THE GOLD-BANDED PAPER-MAKER 149 



When she had satisfied herself as to the proper 

 place to begin, she would bite the soft pulp 

 against the top of a partly constructed cell. It 

 seemed very soft and waxy and spread easily. 

 She pushed her forefeet against the opposite 

 sides of the thin wall, backing slowly around 

 the cell and drawing out the new tissue very 

 thinly. Sometimes she would pass clear 

 around the cell and sometimes only part way. 

 At times she would add as much as a sixteenth 

 of an inch to the structure with a single mouth- 

 ful. But two or three minutes were necessary 

 to get a load of raw material. After each 

 mouthful she would rest a moment and make 

 her toilet. Then she would peek into a few 

 cells, after which she would be off again, for 

 another load. 



Between times she made a very elaborate 

 toilet, at times standing on her hind legs and 

 rubbing the other four together. At other 

 times she would stand on her forelegs and ex- 

 tend the others behind her. Rarely she stood 

 on her right middle leg in about her normal 

 position and stroked herself with the others as 

 well as rubbing them together. Standing thus 

 on one leg, she presented a striking appear- 

 ance. 



