MISS VESPA’S DAY 
61 
“No,” answered the ant, “I assure 
you I am quite as much in the dark 
as our cousin here. If you had said 
a grocery store or a baker’s shop, I 
might have thought that you were 
after sweets, but a place where dead 
animals are sold, and where they are 
kept so carefully covered up—dear 
me! that is quite beyond me.” 
“It is very strange,” said the wasp, 
“that although you are both my 
cousins, you do not know enough 
about my tastes to guess that. Well, 
I will tell you: I was after the big 
blowflies that hang around there, 
and of which all of our family are 
very fond. I went back and forth 
from my nest to the shop many 
times, and as I destroyed so many 
