ws--The Red Mustang.= By W. O.
STODDARD.

=Prince Lazybones, and Other Stories.= By Mrs. W. J. HAYS.

=The Ice Queen.= By ERNEST INGERSOLL.

=Uncle Peter's Trust.= By GEORGE B. PERRY.

=The Adventures of Jimmy Brown.--The Cruise of the Canoe Club.--The
Cruise of the "Ghost."--The Moral Pirates.--The New Robinson
Crusoe.= By W. L. ALDEN.

=Toby Tyler.--Mr. Stubbs's Brother.--Tim and Tip.--Left
Behind.--Raising the "Pearl."--Silent Pete.= By JAMES OTIS.

=The Four Macnicols.= By WILLIAM BLACK.

=The Lost City.--Into Unknown Seas.= By DAVID KER.

=The Story of Music and Musicians.--Jo's Opportunity.--Rolf
House.--Mildred's Bargain, and Other Stories.--Nan.--The Colonel's
Money.--The Household of Glen Holly.= By LUCY C. LILLIE.

=Who Was Paul Grayson?= By JOHN HABBERTON.

=Captain Polly.= By SOPHIE SWETT.

=Strange Stories from History.= By GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON.

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[Illustration: IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SCHEME, BUT THE OLD LADY WAS ONTO
THEIR GAME.]

Poor Jimmie lisped, and his teacher entirely misunderstood his meaning
when he said, in answer to her command to conjugate the verb sink,
"think, thank, thinking, thunk."

BOBBY. "I don't like a bicycle built for two."

JACK. "You don't! why?"

BOBBY. "Because it encourages back talk."

[Illustration]

THE OBLIGING BEAR.

A Honey-loving grizzly-bear,
In a great bee-tree made his lair;
"There is a law," he told the bees,
"That honey sha'n't be kept in trees.

"I'll take it out for you," said he.
"Nay, nay, sir," cries the old queen bee,
"Take yourself off!" and then and there
The stinging bees fell on the bear.

HE WANTS TO KNOW.

TOMMY TRADDLES. "Papa, you call that little bit of a tiny wee engine a
donkey-engine, don't you?"

MR. TRADDLES. "Yes, my boy."

TOMMY. "Well, papa, won't that donkey-engine have to grow a great deal
bigger before it can have any horse-power?"

"Papa, I've got some mending for you to do. My roller-skates are
broken."

"Well, put them away till morning. It's too late to mend anything now."

"Why! you said this morning that it was never too late