A BUTTERFLY. 



" So much to learn ! Old Nature's ways 

 Of glee and gloom with rapt amaze, 

 To study, probe ami paint brown earth, 

 Salt seas, blue hearens, the tilth and dearth, 

 Birds, grasses, trees, the natural things 

 That throb or grope, or poise on wings." 



THE largest of our butterflies are out in 

 great force to-day. I refer to yellow and 

 black species, mostly yellow. The name in 

 books, by which students know them all over 

 the world, is Papilio turnus. On the edges of 

 the muddy puddles in the road many of them 

 are settled down for something to drink. Not 

 one pei-son out of a dozen knows how they do 

 that. If you take one of them in your hands 

 and examine his head you will find under his 

 chin a threadlike, close coil. If you take a pin 

 or a needle and pull it out the length will be 

 found to be about one inch. This instrument 

 is hollow ; it is used principally for sucking 

 honey from blossoms. But there is no accounting 

 for taste ; and here are these beautiful creatures 

 so delighted and intoxicated with the washings 



