Natural History: Or, Uncle Philip's Conversations with the Children about Tools and Trades Among Inferior AnimalsHarper., 1835 - 213 páginas |
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Página 44 - ... things, and of thinking about what you see. You are perfectly right in supposing that wasps make paper ; but it was a long time before men found out what they made it of. 3. A gentleman was trying for twenty years, he says, to find out how the wasp made paper, before he succeeded. At last he one day saw a female wasp alight on the sash of his window, and begin to gnaw the wood ; he watched her, and saw that she pulled off...
Página 39 - Mr. Wilson says, that he one day showed one of these nests to an old lady, and she was so much struck with the work, that she asked him, half in earnest, if he did not think these birds could be taught to darn stockings.
Página 198 - Its greatest diameter was five inches, and the smallest four. The entrance was two-thirds or more of the whole height, as seen on the outside ; but within it almost reached the arch of the ceiling above. ' " The interior of this nest was so neatly worked and felted together, that it might have been taken for a piece of fine cloth, a little worn...
Página 84 - When clothes were hung out to dry, he would take them off" the line, and as soon as they were missed, the washerwoman knew very well where they were. She kept a long stick with a hook at the end of it, and with this she drew them out of the burrow.
Página 123 - ... size, so that it is wonderful it did not fall over or break by its own weight before they got it joined to the side of the column above. It was strengthened by a small arch at the bottom, and had a hollow or groove all the length of the...
Página 109 - ... notwithstanding all the persuasions that were used to prevent him, would insist on taking it up : but the moment he grasped it, he dropped down in a fit ; his eyes were fixed ; his face became livid ; and it was not without difficulty that his senses were restored. He said that the instant he touched it, " the cold ran swiftly up his arm into his body, and pierced him to the heart.
Página 109 - But he went on weeping wildly and it was a long time before he came to his senses. "Don't be so hard on yourself, brother,