FOE THOSE WHO ARE NOT OVER-NICE. 



"With ho ! such lugs and goblins in my life." 



Now that insects abroad are become comparatively few, it 

 may be as well to notice several of the race which are much 

 too intimately connected with home to be entirely overlooked, 

 though not certainly the most pleasing objects of contempla- 

 tion. 



We shall try, however, in the treatment of our uninviting 

 subject, to handle it as lightly and as slightly as we can, and 

 reverse in our treatment of it the practice of Flemish painters 



