2 GLAUCUS ; OE, 



reading of the silliest of novels, over wliicli you fall 

 asleep on a bencli in the sun, and probably have 

 your umbrella stolen ; a purposeless fine- weather 

 sail in a yacht, accompanied by many ineffectual 

 attempts to catch a mackerel, and the consumption 

 of many cigars ; while your boys deafen your ears, 

 and endanger your personal safety, by blazing away 

 at innocent gulls and willocks, who go off to die 

 slowly ; a sport which you feel to be wanton, and 

 cowardly, and cruel, and yet cannot find in your 

 heart to stop, because "the lads have nothing else 

 to do, and at all events it keeps them out of the 

 billiard-room ; " and after all, and worst of all, at 

 night a soulless recJiauffe of third-rate London 

 frivolity ; this is the life-in-death in which thou- 

 sands spend the golden weeks of summer, and in 

 which you confess with a sigh that you are going 

 to spend them. 



Now I will not be so rude as to apply to you 

 the old hymn-distich about one who 



finds some mischief still 



For idle hands to do :" 



r^' 



