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"You are both quite right," said he; so they begged him to walk in; that is to say, to come as far as he could under the bit of pottery. "Now, you also see my little earwig," observed a third mother and a fourth; "they are lovely little things, and highly amusing.
"I suppose," she remarks interrogatively to her mamma, "that these are Mr. and Mrs. Earwig?" and on being answered affirmatively, exclaims, "What could they have seen in each other?" What they saw was blue blood, or something in insectology corresponding to it. The earwig's lustre is that of antiquity.
He had kept his specimen the one the size of an earwig that he gave Harry half a crown for and he has it to this day. You must get him to show it to you! IV. The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told This is the tale of the wonders that befell on the evening of the eleventh of December, when they did what they were told not to do.
This lady, leaving a cradle in the background, and advancing to the footlights, proceeds to hover round her husband, after the manner of stage wives, with neck protruded and arms spread out, like a woman who is a little afraid of a wasp or earwig, but wants to catch the creature all the same.
"Bon Dieu! earwig!" interrupted mademoiselle: "is it possible that monsieur or any body dat has sense, can like dose earwig?" "I do not remember," answered Mr. Mountague, calmly, "ever to have professed any liking for earwigs." "Well, pity; you profess pity for them," said Mr. Dashwood, "and pity, you know, is 'akin to love. Pray, did your ladyship ever hear of the man who had a pet toad?"
Perhaps not the least valuable end to be so gained is, that the young Englishman, who wants to be delivered from any temptation to think himself the centre around which the universe revolves, will be aided in his endeavours after honourable humility by looking up to the man who towers, like Saul, head and shoulders above his brethren, and seeing that he is humble, may learn to leave it to the pismire to be angry, to the earwig to be conceited, and to the spider to insist on his own importance.
An earwig may be extracted by applying a piece of apple to the ear, which will entice the insect to come out. EDGEBONE OF BEEF. Skewer it up tight, and tie a broad fillet round it, to keep the skewers in their places. Put it in with plenty of cold water, and carefully catch the scum as it rises.
The chances against an ordinary thoughtless gift-maker were thousands to one; and those who were acquainted with his strange nervous temperament, knew that the existence within his dwelling-place of any book not of his own special kind, would impart to him the sort of feeling of uneasy horror which a bee is said to feel when an earwig comes into its cell.
"And an earwig!" exclaimed Dick, picking one up from the cloth. "Oh! and spiders!" screamed Lady Betty, jumping up and shaking her frock. "Dear! dear! this will never do!" I said, for the place was swarming with insects, owing to the very dry summer which we had had. "There ought to be a marquee like we had at the choir treat," said Fidge. "Oh, I vote we get on with the grub," said Dick greedily.
It might have been one of that genus in the family of Forficulidce called Labidoura, monsters whose antennae have thirty joints! There is a species of this creature in England but to the great grief of naturalists, and to the great honor of Providence, very rarely found infinitely larger than the common earwig, or Forfaculida auriculana. Could it have been an early hornet?
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