ON THE MANUSCRIPTS OF GOD 



a smile may soften the asperity of an un- 

 pleasant truth. 



Not only are there in almost every pas- 

 ture hundreds of lowly plants and shrubs 

 whose acquaintance is well worth making, 

 but as many fascinating insects, worms, ants, 

 beetles, moths, and butterflies, which share 

 the honors of host and hostess to guests of 

 the pasture. Squirrels, chipmunks, wood- 

 chucks (a name which is a pasture title-claim 

 in itself), hedgehogs, "woodpussies," eu- 

 phemistically speaking, and sometimes cows 

 are also on the entertainment committee of 

 the pasture, and each one has much strange 

 and interesting lore to impart to those who 

 have ears to hear. 



The city man who thinks of a cow solely 

 as a sedate four-cornered animal that gives 

 milk will discover, on prolonged acquaint- 

 ance, that a cow, while not a sprightly or 

 vivacious quadruped like the squirrel, or tem- 

 peramental like a cat, has other than copy- 

 book virtues well worth the study of the 

 most intelligent biped. On her native heath, 



the pasture, one sees how nobly simple, calm, 



no 



