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engaged in skinning the surface of an old grassfield. 

 My belief is that the starlings can hear their snores, 

 which would be the appropriate sound for so stout a 

 creature in so stuffy an environment. You find the 

 Common, now drifted over by hundreds of laying dad 

 dies, pitted with countless holes by the effective dibble 

 of the starling s beak ; and it is likely that the fat leather- 

 jacket is at least one object of their treasure-hunting. 

 The digger is most familiar with the grub ; but the golfer 

 knows the animal better in the next stage. Cimmerian 

 gloom descended on the management of one of our 

 greatest golf links, and our greatest golf critic wept 

 public tears because putts were deflected on a brown 

 green, if the contradiction in terms is permissible. The 

 leather-jacket, having eaten the grass roots of the tender 

 fescues and poas, fell asleep, but in his way raised the 

 hard case of his pupal stage just above the surface. Vital 

 putts were deflected by these points and science was 

 called upon to provide a remedy for the catastrophe. It 

 will find none better than the bird which enjoys the un 

 fortunate fly at all stages of its life ; but the daddy is to 

 the golf green very much what the wire-worm is to the 

 gardener. 



Among the host of daddy-long-legs, mingling with 

 them as if for the sake of protective mimicry, is a less 

 attractive creature with a certain rough likeness that has 

 been known to deceive. It is yet clumsier in appearance, 

 for its body is red and swollen, and yet neater in opera 

 tion, as is the way with parasites. It has no fonder, more 

 familiar name than ichneumon, though its tribe is very 

 large and not unfamiliar. Everything about it is long, 

 its body may be an inch, and its feelers an inch. There 

 is one of the tribe whose egg-laying apparatus is so long 

 and, in spite of appearance, so strong that it can penetrate 



