THE BUGS. 



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WORD bug is said to be de- 

 rived from a Welsh and Gaelic 

 root bwg, which is pronounced in 

 some way, no doubt, by those who 

 are to the manner born, and means a 

 hobgoblin. Originally, therefore, a bug 

 was a spectre, or an object of fear, and that meaning has 

 been preserved in bugbear, bogie, and the verb to boggle. 

 Tattie-bogles and bogus budgets are also, I take it, of the 

 same family. In following the course of this interesting 

 root, a strong sidelight is thrown on our path by that most 

 remarkable . Indian nursery word bow, which is obviously 

 connected with the Gaelic bw or bwg, and means, as every 

 Anglo-Indian baby knows, a dog, cat, spider, ghcst, the 



