io Fly-Fi/hing. 



If we dared repeat half we hear, or difclofe 

 half we fee, how much of the tinfel would be 

 flopped off fociety's gilded furface. To read the 

 marriage-fervice to youthful ears, that will hear in 

 it no fyllable that feals not for the future the un- 

 alloyed happinefs the prefent hour fo plentifully 

 provides and then to be called off to repeat, with 

 fcarcely a moment's breathing-time, to ears no lefs 

 youthful, the fad, fad words, " earth to earth, afhes 

 to afties, duft to duft" the knell, it may be, to 

 a lorn mother's -heart, how cruelly the Deftroyer 

 has robbed her of her firftborn treafure j fuch 

 is no infrequent fcene we have to bear a promi- 

 nent part in. 



And then the fame beaten track of our every- 

 day duties our clofe confinement to one particu- 

 lar locality the conftant application that is necef- 

 fary to ftudies connected with our profeffion ; and 

 laft, though not leaft, the difficulty of writing 

 week after week (greater now I believe than ever) 

 to keep even pace with the growing intelligence 

 of the people ; all this, I can afiure you, good 

 reader, is no trifle. 



That there are funny intervals to cheer us, 

 when we have reafon to conclude our efforts in 

 our Matter's caufe have not been quite unattended 

 with fuccefs, I am free to confefs. Still, if any 



