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The Water Boatman

What, May; you want to see a bug?

Well, that is easy enough.

Here is one in this pond at our feet.

Do you know it?

Yes, John; it is the water boatman.

Nell says she doesn't see it. > There, Nell, that little thing that shines like silver under the water. It is clinging to a weed.

No, we cannot see it very well unless we catch it.

Ned, do you think you can be spry enough to scoop it out with the net?

There, he has it, - no, it is off.

Well, we shall never see that one again; but here, in this corner of the pond, see, several of them.

Now don't be in too great a hurry, Ned; they are hard to catch.

He has it!

Here, don't touch it, - bugs are biters, remember.