CHAPTEB THE F0T7KTH. 
SOCIAL NLSTS. 
The caterpillars noticed in the last chapter are 
all hermits, and live alone. We will now find 
some that choose to live in colonies, and have 
but one house amongst them. And we shall not 
have far to look. In every garden, the apple- 
trees are disfigured, here and there, with what 
you think are spiders- webs; but if you examine 
them more closely, you will see that they are full 
of caterpillars. 
Nothing can be more luxurious than the life 
these little creatures lead. They have made 
themselves a kind of hammock, on which they 
recline at their ease; and when they are hungry, 
they put their heads over the side, and eat the 
leaves that surround them, without taking the 
trouble of moving. If you touch them ever so 
slightly, they will draw back as if it were very 
disagreeable to them indeed. But this move¬ 
ment of drawing back is always made in a 
straight line, without turning to the right or to 
