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CHAPTER V. 



HOW TO KILL A BUTTERFLY AN APOLOGY A TEST FOR LUMA01 

 CHARGE OF CRUELTY AGAINST ENTOMOLOGISTS THEIR JUSTI- 

 FICATION ATTEMPTED PAINLESS DEATH CHLOROFORM 



SETTING BUTTERFLIES CABINETS AND STORE BOXES CLASSIFI- 

 CATION LATIN NAMES SAVING TIME AND MONEY. 



HAVING complied with the old adage, "First catch 

 your hare," the next point naturally is how to cook it. 

 So, having caught our butterfly, what are we to do with 

 him ? a question that generally resolves itself firstly 

 into 



HOW TO KILL A BUTTERFLY. 



This truculent sentence may, I fear, look like a blot 

 on the page to some tender-hearted reader, and, in 

 truth, this killing business is the one shadow on the 

 otherwise sunshiny picture, which we would all gladly 

 leave out, were it possible to preserve a butterfly's 

 beauty alive ; but this cannot be done, arid yet we have 

 made up our minds to possess that beauty to collect 

 butterflies, in short ; there is but one way for it, and 

 o a butterfly's pleasure must bt shortened for a few 

 a 



