The silk-worm essay in English

The silk-worm is the weaver of the mulberry tree. It is, in face native of china. But, today, it is found in many countries of the world. It comes out of an egg in the form of a caterpillar. These caterpillars are about three quarters of an inch in length. They have sixteen feet and fourteen eyes each. They crawl about like worms, and feed on the leaves of the plants. Before they are fully grown up, their skins, like the slough of a snake, come off four times. They change into small white moths. After that, the mouth stops eating and shuts itself up in a covering, which it makes for itself out of its own body. This covering is called a cacoon. There it lies asleep for weeks. But, at last, it breaks this prison open and comes out, as a butterfly or a moth having wings but the breeders kill them, before they come out, by putting the cocoons in boiling water. They do so in order to save the cocoons from being spoilt. Then they spin these into silk-thread; and this silk-thread is woven into silk cloth.