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28 THE CAUSE AND THE CAUSER. got there? It was impossible the flower should have dusted itself. ... At this moment theie was another flutter of wings, and, slipping into the nectary backwards (his only chance), the professor saw the entrance of his old friend the butterfly, with the foreign body on her proboscis. This she at once uncoiled, and in doing so the knob of the foreign body hit the sticky surface of the wall, several flower-dust packets came off, and the wall received several fresh patches in consequence. "Do you know" shouted Dr. Earwig, greatly excited. But the butterfly had at the same instant become aware of a really "foreign body" in the nectary-Dr. Earwig himself, namely; and without stopping to answer questions she drew up her proboscis and was gone. *x. X-* *An hour afterwards the whole bumble company were buzzing outside the sitting magistrate's shell. "Well ?" he asked from within. I have come back," answered the.professor, who stood by awaiting the reawakening of his friend.