120 PEARLS AND PEBBLES. 



My little boy used to call them " little silver pies." 

 Great was the astonishment of the child one day, when 

 on raising the edge of one of these little cases out ran at 

 least a dozen tiny black spiders. 



What became of the family thus turned out of house 

 and home I do not know, but I fear they came to a sad 

 end. Jamie did not inherit his mother's aversion to 

 spiders, and the uncertainty attending the fate of the 

 " little dears " his curiosity had turned out into the cold, 

 caused the heart of the infant naturalist much concern. 



