PLAYING KING By _Alfred Selwyn_ 100
A TRUE ANTELOPE STORY By _Lloyd Wyman_ 102
THE APPLE TREE By _Clara Doty Bates_ 105
A COUNCIL OF HORSES By _Uncle Charles_ 106
THE PET OF THE SHIP By _C.E.C._ 108
THE UNMOTHERLY HEN By _C.R.W._ 111
A DRAWING LESSON 113
THE CHILDREN'S VISIT TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
By _Charlie's Mamma_ 114
GOING AFTER COWS By _W.T.O._ 116
ROLY-POLY By _Olive A. Wadsworth_ 119
ELSIE'S DUCKS By _Ida Fay_ 120
FISHING FOR TROUT By _Alfred Selwyn_ 122
WE THREE By _Bella_ 124
PET, THE CANARY By _Mamma_ 125
THE CAT SHOW By _Sallie's Mamma_ 126
GOING THROUGH THE CORN (_Music by T. Crompton_) 128




EDITOR'S PORTFOLIO.


With this number we begin on the last quarter of the year 1875; and we
have the pleasure of informing our host of readers, young and old, that
the prospects of "The Nursery" were never so encouraging as now. It has
not only held its own during these hard times, but gone on increasing.
Canvassers may take hold of it with the assurance that future numbers
will be improvements even on the past.