| FUN IN A SUGAR BUSH. |
| TOBY TYLER |
| THE NATIONAL FLOWER OF JAPAN. |
| PUSSY WILLOW. |
| THE ANTS AT HOME. |
| AN EGYPTIAN BOOT-BLACK. |
| AN AWFUL SCENE. |
| PHIL'S FAIRIES. |
| CHILDREN AT TEA. |
| OUR POST-OFFICE BOX. |
| Vol. II.—No. 71. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
| Tuesday, March 8, 1881. | Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
FUN IN A SUGAR BUSH.
BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD.
"Well, yes, Jerry," remarked Salina Meadows, "old Mr. Wire'll be glad tohave anybody come to see him that knows as much about sugar as you do."
"It's all the hobby he's got," said her brother Phin. "He makes the bestmaple sugar in all these parts. Whitest and cleanest. Biggest lot of it,too."
"I've heard him say," added Rush Potts, "that no man was ever too old tolearn. Glad we could bring you along."
"There isn't much about sugar I don't know," replied Jerry Buntley,modestly, with a pull at his dog-skin gloves to make them fit tighter."You just ought to see a real sugar plantation once."
"I would like to," said Hannah Potts, all the red in her rosy facecoming to the surface to meet the wind that blew in her face from thedirection of old Mr. Wire's great forest on the hill-side.
They were all cuddling down in Elder Meadows's great box sleigh, andPhin Meadows was putting the sorrel span along the road in a way thatmade their bells dance lively enough, for the March thaw had only justbegun, and the sleighing was capital.
Jerry Buntley had told the