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Half Hours in the Tiny World

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: twenty-four hours, engaged in the sober, staid operation of splitting its sides with labour?not with laughter? and when split, in folding downwards like a cast-off garment the striped and dusky skin, bristling with ebony spines, in which it crawled so long. THE COMMON CATERPILLAR. No longer useful to its possessor, this garment must be not only folded into the smallest possible space, and gradually, by means of continuous contortions, pushed upwards till it covers only the narrowest end of the chrysalis, but must be discarded whilst the chrysalis remains in statu quo. And how shall this he done ? Let Blondin live and learn. The creature has neither legs nor arms, and must yet set itself free from the skin and reach the threads from which it is suspended. Its supple hody has a contractile power which supplies the office of the limbs. Between two of its segments the CHRYSALIDES. insect seizes a portion of the folded skin so firmly as to support the entire body. It now curves slightly the hinder parts, and draws the tail entirely out of the sheath in which it was enclosed, and for an instant reposes before freeing itself entirely from the encumbrance. Curving the part below its tail, so that it can seizethe thread to which it holds on, it gives its body a violent shock, which makes it spin round many times on its tail with great rapidity. During these pirouettes the chrysalis is acting against the skin, and the hooks of its legs fray the threads and break them or disentangle themselves. If unsuccessful in this effort, it begins to twirl itself in the opposite direction, and rarely fails the second time. It is from the golden hue of this chrysalis, which is sometimes brown with golden spots, and sometimes entirely golden, that the term chrysalis (from xpvru...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217216142
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 62
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217216145
  • Publisher Date: 13 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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