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The wires carried off the worst of the vibration." "I wish we could afford to equip our silk-house that way," said Marie. "Just wait until we get rich. Maybe some day we can," answered Pierre gaily. Fortunately for the Brettons' silkworms, however, no electrical storm came.
Many other silkworms besides the true or common one are still employed, worms which yield the Tussore silks of India and other kindred silks in Japan; and so likewise was this rough silky fabric spun and woven in Hellas, until in course of time it was surpassed and superseded by the finer produce of the 'Seric worm', and the older industry died out and was utterly forgotten.
In this matter he was by no means mistaken, for it soon became plain to all observers of whom an immense concourse was assembled that the usually self-possessed Guarder of the Imperial Silkworms was conducting himself in a most undignified manner; for though he still clung to the plough-handles with an inspired tenacity, his body assumed every variety of base and uninviting attitude.
"'Tis true," continued Othello; "it is a magical handkerchief; a sibyl that had lived in the world two hundred years, in a fit of prophetic fury worked it; the silkworms that furnished the silk were hallowed, and it was dyed in a mummy of maidens' hearts conserved."
Ceylon now cultivates no silkworms whatever, notwithstanding this abundance of the favourite food of one species; and the rich silken robes sometimes worn by the Buddhist priesthood are imported from China and the continent of India.
On their arrival in Rome the eggs were hatched and the stolen silkworms became the ancestors of all the silkworms in Europe perhaps the great-great-great-great-grandparents of the very ones you are going to raise next week." The boy and girl laughed merrily.
It is fortunate he did not go to the war, for while he helped your father he learned many things about silk-raising which will be useful to us, I am sure." "I wish the silkworms did not eat so much," grumbled Marie. "They must eat if they are to grow, dear," said Madame Bretton. "Every creature eats more while growing even children," she added mischievously.
The planting of mulberry trees and the growing of silkworms were advanced by the dispatch of treatises on silk culture as well as silkworm eggs in a project in which King James I himself had a personal interest. The industrial and manufacturing efforts of these years, however, were not destined to succeed.
They buy the leaves by weight, and the leaf purchasers soon become expert in selecting those lots that are the most nutritious; for every one wants his silkworms to grow large and strong so that they may spin fine cocoons and give out a valuable quality of silk." "Why, Mother, just feeding them is an absolute science in itself then," sighed Pierre in dismay.
There is an extremely interesting silk-worm exhibit, and the children who visited the museum two or three summers ago had the pleasure of watching some of the identical silkworms while spinning their cocoons. Young collectors are shown exactly "How to collect and preserve insects" by examining the object lesson which was especially designed for their help.
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