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motionless thus, and it was hard not to 

 think him a chip of ancient bark or a frag- 

 ment of a leaf, then he flipped himself into 

 the air and was off over the hill again in 

 a tremendous hurry. All butterflies get 

 occasional aerograms and go off as if on 

 a matter of life or death in response to the 

 messages, but it seems as if these over- 

 winter chaps were especially subject to 

 them in the first warm days. Later an 

 angle-wing came down into my valley, but 

 he did not stay long enough for me to 

 find out which of the Graptas he was, 

 whether the question mark or the comma, 

 Grapta interrogationis or Grapta comma. 

 I should call him the comma, for his stop 

 was of the shortest, if it were not that my 

 doubt of his identity leaves me with the 

 query. 



The rush of his business was even 



greater than that of Pyrameis huntcra, 

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