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Butterflies are strong and brave. The milkweed has been seen 100 miles at sea. It flies 10 to 15 feet above the water at a speed of 20 m.p.h., always in a straight line. Mr. Clark says he once saw a blue swallowtail chasing an English sparrow.
Butterflies grow up in odd places. The cabbage butterfly, in its caterpillar state, will sometimes pupate on firewood, often emerges from its cocoon in midwinter, much to the astonishment of gentlemen warming their feet in fireplaces. The cybele will lay eggs only on violets.
* Most of the horses used in Spain's bullfights, whose disembowelling so annoys U. S. tourists, are bought in St. Louis at $5 a head.