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Show GLOW WORMS ANESTHETICS Before he begins to feast the glow worm administers ' an anesthetic writes Henri Fabre in the Centurv. He chloroforms his victim, rivaling in the process the wonders of modern surgery, which render the patient insensible in-sensible before the surgeon operate on him. The usual game Is a small snail, hardly the size of a cherry, 'which in hot weather collects In i lusters tin the stiff stubble and other -e . shew i nmrlpt long, dry stalks by the roadside, remaining re-maining there motionless, in profound meditation, throughout the scorching summer days. It is in some such resting rest-ing place as this that I have often been privileged to light upon the lampyris banqueting on the' prey which he had just paralyzed on its shalty support by his surgical arti- Rut he Is familiar with other pre- e '.he iicen I jLamont .Building-. Plo-ionnt Creelr HiVhlnnri Trricra- serves. He frequents the edges of the irrigating ditches, with their cool soil, their varied vegetation, a favorite haunt of the molblsk. Here he treats the game on the ground and, under these conditions, it Is easy for me to rear him at home and to follow the operator's performance down to the i smallest detail. i |