IO LIVING CREATURES. 



''Sometimes they dashed into the stream; sometimes 

 they pursued one another so quickly that the eye 

 could scarcely keep up with them. A little further 

 along, I saw a man in a boat catching eels. While I 

 was looking at him, a heron came flying over my 

 head with large, flapping wings. After I had left the 

 meadow, I crossed the cornfields on the way to our 

 house, and passed close to a marl pit. I picked up 

 a piece of marl which was quite full of shells; but 

 how sea-shells could get there, I can not imagine." 



"What a number of new ideas this afternoon's 

 walk has afforded you! " exclaimed Mr. Andrews. '"I 

 do not wonder that you found it amusing; it has been 

 very instructive, too. Did you see nothing of these 

 sights, Robert?" 



"I saw some of them," answered Robert, "but I 

 did not take particular notice of them." 



"Why not? " asked Mr. Andrews. 



"I don't know," Robert answered. "I did not 

 care about them, and I made the best of my way 

 home." 



"That would have been right," remarked Mr. An- 

 drews, "if you had been sent on an errand; but as 

 you walked only for amusement, it would have been 

 wise to seek out as many sources of it as possible. 

 But so it is. One man walks through the world with 

 his eyes open, and another with his eyes shut; and 

 upon this difference depends the superiority of knowl- 

 edge the one has over the other. I have known sail- 

 ors who have been in all quarters of the globe, and 

 who could tell you nothing but the signs of the tip- 

 pling houses they visited in different ports, and the 



