May 15. ISso.) 



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April 28 at lOi o'clock. 

 May 2 at 104 o'clock. 

 May 6 at 10 o'clock. 



NIGHT SKY FOR MAY (First Map of Paik), 



Showing the heavens as they appear at the following hours : — 



May 9 at 9j o'clock. 

 May 13 at 9^ o'clock. 



May 17 at 9k o'clock. 

 May 21 at 9 o'clock. 



slitting the clog's ear -with a large pair of scissors ! Out 

 crept the dog, panting and bleeding, followed by his little 

 tormentor. Papa, of course, was very indignant, and 

 seizing the child, who began to sob with terror, announced 

 his intern ion of administering condign punishment, which 

 he would have done instantly had not the victim interfered. 

 Waggi' g his tail (just as he in doing now, for lie knows 

 I'm telling aliout him !)thenoV)le fellow rose up, put liis paws 

 on the child's shoulders, and alieotionately licked his face ; 

 then lookinj; at his master, said plainly, in the canine deaf 

 and dumb al])hnbet, " Don't beat him ! plea.se don't ! He's 

 only an undeveloped human being ; he knows no better, and 



— I love him ! " Could human kindness and magnanimity 

 go further 1 Yet I don't suppose you will contend that the 

 poor dog's loving instinct was tnou!;h to di.stinguish him 

 from the other " b< asts that perish ^ " 



My.self — I'm not sure ! Why should not even a dog 

 have a soul like any other respectable Christian 1 



Lewes — Why not, indeed ! I have known many so- 

 called Christians who have neither the amiability nor the 

 discrimination of this dog. 



George Eliot — Then here we halt on the horns of a 

 dilemma. Every one with a large acquaintance among 

 decent and "gentleman-like" dogs (as Launce would put 



