88 EYE SPY 
ous, foamy existence. Here is one of them, which 
has just flown in around our evening lamp, and 
has settled upon my paper as I write. Not a 
strange coincidence, by any means, for others very 
like him have been there before when I have been 
writing on various other topics, and are the cer- 
tain representatives of that nocturnal swarm which 
is always attracted by the light. 
What a pretty atom he is as he rests here on 
my paper, clad in his bright emerald green, and 
only about a quarter of an inch in length ! Let 
us catch him for our cabinet. But this is not so 
simple, for, like the proverbial flea, I put my fin- 
ger on him, and he isn't there, but is to be seen 
yonder, at the farther edge of the table, the in- 
stant I lift my finger-tip. And there are others 
like him scattered about me beneath the lamp, 
one especially with four brilliant scarlet bands on 
his bright green wings, a near relative, though I 
am not sure at this moment whether he dates 
back to such a soaking as his little emerald fellow 
just described. We must be quick indeed to 
catch him, he is so alert ; and while his entire 
visible emerald anatomy consists of a pair of nim- 
ble wings, no one would guess it now, for he cer- 
tainly does not use them as he speeds here and 
there on our table. No, he has still another re- 
source in those powerful hind legs of his, which 
soon take him out of our reach when he con- 
