NATURAL HISTORY STUDIES 



one of them is quite like its parents, but each 

 carries with it a promise. It may be that the 

 promise is never fulfilled, for the playful lamb 

 grows into a very stolid sheep ; the very active- 

 minded chick becomes a most matter-of-fact hen. 

 But if the promise be fulfilled, then the world makes 

 progress, and that is Spring. 



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