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Title: Fairy roads to Science-Town
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Hardy, Mary Earle, 1846-1928
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the youth who had used his earsand eyes as he travelled through the Kings (13) FAIRY ROADS TO SCIENCE-TOWN forest. Right true, Sir Knight, he an-swered. You have come upon a goodly se-cret. It is true that food given to the grubswhich are to develop into queen bees is differ-ent from that which is eaten by the ordinarygrubs; and in the Fairyland of Bees commonw^orking grubs may be changed to princessesby giving them royal food. But even the wise Sir Merlin could not tellwhether the wasp mother had only chancedupon different kinds of spiders for each cell,or whether she felt a preference for some ofher babies and, w^ith far-seeing wisdom,planned each should come out into the worldfitted for a different station. Why arent the spiders killed? And howwere they made to lie so still? inquired oneinterested knight. If the spiders were dead, replied SirMerlin, they would be unfit to eat before thebaby wasps were hatched and ready for theirbreakfasts, so the little witch of a wasp with a (141
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