THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 46.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1857. [Price Id. 
YOUNG BARNES. 
The eighteen Clear-wings were kept 
carefully locked up, to be used when 
required. No one knew they were there; 
however, they did not long remain out of 
sight, but were only allowed to appear 
by twos or by threes, which generally 
happened when any of the other boys 
got anything that young Barnes coveted. 
Young Barnes found it very useful 
having a store of good disposable in- 
sects, for had he distributed them at 
random when he first caught them he 
would not have added nearly so many 
species to his collection. Henceforth it 
became a rule through life with him, 
whenever he took a rarity in plenty, to 
hide the greater number. Oh ! if you 
were but to see his duplicate-boxes, 
wouldn’t you stare? Kittens and rare 
Prominents, and heaps of common 
things, kept in case some year they 
should become rare. Oh ! he was a far- 
sighted fellow ! 
In due time young Barnes left school. 
His masters spoke well of him, and pro- 
phecied he would get on in the world; 
he had grown a great favourite with the 
boys generally ; some, it is true, did not 
like him, called him “ a screw,” and said 
he didn’t always slick to the truth ; but, 
in the mixed society of schools, some 
boys are sure to be more or less un- 
charitable. 
Soon after he left school young Barnes 
was installed in a merchant’s office, where 
he evinced a business-like turn of mind ; 
he was always punctual, very neat and 
tidy, wrote a good hand and was quick 
at accounts. 
His hours for collecting were now 
limited, and though in summer time he 
contrived to run some miles into the 
country by railway to do a little sugar- 
ing, the collecting of diurnal insects was 
restricted to Sundays. 
On one of his collecting excursions he 
fell in with two other entomologists, and 
finding that they had been collecting 
some years, expressed a wish to see their 
collection ; for up to this time he bad 
seen no collections but his own and those 
of his schoolfellows. His new acquaint- 
ance said they should be glad to show 
their collection, but that he mustn’t ex- 
pect to see any great things. An 
arrangement was made for him to call 
on the following Friday evening and see 
their collection. 
The visit was duly paid, but it was 
a sad blow to young Barnes: he had 
thought his own collection a tolerably 
grand one; now he saw that what the 
owners called merely a second-rate col- 
lection was very far superior to his 
own, and the specimens were much 
finer, in better order, and not mauled 
in setting. 
Young Barnes returned home much 
mortified, but the next, morning he woke 
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