ENTOMOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



OCTOBER, 1836. 



Art. X. — Wanderings and Ponderings of an Insect-Hunter. 



(Continued from p. 37.) 



Chapter V. 



[Llanthony. Black Mountain.] 



That evening sounds of revelry were heard within the walls 

 of Llanthony. There was the jovial landlord with his fiddle, 

 on which instrument, by the way, he excelled. There was his 

 spouse, fair, fat, and forty, or perhaps a trifle more. There 

 was Theophila, a graceful being, that seemed to have dropped 

 amongst them from the clouds. There was a minor female 

 help, altogether Welsh, with long hair, that appeared totally 

 upkempt. There was a gamekeeper and grouse preserver, — a 

 man of the mountain, — who was at first half suspicious of our 

 appearance, for the which I cannot much blame him, for I 

 never saw three honest travellers equipped in more poacher- 

 like apparel, although the artist has contrived to make us look 

 wondrously genteel in the tail-piece of the foregoing chapter. 

 After a while the way to this man's heart was discovered, and 

 he was jovial, and his songs were loud and tuneful. There 

 were two others under this man's authority, and one male 

 help, an attache of the establishment. There were, more- 

 over, the grouse-shooter, the cynophobist, and the insect- 

 hunter ; in all, eleven souls. But the human beings were not 

 the only inhabitants of Llanthony ; there were six fox-dogs, 

 the finest creatures imaginable, long-legged, wiry-haired, 



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