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its leisure, much to his surprise and my 

 amusement. 



These moths also walk into my plate and help 

 themselves to anything they fancy, not taking 

 any notice of the movement of my knife and 

 fork ; so, for the sake of peace, I now always have 

 a little pot of wine and sugar on the table for 

 them, which they highly appreciate, drinking 

 so deeply that I constantly find them still tipsy 

 in the morning. 



A great many beetles, principally Cetonias, 

 come to the sugared leaves, and the bees and 

 wasps are a perfect nuisance, as, besides eating 

 up the sugar very quickly, they get into the net 

 when a butterfly is captured, and it is very diffi- 

 cult to avoid being stung when taking the butter- 

 fly out ; their friends, too, swarming around, and 

 often attacking my face ferociously, and following 

 me for some distance for the sake of the drops of 

 syrup on my dress. This is one of the drawbacks 

 of sugaring ; another is, that my dress gets so 

 dirty, and also is generally so tattered by thorns, 

 that I am obliged to tell my boy to warn me if 



