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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...though she looked down to see if none of them had transferred themselves. Then Mrs. Grandin pointed to a large purple emperor on the door, and began a long story of how she had been walking in the garden to look at a new Amaryllis; how the butterfly had alighted on her shawl; how the gardener had cried out and she had chid him; and then how she had skilfully covered her prize with a bell-glass. Chryssa felt more and more puzzled. Would Mrs. Grandin really catch a live butterfly and stick him up there? and how could she? and were all the occupants of the door dead or alive at that present moment? She couldn't tell, but somehow the door didn't look so pretty to her now; and she was just turning away to the white mice again, when Mrs. Rutherford took leave, and they came away. No sooner were they all in the carriage than Chryssa began:--t "Uncle Ruth, what did make those butterflies stay on that door?" "They were fastened there." "Fastened there" "Yes; if you had looked a little closer you would have seen a small pin thrust through each." "But I don't understand," said Chryssa knitting her brows with excess of perplexity; "I thought she said that big butterfly got on her shawl in the garden?" "So she did; and it was there she caught him." "But if he could fly about he wasn't dead." "Certainly not; I believe none of the butterflies were dead till they were pinned up to the door. People seldom find dead butterflies in such good preservation." "Mrs. Grandin must be a nice woman!" said Sybil coolly. "Some people are very fond of collecting insects," said Mr. Butherford with a slight smile at Chryssa's speechless face; "and as they would not stay in th...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130393305
- ISBN 13 9781130393309
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages42
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