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My Studio Neighbors
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W. Hamilton Gibson
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Like
the
wren
among
birds,
it
is
fond
of
building
in
holes,
and
will
generally
obtain
them
ready-made
if
possible.
Burroughs
has
said
of
the
wren
that
it
"will
build
in
anything
that
has
a
hole
in
it,
from
an
old
boot
to
a
bombshell."
In
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
bamboo
brushes.
Ovid
declared
and
the
ancient
Greeks
believed
that
hornets
were
the
direct
progeny
of
the
snorting
war-horse.
The
phrase
"mad
as
a
hornet"
has
become
a
proverb.
Think,
then,
of
a
brush
loaded
and
tipped
with
this
martial
spirit
of
Vespa,
this
cavorting
afflatus,
this
testy
animus!
There
is
more
than
one
pessimistic
"goose-quill,"
of
course,
"mightier
than
the
sword,"
which,
it
occurs
to
me
in
my
now
charitable
mood,
might
have
been
thus
surreptitiously
voudooed
by
the
war-like
hornet,
and
the
plug
never
removed.
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