. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . BUTTERFLYBOTANY TEACHERS. June i6th BLACK swallow-tail — a blacksivnllozv-tail! Look! quick!Such was the cry I heardmany times last summer from mystudio windows. But my studiowas not in the city. The cry wasnot that of the hopeful, aspiring,metropolitan dudelet lost in ad-miration for the only swallow-tail which is ever likely to thrillhis being, and whose visiblehaunts of rest and flitting arethe tailors window and theball-room. A swallow-tail!It was a cry that quickenedIses and carried me back to unburd

---

. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . BUTTERFLYBOTANY TEACHERS. June i6th BLACK swallow-tail — a blacksivnllozv-tail! Look! quick!Such was the cry I heardmany times last summer from mystudio windows. But my studiowas not in the city. The cry wasnot that of the hopeful, aspiring,metropolitan dudelet lost in ad-miration for the only swallow-tail which is ever likely to thrillhis being, and whose visiblehaunts of rest and flitting arethe tailors window and theball-room. A swallow-tail!It was a cry that quickenedIses and carried me back to unburdenedboyhood. Such was the challenge that was then asnow the signal for a tireless chase over the ten-acremeadow with eager butterfly net and panting breath BUTTERFLY BOTANY TEACHERS 8l and vociferous exclamation of hope, defeat, or is only half a country boy who does not know theswallow-tail and the butterfly chase.

---

Size: 1084px × 2305px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectnaturalhistory, booky