# More Beetles

Author: Fabre, Jean-Henri, 1823-1915; Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Science - Biology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67201

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=More+Beetles+Fabre&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

My hermitage boasts a long, wide lilac-walk. When May is here and the two rows of bushes, bending beneath their load of clustering blooms, form pointed arches overhead, this walk becomes a chapel, in which the loveliest festival of the year is celebrated beneath the kisses of the morning sun: a peaceful festival, with no flags flapping at the windows, no expenditure of gun-powder, no drunken squabbles; a festival of simple creatures disturbed neither by the harsh brass band of the dance nor by the shouts of the crowd acclaiming the amateur who has just won a silk handkerchief at the hop, skip and jump. Vulgar delights of drinks and crackers, how far removed are you from this solemn celebr...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/more-beetles-67201/chapters/3/index.md)