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back, he rears up the front end of his body, opens 

 wide his pincers and dares everything in sight to 

 attack him. Naturalists call him the Stag-horn 

 beetle, but among the boys he will always remain 

 a pinch-bug (Fig. 212). The larvse are grub 

 worms (Fig. 213), typical fat-tailed grub-worms 

 with white, wrinkled, greasy-looking bodies — ^they 



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look as if they would fry like salt pork. One may 

 find them in rotten wood. When this thick white 

 grub feels tlie inward call for something greater, 

 it makes itself a cocoon of the fragments of rotten 

 wood and retires until it comes out a real six-legged 

 fighting stag-horned beetle, a soldier of fortune. 

 Speaking of soldiers reminds me of a stag-horn 



