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I expect that will wear off. One day we found a wild bee's nest. 

 One of the boys caught a big swallow tail. I got stung. Mrs. Otis 

 gave me a caterpillar she found on some parsnips. I made it 

 eat carrot leaves. I caught ifive caterpillars like it on a wild plant. 

 I made them eat carrot leaves. My other one keeps weaving 

 and wandering arotmd the room. I think something is going to 

 happen. 



July i6 — It rained today but I was glad it did as I had some- 

 thing to do. My caterpillar 

 made a button of silk and got 

 his hind pro-legs caught in it 

 and then made two silken 

 buttons up near his head. He 

 then passed a thread over his 

 back from one side to the other. 

 I think he is going into his 

 pupal stage. I watched him 

 almost all day but nothing 

 happened. 



July I J — One of my other 

 caterpillars is beginning to 

 weave and wander around. 

 My caterpillar went into the 

 chr>'saUs this afternoon. Now 

 it is a greenish color with the 

 back yellow. I caught seven 

 butterflies today and two 

 moths. 



July i8 — Three of my cater- 

 pillars are hung on the side 

 of the glass. Uncle Russel 

 came and gave me three 

 moths. I guess I forgot to 

 write that I put some dead clams out in the back yard. I went 

 out and found a burrier beetle but he got away. 



July 25th — The boys and I made up a show. The first thing 

 was a lecture given by me. One of the boys came on the stage 

 with a net and said: "I've got one, I've got one" and he let a 

 butterfly go. It went arovmd the room once and then went out 



Donald 



