My natural assiduity is thus continually stimulated, and I find myself begrudging a single hour, spent in gossiping hum-drum societyfor even here there is society, or an apology for society.

As the mosquito produces no honey, mankind in general are not as sweet upon it as they are upon that bigger hum-bug, the buzzy bee; yet it is so far akin to the bee, that, wherever it forages, it produces something closely resembling Hives.

For there the hum o' insects fills the air, and there's the music o' a brook, and the wind rustling in the tops o' the trees, wi' maybe a hare starting in the heather.

A subdued hum runs round the excited spectators.