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Birth of a butterfly

A butterfly begins
By laying her eggs
Out pops a caterpillar
Crawling on its legs.
The caterpillar first is very very thin
But eats and eats and eats
Till it bursts through its skin.
Soon the caterpillar's
Grown nice and big.
So it climbs on top.
Of a tiny leaf or twig.
It makes a hard shell
And there it hangs inside.
The shell soon cracks
When the shell opens
What comes out?
A beautiful butterfly
Fluttering about

Gautami T.
Bangalore: The Oxford English School

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