Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 90
really were a score or more of butter-flies clustering around the branch,—a sort of sur-prise party of white-winged beauties. Your Jack has heard, too, that in Monterey,California, there are three pine-trees called theButterfly trees because for at least twelve yearsthey have been covered almost… … THE BUTTERFLY BRANCH odor or yield a sap which the butterflies like verymuch ; but my birds have not told me yet aboutthis, and perhaps one of you youngsters will be thefirst to explain to me why butterflies are attractedin such numbers to these curious perching-places. 76 THE MAGIC PEN. [November,…
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