CHAPTER NINETEEN 



WATER-BUGS. CAKES OF WATER-BUGS' EGGS. WATER 

 BOATMEN. WATER SCORPIONS. BEWARE OF WATER- 

 BUGS' STING. GIANT WATER-BUG. WATER-BUG SUFFRA- 

 GIST. GENTLE WATER-BUG AS A NURSE GIRL. SKATERS 

 OR GLIDERS. 



WATER- BUGS 



In tlie outskirts of old Flushing, Long* Island, 

 there is an ancient mill-pond where formerly stood 

 a quaint, low-ceilinged, dusty mill dating back to 

 Revolutionary times. Below the mill wheel where 

 the water ran into the brook was formerly a great 

 hunting ground for newts, salamanders and other 

 aquatic animals, but up in the pond itself, in the 

 black soft mud, was our hunting place for all 

 manner of small aquatic bugs. 



The mill pond is now dignified by the name of 

 Kissena Lake, and the old mill is gone. There are 

 walks, drives, rustic stairways and caretakers, and 

 the place is called Kissena Park. 



But down in the mud of Kissena Lake the little 

 water people still live and thrive. There you will 

 find the Boatman (Fig. 272) not quite half an inch 

 long and he makes an interesting specimen for your 



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