THE POINTS OF OUR HOBBY. 



" No joyless forms shall regulate 

 Our living calendar." WORDSWORTH. 



WHAT have we here ? A May Fly in January ! A magnified 

 May Fly ! Verily, Master Cricket, thou dost not only magnify, 

 but most unseasonably misplace the objects of Creation, 

 strangely, too, dost thou misapply them, for in seating thy 

 domestic self upon the back of this ephemeral high-flier, we 

 are quite at a loss to guess thy meaning. Then, gentle reader, 

 guess not at all, only have patience, and all seeming incon- 

 gruities shall be reconciled. Suffice it, now, that as in the 

 Cricket we have introduced thee to our symbolic self, so in the 



