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Synopsis
Excerpt from Among the Moths and Butterflies: And Enlarged; Edition of Insect Lives; Revised and Enlarged Edition of Insect Lives; Or Born in Prison
You give your girl a silk beechnut-box. Some of them will know what I mean: a three-sided box, made of card-board and cov ered and lined with silk, such as only grand mothers can probably make now. She looks at it. It seems solid. Press it and it opens. One side has been left without being closed. What can she do with it It is better than a ball. It will hold something. She can use it. But the box itself, what will it come to? Tell her to put the box under a glass and see what it will get to be. She will laugh and tell you, only a box. All there is to it she sees at once. Try the microscope. Only a little coarser silk.
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