n, that you will have to break the twig
to get the bundle down. If it seems very light, and rattled when you
shake it, you will likely see one or more small, sharp, round holes in
it. This means that an insect enemy has destroyed the little creature
sleeping within. If the Cocoon is perfect and seems solid and heavy,
take it home, and put it in a cardboard, or wooden box, which has a wire
screen, or gauze cover. Keep it in a light place, not too dry, till the
springtime comes; then one day a miracle will take place. The case will
be cut open from within, and out will come a gorgeous Moth. It is like
the dull, dark grave opening up at the resurrection to let forth a
new-born, different being with wings to fly in the heavens above.

In the drawing I have shown five different kinds of bundle-baby, then at
the bottom have added the jug-handled bundle-baby of the Tomato worm; it
does not make a Cocoon but buries itself in the ground when the time
comes for the Great Sleep. Kind Mother Earth protects it as she does the
Hickory Horn-Devil, so it does not need to make a Cocoon at all.

There is a wonderful story about each of these bundle-babies. You will
never get weary if you follow and learn them, for each one differs from
the last. Some of them I hope to tell you in this book, and before we
begin I want you to know some of the things that men of science have
learned, and why a Butterfly is not a Moth.

TALE 12

Butterflies and Moths

Do you remember the dear old fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast? How
Beauty had to marry the Beast to save her father's life? But as soon as
she had bravely agreed to sacrifice herself--as soon as she gave the
fateful "Yes" the Beast stood up on his hind legs, his horns, hoofs and
hide rolled off, and he was turned back into his true shape, a splendid
young Prince whom she could not help loving; and they lived happy ever
after.

Do you know that just such transformations and happy weddings are going
on about us all the time? The Beast is an ugly Caterpillar, the Princess
Beauty is the Butterfly or the Moth. And when the Beast is changed into
the Prince Charming and meets with Princess Beauty, they are just as
madly happy as they tell it in the fairy books. I know it, for I have
seen the transformation, and I have seen the pair go off on their
wedding flight.

Men of science have been trying to explain these strange
transformations, and to discover why the Prince and Princess do not ne