MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST 



beautiful moths. I invite all of you to visit us, and see 

 for yourselves how intensely interesting they are." 



There was a murmur of polite thanks from the girls, 

 but one man measured Molly-Cotton from the top curl 

 of her head to the tip of her slippers, and answered, "I 

 accept the invitation. When may I come?" He came, 

 and left as great a moth enthusiast as any of us. This 

 incident will be recognized as furnishing the basis on which 

 to build the ballroom scene in "A Girl of the Limberlost," 

 in which Philip and Edith quarrel over the capture of a 

 yellow Emperor. 



But what of these students from the great represen- 

 tative colleges of the United States, to whom a jumbled 

 string made from the names of half a dozen moths an- 

 swered for one of the commonest of all.^^ 



