ATTACUS PROMETHEA 



GENCS, AT'TAOUS (loCllSt). 



SPECIES, PROME THEA (Proiuetheus was a Titan). 



We have been mueli laughed at for " seeing so many 

 eoeooiis in impossible places," too high to be reached 

 in any way, on t'orbiddiMi grounds, in park shrubbery 

 with a " Keep off the Grass " between the bushes and 

 us, and in places passed in trains, far from any sta- 

 tion ; but once the laugh was on our side. On a train 

 going out of Boston, one winter day, the Other of 

 Us saw dangling leaves on some wild-cherry trees 

 near the track, and not ver_y far from a station. The 

 train had just left this station, however, so it was too 

 late to stop ; but the next day we went back, walked 

 along the track, — not a crime in Massachusetts, or 

 even a misdemeanor, in that day, — and found that the 

 heavy swinging of the leaves did mean cocoons. There 

 they hung, scores of them! They were like cynthia co- 

 coons in shape and color, and we had to cut either the 

 stems or the silk, for the silk was too tough to break. 

 We filled the tin box we had brought, then our coat 

 pockets, then our dress pockets, then cut stems and 

 all, and made bunches of cocoon-hung twigs. Every 

 little wild-cherry in sight was treasure-hung. 



It was too cold to examine the cocoons there, and 



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