Year: 1875

Day and Night.-Blue-e eyed Charley
Day had n cousin near his own age,
whose name was Harry Knight.
When they were about eight years old.
and began to go to the public school,
the boys called them DAY and Night.


Charley did not object to the puns
the schOOlboys made but Harry was
quite vexed by them. Having quite a
dark skin, and very dark ewes and
hair, he thought the boys meant 10
insult him by calling him, Might


One large boy, about twelve years
old, seemed to delight in teasing
Harry. He would say tn him. Come
here, Night and shade my eyes, the
day is so bright" Then, seeing that
Harry was annoyed, he would say,
"Oh. what a dark night!n


Poor Harry would get angry, and
that made matters worse for then
Tom Smith would call him stormy
night" or a cloudy night" or the
''blackest night" he ever saw.


Harry talked with his mother about
it; and she told him the best plan would
be TO join with the boys in their jokes.
or else not notice them at all. She
said il he never got ont of temper,
the boys would not call him any
thing worse than Il ''bright starry
night And if he went through the
world with as a good a name as that
she should be perfectly satisfied


Don't take offence at trifles, Harry,
said Mrs. Knight. Don't be teased
by little nonsense. All the fun that
the bo can make out of your name
will not hurt you bit"


Harry was wise enough to do as his
mother advised, and he found that
she was right. The boys soon became
tired of their jokes, when they found
that no one was disturbed by them.
But the little cousins were always good
naturediy called "Day and Night


about Crickets.-I have before me a
pair of crickets. Crickets are lively
little insects, which are best known by
their singing. Most people do not
know exactly how they sing; Dut have
examined them closely, and So know
how they do il. Only the males sing;
and they sing by rubbing their wings
together.


The body of full-grown cricket is
about an inch long. The male, or sin
ger,has two tails about three -eighths of
an inch long and the feelers of both
male and female are about an inch long.
The female cricket has two tails in the
same place as the male, and another,
about twice as long, between the two.
This she inserts in the ground, and
lays eggs.


In the front of the head is sort of
a fiat plate, and below this plate is the
mouth, with two sharp jaws. They
have, also, some arms with bunch on
the end, with which they feel and push
in their food.


We keep crickets in box with holes
in it. One day, we thought we would
let them out 50 we took the box out of
doors, and opened it. When came
back at night, and looked in the box,
found that there were two or three
males, and about ten females in it.


put them out of the box, and tried
to make them stay out but found that
they all wanted to come back again
so | put them into some holes: for
crickets live in holes in the ground.


For food, they will eat grass, rice, po-
tatOes, beefsteak, and cake. | know
they will eat these things, for / have
tried them.


One day we were changing the crick
cts from one box to another, and,
while so doing, saw that there was a
tiny cricket, only about an eighth of an
inch long, which must have been born
in the bOx.-The Nursery.