Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1890 — “Catt pilars.” [ARTICLE]

“Catt pilars.”

The catterpilar is a cralliDg thing and hears all over his back and fannie found one down her back and it made rue cralljike everything, birds eat cat* terpilars and give them to their children to eat. I don’t see how they cuu eat them, I know I- could not eat thmn, they are such horrid things, theylook so so offly and feel i don’t know how. Cittterpilars climb trees, the other day i saw a big, big catterpilar and he was so horrid that i took a stick and kild him with it and threw it away to let the swill man pick it up and take it home period catterpilars ha.vo 1,000 or more legs, he may not have so many, and he may have more the big ones have more than the little ones i gess that but i don’t know. Catterpilars eat flies and other insects such as ants, micatos, and others like that. Also they eat leaves, plum leaves and in short all kinds and some flowers to,some have baby catterpilars. in short all of them. Catterpilars drink water, in short everything they can get. Catterpilars, i can not say much more about catterpilars. but one good root is never throw a catterpilar at a man or anybody for it gives them such a fright. I have told you all they eat, drink how many legs it has -and the rool. A catterpilar can climb, you. can not. Ma be some of you can, I cant, but most of the things that a catterpilar can do we can not, and most of tim things that wo can do they can not. —Quoted by the buffalo Express.