If "The Gold-Bug" is a triumph of the analytic intellect, this story is a triumph of the social impulses that make the world better.

His demeanor was dogged in the extreme, and "dat dd bug" were the sole words which escaped his lips during the journey.

The antennæ are" "Dey aint no tin in him, Massa Will, I keep a tellin on you," here interrupted Jupiter; "de bug is a goole-bug, solid, ebery bit of him, inside and all, sep him wingneber feel half so hebby a bug in my life.

[Footnote 13: A bug is any object causing terror.]

The next day I peeped under the paper and the bugs were a solid phalanx.