Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 250
effect difficultto describe and hardly to be imagined. THOSE PET BEETLES. These Darnley Islanders with their living headornaments remind me of pet beetles. You all re-member the picture which your Jack showed youlast winter, in which a lady was decorated with a liv-ing beetle, tethered to her dress… … A BUTTERFLY HEAD-DRESS. given her, looking like those once pictured inSt. NICHOLAS. After dark she would take themout of the box, give them a bath, when they wouldshow bright spots like eyes on the forehead, anda broad band of fire under the wings, making thewater a lovely greenish yellow. She fed…
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