TWO THINGS OF DIFFICULT DEFINITION. 



" Reason serves when pressed, 

 But honest Instinct comes a volunteer." 



NATURE is now daily locking up from observation, although in 

 no spirit of a miser, more and more of her vegetable treasure, 

 and therewith has hidden from our view nearly all of those insect 

 myriads which filled the summer air. This dearth compara- 

 tively of outward objects of interest inclines, or in a measure 

 drives, us to seek for others of a kind not palpable to sight ; 

 and as the decline of life, with the failure of its active energies, 

 affords greater leisure, and should excite increased desire to 



