S. Coley
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Influence of Small Things..
T is hard to say what is really little; many things which appear so turn out to be possessed of an importance beyond our foresight, and run on to issues over which we have no control. The difference of an inch in the fall of a rain-drop on a roof may determine, according to the slope it hits, the whole course of its percolations, and decide which of two seas it shall finally reach, though their waters are small skeletons and shells in a form that we call sand, wide of each other as the opposite shores of a kingbut which is wholly distinct from the ordinary sand dom. If we did not believe in the reign of a God, it of the shores or river sides. In the geological inves- would be terrible to think that life has in it turns tigations of the last few years, it has been abundantly equally decisive. demonstrated that vast rocky formations in various For instance, Cromwell was actually on board a parts of the world are, in fact, animalcule formations. ship in the Thames, one of a company set upon emi- The Pyramid of Cheops is built of a white stone grating from the country which afterwards he ruled, composed largely of animal concretions, commonly when, lo, before she could get off, down came an known as nummulites, from their resemblance to small "order in council" forbidding them to sail. Had the coins. The Mokattam hills of Egypt, from which monarch been prescient, how gladly would he have the stone of the pyramid was obtained, show not only let them go! Cromwell turned back to his fens, to the remains of trees and even of forests, but every become thereafter the victor of Marston Moor and variety of shell from the sea-water, and the masses Naseby and Worcester fights, and to give that sharp of rock are held together by dense agglomerations of these small nummulites. These, however, are large animals compared with those which form bars at Whitehall lesson to Royalists which a wit of the last age said has made kings ever since awake with a crick in their necks on Charles the Martyr's day.
Cradle Song.
Sleep, little baby, sleep !
Homeward have gone the sheep; The sun sinks. in the west; The birds. in the nest sare n :
Rest. then. in. slumber.deep!
Sleep, baby, sleep!
Sleep, little baby, sleep!
The . bright. . stars. at thee.. peep, ・レン Like angels. in. the sky; And mother foo is nigh, And watch and ward will. keep; Slecp. baby. sleep !