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that, at least in some places, and on some occasions, "at the season of 



the year,'' attends on this experiment, is, as Dominie Sampson used 



to remark, "Prodigious! Prodigious!! Prodigious!!!" Go to the wood, 



and there, if not shot by some truculent gamekeeper, in whose eyes 



you will certainly cut a strange and very suspicious figure, and who 



will have no notion that you are prowling after "untaxed and 



undisputed game;" there, I say, with a reflector lamp at your girdle^ 



and a flat brush in your hand, wash on a small portion of the trunks 



of an 'ad libitum' number of trees, the "lotion" I shall presently 



describe the component parts of. Take of the coarsest brown sugar 



you can purchase, one pound; of beer, say one pint; boil both well 



together, and add a little of the liquor which, "My dear young friend, 



if there be one liquor less abominable than another, it is that commonly 



called — rum," each time when used. This decoction will be found 



AVonderfuUy attractive to moths; and on returning to the trees after a 



proper interval, during which the darkness has come on, yoLi will 



frequently have both quantity and quality to choose from. You can 



best carry the seductive draught in a tolerably large ''Pocket Pistol,' 



made by some handy tinman for the purpose — a sort of large "quaigh," 



with an extra case for its lower part, taking on and off the outside — 



into which a necessary portion of the mixed ingredients can be poured 



as required. 



"eelaxation." 



I HAVE before alluded by anticipation to this part of my subject, 

 and now proceed 'in medias res" — relaxation you will find it for j'ourself, 

 as well as for your insects, in the winter time, when you have perhaps — 

 though it is a thing I never have at present — a little leisure on your 

 hands, in which to set your summer captures to your eyes' content. 

 Thus too, having them flexible before you, you, as it were, "fight 

 your battles o'er again," and can indulge the "flights" of your Ento- 

 mological "Fancy" to any extent. 



Purchase, which you may do for somewhere about a shilling, at a 

 druggist's, a large glass jar, say one foot high, and sis inches in 

 diameter. Let it, if possible, have a glass stopper, which, if you live 

 anywhere near a glass manufactory, you can easily have made, or, if 

 not, a well-fitted cork one, which you can procure at a cork-cutter's. 

 The mouth of the jar, is to bs as nearly as possible of the same 



