And they know they'll get no food between times, so all day long they pick and scratch in the orchard, and destroy so many bugs and insects that it more than pays for the trouble of keeping them there.

When this boy took a seat, a young girl read some verses that she had clipped from a newspaper: "Don't kill the toads, the ugly toads, That hop around your door; Each meal the little toad doth eat A hundred bugs or more.

Years later something would happen and we'd yell to Murray, 'Hey Red, is that right in your gut?' "There were a lot of grand guys on that club: Christy Mathewson and Chief Meyers, Larry Doyle and Fred Snodgrass, Al Bridwell and Bugs Raymond.

Bugs drank a lot, you know, and sometimes it seemed like the more he drank the better he pitched.

[Footnote A: This answer was given by a child four years old; and immediately afterwards another child called out, "Please, sir, if it were not for bugs, some people would not clean their bedsteads.

At a very early hour, then, the Volunteers and the rest of the Dozen were as snug as bugs in rugs.

The master of the rats and mice, Of flies and frogs, of bugs and lice, Commands thy presence; without fear Come forth and gnaw the threshold here, Where he with oil has smear'd it.

my evil genius had determined otherwise; it seemed as if all the fleas and bugs in His Imperial Majesty's dominions had been collected, to prevent my closing my eyes; or it was, possibly, a legacy bequeathed, me by my predecessors.

"He gives the following list of the terrific names of the companies: "Hornets, Snappers, Blood-reds, Bed-bugs, Rock-boys, Buffaloes, Skimmers, Scrougers, Revengers, Knockers, Black-hawks, Pirate-boys, Kill-devils."

"We're the saucy Hyena-boys of George's-street, as all knows; We can whip the Penn and Globe, likewise the Carroll Hose; We'll whip the three together, the Bed-bugs and South Penn throw in for ease; We do run our carriage among our foes, and run her where we please.

" MY OLD GRAY NAG, "He ain't the sort that the big-bugs sport" MAY MEMORIES, "Oh, the lazy days of boyhood, when the world was fair and new!" NINETY-EIGHT IN THE SHADE, "Collar kerflummoxed all over my neck.

She thought our old melodeon wa'n't good enough fer her, An' them pianners cost so that she said the only way Was ter take in summer boarders till we 'd made enough to pay; So she wrote advertisements out to fetch 'em inter camp, An' now there's boarders thicker here than June bugs round a lamp.

No, he ain't the sort that the big-bugs sport, Docked up in the latest style, But he suits us two, clean through and through,

There are also located in Cincinnati some Irish pedlars, who have by all manner of means acquired wealth, and are now the "biggest bugs" in the place.

R616356. Bugs Bunny.

Bugs Bunny, super sleuth.

Bugs Bunny and Klondike gold.

So the poor birds left that man's field, where the bugs and worms grew and throve, till they ate up his hay and all the rest of his crops.

" "Now what is there that preys upon all this vegetable lifeupon every plant, from the grass to the tree, destroying them all equally?" "Bugs and worms and all kinds of crawlers and flyers and hoppers," said Rap.

"Then the farmer begins his annual war upon them, and day after day he fights the Battle of the Bugs.

"You see if each person would care for the birds on his own land, the Battle of the Bugs would soon become less terrible.

" Then the children laughed to think how funny a real battle would be, with an army of little bugs drawn up on one side of a field and big House People with guns and cannons on the other.

"But even against cannon," said Olive, "the bugs would have the best of it, because they can fly or hop, and the worms can crawl into the ground.

It must be confessed that the peevish heart of Lady Bazelhurst beat rather rapidly as she hastened back to the window to peer anxiously out into the sombre park with its hooting owls and chattering night-bugs.

They armed themselves with two large-sized syringes used for showering potato bugs.