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of the white butterflies by your greenhouses, but if you want 

 moths, take this trowel and dig around the other side of this 

 tree about three inches from it and three inches deep. They 

 do not breed on all trees ; we have tried five to-day and found 

 nothing, but at this one we have got twelve." 



More amused and interested than he had ever been before, 

 Dick knelt down and began to dig. Very soon he found a 

 large chrysalis, and, encouraged by this success, he dug more 

 vigorously, and very soon he had found five, while the girls 

 had increased their spoils to sixteen. 



"Now, Miss Merivale, will you come to the greenhouses 

 and show me how to get some butterfly chrysalides ? I shall 

 be very glad if you will, and I should like to introduce you 

 to my father, and I will ask him to ask your brother here, 

 then he could tell me more about these things." 



WHITE HAWTHORN BUTTERFLY. 



Mary hesitated, but Florrie said, " Oh, do go, Mary " so 

 she consented, and they walked up through the gardens, and 

 Mary showed Dick where to look for the chrysalides of the 

 common white butterfly, which are to be found through the 

 winter attached by a silken thread to the sheltered sides of 

 walls, and under the coping of greenhouses and buildings near 

 the gardens where the caterpillars have fed on the lettuces and 

 cabbages. 



Sir Richard Carleton was in one of the conservatories, and 

 seeing him, Dick cried out 



" Father, these red things will turn into moths, and these 

 greenish-white ones into butterflies." 



" Yes, Dick, I know they will." 



" But you never told me so before, father." 



" Well, my boy, I never thought it would interest you, but I 

 am very glad it does interest you. This is Mary Merivale, 



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