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Mole.

“example, we have partly done this, and what was
originally a waste or forest is now planted with
flowers and fruit-trees, and is in a high state of cul-
tivation. We must, therefore, adopt the balance of
nature so far as we can to this new state of things,
and take special care lest the abundance of our
feathered friends do not rob us of the fruits of our
labour.

I hope what you have read in these papers, dear

Hedgehog,

Frogs.

| children, will be of some help to*you in teaching you
to look more lovingly upon the creatures which fill
our eyes with beauty or our souls with melody, that
it will induce you to look upon them with reverence
as your fellow-creatures—created, that is, and fed by
the same Heavenly Father who created and feeds you,
and that it may make you try to join them as they
send up from earth to heaven every day a happy
song of thankfulness and praise.