StNicholas [serial] . ave come in by the outlet. 2. The ponds may at one time have been sub-merged, and when the waters receded some fishremained in the ponds. This occurs in thousandsof places every year along the western rivers. 3. The ponds may have been intentionallystocked with fish, or they may have received thecatch of a passing youthful angler. 4. There may be underground communicationwith a stream or lake. H. M. S. queer humps on a leaf Dorchester, St. Nicholas : We have been spending two weeksin Jackson, New Hampshire, and it is such a beautifulplace! The leaf I am sending
StNicholas [serial] . ave come in by the outlet. 2. The ponds may at one time have been sub-merged, and when the waters receded some fishremained in the ponds. This occurs in thousandsof places every year along the western rivers. 3. The ponds may have been intentionallystocked with fish, or they may have received thecatch of a passing youthful angler. 4. There may be underground communicationwith a stream or lake. H. M. S. queer humps on a leaf Dorchester, St. Nicholas : We have been spending two weeksin Jackson, New Hampshire, and it is such a beautifulplace! The leaf I am sending you with the queer humpson it is like a great many we saw there on different trees,some on wild cherry and some on other trees. I supposethey must be the work of some insect, but how can theyform such large nests out of the leaf, without drawingthe rest of it out of shape, and what kind of a creaturedoes it? Dorothy Baldwin. The insect is the gall-fly. It places its eggwithin the tissues of the leaf and this irritates. the witch-hazel cone galls. They are of a beautiful color that the photograph, of course,does not show. the leaf, causing a peculiar growth not naturalto the tree or leaf except at such times as whenaffected by the sting of the insect. it lives in a house of tiny kindling wood Orlando, St. Nicholas : I am sending you under separatecover a cocoon and will be glad to have you tell me what itis. We found it hanging to acherry-tree by just a thread. Ihave been greatly interested inthis part of the magazine, andthought I stood as good a chanceas any one to have my questionanswered. Your devoted reader,Berta L. Branch. The cocoon is the nest ofthe larva of the bag-wormmoths. The building is asilken sac within which thelittle animal lives. Whenthe caterpillar wishes tomove from one place to an-other it pushes forth thefront end of its body andcreeps along carrying itshouse with it. This re-minds one of the similarhouses and method of trav-eling of the caddis-wo
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