Happy Days for Boys and Girls   By: Various

[Illustration: {Three children playing}]

136 ILLUSTRATIONS

CONTRIBUTIONS BY

LOUISA M. ALCOTT, ALICE AND PHOEBE CAREY, C. A. STEPHENS, MARY N. PRESCOTT, WILLIAM M. THAYER, F. CHESEBORO, J. G. WOOD, S. W. LANDER, and others.

PHILADELPHIA: PORTER & COATES, 822 CHESTNUT STREET.

Copyright, 1877, BY HORACE B. FULLER AND PORTER & COATES.

PRESS OF HENRY B. ASHMEAD. PHILADELPHIA.

[Illustration: YOUNG FISHERS.]

[Illustration: {A bird and nestlings}]

CONTENTS.

PROSE.

PAGE Accident, The Louisa M. Alcott 280

Adventure in the Life of Salvator Rosa L. D. L. 84

African Elephant, The J. G. Wood 319

Animal in Armor, The 75

Aunt Thankful M. H. 253

Barn Swallows W. Wander 194

Birds F. F. E. 25

"Bitters" 203

Books and Reading 36

Bruin at a Maple Sugar Party C. A. Stephens 313

Camels J. G. Wood 339

Cave at Benton's Ridge F. E. S. 350

Charley 368

Charlie's Escape 109

Charlie's Christmas 79

Crippled Boy, The S. W. Lander 374

Daisy's Temptation 111

Daring Feat 183

Davy Boys' Fishing Pond L. M. D. 130

Envy Punished 271

Every Cloud has a Silver Lining 31

Faithful Friends X. 237

Fairy Bird, The Louisa M. Alcott 207

Fred and Dog Stephen 205

Giraffe, The J. G. Wood 188

Going for the Letters 198

Good Word not Lost 308

Gratitude of a Cow 196

Haunts of Wild Beasts C. A. Stephens 355

Help Yourselves Wm. M. Thayer 46

Holiday Luck Sara Conant 296

How a Good Dinner was Lost Fannie Benedict 256

How Maggie paid the Rent 227

[Illustration: {Children sledding}]

How Sweetie's "Ship came In" Margaret Field 96

Hunting Adventure 362

If; or, Bessie Green's Holiday 176

Iron Ring, The A. L. O. E. 76

It takes Two to Make a Quarrel 306

John Stocks and the Bison Author of "Drifting to Sea" 138

Kindness Rewarded 28

Kindness to Animals Robert Handy 284

Lace making 44

Lame Susie 261

Lion the Fire dog Benjamin Clarke 38

Lion on the Threshold 190

Marcellin 82