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old enough to have flowers, because, you see, we 

 are always nipping it off to flavour things." 



" I smell some carraway flowers, over there in 

 the herb bed," said the Butterfly; " they are cousins 

 to the parsley, so I will visit them." 



" Have you any name ? " asked Tommy- Anne. 



" Because of my stripes and long 

 wings, I am called Tiger Swallow- 

 tail, and I have many brothers 

 shaped like me, but of differ- 

 ent colours," said he, pois- 

 ing on one of the um- 

 brella-shaped clusters 

 of the carraway 

 flowers and raising 

 his wings until they 

 met above his back, 

 while he sipped a little 

 aromatic honey. 



"Why did Ruby-throat say that butterflies 

 and moths are only trick worms with wings, not 

 coming straight from a nice clean egg, as he 

 does?" 



" It is true that as butterflies we do not come 

 directly from the egg, and at best the longest 

 life among us is but a short year, yet the changes 

 we go through from our birth to our maturity are 



