INDUSTRY
WHICH GAVE THE READERS OF ENGLISH
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
HER CONCORDANCE TO SHAKSPERE.
G. W. begs to add, that it is unnecessary for him to engrave the beautiful drawing forwarded to him of this Chair, as he perceives an engraving has already appeared in the Lady's Newspaper for the 24th January, and he has returned the drawing as requested.
Katy-Did.—G. W.'s New York Special Reporter writes him as follows, in reference to the paragraph, p. 90 of "Current Notes" for December last.
Sir,—Please inform "An Entomologist" that it will afford your Special Reporter much pleasure to send him a live specimen of the Katy-Did next fall. We have no Autumn in America! It is then they begin to sing, or rather to say: at present they are, to use the words of Davie Gellatley, "A' dead an' gane—a' dead an' gane." I first heard them one evening in August among the elms on the battery, and so loud was the noise, I fancied it was made by porters landing bars of iron on the adjoining quays.
The jingle of the song your Entomological correspondent enquires after was something like this; but I will send him a copy when I can procure one.
"The dear little Katy-did sat on a tree,
And surly and sulky and savage was he,
His supper was stolen away by a bee,
But he thought his own deary had hidd'n it,
And while he kept calling 'twas you, Katy-did,
She merrily cried—'Katy-did-n't,'