HALF-HOUBS 



IN 



THE GREEN LANES. 



CHAPTEE I. 



BY A TABN SIDE. 



?HAT naturalist is there who Iocs not 

 know the treasures to be found in a 

 common pond ? Animal and vagetable, 

 here are to bo met with objects that 

 will find a twelvemonth's work for the microscope. 

 But even without having to employ that useful 

 instrument, the young student may acquaint 

 himself with the structure and habits of many a 

 strange organism. Of course, it is to no purpose 

 our recommending creatures like these unless you 

 have a love for nature. But if you have and we 

 pity the man or woman who has not you are in 

 possession of a faculty of enjoyment that will re- 

 main after fortune, friends, health, and even youth 

 have departed. The power to throw yourself on the 

 bank of some lonely tarn or stream, and give your- 

 self up to communion with the inhabitants of that 

 little world, to let your sympathies go out towards 



