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Rollo put in his hornets' nest, his pebble stones, and his hemlock-seed, as he called it; and then went to the barn door, and began to be as eager to have it clear up, as he had been before to have it rain. He wanted to go out and collect some more curiosities.
And when Rollo saw them all collected in the garden yard, with baskets in their hands all ready to go forth after curiosities, he capered about full of anticipations of delight. "Now," said Henry, "let us go down to the hemlock-tree." "No," said Rollo, "it will be better to go to the brook, where I found the pebbles." "But I want to go and see if I can't find another hemlock-seed," said Henry.
So Rollo put the hemlock-seed into his pocket, and he and James took their books under their arms, with a great many flowers and plants carefully placed between the leaves, and walked along towards the village.
Then James and I came home, only we did not walk along directly; we played about a little from one side of the road to the other, and then we went under the great hemlock-tree, to see if we could not find another hemlock-seed." "Another hemlock-seed?" said his father. "Yes, sir," said Rollo; "I suppose it is a hemlock-seed." "What was it? a sort of a cone?"
In this way, before long, they learned the names of nearly all the trees which grew in the woods about there. There was a curious circumstance which happened in respect to Rollo's hemlock-seed. It has already been said that this supposed hemlock-seed was really a chrysalis.
Rollo always insisted, when he showed it to visitors, that it was a hemlock-seed. Jonas said he knew it was not; and he did not believe it was any kind of seed.
In fact, the cone was somewhat similar in shape, though, if he had shown it to his father, he would have known immediately that it was a very different thing. Rollo put his hand into his pocket to show the supposed hemlock-seed to his father, but it was not there. He had left it out in the play room.
But then he confessed that he did not know what it was, and Rollo considered that he had his father's authority for believing it to be a hemlock-seed, because his father had said he thought it might be so, judging however only by Rollo's description, without having seen it at all. Rollo always asserted very confidently that it was a hemlock-seed, and that he was going to plant it the next spring.
It was about as big as his thumb, and somewhat pointed at the ends. It was black, and rather glossy, and the surface was marked regularly with little ridges. James could not imagine what it was; but Rollo told him that he thought it must be a hemlock-seed. The truth was, that it was a great chrysalis, though Rollo did not find it out till long afterwards. "A hemlock-seed!" said James.
He seized it hastily. "There now," said he, in a tone of sad disappointment, "somebody has been boring a hole in my hemlock-seed!" He took up the empty shell, and looked at the hole. "Why, Jonas," said he, "how light it is!" Jonas took the chrysalis, weighed it in his hand, looked into the hole, and then said, quickly,
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