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at Waddles' remark, called his companions, and 

 prepared for a long flight, saying angrily, " If 

 this is the way you treat us when I am kind 

 enough to tell whys, we will go away and live on 

 some one else's milkweed flowers ! " 



" Oh, please don't," cried Tommy- Anne. "You 

 should not be vexed at Waddles ; for your 

 perfume, though it does not seem nice to us, 

 must be a very useful cm oil to you, just as the 

 Skunk's is to him ; and I dare say that there 

 are some things that might think both of these 

 smells delightful ! " 



" You are right, Tommy-Anne," said the Mon- 

 arch, in a tone of apology ; " a smell may be very 

 useful and not ornamental, so to speak. 



" It is the same with the marsh plant that the 

 House People call the skunk cabbage. Its rank 

 odour calls the bee messengers to him, across 

 some half- thawed swamp as quickly as if it was 

 as the heliotrope itself." Then the whole flock 

 of Monarchs began to flutter and rise for their 

 flight. 



" Monarch, Mr. Milkweed Monarch ! " she 

 called as they scattered, "won't you please tell 

 me what sort of a worm the Hawk Moth comes 

 from ? Ruby -throat says that it is a horrible 

 thing ; but then he seems to dislike this moth." 



