ROSEBUD’S FIRST BALL. 
* ’Tis really time you were out, I think,” 
Said Lady Rose to her daughter small; 
“ So m send my invitations round. 
And give you, my dear, a splendid ball. 
“We’d best decide on your toilet first: 
Your sister Jacqueminot wore dark red ; 
But you are so much smaller than slie, 
I thmk you must wear pale pink instead. 
" Then whom to invite: we can’t ask all; 
And yet it’s hardest of all to tell 
The flowers from weeds,—indeed, last year, 
I snubbed Field Daisy, and now she’s a belle. 
We ll ask the Pansies: tliey’re always in 
The best society everywhere: 
The Lilies, Heliotropes, and Pinks. 
Geraniums, Fuchsias, must sm-e be there. 
Miss Mignonette is so very plain,_ 
A feyorite though,-ril put her down. 
The Violets, I think, are away; 
They’re always the first to leave for town. 
“The Larkspura are such old-fashioned things, 
It’s not worth while asking them to come ; 
The Zinnias are co.arse, Bergamots stiff. 
The M.arigolds, better off at home. 
“ Miss Morning Glory I’d like to ask, 
But then she never goes out at night; 
She’s such a delicate thing, she says, 
She scarce can bear a very strong light. 
“ The Verbenas, I know, will be put out 
If we don’t ask them ; the Petunias, too ; 
They’re not quite au fait, but then, my dear. 
They’re such near neighbors,—what’s one to do ?■ 
“I’ll make out my list at once, for there 
A butterfly is coming tliis way. 
I’ll send my invitations by him: 
He’ll go the rounds without delai'. 
“ Dear! dear! to think that to-morrow night 
You’ll really be out I Now listen, my child ; 
Don’t go much with your Cousin Sweet Briar: 
He’s very nice, but inclined to be Avild.” 
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bTRANGE CHILDREN-THE WOLF BOYS OF INDI/ 
BY Tm 
and^em. tradition that Romulus 
^d Remus, the foimders of the imperial citv were 
nursed by a wolf. Whether there was truth'in tte 
"■* ‘“™* PiWcanC 
■” • “-•’T Which' 
fled thi'ongh the forest thp cre atures 
nncouth gait, of one of thp p appearance and 
It bore somfCmLir^ 
ran on aU-fours and atlbout 
its brute companions. To satisfv 
determined to take it alive ^ ** cunosity, they 
were on borseb^k,^11^8^2^^’ they 
lead them a chase of TmfZll to 
^.bay. Then they became ceSn tha? 
b^. and although the discoml ^ T ® 
t^ desire to capture it, thev^f increased 
not to do it any injury. ^ endeavored 
The half-human, half-hi-ute creature fought and 1 
with aU the desperate ferocity of a real wolf, at the san 
time utteiing homble cries that ivere neither brute 11 
human. At length, after a long straggle, it ivas secun 
^iijured, by fhi-owing a blanket over its head, ai 
withraltVtor “ 
eight to ten years of age, tenibly repidsive in appea 
teUig^n^; whilst las habits were exactly those of 
finaiVtfte ; bii 
preferred. ’ ^hicli he ever afterwai'd 
mothb of the**^ff^rn**^® capture, the father au( 
abletoidenSprb, 2 rtt’"^"" discovered, they bein, 
been carried a,rav hv , 
old, and for seven ^ ^ 11 ®“ about two yeaii 
dead. 01 seven yeare they had supposed hin 
but they werrMtwe ^ ^stored to his parents, 
fully restored to them th s® wonder- 
or intelligence and“h?! feeling 
be died. They were'nii- I'x ^-fter his capture 
caged all the time Innlef^V*” ^bained or 
to a tree duiing 'the f u ^as fastened 
and played with He*^could 
fe^ed to travel on his hframl to? 
Still anotliGr wolf hntr ^ 
y s found in the same district 
