Play on, dear children! still peep out from your cottage-door, and watch for your brother's return; and may He, who guides the little swallow over the paths of the great sea, soon bring him back to your cottage again. SPRING. OH! it is Spring! it is Spring! let us away to the woods, and see if the primroses and violets are come. O! the soft, fresh breezes, how they kiss my cheek. How glad I feel. Here we are in the pleasant green wood; and the buds are bursting into leaf-and the flowers are springing up out of the earth-and the birds are building in the trees-and all things seem happy, and so are we. O! I have found a peep-hole in the hedge, and what do I see? I see snow white lambs, happy, frisking and leaping; they are so glad. Sweet Spring! thou fillest our laps with flowers, and our hearts with joy; and makest all creatures happy. THE DEAD SQUIRREL. "DID you ever see a squirrel, Lucy ?" "O! yes! you know uncle Edward used to keep one, and very fond I was of it; but, poor little thing, it died, and I shall never forget how I wept when I went one morning to his little house, and found him lying with his pretty black eyes quite dim, and his once nimble feet stiff and cold. I declare I can not help weeping now, when I think of all his funny little ways." "Well, Lucy, papa has given me a squirrel, and I want you to tell me what I must give him to eat." "Oh! dear cousin, have you indeed got a squirrel? and will you take me to look at him?" Yes, Lucy; but what must he have to eat? for I want to feed him." "O! he will eat fruit, almonds, hazel-nuts and acorns." Lucy." "O! very well; thank you, "Is it true, that squirrels, when they have to cross a river or a stream, use a piece of the bark of a tree, or of some light wood, as a boat, while their tails supply the place of sails?" "I believe it |