A SUMMER IN A CLOVER FIELD 17 



So one morning, while the foxes were fighting over 

 an especially fine duck, they ran over Bumble Buzz- 

 er's nest, disturbing the tranquillity of the home 

 by tearing a portion of its roof off. The Buzzer 

 family came out in force, all in a perfect rage, and 

 launched a bayonet attack on the young rascals. 

 With howls of torture and cries of anguish the foxes 

 rushed for their home, where they told Reddy Fox 

 all about the Buzzer family being so rude, but old, 

 wise Reddy just smiled and advised the young folks 

 to leave the Buzzer family alone, as they did not be- 

 long to their set and never had been on speaking 

 terms with each other. 



Clover enjoyed watching all these incidents very 

 much and also was glad to learn from Meadow Lark 

 one morning that Farmer Good was going to leave 

 this portion of the field for seed, while he was going 

 to cut the other half for a hay crop. On account of 

 the bumble bees being so early to nest and such 

 great numbers of them, it would be advisable to leave 

 half of the field for a seed crop, also take a seed crop 

 from the second cutting on the other part of the field 

 later in the summer. Therefore, Clover notified the 

 roots to gather plant food to make the seeds. It 

 soon had on each of its many stems several blooms 

 which were filled with honey, that attracted the 

 members of the Buzzer family. They soon brought 



