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Wood.' After an hour's talk on every other con- 

 ceivable subject he apologised for digression, and said 

 that he had every reason to believe that the babes in 

 the wood were ' very nice young people/ but he did not 

 think he had anything else to say about them. It is 

 difficult to help feeling a little uncomfortably suspicious 

 of being guilty of something very like a feeble imitation 

 of his style, on coming to the end of a chapter on 

 'London Insects' which gives no list and mentions 

 scarcely a dozen of them. But it is a charm of 

 Natural History in all its branches that nothing that is 

 of human interest can be altogether strange to it. 

 The students of ' God's great second volume,' even in 

 the lowest forms, are franked to wander where they 

 will through playgrounds to which the Yellowstone 

 Park is nothing, and, grey hairs notwithstanding, while 

 there, are schoolboys still. 



