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It was a great day to go looking for butterflies! The sun was up. The air was crisp. The new net Danny Bundy’s dad had given him was empty now, but Danny was so excited about the butterflies he was going to find for show-and-tell next Monday.

I could try and bring a bullfrog, Danny thought. But every boy brings a bullfrog or a scared squirrel in a cage. A bullfrog would be too easy. Danny wanted to win the show-and-tell contest this year. He would bring the biggest, most beautiful butterfly in the whole world and win an awesome pizza party!

Danny slurped down a bowl of cereal. He filled his backpack with a peanut butter sandwich, chips, and a thermos of milk. He tipped his cap and said goodbye to his mother.

“Don’t go too far, Bundy!” his mother called. “And be back before dark!”

His whole life, for whatever reason, his parents had always called him Bundy. Danny smiled at his mother. “Don’t worry, Ma,” he said. “I’ll be back before you can say, ‘Catch that butterfly!’” In a flash, Danny jumped off the back-porch steps, over the wire fence, and into the forest in search of the beautiful monarch butterfly.