human
Bother the flies and moths! said Uncle Paul testily.
gpt
Who's to work with them circling round and round the candles, trying to singe themselves to death? What's that white one, boy?
human
Ghost moth, uncle,
gpt
Good boy! Well named. Trying hard to make a ghost of itself too. Why, there's a great Daddy Longlegs now! Here, you'll have to shut the window.
human
Oh, don't, uncle! It will make the room so hot.
gpt
Umph! So it will. Very tiresome, though, when one's trying to work. Now then, let me see; let me see. I want to examine this hydra, but I must put on a lower power, and--Oh, dear, dear, dear! Gnats! Moths! Tipulae and--Really, really, Pickle, that lamp gives no light at all;