Other Leaf-Rollers 



with its blazing heat, to steady the shape of 

 the still moist fabric. 



However different one from the other, the 

 four leaf-rollers have shown us that the in- 

 dividual craft is not a matter of organic 

 structure, that the tool does not determine 

 the nature of the work. Whether endowed 

 with a rostrum or a snout, whether long- 

 legged or slow, slender or thick-set, perfora- 

 tors or cutters-out, they -all four achieve the 

 same result, the cylinder that acts as a shelter 

 and a larder for the grub. 



They tell us that instinct has its origin else- 

 where than in the organs. It goes farther 

 back; it is inscribed in the primeval code of 

 life. Far from being dependent on the tools. 

 It commands them and is able to employ them 

 as it finds them, with the same skill, for one 

 task here and for another there. 



The little cooper of the oak-tree has not 

 finished with her revelations. Having 

 observed her pretty frequently, I know how 

 fastidious she is of the quality of her victuals. 

 If they be dry, she refuses them absolutely, 

 even though it means dying of starvation. 

 She wants them tender, pickled in moisture, 

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