WIL-LY went to un-fasten his po-ny; but when he got to the tree to which he had tied him, he found that Co-co had un-fastened him-self, and had gone pran-cing a-way he knew not whith-er. Af-ter hunt-ing a-bout for some time, he saw him at a dis-tance, qui-et-ly feed-ing on the grass.

He ran up to him, but just as he put out his hand to catch hold of the bri-dle, Co-co, who wished to en-joy his free-dom a lit-tle long-er, turned sud-den-ly round, kicked up his hind legs, and gal-loped a-way. Wil-lie thought him-self luck-y not to have been with-in reach of his heels when he kicked up; how-ev-er, he was quite at a loss what to do. At last he re-mem-bered that when the po-ny was at grass in the mead-ow, and the groom wished to catch him, he put a lit-tle corn in-to a sieve, and held it out to the po-ny, till he could put a hal-ter o-ver his neck. Now, it is true that Wil-ly had nei-ther sieve, corn, nor hal-ter. "But then," he said, "the po-ny will eat grass as well as corn; my hat will serve for a sieve; and as for a hal-ter, I shall not want one, for the po-ny has his bri-dle on, and I can catch hold of that." So he gath-ered a few hand-fuls of grass and put them in-to his hat.

A man, who was digg-ing in the com-mon, asked him what he was go-ing to do with the grass? Wil-ly told him, it was to catch his po-ny.

Oh, then,” cried the man, "you need not take so much trouble; if you hold out your hat emp-ty, it will do just as well; for the po-ny can-not see that the hat is emp-ty till he comes close up to it; and then you may catch hold of the bri-dle while he is look-ing in-to the hat." "But that would be cheat-ing him," cried Wil-ly; "and I will not cheat an-y-bod-y; no, not even a beast." "Well said, my good boy," re-plied the man. "Be

sides," add-ed Wil-ly, "if I cheat-ed him once, he would not be-lieve me an-oth-er time." He then went up to his po-ny, and held out his hat; the po-ny came qui-et-ly up to him, and Wil-ly seized hold of his bri-dle, and was soon can-ter-ing home on his back. Mrs Marcet.

EL-E-PHANTS are the lar-gest an-i-mals in the world. They have a ver-y thick skin, a ver-y long nose, called a trunk, and two teeth, or tusks, of e-nor-mous size, which stick out of their mouth, and af-ford us the i-vor-y which is em-ployed for so man-y use-ful and or-na-men-tal pur-pos-es. They have al-so huge grind-ers, formed of sev-eral fastened to-geth-er, which, when they are worn

out, are pushed a-way by new ones com-ing from be-hind. They have small hoofs on their toes, but the skin of the foot so cov-ers them, that they are not much seen.

There are two sorts of el-e-phants, one of which comes from In-di-a, and the oth-er from Af-ri-ca; the great-est height reached by the for-mer is said to be ten feet; the lat-ter are lar-ger, and we hear of them as four-teen feet high. Their tusks al-so are bigg-er and heav-i-er; and they have wide, flap-ping ears, by which they are often guid-ed when they are in cap-tiv-i-ty; a pull of the ear be-ing e-nough to make the do-cile an-i-mal o-bedient.

The beau-ty of el-e-phants lies in their great size, which gives them a ma-jes-tic ap-pear-ance, but they are not oth-er-wise hand-some an-i-mals. Their eyes are ver-y small, though bright; their tail has a few thick ug-ly hairs at the broad end, and the rest hangs down like a stiff rope. Their legs are thick and straight, and their feet misshapen. They are gen-er-al-ly of a dark, blackish gray col-our, and have on-ly a few hairs scattered up-on them. In In-di-a there are some almost white, which are much prized.

The weight of an el-e-phant's head is ver-y great, and when to it are add-ed the tusks, it is ev-i-dent that a strong neck is re-quired for its sup-port. Ac-cor-ding-ly, the el-e-phant's head looks as if set up-on its shoul-ders, so lit-tle is the neck to be dis-tin-guished in con-se-quence of its

thick-ness. It would be im-pos-si-ble for him to bend it, and there-fore he is pro-vi-ded with his ver-y long nose. In the trunk are two tubes running up to the nos-trils in the skull; and at the end is a sort of flesh-y hook, with which the an-imal can pick up an-y small sub-stance, even a six-pence. The trunk it-self is a-ble to wind round large trees and pull them down, and it conveys all the food of the el-e-phant to his mouth; it is covered with a skin which, in gen-er-al, is full of wrin-kles, but which dis-ap-pear when it is stretched to its ut-most ex-tent.

When the el-e-phant wish-es to drink, he dips his trunk in-to the wa-ter, sucks up as much as he re-quires, and put-ting the end in-to his mouth, pours the li-quid down his throat. His trunk is ver-y flex-i-ble, so that he can twist it in va-rious di-rec-tions, and raise and low-er it as he pleas-es. He often keeps wa-ter in it for a long time, that he may spirt it out in fun or an-ger, ac-cor-ding to his fan-cy, and in this man-ner he fre-quent-ly re-fresh-es his own hide, which, though so thick, is ver-y sen-si-tive.

El-e-phants do not ar-rive at their full growth till they are twen-ty-five years old. They are ver-y af-fec-tion-ate to-wards each oth-er, and towards those who treat them well; but when made an-gry by an-y ill-treat-ment, they are often fu-rious; and will re-mem-ber an in-ju-ry for a long time, and re-venge them-selves at a con-ve-nient op-por-tu-ni-ty. Familiar Natural History.