STICK-TIGHTS. 
Stick-tights are troublesome to us, and we call them 
very disagreeable names, such as beggar ticks and beg- 
gar lice. But they are really not bad at all and are 
quite pretty. If they stick to us, that is our fault quite 
as much as theirs, for we should keep away from them 
if we are unwilling to carry them about. 
They cling to whatever comes along, because that is 
their way of traveling about. They cannot walk or 
creep or crawl or jump ; neither can they fly very far 
nor move in any other way, excepting as they are 
carried. ij 
You know how they look — so jp Of course this little 
brown, flat object with horns is an akene. Inside it is 
a seed. The 
two horns at 
the top are 
able to fasten 
it quite tight- 
ly to a woolen dress 
or a sheep's fleece. 
If you look carefully, 
you will see little 
hard teeth on the pV . tig . 
