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and substantial, yours, ay your own so far as 

 they are really worth, for who can draw from 

 them more pleasure than you ? no one ; they are 

 yours to enjoy, revel in and delight, and your 

 enjoyment of them is carried by this passion of 

 sport far beyond the ordinary pleasurable feel- 

 ings engendered by the gratification of taste. 

 Others as observers of beauty may appreciate 

 picturesque scenery as highly as you, but the 

 animating influence of the passion of sport pro- 

 duces within you emotions of a most delicious 

 character, and renders the mind more sensitive to 

 the poetry of nature. 



You as a fisherman in these hills and dales of 

 pleasure are existing under the charm of sport, 

 and under the influence of its enchantment can 

 appreciate in a highly exalted degree the beauties 

 and harmony of creation, as displayed to you in 

 your piscatorial rambles, and should rejoice that 

 you possess a means of affording yourself such 

 peculiar gratification such extraordinary delight 

 as your occupation is capable of bestowing. 



Pardon, kind reader, my wandering from the 

 subject of the beetle, and charitably regard the 

 feelings which a remembrance of " those hills, my 

 native hills, o'er which so oft Fve roamed/' have 

 excited within me : truly do they prove the two- 

 fold value of innocent pleasure ; first, the direct 

 effect produced on our sensations at the time, and 

 the enjoyment therefrom; secondly, the sweet 

 impression left on the memory, on which fair 

 picture the mind most wonderfully can concen- 

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