108 THE HONEY-MAKERS. 
smoothness and regularity as if with a pair of 
scissors. This is done by the leaf-cutter, who 
uses the little pieces in fitting up her home. Hav- 
ing made or found a hole in the ground or wood, 
or a wall, from six to ten inches deep, she builds 
within it of the leaves several cells, of the shape 
and about the size of a thimble, the bottom of one 
fitting into the mouth of the next below it. 
It takes about a dozen pieces of leaf to make 
a single cell, and as each is finished, she stores it 
