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The Cricket mounted on the back of a magnified May-Fly, Ephemera vulgata, 

 in search of entomological subjects. 



THE POINTS OF OUR HOBBY. 



HAT have we here? A May-Fly in January ! 

 A magnified May-Fly ! Verily, Master 

 Cricket, thou dost not only magnify, but 

 most unseasonably misplace the objects of 

 Creation, strangely, tco, dost thou misapply 

 them, for in seating thy domestic self upon the back of this 

 ephemeral high-flier, we are quite at a loss to guess thy 

 meaning. Then, gentle reader, guess not at all, only have 

 patience, and all seeming incongruities shall be reconciled. 

 Suffice it, now, that as in the Cricket we have introduced thee 

 to our symbolic self, so in the May-Fly we would beg thee to 

 recognize OUT symbolic hobby. 



