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Now this had a very great effect upon the
old man’s mind; he went home brooding
about it; and on his way he met a beautiful
butterfly.

He watched this butterfly for some time ;
and then he exclaimed, ‘I w7// be like some-
thing beautiful! If they won’t let me be
like a primrose I will snub them all by being
so like a butterfly that they will not know
I’m not one; and then I can laugh at them!”

You see old Primrose was very revengeful !

So he followed the butterfly and observed
its ways; and, when nobody was looking
he tried to copy them. He poked two little
sticks into the pockets of his coat-tails to
stiffen them out like wings, and made two
little wisps of his hair stand up to look like
antenne.

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