Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1929, Page 31

I Wotta Life! Wotta Life! —By Gaar Williams | A3 SHE. DID HERS, 2 5 ;\ - BEDTIME STORIE Thalessa Goes Hunting. In criticizing pray be slow: There's always much_you do not know. —old Mother Nature. “1f you please, what is your name?” asked Peter in his most polite manner of the strange insect on the elm tree. You will remember he had mistaken her at first for a wasp. “If ycu really must know, my name s Thalessa,” replied the stranger. “That's a pretty name,” said Peter. “T like that name. 1Is it your whole name?” “No,” was the prompt reply. “My whole name is Thalessa Lunator.” . % e V& 5 “MY "WHOLE NAME IS THALESSA LUNATOR." “I think Il call you just Thalessa,” er. ," &aid Thalessa. 1 don't_want to seem too curious,” eontinued Peter, “but did I understand u to say that you are member of the ly family? “One branch of it.” replied Thalessa. “1 belong to the branch known as Ich- neumon Flies.” “Thanks,” replied Peter. “I guess that's a little too_much for my ton; Tl just call you Thalessa and let it go at that. What are you walking around on the trunk of this tree so for? You appear to be very uneasy.” e. | come out. > . ey i BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. “I am hunting,” replied Thalessa. “Hunting for what?"” asked Peter. “For a place to lay an egg,” replied Thalessa. “Oh!" sald Peter. “That's it. Ishould | think one place was as good as another | on that tree trunk.” | "I don‘t lay the egg on the tree | trunk,” said Thalessa. “I must first find the tunnel.” “The tunnel, the tunnel?” repeated Peter, looking very much puzzled. “What tunnel?” “The tunnel I am to lay my egg in, of course,” replied Thalessa. “But there isn't any tunnel that I know of around here,” said Peter. “There's one right in this tree,” re- plied Thalessa. “In fact, I suspect there’s more than one. I've merely got to hlint around a little while and I'll d_it. “Really,” said Peter. “I don‘t know. Any one with half an eye can see that there’s no tunnel in that tree.” “Then I guess you haven't even got half an eye,” said Thalessa crossly. "I tell you there is a tunnel in this tree. There's more than one tunnel in this tree. Those tunnels are in the wood of the tree, hidden by the bark. When I find one I'll prove it to you by laying an egg in it.” * “Who made those tunnels? Tell me that!"” cried Peter. “Oh, some grub,” explained Thalessa. “I suppose you would call them worms, but they really are grubs.” “Well, how did those grubs get in there? Tell me that!” demanded Peter. “From eggs,”~ replled Thalessa. “There is an insect called a Horntail, which you would probably think was a wasp, just as you thought I was. It bores a hole way into the wood, and in there the eggs are laid from which the grub comes. The grub gnaws & tunne] which grows bigger as the grub grows bigger. If nothing happens to it, it makes a cocoon in there and chan to a Horntall just like its mother. T gnaws its way out from the end of the tunnels in a tree are very bad for it. ‘They weaken it. If I can once find one of these tunnels, that grub never will Excuse me now, I must go on hunting,” and she immediately be- gan hunting about over the bark of the i tree, (Copyright. 1929.) Daily Cross-Word Puzzle . Crowd. . Exclamation of surprise, . Cubed. . Theatrical presentation. . 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