Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-01-13
VIVA. a few Hornets Can Do.


street who delights to find case that
all the doctors have failed to cure and
then go I'd work with herbs and roots
and strange things mdstry to. effect at
least an Improvement. A few days ago
she got hold of a girl with stiff neck,
and SIN offered an oIdnegro named Uncle.
Tom Kelly fifty cents to goto the woods
aud bring her hornet nest. This was
TO be STEPPED in vinegar and applied TO
the neck. The old man spent several
days along The Holden road. and Jester
day morning he secured-hIs prize and
brought It home in a basket. When
he reached the Central Market ne had
few little purchases TO make, and after
getting some tea at a grocery he placed
his basket op.a barrel near the stove,
and went out to look for beef bone.
1t was dull day for trade, The
grocer sal by the stove rubbing his bald
head. His clerk stood at the desk
balancing accounts, and three or four
men lounged around talking about the
newgpariy that Is 10 be bounded OH the
ruins of Democracy. 1t was serene
hour. One hundred and fifty hornets
had gone to roost in that nest for the
winter. The genial atmosphere began
to lImher them up. One old veteran
opened his eyes, rubbed hiss legs, and
said il was the shortest winter he had
(. ever known in all his hornet days. A
second shook oil bis letbargy, and Sec
onded the motion, and in five minutes
the whole nest was alive, and its owners.
were ready to sail out and investigate.
You don't have to hit hornet with the
broadside ofan axe to make him mad.
He's mad all over all the time and he
doesn't care a picayune whether he
tackles humming bird or an elephant.
The grocer was telling one OF the men.
that he and General Grant were boys to-
gether, when he gave sudden start Of
surprise. This was followed by several
other starts. Then he Jumped orer a
barrel ofsugar and yelled like Pawnce
Some smiled, thinking he was after a.
funny climax, but il was only minute
before solemn old farmer jumped three
feet high, and came down TO roll over
a Job lot OF wash boards. Then the
clerk ducked his head aud made rush
for the door He Didn't get there.
One Of the other men who had been
looking up and downto see what could
be the matter, felt suddenly called upon
TO go home. He was going at The rate
Of forty miles an hour when he colhded
with the clerk, and they rolled on the
floor. There was no use 10 tell the
people in the store TO move on. They
couldn't tarry, to save 'em. They all
felt that the rent was too high, and that
they must vacate the premises. A yell
over by the cheese box was answered
by war-whoop from the show case
A howl from the Kerosene barrel near
lie back door was answered by wild
estuIes around the show window.
The crowd went out together. I'm
lie Tom was just coming in with hir
beef bone. When large body meets
a small one the larger body knocks II
into the middle OF next week. The
old man laid around in the siush until
everybody had stepped on him all they
wanted to, and then he sat up and
asked:
"Hev dey got the fab all put out yit;"
Some of The hornets sailed out doors
TO fall by the wayside, and others wait
ed around on top of barrels and baskets
and jars TO be slaughtered, 1t was hall
an hour before the last one was disposed
of, and then Uncle Tom picked up the
nest and said
"Mebbe dis will cure de stiffness in
dat gals neck, just de same, but tell
you l'ze got banged, an bumped, an
sot down on till it will take built med
ical college all winter long TO git me so
kin jump off street kyar.-DetSoit
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