Elnora knew why she was repeatedly cautioned not to leave their land, if she went specimen hunting.
She studied two hours and was several lessons ahead of her classes.
There was no use to go further.

She would take a walk and see if she could gather any caterpillars or find any freshly spun cocoons.

She searched the bushes and low trees behind the garden and all around the edge of the woods on their land, and having little success, at last came to the road.

Almost the first thorn bush she examined yielded a Polyphemus cocoon.

Elnora lifted her head with the instinct of a hunter on the chase, and began work.