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[Illustration: "What's the matter?" said Charlie. "A great, horrid
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MISS ELLIOT'S GIRLS
STORIES OF
BEASTS, BIRDS, AND BUTTERFLIES
By MRS. MARY SPRING CORNING
[Illustration]
A.L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT 1886, BY
CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL AND PUBLISHING SOCIETY.
CHAPTER I.
GREENY, BLACKY, AND SLY-BOOTS.
Sammy Ray was running by the parsonage one day when Miss Ruth called to
him. She was sitting in the vine-shaded porch, and there was a crutch
leaning against her chair.
"Sammy," she said, "isn't there a field of tobacco near where you live?"
"Yes'm; two of 'em."
"To-morrow morning look among the tobacco plants and find me a large
green worm. Have you ever seen a tobacco worm?"
Sammy grinned.
"I've killed more'n a hundred of 'em this summer," he said. "Pat Heeley
hires me to smash all I can find, 'cause they eat the tobacco."
"Well, bring one carefully to me on the leaf where he is feeding; the
largest one you can find."
Before breakfast the next morning Ruth Elliot had her first sight of a
tobacco worm.
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