YOUNG ENTOMOLOGISTS. 
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office, as without the precaution the first stamp it received 
would probably dislodge several bodies, which would then 
amuse themselves with knocking off the legs and antennae 
during the remainder of the journey. Sometimes, with all 
our care the box arrives at its destination squashed, and then 
it affords a capital opportunity of testing the serenity of our 
correspondent’s temper, and his equanimity under trying 
circumstances, and if he writes a very fierce remonstrant 
letter the answer naturally suggests itself, 
“ Absurde facis, qui angas te animi.” 
