Signs of Rain by Dr. Edward Jenner.

Forty Reasons for Not Accepting

an Invitation of a Friend to Make an Excursion with Him.

Part 2 of 3.

Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws,
Sits wiping o’er her whiskered jaws;
Through the clear streams the fishes rise,
And nimbly catch the incautious flies.
The glow-worms, numerous and light,
Illumed the dewy dell last night;
At dusk the squalid toad was seen,
Hopping and crawling o’er the green;
The whirling dust the wind obeys,
And in the rapid eddy plays;
The frog has changed his yellow vest,
And in a russet coat is dressed.