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sects as are often obliged to pursue their 
prey on the full stretch of their Avings. 
Lucy. The other carnivorous liies_, 
whose history you have told ine^ seem 
to take their prey by cunning and con- 
trivance ; but wasps are hunters, and 
catch it by the chase, as dogs do hares 
and foxes. 
Mother, Thus you see how well the 
structure of these little creatures is 
adapted to provide for their wants ; and 
how admirably they are enabled to fulfil 
the several parts assigned them in the 
creation. 
