In fact, I am more interested in them than in anything else, not excepting the telephonewhich makes Aladdin's lamp look like a firefly in the sunshine.

Then Jules found that this Aunt Désiré had known his mother; had once sat on the vine-covered porch while he ran after fireflies on the lawn in his little white dress; had heard the song the voice still sang to him in his dreams: "Till the stars and the angels come to keep Their watch where my baby lies fast asleep.

And now I was sure there were fireflies about.

A thousand lamps and coloured lanterns flashed like fireflies along the way, and under them the crowd had gathered, and was flowing back and forth.

As I write this I can see occasional flashes of light like the flare of giant fireflies out over the scene of the Russian chargethe flashes of small electrical lamps in the hands of the Russian hospital corps.

* "'The learned say that your light will one day be no more,' said the firefly to the stars.