STRANGE DWELLINGS. 
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is duly removed, and then, partly to prevent the hatching of any 
egg that may have escaped during the operation, and partly to 
punish the delinquent for his disobedience, the hollow is filled, 
not with snuff (which is too valuable a substance to be wasted), 
but with pounded capsicum. The discipline is certainly severe, 
but it is necessary. After a child has once paid the penalty of 
negligence, he seldom chooses to bring such a punishment on 
himself a second time, and as soon as he feels the first move- 
ments of a Chigoe, away he goes to have it removed before it 
can burrow under the skin. 
If the Chigoe be allowed to remain, the results are disastrous. 
Swellings make their appearance along the limbs, the glands 
become affected, and if the cause is permitted to remain undis- 
turbed, mortification takes place, and the sufferer dies. So the 
red-pepper discipline, severe as it may be, is an absolute neces- 
sity with those who are unable to reason rightly, or to exercise 
forethought for the future. Every evening the negro quarter 
of the villages is rendered inharmonious by the outcries of 
the children who have neglected to report themselves in proper 
time, and who in consequence are suffering the penalty of their 
negligence. 
There are some insects which produce upon animals certain 
swellings which are analogous to the galls upon trees. Such, for j 
example, is the well-known Breeze Fly ( CEsirus hovis ), which 
is so troublesome to cattle. The larvae of this insect live under 
the skin of the animal, and in some manner raise a large swell- 
ing, that is always filled with a secretion on which they live. In 
fact, the swelling is a gall produced on an animal instead of a 
plant, and the enclosed insect feeds in a similar manner upon 
the abnormal secretion which is induced by the irritation of its 
presence. 
The larvae are fat, soft, oval-bodied creatures, and are notable 
for the flattened end of the tail, on which are placed two large | 
spiracles or breathing-holes. 
Although the larva which inhabits the vegetable gall seems to 
have but small need of air, and to all appearance can exist 
without any apparent channel of communication with the exter- 
