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Updated: May 27, 2025
So few anglers ever seem to think of the case of the poor fish! In Borneo there is a species of lightning-bug that tourists carry around at night on spits, delighted with the novelty. But is that not rather hard on the lightning-bugs?
"There they be!" exclaimed Life; and he reined in his foaming steed to take a survey of the surroundings. "That escort is having a hard time of it," added Milton. "Thunder and lightning-bugs!" suddenly exclaimed the sergeant. "There's a whole company of Cornfed cavalry after 'em."
Dominic's beads, if you like and, apropos of that, do you know what they call them in America? they call them lightning-bugs, if you can believe me remark the difference between southern euphuism and western bluntness your fireflies are pretty enough, I grant. But they are tinsel pasted on the Desert of Sahara. They are condiments added to a dinner of dust and ashes.
Lanterns were whisking to and fro like giant lightning-bugs about the long garrison granary and the quartermaster and commissary storehouse, where wagons were being loaded with tents, ammunition, rations, and forage enough for sixty days.
Weston fanned Alice, who, with closed eyes, laid languidly on the lounge. "Miss Janet," said Lydia, speaking very softly, "who made de lightning-bugs?" "God made them," said Miss Janet. "Did God make de nanny-goats, too?" "You know that God made every thing," said Miss Janet. "I have often told you so." "He didn't make mammy's house, ma'am; I seed de men makin it."
When we first saw Fountain Lake Meadow, on a sultry evening, sprinkled with millions of lightning-bugs throbbing with light, the effect was so strange and beautiful that it seemed far too marvelous to be real.
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