CHAPTER VI. 



"TEMPORA MUTANTUR." 



TIMES and seasons pass away rapidly ; how rapidly, 

 alas ! Times have changed, seasons seem changed, 

 men and manners and everything seem to be changed, 

 whether for better or worse I am hardly competent 

 to say ; but I have a very strong suspicion that they 

 are not for the better. 



Tempora, times, customs of all kinds and sorts, 

 mutantur, are changed, they are not the same as 

 they used to be. Nos et, and we we who are alive 

 in 1886 are not the same as we were in 1830. The 

 " three score years and ten " have come upon us, and 

 we are no longer the same kind of beings that we 

 can remember ourselves to have been ; we have been 

 changed, ab illis, by them, by the lapse of years 

 that have imperceptibly rolled over our heads. We 

 are not able to ride or drive, or shoot or fish, or to 



