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A NATURALIST ON THE PROWL. 
he retired for half an hour, then sent his younger brother 
with it. If he, too, was refused, they brought out their 
little sister, clothed only in her own charms and a neck- 
lace of beads, and closing her tiny fingers on the leaf, 
directed her toddling steps to our door and put themselves 
out of the way. It is needless to say that her chubby 
little face and black eyes did their work, and she went 
away with a bright two-anna piece in her puny fist, which 
the young rogues outside the gate promptly extracted. 
Another standard trick was to divide their spoils. 
Supposing an astute little Pig discovered five specimens 
of a caterpillar, for which he calculated he might get an 
anna, he sought out four other Pigs like himself, and they 
took one each. The first appeared at the front door, the 
second at the back, and the others followed at short 
intervals. We could not give less than one pice to each ; 
we probably gave two ; so they realized more than two 
annas for the lot. 
Even those superior Pigs who found rare caterpillars 
learned not to spoil the market by bringing too much at 
once. If they found several of one kind, they would bring 
one first and the rest by degrees. I often wondered what 
they did with the money they got. Did they indulge in 
