THE TRAVELS OF A BUTTERFLY. 13

So she went, and she picked up a mouthful of green
blights, which were spoiling the flower-buds. After that, she
went away to make her own dinner on the seeds of groundsel,
chickweed, and sting-nettle. When she was gone a blue tit
came down to the raspberry bushes, peering with his sharp eyes
among the leaves and shoots, here and there pulling one off
because there was an insect in it, which he pecked out and
swallowed—it seemed mischievous, but the shoot would have
been killed-anyhow by the grub. He was very busy, and made

 

a noise all the while like a little saw being sharpened ; till the
gardener saw his blue cap and yellow breast glancing from
bough to bough as he hung on to the apple-twigs, clearing
them of many a dozen of hurtful insect plagues, and he came
out and drove the little chap away, and set up an ugly bird
made of tin, painted to look like a hawk, to frighten the little
birds,

So after that, the green caterpillars which were left had it
all their own way; and so had the blights and the grubs,