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THE MOTH. 
color, that it cannot be detected. Sometimes 
it will fly into a room, attracted by the sweet 
scent of flowers; but in a moment, as if aware 
of the risk it is running, out it darts, and is 
gone almost before you can see it. And even 
when it has been caught, and put in a box, 
it pretends to be dead, and falls upon its back. 
But no sooner does a fitting opportunity come, 
than up it springs, and is out of sight in an 
instant. 
Humming-bird hawk-moth. 
