the midnight march
I wish to settle the point once for all whether the Pediculus Mellitae is or is not the larva of Meloe . -LSB- -- Now is n't this the drollest world to live in that one could imagine , short of being in a fit of delirium tremens ? Here is a fellow-creature of mine and yours who is asked to see all the glories of the firmament brought close to him , and he is too busy with a little unmentionable parasite that infests the bristly surface of a bee to spare an hour or two of a single evening for the splendors of the universe ! I must get a peep through that microscope of his and see the pediculus which occupies a larger space in his mental vision than the midnight march of the solar systems . -- The creature , the human one , I mean , interests me . -RSB- -- I am very curious , -- I said , -- about that pediculus melittae , -- -LRB- just as if I knew a good deal about the little wretch and wanted to know more , whereas I had never heard him spoken of before , to my knowledge , -RRB- -- could you let me have a sight of him in your microscope ? -- You ought to have seen the way in which the poor dried-up little Scarabee turned towards me .