ched the " They are made of buckskin, fine and white, and soft as the indignant cawings of the entire community! larvae, small at first, but growing eventually to large, thick, velvet, ihe squaws surpassing in the excellence of their The worst of the story was (" and is ") that all the farmers… … " The moccasins of a chief, or a brave, bushels of the beetles, and that he was al- METAMORPHOSES OF THE COMMON COCKCHAFER. are not less important auxiliaries of dress lowed by the court of that city, out of com- than are this portion of the dress of a fashionable lady in of that ilk (" and of many…
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