Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 473
moth crawled up on the plant, and its limpwings hung like pieces of wet cloth; but in afew hours they unfolded and became firm as thefluids from the body passed into the veins of thewings and hardened. Sometimes the wings trem-bled, and again theyopened and shut … So the W§ two were % placed on the soil in a flower-pot on a table. There the conditions closely imitated those of nature, for the cocoons were kept moist by the damp-ness from the soil, and had a rain-storm every time the geranium was watered. A little laterthan was predicted — inthe first part of…
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