as to do the office of a pinion. She was at first much pleased with her new powers, and looked with an air of disdain on all her former companions; but she soon perceived herself exposed to new dangers. When flying in the air, she was incessantly pursued by the Tropic Bird and the Albatross; and when for safety she dropped into the water, she was so fatigued with her flight, that she was less able than ever to escape from her old enemies the fish. Finding herself more unhappy than before, she now begged of Jupiter to recal his present; but Jupiter said to her, "When I gave you your wings, I well knew they would prove a curse; but your proud and restless disposition deserved this disappointment. Now, therefore, what you begged as a favour, keep as a punishment!"

THE ART OF DISTINGUISHING.

F. COME hither, Charles; what is that you see grazing in the meadow before you?

C. It is a horse.

F. Whose horse is it?

C. I do not know; I never saw it before.

if

F. How do you know it is a horse,
you never saw it before?

C. Because it is like other horses.
F. Are all horses alike, then?
C. Yes.

F. If they are alike, how do you know one horse from another?

C. They are not quite alike.

F. But they are so much alike, that you can easily distinguish a horse from

a cow?

C. Yes, indeed.

F. Or from a cabbage?

C. A horse from a cabbage! yes surely I can.

F. Very well; then let us see if you can tell how a horse differs from a cabbage?

C. Very easily; a horse is alive. F. True; and how is every thing called which is alive?

C. I believe all things that are alive are called animals.

F. Right; but can you tell me what a horse and a cabbage are alike in? C. Nothing, I believe.

F. Yes, there is one thing in which the slenderest moss that grows upon the wall is like the greatest man or the highest angel.

C. Because God made them.

F. Yes; and how do you

thing that is made?

C. A creature.

call every

F. A horse, then, is a creature, but a living creature; that is to say, an animal.

C. And a cabbage is a dead creature; that is the difference.

F. Not so, neither; nothing is dead that has never been alive.

C. What must I call it, then, if it is neither dead nor alive?

F. An inanimated creature; there is the animate and the inanimate creation. Plants, stones, metals, are of the latter class; horses belong to the former.

C. But the gardener told me some of my cabbages were dead, and some were alive.

F. Very true. Plants have a vegetative life, a principle of growth and decay; this is common to them with all organized bodies; but they have not sensation, at least we do not know they have--they have not life, therefore, in the sense in which animals enjoy it.

C. A horse is called an animal, then. F. Yes; but a salmon is an animal, and so is a sparrow; how will you dis tinguish a horse from these?

C. A salmon lives in the water, and swims; a sparrow flies, and lives in the

air.

F. I think a salmon could not walk upon the ground, even if it could live out of the water.

C. No, indeed, it has no legs.

F. And a bird would not gallop like a horse.

C. No; it would hop away upon its two slender legs.

F. How many legs has a horse?
C. Four.

F. And an ox?

C. Four likewise.

F. And a camel?

C. Four still.

F. Do you know any

animals which