VIII 

 A RARE PICTOGRAPH 



campers in southern New Hamp- 

 shire were sitting in a pine grove near 

 their tents, when one of their number dis- 

 covered a partially barked fragment of a 

 pine bough, a little over two feet long, upon 

 which was some very interesting etching. 

 Stripping the bark farther on the bough, 

 the discoverer found that the etching con- 

 tinued with certain breaks, which may have 

 been poetic paragraphing, the entire length 

 of the stick. 



The designs on the bough were so elusive, 

 suggestive, and artistic, that they provoked 

 further search whenever the grove was re- 

 visited. As a result, there was gathered, 

 before the summer was over, a pretty com- 

 plete local edition of the work of that gifted 

 beetle, painfully known to entomology as the 



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