THE BLACK BILL-BUG OF CORN 27 



"Do you believe that?" asked Johnny. 



"I don't know whether I do or not. It looks 

 to me as if any bugs trying to stay in those stubble 

 would freeze to death during the winter," Mr. 

 Drake replied. 



"I have been thinking about it," Johnny con- 



FIG. 13. "Those stubble somehow make lots of bugs next year." 



tinued ; "the little bugs have no houses with warm 

 stoves and I have wondered many times what they 

 do through the long cold winter when there is no 

 food. I should certainly hate to be a bug." At this 

 remark by Johnny the whole family laughed. 



"What makes you think that the bugs live during 

 the winter?" asked his mother. "I thought that 

 they all died in the fall." 



