A Bkast of Prey 49 



silk, and attached, as the first ilhistratic^n shows 



■oil (No. 1 ), t(^ 

 e under side of 

 piece of trel- 

 )rk, against a 

 wall, partly 

 )\vii with ivy. 

 this snug 

 the tiny ej^j^s, 

 wrapped in its 

 iternal cover- 

 .'scaped the 

 f winter, and 

 d out in early 

 with the lirst 

 of warm sun- 

 It was a 

 Mav morning 

 they ventured 

 The tiny 

 ,, just freed 

 from their shell, with 

 its outer j^reat-coat, 

 let themselves down 

 bv short webs to an 

 ivy-leaf below, where they clustered for a while, 

 after the queer fashion of their species, in a sort of 



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NO. I. -COCOON OI- VOTNC ^I'IUKKS 

 II \ It ||1N(;, AMI s\\ \K\IIM; < il- 

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