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CHAPTEE V. 



HOW TO KILL A BUTTERFLY AN APOLOGY A TEST FOR LUNACY 

 CHARGE OF CRUELTY AGAINST ENTOMOLOGISTS THEIR JUSTI- 

 FICATION ATTEMPTED PAINLESS DEATH CHLOROFORM 

 SETTING BUTTERFLIES CABINETS AND STORE BOXES CLASSIFI- 

 CATION LATIN NAMES SAVING TIME AND MONEY. 



HAVING complied with the old adage, "First catch 

 your hare/' the next point naturally is how to cook it. 

 So, having caught our butterfly, what are we to do with 

 him ? a question that generally resolves itself firstly 

 into 



HOW TO KILL A BUTTERFLY. 



This truculent sentence may, I fear, look like a blot 

 on the page to some tender-hearted reader, and, in 

 truth, this killing business is the one shadow on the 

 otherwise sunshiny picture, which we would all gladly 

 leave out, were it possible to preserve a butterfly's 

 beauty alive ; but this cannot be done, and yet we have 

 made up our minds to possess that beauty to collect 

 butterflies, in short ; there is but one way for it, and 

 so a butterfly's pleasure must be shortened for a few 

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