THE DEVIL'S COACH-HORSE 



June gth 



HE bombardier, though unique in his way, 

 has a rival in mere drollery in the devil's 

 coach -horse. This horse has an odd trick 

 of his own with his long tail, which, in its 

 way, is quite as surprising as anything the 

 bombardier can do. He is the " lightning 

 change artist" of this bug-circus, trans- 

 forming himself from a buzzing, gauze -winged fly 

 into a lively wingless bug in the twinkling of an 

 eye. Here is a chance for our boys to test their 

 eyes. There is a whole tribe of these profane horses, 

 big and little. A butterfly-net swept among the 

 meadow flowers and grasses will certainly capture a 

 number of them the smaller species and their tricks 

 can be observed through the meshes of the net as 

 they fly from side to side. But the best raree-show is 

 to be had from the large species, though it is quite in 

 keeping that we must frequent haunts from which the 

 polite nostril would naturally shrink if we would find 

 the devil's finest coach-horse in his element, for the 



