JOHNNY CROW'S PARTY JOHNNY CROW'S NEW GARDEN THE GOLDEN GOOSE BOOK The Three Little Pigs Tom Thumb The Golden Goose The Three Bears RING O' ROSES A Collection of Old Nursery Rhymes THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD, and other Old Fairy Stories A ROUNDABOUT TURN By Robert H. Charles THE NURSERY RHYME BOOK Edited by Andrew Lang

JOHNNY CROW'S PARTY JOHNNY CROW'S NEW GARDEN THE GOLDEN GOOSE BOOK The Three Little Pigs Tom Thumb The Golden Goose The Three Bears RING O' ROSES A Collection of Old Nursery Rhymes THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD, and other Old Fairy Stories A ROUNDABOUT TURN By Robert H. Charles THE NURSERY RHYME BOOK Edited by Andrew Lang

She does not so take them into constant companionship in her interests, each day,the books, the papers she reads, the things she sees,that they learn to hold her as the representative of much more than nursery discipline, clothes, and bread and butter.

I once knew the discontented wife of an eminent painter, with a brilliant intellect, who insisted that her husband should leave his studio and spend five hours a day in the drudgeries of the nursery and kitchen to relieve her, and that she should spend the five hours in her studio as an amateur,that they thus might be on an equality!

You know, Miss, that you gave me leave to run down to my aunt's this evening; and on my way backjust as I was letting myself in by the nursery gate, Mr. Raoul comes tearing up the hill after me and slips this into my hand.

Unconvinced by Polly's explanation of her meeting with M. Raoul at the Nursery gate, he had nursed a dull jealousy and set himself to watch, and had dogged his man down at length with the slow cunning of a yokel bred of a line of poachers.

The Inspectorate of Customs begun under Mr. Lay took shape under the skilful management of Sir Robert Hart, and from that day to this it has proved to be a fruitful nursery of reforms, political and social.

CHAPTER VIII: LA BREA We were, of course, desirous to visit that famous Lake of Pitch, which our old nursery literature described as one of the 'Wonders of the World.'

She was in the nursery when the thought struck her, rocking slowly in her low sewing-chair, holding the baby on one arm and trying to darn stockings with the other.

Harrie's was a strong, healthy little soul, with a strong, healthy love of life; but she fell down there that dreary afternoon, prone upon the nursery floor, among the yellow wedding lace, and prayed God to let her die.

The room adjoining ours was the nursery.

My wife was her own cook and nursery-maid a quarter of the time.

" All was finished at last, and Milly went up to the nursery and stood at the window, her bright brown eyes eagerly scanning and taking note of every object out of doors.

In an instant, without thought of consequences, the child darted to the nursery door and down the broad oak staircase.

"I was thinking," she went on, "that perhaps I could put my present for Him outside the nursery window on the ledge.

Alexander when he was presented with that rich and costly casket of king Darius, and every man advised him what to put in it, he reserved it to keep Homer's works, as the most precious jewel of human wit, and yet Scaliger upbraids Homer's muse, Nutricem insanae sapientiae, a nursery of madness, impudent as a court lady, that blushes at nothing.

'Only as this sister of mine is hardly out of the nursery you will have to wait for her at least a year.

When midnight came, and every one was asleep, the nurse, who sat by herself, wide awake, near the cradle, in the nursery, saw the door open and the true Queen come in.

So in the evening he went into the nursery, and about midnight the Queen appeared, and said "How fares my child!

Mrs. James, hoping to get along with a sentence or two, took her German book into the nursery.

Half of the time on the second day of trial had gone, when Amy returned and Mrs. James with a sigh, left her nursery.

On the last day of the old year, she was so much occupied in her preparations for the morrow's festival, that the last hour of the day was approaching, before she made her good night's call in the nursery.

In truth, I am by no means sure that everybody knew this before the publication of "The Man Shakespeare," and for the sake of a mystified posterity it may be well to explain that there was once a school of criticism that thought it indecent to pry into that treasure-house of individuality from which, if we reject the nursery hypotheses mentioned above, it is clearly obvious that authors derive their works.

but then he is always busy in the factory; and mother, she is mostly poorly, or shut up in the nursery with the little children, and often says, she's sorry that she has neither time nor strength to take me sight-seeing.

For the most part, setting out nursery seedlings has given better results than direct seeding.