Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 278
e hornets: I was sitting in my room in our little cot-tage, one springmorning, when Inoticed a number;of hornets flyingabout the closedwindow. Watchingthem through theglass, I saw theywere building anest on my window-sill. Now, as I am too oldto do much work about the house, I had plentyof time to… … THE HORNET, NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 836 small bits of soft and decayed wood, chew ituntil it was pulpy, and from this make thewonderful little paper cells in which their youngwould be hatched. This part of their worktook time, because the little creatures madeseveral rows of the cells,…
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