70 TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM. 



There, iu a few days, it throws off its caterpillar skin, 

 and becomes this bright brown crj-salis." (Fig. 24), 



''If you please, Mars MayfieP," interrupted Dan, 

 "whar's de 'coon? Dat's no 'coon at all; I 'speck 



FIG. '-!i. — PUPA OF POTATO-MOTH. 



Harry's done shucked it, and I'd like powerful well to 

 know all 'bout dat tater-worm." 



'•I didn't neither!" answered Harry, warmly. 

 "That's all there was of it ; Mr. Mayfield stood by 

 Avhile I dug, and knows it's so." 



'•Quite true, Harry; but, Dan, can jou tell why 

 Bond don't wrap up the mots of his bushes in straw, as 

 well as the branches ?" 



" Why, Mars Mayfiel', 'v course de ground keeps 

 de roots warm widout de straw." 



" Precisely ; and so it is with the cry sails. As the 

 larva goes into the ground, to 'transform,' as we say, 

 instead of hanging on the tree like this Cecropia. it has 

 less need of the protection of a cocoon. Although we 

 shall sec by-aud-by, that crysalids can get on very well, 

 even when hanging naked on the trees. 



"But look at this," said Abby, pointing to the long, 

 stem-like appendage at one end of the crysalis. " Your 

 crysalis must have been suspended to the trees at some 



