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THE SWAN AND HER CREW. 



lay, and brought the net down over dog and butterfly to- 

 gether. 



" I have got it !" he exclaimed. 



" That's right; and you have got a lot of maggots in your net 

 as well, and stirred up the stench most tremendously. Make 

 haste and kill the butterfly and come away, or you will catch a 

 fever," said Jimmy. 



GREEN WOODPECKER. 



The gorgeous insect having been secured in Dick's collecting 

 box, they went off in search of other prey. On a common just 

 beside the wood they found abundance of the 

 beautiful blue butterflies, which shone like flakes 

 of summer sky, and also the small copper but- 

 terfly, which rivals the most brightly burnished 

 copper in its sheen. These were playing about 

 in the greatest abundance, the small coppers 

 settling on a blue flower, or a blue butterfly on a red flower, 

 forming most artistic contrasts of colour. 



