The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-08-31
Aaisfsllansons.
A WARM EPISODE.
How Some Of the Boys Thawed Hornets
Nest.
Kansas City Times.

Kansas City Times.
There is an old woman living
on Catherine street who delights
to find case that al! the doctors
have failed to cure and then 90 tC
work with roots and herbs and
strange things and try to effect al
least an improvement. A few
days ago she got hold Of girl
/! with a stiff neck, and she offered
an old negro, named Uncle Tom
Kelly, fifty cents to go to the
woods and brico her hornets
nest. This was to be stepped in
! vinegar and applied to the neck
'Ehe old man spent several days
along the Holden road, and finally
he secured his prize and brought
it home in i basket. When be
reached the Central Market be
had few little purchases to make,
aud after getting some tea at q
grocery he placed his basket on
q barrel near the stove and went
out TO look up a bcef-bone.
1t was Il dull day for a trade.
The grocer sat by the stove rub,
bing his bald head. His clerk
stood at his d:Sk balancing his
accounts, AND three or four men
iounging around talking Of q new
party TO be founded on the ruins
Of the Democracy. 1t was a Sc.
rene hour. One hundred and fifty
hornets bad gone to roost in that
nest for The winter. The genial
atmosphere began to timber them
up. One old veteran opened bis
eyes, rubbed his legs and said that
it was the shortest winter be had
known in ali his hornet days. A
second seconded the motion and
shook off bis lethargy, 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 a hornet with the
broadSide Of an axe to make him
mad. He's mad all over all the
time, and be doesn't care a plea,
yune whether he tackles a hum.
ming bird or an elephant.
The grocer was telling one OF
the men that be and Gen. Grant
| were boys together, when be gave
Il sudden start of surprise. This
was followed by several other
starts. Then he jumped over a
barrel of sugar and yelled like d
Pawpee. Some smiled, thinking
bc was after happy climax, but
it was only a minute before SOL
emn old farmer jumped three feet
high and came down TO roll over
u Job lot Of wash boards. Then
the clerl; ducked his head and
made rush for the door. He
didn't get there. One Of the other
men, Who had been looking up
and down to see what could be
the matter, felt suddenly called
upon to 60 home. He was goin g
at the rate of forty miles an hour
when he collided with the clerk
| and they rolled on the floor. There
was no use to tell the people in
that store 10 move on. They
couldn't tarry to save them. They
all felt that the rent was too
high, and that they must vacate
the premises. A yell over the
cheesc-box was answered by a
"ar.whoop from the show case.
4 howl from the kerosene barrel
near the back door was answered
by wild gestures from the win
dow.
The crowd went out together
Uncle Tom was just coming in
with his beefbone. When i large
! body meets smaller body the
| larger body knocks it into the
| middle of next week. The old
man laid around in the slush till
everybody had stepped on hin
all they wanted 10, and then he
sat up and asked
How dey got de fab all put
ont?'
Some OF the hornets sailed ou
Of doors to fall by the wayside
and others waited around on tht
top Ct barrels and baskets ant
jars to be slaughtered. 1t wa;
! half an hour before the last wa:
disposed of, and then Uncle Ton
walked in, picked up The nest anc
said:
'Mebbe dis will cure de stiffness
in dat gals neck, jist the same
bat l tell you I'ze got banged
ord hr,,raI opd cnt dawn on Ill