OW potent and abiding are the remi- 
niscences of early youth ! It is now 
some thirty years since I discovered 
" Professor Wiggler," and noted his peculiar eccen- 
tricities. And simply because I chanced first to 
disclose his wiggling identity on a lilac-bush, how 
irresistibly must his comical presence assert itself 
with my slightest thought of lilac, with the shape 
of its leaf, the faintest whiff of its fragrance, or 
even a distant glimpse of its spray ! 
Yonder, for instance, an old ruin of a home 
closely hemmed in with the well-known bushes 
spots the wintry landscape. What a place for 
Wigglers that will be next summer ! Only a few 
days since, while walking down Broadway, New 
