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markable deviation from ordinary circumstances, a contriv- 
ance beautifully simple, yet perfectly 
adequate to the end required. Does 
not the conviction come at once, un- 
sought, irresistible, like the light of 
noon upon the open eye, that there 
was a contriver, an inteUigent maker ? '"^^^^'^ ^^^^ abdomen 
' ^ OF A HYMENOPTEROUS 
And who is he but God ? pupa. 
C. — Yonder goes a red fox, crossing the road just before 
us : he does not seem in a great hurry, leisurely leaping 
along with light bounds, and occasionally stopping to look 
at us. — He has gone out of sight among the young trees 
in the swamp. 
jP. — The fox does not appear very numerous with us, 
though it is now and then seen. Richardson considers our 
Red Fox a distinct species from the European, under the 
name of Canis Fulvus ; but there is so little difference, that 
Cuvier, a high authority, considers it as only a variety of 
that species. In Newfoundland, the furriers distinguish 
three kinds, the common Red or Yellow, the Patch or Cross 
Fox, of a brindled colour, and the Black or Silver Fox, very 
rare and valuable. A short time ago I saw a fox, which a 
young man had taken in spring from a litter that he had 
found ; he said that it was at that time quite black ; when 
I saw it, it appeared to me very closely to resemble the 
Cross, or Patch Fox. He was an amusing little fellow, very 
shy and coy : he was chained to a post, and allowed to run 
under the house : when I went to see him, it was difficult 
to entice him out ; as it appeared, though familiar enough 
with his friends, he was averse to making acquaintance with 
strangers ; however, his master, by means of a bone, induced 
him to appear, while I peeped at him round a corner of the 
