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

! on Catherine street who delights
to find case that all the doctors
have failed to cure and then 20 To
work with roots and herbs ana
stlange things and try to effect at
least an Improvement. A few
days ago she got hold of q girl
with & stiff neck, and she offered
an old negro, named Uncle Tom
; Kelly, fifty cents TO 60 to the
woods and brirg her u hornets
nest. This was to be stepped in
| vinegar and applied to the neck.
The old man spent several days
along the Holden road, and finally
he secured his prize and brought
it home in bosket. When be
reached the Central Market be
had few little purchases to make,
aud after getting some tea at Il
grocery he placed his basket on
q barrel near the store and went
out TO look UP a bcet-bone.
1t was Il duI! day for a trade.
The grocer Sat by the stove rub
bing bis bald head. His clerk
stood al his desk balancing his
accounts, and three or four men
Iounging around talking Of a new
party TO be founded or the ruins
of the Democracy. 1t was Sc.
rene hour. One hundred and fifty
hornets had gone to roost in that
nest for The winter. The genial
atmosphere began to timber them
up. One old veteran opened his
eyes, rubbed his legs and said that
it was the shortest winter be had
known in all 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 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. ibis
was followed by several other
starts. Then he jumped over a
barrel OF sugar and yelled like
Pawpee. Some smiled, thinking
be was after q happy climax, but
ii was only minute before a SOL
emn old farmer jumped three feet
high and came down to rol! over
u lob lot of wash boards. Then
the clerk ducked his head and
made a 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 going
at the rate Of forty miles an hour
when be 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
cheese-b3I was answered by a
" Har-whoop from the show case.
A 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 bis becf:bone. When u large
body meets 4 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 bin
all they wanted to, and then ne
sat up and asked:
'Hc7 dey got de fab all put
ont .
Some Of the hornets sailed out
Of doors to fall by the wayside,
and Others waited around On the
! TOP ct barrels and baskets and
! jars to be slaughtered. 1t was
! half an hour before the last was
; disposed Of, and then Uncle Tom
walked in, picked up The nest and
said:
'Mehbe dis will cure de stiffness
! in dat gals neck, jist the same:
but | tell you l'ze got banged
and bumped and sot down Oh til!
it'll take hull medical college ter
put me sQuar.