For Youngest Readers.
Reading edition
VOLUME XXI.—No. 1. BOSTON: JOHN L. SHOREY, No. 36 BROMFIELD STREET, 1877.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by JOHN L. SHOREY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. FRANKLIN PRESS: RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY, 117 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON.


IN PROSE.
PAGE
Work and Play1
Billy and Tom5
The Wise Hare and her Pursuers6
Gentle Jessie and the Wasp8
Friends in Need10
The Bear that put on Airs14
Drawing-Lesson17
What you do, do well20
In the Winter23
A Letter to Minnie26
The Hedgehog27
The Little Scissors-Grinder30

IN VERSE.
PAGE
Bumble-Bee4
Gretchen9
A Noonday Lullaby12
A Squeak18
My Little Sister25
Little Black Monkey29
The Old Year and New (with music)32


WORK AND PLAY.

