Other Leaf-Rollers 
The result of my stratagems deserves 
mention. The sleepers awake, eat the in- 
side of the softened loaf and make up so 
well for lost time that in a few weeks they 
are as large as those which have not suffered 
any interruption in my jars half full of moist 
earth. 
This knack of suspending life for months 
at a time, when the provisions have lost the 
requisite tenderness, is not repeated in the 
other leaf-rollers. At the end of August, 
three months after the hatching, there is 
nothing left alive in the cigars of the vine 
which have been allowed to dry. Death is 
even swifter in the withered cigars of the 
poplar. As for the cylinders of the alder, 
in the absence of a sufficient number of 
leaves, I was not able to estimate their inhab- 
itants’ powers of endurance. 
Of the four leaf-rollers, the one most 
threatened by drought is that of the oak. 
Her barrel falls and lies on a soil which is 
extremely arid except at times of rain; more- 
over, because of its small dimensions, it dries 
right through at the first touch of the sun. 
The ground is equally dry in the vine, 
yard; but there is shade under the branches 
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