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NIGGER. 



their heads at the work of demolition, and their tails cocked 

 up in the air. In an incredibly short space of time the 

 green of the leaf is gone, and nothing is visible but the na- 

 ked skeletons of veins, which the niggers do not choose to 

 consume. The colour of the grub is a dull lead-colour, 

 with a rather rough or wrinkly skin, but without hairs, and 

 down each side, from stem to stern, is a paler line ; its 



THE TURNIP-NIGGERS OF THE NATURAL SIZE. 



length, when full grown, is between half and three quar- 

 ters of an inch ; it has no less than twenty legs, six of 

 which are placed in three pairs, very near the head. 

 These six are long, hard, horny and sharp-pointed, and 

 with them the grub holds fast the edge of the leaf while 

 he goes on devouring it : the other fourteen legs are ar- 

 ranged in seven pairs along the body, and are soft and 



