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EYE SPY 
into loops weaving the webby gauze about them, 
while a few hours hence all are concealed, as 
we see them now, in the completed long, oval, 
white cocoons 
which still re- 
main attached f^jj^ r 
to his body." 
"Well," re- 
marked my listener, 
" I guess he feels 
pretty sick; if he don't, 
I vow I feel sick for 
him. I knew something 
awful ailed him, but didn't know 
what. I thought the things were 
eggs. What's the good of it all, 
anyhow ? What do the cocoons turn into ?" 
I have wished more than once that my friend 
could have been in my studio the day following 
his visit, in order to have witnessed the ocular 
answer to his last question. It was evident that 
his caterpillar specimen might have been discov- 
