The Butterfly and Moth Family 



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words over a page than it is to find simple ones to 

 tell the same story. 



■Nevertheless, boys, we are going to stick right 

 to the talk that we can understand as closely as 

 the subject will allow us. To swallow two such 

 words as Heterocera and Rhopalocera right on 

 top of Lepidoptera would give any boy indigestion 

 of the brain and a pain in his mental tum-tum w^hich 

 would unfit him for buttei*fly hunting and make 

 him dream that he had corneous jointed limbs on 

 his abdomen, and could never again slide down 

 hill belly-buster. 



