iri awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard his, as it were armor-plated, back his and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly his.

"What has happened to me?"

He was horrified at the repulsive reflection of himself in the mirror on the dressing table and threw himself under the bed so that medi, his fiancee whom he had slept with last night, would not be surprised to see.