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of the outlay upon chalks, printing, and postage, and 

 the wear and tear of the drawing-frame, it will easily 

 be seen that the net receipts are not so very high after 

 all. Many a time, especially in the case of a single 

 isolated lecture, has my father barely cleared his ex- 

 penses ; and I do not suppose that in any one year he 

 succeeded in clearing three hundred pounds by his 

 lectures. And so bad a man of business was he that I 

 am quite sure that, had it not been that all arrange- 

 ments were in the hands of his agent, he would never 

 have contrived to realise even half that amount. 



With one season prolonged until September 12th, 

 the interval between that and the next must naturally 

 be so brief as scarcely to be noticeable at all ; and, in 

 point of fact, only eight days elapsed before the season 

 of 1882-83 began with the " Entomarchetype," or 

 " typical insect " lecture, at a large ladies' school in 

 Upper Norwood. Then, in the same month, followed 

 lectures at Chislehurst, Tonbridge, and at a boys' school 

 in Norwood ; and with October work began in earnest. 

 During this month Maidstone, Upper Norwood, Chisle- 

 hurst, Felstead Grammar School, the Royal Naval 

 School at New Cross, Leek, Rossall, Kilburn, and Yarlet 

 Hall, were all in turn visited, some of them two or even 

 three times. In November visits were paid to Cardiff, 

 Clevedon (where a comparatively scanty audience on the 

 first evening was replaced by one crowded even to over- 

 flowing on the second), Axminster, Upper Norwood (3), 

 South Norwood, Bedford, Hurstpierpoint. Warminster x 

 Chislehurst, and Coventry. And the year's work was 



