32 UP AND DOWN THE BROOKS. 



came a Persian prince named Chrysalus, a very 

 simple person, but gorgeously arrayed in golden 

 attire. And the assembly, seeing him come with 

 such pomp, were deceived, and rose up to give 

 place to so noble a being. But Jupiter, seeing 

 what a fantastic, idle fellow he was, turned him 

 and his followers into butterflies, greatly to the 

 astonishment of the guests, no doubt. If this be 

 true, how comes it that Vanessa Antiopa wears 

 black ? Did Vanessa go to the wedding-feast 

 wearing mourning ? 



It is a sad fact that butterflies are intemperate 

 at times. To see the beautiful things flit by one 

 would never think them guilty of such indiscre- 

 tion. But a friend of mine informed me that 

 just beyond these foot-hills he had seen one kind 

 of butterfly on the buckeye-trees and could almost 

 have taken the creatures with his hand. He sup- 

 posed them to have been intoxicated with the 

 fragrant flowers. I can well believe it, for, if I 

 were a butterfly myself, it seems to me no flower 

 would delight me more than the dense white 

 panicles of the buckeye. Mr. Scudder gives a 

 similar instance of the Tiger Swallow-tail butter- 

 flies being overcome with lilac blossoms. 



If you look across the brook, you may see a 

 man who fully realizes Bacon's assertion, that 

 mustard-seed " hath in it a property and spirit 

 hastily to get up and spread," for that laborer is 

 gathering the yellow - flowered weed, and has a 



