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leaf-case, appeared the head of a green Caterpillar, which, thus 

 protected, resumed its juicy meal. 



Having gained possession of master Leaf-roller and his 

 ingenious tent, by cutting off the branch to which they were 

 appended, we placed it in a flower-pot filled with mould, 

 and when the twig withered took care to plant beside it a 

 succession of others. To these our tabernacled feeder 

 never failed to transfer himself and habitation, slinging the 

 latter, as we originally found it, close beside the leaf of liis 

 pasture. Increasing in bulk and length as he thus regaled, 

 lie soon out-grew his twisted tenement, which he then cleverly 

 contrived to lengthen by the addition of a piece of fresh leaf 

 nicely joined and fitted to the larger and upper end of the spiral 

 horn. Thus far, and no farther, can we carry, from obser- 

 vation, the history of this artificer in rose leaves ; for supposing 

 that when his caterpillar life approached its close, he would 

 either quietly spin himself up in his case, or bury himself in 

 the earth of the flower-pot, we trusted too confidingly to his 

 apparently non-roving propensities, as was proved one fine 



morning in Julv, when we found our Leaf-roller absent without 



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leave, his habitation being left (vacant) behind him. That, 

 barring accidents, he subsequently became a moth, there is 

 every reason to conclude from the nature of his constructive 

 labours while a caterpillar. 



Lastly, a word or two about the Leaf-miner ; he, like the Leaf- 

 roller, and the Leaf-tent-maker, holds his vmlant estate by the 



