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A
Butterfly Chase

Strasburgh, printed G. Silbermann.
A
 BUTTERFLY CHASE.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF
P. J. STAHL.
WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY
LORENZ FRÖLICH.
Little girl's head, surrounded by butterflies.
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON & CO. GRAND STREET.
1869.
Bertie and Minnie at desk with tools in hand, looking at butterfly book.
I.
Yes, little Minnie and her cousin Bertie have quite madeup their minds to have a splendid collection of butterflies.They have been reading all about it in a book which theiruncle, who is a professor at the Museum, has sent them.In this beautiful book they have learnt all about it—howto chase the butterflies, and how to catch them, and howto arrange them in glass cases when they are caught. Everythingthey want is ready for them. Their uncle has sentwith the book two butterfly-nets; a pretty case filled withcrooked scissors, tweezers, pincers, and all sorts of sharpsteel instruments; a pretty box, at the bottom of which arelittle round pieces of cork, glued in rows, with long large-headedpins to run through the butterflies; and another littlebox, with a lot of small squares of glass, which are to beput over their wings to keep them open, and prevent themfrom fluttering and beating about.
In the beautiful book there are pretty coloured picturesof the fine butterflies that they may meet with in their chases,with the names of each kind printed underneath, so thatthey will know them all when they catch them.
How very interesting butterflies are!
Minnie's mamma seated in a chair, looking at the children with nets in their hands.
II.
Minnie’s mamma, who is almost like a mamma to Bertietoo, though she is only his aunt, would be very glad tosee her little ones fond of natural history, but still she doesnot seem quite pleased with the                        
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