THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 205.] 
IMPATIENCE. 
It is no use being impatient ; you 
don’t get anything a bit the sooner ; 
and the feeling of impatience is not a 
comfortable one. 
Many persons have of late expressed 
a degree of impatience at the apparently 
interminable bad weather we have been 
experiencing; they wanted to get out 
and do some collecting, and, from the 
Isle of Wight to the Isle of Axholm, 
the weather was equally unpropitious. 
Beating of hedges became anything 
but dry work, but did not thereby 
become more entertaining; and those 
who had only lately began to collect 
in earnest, and who were consequently 
desirous of obtaining, at the earliest 
possible period, so many hundreds of 
species, have felt disappointed, have 
repined at their hard fate, and have 
encouraged feelings of impatience. 
There is no need to encourage such 
feelings ; they come quite readily 
enough, and are the cause of more 
evil than we are apt to imagine. 
When you set to work at anything 
it is all very well to stick at it, and 
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to persist in doing, but don’t be too 
impatient to get it done; if you do, 
ten to one, you will do it so hurriedly 
that it will be worth very little when 
completed, or you will work at it at 
such a rate that you will tire yourself; 
you will get disgusted with the task 
you have undertaken, and you will 
leave it unfinished — a monument of 
your own impatience. 
Some persons are impatient that they 
can’t find out everything at once, for- 
getting that the pleasure is in the 
finding out — not in the having found 
out ! Suppose that we could discover 
to-morrow, by intuition, the habits of 
every unknown larva, should we not 
have lost a vast amount of interesting 
occupation, which would have employed 
our leisure hours for years to come? 
and what would compensate us for this 
loss? 
It is no doubt very distressing that 
at the present day so many of the 
larvae of our commonest insects should 
be unknown to us, but we shall dis- 
cover them in due time, and it is of 
no use to be impatient, because we 
can’t do everything by simply wishing 
it. We should soon get tired of wishing 
if we could ! 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1860 
