Holding it fast, he picked up a pea pod for it to sting, so that he could see how long a stinger it had.
"Ah, but that is a cruel chap!" he said.

"You'll have to use brimstone, I guess, to get those Egyptians out of the meetinghouse." In point of fact, brimstone was what two of the church stewards did use, a few weeks later, before there were services at the chapel again; but they did not find much honey left..