WINGED WONDERS. 



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all night long? — or how the tiny ant builds such wonderful 

 houses, some of them many 



stories deep? 



The ugliest worms, 

 too, will 

 c h a n g e 

 by and Ijy 

 to m<.)St 



b e a u t i f u 



butterlli es 



and silvery 



moths. 



All insects are made without 

 skin is hardened into a sort 

 rings, which move easily upon 



solid and strong as animals 



bones. Their 

 of horn; it has been cut into 

 one another. Yet they are as 

 which have a great many bones. 



Instead of lungs and blood-vessels, like ours, they have curious 

 little breathing-places all along their sides. They have small air 

 veins, which are filled from these and make the whole body light. 



