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THE YOUNG 



NATURALIST. 



regret, and equally easy to make a 

 firm resolve to do better in the future. 

 But the past is irrevocably gone, and 

 the future is not ours to deal with as 

 we would. The only time we really 

 have at our disposal is the present 

 time — to-day,not to-morrow — certainly 

 not yesterday. 



" Let the dead past bury its dead," 

 and do not waste time in vain regrets 

 for what has not been done, and cannot 

 be done now. Let us 



" Act in the living present." 

 What are you doing to day ? Do not 

 let it even be what are you going to 

 do to day, but, what are you doing ? 

 The season is not yet over. There are 

 all the autumn insects still to be 

 taken. Who will take the Vanessa 

 Antiopaj that glorious butterfly that so 

 rarely gladdens the eye of a collector, 

 and makes his heart beat with expecta- 

 tion and exultation ? Who will secure 

 Basycampa ruhigineaf that pretty 

 little noctua that far too seldom is to 

 be found sipping the sweets of autumnal 

 sugarers. Do not put off till spring 

 to try for a hybernated female and 

 impregnated ova. Try for cabinet 

 specimens now ; and if, when spring 

 comes, the opportunity of obtainiijg 

 (or trying for) an impregnated female 

 is afforded you, embrace it by all 

 means, but do not lose the present 

 chance, for the sake of the future ; when 

 by taking that now offered, you may 

 have both. Who wants Basyjpolia 

 temjpli? In a month or six weeks 



this species will be on the wing, and 

 those who live in its localities can get 

 it if they like. This is the only species 

 we know of that you have really to 

 work for. As most of people know, it 

 hides in stone heaps ; and those who 

 would obtain it must turn over a ton 

 or two of stone for every specimen 

 secured. Well, it is worth the labour. 

 But do not put off till next sprhig to 

 get an impregnated female. Get them 

 this autumn and keep them in a cool 

 place, till they deposit their eggs next 

 spring. You have missed your oppor- 

 tunity all through the spring and 

 summer ; miss them no longer, but set 

 earnestly to work now. The most 

 successful collectors are those who do 

 things at the proper time ; — a habit is 

 easily formed, and difQcalt to shake off 

 when formed. It is as easy to be in 

 time, as to be too late. Your habits 

 are yet to form, let them be such that 

 you wiU never have to say " Too late." 



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