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evils to have their due and necessary place 

 in the order of Nature ? Was it frightened 

 when the first night settled down upon it, 

 the horrible black darkness, that seemed 

 to be making a sudden end of all things ? 

 As it saw a caterpillar here and there, did 

 it ever suspect any relationship between the 

 hairy crawling thing and itself ; or would 

 it have been mortally offended with any 

 profane lepidopteran Darwin who should 

 have hinted at such a possibility ? 



The Antiopa butterfly, according to some 

 authorities a near relative of the tiger swal- 

 low-tail, has long been especially attractive 

 to me because of its habit of passing the 

 winter in a state of hibernation, and then 

 reappearing upon the wing before the very 

 earliest of the spring flowers. A year ago, 

 Easter fell upon the first day of April. I 

 spent the morning out-of-doors, hoping to 

 discover some first faint tokens of a resur- 

 rection. Nor was I disappointed. In a 

 sunny stretch of the lonely road, I came 

 suddenly upon five of these large " mourn- 

 ing-cloaks," all of them spread flat upon the 

 wet gravel, sucking up the moisture while 

 the sun warmed their wings. What sight 



