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A clerk in the beetle department of a Tokyo department store (who has a pair of okuwagata stag beetles captured from the wild "on sale" right now for just $43,000) told the paper that the bugs "might actually like it in a machine because they seem to be comfortable in dark, narrow spaces."
Perhaps her fading mind called up once more the shadows of the past to float before it, and retraced, for the last time, the vanished visions of that long history--passing back and back, through the cloud of years, to older and ever older memories--to the spring woods at Osborne, so full of primroses for Lord Beaconsfield--to Lord Palmerston's queer clothes and high demeanour, and Albert's face under the green lamp, and Albert's first stag at Balmoral, and Albert in his blue and silver uniform, and the Baron coming in through a doorway, and Lord M. dreaming at Windsor with the rooks cawing in the elm-trees, and the Archbishop of Canterbury on his knees in the dawn, and the old King's turkeycock ejaculations, and Uncle Leopold's soft voice at Claremont, and Lehzen with the globes, and her mother's feathers sweeping down towards her, and a great old repeater-watch of her father's in its tortoise shell case, and a yellow rug, and some friendly flounces of sprigged muslin, and the trees and the grass at Kensington.
Legend gives us a different account: When David was hunting in the woods, he was about to be attacked by a stag when the figure of a cross appeared between the antlers of the beast, which backed away from the king.
The exhibits span the centuries from the Iberian era to the Visigothic period, but pride of place goes to objects from the 10th-century palace of Medina Azahara, like the bronze figure of a stag taken from a fountain presented by the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII.
With luck, you’ll see a leopard draped indolently on a tree branch, and perhaps a stately sambar stag.
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