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 alone " ? 



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 

 how many they will be. Here in my woods you might 

 come upon three or four species of mice, three species 

 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 

 would see several more species than of fur-bearing 

 animals, six snakes, four common turtles, two sala- 



