I plead guilty to the use of an anesthetic in this chapter only
to show the tongue extension of Carolina, because it is the
extremest with which I am acquainted; and to coaxing wide wing
sweep with the camel'shair brush; otherwise either the fact that
my subjects are too close emergence ever to have taken flight,
or sex attraction alone holds them.
If you do not discover love running through every line of this
text and see it shining from the face of each study and painting,
you do not read aright and your eyes need attention. Again and
again to the protests of my family, I have made answer--
"To work we love we rise betimes, and go to it with delight."
From the middle of May to the end of June of the year I was most
occupied with this book, my room was filled with cocoons and pupa
cases. The encased moths I had reason to believe were on the point
of appearing lay on a chair beside my bed or a tray close my
pillow. That month I did not average two hours of sleep in a
night, and had less in the daytime.
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