Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 701
ll this time as motionless as if I had beenturned to stone. She came a step or two nearer, and, at last, quitere-assured, hurried down into her hole. What along time she stayed ! but, at last, on watching theopening intently, I saw something coming toward 668 THE DIGGER-WASPS AT HOME. [AUGIS1… … MAKING A HOME. I noticed at this time, and afterward, that as thedepth of the holes increased and it took longer jour-neys to reach the surface, the wasps always pressedthe earth they wished to get rid of into these com-pact balls, and so managed to bring up a muchgreater quantity at once than…
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