time. After catching their prey, they seem to take a cruel delight in teasing it, before they put it to death. They are very cleanly and active; but they are also fond of their ease. They like to lie in the sun, before the fire, or in a warm bed.

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When the cat is pleased, it purs, moves its tail, and rubs against your arms or legs; but when angry, it sets up its back, lashes with its tail, hisses, spits, and strikes with its paws. female cat is very fond of her young. At first she feeds them with milk and as they grow older, she sometimes brings in a mouse or a bird alive, which she teaches them to catch and kill.

There are three tribes of ants or emmets; the male, the female, and the working or neutral ants. The male and female have wings, in the proper season. The neutral ants have no wings, it is their duty to labour at the ant-hill, and to provide food for the others. The ant-hill is raised in the shape of a cone, and is made of leaves, bits of wood,

sand, earth, and the gum of trees, all joined in the most compact and solid manner. When the ants go forth to seek their prey, if it is too large for one, two or three will tear it to pieces, and each carry a part; or a number will unite to force it along, and lodge it in their store-house.

-In Europe, the ant is a very small insect; but in some warm climates, it is above an inch in length, and builds a hill from ten to twelve feet high. It is very fierce and warlike, and on the slightest warning, will sally out against any thing, which alarms or disturbs it. It often destroys rats, poultry, and sheep, and devours them to the very bones. In all parts of the world, the ant is well known for its wisdom and foresight. The wisest of men has said that it might teach a lesson to the idle and the sluggard.

The earth consists of land and water. Of the land, there are four quarters; three of which form what is sometimes called the Old World: the other quarter gets the name of the New World. The high ridges of land, which run far into the sea, are named capes. The islands are those smaller portions of land, which lie in the midst of the ocean, or which are cut off from the larger portions by arms of the sea. The water covers nearly three-fourths of the surface of the earth. It consists

of five great oceans, from which branch off a number of smaller portions named seas. When a body of water is almost cut off from the sea by land, it is called a gulf the other inlets are bays, friths, and creeks.

That picture of the four quarters and five oceans, with their islands, capes, and mountains, seas, lakes, straits, bays, gulfs, friths, creeks, and rivers, is a map of the world; the top of which we suppose to be the north the foot, the south; the right hand side, the east; and the left hand side, the west.