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Show A NOVELTY IN BUTTERFLIES. Editor Gibson !Hatle It For the BeneCt of an Amateur Naturalist. Puck has in its lithographing department depart-ment a German who is an amateur naturalist. nat-uralist. He is a constant delight to tha editorial department, or, rather, he waa until Managing Editor Gibson hurt his feelings last week. Schmidt that isn't bis name, but it will do carries part of his natural histoi-y collection around with him. Mr. Gibson doesn't know anything about those things, and ha doesn't want to. Mr. Gibson was pinching the creases In his trousers one warm d3y, when an I -m- tmusually large cockroach crawled up on his desk and looked at him. "Too bad Bunner has given his circus," cir-cus," 6aid Mr. Gibson, "but we maybe bappyyet." He captured the cockroach and boxed bim up. Tb,n he cut a pair of large wings out of Ussuo paper and persuaded Artist C. J. Taylor to paint them in colors. Whea they were neatly fastened on the cockroach's back, he placed the animal on his desk and summoned Schmidt The amateur naturalist is nearsighted and wears glasses. "Schmidt," said Mr. Gibson, "here's a new butterfly for your bug collector. It flew into the office just now. " By this time the cockroach was crawling crawl-ing up the wall, handicapped by his paper pa-per wings. Schmidt approached it close ly, and peering through his glasses ex claimed: "Got in Himmel, Mr. Geebson, das 1st TJngeheuer!" "Yah, so I thought, " returned Mr. Gibson. "Yah," said Schmidt, still squinting through his glasess. "Vate a minutfl for my glass. ' ' Off dashed Schmidt, and when he returned re-turned he had a large magnifying glass. He focussed it on the strange butterfly and peered again. For a moment ho was perplexed. He gently took a wing between his thumb and first finger and off it came. He squinted harder, and a look of disgust settled on his features. He brushed the cockroach off the wall, and with an explosive "Dounerwetterl" he left the office. "You can'tsuit some men," said Mr. Gibson thoughtfully, again pinching tha creases in his trousers. "NevYork Bun. |