THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 48.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1857. [Price \d. 
YOUNG BARNES. 
It happened that a fortnight or so after 
Frederick Allgreen had received this 
second letter from young Barnes, that 
he was visiting in the neighbourhood 
of Lyndhurst, and met there with an 
entomologist much older than himself, 
a Mr. Francis Wheldon. 
It chanced that one day the extreme 
rarity of Cucullia Gnaphalii was men- 
tioned, Mr. Wheldon remarking that 
though he had found several larvse of 
that species they had always been ich- 
neumoned ; Frederick Allgreen observed 
that he had once taken the perfect 
insect, on which Mr. Wheldon ex- 
claimed, — 
“ Upon my word, sir, you are a very 
fortunate person ! and I would advise 
you to make much of that specimen, 
as it may be very many years before 
you obtain another.” 
Frederick Allgreen coloured a little, 
as he replied that he had already parted 
with the specimen. 
“ Well,” said Mr. Wheldon, “I hope 
you gave il to some old friend.” 
“No,” replied Fred Allgreen, “I sent 
it to an entomologist who was a per- 
fect stranger to me, — a Mr. Barnes: he 
offered me some very good things in 
exchange — ” 
“But he never sent them?” inter- 
rupted Mr. Wheldon, thumping the table 
with his fist. 
“ No, indeed, sir, he did not,” replied 
Fred Allgreen, not a little surprised to 
find Mr. Wheldon so well informed ; 
“but he sent me several other niceish 
things: the good things be had pre- 
viously offered me he said he had 
already parted with.” 
“ And you believed him ?” exclaimed 
Mr. Wheldon, eagerly. 
“Why I didn’t like to doubt him; 
besides he wrote such very polite 
letters.” 
“Stuff aud palaver! Where’s the 
good of a man being polite, when he 
makes promises he don’t keep, — offers 
things he don’t send? Polite letters 
are with him all gammon.”, 
Poor Allgreen was quite surprised to 
hear his new correspondent dissected in 
this way: it had never occurred to him 
as possible that any one in human form 
could be so base as to decoy him into 
parting with his Gnaphalii , by offering 
rarities which were never intended to be 
sent, and were merely used as a species 
of decoy ducks to tempt him into parting 
with his Shark. 
“ Mr. Allgreen, I know this fellow 
Barnes well; I was at school with him 
years ago. That he is clever I don’t 
dispute for an instant; but, take my 
word for it, he’s as great a rascal as 
ever lived, and not a word that he says 
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