88 EYE SPY 



ous, foamy existence. Here is one of them, which 

 has just flown in around our evening lamp, and 

 has settled upon my paper as I write. Not a 

 strange coincidence, by any means, for others very 

 like him have been there before when I have been 

 writing on various other topics, and are the cer- 

 tain representatives of that nocturnal swarm which 

 is always attracted by the light. 



What a pretty atom he is as he rests here on 

 my paper, clad in his bright emerald green, and 

 only about a quarter of an inch in length ! Let 

 us catch him for our cabinet. But this is not so 

 simple, for, like the proverbial flea, I put my fin- 

 ger on him, and he isn't there, but is to be seen 

 yonder, at the farther edge of the table, the in- 

 stant I lift my finger-tip. And there are others 

 like him scattered about me beneath the lamp, 

 one especially with four brilliant scarlet bands on 

 his bright green wings, a near relative, though I 

 am not sure at this moment whether he dates 

 back to such a soaking as his little emerald fellow 

 just described. We must be quick indeed to 

 catch him, he is so alert ; and while his entire 

 visible emerald anatomy consists of a pair of nim- 

 ble wings, no one would guess it now, for he cer- 

 tainly does not use them as he speeds here and 

 there on our table. No, he has still another re- 

 source in those powerful hind legs of his, which 

 soon take him out of our reach when he con- 



