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Title: Harper's young people
Year: 1879 (1870s)
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Subjects: Children's periodicals, American
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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the water, they would re-sume their natural positions, swim about the tank, andtake their food. When all was quiet they would careful-ly examine their old resting-places with their noses, andwhen satisfied would resume exactly the same strangepositions. As all fish have eyes which are without lids, and are al-ways open, it has been very hard to distinguish I heir sleep-ing from their frequent long periods of rest when not insearch of food. The question so often asked. Do fishsleep ; the possibility of which has been denied by mostnaturalists, is now definitely established, for the curiousactions o;the carp described are acknowledged to be abso-lute proof that long and sound periods of sleep were being-indulged in. I have often had gold lish become bent andrigid, and had supposed the cause to be paralysis, which1 generally cured by placing the fish in warm water, butI am now of the opinion that they were sleeping.(TO UK coNTixrrn. j Till-) FATK OK (IiaMIiLK TOWN.—Liv CAKKIK V. SHAW.
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HERE arc the ruins of Grumble Town,Andlierc is the pathway stretching downTo where the wafers su blankly frown In the face of the smiling sun;And there is the spot where the Princess sat,The vain little Princess Krncsiailt.While wishing the terrible wishes thatWere granted as soon as dune. The song-birds sang in the leafy wood.Hie frogs were croaking loud as they cimld,The sun was going to bed. as he should. When the cross little Princess wentAnd sat her down by the water-side,Anil sullenly stared in the rushing tide.And moped and ga/eil and grumbled andcried Till she gave her feelings vent, And said: I wish that the frogs would hush; I wish the waters would cease to rush ;I wish that the west would never flush With a sunset glow any more.But ever the sun keep blazing down,And burn the world to a coffee brown.And all of the people in Grumble Town. Prom the Palace down to the shore. The milk of kindnesswas turned to curdsIn the breast of a fairy who heard her words,And he hushed the so

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