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F all the insects which occasionally 
claim our attention in our country 
rambles, there is probably no ex- 
ample more entitled to our distin- 
guished consideration than the ple- 
beian, commonly despised, but ad- 
mittedly amusing beetle known the 
country over as the funny " tumble- 
bug." As we see him now, so he has always been 
the same in appearance, the same in habits ; yet 
how has he fallen from grace ! how humbled in the 
eyes of man from that original high estate when, 
in ancient Egypt, he enjoyed the prestige above all 
insects where, as the sacred " scarabaeus," he was 
dignified as the emblem of immortality, and wor- 
shipped as a god ! The archaeological history of 
Egypt is rich in reminders of his former emi- 
nence. Not only do we see his familiar shape (as 
shown in our initial design) everywhere among 
