THE HORNET.

The hornet is an inflamibel bugger, sudden in hiz impresshuns and hasty

in hiz conclusion, or end.

Hiz natral disposishun iz a warm cross between red pepper in the pod and

fusil oil, and hiz moral bias iz, "git out ov mi way."

They hav a long, black boddy, divided in the middle bi a waist spot, but

their phisikal importance lays at the terminus ov their subburb, in the

shape ov a javelin.

This javelin iz alwas loaded, and stands reddy to unload at a minnit's

warning, and enters a man az still az thought, az spry az litening, and

az full ov melankolly az the toothake.

Hornets never argy a case; they settle awl ov their differences ov

opinyun bi letting their javelin fly, and are az certain tew hit az a

mule iz.

This testy kritter lives in congregations numbering about one hundred

souls, but whether they are male and female, or conservative, or matched

in bonds ov wedlock, or whether they are Mormons, and a good menny ov

them klub together and keep one husband tew save expense, i dont kno nor

dont kare.

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