human
Now you have a Blacky and a Greeny,
gpt
How they eat! said Sammy;
human
Yes; and if they lived on bread and butter 't would cost a lot to feed 'em, wouldn't it?
gpt
Look at my woodbine worm, boys, Miss Ruth said, as she lifted the cover of another box.
human
Isn't he a beauty? See the delicate green, shaded to white, on his back, and that row of spots down his sides looking like buttons! I call him Sly-boots, because he has a trick of hiding under the leaves. He used to have a horn on his tail like the tobacco worms.
gpt
Where that spot is, that looks like an eye?
human
Yes; and one day he ate nothing and hid himself away, and looked so strangely that I thought he was going to die; but the next morning he appeared in this beautiful new coat.
gpt
How funny! Say, what is he going to turn into?