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Show OUIJ LITTLB PRAY linLI'nn. Vmnlr lkrliit hy alare, trt It j llm ltU irfk Writ I Myrtn lekett Avery, under th , above title, telle In the June L Nleho j la of the work done by the huinbl. , earth-worm, ahe aaya: We have I little gray helper, who cannot heal or fee, or make nolee He weara a lit tie gray coat, and he Uvea In tiny caret vtlilrh he burrow out for hlmaelf. Oui tlo gray helper haa no fret ao hoerawli Ha worke busily for u all day Ii the ground under our feet, coming on chiefly at night for hi food. Then lit doea not take anything that any one wnnta, but only fallen leavo and UU of ituft thnt no one care about, ant , that are beat out of the way. Althougl much lesa fortunate than we, havlni neither leg, nor feet, nor hande, no eyea, nor ear, ho haa all that la necc eary to the performance of the work lu haa to tlo, and elneo our little gra; helper ha all he needi, and does hi work, and doc It well, wo may thlnl of him n being quite content ant happy. And alnc the work thnt h doca for ua la very necemary and Im i portant work, and alnco he don It cieellently well we n not regard him with lee that i respect. Ho ha a lyatcm o blood veaaela, a nervoua-ayatem, and- I yr. a brain. When you come to con ' alder him under microscope, and In ro latlon to the work he ha to do, h la quite an Interesting and eiqulalto LI I ot raechanlam. He utea hla brain, am ' haa wladotn to know what to eat ant i how to get It. Though he haa neltlio : eyea nor band, before taking any thing Into hla rave he eiamlnr I carefully by mean ot hi one ctie touch, nnd with hi little upper Up which the aclontlata call prottorolum Thla Up (a very irnaltlve. He la pru dtnt and thrifty, alwaya dragging Intt hla little houas enough to aerure bin agalnit the coming ttiy, for blind ant doat aa ha la, he knowa It la not wlai to be out In the day time, for tho bird; and their babies like him entirely tot well. He alao knowa that, tolng of i chilly nature, he will need to be wrap ped up a bit when he goea to aleep It hla rave, ao he make bla own llttlt bed of leave of graa and blta of leavw which he baa dragged In with the lit tie Up that doe so much. He aeemi to Ilka fresh air when he can gt It o he test with hi heed near thi mouth of hla rare; and Mother Nature roallilng that this might give Hoblt Itrdbrxait an unfair advantage ot him provided him with a head coverlni darker than the rest of hla coat, nn very nearly the color ot earth. |