AN INSECT TAILOR 
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“ This brown-headed, green-colored fellow, all 
spotted with blue dots, is the caterpillar of the 
Tiger Swallow-tail. I think you know her, too. 
She has yellow wings banded with black, and 
marked by a row of yellow spots along the mar¬ 
ginal border. Like all the swallow-tails (there 
are about 850 kinds), she has funny little projec¬ 
tions like a swallow’s tail on each of her hind 
wings. This baby is a spleeny fellow. See!” 
and Tommy punched him smartly with his finger; 
whereupon a pair of soft orange-colored horns, 
like the letter y in shape, were thrust out from a 
slit in the fore part of the creature’s body, and 
there was a strong, disagreeable odor noticeable 
at the same time. 
“ He may be able to scare some folks with his 
silly weapons,” laughed Max. “ Look at the 
pair of yellow eye spots with black centers near 
his head. Do you suppose he can see anything? ” 
Tommy shook his head, and waved his hand 
grandly, like a showman: “ The next specimen, 
ladies and gentlemen,” he declaimed pompously, 
“ is the child of the Monarch butterfly, alias the 
haunter of the milkweed patch. Observe his 
black, white, and yellow bands carefully. Some 
day he will turn into a bright green, gold-spotted 
chrysalis. Later still he will become one of the 
much-talked-of milkweed butterflies—a splendid 
reddish-brown creature, with wing borders and 
