insects. 



" Come take up your hats, and away let us haste 

 To the Butterfly's ball and the Grasshoppers feast : 

 The Trumpeter Gadfly has summoned the crew, 

 And the revels are now only waiting for you." 



Roscoe. 



IN Alphonse Karr's little book already quoted there 

 are two chapters with very suggestive, if not very 

 elegant, headings, " Sur le dos " and " Sur le ventre." 

 Lying on the grass, and looking first down in the 

 strong light into thickets of thyme, and moss forests 

 of miniature palms, and tree ferns, to watch the 

 important doings of insects which live there, and 

 then turning over, and looking with shaded eyes 

 through the gaps in the branches of the larger trees 

 and floating gossamer threads at the clouds and 

 clear depths of sky beyond. 



It may depend on the turn of one's mind whether, 



K 2 



