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id: 40752
author: Various
title: The Nursery, January 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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  I never saw them before in my life, said he; but such little ones can't get across without help. 2. It stands in the hall, the mahogany tree; And very nice fruit it will bear, you'll agree; The turkeys and capons, the puddings and pies, On Christmas day feed something more than the eyes.


id: 40756
author: Various
title: The Nursery, May 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 4889
sentence: 366
flesch: 96
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summary:
  Little mouths are open From the hour she wakes, And to feed her darlings All her time it takes. Then sweet Mother Spring, with a sunshine kiss, Said something like this: Thanks, brave little crocus, so slender and small, For heeding my call While orchards were leafless, and snow-drifts staid In the all-day shade: You are telling us sweetly that soonest begun The soonest is done; That little by little makes up the great, And early obeying is better than late.


id: 40755
author: Various
title: The Nursery, April 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 4948
sentence: 362
flesch: 97
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summary:
  Then Lucy pats him, and says, Good little Jip, I will never forget you! And, if I really were a queen, I would put on my crown, And through the country everywhere Go walking up and down; And all the old folks, sick, and poor, I would have warmed and fed, And every houseless little child Should home with me be led; And I would love them all, and try To do the best I could To make the sorry people glad, The naughty people good.


id: 28140
author: Various
title: The Nursery, December 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 6 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5110
sentence: 329
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Mamma shuddered as she took little Lila into her lap for another bath and change of clothes. I wanted one, you see, that would remind me always of the way he came to me,--not a common name, such as other little dogs have.


id: 28143
author: Various
title: The Nursery, April 1878, Vol. XXIII. No. 4 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5301
sentence: 357
flesch: 95
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summary:
  Little boys would come and bow, and ask her to dance; but she had had enough. I do not like to see little girls and boys trying to act like grown-up people.


id: 28138
author: Various
title: The Nursery, October 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 4 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5450
sentence: 364
flesch: 94
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summary:
  Love me, little girls and boys, for I love you. Little Tony Peterkin was walking home from school, and wishing he had money enough to buy a copy of Virgil without going to his mother for it,--for she was a widow, and poor,--when he saw a man pasting this handbill on a wall.


id: 28134
author: Various
title: The Nursery, June 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 6 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5151
sentence: 359
flesch: 94
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summary:
  Little lambs now are in the fold, Little birds nestle from the cold. Dear me! thought I, how nice of little gopher!


id: 28142
author: Various
title: The Nursery, March 1878, Vol. XXIII. No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5464
sentence: 338
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Sometimes boys capture these queer little dogs, and they become quite tame and make cunning pets. I have seen crows sit on a fence on both sides of a kite, and provoke him by their talk, just as one boy often provokes another by saying saucy little things.


id: 28135
author: Various
title: The Nursery, July 1877, XXII. No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5590
sentence: 338
flesch: 92
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summary:
  In the brook are little fish; You would like them on a dish: Keep away, and bring no hooks To these happy, murmuring brooks. Go to bed, every one of you, you rogues! said papa, or I will put you all in prison for breaking the peace,--Where's my big whip, mother? I'll tell you where it is, papa, cried little Win.


id: 42160
author: Various
title: The Nursery, November 1881, Vol. XXX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5086
sentence: 350
flesch: 94
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summary:
  But we'll meet you in the May-time, Our merry, merry play-time: Little children, sweet good-day! We are going, little children, Sigh the flowers in the sun; Oh! we soon shall end our singing, Lisp the brooklets as they run; And the birds, with silver warble, Long before they wing away, Pipe, We'll meet you in the May-time, Our merry, merry play-time: Little children, sweet good-day!


id: 28136
author: Various
title: The Nursery, August 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 2 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5808
sentence: 371
flesch: 94
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summary:
  Both have cunning little horns, just coming out of their heads; but they do not hook little brother or me. One morning, Teddikins put a saucer of milk on the floor and what do you suppose that little Spitfire did?


