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THE ADVENTUROUS MOTH by Robert Sargent

THE ADVENTUROUS MOTH

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Pub Date: May 1st, 1968
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Repelled by ""bad perfume"" in the closet and burned by the mesmerizing flame of a candle, a little moth decamps in search of more hospitable surroundings; he nibbles at the fur of a sleeping lion who awakes, feels a draft on his bare spot, and wonders if he's getting bald. When the moth confesses, the lion leads him to a cache of old lion hunters' hats and the moth settles in for a long feed. Barbed-wire sketches, ragged whimsy.