230 NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS. 
poses for which he was created. The insects live longer in 
proportion than such men; and man’s life at best is short— 
but a fleeting day, when compared with the long eternity 
that awaits him. How strange that he should willingly 
throw that little life away, and carelessly allow the pre- 
cious pearl, whose value he does not recognize, to be cast 
away by the rough waves of destiny upon the desolate shore 
of destruction ! 
