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Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
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has no wings, and mereapologies for legs. She looks like an ugly grub. There she staystill the day of her death. The other side of the picture—the right side—shows a pleas-anter picture. It is the Altas Moth, and you see him flying off.Up in the corner are the cocoons it makes—pretty little silk things,like a silk-worms cocoon. See what a pretty fellow the Moth is. His colors are notglaring, being cream color and brown, but the tints are so soft, andso beautifully blended, and the plumage is so soft, and his wings solarge, that he is very pretty in spite of his sober colors. The finest of this family are found in the Tropics, and in these,the antennas are beautifully feathered, and shaped like a spearhead. One of this family lives in North America, and builds itscocoon in the Sassafras tree. It is placed in the leaf, and fastenedto it, but for fear the leaf should fall before the Moth could escape,the stem of the leaf is fastened by silk threads to the branch 14 210 LITTLE FOLKS
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THE DEVILS COACH HORSE. Thats a very curious name for a little fellow not more than aninch long, but it is the name given to those four curious creaturesyou see in the picture, who seem to be having a sociable visit together. . 1 Mr. Wood says this is the ugliest insect in England. Its coloris black, its eyes have a particularly ugly expression, and it has afashion of holding its tail up as though it would like to sting, like ascorpion. But worse than all, is a horrible odor that comes from it,and which—added to its ugly look—makes people very willing tokeep out of its way. Indeed, its scientific name, Olens, means abad smelling object, though some writers have given it anothername, meaning mournful, on account of its black dress. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 211 But it is not entirely bad. In the first place it is very brave;it is not afraid of anything, even of a man. Mr. Wood tells a storyabout meeting one in his walks. He threatened it with a stick, butthe Beetle flew at the stick wit

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