CHANGES THAT TAKE PLACE 



diseased, and lose their hair. Rooks and crows are 

 running over the ridges, busily seeking for this 

 larvae ; the swine find it out, and come in for their 

 share, and having finished here, they commence 

 grubbing in the grass lands. The insect now soon 

 takes wing, and then every tree in the wood or the 

 brake becomes a scene of plunder and delight to all 

 the train from the rookery the cats will eat him 

 every sparrow that flies by has a chaffer in its mouth, 

 captured on the wing or snatched from the spray, 

 and now to be pecked to pieces on the ground the 

 thrush feasts too, and all the poultry in the yard 

 are running after chaffers, or chasing each other for 

 the prize ; and thus this insect supplies in one state 

 or another a general feast to many. 



Surrounded as we are by wonders of every kind, 

 and existing only by a miraculous concurrence of 

 events, admiration seems the natural avocation of 

 our being ; nor is it easy to pronounce amidst such 

 a creation what is most wonderful. But few things 

 appear more incomprehensible than the constant 

 production and re-absorption of matter, impressed 

 upon us even by these very dorrs. An animal falls 

 to the ground and dies ; myriads of creatures are 

 now summoned by a call, by an impulse of which we 

 have no perception, to remove it, and prepare it for a 

 new combination ; chemical agencies, fermentation, 

 and solution immediately commence their actions to 

 separate the parts, and in a short time, of all this 



