IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 
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LITTLE WARRIORS, 
Perhaps you think such tiny creatures as insects are very 
helpless, and you would laugh at the idea that one of them could 
shoot guns at you. 
But you needn't laugh, for it is true. And a funny little 
fellow he is, too. He is a Beetle, and is called — from his shooting 
propensities — the Bombardier Beetle. 
And here is a picture of him. 
Though he makes a loud explosion, and a blue smoke, exactly 
like a tiny gun, he don't send out balls, or even shot, but a bad- 
smelling fluid, that causes a burning feeling where it hits, and un- 
doubtedly is very severe to 'his small enemies. At any rate it 
drives them away. 
