Robin Hood's Barn 



only quick avoidance on your part and an 



certain lunge on his, that prevent the parry 



1 thrust of swift collision. As you seat your- 



l again, you find another wasp has dropped 



3n your plate and is punctuating his slow prog- 



s round its rim with tilt of tail and quivering 



ious stabs. Then to calm your perturbation, 



mother will explain that if you pay him no 



ention, eat so to speak around him, the chances 



he will not harm you. You are merely in the 



ht of way to his especial vaulted cell beneath 



eaves. 



[t is within the house that you will find the 

 ingest topsyturveydom and most extravagant 

 ersal. A window that must not be opened, less 

 the danger it will bring to you than for the 

 burbance to the yellow- jackets whose nest of 

 ttled silver hangs pendulous outside. Another 

 idow that must not be raised except with care- 

 courtesy for the spider, a black ogre, lurking 

 lis cavern. Or perhaps pinned on a door there 

 1. notice that forbids all entrance until a Spar- 

 ta, too late rescued, has been given chance 

 quiet and unhurried death. Last summer, 

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