Paul-Ernest Jablonski's numerous readers need not be told that the said beetle is an Egyptian emblem of the everlasting and universal soul, and that its temple is the equinoctial circle, the upper hemisphere.

A mind disposed to lunacy would readily be led away by such suggestions, especially if chiming in with favorite preconceived ideas; and then I called to mind the poor fellow's speech about the beetle's being the "index of his fortune."

Will any man presume to tell me that a Beetle is not a Beetle, and that a Louse is not a Louse?

The "snout beetle" is also a deadly foe.

The beetle, in his eyes, becomes a gross, hard-headed boor, carrying his sacks of blossom-meal, and drinking his mug of XX morning-dew; the stork parades about to show his red stockings; the spider is at once machinist and civil engineer; and even the sun, moon, and morning-star are not secure from the poet's familiarities.

The sense of death is most in apprehension, and the poor beetle that we tread upon, feels a pang as great as when a giant dies."

I am clear that although this Beetle actually were an Egyptian Louse, it would accord no relevant defence, provided the calling it so were a convicium; and there my doubt lies.

The bark-boring beetles are the most destructive insects that attack our forests.

What they ca' a Beetle is a thing as lang as my arm; thick at one end and sma' at the other.

[Illustration] The elephant-beetle is the largest of this kind hitherto known, and is found in South America, particularly in Guiana, about the rivers Surinam and Oroonoko.