82 LIFE IN THE INSECT WORLD. 



EVENING SEVENTH. 



DEATH WATCH, &C. 



JLnna. Is the Death- Watch an insect, Aunt 

 Mary ? I remember a little girl once telling me, 

 that for several nights before her father died, 

 they heard the death-watch ticking in his room. 

 She said that some one told her the noise was 

 made by an insect, but she did not believe it. 

 She had always before heard it was a sign of 

 death, and she was now perfectly sure that it 

 was so. For a long time afterward I always 

 covered up my head when I went to bed at 

 night, for fear I should hear the death-watch. 



Jiunt M. I am glad to be able to satisfy you 

 upon this point. 



The death-watch is an insect; very small and 

 perfectly white, with a yellow mouth and red 



