258 THE SWAN AND HER CREW. 



"What a curious instinct it is which leads moths and 

 butterflies, while you are killing them, to lay their eggs. It 

 is their last will and testament! 



HEDGEHOG 



" I found a brood of caterpillars on a hawthorn-bush ; they 

 were the caterpillars of the small oak-eggar. They make a 



silken nest in the branches, and they come out to feed and 

 go in to sleep. There were at the least five hundred of 



