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To Dali's Kill. 
My ..Tnan George came frora Cambridge this doming 
and we went to Ball's Hill for the day, driving 'down and back. 
We spent most of our time clearing out my woodland path, 
which, had become choked i places by this se- son’s growth 
of shrubs and ferns. I heard almost no birds singing, a ■ 
Chippy at Denson's and a Bhort-bllled Marsh ren across the 
river being actually ell that X remember. 
evertheless I had one interesting experience. 
F~ riy in the afternoon a Y/asp about three-qu-rters of an inch 
long, slender of build even for its kind, in color grayish- 
brown with steel blue reflections on the wings, two yellow 
bands 'encircling, the abdomen and some obscure yellowish 
wire 
about the head, appeared on the outside of the irca door 
of my cabin, moving backwards and downward a d dragging after 
it r spider apparently dead but doubtless only numbed by 
its sting, and fully twice as heavy as itself. On reaching 
the ground it at once started across my little lawn,still 
moving backwards, sometimes among the stems of the grasses, 
often climbing over their tops. It's progress xme wonderfully 
rapid, considering the burden it bore, and every movement 
was eh racterized by impatience of the obstacles in its path 
and a burning d sire to get ahead still foster, '.he a ithi.i 
a connle of feet of the lower edge i grans, it dropped 
the spider and flew to the sandy space below where it entered 
a‘hole so--.roe larger thao a lead pencil. Presently it 
