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If you will dip up a few of the gliders with a 

 little net made of cheesecloth and put them in your 

 aquarium, you can tame them and they will learn, 

 like the whirligig, to take the fly from your fingers. 

 But you must keep your aquarium covered with a 

 wire screen or they will escape. Some of them have 

 wings and can fly and all of them will attempt to 

 get away hy crawling up the sides of the aquarium. 

 These surface insects seem to dread captivity. The 

 divers and under-water folk do not seem to mind 

 confinement, but all of them will become accus- 

 tomed to tlieir narrow crystal prison and furnish 

 you a never-ending source of entertainment if you 

 treat them properly. 



A FEAV MORE BUGS 



Somewhere at the fore part of this book I told 

 the reader that there were far too many insects in 

 the United States to squeeze in between the covers 

 of any one book, and any of the bugs who find their 

 portraits missing in this volume will please accept 

 the apologies of the author and the assurance that 

 no slight was intended. There are a few bugs we 

 will mention because the boys will look for them. 



