FABRE'S BOOK OF INSECTS 



months, attending to the wants of the egg, the grub, the 

 undeveloped Beetle, and the full-grown insect. She 

 does not return to the glad outer life till all her family 

 are free. Thus we see one of the most brilliant exam- 

 ples of maternal instinct in a humble scavenger of the 

 fields. The Spirit breatheth where He will. 



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