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time. Many hundreds of people, horse and foot, attended 

 the dogs to see the deer unharboured ; but though the 

 huntsmen drew Hartley Wood, and Long Coppice, and 

 Shrubwood, and Temple Hangers, and in their way back 

 Hartley and Ward-le-ham Hangers, yet no stag could be 

 found. 



The royal pack, accustomed to have the deer turned out 

 before them, never drew the coverts with any address and 

 spirit, as many people that were present observed ; and this 

 remark the event has proved to be a true one. For as a 

 person was lately pursuing a pheasant that was wing- 

 broken in Hartley Wood, he stumbled upon the stag by 

 accident, and ran in upon him as he lay concealed amidst a 

 thick brake of brambles and bushes. — White. 



OBSERVATIONS ON INSECTS AND 

 VERMES. 



INSECTS IN GENERAL. 



The day and night insects occupy the annuals alternately ; 

 the papilios, muscse, and apes are succeeded at the close of 

 day by phalsense, earwigs, woodlice, etc. In the dusk of 

 the evening, when beetles begin to buz, partridges begin to 

 call ; these two circumstances are exactly coincident. 



Ivy is the last flower that supports the hymenopterous 

 and dipterous insects. On sunny days quite on to 



