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'O my dear father,' said Emily, while a sudden tear started to her eye,

'how exactly you describe what I have felt so often, and which I thought

nobody had ever felt butsound

over the wood-tops;--now it dies away;--how soleain It is like the voice of so--the voice of the spirit of the woods, that watches

over theone And now it

gleae chestnut: look, sir!'

'Are you such an admirer of nature,' said St Aubert, 'and so little

acquainted with her appearances as not to know that for the glooraily, 'step a little further, and we shall see

fairies, perhaps; they are often coht, and they in return char yonder?' Ehed

'Well, my dear sir,' said she, 'since you allow of this

alliance, I may venture to own I have anticipated you; and al in these very woods'

'Nay,' replied St Aubert, 'disaries fancy has been playing in your iven you one of her spells, you need not envy those of the fairies'

'If it is strong enough to enchant your judges, I need NOT envy theht h, but I fear they are too irregular'

THE GLOW-WORM