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  • a bed-bug

    Robin suddenly and brilliantly announces … that the gardener will allow us to have a picnic in the hen-house. Everybody says The Hen-House? Except Vicky, who looks enchanted, and Mademoiselle, who also screams, and refers to punaises, which she declares will abound.

    – E. M. Delafield, Diary of a Provincial Lady

    November 19, 2007