Excerpt from Nature in a City Yard: Some Rambling Dissertations Thereupon
The zoology of the district likewise com prises English sparrows, slimy slugs, and earth-worms. Mosquitos call whenever the wind brings them in from the fens of Long Island and the meadows of New Jersey; and we-are liable to have flies. There are beetles, gnats, fire-flies, centi pedes, and a rarely visible mouse. In flower time we enjoy the company of bees, both honey and bumble, vagrom wasps, and hornets and moths and butterflies in great numbers.
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