Beer and Beetles

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 116, 30 May 1893, Page 4

Beer and Beetles

_ .*. . ■ There was a beetle trap baited with beer left on the kitchen dresser, and when the bibulous biped who called the place his home returned from bis nightly boozings, he descended to the basement in order to turn off the gas at the meter. It was dark, and although his eyes were useless his hose was all there, and quickly he sniffed his way round to the dresser, guided by the fragrance of his favorite beverage. Engerly he seized upon the vessel and swallowed its contents. " That beer that you left on the dresser has got a lot of sediment in it," he remarked to bis wife when ho had reached the sleeping regions. " I felt several lumps of it slipping down my throat." " Beer ! kitchen dresser ! " cried bis horrified spouse. " Good gracious, that sediment was beetles ; I saw twelve of them wriggling about in it when I came up to bed. You'll excuse me, for I'm going to sleep in the spare room, for I could not possibly exist in the company of a man with a dozen cockroaches iv his inside." No wonder that the next time the bibulous biped suffered froni the jimjams they took the form of coleoptera.