Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 278
ETS SEsT. same spirit, and the boy often gets the worst ofthe combat. But why this desire to injure the hornets?They are harmless, especially at a distance. 835 And why should we seek to destroy the hor-nets and their curious home, which has beenwell called a real palace of paper ? I remember how I… … CELLS IN THE HOKXEI S boyish love of destruction. I had returnedfrom a tramp in the woods with several com-panions, and was telling with delight how wehad smashed a big hornets nest, when a ladywho was visiting my mother said: So you smashed a hornets nest. Nowlet me tell you a story about a…
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