. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE BIRDS FIND A COZY HOME AMONG THE PROJECTING ROOTS. . THETRICKLING WATER . . MAKES A CHART ON THE BANK. Other examples of apparently delicate crea-tures which are brought conspicuously intoview by these warm days are the snow-fleas,the winter or mourning-cloak butterflies(Vanessa antiopa), and the hedgehog-caterpil-lar. Of these snow-fleas, the reader will recallthat one of our correspondents* recently wrote : I noticed in the footprints and in thesnow little black specks that I thought weresoot. ... I could have gathered them up bythe cupful at a time. The mourning
. St. Nicholas [serial]. THE BIRDS FIND A COZY HOME AMONG THE PROJECTING ROOTS. . THETRICKLING WATER . . MAKES A CHART ON THE BANK. Other examples of apparently delicate crea-tures which are brought conspicuously intoview by these warm days are the snow-fleas,the winter or mourning-cloak butterflies(Vanessa antiopa), and the hedgehog-caterpil-lar. Of these snow-fleas, the reader will recallthat one of our correspondents* recently wrote : I noticed in the footprints and in thesnow little black specks that I thought weresoot. ... I could have gathered them up bythe cupful at a time. The mourning-cloak, or thaw butterflies,as Gibson calls them, are apparently as happynow as they will be on the warm days ofspring. And the hedgehog-caterpillar is hur- * 7>< THE STITCHWORT IN BLOOM NEAR THE SPRING.
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