MISS VESPA’S DAY 
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ily, for they love your honey, and 
they will say, also, that you do not 
sting if you are not disturbed. But 
people will fly at me when I am 
buzzing about for my own amuse¬ 
ment, because, they say, if I am not 
killed I will sting some one. They 
never seem to know that I am quite 
as harmless as you, Miss Apis, if 
they do not molest me in any way. 
Of course, if they come near our 
nest, as I said before, we are likely 
to show our temper. But who can 
blame us for that?” 
“Humans certainly ought not to,” 
said the ant, “ for they, too, will 
fight for their homes and friends. 
I have even heard that they kill 
each other, sometimes in great num- 
