Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 247
orm isshut out from your view forever, and I am sure bythis time you will feel a little tinge of sadness in 228 WORK AND PLAY FOR YOUNG FOLK. [January, saying good-bye, for it has been with you so much,and has been so intelligent, that it seems almosthuman. In four days it has expended all its silk… … of that time, take them down and carefully stripthem of their loose floss. Select the largest andfinest, and string them on a thread about a yardlong. This is done lay passing the needle lightlythrough the outside of the cocoon floss that stillremains on it. Never pass the needle through thecocoon,…
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