. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . ne. Ifind my steps turning involuntarily towardsevery thicket I meet in my winter walk. Only last week, from one small copse inthe suburbs of the city, I brought home abouquet of twigs bearing one hundred andforty odd of the cocoons of these twomoths, mostly of the Cecropia; also onesmall branch with a dangling accom-paniment of twenty-three cocoons ofthe beautiful ailantus moth, which,added to the stock gathered in pre-vious recent walks, ran the totalnumber up to nearly four hun-dred. What will I do wit
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers; . ne. Ifind my steps turning involuntarily towardsevery thicket I meet in my winter walk. Only last week, from one small copse inthe suburbs of the city, I brought home abouquet of twigs bearing one hundred andforty odd of the cocoons of these twomoths, mostly of the Cecropia; also onesmall branch with a dangling accom-paniment of twenty-three cocoons ofthe beautiful ailantus moth, which,added to the stock gathered in pre-vious recent walks, ran the totalnumber up to nearly four hun-dred. What will I do with them?I shall take the greatest pleas-ure in dividing them aroundamong my friends, to most ofwhom they will prove a realcuriosity and rarity, and who,when June comes again, willthank me most earnestly, as somany have done already, for affording them a glimpse of that wondrous revelationof the emerging moth. Gather the cocoons, then, my young friends. Gatherall you can, and distribute them among your neigh-bors. It is good missionary work. There is a wingedsermon in every one of AMONG THE WINTER TWIGS Jaiiiiivv jth ■ xf ■-^y^j^i^ - .. r -^ ■ -■; _ l*i \s^ I ■ ^^feju - ■. ^ ^ -A^^H ^S^^Sk^v :£^^^--;j ■ *- ^-i^fe ^W^W^Efcy^Ci^-. ^-----^- ■^SPt^^ ■ HAVE recommended the Ccciopiaand Promctliciis cocoons as desirable ci ir:;:, quests for a winter walk. There was a double purpose in that rec-ommendation ; for, even though we get no cocoons,we are led into wild haunts where various other in-teresting things are to be seen. There is much be-sides cocoons to tempt our search among the denudedtwigs of the woods. The fallen leaves have laid baremany of the pranks of insect life that are completely-concealed in the summer foliage. What a variety ofinteresting galls are now to be found that had escapedus when last we walked this way ! There is that bulby-stemmed golden-rod. We see them on all sides nowagainst the snow. It is worth our while to gathe
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