CONTENTS OF PART II., VOLUME XII. ESTHETES, THE. Verses. (Illustrated by R. B. Birch).. ALIBAZAN. Verses. (Illustrated and engrossed by R. B. Birch). AMONG THE LAW-MAKERS. (Illustrated by W. A. Rogers). ANIMAL PAINTER, AN. Picture, drawn by J. C. Beard.... ANIMAL TRAPS AND TRAPPERS. (Illustrated by J. C. Beard, Alice Beard, and J. M. Nugent).. ANXIOUS MOMENT, AN. Picture, drawn by Jessie Curtis Shepherd.. BATH MENDI. Poem. (Illustrated by Henry Sandham). BATTLE OF THE THIRD COUSINS, THE. BEETHOVEN. BERRY AND FISH STORY, A. BONNIE JEAN. Author). (Illustrated). (Illustrated by W. A. Rogers) BROWNIES AND THE SPINNING-WHEEL, THE. Verses. (Illustrated by the .E. S. Brooks 949 661 BROWNIES AT SCHOOL, THE. Verses. (Illustrated by the Author). BROWNIES AT THE SEA-SIDE, THE. Verses. (Illustrated by the Author) BUSY WORLD, THE...... BUTTERFLIES, THE. Poem. (Illustrated by H. P. Share) CHILDREN OF THE COLD, THE. (Illustrated by W. Taber).. CIRCUS CLOWN'S DREAM, THE. Verses. (Illustrated).. } 625, 696, 786, 864 Verses. (Illustrated by Laura Hoyle Burr)... Walter Learned 695 560 609 GRANDPA'S OLD SLIPPER, AND BABY'S NEW SHOE. Verse. (Illustrated by E. W. } 576 GREAT BLUE HERON, THE. Poem. (Illustrated by R. B. Birch). GREAT BUT MODEST BEGGAR, A. Celia Thaxter. 776 Picture, drawn by Culmer Barnes 880 GREAT FINANCIAL SCHEME, A. (Illustrated by Geo. R. Halm and others)... Sophie Swett. 846 Frank R. Stockton. 896 Agatha Tunis.. 518 HISTORIC GIRLS. (Illustrated by R. B. Birch and others). HOW SCIENCE WON THE GAME. (Illustrated by F. T. Merrill) IN PRIMROSE TIME. Poem. (Illustrated) .E. S. Brooks.. John R. Coryell. ·549, 560, 576, 624, 640, 645, 660, 743, 830, 839, 860, 895, 932 Alice Wellington Rollins... 666 KNOWING LITTLE FISH, THE. Verses. (Illustrated by Boz). LAND WITHOUT A NAME, THE. Poem. (Illustrated). LITTLE DAME FORTUNE. (Illustrated by R. B. Birch). "LITTLE MAID, PRETTY MAID." Verse. (Illustrated by Walter Bobbett). LITTLE PEEK-A-BOO. Song LITTLE STAMP COLLECTOR, THE. Wade Whipple 661, 915 661 915 912 543 859 924 575 863 PEGGY'S GARDEN AND WHAT GREW THEREIN. (Illustrated by R. B. Birch). . Celia Thaxter.. Little Pisa and Great Rome.. PICTURES PLEASANT WALK, A. (Illustrated). "POLLY WANT A CRACKER?" Picture, drawn by Culmer Barnes. PULCHERIA OF CONSTANTINOPLE. (Illustrated by Albert E. Sterner). READY FOR BUSINESS; OR, CHOOSING AN OCCUPATION A House-builder. REIGN OF THE ROLLER-SKATE, THE. Alfred Trumble.. E. S. Brooks.... A. R. Wells.. 895 Irene Putnam. 668 Agatha Tunis 930 708 732 529 Allen G. Bigelow.. 828 Henry Frederic Reddall. 861 Laura M. Marquand. 904 501, 560, 575, 586, 605, 606, 640, 695, 720, 729, 731, 732, 741, 750, 760, 800, 816, 829, 852, 863, 880, 885, 940, 960 Laura E. Richards. 742 720 596 915 800 880 SYMPATHETIC TIME-PIECE, A. Verses. (Illustrated by W. H. Goater).. TRICYCLE OF THE FUTURE, THE. (Illustrated by E. B. Bensell). TRUANT KEYS, THE. Verses. (Illustrated by W. H. Goater from sketches by George A. Peple) "Two BRAVE BUT TREMBLING MAIDENS." Jingle. (Illustrated). Introduction Wade Whipple... 869 A Polite Mule-A Cannibal Daisy-bug- Fifteen Owners Wanted (illustrated) — The Gold Gate, 550; Introduction The Ink-plant — A Moon-rainbow- More About Ants - Why Golden Gate? "Sing, Sweet Bird" (illustrated), 632; Introduction Fifteen Feet and their Owners - An Apple- ee Indeed-Thousands for One Gown Some People's Queer Notions - Butterfly Head-dresses (illustrated Those Pet Beetles Illuminated Frogs, 712; Introduction · - Fifteen Owners Found - The Illuminated Fr s Again — An Illuminated Fish — A Tamed Welsh Rabbit — White Squirrels-"Ship Ahoy!" (illustrat, 1), 792; Introduction - Moon Rainbows and All Sorts of Things - Other Lunar Rainbows - Where Do ey Come From? How the Turtle Winks - A Good Book Hemiptera Homoptera (illustrated), 870; Inoduction "Dear Apple,-Wake Up!"