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abdomen animal Annulosa antennæ arms Auburn baby beautiful bees blue-bottle body boys brittle star butterflies called caterpillar cavity cells Charles chrysalis cilia CLASS cocoon colour comb commenced common covered crab crustacea curious Decapoda delicate disc earth eggs EMMA LESLIE examine eyes father feed feet flesh flies flowers Frank fungia furnished garden head hive honey Hydrozoa inches insects kind large number larvæ legs lesson little creature living lobsters Mabel mantle Maxillæ moths moulting mouth Order organzine oyster pairs phero picture piece pollen polype proboscis propolis protozoa red coral replied rings round Scolecida sea anemone secreted sepia shell side silk skin slugs Smart snails soft spider spines spinnerets spinning sponge star-fishes stomach Story SUB-CLASS SUB-KINGDOM substance suckers surface Teacher tell tentacles things threads tiny vessel vicar Willie wings wonderful workers worm young Zoantharia
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Page 2 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 79 - WILL you walk into my parlour ? " said the Spider to the Fly, " Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy ; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I have many curious things to show when you are there."
Page 155 - I submitted a portion of it to my friend Sir Francis Chantrey, requesting him to try its power as a pigment, and he had prepared a drawing with a triturated portion of this fossil substance; the drawing was shown to a celebrated painter, without any information as to its origin, and he immediately pronounced it to be tinted with sepia of excellent quality, and begged to be informed by what colourman it was prepared.
Page 117 - Thou cheerful Bee ! come, freely come, And travel round my woodbine bower; Delight me with thy wandering hum, And rouse me from my musing hour. Oh! try no more those tedious fields, Come taste the sweets my garden yields : The treasures of each blooming mine, The bud. the blossom, — all are thine.
Page 168 - A Tale of the Druidic period, and deals with the conflicts of our forefathers with the Romans. Caught in the Toils ; a Story of a Convent School. By EMMA LESLIE.
Page 92 - ... a minute. Our little fly, in her swiftest flight, will in the same space of time go more than the third of a mile. Now compare the infinite difference of the size of the two animals (ten millions of the fly would hardly counterpoise one racer), and how wonderful will the velocity of this minute creature appear ! Did the fly equal the race-horse in size, and retain its present powers in the ratio of its magnitude, it would traverse the globe with the rapidity of lightning/* Bees, again, are accomplished...
Page 92 - In this space of time a race-horse could clear only ninety feet, which is at the rate of more than a mile in a minute. Our little fly, in her swiftest flight, will in the same space of time go more than the third of a mile.
Page 124 - With merry hum the Willow's copse they scale, The Fir's dark pyramid, or Poplar pale, Scoop from the Alder's leaf its oozy flood, Or strip the Chestnut's resin-coated bud, Skim the light tear that tips Narcissus' ray, Or round the Hollyhock's hoar fragrance play.
Page 117 - THOU cheerful bee ! come, freely come, And travel round my woodbine bower ; Delight me with thy wandering hum, And rouse me from my musing hour ; Oh ! try no more yon tedious fields, Come taste the sweets my garden yields ; The treasure of each blooming mine, The bud, the blossom — all are thine.