ANOTHER BURGLARY. 243 



taking snuff at intervals all day long to keep 

 himself awake, I put up with this because he 

 became a pretty good insect collector. 



He too was a liar. I had taught him how 

 to get the butterflies into the bottle, forbidding 

 him to touch them with his fingers, but I con- 

 stantly noticed that they were dreadfully rubbed, 

 and taxed him with touching them. This he 

 earnestly denied, but still I had my doubts, and 

 one day saw him take a butterfly out of the 

 net with his clumsy old fingers and put it in 

 the bottle. I came upon him whilst he was 

 holding it, and yet he even then denied having 

 touched it ! I was very angry ; but what can 

 be done with such inconsequent creatures as 

 these ? 



My cottage was again broken into whilst he 

 was with me, the thieves neatly cutting out 

 two panes of glass from a front window in broad 

 daylight. I believe the old boy, if not the 

 actual thief, kept guard whilst accomplices 

 entered, many circumstances taken together 

 making me think this. He was sent into town 



