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gratified, perhaps, were the wild caterpillar equally suscep- 

 tible; as, in that case, two or three discharges of a gun 

 would extirpate the whole race throughout the extent of 

 a garden. The caterpillar is clearly worthy of much greater 

 attention and study than it has yet received ; and as we are 

 told to look to the ant and the bee as examples of patience 

 and industry, so we may advantageously take a lesson of 

 courtesy and good temper from the hitherto little regarded 

 caterpillar. 



