Fore Talk 11 



selected their perfume with the care we should wish ; 

 some of the other bugs, though, as well as some 

 beetles, have the odor of ripe fruit, some smell like 

 cinnamon and spices, which is not so bad and a 

 little whiif is rather agreeable. The odor of bugs 

 comes from an easily evaporated (volatile) oil which 

 is hidden in the tubes of the body of the bug and 

 the creatures probably squeeze this oil out at their 

 pleasure and use it as a perfume, not always like 

 the ladies, to make themselves attractive, but some- 

 times apparently to make themselves so disagree- 

 able that birds, toads and other creatures will refuse 

 to eat them. Like the skunks among the mammals, 

 the repulsive odor of some bugs seems to be their 

 gentle art of self-defense. 



The big bugs among bugs, using the term as 

 they use it in society (not to represent the natural 

 size of bugs), are the true bugs, they belong to the 

 " 400." Xothwithstanding that they are the swells 

 of bugland, if some fatal plague should wipe out 

 all the bugs in creation there are not many of us 

 who would weep over their death, yet even this 

 event might in some unlooked-for manner upset the 

 balance of nature and cause disastrous results. 



All bugs are " suckers," they have a long nose 



