7. 'She made this powder into a paste with a sort of gum which came out
of her mouth, and off she went with it to her room.'
8. 'What did she do with it?'
'She spread it out in sheets of thin brown paper, and with these she
made a comb like a bee's.'
[Illustration: Wasp's Nest.]
'She made paper of it.'
'Only a bee's is made of wax. I know that!' said Harry.
9. 'She put many layers of paper on the top to keep the rain out, and
pillars under it to hold it up. Then she laid an egg in each cell. When
the eggs were hatched'----
'Little wasps came flying out,' said Dora.
'No; little grubs came crawling out!
10. 'The wasp was now more busy than ever. She fed each baby in turn,
and as they all grew bigger she had to get more and more food for them.'
THE SUNFLOWER
blue
buzz'-ing
set'-tled
watched
sun'-flow-er
course
warmth
in-stead'
star'-ing
spar-row
stopped
crowd
cush'-ion
mid'-dle
gar'-den
know
1. It was very hot, the sky was blue, and the air was full of the
humming and buzzing of bees and flies. A white butterfly flitted by, but
soon went away over the garden-wall.
2. Bee after bee, and fly after fly, settled on the sunflowers and
hunted for honey.
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