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Title: Charley's Museum
A Story for Young People

Author: Unknown

Release Date: December 5, 2007 [EBook #23742]

Language: English

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[Illustration: CHARLEY'S HUMMING BIRDS.]

CHARLEY'S MUSEUM.

A Story

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

[Illustration]

PHILADELPHIA:

THEODORE BLISS & CO.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1855

BY H. C. PECK & THEO. BLISS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania.

Charley's Museum.

Charley Carter was a bright, active lad, of twelve years old, the son of
a farmer, who lived a few miles distant from Philadelphia. He was a very
great favorite of his uncle Brown, his mother's brother, who was a
wealthy merchant in the city. He was also a favorite of another brother
of his mother, who had been, for many years a sea captain, sailing to
all parts of the world. So, you see, our Charley, with a kind father and
mother, and two such uncles, was very well provided for.

Charley was a lively, inquiring boy, who liked to find out all he could
about the animals he saw, whether they flew through the air, or swam
through the water, or walked on the ground, or crawled in the dirt.

[Illustration: MR. BROWN AND CHARLEY.]

Luckily for our Charley, his uncle Brown had had, from boyhood, the same
taste for Natural History, which our little friend was beginning to
have, and you can imagine how pleased his uncle was to see this taste in
his little nephew. Our sea captain was pleased also, and so was his
father, and all three of them together, determined that our little boy
should have the opportunity and the means to cultivate his taste.

So, as Mr. Carter had a big attic to his house, with two good sized
windows fronting the south, he got a carpenter and had a nice room