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So, by the time the dead of winter ccmes, both 

 males and workers are cleared off the staj:je ; and 

 universal waspdom is only represented by a few 

 stray fertilised females, who carry the embodied 

 hopes of so many dead and ruined cities. 



And now that 1 have traced the history of the 



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commune from its rise to its fall, I must say a few 

 words in bi ief detail about the individual wasps 

 which make up its members. 



And fust of all as to tiie wasp's head. You will 

 have leathered from what I have said that the head 

 of the insect is practically by far its most impor- 



