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and blue buttons, but his immediate covering was 

 mostly of sand, and on his bosom he had fastened 

 quite a sprig of green grass. I had laid that 

 grass before him, thinking that perhaps he might 

 like a bite during his exhausting labors. But E 

 Pluribus Unum had Hibernian tendencies, evi- 

 dently, and believed in the " wearin' of the green." 

 He reversed his position, however, so that he af- 

 terward wore the grass at the other end of his gar- 

 ment. 



I had thought that he was going to prosper 

 finely after his dress-making, but two or three 

 days afterward I came to his bottle and found 

 him dead. The cause was overwork, undoubtedly, 

 and no matter how vigorous a Caddis-worm may 

 seem, I do not think that I shall ever impose such 

 labor on one again. Dress-making is evidently a 

 great exhaustion of the vital forces of a Caddis- 

 worm, and I felt guilty as I reflected that I had 

 murdered two of the inoffensive beings. 



In some places in that brook there are so many 

 short, pebble-covered caddis cases on the stones 

 that the gazer is irresistibly reminded of the little 

 barnacles seen in such numbers on the rocks by 

 the sea. 



I brought home one Caddis-worm that was cer- 

 tainly an ingenious fellow. I marvelled at his 

 style of architecture. It was somewhat the same 

 that children use in building " houses " of clothes- 

 pins. The little sticks stuck out in all directions, 



