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THE LIFE OF AN INSECT. 



in the first instance, taken them to the parish 

 priest, begging his counsel, and both came to the 

 same conclusion that, without doubt, the garden 

 was now enchanted ground ! When the gentleman 

 saw the little things his gardener called charms, 



which are here 

 represented, 

 he was much 

 perplexed, al- 

 though his 

 good sense led 

 him to ridicule 

 the idea of the 

 Lea f tubes - bewitchment of 



his property by such means. He applied to his 

 medical adviser for a solution of this problem ; 

 but, alas ! he was no entomologist, and could 

 not enlighten him ; but he directed him to the 

 naturalist of whom mention has been made, and 

 whose name was M. Nollet. On being admitted to 

 the presence of this gentleman, the terror-stricken 

 gardener hastily put on the table the little rolls 

 of leaves he considered to be spells, and which 

 had been made, with some evil design, as he 

 doubted not, by the malevolent hands of some 



