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LITTLE FOLKS 
WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT THE DOOR? 
Do you see this elegant gentleman in brown, coming to pay a 
visit — apparently — to his folded up and laid away relation in the 
tree trunk ? This is Mr. Cerambyx, and he belongs to the family 
of the Longicorn Beetles, because of those two graceful horns 
which he wears on his head. The droll looking personage in the 
cozy little nest in the tree, is only the same fellow before he had 
his wings, in his changing time, when he ceases to be a fat worm, 
and is growing to be a beautiful Beetle. 
Perhaps you think the inside of a tree trunk a curious place 
for this little fellow to live, but it is the most natural place in the 
world, for he's a most famous wood borer. When he was a white 
worm he spent his whole time boring holes into trees, and of 
course, when the time to hide away in the dark came to him, there 
was no place so nice as one of the little rooms he had hollowed 
