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sudden. And if you continue your observations, 

 you cannot fail to see insects of a different tribe 

 {Hydrometridce Leech), which scorn to adopt so 

 common a procedure as swimming in the water, and 

 who perform, with astonishing rapidity, the more 

 wonderful feat of running upon its surface. 



By the aid of Entomology, therefore, a pool of 

 water may be made to furnish amusement and 

 pleasurable occupation for many weeks. Bethink 

 you for a moment, what an advantage, nay, what an 

 untold treasure, it may thus become. When I'itania, 

 with all the powers fitting to her sjjhere, wishes to 

 bestow what she deems most valuable, she exclaims, 



" I '11 give thee fairies to attend on thee. 

 And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep." 



Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III. Sc. I. 



The goddess I sen^e will do more, — for she wUl 

 " fetch thee jewels," not from the deep only, but 

 from every ditch, every pool, every lake, every brawl- 

 ing rivulet, in your vicinity. And those jewels are 

 your own, — they cannot be lost, or stolen ; they abide, 

 as all knowledge does, with the humble and sincere 

 recipient, — they become part and parcel of his mental 

 acquisitions. Which "jewels" are to be preferred .-' 

 — the physical or the mental ; those which adorn the 

 body, or those which enrich the mind .-• WTiich 

 goddess, then, would you select } Which potentate. 



