no motion, sometimes only a few days, and at other times weeks or months, when it finally comes out a butterfly, with wings. A great many of the fly. ing insects pass through just such changes—having been worms, or grubs, before they were able to fly." 7. "Do you mean to say, Uncle John', that all the flying insects such as beetles', and flies', and musquitoes', and grasshoppers', and crickets', and bees', and wasps', and moths',' were first worms without wings'?" 8. "All that you have named, except crickets and grasshoppers," said Uncle John. "All the beetles', all the thousand kinds of flies, and the musquitoes'; and all the bees, and wasps, and the butterflies, and the moths, pass through these wonderful changes." 9. "How I should like to see what you call a chrys'-a-lis', Uncle John', change into a butterfly!" said Willie. "If it were in the spring of the year," said Uncle John, "we could easily find a chrys'-a-lis; and then you might watch it, and see this wonderful change: but now, all that could have been found last spring have already changed into butterflies." 10. The summer passed away, and the winter also; and when spring came again, Willie had not forgotten what had been told him about the caterpillars and the butterflies; and one day he asked Uncle John if he thought he could find a chrys'-alis for him. 11. Uncle John thought he could: and after he Two Specimens of the Chrysalis. and Willie had searched a while, they found several specimens of a beautiful eggshaped chrys'-a-lis, of a bright green color, each having on it rows of golden spots. One was hanging, by little silken threads, from the underside of a fence-board, and others were found on the stalks of some coarse grasses. 12. They also found one, of a different kind, firmly fastened to the stalk of a currantbush, and wrapped up in a kind of coarse but very firm silken bag called a co-coon, which was almost as large as a man's thumb. Here is a picture of the co-coon'. с 13. These were brought into the house, and put in a warm place near a window in the garret; and from day to day Willie watched for the butterflies that Uncle John told him would come out of them. And, sure enough'! in a few days, out of the little green chrys'-a-lis there came a butterfly with dark red wings; and the wings had black veins, and a black border with a row of white spots. The Berenice Butterfly. 14. Willie was so delighted with his butterfly, that he ran and called Uncle John and Aunt Mary to come and see it. Uncle John told Willie that this kind of butterfly was long ago named Berenice, after a queen of Syria, who was celebrated for her great beauty. 15. Early the next morning Willie went to examine his large co-coon', when, lo! he found it was empty! There was a hole in the lower end of it. On looking up over the window, there was his butterfly, as he called it. And a large and beautiful one it was, too. 16. Its four wings, which it could spread out five or six inches, were of a duskybrown color, with a reddish-white band for a border, and with a large reddish spot near the middle of each wing. Uncle John told him that this insect was not a butterfly, but one of the night moths, called the Ce-cro'-pi-a Moth. Cecropia Moth. 17. "And now, Willie," said Uncle John, "you must remember that this beautiful butterfly, and this beautiful moth, with their beautiful colored wings, were once worms-caterpillars-that crept on the ground! Long ago a poet wrote about the butterfly 666 "Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb, and slept.' 18. "Yes, the caterpillar made for himself a tomb, where he slept through the winter; but in the spring he awoke to a new kind of life! If some little tiful Cecropia Moth fairy had changed the worm into a The Caterpillar from which came the beau butterfly, don't derful' ?" you think it would have been won 19. Willie thought this true story of the caterpillar and the butterfly quite as wonderful as the story of Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. After this he amused himself in finding other specimens of the chrys-a-lis, and other co-coons, which he hung up in the warm garret of the house, by the window; and soon he had butterflies and moths in abundance. Some were yellow; some were red and orange; some were green, with wings of bronze and gold-perfect little fairies; a few were blue; some were brown; some were black; and some of the moths were white. 20. Uncle John told him their names, and described their habits; and before the summer was over Willie could tell what kinds of butterflies most of the caterpillars that he saw would change into; and when, in the autumn, he found a chrys'a-lis, or a co-coon', he learned from Uncle John what kind of a butterfly, or moth, would come from it. 21. So fond of the study of these insects did Willie become, that even the crawling caterpillar was no longer disagreeable and ugly-looking to him. "Little worm," said he, "one day you will lay aside your old cloak of a garment, and put on a robe of scarlet and green, with a golden border; and then, flying about the garden and the fields, and sucking honey from the flowers, how happy you will be!" 22. "And one day," said Uncle John, “we shall lay aside these frail' bodies of ours, like worn-out H garments; but our spirits will rise from the earth, as on wings; and if we have been good here, we shall soar away to a beautiful country beyond the skies, where we shall be forever happy." DIS-A-GREE'-A-BLE, unpleasant to look at. b CHRYS'-A-LIS, pronounced kris'-a-lis. • Co-coon', pronounced ko-koon'. d BER'-E-NICE, pronounced Ber'-e-nis. 10 See Note to RULE X. [LESSON LXXI. The general subject of this lesson, which is treated in a familiar, conversational style, is the metamorphoses of insects. The abundance of caterpillars in the early summer suggests the inquiry, “Where did they come from?" It is found that they come from eggs laid by butterflies. When the caterpillar is fully grown, it throws off its hairy covering, and changes to a chrysalis, or grub-like insect, which has little or no appearance of life; and the chrysalis, after a little time, changes into a butterfly; and thus, from year to year, this continued round of change goes on. Most other insects pass through similar changes. Chrysalids, cocoon, butterfly, and moth. A pleasant study for children. Willie's address to the caterpillar. The moral of the lesson, as contained in Uncle John's remarks.] LESSON LXXII. THE WORM AND THE BUTTERFLY. 1. When first their leaves of tender green 3. Come once more: the case is torn, Through air on downy wings upborne,e |