The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-06-17
The Busy
Little Wasp
How He Makes Some People Be-
lieve One of Them is
Million of Them.

MILLION or mem.
Waspology, as a science, has not
made very rapid forward progress upto
the present time owing no doubt to the
disinterestedness of scientists and 9TH
ers who are not inclined to handle the
subject Who would suppose on seeing
these Insignificant little insects flying
around muddy water-hole or on the
south side of some building that they
are capable of creating smalleized
riot by making their presence knownin
a crowd. But such is the fact never
theless and even the huskiest and brav-
est of men shrink from too close an
acquaintance with the little wasp.
One summer day several years ago /
was working at the case in little
country printing office. Tie editor
was in his sanctum, lazily going over
his accounts and wondering wi ere the
m oney was coming from to pay the
rent or the DEVILS wages at the end of
the week. By the way this same editor
differ ed from the majority of pen push
ers in the fact that he was good
churchman and eschewed anything friv-
olous or derOgatory to his standing as
an upright citizen. All was peace and
harmony aud was almost asleep when
a fearful yell, like an Apache war
whoop broke tie stiffness. | jumped
off my stool in time to see the editor
come running from his office, deathlY
rale, and yainly .endeavoring to pull off
his coat, vest, collar, necktie, SHIRT and
trousers while on mad run TOR the
rack door. | followed him out aud to
say tie air was blue and stormy Is put
ting it very mild. l assisted him in
getting his shirt over his head, while he
explained to me that rattlesl axe,
four tarantulas, and about six SLAP
ping turtles had crawled down his back
and started South American revolu-
ton. Tie truth of the N at. er WAS that
an insignificant little wasphad droplel
down his hack and had tried to stab
him in the kidneys and succeeded.
Atanother time while driving through
the country ! was myself the victim
of the lazy (?) wasp. had stopped at
a farm house for dinner and after finish
ing the meal stopped at the windmill
for little cf at with one of the farmers
daughters. AS you perhaps all know,
on most farms where there is wind
mill there is also a large water tank
near the windmill for watering the
stock.
All unconscious of any danger or ac-
cident we were enjoying our little fir
tation when all at once the young lady
raised her foot and gave me resOund-
ing kick on the shins. l stepped back
in amaZement and of course tOppled
over into the water tank, where Isplash-
ed and spluttered for several seconds
before managed to crawl out. / sat
on the edge of the tank and looked
} around for the young lady. She was
) prancing and dancing up and down the
, windmill platform, shaking her skirts
J, and, as thought, endeavaring to out
do Gertrude Hoffman, Maud Allan and
3 other noted and famous terpsichorean
8 artists. This latter was not what she
+ was doing however, but she was trying to
: get rid of an insignificant { y little wasp
. who was perched on her ankle Just
above tie top of her slipper, and had
Y used the business end of himself no
i UOuUt AOOhiuS IVA hOGOys
You have all, probably, heard of such
incidents as people sitting down on a
3 wasp and thereafter refusing to sit
down for week; of the schoolmaster
who did not see the innocent (?) little
wasp on his chair and after sitting on
: him, threatened to fog every boy in
school until he found the one who put
the pin on his chair.
These little incidents only go to show
n that their is terrible, hidden power
e about the wasp that makes fOrcible
Q bid for recognition when in any way
+, impos ed upon. Students will spend
g several years in college to obtain the
It privilege of putting B. A., LII. D., OF
# other letters after their names but We
must all agree that the wasp is fairly
s entitled to be an A. B. (ableb0diedl; a
it A. S. (active as SIM; F. III. S fatal, hard
d and sure) and in fact as many othel
q letters or combinations of letters as ht
is wishes. would rather face twelvt
{, pound cannon than swarm of waspl
K when they are In playful or angry
a. mood as the case may be.
PRINCE