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white zigzag paths all over it. That is made by the tiny grub of a 
little Moth. It is too dainty to eat the skin of a leaf — you know 
leaves have skins, don't you? — so it eats its way through the green 
part of the leaf. You can generally find the little miner curled up 
at the end of his long white path. But you'll have to look very 
sharp, for he's almost too little to see. There is also in the same 
picture, several leaves tunneled by this little fellow. 
All the mothers I have told you about, only take care of their 
own babies. How much more wonderful are the ways of tame 
bees, and ants, who actually live in families, build immense houses, 
and devote their lives to bringing up the babies of all. 
Wise men have spent lives in studying about them, and whole 
books have been written about each of them. It would take me a 
week to tell you all about them. 
