THE CAUSE AND THE CAUSER, 15.

“There’s sense in that,’ interposed the sitting
magistrate, “and I give way accordingly. Brother
Bumbles, we will call what the professor has found
on the moth’s proboscis foreign bodies, if you —
please. You're sure they’re not a disease by-the-
way, professor ?”

“ Qan’t be, Sir Helix, can’t be,” stammered Dr
Earwig, hastily (it was only when flurried he
called the sitting magistrate by his family name).
‘““Never met with such a case in all my experi-
ence.”

“Call the widow!” said Sir Helix, authorita-
tively, and a vouple of bumbles immediately
fetched her from the top of an orchis spike, whence
she was watching proceedings. “Be so good
madam, as to observe the foreign bodies on your
deceased husband’s proboscis, My friend Dr.
Earwig will point them out to you.” Which Dr.
Harwig did as soon as he could persuade the poor
lady to flutter over the corpse and look.

‘Has your husband been suffering from these
long?” That was the way the sitting magistrate
put the inquiry.