This story begins with the ____ narrator's introduction of William Legrand, who moved to ____ with Jupiter, a ____. One day, the narrator visits Legrand who had discovered a new species of ____ but on the way home he bumped into the Lieutenant and lent him the ____. Legrand begins to sketch out the bug on a scrap of ____ he had in his pocket. The narrator expresses surprise at how much the drawing appears like a ____, and Legrand is offended at the criticism of his artwork. About a month later, Jupiter anxiously visits the narrator in Charleston. Jupiter confirms that Legrand has been acting ____ after being bitten by the ____ beetle. Jupiter delivers a ____ from Legrand asking the narrator to visit him as he hasn't been feeling well. Legrand admits to sending Jupiter to retrieve the narrator because he needs someone he can trust to accompany him on an ____ into the wilderness. After hiking for two hours, they arrive at a particular ____. Legrand asks Jupiter to take the bug, climb the tree, and look for anything unusual. Suddenly Jupiter shouts fearfully that he sees a skull. Legrand asks Jupiter whether he knows ____ from left, and when Jupiter says he does, asks him to drop the gold bug through the skull's ____ eyehole, careful not to let go of the string. Legrand works quickly with a ____ to clear a circular space into which the beetle can fall and be easily seen. When it drops, Legrand marks the ____ with a wooden peg. He creates a circle four feet wide around the second peg and hurriedly starts digging. After two hours of ____, they find nothing but Legrand realizes that Jupiter must have mixed up his right and left. Legrand adjusts the digging markers, and they resume their labours while the narrator becomes more interested in their digging. The agitated dog digs up two ____, a Spanish knife, and some loose coins, and the narrator trips over a ring buried in the dirt. They increase their speed and find a perfectly preserved ____ of wood full of gold and jewels. At last, Legrand explains the strange ____ and how he came to know of the buried ____. It all started with the scrap of parchment Jupiter pulled from the dirt to pick up the gold beetle. Legrand used that scrap of parchment to ____ the outline of the skull-like shape on the bug for the narrator. When the dog jumped on the narrator and his hand dropped close to the fire, the ____ revealed ____ which Legrand noticed when the narrator handed the parchment back. After the narrator left and Jupiter went to sleep, Legrand spent the next hours investigating the scrap. It revealed a ____ and an illustration of a baby goat, or "kid." From this he determined the note to be clues to the missing treasure of the famed pirate, ____.

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