4 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



knowingly walk around and investigate to see what 

 chocked the ball so that it would not roll, work their 

 heads as if they were nodding with self-approval 

 for having discovered the trouble, then proceed to 

 roll the ball around the obstruction. 



The scarab or sacred beetle of Eg^^pt is noth- 

 ing but a tumble "bug"; the old Egyptians, like 

 the boys of to-day, were wont to watch the tumble 



"bugs" roll their ball along the ground; the 

 Egyptians thought they rolled this ball from sun- 

 rise to sunset; and because of the thirty joints in the 

 scarabs of tlieir six feet they came to the conclusion 

 that these joints represented the thirty days of the 

 month. Then they set their imagination mill to 

 working and deified the tumble " bug." Even the 

 Roman soldiers wore a tumble " bug " on their sig- 

 net rings. Tmnble " bugs " are funny, but people 

 are sometimes funnier than any bug. 



