Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 407
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… … SEXTON-BEETLES BURYING A DEAD BIRD. buried in dirt or in a dead body finally break-ing forth into life. And these are only two kinds of beetles out ofa great many hundred. The Century Dictionary.
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