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similar whim our little solitary hornet has been 

 known to favor nail-holes, hollow reeds, straws, the 

 barrels of a pistol, holes in kegs, worm-holes in 

 wood, and spools, to which we may now add bam- 

 boo brushes. 



Ovid declared and the ancient Greeks believed 

 that hornets were the direct progeny of the snort- 

 ing war-horse. The phrase "mad as a hornet" 



