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ments," I proposed, " I am assured you will soon 
be disposed to offer your apology to the indus- 
trious and innocent insect which you have so 
libelled." 
A cautious group soon assembled at the door- 
way of the piazza, and at my suggestion closely 
watched the antics of the hornet, which was still 
apparently as mad as ever, in the absence of hu- 
man targets, seemingly "working off his mad " by 
butting his head against the clapboards along the 
side of the building. After a moment or two of 
this exercise, with a quick curvet, the insect be- 
took himself to the roof of the piazza, where he 
disappeared among the bordering vines. A little 
cautious search soon revealed his hiding-place, 
however. He was hanging, head downward, by 
one of his hind legs, twirling some dark object in 
his front feet; and it needed only a little closer 
examination to disclose this object to be a fly, 
which was gradually being reduced to a pulp by 
the sharp jaws of its captor a morsel, doubtless, 
soon to find its way to the cell of a baby hornet 
in some paper nest close by. 
"You will now doubtless understand that pre- 
cipitate onslaught on your nose," I remarked to 
my bachelor friend. " Rest assured that the at- 
traction of that aquiline member alone would 
never have caused the panic that ensued ; but you 
did not give our hornet the credit for the removal 
