A similar operation on the other side of the insect and the insect is dumb, though otherwise as vigorous as before and without any perceptible wound.

Any one not in the secret would be amazed at the result of my pin-prick, when the destruction of the mirrors and the other dependencies of the "church" do not cause silence.

A tiny perforation of no importance to the insect is more effectual than evisceration.
The dampers, which are rigid and solidly built, are motionless.

It is the abdomen itself which, by rising and falling, opens or closes the doors of the "church." When the abdomen is lowered the dampers exactly cover the chapels as well as the windows of the sound-boxes.

The sound is then muted, muffled, diminished.