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The Monk Bombyx-Chrysalis and Butterfly

The foresters equally dread another always as busy as a child on a holiday. moth, commonly called the monk or nun, Ants are day-laborers, and very induson account of its robe being laced with trious, too, in their calling; they always black and white like that of certain seem in earnest at their work . Catch devotees. It is all the more fatal because them asleep in the day-time if you can. its caterpillar attacks not only the cone They set us an example of industry. forests, but in addition all forest trees, such as the birch, oak and beech. Its butterflies are met with in autumn, and "Ants freely work without disguise :

Their ways consider, and be wise."

SONNG I WALKED a league alone beside the sea, I found a jewel lying on the strand; I stooped and raised it with a careless hand, Not nowing what its hidden worth might be.

And in an hour the jewel grew to me Dearer than any other in the land- And in an hour I lost it in the sand Whereon the surges murmured ceaselessly.

It may be there are others, rarely set And fashioned fairer, but for me I know There is but this one in the world; and yet Through all the years that shall hereafter flow I shall not find it ever. And Regret Moves mutely with me wheresoe'er I go.