Woodsy neighbours of Tan and Teckle . oldme about his living one summer as a worm,going to sleep in the fall, and waking the nextsummer with wings? demanded Tan, whowas beginning to doubt. 11 That tale is all perfectly true, LittleBrother. Some time you will see it happenif you watch. Some of the butterflies spendthe winter in the egg, some spend it in thehalf-way stage of their lives. But it is truethat they all come from caterpillars—notworms, caterpillars—and there is a great differ-ence. 11 But I must get something to eat and layon more flesh, for soon it will be cold weather 34 WOODSY NEI
Woodsy neighbours of Tan and Teckle . oldme about his living one summer as a worm,going to sleep in the fall, and waking the nextsummer with wings? demanded Tan, whowas beginning to doubt. 11 That tale is all perfectly true, LittleBrother. Some time you will see it happenif you watch. Some of the butterflies spendthe winter in the egg, some spend it in thehalf-way stage of their lives. But it is truethat they all come from caterpillars—notworms, caterpillars—and there is a great differ-ence. 11 But I must get something to eat and layon more flesh, for soon it will be cold weather 34 WOODSY NEIGHBOURS and I will have to hang myself np in a caveor hollow tree for my winters sleep. And itis never well for a bat to go lean and hungryinto a sleep that must last for many the bat scrambled out on top of thestump, and flapped silently away into thedusk, darting here and there among theswarms of insects which flew about in littlewhirling clouds. He was right, it would notbe long until the cold would come and ft \ Ate C^V *V?/ ::- JJ/; /,V\ ^:^T;;-lJ|L^fe,;:;::.---^ -n Ml £^?&%3 THE WOODS RABBIT
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