A Monthly Magazine For Youngest Readers.
Reading edition
VOLUME XXIX.—No. 1. BOSTON: THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY, No. 36 Bromfield Street. 1881.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1881, by THE NURSERY PUBLISHING COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.



IN PROSE.
PAGE
That Merry Christmas1
Baby and the Bird4
The Sheep follow the Shepherd7
"A Friend in Need"8
"In a Minute"10
Down the River after the Boy14
Drawing-Lesson17
Jack the Magpie19
Among the Holly-Bushes23
The Basket of Apples25

IN VERSE.
PAGE
Baby's Quiet Family3
A New Year's Dialogue5
The Christmas-Tree12
"Flutter, Flutter!"16
Christmas Bells18
Portraits for Little Folks21
Christmas (with music)32



THAT MERRY CHRISTMAS.

