A small lens is an essential thing to carry about with us, revealing a whole world of interest and beauty, which does not come within the range of our ordinary vision.

DRONE-FLIES.

“Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum,

To him who muses through the wood at noon;

Or drowsy shepherd as he lies reclin’d,

With half-shut eyes, beneath the floating shade

Of willows gray, close crowding o’er the brook.”

James Thomson.


DRONE-FLIES.