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THE CHRYSALIS. 
pillar will leisurely climb up its thread, and get 
safe back into its nest. 
But the bouse the caterpillar makes, and all 
the various ways it has of defending itself, only 
avail so long as it is a caterpillar. It must, by 
and bye, become a chrysalis, and exchange a life 
of activity for one of death-like torpor. Quite 
helpless, and without any means of defence, or 
even of motion, it must remain at the mercy of 
its enemies, and exposed to all the changes of 
wind and weather. 
Then it is, that the spinnaret is all-important: 
for it enables the caterpillar either to spin a 
girdle to support its body in some sheltered 
spot, or else to weave a cocoon, that will hide it, 
like a shroud, during its long sleep. 
The caterpillar of the butterfly does not make 
a cocoon, as that of the moth does; for it lies 
