOB-CAP.
UN-DER THE EAVES.
BO-PEEP'S STOCK-ING.
A GRAVE CONSULTATION,—"I SHALL LEAVE THEM OUT OF MY CHERRY PARTY."
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Yes, the rob-in's nest had
been robbed—their own
rob-in's nest un-der the bush,
with its dar-ling lit-tle eggs of
the true robin's blue! The
nest was pulled out and tip-
ped on the ground, and the
love-ly eggs were gone.
"I know well e-nough," said
Beth, "that those were the
ver-y eggs that your broth-er
Jim-my was a-car-ry-ing a-bout
strung on a straw, Sat-ur-day
af-ter-noon."
"Yes," said Bes-sie, sad-ly,
"he and Dick must have found
our bush and looked un-der
it, and pulled out the nest. If
they weren't my broth-ers, I'd
nev-er speak to them in this
world any more, no, nev-er and
nev-er! I'm sor-ry they had
to come in-to the coun-try with
us, they do so much dam-age!"
"O, you'll have to speak to
them," said Beth; "but when
peo-ple do cru-el things I do
think it ought not to go as if
they had done on-ly right! I
think they ought to be left out
a while, an' I shall leave them
out of my cher-ry par-ty."
Jim-my and Dick were Bes-
sie's broth-ers; but she a-greed,
and the boys got no cards for
the cher-ry par-ty.
"It is be-cause you broke up
the rob-in's nest," said Bes-sie
se-vere-ly. "It is to make you
feel that girls don't like cru-el-
ty to birds!"
AND JIM-MY'S AN-SWER.
Jim-my looked so-ber for a
min-ute. Then he kicked up
his heels on the car-pet. "Ho,
ho!" said he. "Such girls a-
set-ting up to pun-ish us!
Girls that wear whole birds on
their hats all win-ter!"
