Pages for Laughing Eyes

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Title: Pages for Laughing Eyes
Author: Unknown
Release Date: December 4, 2006 [EBook #20017]
Language: English
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Pages
for
Laughing
Eyes.

[Illustration: A THANKSGIVING SURPRISE.]

SLEIGHING SONG.
[Illustration]
Hurrah! Hurrah! for the jolly snow! Over it we lightly go: Dear sister is
so glad, you see, To have a nice drive in the sleigh with me, To have a
nice drive in the sleigh with me-- Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Hurrah! Hurrah for the ice and cold! Both very young and gay and bold,
We fear no snow, we fear no ice, There's naught in the world that is
half so nice, There's naught in the world that is half so nice-- Hurrah!
Hurrah! Hurrah!

FOOD FOR HER LITTLE ONES
[Illustration]
Over the lofty peaks of many of the mountains of Europe a magnificent
bird may occasionally be seen flying, while down in the valley, two
thousand feet or more below, a hen may be scratching worms for her
dinner, or a young lamb gamboling over the sweet meadow grass.
From that enormous height, even, the keen eyes of the eagle can detect
the movement of either, and she flies, or rather drops, straight down

upon the poor fowl, and with her powerful foot kills it at a blow, or
breaks the back of the pretty lamb with same terrible weapon. Then,
she rises upward with her prey, to feed the little ones she has left in the
nest.

A BUSY STREET
Here you have a picture of busy street-life in a great city. Everybody is
in a hurry and everybody wishes to get ahead. The man at the left has
loaded his wagon so high that he finds it hard to hold the reins. Do you
see the cunning little dog in the pony-cart? He means to see all there is
about him.
[Illustration: A BUSY STREET]

THE NEW DOLL'S CARRIAGE
[Illustration]
At Christmas Jessie had a pretty French doll given to her by her aunt
Amy. For weeks Jessie thought she had nothing more to wish for, but
in the spring, however, when the days were warm and sunny, and
nature called her out-of-doors, she found it rather inconvenient to take
her dolly with her every time. She couldn't use her arms for anything
else, you see, and like every other child, she liked to run and jump, and
pick flowers and other things that caught her eye. But, like a good little
mother, she thought her dolly needed the fresh air quite as much as
herself; so one night, at the supper-table, she said: "I wish I had a
carriage for Bella, then I could leave her in that when I went for
buttercups and violets."
Papa was present, and he heard her remark. In a few days Jessie's
birthday would come, and both he and her mamma had been thinking
of what they would give her then; for Jessie was such a good, gentle
child, seldom teasing for what she could not have, that they always

took especial care to remember her on such holidays.
The innocent hint was just what he wanted. So on the birthday morn,
Jessie found Bella seated in a beautiful little carriage, close beside her
chair at the breakfast-table. You may be sure she was a very happy
little girl then, and that she gave mamma and papa many loving hugs
and kisses for their thoughtfulness and love.

JOSIE'S FRIEND.
A TRUE STORY.
I must tell you what happened to my little girl, for we all thought it so
wonderful.
[Illustration]
She was a dear child, only seven years old, and so anxious to have a
friend all her own. One day I took her to Boston. She was wild with joy
at being allowed to take such a long trip in the cars. As the train
steamed out from Newport, Josie's happy little face was pressed close
to the window; but after a while she grew less interested in the fields
outside, and more so in the passengers near us.
"O mamma!" she whispered to me, "do you see that little girl opposite?
I want her for a friend so much!"
The child she had noticed was indeed a sweet