Article September 19, 1977 Issue

The Wasps' Home

written and illustrated by Jacolyn Clifford

Outside the back door of Katie's house hung a big ship's bell. Mother would ring the bell to call Katie and her sisters and brother to come home.

Recently, though, a family of wasps had been busy building a nest inside the bell, so Katie's mother had been careful not to ring it. She would wait until the wasps were done with the nest. Then the bell would be cleaned out before she used it again.

One day Katie and her brother Jeff were home from school eating lunch. When it came time to start the walk back to school, Jeff's friends knocked at the back door to let him know they were waiting for him. Jeff thought they might like to see the wasps' nest inside the bell, so he went outside to show them.

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