. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . .3f ^. THE CURIOUS BASKET-CARRIERS February i6th E must not let the winter pass with-out gathering a few of the cocoonsof the basket-carriers, or are many kinds of cocoonsto be found in winter, and all sortsof beautiful moths come out of them, but there arefew such queer specimens as this of the bag-worm,with its array of sticks and leaves and thatch of vari-ous sorts; and you may be sure it has a surprise instore for you next spring, if you have not yet learnedits secret. It is only neces
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . .3f ^. THE CURIOUS BASKET-CARRIERS February i6th E must not let the winter pass with-out gathering a few of the cocoonsof the basket-carriers, or are many kinds of cocoonsto be found in winter, and all sortsof beautiful moths come out of them, but there arefew such queer specimens as this of the bag-worm,with its array of sticks and leaves and thatch of vari-ous sorts; and you may be sure it has a surprise instore for you next spring, if you have not yet learnedits secret. It is only necessary to gather a dozen or so,and place them in a box and await further shall never forget my first experience with was one winter early in my boyhood. A larch-treein front of my city home was dangling full of the stick- THE CURIOUS BASKET-CARRIERS 293 covered baskets, then seen by me for the first time, anda rarity in these parts. I gathered a hundred or more,and coveted all the rest that hung beyond my placed them in a box, and no one but myself knowshow I lon
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