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Told me to pass the word around. He's after somebody by the name of Drones, Dock or Jock Drones." Slip started, turned white, and his jaws parted. Buck's eyes opened a little wider. "S'all right, Slip! Keep your money in your belt, to be ready to run or swim. It's a long river." Slip could not trust himself to speak.
There were numerous stray bulls belonging to distant ranches which had taken up their abode on the Nueces, all of which were fish to our net. We kept a brand tally of every bull thus killed; for the primary motive was not one of profit, but to rid the range of these drones. When we had been at work some two weeks, we had an exciting chase one afternoon in which Enrique Lopez figured as the hero.
There is a great number of noblemen among you that are themselves as idle as drones, that subsist on other men's labour, on the labour of their tenants, whom, to raise their revenues, they pare to the quick.
This is the terrible hour of the hive; the only occasion, with that of the more justifiable execution of the drones, when the workers suffer discord and death to be busy amongst them; and here, as often in nature, it is the favoured of love who attract to themselves the most extraordinary shafts of violent death.
Pray to what black knight, or noble emperor, are you allied?" "Oh, fie! fie! how can you be so insolent!" cried Miss Damer. "Miss Vincent's words do not trouble me: they have lost their power; let her be as severe as she pleases. If she could not display her talent in satire, we should say she was the simple one of Mrs. Adair's school: there are drones and dunces every where."
Many hundreds of bees make up a hive, and they belong to three classes or castes, which differ in structure and social function. The queen is a fertile female, the drones are males, and the workers are stunted and infertile females which take no part in reproduction.
An old Chinese proverb runs, "If there is one idle man, there is another who is starving." Certainly a state in which the masses will have their drudgery lightened for them and opportunity for a well rounded human life given, will be attained only in a society where there are no drones; and no man or woman worthy of the name will be content to live idly on the labor of others.
Washington, already a leader of men, possessed himself in a patience extremely difficult to his passionate temper; but the position was untenable, and the presence of the military drones demoralized his soldiers. Therefore, leaving Mackay at the Meadows, he advanced towards Gist's settlement, cutting a wagon road as he went.
They do not make wax or store honey, and as the Worker Bees do not wish them to eat what has been put away for winter, they do not live very long. Most of the Bees are Workers. They are smaller than either the Queen Mother or the Drones, and they gather all the honey, make all the wax, build the comb, and feed the babies.
Our captain is a grave, handsome Hercules of thirty-five, with a brown hand of such majestic size that one cannot eat for admiring it and wondering if a single kid or calf could furnish material for gloving it. Conversation not general; drones along between couples. One catches a sentence here and there.
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