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To prevent the soil becoming too dry, I used to sprinkle a little water upon it a drop here and there and if by accident the water fell too near the eggs, the earwig became much excited, hurrying to and fro with her eggs, until they were all removed to a drier spot.
"Yes, they are always busy about something, the little rogues!" said the mothers; and they quite beamed with maternal pride; but the beetle felt bored by that, and therefore he inquired how far it was to the nearest muck-heap. "That is quite out in the big world, on the other side of the ditch," answered an earwig. "I hope none of my children will go so far, for it would be the death of me."
"That is quite out in the great world, on the other side of the ditch," answered an earwig, "I hope none of my children will ever go so far, it would be the death of me." "But I shall try to get so far," said the beetle, and he walked off without taking any formal leave, which is considered a polite thing to do.
The town hums to the day's news, and the bars are crowded with amateur politicians. Some are office-seekers, and earwig king and consul, and compass the fall of officials, with an eye to salary. Some are humorists, delighted with the pleasure of faction for itself. "I never saw so good a place as this Apia," said one of these; "you can be in a new conspiracy every day!"
The modest earwig was old on the earth even then; he dates back to the time, immeasurably remote, when scorpions possessed the earth, and taught him to frighten his enemies with a stingless tail that curious antique little tail which has not yet forgot its cunning.
In this month insects are scarce, Elater and a black earwig being the most frequent: two species of Serica also flew into my tent, and at night moths, closely resembling European ones, came from the fir-woods.
O.W. "Just so. And did you think all the ants and doodle-bugs blundered into that grease in one morning? I put 'em in myself to give you a 'kink." "You blasted, dirty old sinner." Second Man. "Oh, you miserable old swamp savage; I shan't get over that earwig in a month." "This life in the woods isn't what it's cracked up to be; I don't relish bugs and spiders. I wish I were home.
The town hums to the day's news, and the bars are crowded with amateur politicians. Some are office- seekers, and earwig king and consul, and compass the fall of officials, with an eye to salary. Some are humorists, delighted with the pleasure of faction for itself. "I never saw so good a place as this Apia," said one of these; "you can be in a new conspiracy every day!"
A piece of bark, quickly pulled off, discovered a quantity of those insects commonly called earwigs. "Do you notice, papa, those white specks one of the earwigs is covering with its body?" "It is a female sitting on her eggs; but look at this!" "Eight, ten, twelve little ones! How pretty they are! One might well fancy that they were being led by the big earwig, which keeps turning round to them.
She did not care to go to foreign cities, but loved Milan, and lived in it free and happy as an earwig in a ripe apricot. The circumvallation of Milan gave her elbow- room enough, owing to the absence of forts all round 'which knock one's funny-bone in Verona, signora. Beppo presented a pure smile upon a simple bow for acceptance.
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