. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. eason fair of living well. The path of gloiy, or the path of hell. 4. I asked old Father Time himself, at last,But in a moment he flow swiftly past;His chariot was a cloud, the viewless wind His noiseless steeds, which left no trace beBind. • I asked the mighty angel, who shall stand One foot on sea, and one on solid land; By heavens ! he cried, I swear the mysterys oer; Time was, he cried, but time shall be no more ! Marspes. Time is the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition; the salutarycounselor of the wise, but the stern corr
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. eason fair of living well. The path of gloiy, or the path of hell. 4. I asked old Father Time himself, at last,But in a moment he flow swiftly past;His chariot was a cloud, the viewless wind His noiseless steeds, which left no trace beBind. • I asked the mighty angel, who shall stand One foot on sea, and one on solid land; By heavens ! he cried, I swear the mysterys oer; Time was, he cried, but time shall be no more ! Marspes. Time is the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition; the salutarycounselor of the wise, but the stern corrector of fools. Wisdom walks be-fore it, opmortunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has madeit his friemf will have little to fear from his enemies; but he that hasmade it his enemy, will have but little to hope from his friends.—Lacon. Pakt II. HERPETOLOGY, OB REPTILES, 51 PART II. THIRD DIVISION OF ZOOLOGY; EMBRACING HEEPETOLOGY, OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF REPTILES. [For the Ist and 2d Division? of Znnlnrjy, ?po Ttiird and Fourth Readers. Representatives of the four okdees op the Reptile Race.—The Lizard; the Fresh-water Terrapin, or Turtle; the Adder; and a South American Frog, with homed eyelids. LESSON I.—INTRODUCTOET VIEA|^ 1. The two divisions of animal life already described in theThird and Fourth Readers embrace the Mammalia and theBirds, which are called the wann-bloocled Vertebrates,^ be-cause they have warm blood, and a jointed back-bone orspinal column. The third division, which is composed ofthe Reptiles, and the fourth, which is composed of theFishes, embrace the cold-blooded Vertebrates, which are socalled because a spinal column, more or less apparent,^ isfound in all of them, and their natural temperature,^ although 52 WILLSON S FIFTH READER. Part II. their blood is red, is but little, if at all, above that of the at-mosphere or Avater in which they dwell. To our touch theyappear decidedly cold. In this and a few succeeding lessonswe are to
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