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OW potent and abiding are the remi- 

 niscences of early youth ! It is now 

 some thirty years since I discovered 

 " Professor Wiggler," and noted his peculiar eccen- 

 tricities. And simply because I chanced first to 

 disclose his wiggling identity on a lilac-bush, how 

 irresistibly must his comical presence assert itself 

 with my slightest thought of lilac, with the shape 

 of its leaf, the faintest whiff of its fragrance, or 

 even a distant glimpse of its spray ! 



Yonder, for instance, an old ruin of a home 

 closely hemmed in with the well-known bushes 

 spots the wintry landscape. What a place for 

 Wigglers that will be next summer! Only a few 

 days since, while walking down Broadway, New 



