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markable deviation from ordinary circumstances, a contriv- 

 ance beautifully simple, yet perfectly 

 adequate to the end required. Does 

 not the conviction come at once, un- 

 sought, irresistible, like the light of 

 noon upon the open eye, that there 

 was a contriver, an intelligent maker? thorax and abdomen 



° OF A HYMENOPTERGUS 



And who is he but God ? pupa. 



C. — Yonder goes a red fox, crossing the road just before 

 us : he does not seem in a great hurry, leisurely leaping 

 along with light bounds, and occasionally stopping to look 

 at us. — He has gone out of sight among the young trees 

 in the swamp. 



F. — The fox does not appear very numerous with us, 

 though it is now and then seen. Richardson considers our 

 Red Fox a distinct species from the European, under the 

 name of Canis Fulvus ; but there is so little difference, that 

 Cuvier, a high authority, considers it as only a variety of 

 that species. In Newfoundland, the furriers distinguish 

 three kinds, the common Red or Yellow, the Patch or Cross 

 Fox, of a brindled colour, and the Black or Silver Fox, very 

 rare and valuable. A short time ago I saw a fox, which a 

 young man had taken in spring from a litter that he had 

 found ; he said that it was at that time quite black ; when 

 I saw it, it appeared to me very closely to resemble the 

 Cross, or Patch Fox. He was an amusing little fellow, very 

 shy and coy : he was chained to a post, and allowed to run 

 under the house : when I went to see him, it was difficult 

 to entice him out ; as it appeared, though familiar enough 

 with his friends, he was averse to making acquaintance with 

 strangers ; however, his master, by means of a bone, induced 

 him to appear, while I peeped at him round a comer of the 



