110 ANIMALS AND INSECTS 



many of the smaller ones, but he cannot make the 

 earth itself any finer. 



And do you know, the earthworm is not so different 

 from other animals, for all its shapelessness. It has 

 a gizzard much like the one cook takes from your 

 Thanksgiving turkey, only the earthworm's gizzard is 

 very, very tiny. It has a heart and a stomach, a brain 

 and a nervous system. Although it has no real legs 

 or feet, all along on either side of its body are pairs of 

 bristles, so small that they cannot be seen without a 

 magnifying glass. These serve as legs to the earth- 

 worm, and help it to make its way over the ground. 



Who would have thought that an earthworm was 

 made with such care! It seems so simple and com- 

 mon a creature to us. Just a worm! And yet in that 

 plain-looking little body a heart beats and red blood 

 flows. God made the earthworm and gave it, small 

 and shapeless as it seems to be, very important work 

 to do. It is His servant, and one of our helpers. 



There are so many friendly little helpers that I 

 never could tell you about them all. But some of 

 them are so interesting that you must hear about 

 what they do. 



Do you remember the name of those very small, 

 green flies that the ants milk as cows? Yes, aphids 

 is the name. They live on the underside of leaves and 

 on green stems. You remember, too, that the ants 

 sometimes take the aphids away from the shrubs 

 where they find them, and put them on other plants 

 with juicier leaves so they will give more honey-deWo 



Now in some places there is a family of aphids 

 that is very fond of the juice that they suck from the 



