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Vol. VIII.—No 25. May 21, 1887.

PHILADELPHIA JAMES ELVERSON PUBLISHER

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Advertising (inside front cover) Linda’s Crazy Quilt Davy’s Turn The Blind Girl and the Spring How to Make A Canvas Canoe How the Partridge Drums Frogs and Tadpoles Be Honest and True In Search of Himself In A Menagerie Stories of Dumb Creatures Puzzledom Subscribing to Golden Days Nature’s Sculpture Monument Park Backlogs Made of Stone Mamie’s Letter To Heaven Striking out for Themselves Jack Stanwood; or, From Ocean to Ocean International Lesson: The Passage Of The Red Sea What They Do When It Rains Jack-A-Dandy The Young Game-Warden Eight Good Riddles Cream of the Comics Our Letter Box Notices of Exchange (inside back cover) Advertising (inside back cover) Testimonials (back cover)

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(Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1887, by James Elverson, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.)

VOL. VIII. JAMES ELVERSON, Publisher. N. W. corner Ninth and Spruce Sts.

PHILADELPHIA MAY 21, 1887.

TERMS $3.00 Per Annum, In Advance. No. 25.