2o6 MINUTE MARVELS OF NATURE 



often provides himself with a rope for safety, if he 

 should lose his ibothold. The caterpillar's rope is 

 a silken thread, which prevents it falling" to the 

 depths below, whither a sudden jerk of the branch 

 would otherwise precipitate it. 



Fi?,'- 133- The caterpilhii's ni.iny-hookrd loot 



