

WASPS 



SOCIAL AND SOLITARY 



BY 



GEORGE W. PECKHAM 



AND 



ELIZABETH G. PECKHAM 



WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY 



JOHN BURROUGHS 



ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES H. EMERTON 

 " Bold sons of air and heat, untamed, untired." ILIAD, Book XVII 





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BOSTON AND NEW YORK 



HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY 



(Cbe 0itoer?ibc p>res$, Cambribge 



1905 



