He was captain of a machine-gun outfit sent down to help us clean out that little wasp's nest.

I should have cried out to them to spare a plank at least out of the cheerful store-room, in whose hot window-seat I used to sit and read Cowley, with the grass-plat before, and the hum and flappings of that one solitary wasp that ever haunted it about meit is in mine ears now, as oft as summer returns; or a pannel of the yellow room.

Who, for instance, ever succeeded in frowning away a mosquito, or in pacifying an angry wasp by a smile?

Watch, now, this more delicate brown wasp, probably one of the Pelopoei of whom we have read in Mr. Gosse's Naturalist in Jamaica and Mr. Bates's Travels on the Amazons.

I have myself seen these ants plunder a nest of the dangerous and highly aggressive wasps, while the wasps buzzed about in great excitement, but seemed unable effectively to retaliate.

Watch, now, this more delicate brown wasp, probably one of the Pelopoei of whom we have read in Mr. Gosse's Naturalist in Jamaica and Mr. Bates's Travels on the Amazons.

"Whoo-z-z z-z-z-z-Z-Z-Z," from the distant wasps' nest, "whoo oo zoo-oo.

Here, on a rustic table, stood wine and a few delicacies,while, by extending a hand, we could grasp the hanging pears and nectarines, still warm to the lip and luscious with sunshine, as we disputed possession with the envious wasp who had established a priority of claim.

At the outset Hepson was everywhere, like a buzzing, excitable wasp.

Oh, what a fearful wasp was there!

Fierce wasps whose sting was present death They faltered, drawing bated breath, And felt it was in vain to dare; Yet still, perforce, returned the ball, Firing into the tangled wall

Suppose a great hollow tree, in which the formidable wasps of the tropics have built for ages.

That is the first authenticated appearance of these giant wasps.

As thus in indolence she lies, A giddy wasp around her flies.

'Gigantic wasps!'

and Bonamy pointed up a tree to an immense wasps' nest.

What sort of models, then, were these insane, mud-moulding solitary wasps for a tall lad to follow after?

As the two men watchedand as a score of other eyes, from other galleries and ports likewise observedthe lean wasp carried out her driver's plan.

Lumps of sugar were often given them wrapped up in paper; and Rengger sometimes put a live wasp in the paper, so that in hastily unfolding it they got stung; after this had once happened they always held the packet to their ears to detect any movement within.

To these onslaughts by the myriad wasps of the northern seas, again and again renewed, the Irish responded manfully.

Trebooze fell, and lay rolling, trying in vain to shield his face from the phantom wasps.

A campoodie at noontime, when there is no smoke rising and no stir of life, resembles nothing so much as a collection of prodigious wasps' nests.

What more lively scene could be imagined than a large tent with twenty-two cricketers and a few hundred wasps hard at work eating and drinking; then, on the tent suddenly collapsing, the said cricketers and the said wasps, mixed up with chairs, tables, ham, beef, salad-dressing, and apple tart, and the various ingredients of a cricket lunch, all struggling on the floor, and striving in vain to find their way out as best they can?

I'd rather live in a world of solid wasps than give in to the stonewalling stupidity of that offensive creature.

Never a whir of wing, no bee Stirred o'er the shameful slain; Nought but a thirsty wasp crept in, Stooped, and came out again.