Irt4 APH0BI8MATA ENTOMOLOGIGA. 



the whole, to the first-named net. As to the forceps 'et id genus omne,' I 

 exclude them altogether from my vocabulary of entomological apparatus. A 

 common fishing-jacket, with two large and two small pockets outside, is the 

 best kind of coat. 



"first catch tour hare. 



"Blessings on the man that first invented sleep," said Sancho Panza, and 

 cvcrv housemaid must surely almost as much praise the memory of him who 

 was the first discoverer of liioifer matches. The old tinder-box and its 

 concomitants must he most unpleasingly associated in their minds with the idea 

 of a cold dark winter moniiug, and the almost impossibility there was in the 

 olden days, or rather nights, to "strike a light." Now, thanks to the benign 

 inventor of the lucifer match, whose sole thought must have been doubtless for 

 the unhappy females spoken of, all difB.culty is at once and for ever removed, 

 and if they only "keep their powder dry," it will give them the privilege of 

 lying in bed half an hour longer than they otherwise would be able to do, 

 with the positive certainty of being in time even for an early breakfast. 



There are, however, certain individuals who must lament the loss of the old- 

 fashioned brimstone match: for as it is "an ill wind that blows nobody good," 

 so it must be one that comes from all points of the compass at once that 

 does no one any harm. The entomologists are they to whom I allude, for it 

 is now next to impossible, at least I find it so, to procure even a halfpenny 

 worth of the article once so universally in vogue. But, 'eui bono?' what are 

 the brimstone matches for? The next chapter will tell you; containing, as it 

 will do, a "dissertation on boxing," and that of a pugnacious kind too, albeit 

 altogether peaceful. The solution of the riddle will there be given. 



"PUGNO, PUGNAS, PUGNAVI. 



If tou can construe the above without conjugating it, somewhat after the 

 same 'ideal' as "malo, malo, malo, nialo, quam vivere malo, malo, " you will 

 probably be able to understand somewhat of the allusion in the last chapter. 



As I have already recommended the use of but few kinds of nets, so I 

 would give similar advice as to boxes. You must, however, have some of 

 diftVvent sorts. They may be made of oak, mahogany, or deal; or one or two 

 of them, of which presently, of tin. First of all, in further carrying out the 

 principle laid down as to the necessity of a previous state of preparation, you 

 must have a large one, say two feet long, one foot wide, and three inches 

 deep, on the outside. Of course it must be lined with good soft cork, and 

 papered, and, if thought advisable, from time to time whitewashed over, in the 

 way described for the cabinet. A little camphor should be securely fixed in 



