[63] “Fare thee well, good neighbour Cricket; from thy presence I must flee; Mine ears also will be taken for a pair of horns,” said he. “Horns, i’ faith!” the Cricket answered. “Is thy servant mad or blind? Those are ears which thy Creator with His own hand hath designed!” “Yet the world will one day call them horns,” his fellow made reply, “And ere that day dawn, my neighbour, I will bid this place good-bye.” [64] Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), Voltaire’s grand-nephew, the leading French fabulist, after La Fontaine.—Translator’s Note. [65] “My snug little home is a place of delight: If you want to live happy, live hidden from sight!” [66] My friend, who is always accurate in his descriptions, is here speaking, if I be not mistaken, of the Swallow-tail.—Author’s Note. [67] For the translation of these and the other verses in this chapter I am indebted to my friend Mr. Stephen McKenna.—Translator’s Note. [68] For the author’s only essay on Ants, cf. The Mason-bees: chap. vi.—Translator’s Note. [69] Or Burying-beetle.—Translator’s Note. [70] Cf. The Hunting Wasps: chaps. iv to vii.—Translator’s Note. [71] “Then tripping to the woods the wanton hies And wishes to be seen before she flies.” —Virgil, Pastorals: book i.; Dryden’s translation. [72] “Safe under covert of the silent night And guided by the imperial galley’s light.” —Virgil, Æneid: book ii.; Dryden’s translation. [73] The enclosed piece of waste land, adjoining his house at Sérignan, in which the author used to study his insects in their natural state. Cf. The Life of the Fly: chap. i.—Translator’s Note. [74] Alphonse Tousserel (1803–1885), author of a number of interesting and valuable works on ornithology.—Translator’s Note. [75] Also known as the Stone-chat, Fallow-chat, Whin-chat, Fallow-finch and White-tail, which last corresponds with the Cul-blanc of the Provençal dialect. The French name for this Saxicola is the Motteux, or Clod-hopper.—Translator’s Note. [76] Wormlike Millepedes.—Translator’s Note. [77] General Eugène Daumas (1803–1871), the author of several works on Algeria.—Translator’s Note. [78] More correctly the Locust, not to be confused with the true Grasshopper, who carries a sabre.—Author’s Note. [79] The Blessed Virgin Mary.—Author’s Note. [80] Omar, the second caliph and the first to assume the title of Commander of the Faithful, reigned from 634 to his death in 644. The Alexandrian library was burnt in 640.—Translator’s Note. [81] Cf. The Mason-bees: passim.—Translator’s Note. [82] 2.34 by .312 inches.—Translator’s Note.