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Little tadpoles and efts began to bubble up through the water, and to race along beneath it; toads made noises like very young ducks, and advanced to the margin in twos and threes; overhead, bumble-bees flew hither and thither in the thickening light, their drone coming and going like the sound of a gong.
I bet she was blind-folded and gagged and had cotton in her ears the hull time she was there!" "Didn't she tell you anythin' 'bout taxes?" "Taxes? You'd ha' thought 'twas bumble-bees' hind legs we was askin' 'bout! She ackshilly seemed s'prised to be asked. Land! What had she ever thought 'bout such triflin' things as taxes.
"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.
To push her with a straw into a paper bag is the affair of a second. It requires some patience to bring the Tarantula who has bitten into the insidious spikelet to the entrance of the burrow. The following method is quicker: I procure a supply of live Bumble-bees.
Be quick, Thad, Allan, and the rest of you!" "But what's biting him, do you think?" said Step-hen, looking serious again. "Can it be rattlesnakes, Thad, or bumble-bees?" "Hardly," replied the other, readily; "I'd expect rather that it was ants. What do you say, Allan?" "No doubt of it," came from the boy who had practical experience in the ways of the woods.
The last two days have been faultless in sun, breeze, temperature and everything; never two more perfect days, and I have enjoy'd them wonderfully. My health is somewhat better, and my spirit at peace. Another jotting, another perfect day: forenoon, from 7 to 9, two hours envelop'd in sound of bumble-bees and bird-music.
"Why, they do a lot of good. They distribute the pollen from the heads of the clover, and that makes the seed mature and develop." This was news to Coonie, for he never knew before that bumble-bees were of any use, but then he had never had much to do with them.
Jerry knew all about white-faced bumble-bees, for Harold had caught them for her, and with this fear removed, she did as Arthur bade her, and was soon seated at his side, rubbing his forehead, where the blue veins were standing out full and round, and smoothing his hair caressingly with her fingers, which seemed to have in them a healing power, for the pain and heat grew less under their touch, and, after a while Arthur fell into a quiet sleep.
It was a feast to which not only honey-bees came, but bumble-bees, wasps, hornets, flies, ants. The bumble-bees, which at this season are hungry vagrants with no fixed place of abode, would gorge themselves, then creep beneath the bits of empty comb or fragments of bark and pass the night, and renew the feast next day. The bumble-bee is an insect of which the bee-hunter sees much.
The sky was bright and blue, and fair white clouds moved slowly over its surface; the air was sunny and warm, with bumble-bees humming about some late-flowering shrubs; and, high in the air, floated two great turkey-buzzards, with a beauty of motion surpassed by no other flying thing, with never a movement of their wide-spread wings, except to give them the necessary inclination as they rose with the wind, and then turned and descended in a long sweep, only to rise again and complete the circle; sailing thus for hours, around and around, their shadows moving over the fields below them.
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