id: 28131
author: Various
title: The Nursery, March 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5970
sentence: 395
flesch: 94
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summary:
  And why is little Ned, the baby, sitting up in the bed, as though he wanted to come too? Twinkle, twinkle, little star: How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky! DID any of you find the red star I asked you to look for last month?


id: 28130
author: Various
title: The Nursery, February 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 2 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 6035
sentence: 354
flesch: 93
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summary:
  At first the little fellows were very shy, and would not come near the shelf, but sat on the branches of the tree; and we fancied that we heard them saying to each other, Do you think that little boy would hurt us, if we should run down, and take one of those nuts? MY little lamb, in early spring, Was but a timid, weakly thing: His old sheep-mother did not own him:


id: 28132
author: Various
title: The Nursery, April 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 4 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 6116
sentence: 392
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Don't you believe it, little boy! And I will not go to school to-day, Said Master Frederic Philip Fay.


id: 40754
author: Various
title: The Nursery, March 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 6088
sentence: 385
flesch: 93
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summary:
  'There were plenty of men here, all in baker's caps; but instead of making buns, they were pouring out milk for two rows of little boys, who stood, each with a bib under his chin and a bun in his hand. Nice little sheep, please to go away!


id: 28139
author: Various
title: The Nursery, November 1877, Vol. XXII. No. 5 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 6099
sentence: 375
flesch: 93
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summary:
  HOW shall I make such little folks understand that the sun and the stars really stand still, when they seem to take a journey across the sky every day? The carriage came in good time; and Ponto does not know to this day but what he did exactly as he was told.


id: 28141
author: Various
title: The Nursery, February 1878, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5975
sentence: 346
flesch: 93
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summary:
  NOW the shadows gather fast, by-low time has come at last; Little birds have gone to rest, safe within their downy nest; Little lambkins seek the fold, warmly housed from wind and cold: Baby darling, you and I now must sing our lullaby! Poor little Daisy!


id: 40753
author: Various
title: The Nursery, February 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5936
sentence: 444
flesch: 95
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summary:
  Oh, what funny cats! cries little Bertie. They are such pretty little boys, and have such pretty red stockings too!


id: 28133
author: Various
title: The Nursery, May 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 5 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 5723
sentence: 346
flesch: 93
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summary:
  To his great surprise, the biddies were already enjoying breakfast; and again he heard little Jim behind him, shouting, April Fool! Poor little Jim looked very much troubled; for, if Rob said he could not be fooled, of course he couldn't be; and he did want to play a trick on Rob so badly!


id: 28137
author: Various
title: The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 6428
sentence: 385
flesch: 93
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  Well, we must try to make home pleasant, said little Anna, whose pale, pinched face showed that the pent air of the city had already begun to affect her health. Handsome is, that handsome does, Miss Ruth, cried little Anna.


id: 15928
author: Various
title: The Nursery, Number 164 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 6452
sentence: 470
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Pretty birds, pretty birds, what do you play, Flying about in the leafy spray! Little maid, little man, can't you guess? Little maid, little man, oh! 'tis fun, Roaming and sporting till set of sun: Roses and lilies so white and neat, 'Mong these we play at hide and seek.


id: 14493
author: Various
title: The Nursery, No. 165. September, 1880, Vol. 28 A Monthly Magazine For Youngest Readers
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words: 6929
sentence: 549
flesch: 95
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summary:
  Harry couldn't keep from crying, and they all said that if little Jack got well they wouldn't send him out after the ball any more. Then Harry's mother looked at Jack, and, after thinking a minute said, 'My dear Harry, I am very sorry; but I think we shall have to kill little Jack to save him from suffering.


id: 14170
author: Various
title: The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1875 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 7925
sentence: 586
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Who wants a nice pair of shoestrings? RUTH (_entering_).--This is a cold day, little girl, and you are thinly clad. That is my purse, little girl.


id: 17536
author: Various
title: The Nursery, No. 169, January, 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 7700
sentence: 621
flesch: 89
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summary:
  A Sample Number will be sent for 10 cents.= Address all communications to THE NURSERY PUBLISHING CO., 36 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass. THE NURSERY. Address THE NURSERY PUBLISHING CO., 36 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass. * * * * * PRETTY PAPER FOR PAPER DOLLS.


