YORKER 
determined to keep sight of, and see what 
would become of him. He crept along slow 
ly but steadily over the dirt and stones, stop¬ 
ping for nothing until be reached the gar 
denfence. He crawled up on it. and poked 
around for a long time like a blind man, as if 
he did not know what he wanted or where to 
go. Finally he stopped, on the underside of 
the cap of the upper board of the fence, and 
commenced moving his head backwards and 
forward over the same spot, ns it' he had a 
terrible headache, and thought he could shake 
it out of his head. Creeping up close to him, 
I saw that he was spinning silk from his 
mouth, aud covering a small place on the 
board with a thick network of the fibers. 
After resting a while, be crept along till his 
other extremity was just over the center of the 
silk he had spun, and commenced working at 
it with that end of his body. After a time, he 
let go his hold with his feet upc n the board, 
and I thought for a moment be had fallen to 
the ground; but uol be hung, head down¬ 
wards, swingiug in the air; and creeping close 
up to him, I saw two tiny hooks on his tail, 
caught in the silk he had spun, aud these had 
kept him from falling. But what he was up 
to now, in such a strange performance as this, 
I could not imagine, so I determined to watch 
till 1 could learn what it all meant, even if I 
half-starved myself in doing it. 
(Concluded next week.) 
SmpUmrnt# and ittachinenj 
PULVERIZING HARROW 
THE BIRTH OF THE BUTTERFLY. 
AGENTS ^ 
WANTED 
It is the heal selling 
tool on earth. 
leaves, aud then fiew away to the flowers 
again. What had she been doiug here ? Hop¬ 
ping upon the cabbage she had visited, and 
peering around, 1 found at each place where 
she stopped, a t iny green speck, so small and 
so near the color of the leaf, that the aid of 
mv magnifying glass wasneeded to enable me 
to clearly make out what it was. Surely it 
was an egg, a butterfly's egg, and I laughed to 
think how that butterfly, living on the honey 
of flowers, should let its little brain imagine, 
that its helpless babies could liveonthe coarse 
cabbage. So I watched one of these eggs 
carefully, day by day, to see what would come 
of it. A I ter the egg had been exposed to the 
warm suu for a few days, I could see a mar¬ 
velous chauge in it: something wasmoviug in¬ 
side of it. and presently a little cap turned oil' 
from the top of it, as if fastened on one side by 
a binge, and with a slow, careful movement 
there crept out cf it a little green worm just 
the color of the cabbage leaf, aud I said, 
“Cau it be that this is a butterfly slittle baby* 
I will watch it every day, and see what will 
become of it.” It remained very quiet for a 
little time, and then commenced eating the 
rabbage leaf on which it was born; and oh! 
how it did eat. A Dutchman is said to be very 
fond of cabbage, but 1 never heard of one 
who would cat his owu weight of sauer-kraut 
in a day. But this little butterfly baby ate 
more than twice its own weight of cabbage 
the very day it was born. For the waut of a 
mamma to watch it, I thought, it will surely 
kill itself by over-eating; so I watched it 
more carefully. Each day it ate and ate, and 
did nothiug but eat, except to grow, aud it 
grew almost as fast as it ate. 
After a few days, this baby stopped eating, 
crept into a little fold of a leaf, and was as 
quiet as a small boy who had filled himself 
with sugar plums till he could hold no more. 
Thiuks 1 he has eaten all the cabbage he 
can hold. It must be that he is sick: will he 
die* Wait and see. After a time be begins to 
twist and squirm like a boy with a colic, with 
a stomach overloaded with green fruit. Pres¬ 
ently a wonderful thing happens; his skin ac¬ 
tually bursts. Strangely it does not burst 
along his overloaded stomach, but along his 
back. His- struggles become more violent, 
aud soon out of this slit in the skin of the 
back, our little baby slowly crawls, leaving 
his skin behind him, aud, strange to say, he is 
larger, brighter and livelier tlian ever. He 
has a new skin, better than the old one. He 
has simply changed his clothes, but how he 
put on his new dress, on the under side of the 
old one, aud before he bad taken the old one 
off, would puzzle the best dressmaker in the 
world. 1 turned over that old dress, peered at 
it witn my glass, felt all over it with my feel¬ 
ers, aud found it a very queer thing; it was 
composed of a number of nngs, fitting to¬ 
gether somewhat like the parts of a telescope, 
and composed of material hard, stiff aud 
unyielding, something like the matter of 
which a boy’s Auger nails are made. 
