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therefore, or its neighbourhood, we might expect 

 would be the situation she would select for them. 

 But no : as if aware that this food would be to them 

 poison, she is in search of some plant of the cabbage 

 tribe. But how is she to distinguish it from the sur- 

 rounding vegetables ? She is taught of God ! Led 

 by an instinct far more unerring than the practised 

 eye of the botanist, she recognises the desired plant 

 the monent she approaches it, and upon this she 

 places her precious burthen ; yet not without the 

 further precaution of ascertaining that it is not pre- 

 occupied by the eggs of some other butterfly! Having 

 fulfilled this duty, from which no obstacle short of 

 absolute impossiblity, no danger however threaten- 

 ing, can divert her, the affectionate mother dies." 



