“I mostly find the bugs in the bedsteads. But, if they are left unmolested, they get numerous and climb to the tops of the rooms, and about the corners of the ceilings. They colonize anywhere they can, though they’re very high-minded and prefer lofty places. Where iron bedsteads are used, the bugs are more in the _rooms_, and that’s why such things are bad. They don’t keep a bug away from a person sleeping. Bugs’ll come if they’re thirty yards off. “I knew a case of a bug who used to come every night about thirty or forty feet--it was an immense large room--from the corner of the room to visit an old lady. There was only one bug, and he’d been there for a long time. I was sent for to find him out. It took me a long time to catch him. In that instance I had to examine every part of the room, and when I got him I gave him an extra nip to serve him out. The reason why I was so bothered was, the bug had hidden itself near the window, the last place I should have thought of looking for him, for a bug never, by choice, faces the light; but when I came to inquire about it, I found that this old lady never rose till three o’clock in the day, and the window-curtains were always drawn, so that there was no light like. “Lord! yes, I am often sent for to catch a single bug. I’ve had to go many, many miles--even 100 or 200--into the country, and perhaps only catch half a dozen bugs after all; but then that’s all that are there, so it answers our employer’s purpose as well as if they were swarming. “I work for the upper classes only; that is, for carriage-company and such like approaching it, you know. I have noblemen’s names, the first in England, on my books. “My work is more method; and I may call it a scientific treating of the bugs rather than wholesale murder. We don’t care about the thousands, it’s the last bug we look for, whilst your carpenters and upholsterers leave as many behind them, perhaps, as they manage to catch. “The bite of the bug is very curious. They bite all persons the same (?); but the difference of effect lies in the constitutions of the parties. I’ve never noticed that a different kind of skin makes any difference in being bitten. Whether the skin is moist or dry, it don’t matter. Wherever bugs are, the person sleeping in the bed is sure to be fed on, whether they are marked or not; and as a proof, when nobody has slept in the bed for some time, the bugs become quite flat; and, on the contrary, when the bed is always occupied, they are round as a lady-bird.