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Neither mice nor squirrels work like that, and snakes do not dig. Above each mound of earth was a hole the size of one's largest finger, leading into the bank. While speculating about the phenomenon, I saw one of the large yellow hornets I had observed quickly enter one of the holes. That settled the query.
"Where'd you get stung?" demanded Dorothy, who, now that her earlier fears were assuaged, was inclined to look upon the excitement as a pleasing variation on the hackneyed forms of entertainment. Then, without waiting for an answer, "Aunt Peggy, do you s'pose those hornets have eated up all that nice gingerbread?" "Oh, our luncheon!" Peggy cried. "I'd forgotten that we hadn't more than started.
And what comes of this? that they grow up the worst-disposed, and the most troublesome seditious rascals in the community. I allow none of them about New-town-Hardcastle none banished them all. Useless vagrants hornets, vipers, sir: and show me a quieter, better-managed set of people than I have made of mine.
I have, as I tell you, been down into our slum districts, I have been among the slum workers, means have been offered me for studying these problems at first hand, and I am prepared, from this week on when Parliament rises, and the metropolis empties itself of pleasure, and you have gone sadly to your annual cure at Bad-as-Bad, I am prepared to devote the whole of my time and energy to qualifying for this post; and with Heaven helping me, I will make it the most astonishing and effective Royal Commission that ever sat down believing itself on cushions to find that it was on a hornets' nest."
Men leaped to their feet, rifle in hand; there was a roar of voices; yells and shouts were mingled with bursts of talking which rose into a hurricane of gabble, out of which, mingled with oaths and curses delivered in the vilest Dutch, I made out, "Spies shoot hang them;" and it seemed that after thrusting ourselves into the hornets' nest we were to be stung to death.
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence A brief account of the Mecklenburg Centennial The Grand Procession Exercises at the Fair Grounds James Belk, A Veteran Invited Guest Signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Origin of the Alexander Families of Mecklenburg county Jack Family Captain Charles Polk's "Muster Roll," President James K. Polk General William Davidson, General George Graham William Richardson Davie Battle of the Hanging Rock General Michael McLeary Major Thomas Alexander Captain William Alexander Elijah Alexander Captain Charles Alexander Joseph Kerr, "The Cripple Spy" Robert Kerr Henry Hunter James Orr Skirmish at Charlotte; or, First attack of the "Hornets" Surprise at McIntire's, or, the "Hornets" at work Judge Samuel Lowrie The Ladies of the Revolutionary Period Mrs.
But he died, and a black slave named Kafour, took the sceptre from the hands of the dying man, and said, 'He gave it to me as to his successor. And the four hundred thousand hornets and grasshoppers repeated these words, and the nation bowed its head and submitted to the rule of this black man. "But one man bad the courage to defy this slave.
The paragraphs which I have written to-day, and into whose cold sentences your masterly hand has infused the fervent spirit of Tennesseean journalism, will wake up another nest of hornets. All that mob of editors will come and they will come hungry, too, and want somebody for breakfast. I shall have to bid you adieu. I decline to be present at these festivities.
Just as we reach it we hear a furious noise like the buzz of hornets, and coming quickly round a corner we run into an angry and excited crowd of Chinamen rushing this way and that, and stabbing at random in the air with their knives. "That fool!" ejaculates Clay.
"Luke, both of us have seen a great many men lose their dignity fighting hornets. But I've come to myself, and I've stopped running and swatting. Well, Briggs, what is it?" The man who had brought the alarm to Aunt Charette's was crowding close, plainly with something to say. "I only wanted to tell you, Squire, that Sheriff Niles brought in word to the boys that high-uppers was back of him."
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