Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 443
arm sitting-room. She fed it from herhand. The butterfly did not seem to care to eatfrequently. I think he would eat only once in two orthree days. I saw him fed several times. First, myaunt put a little bit of moistened sugar on one of herfingers. After she had caught the butterfly it wouldstay on… … structure, divided into as many compartments as thereare families; but, unlike the swamp-blackbird and themarsh-wren, they do not as a rule live on good termswith each other, for a busier, noisier, more quarrelsomeset of tenants it would lie hard to find,— even in tenementhouses occupied by human…
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