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Show For the Children Musical Canary That Rldti on the Dow of tha VIoltn. '- '- " -- ' ' " npiynfmajHBjHVKBM SSBSJJ N,ahC4WVBSH4 ; A ranary owned by a musical family In London demonstrates i . extraordinary extraor-dinary fondness for musical instruments instru-ments wbenover tho Instruments nro being played. Tho bird's behavior is n source of constant amusement and Interest It tiles to the koylionrd every time the piano Is played, where It dodges the player's lingers during tho performance. When tbo violin Is bo lug played It clings to tbo bow, no nint-tcr nint-tcr how rapid the player's passages arc. Fisherman A Game. Thero Is a game which Is especially Jolly for playing uround tho tablo nfter supper somo evening or Indoors any rainy afternoon called fisherman. A en tie or long stick must bo found and to one end n cord tied. Form tho opposite op-posite end of tho cord lnlo n very wido loop, Spread out tho loop end of the cord lint lu tbo middle of tho table, around which players stand or sit, nnd nsk each boy or girl to rest his forefinger fore-finger on tho tnblo lusldo of tho circle , 'which tho cord forms. Some ono acting act-ing as tlshermnn holds tho rod. Two commands nro given by this player. When ho snys "Your flshl" each player play-er must polso his forefinger ns described, describ-ed, but when bo says "My llshl" nil must remove their lingers with tho greatest celerity, for as ho utters this . last command the llshcrmnn Jerks up his rod with n quick lug, forming n noose, In which any unwary linger will surely bo imprisoned. Any fish taken counts a point for tho fisherman, fisher-man, who Is allowed to coiitlnuo until ho falls to catch a ll.sli lu bis noose, when some one elmi takes n turn at the rod The player catching most fish in his round wins the game, while the person who is oftcnest caught must pay u forfeit Instinct of the Ant. Of stories about the Instinct of the ant there are a great number, but tho following, told by Professor Levnllols, in one of (ho best- "One day I followed follow-ed n ant for n long time She wnH far from tho ant hill nnd seemed to have no intention of soon returning. In tho middle of the path she came upon tho dead body of a good sized snail. She first walked nil around It and then climbed upon tho ugly creu-turo's creu-turo's back, crawled all over It, and nfter this thorough examination, In stead of advancing, ns before. Immediately Imme-diately loturucd toward tho neat. When halfway there she met ono of her companions. In nn Instant they had touched or rubbed antennae with great animation, and she was pursu lug her course The samo performance perform-ance look place when the ant met a second and third of her companions, and as soon ns she had left them they .quickly turned toward tho spot where tho snail lay The first ant soon entered en-tered the nest, and I lost sight of her. Hut she doubtless continued her work of Informing Hip rest, for n long Hue ' of ants liniiipdlnlply came out and set forth for Hip piev Ten minutes afterward after-ward tbo Minll was entirely covered with the yellow swiirm. and by evpn-Ing evpn-Ing not n ti.n-e of It remained. "Playinq Possum." "Playing possum" lins hecotuc n com mon Pii.lng This lias originated from what Is populnih hello; oil to be Its habit of prrt'Midlng to be dead In this so called feitruing the breathing Is slow ind feeble ami tile nmveniuit Is almost oueeiiled l tin- Hid U tur. But hero I think that poind ir opinion l.s wrong Space Is too limited for detnlK but In stead of feign!!',' death the animal seems to swoon with leiror It Is In I'liuiprehensilile iliil mi small and de feneIos a ' n-.ituro should deliberately deliberate-ly place Itself In the power of tho en i-iny, but we i. in unilcrstnn I how it might faint with fright -St. Nicholas Animals and Folks, 'i'lie number of useful animals lu Hu world is Just about the same as the number of people. Australia lends will; sheep, India lends In horned cnttlo and tho United Slates and Itussl.i arc about oven In horses. The Sandman, At close ot day The sandman Bmv atldos swiftly on ttirmiKti TwlllRht Land Upon (its back Ho bcurs n anck Well filled with dustllko fairy uim With Gestures Krnnd Ha nils his hand And scatters sund now here, now then. And, though no bruuzo May Mir the treex. The sand bops llontltn; everywhere It fills your jtm, And with surprise Too rind your eyelids droopltvr low. When mother dv Bays, "Sandman's here," Ton shake your head, but know It's a. Youth's Coropnloa |