- Baby Lions and Cats - How Some Bees Were Deceived — More About Surnames—What a Squirrel Mother Did (illustrated) — What About This? 950. THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION (Illustrated). THE LETTER-BOX (Illustrated). THE RIDDLE-BOX (Illustrated) EDITORIAL NOTES.. FRONTISPIECES. .556, 636, 716, 796, 876, 956 ·554, 634, 714, 794, 874, 54 .558, 638, 718, 798, 878, 958 554, 634, 714, 874, 954 "All on the Road to Alibazan," by R. B. Birch, facing Title-page of Volume-"Old Pipes and the Dry.d," by Kenyon Cox, facing page 561 "The Pet Fawn," by Mary Hallock Foote, facing page 643-"Little Dame Fortune," by R. B. Birch, facing page 723-"A Trip Around the World," facing page 803" Friends or Foes?" facing page 883. FRED HUMPHREYS was a boy of an original mind; that is to say, he was very fond of thinking for himself and doing things of which he had never either heard or read. This may or may not be a good disposition in a boy. It depends altogether upon what kind of a boy he is. If he mixes a great deal of reason with his original thinking,—if he is able to see when he has made a mistake, and is willing to acknowledge it,—and if he is of a prudent turn of mind, and is not willing to dive into a new enterprise until he knows how deep it is and whether or not the current is too strong for him, it may be very well for him to do his own thinking. But if he does not possess these requisites, it would be better, until he is older, to let some one else attend to this matter for him. Fred was an only son, and his father was desirous that he should find out as much as possible for himself during his boyhood. He was to be a business man, and would probably have great many ups and downs in the course of his ne; and Mr. Humphreys had an idea that if his son could get through with some of the "downs" during his minority, the experience he would thereby gain would prevent his having just as many of them in after life, when they would be much more important. When the bicycle came into use in this country, Fred Humphreys was one of the first boys who had one. When an improved form of the machine was invented, Fred sold his old one, and his father added money enough to what he received to buy VOL. XII.-31. one of the new kind. This change from good to better occurred several times; and when the tricycle came before the public, Fred gave up his last bicycle, and bought one of the three-wheeled machines, and, after using this for some months, he disposed of it, and became the possessor of a first-class double tricycle, that would carry two persons. Sometimes with his sister, and sometimes with a boy friend, Fred made excursions in this tricycle through the country round about the town in which he lived. This town was situated in the interior of one of our Northern States. It was much frequented in the summer-time as a watering-place, and some of the roads leading to hotels and places of popular resort in the neighborhood were unusually smooth and well made, and, therefore, admirably adapted to bicycles and tricycles. On these fine roads Fred and his machine soon became almost as well known as were the famous "tally-hos," with four or six horses, which in the season made regular trips between the town and various pleasant spots in the surrounding country. But, much as Fred enjoyed his tricycle, he became convinced in time that there might be something better; and as nothing better had, as yet, been invented by any one else, he determined, if possible, to invent it himself. The idea which gradually developed itself in his mind was this: If a boy can pull a vehicle, say a tricycle, at the rate of a certain number of miles per hour, and with an amount of exertion which he can keep up for a |