IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 
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The first thing to do, of course, is to find a soft place in the 
ground where she can dig. She don't make the house very large 
at first, — only a little way down she hollows out a place, and lays a 
few eggs. You see she has no idea of making a big nest alone for 
her two or three hundred babies. She wants some help about it. 
Soon, these eggs hatch out ; and, you'll hardly believe it, but 
the babies are little fat white grubs ! Like a good mother, she now 
goes out every day, and brings in her baskets of pollen to feed these 
hungry little grubs, till, by-and-by, they stop eating, spin a sort of 
silk ball around themselves, and stay there out of sight till their 
wings grow, and they get to be like their mother. Then they just 
bite a hole in the silk ball, and step out, ready to help their mother, 
