August 1, 1908 
SmMmonh ERS’ 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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The Bug with a Mask. 
There is a funny little creature that 
wears a covering all over his face just 
like a mask. And whatdo you think it is 
‘for? Let us see. Perhaps you have 
seen the beautiful dragon-flies that look 
so much like humming-birds and butter- 
flies too. They have broad wings, as 
thin as a fly’s, that glitter like glass in the 
sunshine. ‘Their backs are just like blue 
steel. 
You will always find them in the hot 
‘summer months flying through the fields, 
or over ponds and rivers. In the country 
they are called “ devil’s darning-needles,” 
because they are so slender perhaps. The 
French people call them “de .noiselles,” 
which means ladies. 
Now this handsome, swirt creature 
grows from an ugly bug, that crawls over 
the mud at the bottom ofthe pond, And 
this is the way it comes about. Little, 
white eggs are laid on the water, the 
ripples carry them far away, and then they 
sink into the mud. The warm sun 
hatches them, and from each egg creeps 
a tiny grub of greenish colour. They 
are hungry creatures, with very bad 
hearts. They eat np every little insect 
that comes in thelr way. ‘They are very 
sly, too. They creep toward their prey 
as a cat does when she is in search of a 
rat. 
They lift their small, hairy legs, as if 
they were to do the work. It is not the 
legs, but the head that does it. Suddenly 
it seems to open, aud down drops a kind 
of visor with joints and hinhes. 
This strange thing is stretched out un- 
tilit swings from the chin, Quick as a 
flash some insect is caught in the trap 
and eaten, This queer trap, or mask, is 
the under lip of the grub. Instead of 
being flesh like ours, it is hard and horny, 
and large enough to cover the whole face. 
It has teeth and muscles, and the grub 
uges it as a weapon too. 
It is nearly a year before this ugly 
looking grub gets its wings. A little 
while after it is hatched four tiny buds 
sprout from its shoulders, just as you see 
them on tho branch of atree. These are 
really only watery sacs at first. Inside 
of them the wings grow slowly, until you 
can see the bright colors shining through, 
_ Some morning this hairy-legged little 
bug creeps up a branch, Then he shakes 
out his wings, and fliesaway into the air, 
aslender, beutiful dragon-fly. 
[ have told you of the only creature in 
the world that wears this curious mask. 
~-Mrs G. Hall. 
Hair Restorina.—* What are you 
doing, Jack you naughty boy? ‘ Well. 
I’m just cutting some of Susie's hair off 
(sha says she doesn’t want so much) and 
sticking it on to dad’s head, ’cos he hasn’t 
got any,’ 
