. St. Nicholas [serial] . airy-land of Science—More Yet—A Jelly Man-of-War (illustrated), 410; The Years at the Spring ?—A Wise Canary—Not a Very Hard Case—Those Cat Stories and Deacon Green—A Sub-American Canal—How did it Happen ?—Curious Optical Experiments—Report on A Story to be Written, 490. For Very Little Folk (Illustrated). How Rob Counted the Stars; A Bed in the Snow, 71—Three Friends; Kitty and Dodo, 172—The Fast GoatLine, 248—The Tame Crow, 328—Five Fives, 408—How the Rocking-horse Ate the Cake, 487. Our Music Page. Land of Nod. The Operetta E. S. Brooks 162 Romance Without Words IV
. St. Nicholas [serial] . airy-land of Science—More Yet—A Jelly Man-of-War (illustrated), 410; The Years at the Spring ?—A Wise Canary—Not a Very Hard Case—Those Cat Stories and Deacon Green—A Sub-American Canal—How did it Happen ?—Curious Optical Experiments—Report on A Story to be Written, 490. For Very Little Folk (Illustrated). How Rob Counted the Stars; A Bed in the Snow, 71—Three Friends; Kitty and Dodo, 172—The Fast GoatLine, 248—The Tame Crow, 328—Five Fives, 408—How the Rocking-horse Ate the Cake, 487. Our Music Page. Land of Nod. The Operetta E. S. Brooks 162 Romance Without Words IVm. R~. Bassford 412 Young Contributors Department. The Story Written 491 The Letter-Box (Illustrated) 76, 174, 252, 332, 413, 493 The Riddle-Box (Illustrated) 79. 175, 2S5> 335, 4^, 495 Frontispieces.—The Madonna of the Lily, facing Title-page of Volume—Once Upon a Time, facing page I— Fire-light Phantoms, 177— In the Tower, 257—Lady Jane Grey, 337—A Lesson on the Sampler, o Q. u O ST. NICHOLAS. Vol. VIII. NOVEMBER, 1880. No. 1. [Copyright, 1880, by Scribner & Co. J THE CREW OF THE CAPTAINS Sophie Swett. They kept the light-house on Great PorpoiseIsland—Aunt Dorcas (nobody ever called her any-thing but Darkis), Saul and Semanthy, Nick andLittle Job, and the Baby. Job Jordan (Aunt Dorcass brother and the chil-drens father) was the light-house keeper, butJob was, in the language of the Porpoise Islanders,a tarlented man, and dretful literary. Hischief talent seemed to be for smoking and read-ing vividly illustrated story papers, and he de-voted himself so completely to developing thattalent that all the prosaic duties of the establish-ment fell upon Aunt Dorcas and the children. The light-house would a ben took away fromhim long ago, if it had nt a ben for Darkis, theneighbors said. Aunt Dorcas did seem to have the strength often. She and the children raised a large flock ofsheep on the rocky pastures around the light-hous
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