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NATURE’S CRAFTSMEN 
“ Success begins with a fellow’s will; 
And it’s all in the state of mind. 
‘‘And ultimately she triumphs, of course; how 
could it be otherwise, when she will not stop short 
of her goal? 
“ If you could go with her into her burrow, 
you would find it radically different from the 
shallow wells of the Hairys’ and Yellow-wings’. 
The entrance slopes back six inches or more, and 
then makes a sharp turn to the right uniting with 
a passage that runs back six or eight inches 
farther, and terminates in a little globular cell, 
just large enough to accommodate the dearly- 
purchased cicada. From the main hall other pas¬ 
sages lead off here and yonder, each one being 
supplied with a storage cell at the end. One 
cicada for a male child, two for a female, is her 
usual rule. And Mrs. Say is no slacker! So 
long as there are cicadas to be found humming in 
the tree tops, just so long she works unceasingly 
at lessening their number. Afterwards life ap¬ 
parently loses all zest; her mission is ended, and 
she loiters about in a dazed sort of way until Jack 
Frost kindly wipes her out of existence. 
“ Two other insect members of the digger clan 
that are interesting nerve specialists are those 
which prey upon two very good friends of man, 
the spiders and the big scavenger greenbottles, 
