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Social Life in the Insect World

CHAPTER XV
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Try to find me more, as many as you can, and on Sunday you shall have lots of rides on the wooden horses.

In the meantime here is a penny for you.

Don't forget it when you make up your accounts; don't mix it with your turnip-money; put it by itself." Beaming with satisfaction at such wealth, little touzle-head promised to search industriously, already foreseeing a fortune.
When he had gone I examined the thing.

It was worth examination.

It was a fine cocoon, thick and with blunt ends, very like a silkworm's cocoon, firm to the touch and of a tawny colour.


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