Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
January, 1 London Printseller, 4 A Test, “ Significant, “ The Thorn, 5 Old Man in the Corner, 6, 43, 82, 116, 145, 176 Don’t give up the Ship, 10 Cure for the Tooth-ache, 12 Either way will do, “ The Stormy Petrel, “ Bill and the Boys, 13, 69, 109, 139, 185 Pictures of Various...
January, 1 London Printseller, 4 A Test, “ Significant, “ The Thorn, 5 Old Man in the Corner, 6, 43, 82, 116, 145, 176 Don’t give up the Ship, 10 Cure for the Tooth-ache, 12 Eit...
2. CHAPTER I.The globe upon which we dwell is a small body compared with the sun, or with Jupiter, or Saturn; yet it contains many millions of inhabitants. The exact number can never be asce...
3. CHAPTER I.Jack was almost frightened at the fierceness of the little bird, but after a while he reached up his hand and took down the cap. You may well believe that he was greatly amused...
4. CHAPTER I.As I am about to tell my story, it is proper that I should say something of my birth, parentage and early days. About half way between Hartford and New Haven, in Connecticut, is...
5. CHAPTER II.In order to observe some method, in our account of the people of America, we shall introduce our readers in the first place to the Greenlanders, for I shall here consider Greenl...
6. CHAPTER II.Being now about seventeen years old, and having the reputation of being a pretty good sailor, I was offered a berth on board a vessel that was going to Surinam, a Dutch settleme...
7. CHAPTER II.It seems natural for mankind to love _accumulation_. When a child has got two or three pieces of money, he wants more, and his desire of increasing his stores, increases with hi...
8. CHAPTER III.In a former number we have given some account of the northern Indians, called Esquimaux; and as our readers may like to know how these people look, we give a likeness of one of...
9. CHAPTER III.My first idea was, that it was a mere night-mare; but when I recollected that I was in a strange country, and moreover remembered the adventure of the alligator, which had so re...
10. CHAPTER III.I shall not undertake to tell the whole history of the old hen and chickens, whose story is begun in the preceding chapter. If any of my readers meet with Jack, who is now a man...
11. CHAPTER IV.The present kingdom of Persia, called Ivan by the natives, covers a space of four hundred and fifty thousand square miles, lying between 25° and 40° N. latitude, and 44° and 62°...
12. CHAPTER IV.Our friend Jack, having made himself familiar with the peculiarities of the domestic fowls, turned his attention to other species of birds. He noticed particularly those which s...
13. CHAPTER IV.The sugar plantations, at a little distance, bear some resemblance to our fields of Indian corn. The cane has a broad, long leaf, with a jointed stalk or stem. This grows to the...
14. CHAPTER V.I could tell you a great deal more about the Indians, especially of the Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, and other tribes, which have been removed by the government of the United...
15. CHAPTER V.I must tell you that by this time, Jack had learned to read, and this was now a source of great delight to him. It often happened that he could not go into the fields to study n...
16. CHAPTER VI.In Mexico there are _seven_ kinds of people: 1. _Whites_, born in Europe; 2. _Creoles_, born of Spanish parents in America; 3. _Mestizoes_, or descendants of Whites and Indians;...
17. CHAPTER V.My readers can hardly imagine the bewildered state of my mind, occasioned by the scenes described in my last chapter. The little apes, who grinned, chattered, frisked, and froli...