It is our best food-nut, you know.

'This is a female of the obernut moth,' she told me.

'They are almost gone.

We have been trying to exterminate them for centuries.

If you had not caught this one, it might have laid eggs enough to raise worms enough to destroy thousands of our nut trees--thousands of bushels of nuts--and make years and years of trouble for us.' "Everybody congratulated me.