It's only beginning to dawn upon me ...

the possible consequences...." And even then, you know, Mr.Bensington was far from any conception of the mine that little train would fire.
IV.
That happened early in June.

For some weeks Bensington was kept from revisiting the Experimental Farm by a severe imaginary catarrh, and one necessary flying visit was made by Redwood.

He returned an even more anxious-looking parent than he had gone.

Altogether there were seven weeks of steady, uninterrupted growth....
And then the Wasps began their career.
It was late in July and nearly a week before the hens escaped from Hickleybrow that the first of the big wasps was killed.