INSECT INTRUDERS. 



iii a corner of the ceiling cloth which was 

 reached by an entrance where the sag- 

 ging left an aperture between it and the 

 wall. The evening, after the lamp was 

 lit, was the great time for this couple. 

 They then quartered that wall after the 

 manner of a couple of setters, and many 

 an unwary insect in endeavouring to 

 escape the frying pan fell into the fire. 

 At times, however, after our couple had 

 retired of a night, the domestic bliss 

 would be broken and then sounds of 

 scuffling and excited twittering would 

 come down through the ceiling cloth ! 

 For the world and its inhabitants are the 

 same the globe over, and even the cold- 

 blooded unlovely lizard finds that bicker- 

 ings and curtain lectures occasionally dis- 

 turb the serenity of his night's rest! 



Every housewife has an intimate .ac- 

 quaintance with, and will have often ana- 

 thematised the so-called Fish Insect. An 

 elongate, wingless, narrow, silvery little 

 beggar this, with his body of 12 simple 

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