THE CIRCUMVENTED SHEEP. 373 



F. Cuvier, from his long-continued experience as director 

 of the Parisian Menagerie, v ill continue, by some means 

 or other, to circumvent the most sagacious sheep that ever 

 enters the capital of the great nation, we yet cannot see, 

 in the fact recorded, anything more than another fact 

 easily evoked from it, viz., that the animal in question had 

 so familiarised itself with man, as to feel the desire of 

 obtaining a favourite morsel more strongly than the fear 

 of disagreeable consequences. There is no "bread at dis- 

 cretion" among the mountains of Sardinia; and more 

 intellectual creatures have suffered from their love of good 

 cheer. — Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. 



AN APOLOUY FOR INSECTS. 



If the value of a pursuit is to be estimated by the com- 

 parative ease with which it may be followed by persons of 

 the most moderate fortunes, few can rank higher than 

 entomology. While the specimens sought for by the 

 mineralogist and student of geology are frequently heavy 

 and cumbrous, and not seldom extremely expensive, and 

 while that sad representative of the beauties of the living 

 Flora, called a Hortus Siccus, is but a frail and fleeting 

 memorial of the "days of other years," presenting, even 

 after a tedious and troublesome process of preservation 

 (by courtesy so called), no trace of their original bright- 



