Enlarged view of Fly's Foot.
7. 'He has something like gum inside his feet, and, when he wants to stand or walk upside down, he presses this out, and it helps him to stick on. Here is another fly walking up the window-pane.'
'I have often seen flies on the window-pane.'
8. 'How wonderful it is! The glass, you see, is smooth and hard, and it stands straight up. We could not go up a hill like that, could we?'
9. They watched him go up and down, counted his six legs, and saw that his wings were very pretty. Their mother told them a very strange thing, that his eyes could see all ways at once!
10. Then they had to say good-bye to him, for out he went into the garden. When they turned to the table, they found that their other friend had gone too—and so had the milk.
THE WASP.
| wasp | pass´-age | pow´-der | pil´-lars |
| bus´-y | loose | spread | cell |
| win´-ter | per-haps´ | brown | hatched |
| ground | fence | comb | crawl´-ing |