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LIVING CREATURES. 



25. BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 



WHEN spring is marching to 'the music of birds, and 

 the leaves are unfolding to the warm sun, and the 

 dandelions lift their golden heads in the growing grass, 

 and the cows feed on sweet pastures, and yellow butter 

 gathers in the churn, then come the butterflies. 



Fluttering around the pools on the country road 



may be seen the boy's 

 butterfly, with a set 

 of bright, yellow 

 wings, which many a 

 boy seeks to imprison 

 with his new straw 

 hat. Thinking of the 

 butter in the churn, 

 it is easy to imagine 

 how this butterfly 

 came by its name. It 

 is also called colzas, and 

 later in the season it 

 will sport its wings 

 among the blooming 

 clover. 



From the common yellow butterfly the name easily 

 passes to the great multitude of cousins, though they 

 be brown, or black, or variegated in color. Many are 

 their sizes as well as their colors, and different families 

 'have different shapes. When summer has fairly come, 

 in our temperate climate, the swallow-tailed butterflies 

 appear. A common one wears a rich dress of yellow 



Yellow Butterfly Colias. 