id: 19821
author: Various
title: The Nursery, No. 103, July, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 7832
sentence: 555
flesch: 88
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summary:
  I want to tell you, little boys and girls, how I spend my time all the day long. 96 PAGES of the size of The Nursery.


id: 16524
author: Various
title: The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 8475
sentence: 535
flesch: 88
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summary:
  As she came up the steps, leaning on papa's arm, little Bertie exclaimed, Oh, see, Freddie! I wish you would stay here a hundred years! said little Bertie to his aunt, one day.


id: 14335
author: Various
title: The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 8488
sentence: 605
flesch: 90
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summary:
  You have all heard of little Boy Blue, and how he was called upon to blow his horn; but I don't think any of you know what a search his father had to find him. Then Boy Blue said to his dog, Little dog, little dog, it's time for supper, and his little dog said Bow, wow!


id: 16522
author: Various
title: The Nursery, No. 106, October, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 8564
sentence: 522
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Mabel loves Carlo very much; and, although he is a large dog, he knows that he must play very gently with little boys and girls, and not hurt them with his great paws. * * ==LADIES==, you can have a clear complexion by using ==HARRISON'S PARIAN WHITE== face-powder.


id: 21047
author: Various
title: The Nursery, No. 109, January, 1876, Vol. XIX. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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mime: text/plain
words: 10539
sentence: 820
flesch: 90
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summary:
  Yes, in many families there is a Christmas tree, and Santa Claus does not forget that there are little children at the South also. A Monthly Magazine_ FOR YOUNGEST READERS.


id: 42159
author: Various
title: The Nursery, October 1881, Vol. XXX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 4586
sentence: 322
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Grandma heard about the squirrel, Straightway then did grandma make Many little squirrels like it,-- Only hers were made of cake! So Annie took her place at the piano; their mother seated herself to listen, with little Amy on her lap; and Charlie produced his flute.


id: 42161
author: Various
title: The Nursery, December 1881, Vol. XXX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 4914
sentence: 327
flesch: 93
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summary:
  A FUNNY little chin, A funny little nose, A funny little grin, Ten funny little toes, Two funny little eyes, And funny little hands: Funny little stockings Hanging in a row, Stuffed with sweet surprises, Down from top to toe,-- Skates and balls and trumpets, Dishes, tops, and drums, Books and dolls and candies, Nuts and sugar-plums.


id: 42156
author: Various
title: The Nursery, July 1881, Vol. XXX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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mime: text/plain
words: 5032
sentence: 413
flesch: 97
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summary:
  I wonder if I can't make that little boy take pity on me. 2 Hold tight to the ropes, little lady, ||


id: 42158
author: Various
title: The Nursery, September 1881, Vol. XXX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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mime: text/plain
words: 4818
sentence: 341
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Her face was so sweet and smiling, that Helen could not refuse her: so she said in French, How much are they, little girl? _Dix centimes seulement_ (only two cents), she replied. Hitting wretched little Tommy with considerable glee.


id: 28129
author: Various
title: The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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words: 12242
sentence: 1126
flesch: 86
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summary:
  Price =2.00= =Among My Books.=--Second Series. Price =2.00= =Will Carleton's Farm Ballads.=--With illustrations.


id: 42157
author: Various
title: The Nursery, August 1881, Vol. XXX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
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mime: text/plain
words: 5450
sentence: 380
flesch: 97
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summary:
  There was a big yellow cat, and a big gray cat, and a big black-and-white cat, and lots of little kittens. There are four kittens,--just two for each; but little Jenny wants to take them all up in her arms, though she can hardly hold more than one.


id: 17857
author: Halsey, Rosalie Vrylina
title: Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book
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words: 62435
sentence: 2581
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Hitherto little children had been perforce content with the few illustrations the adult books offered. The first, A LITTLE BOOK for children wherein are set down several directions for little children: and several remarkable stories both ancient and modern of little children, divers whereof are lately deceased, was a reprint from an English book of the same title, and therefore has not in this chronicle the interest of the second book.


