Alumnae Recorder . Here is a picture of one of them. Not a very pretty pet! do Ihear you say ? Well, no; but very interest-ing. I got him on a hop-vine. I took a bitof wire gauze a foot or so long, and a fewinches wide, and pinned it together to makea cylinder (your mammas can show youwhat that is, if you dont know) just as highas the gauze was wide. This I set in an oldpan filled with sand, set a plate over it, andthere was a nice, airy home for Mr. Cater-pillar. I gave him fresh hop-leaves every day, and it was so entertainingto watch him eat! He snipped and snipped, as if his jaws were a pa
Alumnae Recorder . Here is a picture of one of them. Not a very pretty pet! do Ihear you say ? Well, no; but very interest-ing. I got him on a hop-vine. I took a bitof wire gauze a foot or so long, and a fewinches wide, and pinned it together to makea cylinder (your mammas can show youwhat that is, if you dont know) just as highas the gauze was wide. This I set in an oldpan filled with sand, set a plate over it, andthere was a nice, airy home for Mr. Cater-pillar. I gave him fresh hop-leaves every day, and it was so entertainingto watch him eat! He snipped and snipped, as if his jaws were a pair ofscissors, till he had cut a little half-moon shaped hole; then he lifted hishead and snipped another slice around the hole, and so on, till the bestpart of the leaf was gone; then he walked off to another. In a few days he stopped eating and settled on the gauze, with hishead toward the ground and his body all bunched up. Soon he spun alittle mat of sticky pink silk and fastened his broad tail-feet to it. Then. RECORDER. 43 I knew something was going to happen. In the afternoon, he began towork his skin up and down and to have what looked like shivering spells,so I knew it was going to happen pretty soon. I looked at him oftenduring the evening, and at bed-time I was so sure there would soon be nocaterpillar left to look at, that I took pan and all up to my room, andwatched closely with a hand-lens. After about an hour, I looked awayfor a few moments, and just missed the beginning of what I wanted to see;for, when I looked back, there was a little crack in the hairy skin, throughwhich I could see the smooth light-brown shell beneath. The caterpillarwriggled harder and harder, till his coat, split from top to bottom, waspushed off over his head, and lay in a little heap on the sand below him-And now you never would have known him. Hehad become a chrysalis, with the wings of a butterflyalready beginning to grow inside the smooth placethat you can see next the wall in
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