It could not hurt very much, and its bite is not poisonous, still I shall handle it carefully.
Some call the dragon fly a darning needle, and say it sews up people's ears when they lie on the grass. This is not true. It does not sew up anything. It has nothing to sew with.
Why should it want to sew up people's ears, anyway?
It does nothing unpleasant but bite fingers, and it never goes out of its way to do that.
If we let it alone, it always lets us alone.
It is our good friend because it catches mosquitoes. For this reason it is sometimes called mosquito hawk.
We should never kill a dragon fly.
Sometimes it is called a spindle, I suppose because it is long and slender like a spindle.
Down South the colored people believe the dragon fly brings dead snakes to life, and they call it snake doctor.
In some places it is called snake feeder.