the queer little house

Donald Culross PeattieThe Raimbow Book of Nature, Cleveland/ New York, The World Publishing Company, 1957, p. 61.

Down on the oozy bottom the caddis worm crawls along dragging after it the queer little house it builds out of bits of stick and stone held together with silk. Then one days it seals itself in to undergo a mysterious change.

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