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A Naturalist 's Boyhood xt 
The Story of the Floundering Beetle i 
Fox-fire n 
A Homely Weed with Interesting Flowers 24 
Two Fairy Sponges 34 
Green Pansies 44 
Mr. and Mrs. Tumble-bug 5J 
Those Horse-hair Snakes 64 
"Professor Wiggler" 7^ 
" Cow- spit, Snake-spit, and Frog-spit " 83 
The Paper Wasp and His Doings 91 
The Spiders Span 104 
Ballooning Spiders . 112 
The Lace-wing Fly 122 
The Perfumed Beetles 130 
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