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returned, after preening its wings, arranging its antennas and occasionally
flying close to me it again started off with its victim.
This time it went fully 16 feet up the hillside; its entire trip
was in an almost straight line.  I had gotten up and walked 
slowly up the hillside after it to watch it.  It now again
flew around the spider then off in a straight line.  It did not
fly very far <s>but</s> and soon returned.  Just then I heard the
footsteps of some one walking down near the brook.  I was anxious
to see who it was.  While looking down in that direction
the little wasp must have gotten her burden home, for when I again 
looked I failed to locate her, neither did I hear her.

From the spring I went towards the pump-house then to the
car.  I arrived home about 6 o'clock.

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July 25.1900.  A trip with Dr. B.[ase] along Gwynn's Falls from
Windsor Mills Road to Gwynn Oak Park.  We met at 9 A.M.
We searched for Monarda fistulosa near the stream and soon found
some but it was nearly done blooming.  Several spiders and their
pretty geometrically arranged webs attracted our attention.  (They)
The webs looked
very beautiful with the sun shining on them; one in a tree about 
a foot above our heads when looked at standing in a certain
        