Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 701
grasshopper, placed it close to thfirst, and set about closing the door. But all hecareful work would be of no avail; no child of heiwould ever come out of this house a perfect fulgrown insect like herself. • This is what happened : In time the two eggs hatched. The youndigger-wasp set to work upon… … AT THE WRONG HOUSE. way through the soft earth till it reached daylightIt waved its wings gently up and down a kw timesand darted away and out of sight. The digger-wasps had been living for some week: THE EMERGENCY MISTRESS. 669 our garden, when, one afternoon, there came upearful thunder-storm.…
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