MULE-RAISING. 



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A wise Providence has set the mark of sterility on 

 all such heterogenous offspring ; and while it has thus 

 said, as though in displeasure at the attempt to 

 transgress its laws, " Hitherto shalt thou go, and 

 no farther," — on the other hand, we read on the first 

 page of Holy Writ how, when God commanded the 

 water to bring forth abundantly every living creature 

 that moveth, and every winged fowl, each was to be 

 ''after Ids kind." In this way alone he bestowed 

 his blessing upon them, and commanded them thus 

 to replenish the earth. "What God hath joined 

 together let no man put asunder ; " and what he 

 hath put asunder let no man attempt to bring 

 too:ether. 



" God spake : the waters teem with life, 

 The tenants of the tloocls ; 

 The many-colored winged birds 

 Dart quickly through the woods. 

 High rushes the eagle 



On fiery wings ; 

 Low hid in the valley, 

 The nightingale sings. 



'God spake : the lion, bull, and horse 



Spring from the moistened clay ; 

 While round the breast of Mother Earth 

 Bees hum, and lambkins play. 

 They give life to the mountain, 



They swarm on the plain, 

 But their eyes fixed on earth 

 Must forever remain. 



