The child's book of nature for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature . show usbeautiful colors. Then, too, by grinding the shell in differentparts of it, different layers are seen of different hues. 154 BEAUTY OF TIIE COVERINGS OF ANIMALS. Why God made .shells so beautiful. The hoopoe. The beauty of these coverings is of no use to the animals thatlive in them. They have no eyes to see it. For what, then, isit intended? It is for our gratification. The Creator strewsbeautiful things even on the bottom of the ocea
The child's book of nature for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature . show usbeautiful colors. Then, too, by grinding the shell in differentparts of it, different layers are seen of different hues. 154 BEAUTY OF TIIE COVERINGS OF ANIMALS. Why God made .shells so beautiful. The hoopoe. The beauty of these coverings is of no use to the animals thatlive in them. They have no eyes to see it. For what, then, isit intended? It is for our gratification. The Creator strewsbeautiful things even on the bottom of the ocean for us. If thecoverings, or houses, as we may call them, of all the animalsthat live there were as homely as that of the oyster, they wouldbe as useful and comfortable for them as they are now, deckedwith their elegant colors. So far as they are concerned, thebeauty is thrown away. But men gather the shells, and, whilethey admire them, they see in the beauty which the Creatorlavishes even in the depths of the sea the evidence of his abound-ing goodness. in the coverings of birds is veiy various colors are arranged The variety of beauty. .... r^ in their plumage in every va-riety of manner, and there areall shades of the colors, fromthe most brilliant to the mostdelicate. Commonly the greatest dis-play in the plumage of birdsis in the delicate and downyfeathers of the breast. Butthe bird that you see here, thehoopoe, has its chief beauty inits crest, which is of an orangecolor tipped with black. It isone of the most elegant of birds. BEAUTY OF THE COVEEINGS OF ANIMALS. 155 The beauty of the peacock. Its pride. Its disagreeable voice. In the peacock, a drawing of which you have here, there is agreat display of colors. The animal struts about, and, liftingits tail in the air, spreads it like a fan, and seems to be very fool-
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