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apple is saved, and a constant admission given to a supply of 

 air without any labour. 



' The hole now made is not, however, sufficiently open for 

 an observer to gain by its means any knowledge of what is 

 going on within ; this is only to be obtained by cutting open a 

 number of the apples as they gradually advance towards ripe- 

 ness ; the hole is, however, very easily seen, from its always 

 having adhering to it on the outside an accumulation of little 

 grains which have been thrust through. 



' Having completed this work the grub returns towards the 

 centre of the apple, where he feeds at his ease. When within a 

 few days of. being full-fed, he, for the first time, enters the 

 core through a round hole gnawed in the hard, horny substance 

 which always separates the pips from the pulp of the fruit, and 

 the destroyer now finds himself in that spacious chamber which 

 codlins in particular always have in their centre. From this 

 time he eats only the pips, never again tasting the more com- 

 mon pulp which hitherto had satisfied his unsophisticated 

 palate ; now nothing less than the highly-flavoured, aromatic 

 kernels will suit his tooth, and on these for a few days he feasts 

 in luxury. 



' Somehow or other, the pips of an apple are connected with 

 its growth, as the heart of an animal with its life : injure the 

 heart, an animal dies ; injure the pips, an apple falls. Whether 

 the fall of his house gives the tenant warning to quit, I cannot 

 say, but quit he does, and that almost immediately ; he leaves 

 the core, crawls along his breathing and clearing-out gallery, 

 the mouth of which, before nearly closed, he now gnaws into a 

 smooth, round hole, which will permit him free passage with- 

 out hurting his fat, soft, round body ; then out he comes, and 

 for the first time in his life finds himself in the open air. He 

 now wanders about on the ground till he finds the stem of a 

 tree ; up this he climbs, and hides himself in some nice little 

 crack in the bark. 



' I should remark, that the fall of the apple, the exit of the 

 grub, and his wandering to this place of security, usually take 

 place in the night-time. In this situation he remains without 

 stirring for a day or two, as if to rest himself after the uncom- 

 mon fatigue of a two yards' march ; he then gnaws away the 

 bark a little, in order to get further in out of the way of 



