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Updated: June 9, 2025
But the Scarabee did not relax a muscle of his countenance. There are persons whom the very mildest of faecetiae sets off into such convulsions of laughter, that one is afraid lest they should injure themselves. Even when a jest misses fire completely, so that it is no jest at all, but only a jocular intention, they laugh just as heartily.
But I think he has learned something else of his coleopterous friends. The beetles never smile. Their physiognomy is not adapted to the display of the emotions; the lateral movement of their jaws being effective for alimentary purposes, but very limited in its gamut of expression. It is with these unemotional beings that the Scarabee passes his life.
Something did, anyhow, and it was n't mice. Found the shelf covered with little hairy cases belonging to something or other that had no business there. Skins of the Dermestes lardaraus, said the Scarabee, you can always tell them by those brown hairy coats. That 's the name to give them.
Values are artificial: you will not be able to get ten cents of the year 1799 for a dime. The Scarabee was reassured as soon as he saw our faces, and he welcomed us not ungraciously into his small apartment. It was hard to find a place to sit down, for all the chairs were already occupied by cases and boxes full of his favorites. I began, therefore, looking round the room.
The Scarabee was to move into the place of our late unlamented associate, the Man of Letters, so called. I was to take his place, the Master to take mine, and the young man that which had been occupied by the Master. The advantages of this change were obvious.
Something did, anyhow, and it was n't mice. Found the shelf covered with little hairy cases belonging to something or other that had no business there. Skins of the Dermestes lardaraus, said the Scarabee, you can always tell them by those brown hairy coats. That 's the name to give them.
The question is, whether he is the larva of meloe, the Scarabee said, as if he had not heard a word of what I had just been saying. -If I live a few years longer it shall be settled, sir; and if my epitaph can say honestly that I settled it, I shall be willing to trust my posthumous fame to that achievement.
The old Master and I have at last made that visit to the Scarabee which we had so long promised ourselves. When we knocked at his door he came and opened it, instead of saying, Come in.
As he spoke, he opened a small cupboard, and as he did so out bolted an uninvited tenant of the same, long in person, sable in hue, and swift of movement, on seeing which the Scarabee simply said, without emotion, blatta, but I, forgetting what was due to good manners, exclaimed cockroach!
The Scarabee could not bear to remove his collections, and the old Master was equally unwilling to disturb his books. It was arranged, therefore, that they should keep their apartments until the new tenant should come into the house, when, if they were satisfied with her management, they would continue as her boarders. The last time I saw the Scarabee he was still at work on the meloe question.
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