Chapter XI. 
CATERPILLARS. 
££ Larvae stimulant virum.” — Plautus. 
WHEN I was an enter- 
prising young man of eight, 
I devised a way of spending 
my Sabbath — Le. Sunday-— 
forenoons which was net 
contrary to law, nor yet 
dreary and uninteresting, a very rare combination. This 
was to bring out my caterpillar boxes, and transferring 
the inmates to fresh and tender leaves laid out on the 
floor, to lie down at full length, with my chin on my 
hands, and watch them feeding. How intensely interest- 
ing it was to sec a great Humpy-back, called in books a 
