AND THE CHILDREN. 
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But all that I have seen this summer, so far, have been 
full; so I hardly think we can find a single vacant house. 
We’ll start a fire under the nest, and smoke them 
out. 
See, how the smoke overpowers them ! It makes 
them “drunk,” soffocating them. Now the “yellow 
jackets” have all gone out. See theni erawlinp-about as 
though they were hardly alive. 
Early in the spring I went by here and found these 
bees in almost the same condition. You can see, in a 
few places on the side, spots as though holes had been 
there before. I did find holes there, then. I took the 
trouble to follow up one of these holes and found some of 
the bees between the layers of the paper walls. 
But the little fellows were so stiff that I thought 
they were dead. I took a few of them home and placed 
them near the stove. Soon one of them began to move 
his feelers as though feeling around in the dark for some¬ 
thing to eat. It did not take long before the legs began 
to move and the little creatures began to caawl, so that 
I had to put them out of doors. I have two in my col¬ 
lection now. They were not dead but asleep and, when 
brought into the warm they awoke. Does it not seem 
strange that they, in fact nearly all insects, should have 
such long time to sleep,—more than four months. 
