eggs are of a bright or showy color, know how to conceal their nests in the hollows of trees; and either never quit them except during the night, or else begin to sit as soon as they have laid one or two eggs. On the other hand, he` thinks that the color of the eggs of those birds that build nests in exposed places, is much less attractive.

3. Among the birds whose eggs are white-the most showy color are the king fisher, which builds in a hole in the river's bank; the wood pecker, which builds in the hole of a tree; and the swallow, whose nest has a very small opening.

4. Eggs which are a bright blue, or bright green, are also said to belong to birds which build in holes, like the starling; or which construct their nests of green moss, or place them in the midst of green grass.

5. The eggs of the hedge sparrow, the magpie, and the crow, which are of a greenish blue, are seen from beneath, between the eye and the blue firmament. Nearly all the singing birds, it is said, lay eggs of a dull or dark color, variously speckled; and, for the most part, they built their nests in an open manner, of materials similar in color t the eggs.

6. This rather fanciful theory has been applied, also, to insects. The nettle butterfly, and many others, lay eggs of a green color, precisely similar to the color of the plant to which they are attached.

7. But however correct the above views are, as applied to birds, they will not generally prove true in their application to insects. The miller moth lays its light purple eggs on the gray bark of the willow. The puss moth lays shining brown eggs on the green leaf of the poplar.

8. The white garden butterfly lays a group of yellow eggs on a green cabbage or colewort leaf. Another insect lays very bright yellow eggs in patches, upon the green leaves of many sorts of plants; and another still, lays pink eggs on the bark of the elm.

9. This notion is not generally correct, either, when applied to birds themselves. For though the king fisher hides her eggs in a hole in the bank of the river, this does not prevent the water rat, with his keen eyes, which see as well in the dark as the light, from finding them out.

10. Many birds also, which lay bright colored eggs,

make open nests. The thrush, for example, lays her clear blue eggs with a few black blotches, on a clay colored nest. The green finch too, builds an open nest of green moss, lined with the blackest or the whitest horse hair, and yet her eggs are white, spotted with red.

11. On the other hand, the various kinds of wrens, which build their nests under cover, with a small entrance, lay eggs like the last mentioned; and the house sparrow, which conceals them, has eggs of a dirty green, streaked with a dull black.

12. Thus we see that mistaken notions have prevailed in regard to the color, as well as the origin of eggs. But the time which we have taken up in examining the subject, will not be lost; for we have learned many important facts in regard to the habits of quite a large number, both of birds and insects. But we will now say something of the number of eggs which insects deposit.

13. It is but lately, that in giving an account in the Rambler, of the number of eggs laid by certain fishes, we incidentally spoke of several insects. A common fly, it was said would lay 144 eggs; a spider 170; and the gall insect 5,000. An insect like an ant was also mentioned, which deposited eggs to the number of 80,000. A female moth we may add, will lay 1100.

14. But there are wonders among the insect tribe greater than this. The Termite or white ant is said to lay 60 eggs in a minute, and the posterity of one of them amounts in a year to 31,536,000.

15. One species of aphis-the kind of insect, we believe, which is found on the hop leaf, will lay 25 eggs a day; and may be the progenitor of 5,904,900,000 descendants during its whole life time.

16. The gnat, as I may show you more particularly in a future lesson, lays rafts of eggs at a time; for she actually deposits from 250 to 350, glues them together in a manner which we have not now room to describe, and leaves them to float on the surface of the water.

LESSON XCII.

A Tale of Truth.-TEMPERANCE HERALD.

1. "Он, where can my poor Henry be so late to-night? Go to the door Adelaide, and see if you cannot hear him coming."

2. "Dear mother, do not fear, he will come soon, I know he will; some business has detained him." But Adelaide's heart did not speak thus-no, she knew but too well that every night her brother stayed away till late, very late, and when he did come, his unsteady step, his poisoned breath but too plainly told her what 'business had detained him.'

3. Adelaide's father had long since left them, for a better world, and Henry was now their only protector. Their father had left them in good circumstances, and Henry was a merchant of high standing in his native city.

4. His career was similar to many others. He commenced with a glass of wine, in the drawing-room, and had now arrived at the pot in the dram-shop. His poor mother spoke to him of his ruinous course, but all in vain. He had taken the fatal road and could not stop.

