6 PREPACK 



For permission to reprint portions of several of the 

 following chapters the author is indebted to the pub- 

 lishers of "Harper's Young People," of the "Popular 

 Science Monthly," of " Garden and Forest," and of 



" The American," of Philadelphia. 



C. C. A. 

 Pkospect Hill, Teekton, N. J., 

 March SO, 1889. 



