212 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



not of those who lose an opportunity. The man who* 

 habitually loses his opportunities is sure to fail. 



Here was the world opened to him again, the very 

 best part of it, and life according to his liking. < Be- 

 cause, though the whole earth is given to the children 

 of men, none but we jolly fishers get the plums and 

 raisins of it, the rivers which run among the hills, and 

 the lakes which sit a-top thereof.' 1 For jolly fishers 

 read naturalists, 



1 Kingsley. 



