JANUARY 



271 



AN UNDERGROUND TRANSFORMATION 



But internally a most profound change 

 is at work. The little, nearly blind eyes are 

 developing into a magnificent set, adapted 

 for near and distant vision. The leaf-eat- 

 ing jaws are changing into a long, slender 

 tongue and a digestive apparatus for hand- 

 ling nothing less ethereal than the nectar of 

 flowers. The short, clumsy legs are be- 

 coming long, slender and delicate, and, best 

 of all, four splendid wings are growing out 

 from the shoulders. But all of this wonder- 

 ful change is still concealed inside the dull, 

 brown skin. By the time spring comes the 

 animal that had gone into the earth a long, 

 ugly, half -blind, wholly gross larva, once 

 more, and now for the last time, splits its 

 skin and emerges from the brown case a 

 beautiful creature. 



THE FINAL PRODUCT 



Have you ever noticed what seemed to 

 you a humming-bird hovering in the twi- 

 light before your moon-flowers and trum- 

 pet-vines or petunias ? Humming-birds life 



