The Road to Dumbiedykes 



able, and literally hung around the 

 place of their discomfiture for days, 

 evidently in the hope that in some 

 way unknown to waspish intellects 

 their fragile ruined domicile might be 

 restored; this, too, in the face of 

 every effort to dislodge them with the 

 garden hose and other discourage- 

 ments. They were finally dispersed, 

 however, by a resort to the fumes 

 of gasoline; so the Germans were not 

 the first to introduce a modern form 

 of warfare. 



I love the lazy, awkward bumble 

 bee. He is not so nervous and pep- 

 pery as his smaller brother in the same 

 line of business. He nests in the 

 ground — hence his name "humble," 

 I suppose. He "bumbles" around so 

 deliberately, pays so little regard to 

 other people, attends so well to his 

 own affairs, and puts up such a supe- 

 rior brand of honey, that he is alto- 

 gether one of the desirable citizens of 

 the entomological world. He does not 

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