308      THE WISCO$IN FARME.R.



          The Honey Bee's Song.

      WHAT TRE Bra anoos yO TEn CaILDILM.

    I Am a honey bee, buzzing away
    Over the blovsones the long summer day;
    Now in the lily's cull drinking my fAll,
    Now where the roses bidom under the hill.
              Gaily We fly,
              My fellows and I,
    seeking for honey our hives to suPply.
    up In the morning- o laggards are woe-
    Skimmingnthe caover4p ripe for the bee;
    waking the lonwer. at dawncng Of day,
    Ere the height sun kisAes the dew drops a a;y;
              Merrily singing,
              Busily singing
    Back to the hive with the stores w-e are bringing.




    AwoeIdtle mometal;n harves we throghlseay
    No time to suiander In us ep or in pta re
    Su  mer  s flying  and we  moA t be sore
    Food for the winter at once to secuire.
              Bees in a hive
              Are up and alive
    Lazy folks never tan prosper and thrive.

    Who ws ate their best hours in sloth ulfd repose.
    Come out-the morning aU bright thligs belong-
    Aed iten a while to tie honey bees song.
              Merrily 5il injg.
              Bnioily wri  ng.
     ludustry ever it. own ruwKa;d i rlnciaug


            A School of Whales.

  Our last story w" ai'out ,Catching a
Shark," if we rememutber. Of the Whale ire
have nothing so exciting to tell, though we
were really more interested in him than in his
fiercer fellows of the "briny deep."
  "But a 'School of Whales! ' what do you
mean, Mr. Editor by that s" says some curious
little reader, his great round eyes standing out
like peeled onions !  Do whales go to school ?
and do they have to stand up in the sea and
learn all their letters, and the everlasting mul-
tiplication table ?-and wrItat school-ma'am
could make such big scholars behave ?-I'd
like to know that: "
  Yes, there are schools of whales in the sea;
but the whales do not go to school-only in
school.  Eyes larger than before       Don't
know what you mean, Mr. Editor."       I do,"
says a wide-awake little girl who has studied
Natural History; --when a number of fishes
of any kind go in company most of the time,
like a swarm of bees or a flock of birds, they
call them altogether a school-just because they
seem like a flock of children going in company
to learn their lessons."
  That's just it.  You are a nice little girl,



and have not, yourself, been to school in vain.
  Well, we saw a number of these "s chools; "
some of the whales being monstrous great fel-
lows, twice or three times as long as the house
you live in-their immense brown backs ap-
pearing for a few seconds above the surface of
ibe water and then disappearing from sight,
to re-appear a long way off in another direc-
tion. But it was only when they came quite
near to the ship that the whale himself could
be seen. It was only by his apout of water
that we could know where he was when away
out in the ocean.  The pout is made by a
stream. of water which the whale occasionally
-every time he comes up to the surface-forc-
es up with great violence through an opening
in the fore part of the head, known as the
spout-holc.  The water thus spouted rises to
the height of several feet and is more like a
jet of steam from an engine than a proper
stream of water.

  Sometiites biur ship wolio plo* tight into a
large school of theoek great leviekem, as they
sre called in some books; and then it was sport
to see them scatter in every direction and fill
the air with their olouds of spouted water.
  We could tell you many strange stories of
the immense size of some whale--over a hun-
drso feet long and as large as a small house-
of tbb vast quantities, some aimes hundreds of
barrels, of oil obtained from one whale-sad
how they often knock sailors' boats and small
ships all to pieces with their powerful tails,
when wounded and pursued by the daring sea-
men who make it a business to catch them for
profit. But we have no time for all these sto-
ries now; and, besides you can find them in
the books which you will come to read in
school.



   NEWS SUMMARY.

     INDUSTRIAL AFFAIRS.

 In all matters of mere busines, the country wa. never
more prosperous and never ha a better immediate pros.
nect. The crops are gene ally good, agricultural pro-
ducts of every description bring high prices, and must
continue to for some time to cone. The macfulictnring
establishments of almost every description are being



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