. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. he weather is favorable, andthere are any Purple Emperors about, he will be apt to find one ortwo on every piece. I told you about some superstitions regarding Moths, and nowI must tell you of the terror caused by an innocent little Butterflyof the Vanessa family. When it leaves the pupa—or chrysalisskin—a red-colored liquid, looking exactly like blood, drops from ignorant people, seeing these drops, have been very much ter-rified, and accounts of several such showers of blood have beenrelated by historians. But on one occasion,
. Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither. he weather is favorable, andthere are any Purple Emperors about, he will be apt to find one ortwo on every piece. I told you about some superstitions regarding Moths, and nowI must tell you of the terror caused by an innocent little Butterflyof the Vanessa family. When it leaves the pupa—or chrysalisskin—a red-colored liquid, looking exactly like blood, drops from ignorant people, seeing these drops, have been very much ter-rified, and accounts of several such showers of blood have beenrelated by historians. But on one occasion, when the people of acertain town in France were nearly frightened out of their wits bysuch a sign, a learned man, seeking into its cause, discovered thefacts about this Butterfly. He noticed that multitudes of themwere flying about, so he collected some of the chrysalides and letthem hatch in a box, and finding the same drops of blood, he madeit public. But, of course, though entirely explained, the ignorantpeople could not be cured of their 230 LITTLE FOLKS
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