182 WOOD LOUSE. 



the garden a great many in this globular 

 state, imagined she had discovered some 

 handsome materials for a necklace, and be- 

 took herself to stringing them with great 

 care . but on suddenly perceiving them un- 

 fold, was seized with a panic, and ran shriek- 

 ing into the house. 



Though considered at present as but of 

 slight importance in the practice of physic, 

 these animals once maintained a very respecta- 

 ble station in the Materia MedkUy under the 

 title of Millepedes. 



