THE EMTOI^OLOGSSrS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
Xo. 944.] SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1861. [Price Id. 
TOO KEEN. 
“ Buzbcz, I hear, wants to sell his 
collection. Well,” remarked Jones, “I 
always thought he was too keen to 
last.” 
“ Yes,” observed Brown, smiling, 
‘ when he was pestering me so for a 
Carmelita, last year, I felt pretty cer- 
tain that the Carmelita would he for 
sale, within the twelvemonth ; T wish 
now I had made a het on the sub- 
ject.” 
“ But,” exclaimed Robinson, “ why 
is it that keenness implies such a 
short continuance?” 
“ Oh ! ” replies Brown, “ its just the 
old story of the hare and the tortoise; 
the fellow who is too keen is so be- 
cause he is impatient, — he wants to do 
everything at once, and those who are 
beset with that infirmity are very apt 
to lack perseverance. Besides, as in 
so many other things, action and re- 
action are equal and opposite; and 
excessive keenness in almost any pur- 
suit is almost sure to be followed by 
a degree of distaste for it.” 
“Well,” said Jcnes, “I’m really very 
sorry for poor Buzbuz: if he had been 
contented to have wore more leisurely, 
and not been so hyper-furious at it, 
I believe there was in him the making 
of a good entomologist.” 
We can only re-echo the sentiment 
of Jones, and express “our deep sorrow 
for poor Buzbuz.” But is his a solitary 
case? We fear not; and that our 
our lamented friend is only the type 
of a class. Some persons take up a 
pursuit so eagerly, and lavish on it 
such an amount of ardour and energy, 
that their fondness for that particular 
object speedily becomes exhausted: 
they are for burning the candle at 
both ends, and holding it before the 
kitchen-fire as well! 
“ To take things quietly ” is a motto 
which to them is “ stale, flat and un- 
profitable,” and so eventually they find 
that they weary of everything, and a 
listlessness creeps over them, during 
which they pay the penalty of the 
excitement iu which they previously 
lived : it is the headache and the las- 
situde that comes after the banquet. 
Should this meet the eye of auy 
nascent Buzbuz perhaps he will pause 
and reflect whether, if the path he is 
pursuing is likely to lead to such a 
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