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arc models of plate-armour. They work upward, 

 downward, and more or less sideways, ><> that tlu-y 

 enable her to cock her body up or down, right or 

 left, at will, with almost incredible flexibility. 



Adequately to tell you all about the wasp, how- 

 ever, would require a very stout volume. I have 

 said enough, 1 hope, to suggest to you that the 

 wasp's history is quite as interesting as that of her 

 over-lauded relation, the little busy bee. Indeed, 

 I suspect it is only the utilitarian instinct of hum- 

 anity that has caused so much attention to be paid 

 to the domestic producer of honey, and so rela- 

 tively little to that free and independent insect, the 

 first paper-maker. 



