The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-10-07
JOSIE EsGLAgxGs tA"2 &s.
TIE H0REFT.

TIE H9R%Fr.
The hornet Is an iufanibel bugger, sud
den in his impreshuns and hasly IN hiz
conclusions, or end
His natral disposishen IL a warm cross
between red pepper in the pod aud tusii
oil, and h;z moral bias IL, git oct oy mi
way"
They have long black boldly, divided
in the middle by waist spot, but their
phisikal Importance lays at Tie terminus
of their subburb, in the shape Of jave-
lin.
This iavelin is alwaz loaded and stands
reddy 10 unload at a minuit's warning,
aud enters man rs still aa thoIqht, ~
spry az litening, and az full oy melancholy
as the toolhake.
Hornets never arey case they settle
awl ov their differences oY opiuyon by
letting their javeiin fy, and are az certain
10 hit ~ q mule IL.
This testy critter lives in congregations
numbering about 100 souls, bat whether
they are mail or female, or conservative.
or matched in bonds Of wedlock, or
whether they are Mcrmous, and good
many ov them king together and keep
one husband 10 save expense. | don't kno
nor don't kare.
| never have examined their habits
much. | never konsidered it healthy.
Hornets build their nests wherever they
take noshen to, and seldom are disiu! bed,
for what would il profit man 10 kill 90
hornets and hav tie l01lh one hit him
with hiz javclin.
They bid their nests oy paper, without
emmy windows to them or back doors. -
They hay but one place Of admission, and
the nest IL the shape ov an overerown
pineapple, and IL cut up into just as many
bedrooms rs there IL hornets.
It IL very simple to make hornets
nest if yu kan, but viii wager emmy man
800 dollars he kant bill one that he could
sell to q hornet for half price.
Hornets are as bizzy as their second
couzins, the bees, but wha; they are about
the Lord only knows they don't lay up
emmy honey, nor emmy money they seem
10 be bizzy only 5jist for the sake Of work
ing all the time they are always in as
mulch OF hurry as tho they waz gong
for dOkter.
suppose this uneasy world would grind
around on its aXle-trce onst in p hours,
even eff thare warnt emmy hornets, but
hornets must be good for sam,hiug, Tho
kant think now what itiz
Thare baint been bug made yet it
vain, nor one that want good job there
IL ever lots Of human men luating around
blacksmith shops, and cider mills, all over
the country, that don't seem to be neccssa-
ry for anything but 10 beg plug tobacco
and swear, and steal water melons, but
yu let the cholera break ont once, and then
yu will see the wisdom Of having jist sicl
men laying around they help kount.
Next tew the cocsroAch, who stand:
tew the head, the hornet haz most vast,
stummuk, in reference tew the rest Of lii
boldly, than emmy of the insek popuashun
and here IL another mystery what OF
'artb duz n hornet want 50 much reserved
corps for?
hav jist thought-tew carry his jave
lin IN; thus, you see, tile more we dis
kover about things the more we are ap
TO know
1t il always good purchase tew pa.
out our last surviving dollar for wisdum
and wisdum II like the mysterious hen
ceg-it ain; laid in yere hand, bu. il lai'
away under the barn, and yu have got t,
sarch for 1t.
The hornet IL an unsoshall kuss III
IL more naughty than he IL proud. Hc
IL a thorough bred bug, but his breeding
and refinement has made him like sun
other folks | know ov, dissatisfied will
himself and every boldly else too mucl
good breeding ackts this way sometimes
Hornets are loug~lived-I kant state
iist how long their lives are, but l know
from inslinkt and observashen that enny
krittcr, be he bug OF be he devil, who il
mad all the time, and stings every gooC
chance lie kan git, generally outliyes al
his nabers.
The only way TO git at the exact fife
ing welght ov the hornet is few tuch him
let him bit you once with his javclin, anC
you will be willing to testify in court tina
somebody ran a one-lined pitchfork inte
yer; and as for grit, i will state for III,
informasbun of thoze who haven't had ;
chance few lay In their vermin wisdom a.
freely az / hav, that one single hornet
who feels well, will break up large camp
meeting.
What the hornets do for amuzament i
another question l kant answer, but sun
ov the best read, and heaviest thinker.
among the naturalis:s say they have tar.
get excursions, and heave their javelin:
at a mark but don I imagine this asser
shun ircw, for | never knu emmy body 81
bitter at heart az the hornets are to waste
a bow.
Thare IL one thing that hornet dus
that Will give him credit for on my book!
he alwuz attends to his own Dizziness
and won't allow emmy boldly else tew at
tend tew it for him. and what he duz i;
aIwuz a good job; if they make emmy mis-
taknC n II after dark and aint seen