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landscape, viewed from the wider ranges of upper 

 air? And why did they never attempt a soaring 

 flight when even a light breeze was blowing ? Did 

 these children of a month old know that a breeze 

 might blow them away from the asters, marigolds, 

 geraniums, and lobelias, and the clump of agrimony 

 in the wild corner of the garden ? Intelligence of 

 this kind might well be expected to occur in 

 creatures of so free a life as butterflies ; for all 

 animals exhibit most of it in the particular envi- 

 ronment to which they are adapted. It is but 

 natural, therefore, that some of the swifter butter- 

 flies should be able to avoid even the wide gape 

 of the collector's net, and to remember it after- 

 wards. But when caught within a greenhouse it 

 is not strange that they should batter themselves 

 against the transparent barrier, where 



" the window proves 



A constant death ; where, gloomily retired, 

 The villain spider lives." 



When afternoon sunshine begins to wane, the 

 careless butterfly becomes deliberate, and selects 

 with caution her perch for the night. Many seem 



