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He plunged his head under, and fell to wallowing and snorting and raising such a prodigious disturbance that all the lake shores rang with it. Then he bounced out upon the beach again, and dashed off through the woods as if a million hornets were at his ears.

The hornets were sore pressed. But the hornets are an old race of robbers, trained to warfare. Pillage and murder have long been their gruesome profession. Though the initial assault of the bees had confused and divided them, yet the damage was not so great as might have seemed at first.

"Dear me, I believe every other man in this place is a lawyer! Sakes alive it's worse than being among a nest of hornets." Such was the exclamation of an elderly lady who had recently arrived, and was out taking a survey of the town. And the old lady was not far astray, as Winnipeg has proportionately more of the legal fraternity than any other city of the Dominion. But to our subject.

"Well, if you invite the Bumble-Bees, you must have the Hornets." "Those spiteful Hornets! I detest them!" "Nevertheless, dear Miss Katy, one does not like to offend the Hornets." "No, one can't. There are those five Misses Hornet dreadful old maids! as full of spite as they can live. You may be sure they will every one come, and be looking about to make spiteful remarks.

In the water-hole near our camp, there were numerous small brown leeches, which were very keen in the water, but dropped off as soon as we lifted our feet out of it. The hornets also were very troublesome. Recent bush fires and still smoking trees betokened the presence of natives; who keep, however, carefully out of sight.

"Tell you what," Ned said reflectively, "the longer Lewis keeps off you, the more suspicious I should be." "You think he is a bad citizen, do you?" "And then some, as the boys say out here," replied Ned. "I wouldn't trust that man any farther than I would a nest of hornets or a shedding rattlesnake."

The snow was still falling in fine, feathery flakes, not enough to make a real snow, but enough to cause great discomfort, and he exercised all his skill and caution. While the Indians slept, yet someone among them always slept lightly, and he knew better than to bring such a swarm of hornets upon him.

His next appearance, The False Medium , an exposition of the obstacles thrown in the way of "men of genius" by literary middlemen, raised a nest of hornets; and Orion, an "epic poem," pub. 1843 at the price of one farthing, followed. His plays, which include Cosmo de Medici , The Death of Marlowe , and Judas Iscariot, did not add greatly to his reputation.

Hunt happening to be awake, observed a savage brandishing a kris, and performing his war-dance on the bit of deck, in an ecstasy of delight, thinking, in all probability, of the ease with which he had got possession of a fine trading-boat, and calculating the cargo of slaves he had to sell, but little dreaming of the hornets' nest into which he had fallen. Lieut.

"We may strike a hornets' nest," I explained to Hibbard, whose feet seemed very heavy even for a man of his size. "But I'm going in and so are you. Only, let me suggest that we first take off our shoes. We can hide them in these bushes."