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and on which arc growing thistles, sumac, blackberry bushes, &c., are their 

 favorite resorts, and there you will be rewarded for your pains. But alas, 

 each year these Paradisiacal spots become more rare; it has cut me to the 

 soul many a time to see just such places burnt over, strewed with lime and 

 ploughed up to raise wheat to make bread, to keep the worthless souls in 

 the worthless bodies of worthless beings which live and die without leavins; 



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the slightest vestige of a footstep "on the sands of time." 



I would further add that for these excursions a coat made of some light 

 woolen material is preferable: linen coats are abominable, as the suspenders, 

 by the aid of perspiration, adorn the back of that garment with a St. Andrew's 

 cross, which, though of no moment to our country cousins, is by no means 

 desirable as we get within the city limits on our return homeward, if it be 

 still daylight. This coat should be plentifully supplied with pockets, two 

 inside breast-pockets, one of great capacity to put the net, rim and all in, if 

 you don't want to carry it in your hand, the other for your handkerckicf, 

 segar-case, small glass jar, &c. ; it should also have two outside pockets near 

 bottom of coat, the one to put your collecting box in, and the other for lunch, 

 which latter, although when you start you think your breakfast will last all 

 day, becomes of vital importance about the time the sun is directly over your 

 head, when you will devour every crumb and, like poor Oliver, cry for more. 

 Carry a little India Rubber, leather or tin drinking-cup with you but don't 

 put much water inside of you it is deleterious during these tramps; once 

 give way to the temptation of guzzling creek water and by the time you are 

 ready to drag yourself home you will be as near a gone case of foundering as 

 any undertaker need delight to see. If you feel thirsty smoke segars, if you 

 can't smoke moisten your lips with a little lemon-juice or whisky, but don't 

 moisten with too much of the latter so that the last seen of you is adorn- 

 ing the corner of some fence, with the flies hovering around your mouth 

 trying to ascertain whether it was " Mountain Dew " or " Lavan's best proof J 

 that has put you in a position for your friends to be ashamed of you, sir. 



It is always better on entomological excursions to go alone, but if you must 

 have a companion let him be one likewise interested in the same pursuit, and 

 when you arrive at the hunting grounds separate with the understanding that 

 you are not to meet until the time arrives for returning home, and if your 

 friend has a dog, (which of course he has), which miserable brute must of 

 course accompany him on all possible and impossible occasions, (for who ever 

 owned one of those wretched curs that did not have it forever walking at his 

 own heels and snarling at every body else's), then in self-defence, if you want 

 to take a single butterfly that day, follow my advice put as great a distance 

 between yourself and your friend as possible. By the way, in order to ward 

 off the effects of the sun's rays on yourself, always adopt the old plan of put- 

 ting in your hat some large leaves (oak, chestnut, <ic.) which have been pre- 

 viously immersed in water; this is a standard preventive of sun-stroke, nor 

 will any one suffer from the effects of the sun's heat striking on the head if he 

 adopts this plan ; the leaves should be from time to time dipped in water as 

 they become too dry. 



