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Flasmlkihts on Nati kk 



and peoples it with thousands of citizens, hut also 



feeds and tends it with her 

 own overworked mouth — 

 I cannot lionestly say her 

 hands till her maiden 



Mak 



Qii ill. 



IVorkcr. 



NO. I. — KAMI I Y I-OKIRAIIS 

 OK THK W A'.rs 



daughters are of a^e to 



help her. Women's-rij^lits 

 women may he proud of 

 the example thus set them. 

 Nature nowhere presents 

 us, indeed, with a liner 

 specimen of feminine in- 

 dustry and maternal devo- 

 tion to duty tiian in the 

 case of these courageous 

 and puLinacious insects. 



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■^ I^ *-■ li* % larjie upon the features of 



these three faithful por- 

 traits, " expressed after the 

 life," as Elizabethan writers 

 put it, because as we pro- 

 ceed I shall have to call 

 attention in <^reater detail 

 to the meaning of the 

 various parts of the body. 

 It must suffice for the 

 moment to direct your 

 notice here to that very 

 familiar portion of the 

 wasp's anatomy, the sting, 

 or ovipositor, possessed by the females, both per- 



