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Then you'll understand its action. 

 Their anteunte are threejointed, 

 And their body short and hairy, 

 Always nipped in at the middle. 

 "Where, you ask, live all their larvse ? 

 These, my cliild, are very various, 

 And are always known as maggots. 

 Some devour the living bodies 

 Of the larvse of the Scale Wings, 

 Some eat flesh that's putrefying. 

 Some eat leaves and some eat branches, 

 Some eat roots and some eat flowers. 

 Some eat cheese and others bacon, 

 Hundi-eds eat up filth of all sorts : 

 Tiiily scavengers of Nature ! 



Lastly rank Hippoboscina, 

 Wonderful in transformations, 

 Pupiparous, nymphiparoas : 

 Thus philosophers have called them, 

 Seeing that the perfect female 

 Perfect chiysalis produces. 

 Of the egg and of the larva 

 Entomologists know nothing : 

 They exist and are perfected 

 In the body of the parent. 

 The adult and perfect insect 

 Spends its life on sheep and horses. 

 Hiding in their different clothing. 



