Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 473
ature, 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 July—there camefrom the short o w 1 yK andgrace- fully. Within a dayor two a largerand beauti-fully markedmoth came… … cocoon (thatof the polyphe-mus), whichwas spun be-tween twoleaves, a beau-tiful moth of adull yellowishocher, shadedwith black, tingedred, and ornamentedby eye-spots. The in the cocoonsand can thus sur-vive the coldand storms ofwinter. Do youI wonder thatGibson was in-spired with agreater love of…
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