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looking-glasses, books, collections of insects, and 

 other specimens of natural history, boots, shoes, 

 coats, and hats, are equally acceptable, 



279. Like the locust, the white ant is not to be 

 resisted by man ; wherever instinct directs its 

 path, that path is implicitly followed ; the hovel 

 and the palace, rags and the purple robes of 

 royalty, are alike liable to be its food : myriads 

 may be destroyed, but myriads instantly supply 

 the void. 



