130 Old Primrose

seemed surprised to hear a caterpillar grunt,
so he changed the sound and tried little
squeals; and he fancied she found this all
right, and kept to it.

Daisy, after watching him for a long time,
went away apparently quite satisfied.

So old P. was delighted with his success,
and determined to carry the thing through
properly ; for he began to believe that he
might become a real, proper, natural butter-
fly in the end, if he went through all the
processes all right.

That night he slept under a very large
cauliflower ; and at daylight he was up again,
and crawling all over the vegetables. Daisy
came to look at him again, and appeared
to be quite deceived ; and old P. chuckled.