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One of them tempted me forthwith by its ripe and luxuriant beauty. I bit into it and found it hollowed out in the centre, and in that luscious hollow was a colony of earwigs. For them that strawberry was the world, and a very jolly world too abundance of food, a soft bed to lie on, and a chamber of exquisite perfumes.
They daren't attack the large meetings, but they had a diabolical way of scenting out the small ones. The meetings at the shoemaker's had been undisturbed for some few nights, then a Timminsite passing by had heard hymns, probably listened at the keyhole, and of course informed the main body of the enemy. 'They're like them nassty earwigs, said one boy in disgust, 'they'll wriggle in onywheres.
The wandering spirits are attracted by the images, and take shelter among their rags, like earwigs or something of that kind. The charivari is to drive any of the spirits who might be away from their shelters back into them. The shouting of the mob is to keep the spirits from venturing out again while they are being carried to the river.
With this I close the chapter of incidents experienced during our transit across the maritime region. A valley of despond, and hot-bed of malaria. Myriads of vermin. The Makata swamp. A sorrowful experience catching a deserter. A far-embracing prospect. Illness of William Farquhar.-Lake Ugombo. A land of promise. The great Kisesa. The plague of earwigs.
Strange noises in the chimney showed that owls had built there; and as the shutter fell a hideous nest of earwigs was disturbed, and ran hither and thither over the floor.
Earwigs are the prolifickest things, and so fond of their offspring! They sit on their eggs like hens, and the young, as soon as they are born, creep under them for protection, quite touchingly! Imagine such an establishment domesticated at one's tympanum! But the creature was certainly larger than an earwig.
That's worth remembering, Slim." This reduced me at once; I tried to point out that he had begun it, and that it would be a mean revenge, and very hard on the earwigs, if he filled my room with them, for I should be obliged to kill all I could. "Why," he said, "they needn't be real earwigs; my own tickle every bit as much as real ones."
Parental affection, or some feeling which replaces it, has been developed in certain animals extremely low in the scale, for example, in star-fishes and spiders. It is also occasionally present in a few members alone in a whole group of animals, as in the genus Forficula, or earwigs. The all-important emotion of sympathy is distinct from that of love.
"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?"
The peep-hole commanded the tree, and she watched with eager eyes the filling of the basket to be sent her, planning the while a charming note of thanks. "Do look, Miss; they are resting now, and she's on his knee. Ain't it a pretty picter?" whispered Roxy, unmindful of the earwigs, ants, and daddy-long-legs promenading over her as she crouched in her mouldy corner, intent on the view beyond.
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