Wasps and Their Ways 



VESPA, THE PAPER-MAKER. 



VESPA, the wasp, is an angrie crea- 

 ture," says an old writer. 



" Vespa, the wasp, is an angry creature, 

 says every writer, old or new, who has y\ 

 said anything about it. 



One would think she did nothing from 

 morning till night but sting. 



Listen to the Ettrick Shepherd, — 



" O' a' God's creatures, the wasp is the 

 only ane that 's eternally out o' temper ; 

 there 's nae sic thing as pleasin' him." 



Then he describes a pleasant scene in 

 the garden with the birds and bees in the 

 sunshine, and again bursts out, — 



" Amid the general dance and minstrelsy, 

 in comes a shower o' infuriate wasps, red 

 hot, as if let out of a fiery furnace, pick- 

 ing quarrels wi' their ain shadows ; 

 then roun' and roun' the hair o' ^-:,-:^ ^ 

 your head, bizzing against the ^^ ^^ 



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