Toilers and Idlers of the Shining Hours 



them before you see them. Many 

 who have heard them always have 

 never yet seen one. They are quietly 

 feeding or sleeping during the daylight 

 hours, and their pale green garment 

 conceals them perfectly as they lounge 

 or lunch upon the foliage. The first 

 night there is commonly but one Katy 

 with leg-development sufficient to en- 

 able her to begin operations. The sec- 

 ond evening there will be an answering 

 call, and about the third night the 

 trees and shrubbery will be vibrant 

 with the music of these curious har- 

 bingers of fall. It is now "six weeks 

 to frost," so the old saying goes. 



A colony of wasps were unwise 

 enough to build one summer in a fold 

 of an awning that had not been down 

 for weeks, and when the rope was 

 finally slacked and the poor creatures 

 precipitated nest and all to the ground 

 below, there was tall hustling on the 

 part of the innocent wrecker of their 

 home. They were simply inconsol- 



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