Yes, Mollie, the cockroaches eat almost anything they can find, and what
they do not eat they spoil by an ill-smelling liquid they give out when
disturbed.

It is this liquid that makes the cockroaches so very offensive to us.
We cannot bear to touch one because of it.

Cockroaches eat one variety of food that nobody objects to their having.
They are fond of bed bugs and greedily devour them.

Besides the large, dark, reddish brown cockroaches there is a little
tan-colored fellow that is often very troublesome.

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It is not a native of this country, but is supposed to have been brought
to England by soldiers from the Crimea, and later it found its way to
America.

We call it the croton bug, but it is not a bug at all, it is a
cockroach.

It is particularly numerous about water pipes, and, like the rest of the
cockroaches, it hides in the daytime.

At night out troop crowds and crowds of the little tan-colored water
bugs. They run about the floor, and over the pantry shelves. They get
into everything they can find, and have a beautiful time.

They are funny little fellows, and if they were not so troublesome, we