Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-01-26

The INSECT THAT LIVES THREE YEARS
AND ONE D>y.-It is such :. wee bit of a
chap that i, long wise ftmily name Eu
phemcrdl hardly becomes it and 50 it
:. grows mp to nam" itself. The last
day of it, life gives it its common name.
:: Dav-tly." is a name that ti,S il exactly.
1t has wings iu>t one happy day and the
little fly spend, that DAY IL if life WAS in
deed Il fairy Dream How different it is
from its three long years of groveling
worm life. The two periods OF lis cNlSt-
cnce are 50 unlike that no one would dream
that the worms and the lilies We're forty
ninth cousins TO each other. AZ fist
they have little round grub-likc bodies and
live in the soft mud of streams ami ponds.
and they are such hungry, greedy little
chaps that they do nothing but eat and
breathe. On each side of their body are
six little Unlike projections, which wise
men used To think were the oars with
which they padded their little grubskin
canoes. but Ieaumer. great French nat
urali>t. studied them very carefully ami
found that the mistaken paddles We're for
the same purpose rs the gillS of a fish. and
he found By examining them through a
microscope. that connected with each of
these cills was 4 wind-pipe which branch
ed off into 4 multitude of tiny pipes all
through the funny grub body. y very eN
tensIvc arrangement Just for tiny worm
But the Creator never Sights His work. no
matter how small and lowly the creature
We told You The Little fellows chief object
was eating. Ii seems very contcntel I'M
til it has lived almost three years in . mud
and mrc then it begins To get uneasy.
for there are fairy WINS growing beneath
the worm garments BY and by the old
coat GETS So worn that it seems in danger
of coming 70 rags Like a rotten garment
il becomes loose. bat the poor impatient
! body in H. don't seem to care any more
about clothes or food. Il Just wants to
get away from its former life Tie pent up
WINS struggle To get free. II rises 10 the
top of the water and suddenly the old coat
bursts open on the hack. and quicker than
Il little mirl can throw off her water proof
the worm losses of its old garment and
giving the worn ont thing. apparently. Il
contcmpluouS little kick. it spreads lis
| lovely goSSamer wings and scars into the
air The little fairy seems perfectly in
toxicated with delight. Il tlutters here
and there and docs not take one atom of
| food. Without stopping to bother lis little
head about what it shall eat. or what it
shall drink, or, without taking one thought
of the morrow, ii lust enj 'yS. with its
whole being. the @lori u, perfect freedom
it has gained 1t lives whole life time
in one short day. and before the morrow
comes. the little wings have finished their
mission and are folded forever
And so this is lis hi>tory-Thrcc years
Gagged in 4 curious worm house. crcedilv
devouring its Shiny food, and one brief day
on the wing, forgetting food and ali its
groveling life and drinking in all the sweet
sunlight of Heaven.
Who cen tell which cup held the mos,
harpincss-the golden vase filled to the
hrim With Il few bliSSful hours. or tho
carthcn dish filled with food for three
greedy years i'm 0S heatcr. in Norttcrh
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