The three adaptations, "Benjy in Beast-Land," "Moufflou," and the
"Porcelain Stove," have been made as sympathetically as possible.
Their introduction needs no apology, for they are exquisite stories,
and in their original form much too advanced for children of the
kindergarten age.

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN.
NORA A. SMITH.




THE ORIOLE'S NEST.

"See how each boy, excited by the actual event, is all ear."--Froebel.


There it hangs, on a corner of the picture frame, very much as it hung
in the old willow-tree out in the garden.

It was spring time, and I used to move my rocking-chair up to the
window, where I could lean out and touch the green branches, and watch
there for the wonderful beautiful things to tell my little children in
the kindergarten. There I saw the busy little ants hard at work on the
ground below; the patient, dull, brown toads snapping flies in the
sunshine; the striped caterpillars lazily crawling up the trunk of the
tree; and dozens of merry birds getting ready for housekeeping.

Did you know the birdies "kept house"? Oh, yes; they never "board"