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Updated: June 8, 2025
The town was fairly overrun with them. Made you think there was nothing in all this talk about gay Paree. All the ladybirds seemed to have taken refuge here. You have no idea of her last name!" "It might have been Perrin." "Never. Not after she got here and set up in business. More likely Lestrange or Delacourt " "Was there a Delacourt?" "Not that I remember. I don't see light anywhere.
The third table is covered with varieties of the kangaroo beetles, a brilliant collection of ladybirds, the varieties of earwigs, cockroaches, originally tropical insects only; the praying insects, called so from their habit of erecting their fore legs and assuming a prayerful attitude, when, in fact, they are preparing for an attack upon their prey: and the insects which the uninitiated visitor has already mistaken for pieces of stick, but which are the walking leaf-insects; some with wings like dead leaves, and others wingless.
One day, it was the last of the year, the anniversary of the death of my uncle whose goodness and wisdom I pondered on more and more as time went by, having a little time to spare from larger affairs, I chanced to be in the shop in the front of the house, which, as John Grimmer had said, he kept as a trap to "snare the ladybirds," and I continued, because I knew that he would not wish that anything should be changed.
James's Day be come and gone, There may be hops or there may be none." Speaking of hops, it is said, "plenty of ladybirds, plenty of hops." It is also a popular notion among our peasantry that if a drop of rain hang on an oat at this season there will be a good crop. Another agricultural adage says: "No tempest, good July, lest corn come off bluely." Then there is the old Michaelmas rhyme:
The gnats you speak of are the winged forms of the lice; the white worms may be eating the lice; the "small green bugs" may be diabroticas. If you had started in lively as soon as you saw the first lice you could have destroyed them in the places where they started. Now your chance lies largely in the natural multiplication of ladybirds and the occurrence of hot winds which will burn up the lice.
She is safe with me as one of my own ladybirds of daughters." So saying he carried her off, and the queen followed him with her eye, and then turned angrily to Varney, for Leicester stared gloomily on the ground. "Speak, Sir Richard, and explain these riddles." "Your Majesty's piercing eye," said Varney, "has already detected the cruel malady of my beloved lady.
She said nothing, her breath came quick, her heart beat fast. Some low branches caressed their hair, as they bent to pass under them. She picked a leaf; two ladybirds were concealed beneath it, like two delicate red shells. "Look, a little family," she said innocently, and feeling a little more confidence. Julien placed his mouth to her ear, and whispered: "This evening you will be my wife."
At other times I have accidentally shaken a window curtain while in animated conversation with Parkle, and struggling insects which were certainly red, and were certainly not ladybirds, have dropped on the back of my hand. Yet Parkle lived in that top set years, bound body and soul to the superstition that they were clean.
My name is Miller, at your service for an adagio but, as to ladybirds, I cannot serve you. As long as there is such an assortment at court, we poor citizens can't afford to lay in stock! No offence, I hope! MRS. MILLER. For Heaven's sake, man, hold your tongue! would you ruin both wife and child? You play but a sorry part here, my lord, and might well have dispensed with these witnesses.
Then there are the discoveries, the feathery grasses, especially those which were hidden, the ladybirds, that sand is really "tiny tiny stones" has every adult noticed that, or is sand "just sand"? and the "wonder" that we can see through glass, a wonder realised by a little girl of four years old. Also we can notice what the children did not desire.
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