Az one ov the angells, more sudden than all the rest, cum flying down the trak, 3 lengths ahed ov her male angell, awl eyes ware gorging with her heavenly bust ov speed; she seemed tew hav cut luce from earth, and waz bound South, for the Cape ov Good Hope, when awl tew onst, with gorgous swoop terriffick, down-crumbling into a limpid heap she went with squeak terriffick, a living lovely mass ov disastrous skirt and tapring ankle. Awl gathered around the bursted angell; but lo! in a minnitt's space, her wings agin was plumed, and evry feather waz in its lawfal plase; and on she fled laffing like wine thru its buteous blushes. I had saw enuff--more happyness than belonged tew me--and az i sloly wended back tew mi home at the tavern i felt--good. II. SUM NATRAL HISTORY. Thare iz no tuition so cheap and so handy az natral history. It prevails evrywhare; the cockroach and the behomath are built out ov it, the lizard and the elephant are full ov it, it is the monkey's right bower, and the kangaroo's best jump. The grass, the dandelion and the spinnage are its children; it is the language ov creeping things, the majesta ov the mountin, the soul ov the talking brook, and the inspiration ov the lambkin's tail. Natral history iz dogg cheap. To open our eyes, and think while we are looking iz aul the capital necessary for the naturalizing bizzness. Who wouldn't be a naturalizer, when natur makes such cheap sacrifices upon aul her alters, and holds the insense under our very nozes? This iz what ails me this morning, tew study the light-hearted grasshopper, the relentless bed-bugger, and the elastick flea. The Bible sez, "The grasshopper is a burden," and i never knu the Bible tew say anything that warnt so. When the grasshop begins tew liv they are verry small, but in a little while thare gits tew be plenty ov them. They only liv one year at once, and then go back, and begin agin. Their best gait iz a hop, and with the wind on their quarters they can make sum good time. They are a sure krop to raize, but sum years they raize more than others. I hav seen sum fields so full ov them that you couldn't stick another grasshopper in, unless you sharpened him off tew a pint. When they git so very plenty, they are very apt tew want tew start, and then they bekum a traveling famine, and leave the road they take az barren az the inside ov a country church during a week day. Grasshoppers don't seem tew be acktually necesary for our happiness, but they may be; we don't even know what we want most. I don't want grasshops tew giv entirely out, not if they are a blessing, but i hav thought (to myself) if they would let the grass and cornstalks be, and pitch onto the burdoks and Canada thissells, i would bet a few dollars on the thissells, jist tew encourage the fight, and wouldn't care a cuss if they both got finally licked. But mi best judgment would be tew bet on the grasshops. * * * * *