NATURAL HISTORY. 41 



CONVERSATION IV. 



Uncle Philip tells the Children about the first 

 Paper in the World, made by Wasps. 



" AH, boys ! how do you do ? This is Sat- 

 urday, and I have been expecting to see you 

 come for some time." 



" Why, Uncle Philip, we should have been 

 here sooner, but we went round by the old 

 mill; because we thought that perhaps we 

 might find in some of the old timbers, holes 

 bored by some of those industrious little car- 

 penters you told us about." 



" Well ; and did you find any ?" 



" No ; but we found something else, which 

 we have brought to show you : and we have 

 been talking about it all the way. We have 

 not discovered any new tools among the ani- 

 mals, but we think we have found out a trade 

 that some of them work at ; and we wish you 

 to tell us if we are right." 



" Oh, that I will do, with pleasure, if I can. 



