MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



derstand how welcome the yellow-jackets 

 are in wild regions (and indeed civilized re- 

 gions, also) where flies abound. The deer- 

 fly, that scourge of surveyors and campers- 

 out, is their first choice. Next comes the 

 horse-fly, then the blue-bottle, after this the 

 house-fly and so on in a decreasing scale 

 until small insects are reached. 



The value of the yellow-jacket is recog- 

 nized in European countries and his pres- 

 ence generally welcomed by butchers. 

 Chupes and Jenny never attacked a yellow- 

 jacket. Even when I killed one and offered 

 it to them, they cast it aside after merely 

 sampling it. The taste no doubt corre- 

 sponds to the rather bitter odor emitted by 

 crushed bees and wasps. It is surprising 

 how perfectly this odor may be represented 

 by the crystalline substance known as salol. 



If one desires to know in what particular 

 form the inevitable serpent trail made itself 



