| THREE SISTERS. |
| BITS OF ADVICE. |
| IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA. |
| BOUND FOR AMERICA. |
| BEATING THE PARISH BOUNDS. |
| A WILD OCEAN RIDE. |
| OUR BABY AGAIN. |
| PHIL'S FAIRIES. |
| OUR POST-OFFICE BOX. |
| Vol. II.—No. 79. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
| Tuesday, May 3, 1881. | Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
A May-Day Story for Girls
BY KATE UPSON CLARK.
"'Across the little covered bridge, and then along the village streetabout quarter of a mile.' Do go on, mother."
Pidgie Mullen looked up at her pale mother with a sweet, flushedeagerness, which brought her a trembling kiss, as Mrs. Mullen answered,"You know the story better than I do now, dear!"
"Yes," said little invalid Belle from her pillow on the lounge, "andthen you turned up the narrow north road—a very, very shady, coldroad—and went up hill, and up hill, and up hill. Oh, you tell it,mother, you make it so much nicer!"
So the tired little mother, working hard from day to day for herfatherless young brood, waited a few moments before lighting the eveninglamp for her sewing, and told the girls for the five-hundredth time thelovely story of how she used to go "May-flowering" when she was a littlegirl. Just as she was closing, a light step was heard on the stairs, andin came Cherry. Cherry was fifteen, and she took care every day—cominghome at night—of the children of Mrs. Lester, in the big house aroundthe corner.