A FAMILIAR GUEST 19 



has become a proverb. Think, then, of a brush 

 loaded and tipped with this martial spirit of 

 Vespa, this cavorting afflatus, this testy animus ! 

 There is more than one pessimistic " goose-quill,'' 

 of course, " mightier than the sword," which, it 

 occurs to me in my now charitable mood, might 

 have been thus surreptitiously voudooed by the 

 war-like hornet, and the plug never removed. 



