The house was a rattle trap, plastering off, and a regular bed-bug nest.

Closely allied, though generally wingless, is that enemy of our peace, the bed-bug.

Besides the Reduvius, the cockroach is the natural enemy of the bed-bug, and destroys large numbers.

As the poet sings of the little bed-bug, she ain't got no wings-butshe gets there just the same!

Not a bed-bug aft-knowbetter dan come here; jest like de people, in dat respects, and keep deir place forrard.

For bed-bugs nothing is so good as the white of eggs and quicksilver.

My cell-mate had discovered that our cell was alive with bed-bugs.

It not only took us as passengers, it took a great many more bed-bugs.

Sometimes bed-bugs are brought in the cleanest houses before the family are aware of it.

So had "Bed-bug Brown," and he kept the secret to himself.

"No doubt, in Castro, the prospect of bed-bugs is an agreeable prospect," said Cæsar.

Scores on scores-nay ,hundredson hundreds-ofenormous bed-bugs swarmed on the plaster, and were already descending to our beds and baggage.

When Mat Bailey drove the stage out of Graniteville the next morning, John Keeler and "Bed-bug Brown" were the only passengers.

"Oh, you mean Bed-bug Brown," said Mat Bailey.

"Bed-bug Brown's" mission had proved a fiasco.

"-Hegives the following list of the terrific names of the companies: "Hornets, Snappers, Blood-reds, Bed-bugs, Rock-boys, Buffaloes, Skimmers, Scrougers, Revengers, Knockers, Black-hawks, Pirate-boys, Kill-devils."