6 SUMMER 



"Yes," replied the applicant, with conviction; 

 "that is a Coccinella septempunctata." 



"Young man," was the rejoinder, "a feller as 

 don't know a ladybug when he sees it can't get my 

 vote for teacher in this deestrict." 



The "trustee" was right; for what is the use of 

 knowing that the little ladybug is Coc-ci-nel'-la sep- 

 tem-punc-ta'-ta when you do not know that she is a 

 ladybug, and that you ought to say to her: 



" Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home ; 

 Your house is on fire, your children aloue " ? 



Let us say, now, that you are spending your va- 

 cation in the edge of the country within twenty miles 

 of a great city such as Boston. That might bring 

 you out at Hingham, where I am spending mine. In 

 such an ordinary place (if any place is ordinary,) 

 what might you expect to see and watch during the 

 summer? 



Sixty species of birds, to begin with ! They will keep 

 ; you busy all summer. The wild animals, beasts, that 

 you will find depend so very much upon your locality 

 woods, waters, rocks, etc. that it is hard to say 1 

 , how many they will be^ Here in my woods you might \ 

 come upon three or four species of mice, three species I / 

 of squirrels, the mink, the muskrat, the weasel, the, / 

 mole, the shrew, the fox, the skunk, the rabbit, and \ 

 even a wild deer. Of reptiles and amphibians you / 

 j would see several more species than of fur-bearing , 

 / animals, six snakes, four common turtles, two sala- I \ 



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