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Contents.
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| Under the Snow. Poem | Lilian Dynever Rice | 815 |
| Vegetable Clothing. (Illustrated by D. C. Beard) | C. J. Russell | 523 |
| Venetian Marquetry. (Illustrated by the Author) | Charles G. Leland | 866 |
| Waiting for a Cold Wave. Picture, drawn by C. Weaver | 738 | |
| Weasel and the Adder, The. (Illustrated) | Gerrish Eldridge | 907 |
| What Bertie Saw in the Flowers. Poem. (Illustrated) | L. G. R. | 536 |
| What it Was. Verses. (Illustrated by F. E. Gifford) | Malcolm Douglas | 701 |
| When Shakspere was A Boy. (Illustrated by Alfred Parsons) | Rose Kingsley | 483 |
| Wild Flowers, The. Verses. (Illustrated) | Jessie Penniman | 603 |
| Wild Hunters. (Illustrated) | John R. Coryell | 681 |
| Winged Seeds. Poem | Helen Gray Cone | 571 |
| Woe to the Foreign Dolly! Picture, drawn by R. Blum | 525 | |
| Wonders of the Alphabet. (Illustrated) | Henry Eckford | 538 |
| 621, 677, 771, 854, 925 | ||
| Work and Play for Young Folk. (Illustrated.) | ||
| A Rope Yarn Spun by an Old Sailor. (Illustrated by the Author) | C. W. Miller | 786 |
| Venetian Marquetry. (Illustrated by the Author) | Charles G. Leland | 866 |
Departments. | ||
| For Very Little Folk. (Illustrated.) | ||
| Riddles | M. M. D. | 630 |
| “Pretty Painted Bridges” | E. E. Sterns | 630 |
| “White Sheep, White Sheep” | ||
| “On Dormio Hill” | ||
| A Letter from a Little Boy | Ralph Ranlet | 710 |
| “Dude” and the Cats | 711 | |
| Riddles for Very Little Folk | E. E. Sterns | 950 |
| Plays and Music. | ||
| Easter Carol | William E. Ashmall | 546 |
| Jack-in-the-Pulpit. (Illustrated.) | ||
| Introduction—“Everything is Lovely, and the Goose Hangs High”— Girls! To the Rescue!—About Little Lord Fauntleroy—Fishing for Necklaces—A Suggestion to the Bottled Fish—The Newspaper Plant (illustrated)—One More Living Barometer, 552; A Bumble Grumble—Pretty Dusty Wings—Trees that Rain—Shooting Stars— Coasting in August—More about Turtles—A Fish that Weaves its Nest—A Clever Humming-bird (illustrated), 632; Introduction—The Seventeen-year Locust (illustrated)—The Great Lubber Locust (illustrated)—The Dog and the Queer Grasshoppers (illustrated), 712; Introduction— Longfellow’s First Letter—The Water-snake as a Fisherman—More Animal Weather-Prophets—A Useful Bird with an Aristocratic Name—A Wise Humming-bird—The Pitcher Plant (illustrated}, 792; Introduction—Poor Lark!—Those Mocking-birds Again—A Living Island (illustrated)—Wrong Names for Things —Who can Answer This? 872; Introduction—A Perfectly Quiet Day—How He Proved It—Walking Without Legs—A Queer Sunshade (illustrated)—A Queer Jumble—That Dear Little Lord, 952. | ||
| The Agassiz Association. (Illustrated) | 557, 636, 717, 794, 874, 957 | |
| The Letter-box. (Illustrated) | 554, 634, 714, 796, 876, 954 | |
| The Riddle-box. (Illustrated) | 559, 639, 719, 799. 879, 959 | |
| Editorial Notes. | 554, 634 | |
| Frontispieces. | ||
| “In Springtime—When Shakspere was a Boy,” by Léon Moran, facing Title-page of Volume—“A June Morning,” by E. C. Held, facing page 563—“a Fayette and the British Ambassador,” by F. H. Lungren, facing page 643—“The Captain and the Captain's Mate,” by Mary Hallock Foote, facing page 723—“The Connoisseurs,” after a painting by Sir Edwin Landseer, facing page 803—“Martha Washington,” from an unfinished portrait by Gilbert Stuart, facing page 883. | ||
