More Hunting Wasps 



movement returned, sufficiently to enable 

 them to leave the surface where I had 

 placed them and to regain the depths by 

 boring a passage through the soil. I really 

 think that after this resurrection there will 

 be no more talk of antiseptics, unless and 

 until tinned Herrings begin to frolic in their 

 brine. ^ 



1 The subject of this and the preceding chapters is 



continued in an essay entitled The Poison of the Bee, for 



which cf. Bramble-bees and Others: chap. xi. — Trans- 

 lator's Note. 



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