INDEX. 



Kailway and Steam-Boat Dangers, 137, 150, 201, 



294 

 Eat Poison, 110 

 Eeason, 103 



Beward of Fidelity, 208 



Eoach and Dace in Ponds, How they spawn, 316 

 Eobin, The, 9, 255, 274, 363 

 Eoses, a Freak of Nature, 58 



The Moss, 396 ; The Bourbon, 413 



Eussian Violets, 331 



Salt-Cat for Pigeons, 268 



Scarlet Eunner, The, 318 



Shell Fish, Notes on, 141 



Ship-worm, The, 123 



Silk-worm The, 195, 213, 333 



Silk worn as under Clothing, 346 



Siskin, The, 273 



Skeleton Cat and Eat, 266 



Skeletons of Animals, — How to obtain, 365 



Sky-Lark, 28, 93, 110 



Sleep, Philosophy of, 144 



Small Pox and Vaccination, 47 



Smoking and Smokers, 25, 169 



Snakes in India, 386 



Soap, Substitution for, in California, 124 



Sound, Nature of, 145 



Spider, History of the, 275 



Squirrels, 13 



Starling, The, 61 



Summer-Heat in 1852, &c, 107 



Sunburn, 44 



Sunrise in Autumn, 152 



Surfeit in Birds, 203 



Swallow, The, 111, 187 



Talc, A Substitute for Glass, 379 



TALES AND SKETCHES. 



Curate and Apparition, 62 ; Fatal Gift, 269 : 

 First Love, 350, 366 ; Foreign Bailways, 149 ; 

 Give me the other Fig, 190 ; Green Silk Bon- 



net, 302, 318 ; Journey to London, 13 ; Lion 

 the King of Dogs, 246 , Olive Hathaway, 158 

 Particular People, 126 ; People of Importance 

 334 ; Philosophers and Philosophy, 397 ; Plea- 

 sure Party in July, 101 ; Slow People, 222 

 Two Shining Characters, — Grant Thorburn 

 and Jenny Lind, 206 



Tallow Greaves for Fattening Animals, 267 



Telescope, Craig's " Monster," 174 



Thrush, The, 42, 77, 89, 274 



Tiger Moth, 108, 171 



Toad, The, 267, 283, 315, 332, 394 



Toads and Wasps, 253 



Tobacco and its Victims, 383 



Two Full-Moons of July, 1852, 88 



Vampire Bat, The, 237 



Vanessa Antiopa, 157 



UrticEe, 391 



Vermin in Cages, 236 



Victoria Eegia, 299 



Vine Mildew, 364 



Vinegar Eels, 378 



Virginian Creeper, 317 



"Vocative" of Cat, 314 



Wasp, The, 154, 267 



Water Ermine, The, 200 



Welch Earebits, 60 



Wellington Mania, The, 339, 361, 362, 394, 396 



Whale, The, 381 



Wheatear, The, 45 



Whitethroat, The, 227 



Why and Because, 375 



Window Plants, Directions for Watering, &c., 140 



Wire Lace, 268 



Woman, and her dear little " Silver Bell," 379 



Woman, — the only one we ever failed to please ! 

 24, 78 



Woodpecker, The, 187 



Wood-Pigeons, 78 



World we live in, 121, 183 



