But in going down an alley, To a castle in a valley, They completely lost their way, And wandered all the day; Till, to see them safely back, They paid a Ducky-quack, And a Beetle, and a Mouse, Who took them to their house.

So the Ducky and the leetle Browny-Mousy and the Beetle Dined, and danced upon their heads

In insects, for instance, the presence of the purple emperor and the white admiral in our Hampshire woods, as well as the abundance of the great stag-beetle, point to a time when the two countries were joined, at least as far west as Hampshire; while the absence of these insects farther to the westward shows that the countries, if ever joined, were already parted; and that those insects have not yet had time to spread westward.

It cannot harm you, if you take, as beetle-hunters do, an indiarubber sheet to lie on; and it will certainly benefit science.

He is the beetle in the mire.'

The atmosphere of the place in Poe's time is well preserved, but no such beetle as the gold-bug has been discovered.

I must wait until I see the beetle itself, if I am to form any idea of its personal appearance.

[* Scarabæus caput hominis, "death's-head beetle.

" "Well, well," I said, "perhaps you havestill I don't see them"; and I handed him the paper without additional remark, not wishing to ruffle his temper; but I was much surprised at the turn affairs had taken; his ill humor puzzled meand as for the drawing of the beetle, there were positively no antennæ, visible, and the whole did bear a very close resemblance to the ordinary cuts of a death's-head.

" "And you think, then, that your master was really bitten by the beetle, and that the bite made him sick?" "I don't tink noffin about itI nose it.

Hereupon Legrand arose, with a grave and stately air, and brought me the beetle from a glass case in which it was enclosed.

"I sent for you," said he, in a grandiloquent tone, when I had completed my examination of the beetle, "I sent for you that I might have your counsel and assistance in furthering the views of Fate and of the bug" "My dear Legrand," I cried, interrupting him, "you are certainly unwell, and had better use some little precautions.

" "I am anxious to oblige you in any way," I replied; "but do you mean to say that this infernal beetle has any connection with your expedition into the hills.

take this beetle with you.

"If you are afraid, Jup, a great big negro like you, to take hold of a harmless little dead beetle, why, you can carry it up by this stringbut, if you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel.

As sure as you let that beetle fall, I'll break your neck.

now listen!if you will venture out on the limb as far as you think safe, and not let go the beetle, I'll make you a present of a silver dollar as soon as you get down.

what must do wid it?" "Let the beetle drop through it, as far as the string will reachbut be careful and not let go your hold of the string.

During this colloquy no portion of Jupiter's person could be seen; but the beetle, which he had suffered to descend, was now visible at the end of the string, and glistened like a globe of burnished gold in the last rays of the setting sun, some of which still faintly illumined the eminence upon which we stood.

Driving a peg, with great nicety, into the ground at the precise spot where the beetle fell, my friend now produced from his pocket a tape-measure.

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."

Forsooth, Narcissus: by the same token he was turned to a daffodil, and as he died for love of himself, so, if you remember, there was an old ill-favoured, precious-nosed, babber-lipped, beetle-browed, blear-eyed, slouch-eared slave that, looking himself by chance in a glass, died for pure hate.

Sally Carrighar (A); 7Sep71; R512027. One day on Beetle Rock. Illus.

SEE HOUF, HORACE T. HOUGH, HENRY BEETLE.

Henry Beetle Hough (A); 26Feb73; R546886.