9. "But for you, dear grand-father, I should never have thought such tiny creatures worth taking any notice of. Why, they are made just as well as big ones, or better."
WHAT SHALL I LOOK AT NEXT?
10. "Not better, dear, but quite as well. They are all the work of God's hand, and so all must be alike good. Do you know that you owe the pretty crimson sash that you have on to a very little creature?"
11. "Oh yes, the silkworm," said Rose.
"Yes, and the red colour was made from the dead body of an insect too. There is a sort of blight which gives this red colour after it is dead.
12. "Merchants bring them from abroad, after they have been taken from the plants on which they live. As they kill the coffee plants they must be swept off, and they are made into dye."
13. Grand-father would have said much more, but just then Rose saw Tom and Lucy walking up the lawn to the open window.
14. Behind them walked gravely Neptune the dog, with his master's stick in his mouth, which he thought it a great honour to carry.