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WILD Lii<E AT HOME. 



about a mile away 

 from our home. It 

 was late in the 

 evening, and, as 

 the light was very 

 poor, we had little 

 faith in securing 

 anything like a 

 good picture. How- 

 ever, it does not 

 pay to neglect even 

 small chances, and we ex- 

 posed a couple of plates, and 

 went home to develop them. Our 

 fears proved to be well founded, 

 so we got up at 4.30 next morn- 

 ing and revisited our winged " sit- 

 ter." We found her still asleep, 

 in fact she had not stirred a hair's- 

 breadth from where we left her. 

 After making two studies I took 

 her off the flower and placed her in the palm of 

 my hand. She seemed to resent such an unwarrant- 

 able interference with her rest, but was too sleepy 

 to punish me for my pains by a taste of her sting. 

 Wasps are extremely interesting, but vicious little 

 insects when angered. Curiously enough, whilst 

 living at iny old home in the north of England I 

 used to find their nests suspended from currant 

 bushes, rocks, and overhanging banks, as represented 



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J!KE OX BLUE B3LL. 



