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By-and-by she joined Ethel, and Norman was summoned to help them to trace out the old lines of encampment, ditch, rampart, and gates happy work on those slopes of fresh turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of the moor thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy, black-tailed, yellow-banded dumbledores, the breezy wind blowing softly in their faces, and the expanse of country wooded hill, verdant pasture, amber harvest-field, winding river, smoke-canopied town, and brown moor, melting grayly away to the mountain heads.
Norah stood watching the brisk figure of the young doctor, and pondering over these new responsibilities which had come upon her. When she turned a tall, brown-faced artilleryman, with the three gold chevrons of sergeant upon his arm, was standing, carbine in hand, at her elbow. "Good-morning, miss," said he, raising one thick finger to his jaunty, yellow-banded cap.
The singing, yellow-banded bees were busy all day in the cups of scarlet fading to pink and white, and white shading into yellow. The afternoon sun was behind them, lighting them to unwonted glory, when Felix came plodding along the lane on each side of which the apple trees were beginning to grow tall.
Clifford asked, with a vague maternal sense of discomfort and doubt. "A dog or a monkey?" "Oh, Sardanapalus, mother didn't I tell you about him? "Elma cried enthusiastically. "Why, he's just lovely and beautiful. He's such a glorious green and yellow-banded snake; and he coiled around my arm as if he'd always known me." Mrs.
She flew as one looking for something, and every insect in her way took jolly good care in the shape of scintillating streaks and dashes to get out of it. The mere sight of that yellow-banded cuirass shining in the sun was apparently quite enough for them most of them, anyway. As a matter of fact, she was looking for a site for a city.
Close in under the banks the broad leaves of blue flowering water-lilies covered the surface with a carpet of many shades of green and pink; hovering above the lily leaves were hundreds of small white butterflies, with here and there a black and yellow-banded dragon-fly "horse-stingers" the Australian youth call them.
How they flashed and fluttered about the lantern, or circled about the trees upon which the feast had been spread! The big yellow-banded sphinx whirred hither and thither on his owl-like wings, his large eyes glowing like rubies, hung quivering above some flower for a moment, and then was off again as swift as thought.
The man opened the box a little way to let the yellow-banded creatures crawl over his fingers, to show their gentleness. "I must sell them quick," he said, "for they live not much longer in a box."
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