Fore Talk 9 



But don't let this worn' you. Xot only do 

 nature lovers live longer than the ordinarj^ people, 

 but they never go crazy and hence are in no danger 

 of being confined in the bug-house. But it is a 

 good thing to look up the meaning of these words, 

 because i^^e all talk too carelessly. Suppose, for 

 instance, I should tell some English boys to collect 



beetles, they would bring in a lot of cockroaches, 

 and if I should tell them to collect bugs, they would 

 bring in a most unpleasant collection of little creat- 

 ures with which all travellers have been forced to 

 be altogether too familiar, and hence have little 

 desire to see a collection of them. But, if I should 

 tell the American boys to bring in a collection of 

 bugs, there would be nothing in the insect world 



