136 STARLIGHT AND SUNSHINE. 
and retained in its compact coil 
by some touch of jugglery which 
I have not been able to divine, 
as no gluten nor web of silk can 
be found. Just try and roll up 
one of these packages yourself, 
and without recourse to your ac- 
customed string, leave it thus 
closely and firmly intact! No 
web, no gum, no stitch, but 
much of the know 
how. Whoever 
the clerk who does 
up these packages, 
he has a long head 
and has kept his 
secret from me 
very securely.” 
Since the writing of 
the above, though not 
yet any more enlightened as 
to the author of this hocus-pocus 
bundle, I have several times observed a suspicious-looking brown 
beetle nosing among its folds, and in his strange make-up freely 
realizing the unconscious prophecy of the “long-head,” for the 
My 
‘* SKIPPERS,” 
