The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-09
THE YELLOW JACKET.
II Is q Creature that Operates in Quiet
but Effective Manner.


| II Is q Creature that Operates in Quiet
but Effective Manner.
THE yaller-jacket is the meansst OF
ell flynn varmiuts." says an old Hi
noisan. He is a peculiar, sneakin'
sort OF cuss, and never gets in his
work like other insects with stings in
EN-. Now, take a honey-bee-when
he gets after you he buzzes around
good deal and sings a purity sharp note
just before he makes a dab at you.
The humble bee-he's a great big. lum-
BERN Teller, always good natured and
busy with his own affairs, if you'll just
let him alone When he gets mad he
gives you fair notice, and would druth-
er fight black, woolly dog or a little
niger any time. If he does come at
you he'll cut a half-dozen big circles in
the air about your head before he tips
you. The wasp and the mud-dauber
won't sting you unless you put your
finger on him or give him q squeeze Of
some kind.
The hornet-well, the hornet simply
comes ont Of his high-hangin' nest some
Saturday afternoon when the stones
and clubs begin to fly thickly about
him-takcs dead aim at the little boy
who's settin' back on the fence and
hasn't thrown a single stone. Like Il
rife shot he pings him square in the
face. If that little boy don't go back
ward, heels over head, on the ground.
its no healthy hornet, that's all I've got
to say. But the yaller-jacket is a vile,
peskv beast. Maybe he's harmless
enough buzzin' around the kitchen
when your mothers making preserves
or putin up peaches and pears in tin
cans He's very quiet too while he's
sucl1in' grapes and bitin' all kinds OF
ripe fruit. He never gathers any honey
or wax from the purity flowers that I
can see, and I must say l never saw
him go out ct his way to sting any
body; but you stir him up at home once
and you'll always remember it. He
don't come out like fair fighter and
go for your face or hands.
you may take big elder brush or
pick up a piece Of fence rail and thrash
or poke into his nest with grand hur-
rah and never get sting while you're
doin' it. When You get tired you 60 on
with the other boys and set on bank
or log and tell each other how You
shattered the yaller pests But in
few minutes, like you was struck with
iightnin', you bounce up about four
feet in the air and begin TO clutch at
your CLOTHES and yell You tear OFF
your roundab bout, snatch open your
lri--f n11ln- ff 1lv,Ca- nd
skin off your brecches howlin' all the
time like a wild Injun. When you git
down TO the bare skin you'll likely find
three or four valler-iackets sittin on
soft place on your hide, pluggin' it into
YOU foral they're worth. I tell Won Il
hurts, too, worse than any other sting
you ever had. You see. that's the way
the yellow-iacket operates.
of course, he gets out OF patience
while you are tearin' up his nest-feels
kind o outraged. you know-and two
or three quarts of him pours out of the
hole to sec whats goin' on. He takes
the matter quietly, lights on your
clothes, slowly investigates and looks
around for an opening, gently slides
hisSelf in between the buttonholes. and /
finally gets down TO hard pan. When
three or four of 'em on each boy git I.
ready, they proceed TO business 3 you /.
dictionary fellers would say, stimuli .
taneously. Mebbe they like chorus
,ingin' 10y the boys. / tell you I've .
been there frequently. After one Of .
these engagements I've often seen a .
dozen boys sittjn' in the mud on the
,reek bank, start naked, with little
Jobs of blue clay all over their backs
and bellies 70 take the poison out
where the sting went in. st. Louis
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