SOME BUTTERFLY FRIENDS 



tenuous thread of ethereality that 

 reaches far toward a realm of spiritual 

 ideals. It ought to go with a ritual and 

 a vested choir. 



I do not find the odor of the pasture 

 milkweed speaking thus to any inner 

 sense. It is just a gentle, lovable, stay- 

 at-home smell that surely does not float 

 farther than the pasture bars. Yet of 

 all the plants that have bloomed within 

 my world of garden and pasture this 

 summer it has been by far the most 

 popular among insects. It is not that it 

 is the most attractive to the eye, in any 

 of its forms, for there are many flowers 

 of colors more vivid and to be seen 

 farther, as well as of much stronger 

 scent. Yet all day long you will find it 

 besieged by bees, from the aristocratic 

 Italian worker from the farmer's best 

 hive down to those scallawag bees that 

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