Hedgerow Life 
you would have to touch it before you 
could believe it was really a caterpillar. 
For the resemblance, to be of any use, 
has to be very perfect indeed. A bird’s 
eyes are much sharper than ours. It is 
looking for its dinner; so it has to be 
sharp, or it would die. If you didn’t 
have anything to eat until you had gone 
out by yourself and found something 
without any help from anybody else, | 
think that you would soon learn to see. 
Some of the insects abroad are even 
cleverer than our English ones. Many 
of them pretend to be green leaves, long 
twigs and sticks, and dead leaves. And 
some look so like other insects which are 
dangerous to handle because they can 
sting, that they are left alone. There 
are some moths in England, a whole 
family of them, which are not a bit like 
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