...written in the year 1725, a satire on William Wood, has : The next is an inseft we call a »W-worm, That lies in old Wood like a hare in her form ; With...watch it always cries click : Then woe be to those in the house who are sick : For, as sure as a gun they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries...

...which it is heard. Thus sings the muse of the witty Dean of .St. Patrick on this subject : — — ' " A wood-worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in...watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ! For, sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click,...

...changes into a pupa or chrysalis, the beetle in its adult form apparently living but a year. ' . . . A wood-worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in...Because like a watch it always cries click ; Then woe to those in the house who are sick ! ' WESTMINSTER HALL AND ITS ROOF 437 According to Kirby and Spence,...

...That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form : * See above, p. 41. b Philos. Trans. 1781. 48. 38. With teeth or with claws it will bite or will scratch,...watch it always cries click ; Then woe be to those in the house who are sick ! For, sure as a gun, they will give up the ghost, If the maggot cries click,...

...this useful task by means of ridicule. The antidote was prescribed as follows : — ' ' A wood worm That lies in old wood, like a hare in her form, With teeth or with claws, it will bite, it will scratch ; And chambermaids christen this worm a death-watch : Because, like a watch, it always...