Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880 · New York : Clark Austin & co. · leaf 245
. 240 THE GIRLS OWN BOOK. When they are growing, they shed their coats several times,each time assuming more delicate and beautiful colours,They have nine holes on each side, through which theybreathe. The silk is spun from two small sacks on each sidefilled with a gummy substance, which becomes… … These answer the same purpose as the chrysalis of the but-terfly ; and if they were let alone, a delicate white moth, ormiller, would eat its way out of each of them; but the holethus eaten would break the silk in pieces; therefore theybake or scald them, in order to kill the moths. Those thatare…
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