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and this deep glass to the garden pond, 
for some of the longlegged creatures you 
observed there yesterday. 
While we are waiting for his return, 
we need not be idle. " Sauver nos quarts 
(Theures" is an excellent French saying. 
Lucy, I suppose the larvae of bugs 
like those of the crickets, and the boat 
flies, and all the creatures you have 
mentioned in this order^ resemble the 
perfect insects ? 
Mother. Yes, the young bugs, both 
when larvae and when chrysalids, are ex- 
tremely like their perfect parent ; as larvse 
they have no wings, as chrysalids they 
have the rudiments of wings, which, 
when they cast their chrysalis skin, 
have attained the full size, and are fit for 
use. 
Lucy, And are they ever seen 
flying ? 
Mother, Some species fly very well, 
and are frequently caught in woods ; one 
very curious sort, the cimex paradoxus, 
was found at the Cape of Good Hope by 
