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Updated: June 22, 2025
Some of the trees had been raised from seed and transplanted into the mulberry grove when they were three years old; others had been rooted from slips or cuttings a much quicker and less troublesome process. It was always necessary to have some new trees at hand that the very young silkworms might have tender leaves to feed upon.
The air was full of the stifling emanations of mown hay, with now and then a whiff from putrefied silkworms in the bushes. Flights of swallows crossed this space with quick, scolding cries, trafficking between the river sands and the eaves. An expectant silence had interrupted the murmur of the multitude. The name Pallura ran from lip to lip. Signs of angry impatience broke forth here and there.
Besides temples to deities presiding over industries and agriculture, or deities especially invoked by the peasants, such as the goddess of silkworms, the goddess of rice, the gods of wind and weather, there are to be found in almost every part of the country what I may call propitiatory temples.
Usually with the degree of heat we keep here the first moulting takes place within eight days. You see your silkworms are only about a quarter of an inch long at first, and as they increase in size to about three inches their skin is not elastic enough to accommodate their rapid growth. It simply won't hold them. Suppose you or Marie grew twelve times your natural size in a few short weeks?"
If left to themselves, the silkworms when ready for spinning will spin the silk around their bodies until they are completely covered up, gradually forming a cocoon. In order to determine when they have finished spinning it was customary to take the cocoon and rattle it near the ear. If the worm was exhausted you could plainly hear the body rattle inside the cocoon.
Yorke shook hands with Lady Augusta, and then turned to look at the leaves and silkworms. "Are you doing that for ornament, Caroline?" "Ornament!" wrathfully cried Lady Augusta. "She is doing it to waste time, and to provoke me." "No, I am not, mamma," denied Miss Caroline. "My poor silkworms never have anything but lettuce leaves.
Yorke began placing the silkworms in the trays, and Lady Augusta went on grumbling. "It is a dreadful fate to be left a widow with a heap of unruly children who will not be controlled! I must find a governess for the girls, and then I shall be free from them for a few hours in the day.
Since you have had a glimpse of future happiness, do you know what you seem like to me?" "No vat?" "A fat old fellow wrapped in flannel, who walks every hour from his armchair to the window to see if the thermometer has risen to the degree marked 'Silkworms, the temperature prescribed by his physician."
His brother was full of inventions and enterprises beyond most other boys, and his undertakings came to the same end of nothingness that awaits all boyish endeavor. He intended to make fireworks and sell them; he meant to raise silkworms; he prepared to take the contract of clearing the new cemetery grounds of stumps by blasting them out with gunpowder.
For example, although she liked Cassandra well enough, her fantastic method of life struck her as purely frivolous; now it was socialism, now it was silkworms, now it was music which last she supposed was the cause of William's sudden interest in her. Never before had William wasted the minutes of her presence in writing his letters.
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