30 Dark Days of Insect Life [FOURTH WEEK 



riddle of a winter's shelter buried in the cold, dark 

 earth. 



Is everything frozen tight? Has Nature's frost mortar 

 cemented every stone in its bed? Then cut off the solid 

 cups of the pitcher plants, and see what insects formed 

 the last meal of these strange growths, ants, flies, bugs, 

 encased in ice like the fossil insects caught in the amber 

 sap which flowed so many thousands of years ago. 



When the fierce northwestern blast 

 Cools sea and land so far and fast, 

 Thou already slumberest deep; 

 Woe and want thou canst outsleep. 



EMERSON. 



