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The specialist began to wonder whether it would not have been better to advise Mr. Peters to collect postage stamps. "A scarab," he said "derived from the Latin scarabeus is literally a beetle." "I will not collect beetles!" said Mr. Peters definitely. "They give me the Willies." "Scarabs are Egyptian symbols in the form of beetles," the specialist hurried on.
'There are those who sow the seeds of dissension between their townships in order to fleece the poor unhindered and to satisfy their gluttony by the hunger of innocent citizens. In the adage Scarabeus aquilam quaerit he represents the prince under the image of the Eagle as the great cruel robber and persecutor.
'Cerf-volant, a name which the French have so happily given to the horned scarabeus, the same which we somewhat less poetically call the 'stag-beetle, is another example of what may be effected with the old materials, by merely bringing them into new and happy combinations. You know the appearance of the lizard, and the star-like shape of the spots which are sown over its back.
The Professor raised his eyes from a newly bought scarabeus to behold a stout little lady smiling on him from the doorway. He did not appear to be grateful for the interruption, but Mrs. Jasher was not at all dismayed, being a man-hunter by profession. Besides, she saw that Braddock was in the clouds as usual, and would have received the King himself in the same absent-minded manner.
I felt a contraction of my stomach, an icy chill, a gradual though rapid cessation of consciousness and being. For what period I know not I slept the sleep of death. Sluggishly in my dead frame fluttered a something. For days or years, I know not, there was a mere sense of spiritual life or being and a fluttering of body as of a small numbed insect; was it a scarabeus?
Your little seed of a soul, assuming the form of a beetle, shall remain in your mummified body. Your embalming robes shall be decorated with his sign, the scarabeus. Your body will be carefully watched by our priesthood to observe the growth of your soul and know that you finally believe in its existence and the infinite power of God.
He prescribes euphrasia, eye-bright, for disease of the eyes; appealing confidently to the strange old doctrine of signatures, which inferred its use from the resemblance of its flower to the organ of vision. For the scattering of wens, the efficacy of a Dead Hand has been out of measure wonderful. But when he once comes to the odious class of remedies, he revels in them like a scarabeus.
But the Professor had again returned to examine the scarabeus, this time with a powerful magnifying glass. "It certainly belongs to the twentieth dynasty," he murmured, wrinkling his brows. Mrs. Jasher stamped and flirted her fan pettishly. The creature's soul, she decided, was certainly not in his body, and until it came back he would continue to ignore her.
There were no useful scavengers and scavengers are essential! The rat is usually dependable, but rats do not thrive on Tallien. Vultures no. Of course not. Carrion beetles ... Scarabeus beetles ... The flies that produce maggots to do such good work in refuse disposal.... None thrive on Tallien Three! And scavengers are usually specialists, too.
Here is the dramatic instinct, almost universal among young people, and which has almost no chance to exercise itself, except in the performance of the farces to which we are treated in "private theatricals." Can it not be put to a better use? Dee and his Scarabeus figured so successfully.
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