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THE SUBSTITUTE. 
Often decked in brilliant colours, 
Green and gold and rainbow-tinted ; 
All tbeir feet flat and foui- joiuted ; 
Their antenna; like a necklace, 
All the pearls alike in biguess : 
These we call Chkysomelina. 
“ Lastly clad in mail of scarlet. 
Or in clearest, purest, yellow, • 
And in either case, black-spotted, 
Are these round and pretty beetles. 
Which we know as Aphis-feeders : 
They have short and clubbed antenna; ; 
And their feet are but three-jointed : 
Everybody seems to like them ; 
Lady-birds we mostly call them. 
Lady-birds, Coccineluna, 
Lady-cows if you prefer it, 
But why birds or cows I know not, 
They are very pretty beetles. 
“ There’s the end of my descriptions. 
Now I’ll tell you where to And them. 
How to catch them ” but the pupil. 
Tired with such a lengthy lesson. 
Bounded oft’ to join her sisters. 
Who with Ellen and xMaria, 
Dipping deep in Uokempokem, 
Fished that limpid stream for minnows. 
Sticklebacks and sly stone loaches: 
Vainly did I call for Laura, 
She had reached the youthful fishers ; 
So I left the bank and joined them. 
EXTRACTS. 
Psychology of the Lower 
Animals. 
This idea, by no means the ex- 
clusive property of M. Mieheler, 
J)ut common to him with poetic 
natures all the world over, may be 
briefty defined as that of the soli- 
darity of Nature ; the union and in- 
terdependence of all her kingdoms, 
and their interpenetration by a 
common spirit, of which they 
themselves, with all their glories, 
are but the exterior manifestation. 
Now, it is argued by writers of 
this school, the originating spirit 
or principle in question must of 
necessity be a mind. If so, the 
animate and sentient creatures it 
originates must themselves bear 
about with them the traces of 
mind. Conscciuently the physical 
science which deals only with ex- 
ternals helps the naturalist to ful- 
fil but half his mission, which 
needs to be completed by a scien- 
