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USES OF BUTTERFLIES. 



These, we are persuaded, are the primary objects of their Great 

 Creator in filling the air with forms of life and grace, which, 

 destitute of outward beauty, might have accomplished as well 

 all the other ends of their creation. Let not, therefore, our 

 own heedlessness and ingratitude frustrate a design so gracious. 

 Would we know some other obvious and essential uses of 

 the Butterfly race, let us inquire of the thrush, the robin, and 

 the wren, in whose bill-of-fare they hold a most conspicuous 

 place ; and remember how these papilionaceous epicures con- 

 tribute to our pleasure and service, filling the woods and 

 gardens with " most sweet music," and a1> the same time 

 ridding them of a multitude of other insects, whose mischiefs 

 we are less inclined to overlook than those wrought in its 

 infancy by the admired Butterfly. 



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