CHAPTER THE SECOND. 
THE CATERPILLAR. 
The caterpillar comes into the world with an 
excellent appetite, and the first thing it does is to 
begin to eat. It is very small, as you may 
suppose from the tiny shell that contained it; 
but its stomach fills nearly the whole of its body, 
and it will feed ten or twelve hours a day. It 
grows even while you are looking at it, and in a 
very little time you w T ould hardly know it to be 
the same. 
As its mouth is just now the most important 
part of its body, we will describe that first. It 
has two very strong jaws, hard and horny; and 
capable of devouring any amount of food. They 
do not move up and down, as yours do, but from 
side to side; and the teeth are not fixed in sockets, 
but are merely pieces of the jaw itself, that stand 
up like teeth. 
The caterpillar has a second pair of jaws, that 
are placed below the others, on each side of its 
under lip. They are soft and fleshy; and are used 
to hold the food, while the other jaws eat it. 
