Rats and mice are found in Heligoland in plenty, but the oft-quoted story about the rabbits, and the ruin which their burrowing was fast bringing upon the doomed isle is declared by a competent authority to be pure romance. The sea is making rapid inroads upon parts of the Holy Isle, and it is not unlikely that at some far-distant period all that will remain of this out-of-the-world spot will be a wave-lashed rock, the haunt of the gull and the cormorant. [Illustration] [Illustration] DON'T CROWD. CHAS. DICKENS. Don't crowd; the world is large enough For you as well as me; The doors of all are open wide-- The realm of thought is free. In all earth's places you are right To chase the best you can-- Provided that you do not try To crowd some other man. Don't crowd the good from out your heart By fostering all that's bad, But give to every virtue room-- The best that may be had: To each day's record such a one That you might well be proud: Give each his right--give each his room, And never try to crowd. [Illustration] "THE BOYS." OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. You hear that boy laughing?--You think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done. The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all! Yes, we're boys,--always playing with tongue or with pen,-- And I sometimes have asked,--Shall we ever be men? Shall we always be youthful, and laughing, and gay, Till the last dear companion drops smiling away? Then here's to our boyhood, its gold and its gray! The stars of its winter, the dews of its May! And when we have done with our life-lasting toys, Dear Father, take care of thy children, THE BOYS! [Illustration: "YOU THINK HE'S ALL FUN."] [Illustration] THE QUARREL BETWEEN THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter "Little prig;" Bun replied, "You are doubtless very big, But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make a year. And a sphere: And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry; I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track. Talents differ: all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut. [Illustration] FOR FATHER'S SAKE, OR, RIGHT AND MIGHT. [Illustration] [Illustration]