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are the footprints of the bees and butterflies. When they follow 
t 
he same route for nectar, they leave a trail; where the butterflies 
walk around the stamens of a pink they leave the i say rhea of their 
tiny feet in the shape of a circle; when a bee rubs his back against 
the petals of a poppy he makes a duties shaped spot on each; and 
when with his tongue he laps the nectar of the tulip tree, he paints 
a golden band; when he falls to the bottom of the cup- shaped tulip, 
he in or scrambling describes a disc of blue or yellow.’ 
It is still more confusing to find [p. 68] that in the Kaiser 
Crown tulip, while “ ere here prodiced a Sane circle inside, 
‘‘ Nature’ was laying on the same colour out, but ver tically 
erie of horizontally, mie that in the tulip- ee cra the gold was 
a ‘‘new” colou 
All ye is, cee is of comparatively minor significance. 
ured to intimate our total disbelief Mr. Hervey’s 
should have trodden so precisely on the same spots as to have left 
footprints or tracks, when there was no special advantage to be 
gained by so doing; and indeed how an insect with six sprawling 
feet could possibly walk along a line as fine as a hair, as, according 
to this theory, he must constantly have done. a 
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