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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



Do sapsuckers ever drink water or 

 bathe ? 



Do other woodpeckers drink water 

 and. bathe? 



Mrs. C. S. Hartwell. 



LICHENS. 



By Frederick Le Roy Sargent, Cambridge. 



Mass. 

 A leaf-forsaken twig they beautify, 

 And o'er a ledge's harsh and frowning face 

 A smiling silken mask they softly place; 

 Upon a barren hillside, hot and dry, 

 Their mimic coral-reefs contented lie; 

 Or close beside a dead tree's shattered base 

 They lay, for lachrymal, grief's choicest vase 

 Imploring pity from the passer-by. 

 Yet look not for them in the verdant field 

 Or blossoming copse amid the rose's court 

 Of beauteous pleasurelings; their livery 

 Is consecrate to want, 'tis of a somber sort 

 Befitting toil, and is the safer shield 

 Defending them as doth humility. 



AUTUMN LEAVES. 



"The leaves fell brown and dead upon the 



streams 

 And in the many winding woodland-ways. 

 And the blue haze again upon the hills 

 And o'er the sleeping waters spread its veil 

 All faint and dim, and from the misty deep 

 Of the great stream was heard the lonely cry 

 Of the solitary loon that lingered still upon 



its bosom." 



Howard Worcester Gilbert. 



The commonplace is the grandest of 

 all things that the exceptional in any 

 line is no finer, better, or more beauti- 

 ful than the usual, and that what is really 

 wanting is not that we should possess 

 something we have not at present, but 

 that our eyes should be opened to see and 

 our hearts to feel what we all have. — 

 Dr. R. H. Bucke, "Walt Whitman." 



PHYSIOLOGICAL. 



THE APPENDIX. 



BY DR. S. G. SHANKS, ALBANY, NEW YORK. 



The small intestine or principal por- 

 tion of the digestive tract empties into 

 the large intestine (colon) at a point 



of this blind sac, so both may be more 

 or less taken together under the term, 

 caecal pouch. The special portion, 

 termed the appendix, is, in man, slen- 

 der and worm-like. It is usually at- 

 tached at the back and lower end of 



KuHMi Embryo 



"A/CovbkeU 



7lorse 



Sheef) 



about four inches above the apparent the caecum. It commonly hangs down- 

 beginning of the latter. This pouch or ward but may lie around the caecum in 

 pocket, below the junction, is named any direction. It may be one to six 

 the caecum (blind sac). The appendix inches in length and about one quar- 

 is developed as the terminal portion ter of an inch in diameter. To the ex- 



