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KIDD'S OWN JOURNAL. 



except versifiers. They, poor creatures, are 

 a peculiar people, impotent of good works. 

 Ears have they, but they hear not, — eyes 

 have they, but they will not see. Nay, 

 naturalists assert that they have brains and 

 spinal marrow ; also, organs of speech. Yet, 

 with all that organisation, they have but 

 little feeling, and no thought ; and by a feeble 

 and monotonous fizz, are you made aware, in 

 the twilight, of the useless existence of the 

 obscure ephemerals ! 



These remarks are intended more particu- 

 larly for the eye of the gentleman alluded to 

 in our first article (see page 193). Versifiers, 

 he will see, are mere gingling jobbers, not 

 poets. We entreat him to mark well the 

 difference between talking, rhyming, and 

 feeling. 



ECHO. 



How sweet the answer Echo makes 



To Music at Night ! 

 When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, 

 And far away, o'er lawns and lakes, 



Goes answ'ring light. 



Yet Love hath echoes truer far, 



And far more sweet, 

 Than e'er beneath the moonlight's star, 

 Of horn, or lute, or soft guitar, 



The songs repeat. 



'Tis when the sigh in youth sincere, 



And only then, — 

 The sigh that's breath'd for " one " to hear, 

 Is by that one, that " only" dear, 



Breath'd back again ! 



Thomas Moore. 



SPRING AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 



Spring is coming, Spring is coming ! 

 With her sunshine and her shower ; 

 Heaven is ringing with the singing 

 Of the birds in brake and bower. 

 Buds are filling, leaves are swelling, 

 Flower on field, and bloom on tree, 

 O'er the earth, and air, and ocean, 

 Nature holds her jubilee. 

 Soft, then, stealing, comes a feeling 

 O'er my bosom tenderly, 

 Sweet I ponder as I wander, 

 For my musings are of Thee ! 



Spring is coming, Spring is coming ! 

 With her mornings fresh and light ; 

 With her noon of chequer'd glory, 

 Sky of blue and clouds of white. 

 Calm, grey nightfalls, when the light falls 

 From the star-bespangled sky, 

 While the splendor, pale and tender, 

 Of the young moon gleams on high. 

 Still at morn, and noon, and even, 

 Spring is full of joy for me ; 

 For I ponder as I wander, 

 And my musings are of Thee ! 



Dublin University Magazine. 



THE BLOOD OF ANIMALS. 



In a very interesting Lecture 

 recently delivered by Bransby Cooper, 

 before the K Royal College of Surgeons," 

 the subject of "Animal grafting" — a pet 

 crotchet of the immortal John Hunter, 

 was introduced, with the following curious 

 illustrations. 



John Hunter, said the lecturer, more 

 clearly recognised the great importance of 

 this fluid than any physiologist who had 

 gone before him. His views with respect 

 to the importance of the blood to the 

 animal economy, led him to the belief that 

 the blood was endowed with a life of its own, 

 more or less independent of the vitality 

 of the animal in which it circulated. The 

 following experiments seemed to have been 

 instituted with the view of establishing the 

 fact, that the blood of a living animal could, 

 even under the artificial stimulus induced by 

 the introduction of the part of another animal 

 into itself — by ingrafting, nourish and support 

 it, so as to convert it into a part of itself 

 Hunter transplanted a human tooth to the 

 comb of a cock, where it not only became 

 fixed, but actually became part of the 

 organic structure of the cock's comb ; he 

 proved this by injecting the cock's head, 

 and, on dissection (as the preparation on the 

 table illustrated), the blood-vessels filled 

 with the coloring matter of the injection 

 were traced into the capillaries of the living 

 membrane of the cavity of the tooth. 



The most striking instance of this incor- 

 poration of a foreign organic body with a 

 living tissue, was shewn by the learned 

 orator in another preparation made by the 

 immortal Hunter, in which the spur of a 

 cock had been removed from its leg and 

 transplanted to its comb, where it not only 

 continued to grow, but had acquired a far 

 greater size than the spur ever acquired in 

 its natural situation. The result of this 

 experiment involved a very interesting phy- 

 siological inquiry — how the capillaries, which 

 were destined by nature merely to furnish 

 blood fitted for the elaboration of the tissues 

 of the comb, should, under the stimulus of 

 necessity, to use Hunter's own expression, 

 be rendered competent to eliminate the 

 horny matter of the spur, even to the extent 

 of an hypertrophied condition. 



The orator then took an elaborate review 

 of the digestive organs of various animals ; 

 and found that, in certain instances, they 

 were capable of becoming modified to meet 

 contingencies to which an animal might be 

 exposed. By this change the animal might 

 be rendered capable of existing and even 

 thriving on a kind of food entirely of an 

 opposite character to that originally intended 

 by nature for its support and nourishment ; 



