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I have understood that in Suffolk and in some of the southern counties, the larvae of the cockchafer are so exceedingly abundant that the crops of corn are almost destroyed by them, and that their ravages do not cease even when they have become perfect insects.
"Oh, no, I shouldn't think," said Stephen, trotting along beside his amiable acquaintance. Mr Cripps was certainly a very friendly man, and as he conducted Stephen to the Cockchafer, Stephen felt quite a liking for him, and couldn't understand why Oliver and Wraysford both ran him down.
Suddenly a great John Bull would come bumping in like a cockchafer, and call for his pint. 'Just you watch, the poet would say, and away he crossed over to his victim. 'Good morning, Mr. Oats! 'Why, good morning, sir. How-d'ye-do; I hardly know'd thee. Then presently the voice of the charmer unto the farmer 'Mr.
He had found in Dinah the gentlest La Valliere, the most delightful Pompadour that any egoist short of a king could hope for; and, like a boy who has discovered that by dint of tormenting a cockchafer he has killed it, Lousteau shed a tear.
The poet thought, and not without reason, that there was a fortune in his good looks and intellect, accompanied by the name and title of Rubempre. Mme. d'Espard and Mme. de Bargeton held him fast by this clue, as a child holds a cockchafer by a string. Lucien's flight was circumscribed.
The mouth of the cockchafer is composed of a great number of small pieces placed externally round the entrance to the alimentary canal; but the names of these, as they would not interest you, I will not enter upon with you; more especially as they refer to such tiny morsels, that you would have great difficulty in finding them again on the owner. Of these pieces only two are worth our attention.
Hence it is not at all surprising that this blood should be white; and I have very good reasons just now for comparing it to our chyle. The cockchafer, it is true, is much further removed from being a fellow-creature of ours than even the horse; but the principle of life is the same with him as with us.
Powell stopped the ball with a backhander when it was not fifty yards from the goalposts, and Shikast spun round with a wrench that nearly hoisted Powell out of his saddle. "Now's our last chance," said The Cat, wheeling like a cockchafer on a pin. "We've got to ride it out. Come along." Lutyens felt the little chap take a deep breath, and, as it were, crouch under his rider.
Its escape was as hopeless as a poor cockchafer pinned by a cruel boy to a board. The elephants regarded its struggles with evident satisfaction. They were little aware of the danger they themselves were in from the bullets of the hunters.
In due time the ordeal was over, and Mr Loman said he would now go and call upon these young gentlemen, and see what they had to say, and that Mr Cripps would most likely hear from him again. Altogether the landlord of the Cockchafer had hardly ever passed such an uncomfortable morning. Meanwhile the other searchers, among whom were Oliver and Wraysford, were busy.
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