Flora took the recipe, and the old woman died.  But poor Flora was so kind and generous a girl, that she gave the medicine away freely to all the sick people; nor did she try to keep the recipe a secret.

So, though she was not made rich by it, she was made happy; and, as weeks passed on, a man who was a doctor, and had known her father, came to her, and said, “Come and live with me and my wife and daughters, and I will send you to school, and see that you are well taught.”

“But how can I pay you for it all?” asked Flora.

“The recipe will more than pay me,” said the good doctor.  “You shall have a share in what I earn from it; and you shall help me make the extract.”

Flora now goes to school in winter; but in midsummer she pays frequent visits to “Flora’s Looking-Glass,” and thinks of the kind old lady who taught her so much about herbs and flowers.

ANNA LIVINGSTON.

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CHINESE SCENES.

I have two little girls here in China, who are constant readers of “The Nursery.”  They think I can tell you little readers at home of some pretty sights they see here.  They have asked me so often to do so, that, now they are tucked away for the night, I will try to please them.

In landing at Hong Kong, after a long voyage, it looks very odd to see the water covered with small boats, or sampans, as the Chinese call them.  In each boat lives a family.  It is their house and home; and they seldom go off of it.

They get their living by carrying people to the ships, and by fishing.  They have a place in the bottom of the boat, where they sleep at night; and, in cold weather, they shut themselves up in it to keep from freezing.  I went out in one of these boats a few days ago.  The water was very rough; and I was quite astonished, after being out some time, to see a pair of bright eyes shining from below, through a small crack, nearly under my feet.

Coming back, it was not quite so rough; and the owner of the bright eyes—­a little girl four years old, with a baby strapped on her back—­came “up topside,” as they call up above.  When the baby was fussy, the girl would dance a little; and so the baby was put to sleep in this peculiar fashion.

It is a very common sight to see a boatwoman rowing the boat, with her baby strapped on her back.  The child likes the motion, and is very quiet.  It must be very hard for the mother; but the Chinese women have to endure more hardships than that, as I shall show you in future numbers of “The Nursery.”

In cold weather, these people must suffer very much, they are so poorly clad.  They put all the clothing they have on the upper part of their body; and their legs and feet are hardly covered at all.  Fortunately for them, it is not very cold in this part of China.

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