MR. PUNCH’S ENTOMOLOGICAL RECREATIONS.
TAPE-WORMS.
The peculiar variety known as the red-tape worm will be found especially abundant in the War Office and the Admiralty, where this mischievous reptile breeds so fast, and attains such dimensions as to be an obstruction to all business. The red-tape worm is peculiarly insidious and determined in its attacks on all new inventions or improved business machinery, coiling itself round and round, and impeding the working of such contrivances, and often rendering them as entirely unusable, as the white ants are said to do with furniture in India. Many ingenious inventors of excitable temperament have fallen victims to the slow but sure attacks of the red tape-worm-which, like some other of the ascarides, has a tendency to multiply itself.
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