2 GLAucus ; on, 



of novels, over ■which you fall asleep on a bench 

 in the sun, and probably have your umbrella 

 stolen ; a purposeless fine-weather sail in a yacht, 

 accompanied by ineffectual attempts to catch a 

 mackerel, and the consumption of many cigars ; 

 while your boys deafen your ears, and endanger 

 your personal safety, by blazing away at inno- 

 cent gulls and willocks, who go off to die slowly, 

 a sport which you feel in your heart to be 

 wanton, and cowardly, and cruel, and yet cannot 

 find in your heart to stop, because " the lads 

 have nothing else to do, and at all events it 

 keeps them out of the billiard-room " ; and 

 after all, and worst of all, at night a soulless 

 rechauffe of third-rate London frivolity ; this is 

 the life-in-death in which thousands spend the 

 golden weeks of summer, and in which you 

 confess with a sigh that you are going to spend 

 them. 



Now I will not be so rude as to apply to you 

 the old hymn-distich about one who 



" Finds some mischief still 

 For idle hands to do " : 



but does it not seem to you, that there must 

 surely be many- a thing worth looking at ear- 



