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rHE CAUSE AND THE CAUSER. 13 lying half untwisted on the grass. He had drawn his feelers along it; but came against something which stopped the way. The shout was excusable, as surprise had startled him, but it brought the sitting magistrate's thinking nap to a sudden ent. He appeared at the door of his shell, and inquired if Dr. Earwig had discovered anything worth disturbing him for, so soon ? Dr. Earwig thought he had. He had at any rate discovered an all-sufficient cause of death) whether deceased had died of it or not. He had found a foreign body-several foreign bodies, in fact, attached to the creature's proboscis; and, so loaded, a proboscis could scarcely enter-much less comfortably dip into-the delicate flowerpouches for food. Sooner or later, therefore, its owner must-starve "Dreadful !" shuddered the sitting magistrate, with difficulty resisting the impulse to shut himself up and think. But our friend shall not die unavenged! Professor, who is to blame ?" The professor replied they had not reached that