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torn to pieces. Here is a tube containing already a 

 male Ocypus ; yours is, I think, a female : it will be 

 better to keep them by themselves." 



He offered the tube to Kene*. who hastened to avail 

 himself of the good advice, humming a well-known 



" n faut des epoux assortis, 

 Dans les liens du manage."* 



"You see my plan is a very simple one," said the 

 keeper, who, however, was none the less proud of the 

 find. " Lepidoptera may be captured by a similar 

 method. You place on the trunks of the trees a 

 mixture of sugar or molasses with some beer, and 

 these gay ones come and cannot forsake it. You 

 know the proverb that says you may capture more flies 

 with a drop of honey than with a pint of vinegar." 



;< Yes," the doctor laughingly replied. "And 

 evidently Saint Francis of Sales, to whom the author- 

 ship is attributed, might have become an eminent 

 entomologist if he had not been a great saint." 



They returned through the marshes that exist on 

 either side of the river Touques. In a creek a bird, 

 called the little grebe, was sporting about. The 

 moment it saw our friends it dived and disappeared. 



" Can it be drowned ? " said Kene*, who after two 



* Spouses should be well assorted 

 For the bonds of holy wedlock. 



