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into loops weaving the webby gauze about them, 

 while a few hours hence all are concealed, as 

 we see them now, in the completed long, oval, 

 white cocoons 

 which still re- 

 main attached 

 to his body." 

 "Well," re- 









marked my listener, 

 " I guess he feels 

 pretty sick; if he don't, 

 I vow I feel sick for 

 him. I knew something 

 awful ailed him, but didn't know 

 what. I thought the things were 

 eggs. What's the good of it all, 

 anyhow ? What do the cocoons turn into ?" 



I have wished more than once that my friend 

 could have been in my studio the day following 

 his visit, in order to have witnessed the ocular 

 answer to his last question. It was evident that 

 his caterpillar specimen might have been discov- 



