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has six legs, and four wings, the upper pair 

 forming a cover to the lower pair. 



These points are sufficient, in a broad 

 and general way, to assign the creatures to 

 their respective classes the woodlouse to the 

 Crustacea, the spider to the Arachnida, the 

 centipede to the Myriapoda, and the earwig 

 to the Insecta. In such observations, and 

 most others which the beginner will make, 

 there is nothing new. Everything he notes 

 at first will have been already noted by some 

 one else ; but to himself his own observations 

 will have the force of novelty, and when he 

 reads the notes of others, he will appreciate 

 and remember better what they say, in respect 

 that he has witnessed the facts for himself. 



Kambles afield! What a pleasant train 

 of thought is suggested by these words to a 

 dweller amid arid streets, who has at a former 

 period resided in the country ! His mind is 

 carried back to scenes once familiar, but now 

 difficult to recall. He roves in imagination 

 over a chess-board of fields, in which the 

 squares are not black and white, but green 

 of many shades, chequered with white, yellow, 

 blue, and scarlet; or by the sides of rivers, 



