x INTRODUCTION. 
that each seems to minister to the wants and the hap- 
piness of the other. 
There are many objects of great beauty and in- 
terest, which can only be observed to advantage in 
the morning There are thousands of beautiful birds, 
which are active and busy in hopping about the trees, 
and sometimes about the very doors of our houses, 
early in the day, that retire to the deep shade of the 
forests, and pass the sultry hours of noon in the tops 
of the tallest trees, and there remain so quiet that 
few are aware of their existence. 
Most flowers also open their petals to catch the 
first glimpses of the morning sun, at which time their 
colors are most brilliant, and their fragrance the 
sweetest. If, then, you would study Nature to advan- 
tage, you must devote to it the earliest hours of the 
morning. 
