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Spotted Sphinx tobacco worms, potato worms and 

 tomato worms. During slavery times the negro 

 boys picked these caterpillars from the tobacco 

 plant and the overseer, following them, made the 

 black boys bite the heads off of all the caterpillars 

 that they had passed unnoticed. This, my colored 



The Jug Handles. 



informant told me, made the boys " powerful 

 careful." 



The caterpillars have diagonal or bias stripes 

 on the sides and a horn on their tail called the 

 caudal horn, but the part about these creatures 

 which interests the boys most is the fact that the 



