THE WORM. 
I HAVE just come from the herb bed ; I have been 
hard at work at it all the day long, and I am sure 
it will now be hard to find one weed in it, and it 
was full of them when I w^ent to it. I dug the bed 
well over, and left no weed in it, and I then made 
it neat with my rake. When I was busy at work, 
I had the bad luck to cut a poor worm in two. I 
did not mean to do this, but I did not see the 
worm till I had cut it. It was a very long worm, 
and I cut the end of its tail off. We must take 
care how we dig; but you will be very glad to 
know that a new tail will grow on it, to make up 
for the one it has lost. This is very odd ; for we 
do not get new legs nor arms if we lose our own. 
