dies of the 1851 U.S. 1c. stamp, as they were printed with very
small margins. The 1851 extra line U. S. 3c. is identical with the
1851 die, but perforated. The extra line is at top and bottom only.
A. C. G. WILLIAMS.--Die B, fawn, star watermark, is very common,
and worth very little. The rare envelope has the die C stamp. In
this the head of Washington is egg shaped.
JOSIE S. GREY.--There is no 1775 Washington U. S. cent. For the
prices of the cents and half-cents see ROUND TABLE No. 842. The
other coins and tokens mentioned have no premium value. I do not
know the "Veto" token.
E. M. FAREWELL.--Old English telegraph and revenue stamps are not
collected in this country.
A. J. SELOVER.--The flying eagle cent, 1856, is worth $5. The other
dates do not bring any premium.
A. WALTER.--No premium on the coins mentioned.
S. M.--The legend "One Hundred Years" appears on the stamps of New
South Wales.
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which will give you prices also.
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[Illustration: A STEEPLE-CHASE.]
REGGIE'S CONVALESCENCE.
MAMMA. "Don't imagine you're sick, Reggie, or you'll never get well."
REGGIE. "All right, mamma; then I'll play off well, and go skating just
to stop my sickness."
* * * * *
"How is your little sister, Robbie?"
"She's getting well, she's taking celuloid milk." And he marched off
proud of having accomplished such a big word, for sterilized or celuloid
was all one to this little man of five.
* * * * *
"Mamma," said Clara, "the minister always says amen; when a lady prays
does she say awoman?"
* * * * *
BOBBY'S COMPOSITION.
PARENTS.
Parents are things which boys have to look after them. Most girls also
have parents. Parents consist of Pas and Mas. Pas talk a good deal about
what they are going to do, but mostly it's Mas that make you mind.
Sometimes it is different, though. Once there was a boy came home from
college on vacation. His parents lived on a farm. There was work to be
done on the farm. Work on a farm always has to be done early in the
morning. This boy didn't get up. His sister goes to the stairway and
calls: "Willie, 'tis a beautiful morning. Rise and list to the lark."
The boy didn't say anything. Then his Ma calls: "William, it is time to
get up. Your breakfast is growing cold." The boy kept right on not
saying anything. Then his Pa puts his head in the stairway, and says he,
"Bill!" "Coming, sir!" says the boy.
I know a boy that hasn't got any parents. He goes in swimming whenever
he pleases. _But I am going to stick to my parents._
However, I don't tell them so, 'cause they might get it into their heads
that I couldn't get along without them.
Says this boy to me, "Parents are a nuisance; they aren't what _they're_
cracked up to be." Says I to him, "Just the same, I find 'em handy to
have. Parents have their failings, of course, like all of us, but on the
whole I approve of 'em."
Once a man says to me, "Bobby, do you love your parents?" "Well," says
I, "I'm not a-quarrelling with 'em."
Once a boy at boarding-school went to calling his Pa the Governor, and
got his allowance cut down one-half. His Pa said he ought to have waited
till he was going to college.
Much more might be written about parents, showing their habits and so
forth, but I will leave the task to abler pens.
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A BIRD'S PECULIAR NEST.
There is preserved in the Museum of Natural History at Soleure, in
Switzerland, a bird's nest made of steel.
A pair of wagtails had built a nest near the town of Soleure, and a
clock-maker who had to pass along a road near the nest noticed something
peculiar in its construction. He stopped one day and examined it, and,
much to his astonishment, found it made entirely of steel. It was more
than four inches across. As Soleure contains several clock-making shops,
and the windows of these shops are frequently left open, the natural
supposition is that the birds gathered up the thin spiral shavings of
steel, and built their nest. The ingenious way in which these strands of
steel are made to fit into one another and woven so compactly, is
marvellous when the bird's trifling bit of strength is considered. A
bird's nest is often an indication of its surroundings, as in the case
of a city sparrow's nest, which is usually made of strings, bits of
cotton, wisps of straw and hay, tooth-picks, cloth, the hair of horses,
and such miscellany.
THE CHINAMAN'S SLED.
[Illustration: CHARLEY LEU'S BOB-SLED WENT ALMOST AS FAST AS MELICAN
MAN'S--]
[Illustration: BUT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF IT HE BADLY LACKED THE SKILL
ACQUIRED BY EXPERIENCE AND INHERITANCE.]
End of Project Gutenberg's Harper's Round Table, December 31, 1895, by Various