Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New, Volume 22Charles Fletcher Lummis Land of Sunshine Publishing Company, 1905 Includes reports and notices of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. |
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Page 434 - ... completed work. In filling up her nest she put her head down into it and bit away the loose earth from the sides, letting it fall to the bottom of the burrow, and then, after a quantity had accumulated, jammed it down with her head. Earth was then brought from the outside and pressed in, and then more was bitten from fhe sides.
Page 434 - Just here must be told the story of one little wasp whose individuality stands out in our minds more distinctly than that of any of the others. We remember her as the most fastidious and perfect little worker of the whole season, so nice was she in her adaptation of means to ends, so busy and contented in her labor of love, and so pretty in her pride over her completed work.
Page 435 - ... and, picking up a small pebble in her mandibles, used it as a hammer in pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface. Before we could recover from our astonishment at this performance she had dropped her stone and was bringing more earth...
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Page 435 - ... a hammer in pounding them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface. Before we could recover from our astonishment at this performance she had dropped her stone and was bringing more earth. We then threw ourselves down on the ground that not a motion might be lost, and in a moment we saw her pick up the pebble and again pound the earth into place with it, hammering now here and now there until all was level. Once more the whole process was repeated,...
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Page 252 - The author of the following pages has endeavored, by interweaving facts and fiction, to give his conception of the position and influence of Illinois among the sisterhood of states, as well as his estimate of events, and of those Illinoisans who were conspicuous actors in them, from 1850, when the Fugitive -slave law was enacted, to the opening of the Civil War.