Thou l understood why the butterfly 
babv had to get rid of his old skin. 
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LETTERS FROM COUSINS 
BRANCH OFFICE : 
larriebnrg, fa 
Dear Uncle Mark; —I would like to join 
the Horticultural Club. 1 am 13 years old. 
Papa takes the Ritral, and he likes it very 
much. We did not have very good luck with 
the seeds that you sent us last Spring. The 
flower seeds were nearly all washed out by 
the heavy rains. The Blush Potatoes were 
very uiee. Mamma and I like flowers vrry 
much, aud we have about 100 house plants 
now. We have good luck with all kinds of 
flowers except roses; these we never can 
raise. I expect to have a garden next Sum¬ 
mer, and t.lieu I will write and tell about it. 
Mamma says that I may raise strawberries 
too Yours respectfully, gaknie hock. 
Sheboygan Co., Mich. 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I have been intend¬ 
ing to write to you for a long time, but have 
put it off from time to time. 1 have not writ¬ 
ten many letters, and it seems hard work for 
me to write. It was late when my seeds 
came, so 1 only planted a few, and gave some 
to a neighbor’s girl, and saved the rest to 
plant next Spring. The ones that grew did 
not blossom, as the frost cut them off. Aunty 
said they were piuks. Grandma gave me 
some plants, and they grew and blossomed 
nicely almost all Summer. 1 had some really 
pretty balsams and asters; some of mine were 
prettier than grandma’s. Our Blush Potato 
met with an accident: the mice got in the 
hills and did much damage, but we have 
about half a pock left. I have got a little 
baby brother, Frank, since I wrote to you 
last. He is almost six mouths old, and 1 like 
to play with him very much; sometimes I 
take care of him. I go to school all the time, 
now that we have a good teacher, whom we 
all like. He is lame, and has to walk with 
crutches. He opens school by reading in the 
Bible, and then prays; he lets us read too. 
Yours. clarence van haun. 
Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. 
Dear Uncle Mark: 1 have been thinking 
that 1 would write to you for a long time, but 
have neglected doiug so until now. I would 
like to become a member of the Horticultural 
Club. We have taken the Rural over nine 
years. We have got quite a good many plants; 
a few of them froze this Winter, but only oue 
or two died. I will try and wri .e twice a 
year and more, if I can. We live on a farm 
of 112 acres, but we have bought u farm near 
us, and are going to move to it tins Spring. ' 
live about eight miles from Kalamazoo, or 
the “Big Village.” it is noted for its largo 
celery beds, there being acres of it there. 1 
have seen a house where they pack celery. 
The celery looks very nice in the black dirt ; 
the rows arc so long and green aud tlje dirt is 
piled up so high on each side. If you will 
please send me some seeds, I will have a flower 
garden, and iu the Fall will try aud report 
what success I hud. Some of the seeds that 
you sent last year came up. We had some 
mignonette, one foliage plant, and some very 
pretty sunflowers; we gave a lew of them 
away. We had some very double balsams 
last year, and some beautiful pansies. Per¬ 
haps some of tne Rural Cousins would like 
to know how to make balsams double. The 
longer you koep the seeds, the more double t hey 
grow. FANNIE S. IVES. 
Kalamazoo Co., Mich. 
Nothing pleases Uncle Mark mor i than to 
see the cousins trying to be useful by curing 
for their little brothers and sisters, and thus 
helping mamma and relieving her from cure, 
MILLINGTON, N. J. 
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