SINFUL TACTICS OF A SACRED BEETLE
The beetle pushing backward is the owner of the ball and is on his way—as he thinks—to his burrow. The other is altering the direction toward his own burrow. Fabre's book on the Sacred Beetle—the tumblebug of our fields and roadways—tells how the thing came out.
CHAPTER VI
(JUNE)
Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
Consider her ways, and be wise.