CHARACTER IN FEATHERS. 
—_—e— 
In this economically governed world the same 
thing serves many uses. Who will take upon 
himself to enumerate the offices of sunlight, or 
water, or indeed of any object whatever? Be- 
cause we know it to be good for this or that, it 
by no means follows that we have discovered 
what it was made for. What we have found 
out is perhaps only something by the way; as 
if a man should think the sun were created for 
his own private convenience. In some moods 
it seems doubtful whether we are yet acquainted 
with the real value of anything. But, be that 
as it may, we need not scruple to admire so 
much as our ignorance permits us to see of the 
workings of this divine frugality. The piece of 
woodland, for instance, which skirts the village, 
— how various are its ministries to the inhab- 
itants, each of whom, without forethought or 
question, takes the benefit proper to himself! 
The poet saunters there asin a true Holy Land, 
to have his heart cooled and stilled. Mr. A. 
