Building a Make-Belie ve Insect 



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our worm must be hollow all the way through from 

 one end to the other so that it may take in fuel in 

 the form of food to keep its engines going, absorb 

 the good part of the food and throw the refuse or 

 ashes away. 



With a broom-straw (Fig. 2) we will punch a 



hole in our worm from end to end; now then, if 

 some fairy will kindly arrange inside of this wax- 

 worm the proper tubes to soak up or absorb the 

 good part of the food, then if this fairy will touch 

 this thing with her wand and give it life it will be 

 a very crude, but possible, form of a worm. It 



