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was left, while for five minutes more she pursued 

 the same zigzag, apparently senseless meandering 

 over the entire field of earth. Now she seems 

 again to stumble upon her neg- 

 ; ; lected prey, and taking it once 



more in her formidable jaws, 

 she lugs it again for a long 

 helter-skelter jaunt, this time 

 depositing it in the neighbor- 

 hood of a hole, which at first 

 sight might have been consid- 

 ered an "ant -hole," from the 

 debris which lay scattered about 

 in its vicinity. After consider- 

 able needless delay, she 

 is seen for once motion- 

 less, so far as her legs are 

 .- ■•'* ■ ,.,/--... concerned, but with her 

 -> head over the tunnel, 



while, with flipping wings and 

 P" rapidly waving antennae, she 



investigates its depths. Sat- 

 isfied that all is well, she again reaches her drowsy 

 spicier, by a tangled circuit of about a quarter of a 

 mile — wasp measurement — and taking the victim 

 in her teeth for the third time, finally succeeds in 

 reaching the burrow, into which, without a parti- 



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