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UP AND DOWN THE BROOKS. 



would never have had a chance to see my Lady 

 had I not been the cause. 



Another companion that I took on my journey 

 was a female "Tussock Moth," Orgyia. She 

 had no wings, as the lady-moths of her variety do 

 not fly. One can find the Orgyia caterpillars in 

 this district, though not in great numbers. They 

 are pretty creatures, small, with four gray tufts 



Caterpillar of Orgyia. 



on their backs like a camel's hump, and the gray 

 hair hangs over their heads like bangs. The 

 segments are marked with red and yellow, but the 

 most conspicuous things about these caterpillars 

 are the long tufts of black hairs. One stands out 

 on either side of a caterpillar's head like antennas, 

 and another such shoot adorns the end of his body. 

 I fed mine on apple-leaves, and it was on such 

 a leaf that one made a thin, fuzzy, light-grayish 

 cocoon. A winged male with the comb-like an- 



