Chapter I: Front Matter

JULY

Vol. V. No. 9.

1885.

OUR LITTLE ONES

AND

THE

NURSERY

THE RUSSELL PUBLISHING CO.

36 BROMFIELD ST BOSTON

THOS. NELSON AND SONS, LONDON.

Copyright, 1885, by RUSSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY.] [Entered at the P. O. at Boston as second-class matter.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

A PICTURE JACK BARLOW 259
(Illustrated by R. W. Vonnoh.)

NAUGHTY NASNA LAURA E. RICHARDS 260
(Illustrated by Culmer Barnes.)

"CHOW-CHOW" BESSIE PEDDER 263
(Illustrated by Arthur Douglas.)

POLLY'S BABY M. D. BRINE 266
(Illustrated by Jessie C. Shepherd.)

HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK! PENN SHIRLEY 268
(Illustrated by Jessie C. Shepherd.)

A MEADOW SONG ELIZABETH A. DAVIS 270
(Illustrated by E. P. Hayden.)

OUR MOCKING BIRD VAN BUREN 273
(Illustrated by A. S. Cox.)

TROTTIE'S DOINGS JENNIE JUDSON 274
(Illustrated by F. T. Merrill.)

"SEVENTEEN, EIGHTEEN, MAIDS IN WAITING" MARGARET JOHNSON 276
(Illustrated by Jessie McDermott.)

THE PIGS' CHOWDER PARTY FRANCES P. CHAPLIN 278
(Illustrated by A. Buhler.)

PUSSY'S ADOPTED CHILDREN S. D. L. H. 280
(Illustrated by Ellen Oakford.)

SEVEN TIMES ONE DAY NOBLE 282
(Illustrated by Miss C. A. Northam.)

WHAT KATY DID AUNT FANNY 284
(Illustrated by Miss M. Humphrey.)

PULL THE WEEDS M. E. MCKEE 286
(Illustrated by Miss E. S. Tucker.)

THISTLEDOWN JENNIE JOY 288
(Music by T. Crampton.)

The Illustrative Department under the direction of Mr. GEORGE T. ANDREW.

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RUSSELL PUBLISHING COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS.

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