Many scientific
workers confess to having poured full strength chloroform
directly on nonfeeders, mounted them as pinned specimens
and later found them living; so that sensitive lepidopterists
have abandoned its use for the cyanide or gasoline jar. I intended
to give only a whiff of chloroform to this moth, just enough that
she would allow her tongue to remain uncoiled until I could snap
its fullest extent, but I could not revive her. The same amount
would have had no effect whatever on a non-feeder,
CHAPTER XII Bloody-nose of Sunshine Hill: Hemaris Thysbe
John Brown lives a mile north of our village, in the little hamlet
of Ceylon. Like his illustrious predecessor of the same name he is
willing to do something for other people. Mr. Brown owns a large
farm, that for a long distance borders the Wabash River where it is
at its best, and always the cameras and I have the freedom of his
premises.
On the east side of the village, about half its length, swings a
big gate, that opens into a long country lane.
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