. Pastoral days; or, Memories of a New England year. Natural history. head on a long vertical filament. Two or three thus accumulate, and, as a consequence, in his maturer years he looks up to the head he wore when he was a youngster, and ponders on the flight of time and the .hollowness of earthly things, or perhaps congratulates him- self on the increased contents of his present shell. When fully grown, he stops eating, and goes into a new business. Selecting a suitable twig, he gnaws a cylindrical hole to its centre and fol- lows the pith, now and then backing out of the tunnel, and droppin
. Pastoral days; or, Memories of a New England year. Natural history. head on a long vertical filament. Two or three thus accumulate, and, as a consequence, in his maturer years he looks up to the head he wore when he was a youngster, and ponders on the flight of time and the .hollowness of earthly things, or perhaps congratulates him- self on the increased contents of his present shell. When fully grown, he stops eating, and goes into a new business. Selecting a suitable twig, he gnaws a cylindrical hole to its centre and fol- lows the pith, now and then backing out of the tunnel, and dropping the excavated ma- terial in the form of little balls of saw- dust. At length he emerges from the hollow, and again drawing himself in backward, spins a silken disk across the opening, and tints it with the col- or of the surrounding bark. Here he spends the winter, and comes out in a new spring suit in the following :*sr:-~" May. Only recently I had ~- - . in my possession several of these twigs with their en- closed caterpillars,' and in ev- ery one the color of the silken lid so closely matched the tint of the 9 PROFESSOR Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896. New York, Harper & Brothers
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