Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 491
oi) Lake,P. O. Franklin Furnace, N. J.Dear St. Nicholas: While in bathing we found acurious insect which none of us had seen before. Someone immediately suggested, Write to St. Nicholasabout it, and I send you as close a description as I can,J with a sketch. It wasabout an inch long andnearly as… … ler it was so curious that we aranxious to learn what it was. [Feb.quite Your sincere friend, Isadore Douglas. The insect had crawledout of the water on ac-count of the inner im-pulse, as Tennysonexpresses it. The full-grown dragon-fly nymphchanges its form from aslender creature to a broadand…
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