Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 523
FIG. 9.—SCALES FROM WINGS OF MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. sting us. We find plenty to eat and drink, with-out working for it; never need clothes; have noanxious thought for the future, as you may when grown up; and cannot imagine what death is, andtherefore do not fear it. Our life is one long.)happy… … FIG. IO.—PARASITE OF CLOTHES-MOTH (MAGNIFIED). THE DOT IETHE SMALL RING SHOWS ITS NATURAL SIZE. are soon forgotten. One of our chief worries is itiny insect (Fig. 10), which, small as we are, some!times lives on our skin. Now, having heard my story, tell me—Dont yoithink that clothes-moths are…
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