THE COCOON HARVEST 



December 2Qth 



[OW is the time to lay up your 

 ! store of cocoons, looking to 

 tiiose beautiful moths of next 

 June; and there are two kinds 

 J at least which will prove a sure 

 harvest for your winter walk. 

 For weeks they have been most effectually 

 hidden among the foliage, but now the thickets 

 are full of them in plain sight that is, if your 

 eyes are sharp enough to find them. It always 

 adds to the zest of a walk at any season to 

 have some particular quest in view a rare 

 flower or bird, an Indian arrow-head, perhaps. 

 And even now, in midwinter, when the wilds 



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