Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 407
AN EGYPTIANSCARAB. ball,— that is, if nobody happens to step intothat hole before all this comes to pass. The burying-beetle, or sexton-beetle,which was recently described in St. Nicholas,makes it his business to bury dead moles, andmice, and birds,— not altogether out of the good- … TUMBLE-RUGS. ABOUT NATURAL SIZE. ness of his heart, but because he thinks there snothing like a dead bird to put eggs into if youintend them to come to anything. This way beetles have of burying their eggsmakes people think that one of the reasons theEgyptians used to consider them sacred…
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