Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 555
see him through the glass, andwill find it a source of enjoyment to watch fromtime to time his great changes. But it is of one particular kind I wish now to tellyou. The caterpillar lives upon the common milk-weed, or Asclepias, which grows by the road-side, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, St. Nicholas for… … FIG. I.—THE CATERPILLAR. might call him Archie, for short) is very pretty,and the butterfly is handsome ; but the crowningbeauty of all is the chrysalis. It looks like a littlegreen house, put together with gold nails. It issomewhat of the size and shape of a long, delicatepea-green acorn, and has…
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