PREFATORY NOTE

LIST OF STORIES

A NARROW-WAISTED MOTHER

RED AND BLACK AGAINST WHITE

THE VENDETTA

THE TRUE STORY OF THE PIT OF MORROWBIE JUKES

ARGIOPE OF THE SILVER SHIELD

THE ORANGE-DWELLERS

THE DRAGON OF LAGUNITA

A SUMMER INVASION

A CLEVER LITTLE BROWN ANT

AN HOUR OF LIVING; OR, THE DANCE OF DEATH

IN FUZZY'S GLASS HOUSE

ANIMATED HONEY-JARS

HOUSES OF OAK

American Nature Series

Group V. Diversions from Nature

INSECT STORIES

BY

VERNON L. KELLOGG

With Illustrations

BY

Mary Wellman, Maud Lanktree, and Sekko Shimada

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1908

Copyright, 1908,
BY

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

Published June, 1908

ROBERT DRUMMOND COMPANY, PRINTERS, NEW YORK

TO
DOROTHY S., ANNA F., AND MARY L.
WHO ARE MARY