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She waved her wand, and all over each of the Beauty-crawlers, there came out bunches of sharp stickers like porcupine quills, only they were worse than porcupine quills for each of the stickers was poisoned at the tip, so that no creature could touch the Beauty-crawlers without being stung. The birds and beasts let them alone now, or suffer a terrible punishment from the poison spears.
They did not know what to do, so next day the few that were left crawled back to the Grove of Ages, and once more stood before Mother Carey. "Well, my Beauty-crawlers," she said, "what would you?" "Oh, Mother Carey, it is fearful, everyone seeks to destroy us. Most of us are killed, and many of us wounded. Will you not protect us?" "You drank of the two goblets, my children.
You children, too, must beware of them; touch them not, they will give you festering wounds. There is only one creature now that the Beauty-crawlers truly fear; that is the Long-stinger Wasp. He does indeed take toll of their race, but that is the price they still must pay for their beauty. Did they not drink of the double goblet? The Great Splendid Silk-Moth or Samia Cecropia
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