MODEST AND LOVELY MODESTA 



Chapter Two 



MOTHS, EGGS, CATERPILLARS, WINTER 

 QUARTERS 



IF YOU are too fastidious to read this chapter, it 

 will be your permanent loss, for it contains the 

 life history, the evolution of one of the most amaz- 

 ingly complicated and delicately beautiful creatures in 

 existence. There are moths that come into the world, 

 accomplish the functions that perpetuate their kind, and 

 go out, without having taken any nourishment. There 

 are others that feed and live for a season. Some fly in 

 the morning, others in the glare of noon, more in the 



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