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THE BUGOLOGIST 
spoiled those three! Well, two are enough as specimens 
for a collection. 
This is the home of the Carpenter-bee. One long 
hole and that hardly large enough to turn around in. 
But there are only one or two to live in this house, so, 
of course, it need not be large. 
We’ll now bound over the rail-fence, into the 
woods, and see if we can find a still stranger but larger 
house. 
3. The Paper Wasp. 
Ah ! we do not have far to go. I am certain, in 
yonder hazel bushes we will find what we wish to see. 
Look among yonder cluster of bushes. Do you see 
that large, round, gray ball, about as large as a peck 
measure, or more like a foot-ball? 
That is the nest of the Paper Wasp. 
Why, it is all one round ball closed on every side ! 
How can the bees get in?— 
Let us go nearer and see.—See. There are bees fly¬ 
ing aroud it. Watch them. 
Oh, yes. There, on the lower side of the oval ball, 
is a round hole, large enough for two to enter. 
It seems cruel to chloroform them so as to get a peep 
at t he inside of their house. In fact, I hardly think we 
can do it. Perhaps we can find a nest that is abandoned. 
