7. Dipters as gnats, musquitoes, flies.

Now, in certain of these orders, the coleopters, for example, there are recognized thirty thousand species, and sixty thousand in the dipters; so subjects for study are not wanting, and it will be conceded that there is sufficient in this class alone to occupy a man!

" "Ah! my goodness!" cried Mrs. Weldon, "did you, then, hope to be able to classify it in the order of the dipters or the hymenopters?" "No," replied Cousin Benedict, seriously.

"And one day, after being frightfully devoured by a dipter, he blew and sent it away, saying to it, without even using thou or thee: 'Go!

"A dipter, cousin, a famous dipter!"

"A dipter, cousin, a famous dipter!"

It is that famous dipter that is the honor of a country, and, till now, no one has ever found a tsetse in America!"

It was the tsetse, that dipter picked up by Benedict, the formidable tsetse under whose stings the animals of the caravans perish!