THE GNAT. 
Look at the rain ! Does it not fall fast ! Look 
how it runs all down the roof of the barn, and 
from that on to the next roof till it goes into 
the rain cask, or butt, in the yard ; by and bye 
Ann will go for some of that very rain to put 
in the jug that is in your bed room for you to wash 
in, and I shall be very glad if I am able to show 
you, in the jug, what a Gnat is like when it has 
just come out of its egg. You know what a Gnat 
is ; you had a bite from one a day or two ago just 
as it grew dusk, and your arm was very red for 
some time. You have seen the Gnat fly up and 
