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of employment, we cut the end of his case half off. Two 
or three days after, he had mended it from the inside, 
drawing the two edges together by silken threads, and, 
though he had not touched the outside, yet so neatly were 
the two parts joined together that we had to search for 
some time, with a lens, to find the scar. 
To keep our friend busy during the cold, cheerless 
weather, for it was in mid-winter, we next cut a third of 
the case off entirely. Nothing daunted, the little fellow 
bustled about, drew in a mass of the woolly fibres, filling 
up the whole mouth of his den, and began to build on 
afresh, and from the inside, so that the new-made portion 
was smaller than the rest of the case. The creature 
worked very slowly, and the addition was left in a 
rough, unfinished state. 
We could easily spare these voracious little worms hairs 
enough to serve as food, and to afford material for the con- 
struction of their paltry cases ; but that restless spirit that 
ever urges on all beings endowed with life and the power 
of motion, never forsakes the young Clothes-moth for a 
moment. He will not be forced to drag his heavy case 
over rough hairs and furzy wool, hence he cuts his way 
through with those keen jaws. Thus, the more he travels, 
the more mischief he does. 
er taking his fill of this sort of life he changes to a 
pupa (Fig. 3), and soon appears as one of those delicate, 
tiny, but richly variegated moths that fly in such num- 
bers from early in the spring until the fall. 
Very many do not recognize these moths in their per- 
feet stage, so small are Aiea and vent their wrath on 
those great millers that fly around lamps in warm sum- 
' mer evenings. It need scarcely be said that these large 
millers are utterly Jopu of any attempts upon our 
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