. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. ry act. He can turn his head overhis back, doubling himself up, so he leans over,fastening a thread to the twig on one side,then moves his head over and fastens it the other side, and so on, tillhe feels safe, when he is tied in like a squaws baby to a board. Some of the little builders make their houses of the silkthreads they can spin. You have heard of the silkworm, thatmakes a house so valuable to weave into silk for our use, that it iscultivated for that purpose. You will see it on next page, Fig is the house of a Japanese
. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. ry act. He can turn his head overhis back, doubling himself up, so he leans over,fastening a thread to the twig on one side,then moves his head over and fastens it the other side, and so on, tillhe feels safe, when he is tied in like a squaws baby to a board. Some of the little builders make their houses of the silkthreads they can spin. You have heard of the silkworm, thatmakes a house so valuable to weave into silk for our use, that it iscultivated for that purpose. You will see it on next page, Fig is the house of a Japanese silkworm. Another little fellow, not satisfied with a simple silk tent, orna-ments it with hairs, which stand out all around, making it look likea ball of fur. Perhaps you wonder wThere he gets the hair ; butnothing is easier; it grows on his own back. He deliberatelytakes the tufts of hair in his teeth, and pulls them out, plantingthem in the house he is building, and fastening them by finished, he hasnt a hair to his back; but he dont care. 154 LITTLE FOLKS a bit for that, for he has a nicewarm house, from which he willcome out a Butterfly, that has noneed of a house. Of course, youwant to see the picture of such adroll little building. Here it is, atbottom of page. But not all the Caterpillar fam-ily have hair to use. The Pimper-nel Caterpillar draws the edges of aleaf together, and spins a thin whitesilk robe for itself inside of that. One of the funniest houses isbuilt by a hard-working little fellowcalled Pyralis Corticalis (I hopeyoull remember his name). It ismade of tiny pieces of bark, actually glued to a tree-trunk, and to each other. He builds the two sides separately, and then draws them together.
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