5. The night on which my sad tale commences, was a dreary, stormy night, the lightning was flashing vividly, and the thunder rolling dreadfully across the heavens, and when Adelaide gazed anxiously out at the door, she could perceive nothing but a few glimmering lamps.

6. No human form was visible; all was wrapt in darkness and silence, save when the lightning gleamed, or the thunder roared.-"Had you not better go to bed, mother? 'tis very late, and I can wait for Henry." "No Adelaide, I fear something has happened to my poor boy, I feel a presentiment that.

7. A loud rap at the door interrupted the mother, and called Adelaide to the door. And there stood four men with a body, all bleeding and wounded, stretched upon a plank! Yes! there he lay, the support of the widow, and the protector of her daughter, cut down in early youth, by drink!

8. Would to heaven I could describe his mother's feelings, as she gazed on the body of her son!-That I could

tell you the agony that racked her heart when she thought, not that he was lost to her, but how he was lost!

9. Adelaide's reason left her, and she fell on the floor with an agonized shriek. She is now in the hospital! The mother had religion to support her, and said, "Thy will be done.'-But the shock was too much for her, and she now lies beside him who murdered her.

10. Henry had left the tippling shop at midnight, and with his head swimming with the fumes of rum, he reeled towards home; he came to a pile of stone in his way, and not perceiving them, he fell in among them, and one sharp stone entered his temple! Drunkards! this is a true tale Beware.

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LESSON XCIII.

Geehale An Indian Lament-N. Y. STATESMAN.

THE blackbird is singing on Michigan's shore

As sweetly and gaily as ever before;

For he knows to his mate he, at pleasure, can hie,

And the dear little brood she is teaching to fly.

The sun looks as ruddy, and rises as bright,

And reflects o'er our mountains as beamy a light,

As it ever reflected, or ever expressed,

When my skies were the bluest, my dreams were the best.
The fox and the panther, both beasts of the night,

Reure to weir dens on the gleaning of light,

And they spring with a free and a sorrowless track,

For they know that their mates are expecting them back.
Each bird, and each beast, it is blest in degree:
All nature is cheerful, all happy, but me.

I will go to my tent, and lie down in despair;
I will paint me with black, and will sever my hair;
I will sit on the shore, where the hurricane blows,
And reveal to the god of the tempest my woes;
I will weep for a season, on bitterness fed,
For my kindred are gone to the hills of the dead;
But they died not by hunger, or lingering decay;
The steel of the white man hath swept them away.

This snake-skin, that once I so sacredly wore,
I will toss with disdain, to the storm-beaten shore;
Its charms I no longer obey, or invoke ;
Is spirit hath left me, its spell is now broke.

I will raise up my voice to the source of the light;
I will dream on the wings of the blue-bird at night;
I will speak to the spirits that whisper in leaves,
And that minister balm to the bosom that grieves;
And will take a new Manito-such as shall seem
To be kind and propitious in every dream.

Oh! then I shall banish these cankering sighs,
And tears shall no longer gush salt from my eyes;
I shall wash from my face every cloud-colored stain,
Red-red, shall, alone, on my visage remain!
I will dig up my hatchet, and bend my oak bow;
By night and by day, I will follow the foe;

Nor lakes shall impede me, nor mountains, nor snows;-
His blood can, alone, ge my spirit repose.

They came to my cabin, when heaven was black:
I heard not their coming, I knew not their track;
But I saw, by the light of their blazing fusees,
They were people engendered beyond the big seas:
My wife and my children,-Oh spare me the tale!
For who is there left that is kin to GEEHALE!

LESSON XCIV.

A short account of the Government of the United States. THE government of the United States is divided into three branches, namely: the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary. The executive power is vested in the president of the United States; the legislative power in congress; and the judiciary power in the judges who hold the courts of the United States.

For the purpose of electing a president, the people of every state first elect a number of persons, who are called electors; those electors meet together at the seat of government of each state, and choose a person to fill the office of president.

The president holds his office for four years. He receives a salary of twenty-five thousand dollars a year.

The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States.

He has power, with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties with foreign nations, and to appoint public officers.