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To the bug 
student these features are 
very significant, and he is 
not long in placing the 
creature among his proper kin- 
dred. He has a sucking beak, 
which connects him with the 
tribe of bugs, and other features 
ally him to the cicada, a humble 
though accomplished relative of 
the buzzing harvest-fly or hornet. He dwells in 
cool contentment here in his aerated bath, but he 
has not thus put himself to soak as the end and aim 
of his existence. Erelong he will graduate from 
these moist surroundings, and we shall see quite 
another sort of being, whom we would not dare to 
affront by the mere mention of such an ignomini- 
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