Our young folks [serial] . take it carefully and put it in one of the large side-pockets of her sack, so that I might have free hands to seize the next thingI should spy. Finally we came to the entrance of Great Woods. Far before us lay amoss-covered path with trees arching high above ; away in the distance wasa spot of brightest sunshine, upon reaching which we found a circularclearing where the butterflies revelled exultingly, and the dragon-flies dartedto and fro, flashing and glistening. Here were myriads of treasures for mycabinet, which soon repaid me for the labor of carrying my butterf
Our young folks [serial] . take it carefully and put it in one of the large side-pockets of her sack, so that I might have free hands to seize the next thingI should spy. Finally we came to the entrance of Great Woods. Far before us lay amoss-covered path with trees arching high above ; away in the distance wasa spot of brightest sunshine, upon reaching which we found a circularclearing where the butterflies revelled exultingly, and the dragon-flies dartedto and fro, flashing and glistening. Here were myriads of treasures for mycabinet, which soon repaid me for the labor of carrying my butterfly net,which had been only an annoyance during the first part of our walk. Celia sat down on a moss-covered rock shaded by a noble oak, while Irushed back and forth brandishing my net in great excitement, now andthen catching an unwary insect which I carried triumphantly to my dearpretty coz, who cautiously ushered it into a round collar-box, and thenadministered a few drops of chloroform from the small bottle she carried. Colias Philodice. 11872.] Rambles about Orchardville. »5i ; in her pocket on such excursions. Our ! receptacle was soon crowded with red, cop- : per butterflies,^/^;* Philodices, and dragon- 1 flies of green and blue, and some with wingsbarred like ensigns. My ambition was to i: catch a brilliant Turnus, but the regal beau- : ties soared far above my reach ; and, tired a out, I finally sat down by Celia and com- ;: menced turning over the small moss-em- ; bedded stones at my side, under one of \ which I found a beetle, — O, such a hand-pi some one ! — slender and graceful in itself, i and much more so in comparison to my b portly, lumbering goldsmith, and heavy, (.1 brown May bugs ; and with such a wonder- ?: fully iridescent back, which was nearly B black in the shade, but glowed with green1 and purple when the sun fell upon it. I si wanted to give my new treasure a privateapartment, so Celia proposed that it shouldbe domiciled in one of her gloves till
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