18 THE BLACKBERRY 
herries as much as we do—ants and wasps. Perhaps you have 
already discovered that by sad experience! 
Country people will sometimes tell you that the wasps sting 
the best blackberries. If you ask them why the wasp should 
sting a blackberry they do not know. Now the fact is that the 
wasp is hungry and when he finds a dead-ripe blackberry he 
simply sucks the juice out of one of the tiny little seed balls very 
much as you would suck an orange. But if you try to pick that 
berry while the wasp is eating his lunch—well, you know what 
happens! 
The ants, too, select only the best berries. Sometimes you 
wonder how the ants got into your berry pail. You put them 
there yourself without knowing it. 
Drawing 
1. Make a drawing of the whole blackberry laid aside 
in Section 1. 
2. Make a drawing of a vertical and a cross section the 
exact size of the real berries. 
3. Make a drawing of a piece of stem and show thorns. 
[The plate may be copied.] 
4. Copy a leaf from the plate showing the three parts ; 
the serrate edge. 
5. Copy a blossom and a bud from the plate. 
