AUGUST. 



observe the insect you have imitated ? * So, 

 Sir, you see, by these close questions, I become 

 not only an Angler, but a Botanist, Naturalist, 

 Entomologist, and Geologist ; my afternoon 

 being employed investigating the causes of the 

 circumstances above described, and gaining 

 health, by exercise, and knowledge." 



I was so struck with the simplicity and truth 

 of what he said, that ever after were my ideas 

 entirely changed ; since which I have added to 

 his store, music and painting; and still blush 

 when I reflect on having lived five and twenty 

 years, and almost as ignorant as the earliest 

 August I ever fished in. 



The first step towards being wise, is to know 

 that we are ignorant ; and here indeed it was 

 most gloriously illustrated. 



I will now to the little cottage I have taken 

 near the stream. My wife, and most likely 

 some friends, who have come to greet the anni- 

 versary of my birth, and share the next day's 

 pleasure, wait my return. Yes yonder I see 



