# The Sacred Beetle, and Others

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

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66743

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Sacred+Beetle%2C+and+Others+Fabre&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It happened like this. There were five or six of us: myself, the oldest, officially their master but even more their friend and comrade; they, lads with warm hearts and joyous imaginations, overflowing with that youthful vitality which makes us so enthusiastic and so eager for knowledge. We started off one morning down a path fringed with dwarf elder and hawthorn, whose clustering blossoms were already a paradise for the Rose-chafer ecstatically drinking in their bitter perfumes. We talked as we went. We were going to see whether the Sacred Beetle had yet made his appearance on the sandy plateau of Les Angles, [2] whether he was rolling that pellet of dung in which ancient Egypt beheld an...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sacred-beetle-and-others-66743/chapters/1/index.md)