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Show MAR GRAHAM BONNER. j anhCMinyatuMKrnnntiiiiai TIGER SWALLOWTAIL. "When the summer Is here," said Daddy, "I think It Is nice to hear about the flowers and the birds and the but-terttles but-terttles nnd nil the lovely summer things." "So do we," said Nancy. "And wo're hearing about them, too," said Nick. "Yes," wild noddy, "that Is why I want to hnve so ma.y of the butterflies butter-flies and birds nnd the flowers tell their stories. "And now the Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly's story Is to bo told. "Tm the Tiger Swallowtail butterfly,' butter-fly,' said the Tuge Swallowtail butterfly butter-fly to some of the other butterflies flying fly-ing about the flowers. "'Now a tiger Is an anlmnl, but of course a Tiger Swallowtail Is a butterfly. but-terfly. '"Hut It Is fine to be n butterfly nnd yet to bo named after such n beautiful and wild nnd powerful nnlmal as tho tiger. "'We havo yellow and black stripes so In that way wo look like tigers. For they aro striped, too, you know. "To bo sure wo don't look much llko tigers In other ways. We nrcn't big llko they nre. We don't walk about. We're qulto unltko tigers In every way but In our stripes. '"We fly, and we don't roar. They don't fly nnd they do roar. "'Wo sip honey from tho flowers, nnd they llko meat better 1 "'Wo don't llko ment and they don't sip honey from tho flowers, or, at least I've never seen them sipping honey from flowers. "To bo sure thero are no tigers about here, except tho ones In the zoos, but at any rnto I can't Imagine a tiger sipping honey from a flower. '"And I don't believe they'd enre much about it. I don't belloTe they Would. "'Some or our family wear illghtly different suits from the others, and thero are even frfotue members of our family who like to wenr a great deal more black than wo do, with ninny touches of yellow nnd somo of blue. " 'Yes, we don't nil dress alike. Hut that Is Just as well. Thero Is really ' " -.- "Quito Gentle." no reason why every member of a fnmlly should dress alike. " 'Every boy and every glr) of n cor-tnln cor-tnln fumlly I know dress qulto differ ently, and I think that is a gooa Idea. " 'Hut of course thero Is also much to be said about every creature belonging be-longing to a butterfly family dressing nllko, because It Is -easier then for people to know which Tamily we bo-long bo-long to, "'Wo do things differently in our family, too. We have vnrlous habits and ways. "'Some tf 'dur 'relatives look llko small snakes while still they are caterpillars. cater-pillars. They 'have "heads shaped very much llko snakes and they Bit up In such a vay thut they 'look llko snakes then, too. "They think it makes them look dangerous nnd 'thdt It Is a great protection pro-tection to them. "'Hut'hbw'nleo It Is to chnngo from being a caterpillar into being n butter fly. How nlco timt 1st How lino It Is to have bucIi a fnmlly nnmo oh wo have, for Tiger 8vallowtnll Is a beautiful beauti-ful family name. " 'Wo con tie qulto gentlo and yet wo sound very wild, and It Is rather fun to sound wild nnd yet not to have to do a lot of wild thing, which would bo very hard to do utid which would frighten us n lot. "Tm stiro tho wild things the tiger does would frighten ui dreadfully "'lie would go ofT for hunting parties par-ties which we wouldn't like ut nil Ono of our family bow n tiger at tho circus tho other day, and ho said that tho tiger was a wild looking creuturo but very, very beautiful. "'So wo llko to bo beautiful as tho tiger 1 And we're allowed to do ns we llko! "'Yes, we're allowed to be benutlfu' nnd gentlo and no one objects n .me nt till r " |