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Green wouldn't give me a bit of butter when I went to the farmhouse yesterday. She thought I was the one that's been stealing it from her, right along." And then Mrs. Ladybug was amazed by what followed. For Betsy Butterfly actually smiled at her. "You're mistaken," she said. "I never eat butter. I don't like it. And as for eggs, how could I ever break through an egg-shell?"
"What are you looking at?" she asked. He nodded towards a clump of ferns that fringed the bank. "I thought I saw my friend the scarlet butterfly. There is a beauty lives hereabouts. Yes; by Jove, there he is! See him, Olga?" Even as he spoke the scarlet butterfly emerged from its hiding place and fluttered down the stream. Olga uttered a sharp cry that brought Nick's eyes to her face.
We were in the mood which Wordsworth describes in the lines written in his pocket-copy of "The Castle of Indolence": "There did they dwell, from earthly labour free, As happy spirits as were ever seen; If but a bird, to keep them company, Or butterfly sate down, they were, I ween, As pleased as if the same had been a Maiden-queen."
Bethune, two years before; and the circumstances that were to the one the mere accidents of her position were to the other a real holiday-making. Alice met Mr. Smith with empressement, fluttered about the tea-tray like a butterfly, wasted her bonmots and the sugar recklessly, and was as full of pretty animation as her cousin Bethune was of elegant repose. "I am glad you are come, Mr.
Perhaps when you've been at the bank a while longer and can afford to get married you'll find she's the very one you want. Any one you pick we'll like." "Yes, of course, yes," said Mr. Landis. Wise parents! They knew that direct opposition to the choice of the son would frustrate their hopes for him. Let him go on seeing the butterfly and perhaps the sooner he'd outgrow her charms, they thought.
As on that other day when the butterfly had met its fate, a big trout rose at once to the lure. The fly disappeared but, instead of swimming away, the trout began what seemed to the muskrat a series of exceedingly queer antics. He made a rush downstream near the surface, shaking his head from side to side, while the muskrat could see a long, thin line trailing behind him.
By the middle of the Coal-forest period there was a very large and varied animal population on the land. Like the plants, moreover, these animals were of an intermediate and advancing nature. No bird or butterfly yet flits from tree to tree; no mammal rears its young in the shelter of the ferns.
She met Otto with the dart of tender gaiety. 'You have come to me at last, Prince Cruel, she said. 'Butterfly! Well, and am I not to kiss your hand? she added. 'Madam, it is I who must kiss yours. And Otto bowed and kissed it. 'You deny me every indulgence, she said, smiling. 'And now what news in Court? inquired the Prince. 'I come to you for my gazette. 'Ditch-water! she replied.
Some of these stories are indeed remarkable, for the events related are more or less hidden and obscure; and so, with all this knowledge at hand, it is not a little strange that Aristotle has very little indeed to tell us about the far more obvious phenomena of the life-history of the butterfly, and of the several kinds of butterflies and moths.
If however the butterfly, being itself savoury morsel to birds, had closely resembled another butterfly which was disagreeable to birds, and therefore never eaten by them, it would be as well protected as if it resembled a leaf; and this is what has been happily termed "mimicry" by Mr.
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