"and I'm going up toward the big 

 house to stay until the weather gets 

 cold." 



" Mrs. Field Cricket has two hundred 

 eggs right here under this long grass," 

 he answered with great pride. "She is 

 welcome," returned his cousin; " for 

 my part I prefer quality to quantity." 

 And she turned away to take a peep at 

 the nursery which was warmed and 

 nourished only by the sun. 



"They will soon hatch out and dig 

 homes each for himself like my own 

 little ones," she said as she left them 

 and began her long journey toward the 

 farmhouse. " But mine will be wise 

 enough to get near to a barn or house 

 when they are grown up," she mused, 

 " so that they need not sleep all winter, 

 and they can be busy and useful to the 

 world busy, useful, cheerful, hopeful." 

 She stopped to say one or the other of 

 these good words often as she traveled 

 on and sometimes she said them all at 

 one time, as she pruned her wings 



which when folded, extended beyond 

 her body into long, slender filaments 

 like the antennae. 



At length, just as the maple leaves, 

 all brown and dry, were blowing into 

 heaps against the rosebushes and the 

 lilacs, Mrs. Acre Tidae reached the 

 farmhouse and slipped unobserved into 

 the warm, clean kitchen. 



She found a wide crack in the floor 

 near the big chimney and squeezed in, 

 digging it out to suit her body. 



u The babies are all safe in their little 

 holes by this time," she said, " safe for 

 the winter. Perhaps by next fall they 

 will be with me and we will all go out 

 at night to eat crumbs," and she began 

 singing, "Useful, cheerful busy, hope 

 ful." "Do hear the cricket," said 

 Linsey, " It sounds like the one in the 

 old log house." 



" They are all alike, I guess," returned 

 Harry, who was eating apples." " They 

 are always jolly sad, I reckon." " Use-ful, 

 cheer-ful, hope-ful," sang Mrs. Cricket. 



ANIMALS AS PATIENTS. 



TUT LEPINAY, the presiding 

 /Y\ genius of the bird hospital in 

 1 Y.I Paris, has found by experience 

 that his feathered patients 

 chiefly exhibit a tendency toward apo 

 plexy the dove is particularly ad 

 dicted to this complaint; consumption 

 follows in order of unpopularity, with 

 internal complaints occupying the third 

 place. In the case of apoplexy, blood 

 letting so popular a remedy in the 

 days of our great-grandparents is re 

 sorted to by means of a diminutive 

 lancet inserted in a fleshy portion of 

 the bird, and this is followed by small 

 doses of such drugs as quinine, bro 

 mide of camphor, etc. 



Apropos of dog's teeth, about a year 

 ago there was exhibited at a certain 

 show a very interesting and aged 

 schipperke, who was at that time the 

 only dog in the world boasting a com 

 plete set of false teeth. His owner, 

 Mr. Moseley, is a dentist as well as a 

 lover of animals, and it is entirely due 

 to his skill that the little dog is able 

 to eat with perfect comfort by the aid 

 of the artificial molars provided for 



him by his master, who, on another 

 occasion, provided a dog who had lost 

 a limb in an accident with an artificial 

 leg. The only horse possessing a full 

 set of false teeth was the property of 

 Mr. Henry Lloyd of Louisville, Ky., 

 who had its diseased teeth extracted 

 and replaced by a set of false ones. 



A swan that had had a leg run over 

 by a cart-wheel, causing a compound 

 fracture, was recently successfully 

 treated at Otley, England, while yet 

 another swan had an operation per 

 formed at Darlington some little time 

 ago that was very much out of the 

 ordinary. In this instance, the unlucky 

 bird had the principal bone in its right 

 wing fractured in several places, the 

 fracture presumably being caused by 

 a brutal blow dealt by some unknown 

 ruffian. A veterinary surgeon was 

 asked to give his advice, and on his 

 recommendation an amputation was 

 decided upon, and this he successfully 

 performed. The bird, sans a wing, was, 

 when last heard of, well on the road to 

 recovery. 



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