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the benefits derived from most of them and the pleasure of their 

 company. I would caution the gardener against destroying them, 

 for the garden's sake as well as the beetle's, even if he does not be- 

 lieve with Shakespeare that " the poor beetle, that we tread upon, 

 in corporal sufferance finds a pang as great as when a giant dies " 

 (Measure for Measure, III, Sc. i). 



