X 6 THE SWAN AND HER CREW. 



up with a new life and interest at this first glimpse of what 

 was to him a new and strange world. 



" From my brother Frank and Jimmy Brett. They are making 

 collections, and we are helping them as much as we can. My 

 brother is Frank Merivale, and I am Mary Merivale." 



" And my name is Carleton ; but please tell me more about 

 these things. Will they turn into white butterflies ? " 



" They won't turn into butterflies at all, but into moths, 

 great ugly things with thick bodies ; only Frank and Jimmy 

 like them." 



" I should like to find some if you will show me how to 



METAMORPHOSES OF BUTTERFLY. 



dig for therrh I suppose if I keep them they will turn into 

 moths some time." 



"Yes; put them into a flower-pot full of mould and keep 

 it rather damp, and put something over so 4t the moths 

 sha'n't fly away, and in the spring they will come out ; but it 

 is prettiest to see butterflies come out. They split open the 

 chrysalis at the back of its neck and creep out, but their 

 wings are all shrivelled up to nothing, and they climb up the 

 side of the box, and then their wings spread out, and get so 

 large and beautiful ! I could find you plenty of the chrysalides 



