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esty in that respect, for the mate always tiuds her. 

 Nature has given liim wings, decorated him with 

 beautiful feathered antenna?, and made him in every 

 respect a striking contrast to his fat, downy, grub-like 

 partner. 



"As soon as he has transformed, he abandons his 

 secure castle and hies away to seek his true-love, which 

 is now the one aim of his life. Undoubtedly, the re- 

 tired habits of his ladye faire present serious obstacles ; 

 but then, when was ever true lover daunted by difficul- 

 ties ? Sooner or later he finds his mate, who. for her 

 part, spends the short remainder of her life in laying a 

 number of eggs within her basket home, wherein, by- 

 aud-by, a lively brood of young caterpillars are reared. 

 They have regular, restless Anglo-Saxon dispositions, 

 and, as we have seen already, are not content until 

 they colonize from the old homestead and set up house- 

 keeping for themselves. It was at this point that we 

 began the history of the basket-worm, and here we 

 must now leave it." 



