ioo FRESH WOODS. 



trouble, but some have more of it than others. 

 I dare say, while under the water, from the 

 time when the egg falls from the surface to 

 the bottom, and through the various stages 

 of their aquatic existence, their life is tran- 

 quil enough. It is when they come to the 

 surface that their fate is varied like that of 

 mortal men. Some, like the fly whose tragic 

 history I have tried to tell, meet with nothing 

 but trouble and sorrow from the cradle to the 

 grave ; while others seem to be born into the 

 very exuberance of light and life and song, 

 dancing and singing in the sun their life- 

 long day. 



