72 STORIES OF EARTH AND SKY 



or the Milkweed Monarch or Tiger Swallow Tail? 

 I can hardly see how you look. Do you work in 

 the Flower Market? If you do, I should think 

 you would only be able to carry messages for 

 tiny wide open flowers like Mignonette or Can- 

 dytuft." 



" I'm only a very distant relation of those big 

 Butterflies and Moths. No, I do not work in the 

 Flower Market ; in fact, I have a very dull time. 

 I dislike bright sunlight and prefer to stay in- 

 doors. I belong to the Wool Exchange, and am 

 particularly interested in the carpet business. 

 Please let me get out of the light and hide in 

 your skirt." 



" Don't you let it ! " buzzed the House Fly ; 

 " if you do, that sly little thing will lay eggs in 

 some corner of your gown, and then when they 

 hatch into worms they will eat the cloth and 

 spin up into cocoons, and more Moths will come 

 out. These evil young Moths make holes in 

 everything woollen, and mow the fur from muffs 

 and capes as if they were cutting grass. 



" What is worse, too, these wicked little Moths, 

 working slyly in the dark, lay two broods a year, 

 one in spring, one in late summer, so woe be- 

 tide those who give even a single Moth a hiding 

 place. Kill that one, Anne, with a swift pinch; 



