“You must not look upon butterflies as trivial,” said Laleham. “The study of much smaller things has made modern science; and a butterfly may well lead you to the ends of the earth--and even lose you among the stars. You never know where it may take you. There is no hunting more full of exciting possibilities. If you dare follow a butterfly, you dare go anywhere; and no quarry will lead you into stranger places, or into such unexpected adventures.” He had never forgotten the day when that spell of exquisite silence and dappled sunshine--the whole woodland with its finger on its lip--had suddenly become embodied in a tiny shape of colored velvet wings that came floating zig-zag up the dingle…
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