VI. 



WONDEES OF POND LIFE. 



The microscope is a -wonderful instrument. 

 Few purchases will afford so much enjoyment, for 

 after you have learned to use it, it will bring to 

 light thousands of curious minute living animals 

 and plants which, in your oddest dreams, you 

 never thought of. 



One who looks through it into a drop of water 

 thickly populated, looks into another world, as it 

 were ; for under the objective appear some of the 

 lowest forms of life, from mere masses of gelatine, 

 mo-sdng along upon the glass slide, which may be- 

 long either to the animal or vegetable kingdom, up 

 to the tiny specimens of Crustacea, the water fleas. 



Let's go to the pond, down by the willows, this 

 beautiful morning. It is as good a place as any to 

 obtain the tiny wonders, although life is every- 

 where : in the air, on the earth, flying and crawl- 

 ing ; even the mould on this stick, which we pick 



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