"Anyway, I'm glad we had a chance to talk, because I won't see you again before I leave.

If I were you, I'd just read and study everything I could lay my hands on about entymology, all the time I was in school, and then when the Judge sees that you're in dead earnest about it, he'll let you go on if Cousin Roxy says so.

I heard Dad say that Mr.Howard knew more about insects than any man he'd ever met, and that he was considered one of the coming experts in government work.

Why, Billie, it's just like a great surgeon or doctor, who is able to discover a certain germ that can be used as a toxin, only you doctor Mother Nature." "I know," Billie agreed, enthusiastically.

"There was some fellow who discovered the cause of the wheat blight in the south a few years ago, and somebody else is trying to land whatever is killing our chestnuts off.
Kit, you're a bully pal.