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delight in those situations which are the most 

 sheltered, and from which the most heat is reflected. 

 The shadow of your approach disturbs it, and you 

 see it flit off, and settle again at some little distance, 

 or continue its irregular flight along the bank." 



Once more, in speaking of the locality for finding 

 the " Lulworth Skipper " (Hesperia Actczon), which in 

 former years he used to catch on the Dorsetshire 

 coast in company with his old friend, Mr. J. C. Dale, 

 of whom mention has been already made, he thus 

 describes it : 



" A charming scene, where you will be fain to 

 wish that you could for ever watch the glorious 

 ocean, dashing up from its dark depth against the 

 steep cliffs, which there present an aspect of the 

 utmost seclusion and the most lonely retirement. 

 Wild must all around be in winter, but this small 

 butterfly rejoices in the settled summer, more for- 

 tunate than some of its class who are tempted out 

 to woo the beautiful spring ; often their reception 

 is cold and chilling, and their day-dream of happi- 

 ness is blighted, like the contemporary delicate flower 

 that has peered out too soon from its sheltered nook, 

 and must again hide its head for a season till the 

 skies are more propitious and the sun shall shine 

 undisturbed upon it." 



Passages such as these and there are many of 

 them seem like the artist's lighter touches to give 

 additional life and warmth even to such a sunny 

 subject as that of which this volume treats. The 

 author, however, was not content merely to write, 



