Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Collecting NatureThe net was green. The handle was wood, and the grip was uncomfortably thick, like that of a tennis racket borrowed from an old player. The mesh bag was long enough that if we caught a tiger swallowtail-or a spicebush swallowtail, or a mourning cloak, or a European cabbage, or a common sulphur, or a red admiral, or a painted lady, or a monarch, or a viceroy-we could with a twist of the wrist, flip its tappered tip over the wire rim and trap the butterfly inside.
Then, being careful not to scrape off the coloured scales, we pinched the wings shut and transferred the butterfly to the killing jar. (Our bible, A Field Guide of the Butterflies of North America, East of the Great Plains, by Alexander B klots, recommended a more compplicated method of transfer that involved holding the handle betweenn one's thinghs, grasping the bag just below the butterfly, slipping the jar just into the net, and coaxing the butterfly into the jar. But this technique demanded prodigious level of coordination-on the order, say, of that displayed by the cat in the hat when he balanced a goldfish bowl on an umbrella while standing on a rubber ball-and we were never able to master it!) My brother and I started with a shallow plastic container like a petri dish, which came in the children's butterfly kit that we had rapidly out grown, butbecause the hindwing projections of the swa;;owtails tended to get crushed against the perimeter, we graduated to a large glass jar from which our mother had scrubbed the last traces of strawberry jam. At the bottom of the killing jar was a piece of cotton saturated with carbon tetrachloride.
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随着稻香河流继续奔跑
微微笑 小时候的梦我知道
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乡间的歌谣永远的依靠
回家吧 回到最初的美好
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微微笑 小时候的梦我知道
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所有回忆在校当口袋里
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在风中持续着甜蜜
那童年的希望是
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我可以一路开心到底
都不换气
戴竹蜻蜓穿过那森林
打开了任意门找到你
一起旅行
那童年的希望是
一台时光机
你我翻滚过的榻榻米
味道熟悉
所有回忆在校当口袋里
一起荡秋千的默契
在风中持续着甜蜜
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