Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 687
thing was theirchanging their skins; they did this four times,growing dull and sleepy and half-sick for a littlewhile, till they had worked their way out of theirold skins, when they would appear as good as new, 654 AUNT KITTY S LITTLE SPINNERS. and begin eating with all their might. They start-ed… … THE CHILDREN SPRINKLE A LITTLE SOIL OVER THE SILK-WORM EGGS. hurrying to begin on a leaf; they would eat downon one edge, cutting out a beautiful scallop, notchedas neatly as a little saw; and all eating together,they made a humming sound which could be heardall over the room. Now was the time,…
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