The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-08-12
A Gunpowder Plot.

How many of my young friends who
are going to read this have ever heard of
or seen the Bald faced Hornet? Not
many, I will venture to say, unless they
have been in the country good deal.
But everybody knows, whether he has
seen him or not, that the hornet is
fierce little fellow brave, though small,
and always ready to defend himself. Nat
11ralists call him Ges2pG c15Cyrt0r5G, and he
is classed among the ermakers, :"
as those insects are called that make
their nests of paper itself, or OF material
which looks like it, fabricated by them
selves.
will give short description of him,
and then tell you something that hap
pened to a colony of hornets and some
young friends of mine.
The bald-faced hornet is about the
size of an humble-bee; his color is black,
with white bands around his body. His
eyes are black and glossy, and his face
looks as if it had been dipped in meal
which would not stick to his eyes; and
this is the reason that he was called
bald-faced." His nest is. wonderful
structure. 1t is made of scraps of paper,
the !" fuz'' on fences or wooden build
ings which have been long exposed to
the weather, and the smaller iehens
which grow Oh the trunks of trees. This
nest, which is somewhat In the shape OF
the TASKS in which olive oil comes,
though much larger, is built, stem
downward, to the limb of tree or the
rail of fence, and generally not high
from the ground.
Now, in nay part of the country boys
are very fond of attacking and destroy
ing these nests, and they almost always
get stung in doing so.
WHY boEs like to do this, when the
hornets have done thena no harm, do
not know. was boy once, and knew
then, but that has been so long ago that
have forgotten so will give the adj
venture already promised, instead OF the
reason.
Teddie and Lud, two city boys Ghese
are the Sc shorts " fog their names of
course). were spending their vacation
with a. friend of their mothers in
! the country. You may be sure
that they had a nice time, for
there were a great many things to in
terest them.
l
things on the place, at least to them,
was o. delightful little darkey called
. BAIT" probably a nickname for Bar
tholomew.
BIT knew not only every hole and
corner, tree and bush on the place, but
had extended his knowledge to the sur
/. rounding plantations. He would con-
staantly have some such joyful news to
give the boys, as the discovery of a
oninea-hen's nest on the farm, the find
ing of brood of young cartridges, or a
splendid hoe in the creek full Of min
/ Mows and catfish. He took advantage OF
his frequent errands to the neighbor-
inc farms to acquire information of this
sort.
Bat came to the boys, who lay on their
faces under the great oaks Ill the yard,
and read for the fiftieth time their favor
It's stories.
ssMarse Lud, I done found symthin =
The bows instantly changed to upright
positions, and said together "What?'
whilst their eyes glistened at the pros
pect of something new; times having
been a little dull with them of Late
uTn de woods over yonder, tudde1
side de broom-straw field, answered
Bat. "bustin big hornicks' nest, big az
half-peck measure.
"WWell," said Lud, :" did any one O
them sting you9,
] claw no; / didn't tech de thing
, but thought I'd come and tell ye all
I SO We kin 90 over and blow it up.
/ SDo YOU mean to blow it to piece
. with the gun?" inquired Lud.
> "No, no said Bat, quickly; "blcy
it up like you gwine to blast rock. Pu