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crysalids, from which the moths escape iu two or three 



weeks." 



"Well, SU-," said Hugh, "it's an amazin' pleasin' 



history that you've given us, but you'd make it a heap 



more interestin' to farmers ef you'd tell us wat to do 



to git rid uv the worms." 



"Against some of our insect enemies," I replied, 



"man struggles at great disadvantage. They attack 



him in such insidious guise at such unexpected times, 

 at points so inaccessible, in forms so minute, in num- 

 bers so immense, that the wisest and most diligent 

 may be taken unawares. But our tent-caterpillars 

 are no guerillas, but right honest and open foes. They 

 pitch their camps under our very eyes and march out 

 to assault like genuine soldiers in broad day. If a 

 farmer does not exterminate them or hold them within 

 harmless limits he suffers from his own laziness, in- 

 difference, or neglect." 



"Well, yes, that's so, I reckon," Hugh responded. 

 "But the plague on 't is that sech a feller's acres git 

 to be a breedin' ground for all sorts uv nuisances, and 

 the rest on us have to suffer with him." 



"True," I said, "and then there is no remedy but 

 the law ; and the time will come, perhaps, when 

 farmers— who have the majority of votes— will not 

 think it beneath their dignity to enact laws concerning 

 the destruction of insect pests." 



