Comparing a Beetle with a Boy 29 



and then to a man, and it would be unkind to send 

 him away back to the insect world. 



We have no exact record of man's growth to 

 his present dignified position in nature, but every 

 one of my readers can see the transformation of 

 an insect, see how it grows from an egg to a worm, 

 from a worm to an animated mummy, from a 

 mummy to a perfect winged beetle, beautiful moth, 

 or gorgeous butterfly according to the particular 

 kind of eggs first observed. 



