Vol. II.—No. 61. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | Price Four Cents. |
Tuesday, December 28, 1880. | Copyright, 1880, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
On the first page of this New-Year's number of Harper's Young People isa picture of the first New-Year's call of the season, which is one madeat the door of every house in the land just as the clock strikes twelveon New-Year's Eve.
The little fur-clad figure knocking for admittance is that of New Yearhimself, Master Eighteen Eighty-One, laden with promises and good wishesthat will, we hope, insure him a warm welcome from the sleepy watcherswithin the cozy room to which he seeks to enter. Even Miss Dolly, whomthe children have left on the cricket in the corner to watch the oldyear out and the new one in, and who does not look at all sleepy, willwelcome the little stranger in her own way, and he will quickly be madeto feel at home.
Now watch for him, dear children; he will surely c