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WATER-DEVILS. 



" A pond 's a mirrored world, where strong on weak, 

 Cunning on simple prey." 



" WHEEE ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," is an Epi- 

 curean maxim which, on a superficial view, may seem applica- 

 ble not only to a knowledge of events, wherein its truth may 

 in some measure be allowed, but also to a knowledge of things, 

 wherein it must in all cases be strenuously denied. It is 

 nevertheless certain that a knowledge of many little things, 

 which, in their aggregate and due improvement, make up 

 wisdom, though it usually augments, may in some instances 

 tend to damp our pleasure, even that quiet bliss, so pure 



