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LIVING CREATURES. 



pupae are surrounded by a case ornamented with golden 



spots, as if fastened with nails of gold. 



Is the chrysalis a little coffin with a corpse within ? 



No, indeed ; there is a wonderful life in progress. 



Feelers, tongue, legs, and beautiful wings are grow- 

 ing. But what does this life feed upon ? 

 Ah ! now we have found what that ter- 

 ribly greedy caterpillar was doing when 

 it was eating up our leaves so outrage- 

 ously. It was laying away fat which 

 feeds the pupa in the chrysalis, as the 

 hump supports the life of the camel 

 when he is without his customary food. 

 Well, in due time, if no enemy has 

 torn it away, the chrysalis splits open 

 sound chrysalis. and the i ma g O> t h e perfect butterfly 



comes forth, dries its wings, and flies away full-grown. 

 The ugly child is at last as beautiful as its mother, and 

 as large as she ; and it never grows any more. 



26. THE SILK-WORM. 



BUTTERFLIES fly in the day-time ; most moths fly by 

 night. When the butterfly rests, its wings are raised 

 over its back ; when the moth lights, its wings remain 

 flat and extended. Most moths have their wings 

 joined. A bristle in the rib of the hind wing passes 

 through a loop in the fore wing. 



The antennae of the butterfly stretch out nearly 



