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Show fiUTTEnFLY EQ08. fhalr Slarrelntii llcnutjr of Shown iT Ilia Mterotcojia. The travolejr Jn tho far East, passing through stone doorways, scrollod and carved with Arabosquo Jrotwork, en-tora en-tora tho eastern quarter of old Cairo. Tho streets are dingy and narrow, but horo rtso tho wonderful domes c tho famous mosquos "TombB of ihe Mamelukes" oxqulstto in all grace and fantasy of Bhnpo and color. Tho fretted fret-ted skies, a line and del lea to lacowork of atone, tho marvelous and shining play of light on beautiful tlntB, seem llko a vory dream of nrt. But enter the woods that strotch all about us, and uflo tl) mloroscpp.o that enlaracs our vision, and lo, a most wonderful thing baa como to pass! Winged bolnge, far moro beautiful than Uve ull of the "Arabian Nights," have been horo, and on the undor side of a coramsn leaf, In slro no larger than a pln'a bead, are structures that fairly rival tho mosques of Cairo in wealth of decoration and lovollncBs of color tho butterfly .eggs. They arc, many of thein, dome-ehaped llko the mosques, and covered with a' rich notwork, bo filmy that it gilt tors In the sun llko a diamond dew, but each of the lines In a rib, buttressing the wholo structure. Othor oggs are shaped like tiaras or turbans, and others oth-ers still aro llko sea-urchins, aomo jir shaped llko pyramids, and nil lead up In tbolr decorations to a minuto rosette at tho top, Bometlmos dooply Indented, through whoso oponlngs lifo is rocolveO In tho ogg. Tho patterns aro often as regular as any "circular roso-window of a Gothic cathodrnl," and tho colors of tho egg, beginning with a palo-groon tho safest of all colors In tho green wood or will to, llko many treo-blos-Boms, chango aftorwards, as tho dweller dwell-er lnaldo dovclopa, into all kinds ot militant and shining hues, from salmon sal-mon to orango. Theao eggo are sometimes some-times found single, Bometlmos in regular reg-ular rows, ono on top of tho othor, or strung togothor llko a nocklaco ot beads, or "girdling d twig llko a fntry ring." Thcro are insects not buttor-(lles buttor-(lles that lay eggs in almost Incredible numbers, sny a trillion In a soasonl Those aro soft and Dorlshablo and of short life. Whore an insect's oggs have to stand the winter's cold thoy aro I usually covorod or packed In a kind ot comcnL- If you look at those mero specs through a microscopo you will teo exquislto shells, clustered like goms or rolled in tubes, or convoluted m spirals and circles. Many eggs aro doubly protocted booauso thoy aro bo fragtlo, and are placed la still another shelter, as tho eggs of tho birds, palo blue, or spocklod, or pearly whito, In cloBo wovon nests, or tho eggs of certain cer-tain spiders In silky bclla ot golden j yellow or purest white, hung oroong the blosBo'is. Yot It Is moro common ; to find Inject eggs baro and cxposod to vlow. Ono day I saw what had seemed seem-ed dust grow under a microscope into crystal eggs, on which Insect forms appeared ap-peared to be sharply edged as aeon through tho transparent case. Then out skipped somo lively, black-oyod wood-folk, lndopondent and alert, ready for a moal. They seemed fully grown at birth. E. F. M. i |