Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 285
CRESCENT IMAGES OF THE SUN I PHOTOGRAPH OF A HANDKERCHIEF SPREAD ON THEGROUND UNDER AN APPLE-TREE. 272 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Jan. an insect digs pits and catches ants. Oxasi, Grasmere, Fla,Dear St. Nicholas: Your Nature and Sciencedepartment is a fine thing, I think. You said send … THE ANT-LION IN ITS PIT, NEAR VIEW OF LARVA OUTOF PIT, AND FULL-GROWN INSECT FLYING. ant then, but as soon as I dug them up, the ant-lion lethim go. I once caught a very queer ant-lion ; he wasorange and black, instead of gray, and was queerlymarked. I put him in a box of sand, but somehow hegot…
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