faithfulness to his master, but the cat seems to shew attachment principally to the place where she has been brought up, keeping to the same house, although the inhabitants are changed. This is probably because she knows all the holes and crevices where the mice are to be found.

The mother cat is particularly fond of her young ones; and it is very pleasing to see the delight she takes in all their little tricks and gambols. When her own kittens are taken away from her, she has been known to nurse a little leveret, or a squirrel, or even a rat."

The whiskers of the cat are very curious; and they are extremely useful to her besides. She has long hairs ́on the upper lip, and on the eye-brows, and on the cheek. When she erects these, they extend out in a sort of circle, as big as her whole body; and when she comes to a hole, she can tell, by feeling with her whiskers, whether she is able to pass through it or not.

Some people say that cats can see in the dark. We must not believe this. They can, however, see with less light than most animals, and indeed

they cannot bear a very strong light They are enabled to guard against this inconvenience by the curious man ner in which their eye is constructed. The pupil of the eye is that, opening by which the rays of light enter; it is the little, round, dark spot which we see in the middle of the eye. Now, in our own eyes, this pupil is larger when there is but little light, because we then want to admit more rays. When it is very light, fewer rays will do, and then the pupil contracts, (or grows smaller.) We may see this, if we look into a glass, and open and shut the window-shutter, so as to vary the degree of light. But the pupil of the cat's eye is different from ours; it is not always a circle; she closes it up almost to a line, when there is much light. Towards night it becomes round again.od.

Cats are very clean creatures; we often see them washing their faces, and quite behind their ears. They cannot reach these places to lick them with their tongues; they therefore moisten their paws, and use them as. wels. The fur of the cat, if dry,

will send forth electric sparks when rubbed, as may be easily seen by trying the experiment in the dark; rub gently backwards and then forwards. It is curious to see a kitten playing with its own figure in a looking-glass.

THE jaws of this creature are toothed, and extend so far beyond the head as to resemble horns. The females lay their eggs in rotten trunks of trees:

The grub, when hatched, is nourished under the bark; and it passes six years in the form of a grub, and then becomes a beetle.. They generally lie concealed in the trunks or branches of trees during the day, and fly abroad, or feed on the leaves of trees in the evening. They are seen principally in the month of July. They seem to be more common in the south of England than in other parts.

HINTS TO NATIONAL SCHOOL -CHILDREN.

NATIONAL School Children generally sit together at Church, and they are taught to join in the responses of the service: I mean in those parts which are appointed for the people to repeat. This is right. The Church-service has part for the minister, and part for the people, and thus it is that our service is said to be a social worship. The prayers too, which the Minister offers up, are the prayers of the people also; and the people are therefore to join in them with their hearts, though they

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do not join aloud with their voices. In repeating the responses, it is better not to be too loud, for a large body of children, all speaking together, may drown the voices of all the rest of the congregation. You should, however, be very careful that you do not repeat the words of the Prayer-Book in a careless, thoughtless manner. Your mind and thoughts should go along with you all the time. You are offering petitions to God, and therefore wilfully to let your thoughts be turned to any other subject, is a very great sin. In many churches, I hear the children repeating the responses, and I hear nobody else. This is quite wrong, as it belongs to every body in the church. You are taught to kneel down whilst you are praying, and this is right; but I have seen, in some churches, that the children are almost the only persons who kneel down. This is all wrong. Kneeling is the proper position for prayer. When a person is ill, or lame, and cannot kneel, then the case is different. God searcheth the heart, and can judge between a devout worship, and a careless one.