Front matter
Reading edition
ON THE BEACH.
Nature Readers. SEA-SIDE AND WAY-SIDE. No. 1.
BY
JULIA McNAIR WRIGHT.
“Then Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying, ‘Here is a story-book Thy Father hath written for thee.’”
Longfellow to Agassiz
BOSTON, U.S.A., D. C. HEATH & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1896.
Copyright, 1887, By Julia McNair Wright.
Typography by J. S. Cushing & Co., Boston, U.S.A. Presswork by Rockwell & Churchill, Boston, U.S.A.