HORNET

a species ¥ lof its kind found in England When 4 | fully grown it is about an in length, 4 | and its body is brown in colour with some © | patches of yellow. Hornets usually live — fn colonies of about 200, and make their 5, se mre aes, They feed upon the @ | sap of various plants, though occasionally © | they eat flesh. The female hornet is pro- = vTORSE GUARDS, 2 lage building i s| #F a in A niet, erected in ies The forming the entrance ap y two mounted troopers in the day time. Here of | until 1872, the Commander-in-Chief and a-| the asta 5) administrative officers of ¢/ the army had their offices, and hence we: often ru the “ rary ee ie wo mean the govern army. y| [s. 173]