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torpid condition, would most probably snore ;
so, to increase the deception, whenever he
heard Daisy’s footstep on the path, he
would begin to snore loudly.

“That shows he’s getting on all right, you
know,” remarked George the pig.

Suddenly, in the middle of the night, a very
disturbing thought occurred to old P. as he
lay under the cabbage-leaves—Did butterfly
grubs wrap themselves up in cocoons? He
could not remember what the natural history
had said about that; and, as he had returned
the book to the lending library, it was not
convenient to go and borrow it again; be-
sides, time pressed.

So he got up and scratched his -head,
and finally decided that, as silkworms made
cocoons, it would be better to make one and
chance it.

He therefore went very quietly out of
the garden in the darkness, and crept to
the general shop kept by Miss Pupsey.
Pushing aside the catch of a window, he got
in and entered the shop. He went straight
to the shelf where the skeins of worsted