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FIG. 125, — now TUE BAG-WORMS WALK AND CLIMB. 



" Pray what is that ?" 



"It is tlie fact that these creatures have been hving 

 their wonderful lives and working out their wise ways 

 underneath my very eyes all my life time, and I never 

 saw" them ! Since thee has spoken of it, Friend May- 

 field, I remember having observed these objects hang- 

 ing to the limbs of some of our own trees Avhen stripped 

 of leaves in autumn. But it never occurred to me to 

 examine them. Indeed, if I thought about them at 

 all, it was only to suppose them some part of the tree — 



