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Alfred's long-pent fury broke out: he gnashed his teeth and dashed his fist in Rooke's face. Rooke staggered back and bellowed with pain and anger, then rushing at him incautiously, received a stinger that staggered him, and nearly closed his right eye. He took the hint, and put himself in a posture that showed he was skilled in the art of self-defence.
Before I got the stinger out, my upper lip swelled up to enormous proportions, and both my eyes were swollen shut. Chauvin looked at me with open-eyed and open-mouthed astonishment. In a characteristic tone, native to him, he remarked, "If I hadn't seen it, I couldn't believe it," He had to lead me to camp. I have been very susceptible to bee stings all my life.
Nigger Dick told me he saw one roll down hill one time and just as it got to an oak tree, it took its tail out of its mouth and struck the tree with the stinger of its tail. The next morning all the leaves on the tree was withered. That is how pisen a hoop snake is. Well, of course there was lots of black snakes and they can wrap you.
The farmer tried to hunch himself into the least compass possible, but his broad back and powerful frame interfered with his efforts to make a human hedgehog of himself. He was hit twice, once by a grazing shot that brought out blood on his cheek, the other a stinger on the hand.
Take him, Rags! Now, Tatters! After him, Owney! Get on, there, Schnitzel! Worry him, Stinger! Tally-ho-o!" At which encouraging invitation the two fat beagle pups, a waddling dachshund, a cocker, and an Irish terrier flew at Selwyn's nicely creased trousers; and the small boy, rising to his feet, became aware of that astonished gentleman for the first time.
"I'd say any point of the compass now " "Listen!" Sam's hand went up. "Those ain't any guns of ours." The rumble was distant, but Drew believed Croxton was right. Through the dark, guns were moving up. The wasps were closing in on the disturbers of their nest, and every one of them carried a healthy stinger.
The only light in the dim room was afforded by the big lamp at the Squire's elbow. He spread the sheet on the table in the lamp's circle of radiance. "Boys, The Hornet is out and it looks as if it has a barb in its stinger," he stated, and then paused while he fixed his spectacles upon his nose. Vaniman, sitting close by, felt that a glance at a public sheet was not invading privacy.
'Well, I'm dashed if it arn't dangerous! continued he, thumping his hand against his thick thigh, as the white nearly slipped upon landing. 'F-o-r-r-ard! for-rard! hoop! screeched he, as he saw Miss Glitters looking back to see where he was. 'F-o-r-rard! for-rard! repeated he; adding, in apparent delight, 'My eyes, but we're in for a stinger!
It was what we call a tread-snail, because it moves on a double row of pads like stumpy feet and leaves a trail like a tractor. The fishpole-aerial thing it had erected out of its head was its stinger, and the yellow stuff was venom. A tenth of a milligram of it in your blood and it's "Get the Gate open, St. Peter; here I come." Tom saw it as soon as I did.
" Neat, in its way," commented Miss Sally, pausing. "Neat? I call it subversive and damnable!" "Listen! The next is a stinger " 'Something quite recent, now: "Drainage ain't decent," now: Damme, when was it? I've known, if you please, Old tenants, better ones, Crimean veterans Never heard they required w.c.'s "My dear Sally!"
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