Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 521
SE-MOTH, LARVA OR CATERPILLAR (NATURAL SIZE)AT WORK. season. Not a moth could or would put its noseinto that house ; and if one did by chance find itsway there, it was hunted and killed before it couldlay a single egg. My mother herself barely escapedbeing killed by the chamber-maid with a… … FIG. 4.—HOUSE-MOTH LARVA AND CASE (MAGNIFIED). the linen bags, and what not, were enough tofrighten away the most venturous insect. So, declining to visit them, my mother flewthrough an open window into a magnificent man-sion near Central Park; and found just what shewanted in a large dusty…
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