LETTER V.

o CONSTANCE,

S/4iubber?J

DEAR CONSTANCE,

OUR last letter fully recompensed me for any trouble I have taken to amuse you. My time has been well spent, if, as you say, the examination of flowers and insects enliven your walks, and render the exercise your health requires interesting and pleasant, which before was performed merely as a duty. My mother and I also sally forth, as soon as the breakfast-table is removed, to enjoy the freshness of the morning air, equipped with a microscope, and a little straw basket to contain our specimens. With this apparatus we pro ceed, shaking every plant and. shrub, till we discover some object that arrests our attention,

nd rewards our search.

Tjh1OS, poplars, and birch-trees, yield us a rich harvest, in the different sped. s of the beautiful race of insects called Glirysornela, which feed on the pulp of their leaves, but

reject the fibres. That which is found on the poplar