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label pinned under the body. "Yes—'Tatsienlu, East Tibet,' " he read. " 'Taken by the native collectors of Father Dejean' " (which sounded almost like "I'rester John")—and he would stick the butterfly back again, right Into the same pinhole. His motions seemed casual, even careless, but thiss was the unerring nonchalance of the specialist: the pin, with the precious insect, and Pilgram's fat fingers were the correlated parts of one and the same flawless machine. It might happen, however, that some open box, having been brushed by the elbow of the visitor, would stealthily begin to slide off the counter—to be stopped just in the nick of time by Pilgram, who