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was too inanimate an object on which to waste its time, it 
gamboled off to another tree and was soon lost to sight.
Another object that attracted my attention while near the
camp was a wasp-like insect with a long black sting.  The 
insect with its sting was fully 6 in. long, the sting itself
being at least 4 times the length of the insect.  From Camp
Cozy I went to the new spring.  While sitting on the rock
close to it, refreshing myself with the cool water, I heard
a peculiar noise near a tree about 6 ft. from me.  I watched <s>abo</s> among
the dried leaves and soon saw a peculiar spider-like insect
with what appeared to me to be a long neck and narrow head.
The insect came close and now I saw that that which seemed
to be the long neck & head had long legs.  I was thinking what
peculiar insect can this be, when I began to see clearly that
the long neck and narrow head was a slender wasp with beautiful
blue-black wings, brownish eye and brown & yellow striped
body.  It was dragging along a large spider fully ten times 
its size!  After dragging its heavy load a distance of about 
8 ft. it stopped, rose from it<s>s</s> flew about it several
times in a circle then went off up the hillside.  It soon
        