A HOME IN A WILLOW TREE 151 



together so closely, that the poor discouraged 

 branch looks just like a pine cone! 



"Now, don't ask me," said the Entomologist, 

 "what made the bud grow that way, for I should 

 only have to tell you that it was because the little 

 insect larva was inside, and you would be no wiser 

 than before." 



That was just the question I was waiting to ask. 

 Some day perhaps he will find out for us, and 

 finish the story. In the meantime, I mean to cut 

 open some more of those cones and see what a 

 young gall-gnat looks like before it goes to sleep. 



