. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. 3\w rest iiwliil.' till tliiit ;lc woman liad lu' wnit sleep, and as in thai faniilv wanted tn read abuul man's plaee m Nature, slu' .onliniied In -lirii all tJiiouKli tile winter. It was net until llie meidenee hinL; and -liakinK llie dust oil her winf;s and eorselct, and washiiifi her faee and liaiuls, she elimt>ed oat of the window into Ihe sprini; <nnshiiu\ whieh soon niaile her feel alive aKuin. Ihen she remembered a dream she had dreamt during her Ions
. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. 3\w rest iiwliil.' till tliiit ;lc woman liad lu' wnit sleep, and as in thai faniilv wanted tn read abuul man's plaee m Nature, slu' .onliniied In -lirii all tJiiouKli tile winter. It was net until llie meidenee hinL; and -liakinK llie dust oil her winf;s and eorselct, and washiiifi her faee and liaiuls, she elimt>ed oat of the window into Ihe sprini; <nnshiiu\ whieh soon niaile her feel alive aKuin. Ihen she remembered a dream she had dreamt during her Ions winli-r sleep. Aeeordnif; to her dream she was to be a (jueen, and to reign over ;i ])opid<uis eitv of her our foundation. It was time slie set about her dream- fidrdim-nt. All the sunny lioins tluy were not many ot that Apiil day she lieu about and souj;ht tin ideal site for a wasp-eitv, but could not lind it. In the alternoon she erawlnl beneath a pieee of loose bark on a dead oak-tree, aiul went to sleep for the night. The next morniiiL: she fcumd that the tree itself bad many tunnels m its decayed wood, whire bi'etles or other ; Insects hafi once exca- vated ; and t)ne of tlu -e trunk. Hut on reachiiif;. led thi: I ill whirh slR> t; ! to a quite roomy hollow in the centre of the hall, she found a hornet-princess in possession. The hornet-iirince-s was a sort of cousin, and confided to her that at la>t she fiad found a suitabli^ pla, c for the foundation of her citv. So the wasp-princess retired, and resume<l her scareli. After a weary round of explorations that came to nothin^' satisfactory, she had the good luck to find the entrance to a mouse's tunnel in a hedge-bank, and she could tell from the absence of any mousv smell that it had long been vacant. So she explored it. and found that a short distance along the tunnel there was a little hollow which could be rounded and made larger by a little hard work. So sl:c set to work at once upon the roof, digg
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