CASE WINGS. 49 



Ladybirds we mostly call them, 

 Ladybirds, Coccinellina, 

 Ladycows if you prefer it ; 

 But wliy birds or cows I know not : 

 They are very pretty beetles. 



There's the end of my descriptions ; 

 Now I'll tell you where to find them, 

 How to catch them : but the pupil. 

 Tired with such a lengthy lesson. 

 Bounded off to join her sisters, 

 Who, with Ellen and Maria, 

 Dipping deep in Hokempokem, 

 Fished that limpid stream for minnows. 

 Sticklebacks and sly stone loaches. 

 Vainly did I call for Laura ; 

 She had reached the youthful fishers ; 

 So I left the bank and joined them. 



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