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tracted. In the library of Stobbaeus he 
found an extensive collection of botan¬ 
ical works. Anxious to read them all, 
and finding the day did not allow him 
sufficient leisure, he procured volume 
after volume by stealth, to study them 
at night as long as the light of his lamp 
lasted. 
Stobbaeus by some means heard of 
his vigils ; and knowing that his young 
friend was rather of a convivial turn, 
it occurred to him that he might pos¬ 
sibly have been tempted to invite the 
upper servants into his room to play at 
cards. He determined to See for him¬ 
self: resolving to dissuade him from 
so incorrect and ungentlemanly a prac¬ 
tice. He accordingly entered the apart¬ 
ment of Linnaeus at a very late hour. 
But what was his surprise and delight, 
to find his young friend, not surrounded 
by companions unsuited to his education, 
but entrenched in the works of the 
