He adds that there is but
one letter of the alphabet wanting, to make sense; this is used over
and over, and, if you put it into the right places, the text will turn
into a rhymed couplet.
A REMEDY FOR HARD TIMES.
I have a message from a bird on the Sea Islands off the coast of South
Carolina.
"Here," says my friend, "I lately found a remedy for hard times.
Looking for food one day, I came close to the home of a silk-spider who
was about to make a new web. Now, what do you think I saw him doing?
Why, he was eating up the old web, so as to turn it into thread again,
and use it a second time! Another curious thing that I found out about
this economical old fellow is that, although he has a great many eyes,
he can see only just well enough to tell light from darkness."
Now, what in the world can be the use of that spider's eyes, I'd like
to know, if he can't see the things around him?
A QUEER CHURN.
New Haven, Conn.
Dear Jack: Last year in April you gave us a picture of a very small
doll-churn that a little girl had made, and I thought it was very
'cute. But I read the other day of another churn quite as odd. It
is simply the skin of a goat, hung by a rope from the roof. It is
used in Persia, and, when they want to churn, they fill the
goat-skin with milk, and swing it forward and backward until the
butter comes.
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