Woodlouse

Thus you have devised a Woodlouse trap, and next morning you may knock the vermin out of it into a vessel full of hot water, or adopt any other mode of killing that may be convenient.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

Wodehouse, and the Fenians used to issue mock proclamations, in ridicule of his, signed 'Woodlouse.'

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

Professor Woodlouse read it aloud in its quaint and musty phraseology, to wit:

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

Almost the first glance that Professor Woodlouse threw into it revealed this following sentence, which he instantly translated and laid before the scientists, in a tremble, and it uplifted every soul there with exultation and astonishment:

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

Professor Woodlouse, maintained that they were writings, done in a character utterly unknown to scholars, and in a language equally unknown.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

So the poor old Woodlouse retreated out of sight, consumed with shame.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

"So be it, good your lordship," piped the weak treble of the wrinkled and withered Professor Woodlouse, "for we shall hear from your lordship's lips naught but wisdom."

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

The Tumble-Bug was driven away with stripes, and the draftsmen of the expedition were set to making views of the Monument from different standpoints, while Professor Woodlouse, in a frenzy of scientific zeal, traveled all over it and all around it hoping to find an inscription.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

Professor Woodlouse was requested to add to and extend the tree's name so as to make it suggest the musical quality it possessed -- which he did, furnishing the addition Anthem Singer, done into the Mastodon tongue.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

Professor Woodlouse thought that he and his brother scholars, by lying hid and being quiet, might maybe catch a live one.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922