Chapter XII. 
The caterpillar 
Hunter. 
WE have seen that a cater- 
pillar’s great purpose in life 
is not to be eaten. “ The 
bearings of this observation 
lays in the application of it.” 
For the simplest way not to be eaten is not to be found ; 
but I want to find it, and against all its other enemies 
I am an amateur competing with professionals. Happily 
