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I have seen some gluttons manufacture a ball as big as a man’s fist.

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It is six or seven thousand years since the Sacred Beetle was first talked about. The peasant of ancient Egypt, as he watered his patch of onions in the spring, would see from time to time a fat black insect pass close by, hurriedly trundling a ball backwards. He would watch the queer rolling thing in amazement, as the peasant of Provence watches it to this day.

The early Egyptians fancied that this ball was a symbol of the earth, and that all the Scarab’s actions were prompted by the movements of the heavenly bodies. So much knowledge of astronomy in a Beetle seemed to them almost divine, and that is why he is called the Sacred Beetle. They also thought that the ball he rolled on the ground contained the egg, and that the young Beetle came out of it. But as a matter of fact, it is simply his store of food.

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Fabre's Book of Insects by Jean-Henri Fabre is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. Read this book online for free on HackerNoon!

Title: Fabre's Book of Insects

Author: Jean-Henri Fabre

Editor: Mrs. Rodolph Stawell

Illustrator: Edward Julius Detmold

Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Release date: December 22, 2021 [eBook #67000]

Most recently updated: April 5, 2022

Language: English

A collection of my prose and poetry.

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Prose/Poetry collection includes poems about Donald Trump, Haiku, Floaters and Sinkers, and the moon and the stars. "I adore you like lover's trips," "I love the taste of your charming kiss," and "Baby, I'll do anything you ask me too"

Now goodbye, my angel. I kiss every one of your tiny fingers, and remain ever your constant friend, MAKAR DIEVUSHKIN.

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MY DEAREST LITTLE BARBARA,—I am sending you a few grapes, which are good for a convalescent person, and strongly recommended by doctors for the allayment of fever. Also, you were saying the other day that you would like some roses; wherefore, I now send you a bunch. Are you at all able to eat, my darling?—for that is the chief point which ought to be seen to. Let us thank God that the past and all its unhappiness are gone! Yes, let us give thanks to Heaven for that much! As for books, I cannot get hold of any, except for a book which, written in excellent style, is, I believe, to be had here. At all events, people keep praising it very much, and I have begged the loan of it for myself. Should you too like to read it? In this respect, indeed, I feel nervous, for the reason that it is so difficult to divine what your taste in books may be, despite my knowledge of your character. Probably you would like poetry—the poetry of sentiment and of love making? Well, I will send you a book of MY OWN poems. Already I have copied out part of the manuscript.