"Bishop-Barney. The golden bug. See Barnabee. In Tasser's _Ten
Unwelcome Guests in the Dairy_, he enumerates 'the Bishop that
burneth' (pp. 142. 144.), in an ambiguous way, which his
commentator does not render at all clear. I never heard of this
calumniated insect being an unwelcome guest in the dairy; but
Bishop-Barney, or Burney, and Barnabee, or Burnabee, and
Bishop-that-burneth, seem, in the absence of explanation to be
nearly related--in sound at any rate. Under _Barnabee_ it will
be seen that _burning_ has some connection with the history of
this pretty insect."
"Barnabee," writes the Major, "the golden-bug, or lady-bird;
also Bishop-Barney: which see. This pretty little, and very
useful insect, is tenderly regarded by our children. One
settling on a child is always sent away with this sad
valediction:--
"Gowden-bug, gowden-bug, fly away home,
Yar house is bahnt deown and yar children all gone."