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of the party are gathering the ripe blackberries 

 or following their bent as directed by their hobbies. 

 Our entomologist found a happy hunting-ground 

 and I was honoured by an invitation from him 

 to be a witness of an ''Assembly." I was told I 

 should see male moths come from great distances to 

 it, their inducement being the hope of seeing 

 a newly emerged female in all her glory. The 

 newly-born insect was put in a woven cotton cage 

 and hung on a bush in the middle of a field on a 

 hillside, down which a slight breeze was blowing 

 towards a coppice in a lower distant corner. When 

 this had been done and no visible results followed, 

 for some little time, I began to fear that the little 

 nephews of the demonstrator would be disappointed 

 and, just as I had given too hasty expression to this 

 fear, I was told in a whisper that a moth was 

 coming ; and then I saw it and, behind it, others, 

 most evidently being guided in their course by 

 their noses. 



The village, with its snug bay so iear to one 

 of the most varied fishing grounds on the coast 

 of Cornwall, must be marked an ideal spot for 

 sea anglers, as we soon discovered. 



Our journey to Falmouth to fetch the new-comers 

 was not allowed to spoil our first day's fishing. 

 When the travellers woke from a much-needed 

 sleep they learned that while they had slept we had 

 taken advantage of the continuing breeze to go for 

 a sail with spinners out for mackerel the where- 

 abouts of which were shown to us by gannets 

 hovering and diving Coverack way. Thither the 

 boat's bow was pointed and, before the sailors 

 had rigged out their gear a heavily - weighted, 



