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this made Ben very angry. "What are you laughing 

 at? " he retorted, turning red in the face. "The dic- 

 tionary says that it is the derivation of words ; I 

 looked it up now laugh, will you? " 



This had the effect of making them laugh louder, 

 which, in turn, made Ben's face turn redder. 



Mr. Henderson relieved Ben when he said, "You 

 are thinking of etymologist; I said entomologist, 

 which is taken from the Greek entom, meaning insect, 

 and logos, a study. An entomologist is one who 

 studies insects." 



"I never knew that there were men who made it a 

 business to study insects," said Bob Griggs. 



"Yes, sir, they are called entomologists," Mr. 

 Henderson replied. 



Soon after this meeting an entomologist arrived 

 at Flanders who worked like a trained spy among 

 the black bandits. The weevils were at work every- 

 where, on the low wet bottom-fields, on uplands, 

 in near-by woods, but the entomologist was there 

 also, and it was a common sight to see him crawling 

 out of a crib with corn silk over his face and clothing. 

 After he had worked a long time and had studied 

 the habits and lives of the pests, he asked the 

 farmers and business men to meet at the corn-crib 

 on Jack Smith's place on the following Saturday 

 morning at ten o'clock sharp, when he would tell 

 them what he had found out about the weevils. 



