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either of them wandering at sunset through the rlen, would have believed that the brilliant core of the western sky was. aUt- terinC away along the earth or the little animal might have been thought the choi- cest sivnet of prince, transformed of a sudden into living thing, and endusd with the power of flight. When they wheeled together towards their home at twilight, no pair of Hre-flies, no twin lights of the firmSment could be brighter than were their diamond crests. The sweet essences of n thousand buds and flowers supplied their noIrishment and while they sucked the delicious juices of ripe fruits, their wings were tinctured by the lightest bloom of the plum and the grape. But the rain dropped thick and fast into the shell, and the gentle birds, which seemed to be made to whisper love messa- ges in the rosebud ear of lady, and to hide themselves in sport among her ringlets departed from their nest, and sought in sparry erotto, or in southern bower. q more secure habtatiVn for their lovely but ifail existence.

 7. Lastly, at sunrise, seemed Hitting from the morning star an eltln splrlt,whl danced into the shell ,and assumed it us. his home. It thrilled with life and pulsation ; and, whilea spring gushed out of the rock and bore 1t along towards tho sea, he spread thin colorod argosy away over the bluo and sunny deep. Tho white shell and its new sovereign, moved forward with the graceful swiftness of snowy swan, tilting over the flight ripples of tho water, and, when night came on with it's consultations seemed to be itself trembling star on the verge of the horizon. That spirit, too, shah inhabit the shell but for time, and shall then depart, ,that he may develope, in somo other fitting position, the whole ca pacities of his nature. The shell will sink into the waves, and be joined to the treas- ure of the ocean caverns, in them also, to aid the existence of beings, and to fulfil new cycle of his ministry.

 That Shell is tho WORLD that spirit MAN. Yet not for man alone was it ere. ated, but for all the living things in succos. sive stages of existence, which can find ir it means of happiness, and an insrumon of tho laws which govern their being.