WHAT I KNOW ABOUT 



tobacco. These are important facts. It is sin 

 gular, however, that those who hold up the pigs 

 as models to us never hold us up as models to 

 the pigs. 



I wish I knew as much about natural history 

 and the habits of animals as Calvin does. He 

 is the closest observer I ever saw ; and there are 

 few species of animals on the place that he has 

 not analyzed. I think that he has, to use a 

 euphemism very applicable to him, got outside 

 of every one of them, except the toad. To the 

 toad he is entirely indifferent ; but I presume 

 he knows that the toad is the most useful ani 

 mal in the garden. I think the Agricultural 

 Society ought to offer a prize for the finest toad. 

 When Polly comes to sit in the shade near my 

 strawberry-beds, to shell peas, Calvin is always 

 lying near in apparent obliviousness ; but not 

 the slightest unusual sound can be made in the 

 bushes, that he is not alert, and prepared to in- 



