For some excitement, good and hot,<br />These lads were fairly spoiling,<br />When through the bee-hive plunked the shot,<br />And set the pot a-boiling!<br />The startled swarm came streaming out<br />In temper hot and baneful,<br />And drove the foe in awful rout,<br />With volleys sharp and painful!<br /><br />--The Hole Book, Peter Newell
