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\ SYLVAN MORALITY; OK, A \YORD TO WIVES. 



' These summer wings 



Have borne me in my days of idle pleasure ; 

 I do discard them." 



And Benedict, love on ; 1 will requite thee, 

 Taming my wild heart to thy loviughand." 



WE have a young relative, about whom we are going to relate 

 a little anecdote connected with insect history, which requires, 

 however, a few prefatory words. 



At the age of 17, Emily S " came out/' gilt and lettered, 

 from the Minerva Press of a fashionable boarding-school, and 

 was, two years afterwards, bound (in white satin) as a bride. In 



