A Good Guess

A Boston teacher liad been giving a 'amiliar talk on zoology to a classof tenyear-olds in a grammar school. To test their intelligence he said, in the course of his reuiarks : "Who can teil me the highest form oí animal life?" A little girl held up her hand. "Well, Mary?" "The hy-ena," shouted Mary, seriously but triumphantly. Repressing a smile, the teacher said : "Is it, Mary? Thinkagain. Isahyena the very highest?" "Oh, nowl know," cried Mary; "it's the giraffe."-